Dennis P. Lettenmaier

Professor

Environmental Engineering and Science

164 Wilcox Hall, 

Department of Civil Engineering

University of Washington

Box 352700



(206) 543-2532

fax: (206) 685-3836
 

lettenma@ce.washington.edu

Current Research

Hydroclimatology, Surface Water Hydrology, GIS & Remote Sensing

Graduate Classes Taught

CEWA 599 -- Precipitation modeling and analysis; Hydrologic data analysis

Short Bio

Dennis Lettenmaier received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (summa cum laude) at the University of Washington in 1971, his M.S. in Civil, Mechanical, and Environmental Engineering at the George Washington University in 1973, and his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1975. He joined the University of Washington faculty in 1976, and has remained there to date, with the exception of one year spent as a visiting scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, VA during 1985-86. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Water Resources Association, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was a recipient of ASCE's Huber Research Prize in 1990, and is the author of over 70 journal articles.

Sample Publications

Lettenmaier, D.P., and T.Y. Gan, "An exploratory analysis of the hydrologic effects of global warming on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Basin, California", Water Resources Research, Vol. 26. No. 1. pp. 69-86, Jan., 1990.

Lettenmaier, D.P., J.R. Wallis, and E.F. Wood, "Hydrometeorological trends in the continental U.S., 1948-88", Journal of Climate, 7(4), 586-607, Apr., 1994.

Liang, X., D.P. Lettenmaier, E.F. Wood, and S.J. Burges, "A simple hydrologically based model of land surface water and energy fluxes for general circulation models", Journal of Geophysical Research 99(D7), 14,415-14,428, July 20, 1994.

Wigmosta, M.S., L.W. Vail, and D.P. Lettenmaier, "A distributed hydrology-vegetation model for complex terrain", Water Resources Research 30(6), 1665-1669, A June, 1994.

Barros, A.P., and D.P. Lettenmaier, "Dynamic modeling of orographically induced precipitation", Reviews of Geophysics 32(3), 265-284, Aug., 1994.

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