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Oehri, J., G. Schaepman-Strub, J-S. Kim, R. Grysko, H. Kropp, I. Grünberg, V. Zemlianskii, O. Sonnentag, E. S. Euskirchen, Merin R. Chacko, G. Muscari, P. D. Blanken, J. F. Dean, A. di Sarra, R. J. Harding, I. Sobota, L. Kutzbach, E. Plekhanova, A. Riihelä, J. Boike, N. B. Miller, J. Beringer, E. López-Blanco, P. C. Stoy, R. C. Sullivan, M. Kejna, F-J. W. Parmentier, J. A. Gamon, M. Mastepanov, C. Will, M. Jackowicz-Korczynski, D. N. Karger, W. L. Quinton, J. Putkonen, D. van As, T. R. Christensen, M. Z. Hakuba, R. S. Stone, S. Metzger, B. Vandecrux, G. V. Frost, M. Wild, B. Hansen, D. Meloni, F. Domine, M. te Beest, T. Sachs, A. Kalhori, A. V. Rocha, S. N. Williamson, S. Morris, A. L. Atchley, R. Essery, B. R. K. Runkle, D. Holl, L. D. Riihimaki, H. Iwata, E. A. G. Schuur, C. Cox, A. A. Grachev, J. P. McFadden, R. S. Fausto, M. Goeckede, M. Ueyama, N. Pirk, G. de Boer, M. S. Bret-Harte, M. Leppäranta, K. Steffen, T. Friborg, A. Ohmura, C.W.Edgar, J.Olofsson, and S.D.Chambers. Accepted. Vegetation Type is an Important Predictor of the Arctic Summer Land Surface Energy Budget. Nature Communications.


Bergelin**, M., J. Putkonen, G. Balco, D. Morgan, L. B. Corbett and P. R. Bierman. 2022. Cosmogenic nuclide dating of two stacked ice masses: Ong Valley, Antarctica. Cryosphere, 16, 2793–2817. Copernicus. doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2793-2022



Madoff, R.D., and J. Putkonen. 2022. Global Variations in Regional Degradation Rates Since the Last Glacial Maximum Mapped Through Time and Space. Quaternary Research 109, 128-140. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2022.4



Mahmood, T.H., J. Putkonen, and A. *Sobbe. 2021. Spatially Variable Precipitation and its Influence on Water Balance in a Headwater Alpine Basin, Nepal. Water, 13(3) 254. doi:10.3390/w13030250


Bibby**, T., J. Putkonen, D. Morgan, G. Balco, and D. L. Shuster. 2016. Million year old ice found under meter thick debris layer in Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43 doi:10.1002/2016GL069889.


Madoff**, R.D., and J. Putkonen. 2016. Climate and hillslope degradation vary in concert; 85 ka to present, eastern Sierra Nevada, CA, USA. Geomorphology 266 (2016) 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.05.010.


Putkonen, J., and D.J. Morgan, and G. Balco. 2014. Boulder weathering in McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Geomorphology 219, pp.192-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.05.012


Warren, K., M.-C. Eppes, S. Swami, J. Garbini, and J. Putkonen. 2013. Automated field detection of rock fracturing, microclimate, and diurnal rock temperature and strain fields. Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst. 3, 371-406. doi:10.5194/gid-3-371-2013.


Burbank, D.W., B. Bookhagen, E. Gabet, and J. Putkonen. 2012. Modern Climate and Erosion in the Himalaya. Compte Rendus Geoscience. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2012.10.010


Putkonen, J., and D.J. Morgan, and G. Balco. 2012. Regolith Transport Quantified by Braking Block, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Geomorphology 155-156, pp. 80-87. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.010

Pratt-Sitaula, B., D. W. Burbank, A. M. Heimsath, N. F. Humphrey, M. Oskin, and J. Putkonen. 2011. Topographic control of asynchronous glacial advances: a case study from Annapurna, Nepal. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L24502, doi:10.1029/2011GL049940.

Morgan**, D.J., Putkonen, J., Balco, G., and Stone, J.O.H. 2010. Degradation of glacial deposits quantified with cosmogenic nuclides, Quartermain Mountains, Antarctica. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Gabet, E.J., D. Wolff-Boenisch, H. Langner, D. W. Burbank, and J. Putkonen. 2010. Geomorphic and climatic controls on chemical weathering in the High Himalayas of Nepal. Geomorphology.

Morgan**, D., Putkonen, J., Balco, G., Stone, J. 2010. Quantifying regolith erosion rates with cosmogenic nuclides 10Be and 26Al in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research.

Owen, L.A., R. Robinson, D. I. Benn, R. C. Finkel, N. K. Davis**, C. Yi, J. Putkonen, D. Li, A. S. Murray. 2009. Quaternary glaciation of Mount Everest. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, pp. 1412-1433.

Wolff-Boenisch, D., E. J. Gabet, D. W. Burbank, H. Langner, J. Putkonen. 2009. Spatial variations in chemical weathering and CO2 consumption in Nepalese High Himalayan catchments during the monsoon season. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, pp. 3148–3170.

Rennert**, K.J., G. Roe, J. Putkonen, C.M. Bitz. 2009. Soil Thermal and Ecological Impacts of Rain on Snow Events in the Circumpolar Arctic. Journal of Climate, Vol 22, pp. 2303-2315. DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2117.1

Putkonen, J., T.C. Grenfell, K. Rennert, C. Bitz, P. Jacobson, and D. Russell. 2009. Rain on Snow: Little Understood Killer in the North. Eos, vol 90, no 26, pp. 221-222.

Putkonen, J., J. Connolly*, and T. Orloff*. 2008. Landscape evolution degrades the geologic signature of past glaciations. Geomorphology.

Gabet, E.J., D. W. Burbank, B. Pratt-Sitaula**, and J. K. Putkonen. 2008. Modern erosion rates in the High Himalayas of Nepal. EPSL.

Putkonen, J., M. Rosales*, N. Turpen*, D. Morgan**, G. Balco, and M. Donaldson*. 2008. Regolith transport in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Research papers volume of the ISAES 2007.

Putkonen, J. 2008. What Dictates the Occurrence of Zero Curtain Effect? NICOP proceedings University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Grenfell, T., and J. Putkonen. 2008. A method for the detection of the severe rain-on-snow event on Banks Island, October 2003, using passive microwave remote sensing. Water Resources Research. 44, W03425, doi:10.1029/2007WR005929.

Putkonen, J., G. Balco, and D.J. Morgan**. 2008. Slow regolith degradation without creep determined by cosmogenic nuclide measurements in Arena Valley, Antarctica. Quaternary Research. Vol 69(2) pp 242-249, doi 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.12.004.

Hallet, B., R. Sletten, and J. Putkonen. 2008. Adavances in permafrost and periglacial research in Antarctica. NICOP proceedings University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Blythe, A. E., D. W. Burbank, A. Carter, K. Schmidt, and J. Putkonen. 2007. Plio-Quaternary exhumation history of the central Nepalese Himalaya: 1. Apatite and zircon fission track and apatite [U-Th]/He analyses, Tectonics, 26, TC3002, doi:10.1029/2006TC001990.

Barros, A.P, S. Schiao, T.J. Lang, J. Putkonen, and D. Burbank. 2006. From Weather to Climate – Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Storms in the Himalayas. GSA Special Paper 398, Penrose Conference Series, p. 17-38, doi: 10.1130/2006.2398(20).

Anders**, A.M, G.H. Roe, B. Hallet, D.R. Montgomery, N.J. Finnegan**, and J. Putkonen. 2006. Spatial Patterns of Precipitation and Topography in the Himalaya. GSA Special Paper 398.

Putkonen, J.K., and M. O’Neal**. 2006. Degradation of Unconsolidated Quaternary Landforms in the Western North America. Geomorphology, Vol. 75, pp.408-419.

Putkonen, J.K. 2005. Continuous Snow and Rain Data at 500 to 4400 m Altitude near Annapurna, Nepal, 1999-2001. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, Vol. 36(2).

Gabet, E.J., D.W. Burbank, J.K. Putkonen, B.A. Pratt-Sitaula**, and T. Ohja**. 2004. Rainfall thresholds for landsliding in the Himalayas of Nepal. Geomorphology Vol. 63, pp. 131-143.

Hallet, B., J.K. Putkonen, R. Sletten, and N. Potter. 2004. Permafrost process research in the United States since 1960. in: The Quaternary Period in the United States, Edited by A.R. Gillespie, S.C. Porter, and B.F. Atwater. Elsevier, pp. 127-145.

Putkonen, J.K. 2003. Determination of frozen soil thermal properties by heated needle probe. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, Vol. 14, pp. 343-347.

Burbank, D.W., A.E. Blythe, J. Putkonen, B. Pratt**, E. Gabet, M. Oskin, A. Barros, T. Ojha**, and A. Pokhrel. 2003. Decoupling of erosion and precipitation in the Himalayas. Nature, Vol. 426, pp. 652-655.

Putkonen, J.K., R.S. Sletten, and B. Hallet. 2003. Atmosphere/ice energy exchange through thin debris cover in Beacon Valley, Antarctica. Proceedings of the 8th International conference on permafrost, International Permafrost Association, Zurich, Switzerland.

Putkonen, J.K, and G. Roe. 2003. Rain on snow events impact soil temperatures and ungulate populations. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 30(4).

Putkonen, J.K, and T. Swanson. 2003. Accuracy of cosmogenic ages for moraines. Quaternary Research, Vol. 59, pp 255-261.

Barros. A.P., M. Joshi**, J. Putkonen, and D.W. Burbank. 2000. A Study of the 1999 monsoon rainfall in a mountainous region in central Nepal using TRMM products and rain gauge observations. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No. 22, pp. 3683-3686.

Putkonen, J.K. 1998. Soil Thermal Properties and Heat Transfer Processes near Ny Alesund, northwestern Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Polar Research, Vol. 17 (2), pp.165-179.

Lovlie, R and J.K. Putkonen**. 1996. Dating of Thaw Depths in Permafrost Terrain by Paleomagnetic Method; Experimental Acquisition of a Freezing Remanent Magnetization. Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 125, pp. 850-856.

Hallet, B and J.K. Putkonen**. 1994. Surface Dating of Dynamic Landforms: Young Boulders on Aging Moraines. Science, Vol. 265, pp. 937-940.