I am currently a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. During my ASP post-doctoral fellowship at NCAR, I studied statistical downscaling of weather and climate models, snow measurement by a scanning laser system and geodetic quality GPS receivers, solid precipitation measurement, and soil hydraulic properties. My dissertation looked at the relationship between soil hydraulic properties and surface temperature.
Recently, I have also been using statistical downscaling to analyze future climate model runs, developing an intermediate complexity atmospheric model for downscaling, and analyzing the distribution of alpine snowpack.
You may find some of my software or earth science animations interesting.
...and of course, here is my C.V.
Publications
An intercomparison of statistical downscaling methods used for water resource assessments in the United States
Gutmann, E., T. Pruitt, M. P. Clark, L. Brekke, J. R. Arnold, D. A. Raff, and R. M. Rasmussen (2014), Water Resour. Res., 50, doi:10.1002/2014WR015559.
Multiscale observations of snow accumulation and peak snowpack following widespread, insect-induced lodgepole pine mortality
Biederman, J.A., Brooks, P., Harpold, A., Gochis, D., Gutmann, E., Reed, D., Pendall, E., and Ewers, B. (2013). Ecohydrology. doi:10.1002/eco.1342
Cascading Impacts of Bark Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality to Coupled Biogeophysical and Biogeochemical Processes
S.L. Edburg, J.A. Hicke, P.D. Brooks, E.G. Pendall, B. E. Ewers, U. Norton, D. Gochis, and E. Gutmann (2012) Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 10(8):416–424. doi:10.1890/110173
How Well Are We Measuring Snow?: The NOAA/FAA/NCAR Winter Precipitation Test Bed
Rasmussen et al. (2012) Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(6):811– 829. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00052.1
Snow measurement by GPS interferometric reflectometry: an evaluation at Niwot Ridge, Colorado
Gutmann, ED; Larson, KM; Williams, MW; Nievinski, FG; and Zavorotny, V. (2012) Hydrologic Processes, 26(19):2951–2961. doi:10.1002/hyp.8329
A Comparison of Statistical and Dynamical Downscaling of Winter Precipitation Over Complex Terrain
Gutmann, ED et al. (2012) Journal of Climate, 25(1):262–281, doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4109.1
High resolution coupled climate-runoff simulations of seasonal snowfall over Colorado: A process study of current and warmer climate
Rasmussen et al. (2011) Journal of Climate 24(12) 3015-3048. doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3985.1
Simulation of seasonal snowfall over Colorado
Ikeda et al. (2010) Atmospheric Research, 97, 462-477, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.04.010
GPS Multipath and Its Relation to Near-Surface Soil Moisture Content
Larson KM et al. (2010) IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 3(1),PP. 91-99, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2033612
A Physical Model for GPS Multipath Caused by Land Reflections: Toward Bare Soil Moisture Retrievals
Zavorotny VU et al. (2010) IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 3(1), PP.100-110, doi:10.10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2033608
A method for the determination of the hydraulic properties of soil for land surface models from MODIS surface temperature
Gutmann, ED and Small, EE (2010) Water Resources Research, 46, W06520, 16 PP., doi:10.1029/2009WR008203
Can we measure snow depth with GPS receivers?
Larson KM et al. (2009) Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L17502, doi:10.1029/2009GL039430
Use of GPS receivers as a soil moisture network for water cycle studies
Larson, KM; Small, EE; Gutmann, ED; Bilich, A; Braun, J; and Zavorotny, V. (2008) Geophysical Research Letters,
doi:10.1029/2008GL036013
Using GPS Receivers to Measure Soil Moisture Fluctutations: Initial results
Larson, KM; Small, EE; Gutmann, E; Bilich, A; and Axelrad, P (2007) GPS Solutions,
doi:10.1007/s10291-007-0076-6
Seasonality of precipitation and its effect on amount weighted annual average isotopic values: a sensitivity study
Vachon, RW; White, JW; Gutmann, E; Welker, JM (2007) Geophysical Research Letters,
doi:10.1029/2007GL030547
A Comparison of land surface model soil hydraulic properties estimated by inverse modeling and pedotransfer functions
Gutmann, ED and Small, EE (2007) Water Resources Research Vol. 43,
doi:10.1029/2006WR005135
The effect of soil hydraulic properties vs. soil texture in land surface models
Gutmann, Ethan D. and Small, Eric (2005) Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 32 L02402,
doi:10.1029/2004GL021843
Diagenetic origin for quartz-pebble conglomerates
Cox, Ronadh; Gutmann, Ethan D.; Hines, Patricia G. (2002) Geology, v.30 no.4, p.323-326
Changes in a fringing reef complex over a thirty-year period: coral loss and lagoon infilling at Mary Creek, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Cox, Ronadh; Atkinson RK, Bear BR, Brandriss ME, Chokel CB, Comstock JC, Gutmann ED, Interess LB, Schildgen TF, Teplitzky SJ, Willis MP (2000) Bulletin of Marine Science, v.66, no.1, p.269-277
Select Abstracts and Conference Proceedings
The Determination of Soil Hydraulic Properties From Surface Temperature and
the Effect of Errors in Other Model Parameters
Gutmann, ED and Small, EE (2007) EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 88,
Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract H21J-06 - AGU Outstanding Student Paper
Investigating the use of Surface Temperature Time Series to Determine Soil Hydraulic Properties for Land Surface Models
Gutmann, ED and Small, EE (2005) EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 86 (52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract H23H-05 - AGU Outstanding Student Paper
On the selection of soil hydraulic properties in land surface models based on soil texture
Gutmann, ED and Small, EE (2004) EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 85, Fall Meeting Supplement - AGU Outstanding Student Paper
Relative Performance of Hatch and Three Other Techniques for Atmospheric Correction of Hyperion and AVIRIS Data
Goetz, Alex FH; Kindel, Bruce; Ferri, Mario; Gutmann, Ethan (2003) AVIRIS Conference Proceedings
