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74 Thompson, J. A., D. W. Burbank, T. Li, J. Chen, and Bookhagen, B. (2015), Late Miocene northward propagation of the northeast Pamir thrust system, northwest China, Tectonics, 34, doi:10.1002/2014TC003690.

73 Boers, N., Bookhagen, B., Marwan, N., Kurths, J. (2015): Spatiotemporal characteristics and synchronization of extreme rainfall in South America with focus on the Andes Mountain range, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-015-2601-6

72 Alonzo, M., Bookhagen, B., McFadden, J.P., Sun, A., Roberts, D.A. (2015): Mapping urban forest leaf area index with airborne lidar using penetration metrics and allometry, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 162, pp. 141-153, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.02.025

71 Montero-Lopez, C., Strecker, M.R., Schildgen, T.F., Hongn, F., Guzman, S., Bookhagen, B., Sudo, M. (2014): Local high relief at the southern margin of the Andean plateau by 9 Ma: evidence from ignimbritic valley fills and river incision, Terra Nova, doi:10.1111/ter.12120

70 Stolbova, V., Martin, P., Bookhagen, B., Marwan, N., Kurths, J. (2014): Topology and seasonal evolution of the network of extreme precipitation over the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 21, 901-917, doi:10.5194/npg-21-901-2014

69 Boers, N., Bookhagen, B., Marengo, J., Marwan, N., von Storch, J.-S., Kurths, J. (2014): Extreme rainfall of the South American Monsoon Aystem: A dataset comparison using complex networks, Climate Dynamics, 28, 1031-1056, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-00340.1

68 Boers, N., Bookhagen, B., Barbosa, H.M.J., Marwan, N., Kurths, J., Marengo, J.A. (2014): Prediction of extreme floods in the eastern central Andes based on a complex network approach, Nature Communication, doi:10.1038/ncomms6199

67 Cannon, F., Carvalho, L.M.V., Jones, C., Bookhagen, B. (2014): Multi-annual variations in winter westerly disturbances activity affecting the Himalaya, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2248-8

66 Draganits, E., Gier, S., Hofmann, C.C., Janda, C., Bookhagen, B., Grasemann, B. (2014): Holocene versus modern catchment erosion rates at 300 MW Baspa II hydroelectric power plant (India, NW Himalaya), Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 90, 157-172, doi:10.1016/j.seaes.2014.04.016

65 Mora, A., Ketcham, A., Camilo Higuera-Diaz, I., Bookhagen, B., Jimenez, L., Rubiano, J. (2014): Formation of Passive-roof duplexes in the Colombian Subandes and Perú, Lithosphere, 6, 456-472, doi:10.1130/L340.1

64 Rohrmann, A., Strecker, M.R., Bookhagen, B., Mulch, A., Sachse, D., Pingel, H., Alonso, R.N., Schildgen, T., Montero, C. (2015): Can stable isotopes ride out the storms? The role of convection for water isotopes in models, records, and paleoaltimetry studies in the central Andes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 407, 187-195, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.021

63 Boers, N., Rheinwalt, A., Bookhagen, B., Barbosa, H.M.J., Marwan, N., Marengo, J., Kurths, J. (2014): The South American Rainfall Dipole: A Complex Network Analysis of Extreme Events, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2014GL061829

62 He, M., Zheng, H., Bookhagen, B., Clift, P.D. (2014): Controls on erosion in the Yangtze River basin tracked by U-Pb detrital zircon dating, Earth-Science Reviews, 136, 121-140, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.05.014

61 Lange, S., Rockel, B., Volkholz, J., Bookhagen, B. (2014): Regional climate model sensitivities to parameterizations of convection and non-precipitating subgrid-scale clouds over South America, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2199-0

60 Boers, N., Donner, R.V., Bookhagen, B., Kurths, J. (2014): Complex network analysis helps to identify impacts of the El Nino Southern Oscillation on moisture divergence in South America, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2265-7

59 Godard, V., Bourles, D.L., Spinabella, F., Burbank, D.W., Bookhagen, B., Fisher, G.B., Moulin, A., Leanni, L. (2014): Dominance of tectnics over climate in Himalayan denudation, Geology, doi:10.1130/G35342.1

58 Alonzo, M., Bookhagen, B., Roberts, D.A. (2014): Urban tree species mapping using hyperspectral and lidar data fusion, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 148, pp. 70-83, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.03.018
[download Table S2: UFORE methods]
[download Matlab codes for lidar-watershed segmentation and lidar-data processing]

57 Hanshaw, M.N., Bookhagen, B. (2014): Glacial areas, lake areas, and snow lines from 1975 to 2012: status of the Cordillera Vilcanota, including the Quelccaya Ice Cap, northern central Andes, Peru, The Cryosphere, Vol. 8, pp.1-18, doi:10.15194/tc-8-1-2014
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56 Coutand, I., Whipp, D.M., Grujic, D., Bernet, M., Fellin, M.G., Bookhagen, B., Landry, K.R., Ghalley, S.K., Duncan, C. (2014): Geometry and kinematics of the Main Himalayan Thrust and Neogene crustal exhumation in the Bhutanese Himalaya derived from inversion of multi-thermochronologic data, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, doi:10.1002/2013JB010891 [Manuscript plus Data Repository]

55 Hirschmiller, J., Grujic, D., Bookhagen, B., Coutand, I., Huyghe, P., Mugnier, J.-L., Ojha, T. (2014): What controls the growth of the Himalayan foreland fold-and-thrust belt?, Geology, doi:10.1130/G35057.1

54 Oskin, M.E., Burbank, D.W., Phillips, F.M., Marrero, S.M., Bookhagen, B., Selander, J.A. (2014): Relationship of channel steepness to channel incision rate from a tilted and progressively exposed unconformity surface, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, doi:10.1002/2013JF002826

53 Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R. (2014): Tectonic control on 10Be-derived erosion rates in the Garhwal Himalaya, India, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, doi:10.1002/2013JF002955

52 Baguskas, S.A., Peterson, S.H., Bookhagen, B., Still, C.J. (2014): Evaluating spatial patterns of drought-induced tree mortality in a coastal California pine forest, Forest Ecology and Management, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2013.12.020

51 Yildrim, C., Schildgen, T.F., Echtler, H., Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Ciner, A., Niedermann, S., Merchel, S., Martschini, M., Steier, P., Strecker, M.R. (2013): Tectonic implications of fluvial incision and pediment deformation at the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau based on multiple cosmogenic nuclides, Tectonics, doi:10.1002/tect.20066

50 Amidon, W.H., Bookhagen, B., Avouac, J.P., Smith, T., Rood, D. (2013): Late Pleistocene glacial advances in the western Tibet interior, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.041

49 Boers, N., Bookhagen, B., Marwan. N., Kurths, J., Marengo, J. (2013): Complex networks identify spatial patterns of extreme rainfall events of the South American Monsoon System, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 1-7, doi:10.1002/grl.50681

48 Fisher, G.B., Bookhagen, B., Amos, C.B. (2013): Channel planform geometry and slopes from freely available high-spatial resolution imagery and DEM fusion: Implications for channel width scalings, erosion proxies, and fluvial signatures in tectonically active landscapes, Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.04.011

47 Godard, V., Tucker, G.E., Fisher, G.B., Burbank, D.w., Bookhagen, B. (2013): Frequency-dependent landscape response to climatic forcing, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 859-863, doi:10.1002/grl.50253.

46 Burbank, D.W., Bookhagen, B., Gabet, E.J., Putkonen, J. (2012): Modern climate and erosion in the Himalaya, Compres Rendus Geoscience, 344, 610-626.

45 Fisher, G.B., Amos, C.B., Bookhagen, B., Burbank, D.W., Godard, V. (2012): Channel widths, landslides, faults, and beyond: The new world order of high-spatial resolution Google Earth imagery in the study of earth surface processes, Geological Society of America Special Papers, 492, 1-22, doi:10.1130/2012.2492(01).

44 Perroy, R.L., Bookhagen, B., Howarth, J., Chadwick, O. (2012): Holocene and Anthropocene landscape change: arroyo formation on Santa Cruz Island, California, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

43 Godard, V., Burbank, D.W., Bourles, D.L., Bookhagen, B., Braucher, R., Fisher, G.B. (2012): Impact of glacial erosion on 10Be concentrations in fluvial sediments of the Marsyandi catchment, central Nepal, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, doi:10.1029/2011JF002230.

42 Wulf, H., Bookhagen, B. and Scherler, D. (2012): Climatic and geologic controls on suspended sediment flux in the Sutlej River Valley, western Himalaya, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, doi:10.5194/hess-16-2193-2012.

41 Bookhagen, B. and Strecker, M.R. (2012): Spatiotemporal trends in erosion rates across a pronounced rainfall gradient: examples from the southern Central Andes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.
[download Auxiliary material (additional figures and comparison of specific stream power and steepness indices)]

40 Carvalho, L.M.V., Jones, C., Posadas, A.N.D., Quiroz, R., Bookhagen, B., and Liebmann, B. (2012): Precipitation characteristics of the South American Monsoon System derived from multiple datasets, Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00335.1

39 Bookhagen, B.(2012): Himalayan Groundwater, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/ngeo1366. X

38 Schildgen, T.F., Cosentino, D., Bookhagen, B., Niedermann, S., Yildrim, C., Echtler, H., Wittmann, H., Strecker, M.R. (2012): Multi-phased uplift of the southern maring of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317-318, 85-95, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.003
37 Goode, J., Burbank, D.W., Bookhagen, B. (2011): Basin Width Control of Faulting in the Naryn Basin, South-Central Kyrgyzstan, Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2011TC002910.
36 Malik, N., Bookhagen, B., Marwan, N., Kurths, J. (2011): Analysis of spatial and temporal extreme monsoonal rainfall over South Asia using complex networks, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-011-1156-4.
35 Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R. (2011): Hillslope-glacier coupling: the interplay of topography and glacial dynamics in High Asia, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, doi:10.1029/2010JF001751.
 [download Auxiliary material 1 (figure of all glacier profiles, slopes, and velocities)]
[download Auxiliary material 2 (table of all studied glaciers and their characteristics)]
34 Hain, M., Strecker, M.R., Bookhagen, B., Alonso, R.N., Pingel, H. and Schmitt, A.K. (2011): Neogene to Quaternary broken-foreland formation and sedimentation dynamics in the Andes of NW Argentina (25S), Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2010TC002703.
33 Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R. (2011): Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo1068. DR X
32 Strecker, M.R., Hilley, G.E., Bookhagen, B., and Sobel, E.R. (2011): Structural, geomorphic and depositional characteristics of contiguous and broken foreland basins: examples from the eastern flanks of the central Andes in Bolivia and NW Argentina, Recent Advances in Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, C. Busby and A. Azor (editors).
31 Bookhagen, B. and Burbank, D.W. (2010): Towards a complete Himalayan hydrological budget: The spatiotemporal distribution of snow melt and rainfall and their impact on river discharge, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, doi:10.1029/2009jf001426.
[download Auxiliary material (data repository)]
30 Rehak, K., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., Echtler, H.P. (2010): The topographic imprint of a transient climate episode: the western Andean flank between 15.5° and 41.5°S, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
29 Bookhagen, B. (2010): Appearance of extreme monsoonal rainfall events and their impact on erosion in the Himalaya, Geomatics, Natural Hazards, and Risk, 1, 1, pp. 37-50.
28 Perroy, R.L., Bookhagen, B., Asner, G.P., Chadwick, O.A. (2010): Comparison of gully erosion estimates using airborne and ground-based LiDAR on Santa Cruz Island, California, Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.01.009.
27 Scherler, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., von Blanckenburg, F. and Rood, D. (2010): Timing and Extent of Late Quaternary Glaciation in the western Himalaya constrained by 10Be Moraine Dating in Garhwal, India, Quaternary Science Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.031.
26 Wulf, H., Bookhagen, B., and Scherler, D. (2010): Seasonal precipitation gradients and their impact on fluvial sediment flux in the Northwest Himalaya, Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.12.003.
[download Auxiliary material (data repository)]
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Bookhagen, B. and Strecker, M.R. (2010): Modern Andean rainfall variation during ENSO cycles and its impact on the Amazon Basin, in Neogene history of Western Amazonia and its significance for modern diversity, eds. C. Hoorn, H. Vonhof, F. Wesselingh, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
24 Hren, M., Bookhagen, B., Blisniuk, P., Booth, A., Chamberlain, C.P (2009): d18O and dD of streamwaters across the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau: Implications for moisture sources and paleoelevation reconstructions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 288, 1-2, 20-32.
23 Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Hain, H.P., Hilley, G.E., Mortimer, E., Schoehnbohm, L., and Sobel E.R. (2009): Does the topographic distribution of the central Andean Puna Plateau result from climatic or geodynamic processes, Geology, 37, 7, doi:10.1130/G25545A.1.
[download ERRATUM (corrected Figure 3)]
22 Thiede, R.C., Ehlers, T.A., Bookhagen, B., and Strecker, M.R. (2009): Erosional variability along the northwest Himalayan, J. Geophys. Res., 114, F01015, doi:10.1029/2008JF001010.
21 Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., Echtler, H.P. (2009): Segmentation of megathrust rupture zones from fore-arc deformation patterns over hundreds to millions of years, Arauco Peninsular, Chile, J. Geophys. Res., 114., B01407, doi:10.1029/2008JB005788.
20 Bookhagen, B. and Strecker, M.R. (2008): Orographic barriers, high-resolution TRMM rainfall and relief variations along the eastern Andes, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L06403, doi:10.1029/2007GL032011. [download Data Repository]
19 Gabet, E.J., Burbank, D.W., Pratt-Sitaula, B., Putkonen, J., Bookhagen, B. (2008): Modern erosion rates in the High Himalayas of Nepal, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 267, 482-494.
18 Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R.N., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Hilley, G.E., Sobel, E., and Trauth, M.H. (2007): Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.35.031306.140158.
17 Craddock, W., Burbank, D.W., Bookhagen, B., Gabet, E. (2007): Bedrock channel geometry along an orographic rainfall gradient in the upper Marsyandi River valley in central Nepal, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 112, F03007, doi:10.1029/2006JF000589.
16 Hren, M.T., Chamberlain, P., Hilley, G.E., Blisniuk, P.M., Bookhagen, B. (2007): Major ion chemistry of the Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra river: Chemical weathering, erosion, and CO2 consumption in the southern Tibetan Plateau and Eastern Syntaxis of the Himalaya, Geochemica et Cosmochimica acta, 71, 2907-2935.
15 Alonso, R.N., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Haschke, M., Hilley, G.E., Schoenbohm, L. Sobel, E. R., Strecker, M.R., Trauth, M.H., Villanueva, A. (2006): Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution of the Southern Central Andes: The Argentine Puna Plateau and adjacent Regions between 22 and 30° S lat, in Frontiers in Earth Sciences, eds. O. Oncken, M. Strecker, G. Franz, V. Ramos, Springer Verlag, Berlin.
14 Grujic, D., Coutand, I., Bookhagen, B., Bonnet, S., Blythe, A., Duncan, C. (2006): Climatic forcing of erosion, landscape, and tectonics in the Bhutan Himalayas, Geology, 34 (10), 801-804. [download Data Repository]
13 Bookhagen, B., Echtler, H.P., Melnick, D., Strecker, M.R., Spencer, J.Q.G. (2006): Using uplifted Holocene beach berms for paleoseismic analysis on the Santa Maria Island, south-central Chile, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L15302, doi:10:1029/2006GL026734.
12 Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Echtler, H.P., Strecker, M.R. (2006): Coastal deformation and great subduction earthquakes: Isla Santa María, Chile (37°S), GSA Bulletin, 118, (11/12), doi:10.1130/B25865.1.
11 Bookhagen, B., Fleitmann, D., Nishiizumi, K., Strecker, M.R., Thiede, R.C. (2006): Holocene Monsoonal dynamics and fluvial terrace formation in the northwest Himalaya, India, Geology, 34 (7), 601-604.
10 Thiede, R.C., Arrowsmith, R., Bookhagen, B., McWilliams, M., Sobel, E., and Strecker, M. (2006): Dome formation and extension in the Tethyan Himalaya, Leo Pargil, northwest India, GSA Bulletin, 118 (5/6), 635-650, doi:10.1130/B25872.1.
9 Bookhagen, B. and Burbank, D.W. (2006): Topography, Relief, and TRMM-derived rainfall variations along the Himalaya, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L08405, doi:10:1029/2006GL026037. [download Data Repository] [selected as AGU Editor’s Choice in May 2006]
8 Thiede, R.C., Arrowsmith, R., Bookhagen, B., McWilliams, M., Sobel, E., and Strecker, M.R. (2005): From tectonically to erosionally controlled development of the Himalayan orogen, Geology, 33(8), 689-692. [download Data Repository]
7 Bookhagen, B., Thiede, R.C., Strecker. M.R. (2005): Abnormal Monsoon years and their control on erosion and sediment flux in the high, arid northwest Himalaya, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 231, 131-146.
6 Bookhagen, B., Thiede, R.C., Strecker, M.R. (2005): Late Quaternary intensified monsoon phases control landscape evolution in the northwest Himalaya, Geology, 33 (2), 149-152. [download Data Repository]
5 Thiede, R.C., Bookhagen, B., Arrowsmith, J.R., Sobel, E.R., Strecker, M.R. (2004): Climatic control on rapid exhumation along the Southern Himalayan Front, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 222 (3-4), 791-806.
4 Trauth, M.H., Bookhagen, B., Marwan, N., Strecker, M.R. (2003): Multiple landslide clusters record Quaternary climate changes in the northwestern Argentine Andes, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 194, 109-121.
3 Trauth, M.H., Bookhagen, B., Mueller, A., Strecker, M.R. (2003): Late Pleistocene Climate Change and Erosion in the Santa Maria Basin, NW Argentina, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 73 (1), 82-90.
2 Bergner, A.G., Trauth, M.H., Bookhagen, B. (2003): Paleoprecipitation estimates for the Lake Naivasha basin (Kenya) during the last 175 k.y. using a lake-balance model, Global and Planetary Change, 36 (1-2), 117-136.
1 Bookhagen, B., Haselton, K., Trauth, M. (2001): Hydrological Modelling of a Pleistocene landslide-dammed lake in the Santa Maria Basin, NW Argentina, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 169, 113-127.