Research/Focus Areas
- Climate change of the intermountain West
- Polar clouds
- Infrared remote sensing of the atmosphere and surface
- Polar meteorology
Academic Programs
My Courses
- GEOG 100 Physical Geography
- GEOG 301 Meteorology
- GEOG 401 Climatology
- GEOG 450 Global Environmental Change
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, "The Worst Journey in the World”
Von Walden, Ph.D.
College of Science
Department of Geography
Associate Professor
Campus Locations
Moscow
With UI Since
2001
- Ph.D., University of Washington, Geophysics, 1995
- M.S., University of Washington, Geophysics, 1990
- B.S., Utah State University, Physics, 1984
Dr. Von P. Walden is an Associate Professor in the Geography department at the University of Idaho. Dr. Walden's research interests include polar meteorology and remote sensing of polar clouds and snow, as well as understanding climate change in the western U.S.
He has conducted seven field experiments in the Antarctic and Arctic regions and is preparing to deploy instrumentation at Summit Station, Greenland as part of National Science Foundation’s Arctic Observing Network.
Dr. Walden served on NASA’s Validation Team for the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) from 2001 to 2008. He has acquired funding for a wide variety of research projects, including modeling hydrology of snowmelt-dominated basins, downscaling climate model output, and measuring properties of polar atmospheres. At the University of Idaho, Dr. Walden teaches courses in meteorology, climatology, and global environmental change.
The University of Idaho was recently awarded an NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement grant to study Water Resources in a Changing Climate in Idaho. Dr. Walden led the development of the science team and the scientific portion of the proposal, and is now serving as the Interim Director of Idaho EPSCoR/IDeA.
Dr. Walden frequently gives talks on global and regional climate change to diverse audiences.
Selected Publications
- Harshburger, B.J., T.R. Blandford, K.S. Humes, V.P. Walden, B.C. Moore, and R.J. Dezzani, 2009: Spatial interpolation of snow water equivalency using surface observations and remotely sensed images of snow-covered area, Hydrologic Processes, In review.
- Harshburger, B.J., K.S. Humes, V.P. Walden, B.C. Moore, T.R. Blandford, and A. Rango, 2009: Evaluation of short-to-medium range streamflow forecasts obtained using an enhanced version of the Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM), J. Amer. Water Res. Assoc., Accepted.
- Walden, V.P., R.L. Tanamachi, P.M. Rowe, H.E. Revercomb, D.C. Tobin, and S.A. Ackerman, 2009: Improvements in the data quality of the Interferometric Monitor of Greenhouse Gases (IMG), Appl. Opt., Accepted.
- Town, M.S., and V.P. Walden, 2009: The surface energy budget and the stable boundary layer over the South Pole, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2009JD011888, In press.
- Rowe, P., and V.P. Walden, 2009: Improved measurements of the foreign-broadened continuum of water vapor in the 6.3 mm band at -30 °C, Appl. Opt., 48, 1358-1365.
- Lesins, G., L. Bourdages, T.J. Duck, E.W. Eloranta, and V.P. Walden, 2009: Large surface radiative forcing from surface-based ice crystal events measured in the High Arctic at Eureka, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 9, 1847-1862.