Education

• Ph.D. Water Resources Engineering
  Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering Department - Corvallis, OR
  
  
• M.S. Forestry
  Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry - Flagstaff, AZ
  
  
• B.S. Atmospheric Sciences (Minor in Physics and Mathematics)
  University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ
  

Research Interests

Climate variability and change and its impacts on water resources and hazards

Hydrology of swelling/shrinking soils

Streamflow recession analysis for catchment/aquifer characterization

Rainfall scaling and stochastic simulation

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Rupp, D. E., P. W. Mote, N. L. Bindoff, P. A. Stott, D. A. Robinson. 2013. Detection and attribution of observed changes in Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover, Journal of Climate, in press.

Stewart, R. D., R. Hut, D. E. Rupp, H. Gupta, J. S. Selker. 2012. A resonating rainfall and evaporation recorder, Water Resources Research (48), W08601, doi: 10.1029/2011WR011529.

Rupp, D. E., P. W. Mote, N. Massey, C. J. Rye, R. Jones, M. R. Allen. 2012. Did human influence on climate make the 2011 Texas drought more probable?, in Peterson, T. C., P. A. Stott, S. Herring, eds., Explaining extreme events of 2011 from a climate perspective, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (93), 1041-1067, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00021.1.

Stewart, R. D., M. R. Abou Najm, D. E. Rupp, J. S. Selker. 2012. An image-based method for determining bulk density and the soil shrinkage curve, Soil Science Society of America Journal (76), 1217-1221, doi: 10.2136/sssaj2011.0276n.

Stewart, R. D., M. R. Abou Najm, D. E. Rupp, J. S. Selker. 2012. Measurement tool for dynamics of soil cracks, Vadose Zone Journal (11), doi: vzj2011.0048.

Rupp, D. E., T. C. Wainwright, P. W. Lawson. 2012. Effect of forecast skill on management of the Oregon coast coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) fishery, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (69), 1016-1032, doi: 10.1139/f2012-040.

Rupp, D. E., P. Licznar, W. Adamowski, M. Leśniewski. 2012. Multiplicative cascade models for fine spatial downscaling of rainfall: Parameterization with rain gauge data, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (16), 671-684, doi: 10.5194/hess-16-671-2012.

Rupp, D. E., T. C. Wainwright, P. W. Lawson, W. T. Peterson. 2012. Marine environment-based forecasting of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) adult recruitment, Fisheries Oceanography (21), 1-19, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2011.00605.x.

Rupp, D. E., O. Reckmann, J. Vergara, H. Uribe, and J. S. Selker. 2011. Unconfined aquifer permeability near hand-dug wells in the Secano Costero and Interior, Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Region, Chile, Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research (71), 267-274.

Licznar, P., T. G. Schmitt, D. E. Rupp. 2011. Distributions of microcanonical cascade weights of rainfall at small timescales, Acta Geophysica (59), 1013-1043, doi: 10.2478/s11600-011-0014-4.

Licznar, P., J. Łomotowski, D. E. Rupp. 2011. Random cascade driven rainfall disaggregation for urban hydrology: An evaluation of six models and a new generator, Atmospheric Research (99), 563-578, doi: /10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.12.014.

Rupp, D. E., J. Schmidt, R. A. Woods, V. J. Bidwell. 2009. Analytical assessment and parameter estimation of a low-dimensional groundwater model, Journal of Hydrology (377), 143-154, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.08.018.

Rupp, D. E., R. F. Keim, M. Ossiander, M. Brugnach, J. S. Selker. 2009. Timescale and intensity dependency in multiplicative cascades for temporal rainfall disaggregation, Water Resources Research (45), W07409, doi: 10.1029/2008WR007321.

Clark, M. P., D. E. Rupp, R. A. Woods, I. Tromp-van Meerveld, N. Peters, J. Freer. 2009. Consistency between hydrological models and field observations: Linking processes at the hillslope scale to hydrological responses at the watershed scale, Hydrological Processes (23), 311-319, doi: 10.1002/hyp.7154

Rupp, D. E., S. T. Larned, D. B. Arscott, J. Schmidt. 2008. Reconstruction of a daily flow record along a hydrologically complex alluvial river, Journal of Hydrology (359), 88-104, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.06.019.

Clark, M. P., D. E. Rupp, R. A. Woods, X. Zheng, R. P. Ibbitt, A. G. Slater, J. Schmidt, M. J. Uddstrom. 2008. Hydrological data assimilation with the ensemble Kalman filter: use of streamflow observations to update states in a distributed hydrological model, Advances in Water Resources (31), 1309-1324, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.06.005.

Clark, M. P., A. G. Slater, D. E. Rupp, R. A. Woods, J. A. Vrugt, H. V. Gupta, T. Wagener, L. E. Hay. 2008. Framework for Understanding Structural Errors (FUSE): A modular framework to diagnosing differences between hydrological models, Water Resources Research (44), W00B02, doi: 10.1029/2007WR006735.

Rupp, D. E., R. A. Woods. 2008. Comment on ‘C.-P. Tung, N.-M. Hong, C.-H. Chen and Y.-C. Tan, Regional daily baseflow prediction. Hydrological Processes, 18 (2004) 2147-2164’, Hydrological Processes (22), 883-886, doi: 10.1002/hyp.6924.

Rupp, D. E., R. A. Woods. 2008. Increased flexibility in base flow modelling using a power law transmissivity profile, Hydrological Processes (22), 2667-2671, doi: 10.1002/hyp.6863.

Rupp, D. E., G. M. Smart. 2007. Comment on “Flow resistance equations without explicit estimation of the resistance coefficient for coarse-grained rivers” by Raúl López, Javier Barragán, and M. Àngels, Journal of Hydrology (346), 174-178, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.08.024.

Rupp, D. E., J. S. Selker. 2006. On the use of the Boussinesq equation for interpreting recession hydrographs from sloping aquifers, Water Resources Research (42), W12421, doi: 10.1029/2006WR005080.

Rupp, D. E., J. S. Selker. 2006. Information, artifacts, and noise in dQ/dt-Q recession analysis, Advances in Water Resources (29), 154-160, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.03.019.

Rupp, D. E., R. E. Peachey, K. L. Warren, J. S. Selker. 2006. Diuron in surface runoff and tile drainage from two grass-seed fields, Journal of Environmental Quality (35), 303-311, doi: 10.2134/jeq2005.0093.

Rupp, D. E., J. S. Selker. 2005. Drainage of a horizontal Boussinesq aquifer with a power-law hydraulic conductivity profile, Water Resources Research (41), W11422, doi: 10.1029/2005WR004241.

Selker, J. S., D. E. Rupp. 2005. An environmentally driven time-integrating water sampler, Water Resources Research (41), W09201, doi: 10.1029/ 2005WR004040.

Rupp, D. E., J. M. Owens, K. L. Warren, J. S. Selker. 2004. Analytical methods for estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity in a tile-drained field, Journal of Hydrology (289), 111-127, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2003.11.004.

Rupp, D. E., J. S. Selker, J. Šimůnek. 2001. A modification to the Bouwer and Rice method of slug-test analysis for large-diameter, hand-dug wells, Ground Water (39), 308-314, doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2001.tb02313.x.