Phillip Harder

• B.Sc., Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan. 
• M.Sc., Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan. 
• Ph.D., Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan. 

Broadly Phillip is interested in understanding the influence of land use on hydrology at a process level. Specifically, he finds the influence of agricultural management practices on hydrology on the Canadian Prairies especially compelling. The additional challenges of cold-region hydrological processes (all three phases of water over the course of a year) means much of the existing literature on agriculture-hydrology interactions is inadequate to describe the complexity of hydrological processes on the Canadian Prairies. His expertise is in implementing intensive and novel field-based research programs to develop new process level understandings of land-use hydrology interactions. In addition to insitu micrometeorological, soil, and snow observation experience has significant expertise in deploying and synthesizing data from unmanned aerial vehicles.

• Cold-region hydrology
• Agriculture
• Snow
• Land-atmosphere interactions
• Unmanned aerial vehicles

Harder, P., Helgason, W., and Pomeroy, J. (2018) Modelling the snow-surface energy balance during melt under exposed crop stubble. Journal of Hydrometeorology 19 (7): 1191–1214. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-18-0039.1. Harder, P., Pomeroy, J., and Helgason, W. (2017)

Local scale advection of sensible and latent heat during snowmelt. Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 9769–9777. https://doi.org/10.1002/ 2017GL074394 Harder, P., Schirmer, M., Pomeroy, J., Helgason, W. (2016) Accuracy of snow depth estimation by an unmanned aerial vehicle. The Cryopshere 10: 2559-2571. DOI:10.5194/tc-10-2559-2016

Harder, P., Pomeroy, J. and Westbrook, C. (2015) Hydrological resilience of a Canadian Rockies headwaters basin subject to changing climate, extreme weather, and forest management. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10596

Harder, P., and Pomeroy, J. (2014) Hydrological model uncertainty due to precipitation-phase partitioning methods. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10214

Harder, P., and Pomeroy, J. (2013) Estimating Precipitation Phase using a Psychrometric Energy Balance Method. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9799

Stewart, R., Bonsal, B., Harder, P., Henson, W., and Kochtubajda, B. (2012) Cold and Hot Periods associated with Dry conditions over the Canadian Prairies. Atmosphere-Ocean. 50(3): 364-372

Hanesiak, J.M., Stewart, R. E., Bonsal, B. R., Harder, P., Lawford, R., Aider, R., Amiro, B.D., Atallah, E., Barr, A. G.,Black, T. A., Bullock, P., Brimelow, J. C., Brown, R., Carmichael, H., Derksen, C., Flanagan, L. B., Gachon, P., Greene, H., Gyakum, J., Henson, W., Hogg, E.H., Kochtubajda, B., Leighton, H., Lin, C., Luo, Y., McCaughey, J. H., Meinert, A., Shabbar, A., Snelgrove, K., Szeto, K., Trishchenko, A., van der Kamp, G., Wang, S., Wen, L., Wheaton, A., Wielki, C., Yang, Y., Yirdaw, S., and Zha, T. (2011) Characterization and summary of the 1999-2005 Canadian Prairie drought. Atmosphere-Ocean. 49(4): 421-452 

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