Chris Dunkerly

Assistant Research Scientist, Computational Hydrologist

Phone

775-673-7378

E-Mail

Christian.Dunkerly@www-dev.dri.edu

Campus

Reno Campus

Division

Hydrologic Sciences

Publications

2025

Volk, J. M., Dunkerly, C. W., Pearson, C., Morton, C. G., & Huntington, J. L. (2025). gridwxcomp: A Python package to evaluate and interpolate biases between station and gridded weather data. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(105), Article No. 7178. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07178

Korotkin, M., Rybarski, S. C., Lancaster, J., Jasoni, R. L., Dunkerly, C. W., Toller, J. A., Lobsinger, M. A., Briem, C. M., Uka, N., Harsha, G. L., Soldano, V. A., Chameroy, E., Page, D. J., & Sion, B. (2025). MERS Long-Term Data Collection and Analysis of Thermal Imagery Captured Over Surface and Buried Targets, Report prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory under contract W903E520C0015

Rybarski, S. C., Korotkin, M., Toller, J. A., Nadler, C., Jasoni, R. L., Lancaster, J., Lobsinger, M. A., Dunkerly, C. W., Page, D. J., Minor, T. B., Briem, C. M., Uka, N., Hausner, M. B., Harsha, G. L., Soldano, V. A., & Sion, B. (2025). Environmental Conditions Controlling Spatial and Temporal Thermal Contrast of Buried and Surface Targets: Synoptic Report, Report prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory under contract W903E520C0015

2024

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F. S., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J. B., Kilic, A., Ruhoff, A., Senay, G. B., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ott, T., Johnson, L., Comini de Andrade, B., Carrara, W., Doherty, C. T., Dunkerly, C. W., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Kang, Y., Knipper, K., Laipelt, L., Ortega-Salazar, S., Pearson, C., Parrish, G. E., Purdy, A., ReVelle, P., Wang, T., & Yang, Y. (2024). Assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications. Nature Water, 13 p. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00181-7

Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Volk, J. M., Dunkerly, C. W., Jensen, E., ReVelle, P., Kilic, A., Allen, R., & Huntington, J. L. (2024). Historical Evapotranspiration and Consumptive Use of Irrigated Areas of the Upper Colorado River Basin. Desert Research Institute: Las Vegas, NV, DRI Report No. 41304. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31069.63206

Dunkerly, C. W., Huntington, J. L., McEvoy, D. J., Morway, A., & Allen, R. G. (2024). agweather-qaqc: An Interactive Python Package for Quality Assurance and Quality Control of Daily Agricultural Weather Data and Calculation of Reference Evapotranspiration. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(97), May 24, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06368

2023

Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., Pearson, C., Beamer, J., Dunkerly, C. W., Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., & Hoskinson, M. (2023). Evapotranspiration, Net Irrigation Water Requirements, and Reservoir Evaporation Estimates for Oregon

2022

McEvoy, D. J., Roj, S., Dunkerly, C. W., McGraw, D. S., Huntington, J. L., Hobbins, M., & Ott, T. (2022). Validation and Bias Correction of Forecast Reference Evapotranspiration for Agricultural Applications in Nevada, USA. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(11). American Society for Civil Engineers, August 29, 2022-August 29, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001595

2021

Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Hall, M., Rollison, D., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J., Kilic, A., Senay, G., Volk, J. M., Hain, C., Johnson, L., Ruhoff, A., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Kang, Y., Ketchum, D., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Ozdogan, M., ReVelle, P., Schull, M., Wang, C., Yang, Y., & Anderson, R. (2021). OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12956

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Volk, J. M., & Dunkerly, C. W. (2021). Agricultural Evapotranspiration and Net Irrigation Water Requirements for the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2020 ET Demands Model Summary. Report summitted to United States Bureau of Reclamation.

2020

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Volk, J. M., & Dunkerly, C. W. (2020). Agricultural Evapotranspiration and Net Irrigation Water Requirements for the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2019 ET Demands Model Summary

2019

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., & Dunkerly, C. W. (2019). Agricultural Evapotranspiration and Net Irrigation Water Requirements for the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2018 Model Result Summary

2018

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Morton, C. G., & Dunkerly, C. W. (2018). Agricultural Evapotranspiration and Net Irrigation Water Requirements for the Upper Colorado River Basin, Summary report submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, September 2018

Conference Proceedings

2024

Pearson, C., Ott, T., Daudert, B., Dunkerly, C. W., Huntington, J. L., Holman, K., Gao, H., Zhao, B., Yadav, A., Allen, G., & Abatzoglou, J. T. (2024). Developing reservoir evaporation forecasts for improved operations and management. TWDB and LCRA Workshop on Surface Water Evaporation Monitoring and Estimation: New Developments and Implications for Reservoir Operations and Water Planning: Austin, TX, Oral presentation.

Melton, F., Grimm, R., Volk, J. M., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Hall, M., Harding, J., Herring, J., Huntington, J. L., Johnson, L., Kilic, A., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., O’Connor, R., Amidi-Abraham, G., Parrish, G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Purdy, A., Ruhoff, A., ReVelle, P., Senay, G., Solymar, R., Yang, Y., & Biedebach, M. (2024). OpenET: Applications of Evapotranspiration Data for Water Resources Management in the Western United States, 2023, H13D-07
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AGUFM.H13D..07M

2022

Bromley, M., Melton, F., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Huntington, J. L., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Erickson, T., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Hall, M., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., Kilic, A., Morton, C. G., Malloy, M., McCullum, A., Minor, B. A., Patel, M., O’Connor, R., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., ReVelle, P., Ruhoff, A., Senay, G., Volk, J. M., & Yang, Y. (2022). OpenET: Cloud-based Evapotranspiration Data for Water Management . AGU – Frontiers in Hydrology Meeting: San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 20, 2022-June 24, 2022
https://agu.confex.com/agu/hydrology22/meetingapp.cgi

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Hain, C., & Halverson, G. (2022). OpenET Satellite-based ET Intercomparisons with Ground-based Measurements: Phase II Results . Authorea

2020

Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Hall, M., Rollison, D., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Harding, J., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., Kilic, A., Mallory, M., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Revelle, P., Ruhoff, A., Schull, M., Senay, G. B., Volk, J. M., Wang, T., & Yang, Y. (2020). OpenET: Filling a Critical Gap in Water Data for the Western US. AGU: Virtual, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020

Rollison, D., Grimm, R., Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Herring, J., Hall, M., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., Kilic, A., Malloy, M., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Revelle, P., Ruhoff, A., Schull, M. A., Senay, G. B., Volk, J. M., Wang, T., & Yang, Y. (2020). OpenET: Enabling Science-Based Water Management through Open Data Services and User-Driven Design. AGU: Virtual, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020

Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., Bromley, M., Morton, C. G., & Dunkerly, C. W. (2020). Using Remote Sensing Evapotranspiration Models to Estimate Historical Pumping in Diamond Valley. Annual Meeting of the Nevada Water Resources Association: Las Vegas, NV, February 10, 2020-February 13, 2020

2013

Huntington, J. L., Dunkerly, C. W., McCurdy, G. D., Wolff, A. J., Lyles, B. F., & Allen, R. (2013). Highlights from the Nevada Integrated Climate and Evapotranspiration Network – NICE Net

Other

2024

Wilson, J. L., ReVelle, P., Friedrichs, M. O., Morton, C. G., Carrara, W., Andrade, B., Bromley, M., Dunkerly, C. W., Guzman, A., Halverson, G., Harding, J., Laipelt, L., Minor, B. A., Parrish, G. E., Pearson, C., Volk, J. M., Yang, Y., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Doherty, C., Fisher, J., Huntington, J. L., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., & Kilic, A. (2024). Monthly OpenET Image Collections (v2.0) Summarized by 12-Digit Hydrologic Unit Codes, 2008-2023, U.S. Geological Survey data release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P13Y9HXJ

2023

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F. S., Allen, R., Anderson, M. C., Fisher, J. B., Kilic, A., Ruhoff, A., Senay, G. B., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ott, T., Johnson, L., Comini de Andrade, B., Carrara, W., Doherty, C. T., Dunkerly, C. W., Friedrichs, M. O., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G. H., Kang, Y., Knipper, K. R., Laipelt, L., Ortega-Salazar, S., Pearson, C., Parrish, G., Purdy, A., ReVelle, P., Rossi, J. B., Solymar, R., & Wang, T. (2023). OpenET model data for assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications. Zenodo dataset. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7636782