Publications

This is a list of my publications which I try to keep more or less up to date. You can grab the whole list as a bib file if you want to paste a few of the references into your own bibliographic software here (but read the papers first!). Where links to the papers are not available here, or you don't have a subscription to the journal in question, then please contact me and I will do my best to help.

Journal papers

Hebeler, Felix & Purves, Ross S. 2008. The influence of resolution and topographic uncertainty on melt modelling using hypsometric sub-grid parameterization. Hydrological Processes, .

Jones, C. B., Purves, R. S., Clough, P. D. & Joho, H. 2008. Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1365-8816.

Jones, Christopher B. & Purves, Ross S. 2008. Geographical Information Retrieval. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 22, 1365-8816.

Yang, B., Purves, R.S. & Weibel, R. 2008. Variable-resolution Compression of Vector Data. Geoinformatica, 12, 357-376.

Purves, R.S., Clough, P., Jones, C.B., Arampatzis, A., Bucher, B., Finch, D., Fu, G., Joho, H., Syed, A.K., Vaid, S. & Yang, B. 2007. The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21, 717-745.

Yang, B., Purves, R.S. & Weibel, R. 2007. Efficient transmission of vector data over the Internet. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21, 1365-8816.

Campbell, F.M.A., Nienow, P.W. & Purves, R.S. 2006. Role of the supraglacial snowpack in mediating meltwater delivery to the glacier system as inferred from dye tracer investigations. Hydrological Processes, 20, (4), 969-985.

Laube, P. & Purves, R.S. 2006. An approach to evaluating motion pattern detection techniques in spatio-temporal data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 30, (3), 347-374.

Purves, R.S & Jones, C.B. 2006. Geographic Information Retrieval. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 30, 375-377.

Purves, R. S., Medyckyj-Scott, D. J. & Mackaness, W. A. 2005. The e-MapScholar project-an example of interoperability in GIScience education. Computers & Geosciences, 31, (2), 189-198.

Schildgen, T. F., Phillips, W. M. & Purves, R. S. 2005. Simulation of snow shielding corrections for cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure studies. Geomorphology, 64, (1-2), 67-85.

Sugden, D. E., Bentley, M. J., Fogwill, C. J., Hulton, N. R. J., McCulloch, R. D. & Purves, R. S. 2005. Late-glacial glacier events in southernmost South America: A blend of 'northern'and 'southern' hemispheric climatic signals?. Geografiska Annaler Series A-physical Geography, 87A, (2), 273-288.

Heierli, J., Purves, R. S., Felber, A. & Kowalski, J. 2004. Verification of nearest-neighbours interpretations in avalanche forecasting. Annals of Glaciology, Vol 38, 2004, 38, 84-88.

Jamieson, S. S. R., Sinclair, H. D., Kirstein, L. A. & Purves, R. S. 2004. Tectonic forcing of longitudinal valleys in the Himalaya: morphological analysis of the Ladakh Batholith, North India. Geomorphology, 58, (1-4), 49-65.

Hulton, N. R. J., Sugden, D. E. & Purves, R. S. 2003. Comment on: 'The Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation in southern South America'Authors response to the comment by G. Wenzens. Quaternary Science Reviews, 22, (5-7), 755-757.

Purves, R.S., Morrison, K.W., Moss, G. & Wright, D.S.B 2003. Nearest neighbours for avalanche forecasting in Scotland - development, verification and optimisation of a model. Cold Regions Science and Technology 37(3), 343-355, 37, (3), 343-355.

Hulton, N.R.J., Purves, R.S., McCulloch, R., Sugden, D.E., & Bentley, M.J. 2002. The last glacial maximum and deglaciation in southern South America. Quaternary Science Reviews 21, 233-241., (21), 233-241.

Morrison, K.W & Purves, R.S. 2002. Customizable landscape visualizations. Implementation, application and testing of a web-based tool. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 26, (2-3), 161-183.

Sugden, D. E., Hulton, N. R. J. & Purves, R. S. 2002. Modelling the inception of the Patagonian icesheet. Quaternary International, 95-6, 55-64.

Mackaness, W. A. & Purves, R. S. 2001. Automated displacement for large numbers of discrete map objects. Algorithmica, 30, (2), 302-311.

McCulloch, R. D., Bentley, M. J., Purves, R. S., Hulton, N. R. J., Sugden, D. E. & Clapperton, C. M. 2000. Climatic inferences from glacial and palaeoecological evidence at the last glacial termination, southern South America. Journal of Quaternary Science, 15, (4), 409-417.

Purves, R. S. & Hulton, N. R. J. 2000. A climatic-scale precipitation model compared with the UKCIP baseline climate. International Journal of Climatology, 20, (14), 1809-1821.

Purves, R. S. & Hulton, N. R. J. 2000. Experiments in linking regional climate, ice-sheet models and topography. Journal of Quaternary Science, 15 IEOLEOL4, 369-+.

Purves, R. S., Mackaness, W. A. & Sugden, D. E. 1999. An approach to modelling the impact of snow drift on glaciation in the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 14, (4), 313-321.

Purves, R. S., Barton, J. S., Mackaness, W.A. & Sugden, D. E. 1998. The development of a rule based spatial model of wind transport and deposition of snow. Annals of Glaciology, 26, 197-202.

Purves, R. S. & Sanderson, M. 1998. A methodology to allow avalanche forecasting on an information retrieval system. Journal of Documentation, 54, (2), 198-209.

Purves, R. S., Barton, J.S. & Wright, D.S.B. 1995. Automated measurements of snow temperature profiles in the Cairngorm mountains, Scotland. Meteorological Applications, 2, 199-207.

Book chapters

Corripio, J.C., R.S, Purves & River, A. 2008. Modeling climate-change impacts on mountain glaciers and water resources in the Central Dry Andes.Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science and Society Orlove Ben, Wiegandt Ellen & Luckman Brian H.(eds), 126-138.

Dias, E., Edwardes, A.J. & Purves, R.S. 2008. Analysing and aggregating visitor tracks in a protected area.Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining A. Stein, J. Shi \& W. Bijker(eds), xx-yy.

Hebeler, F. & Purves, R.S. 2008. Modelling DEM data uncertainties for Monte Carlo Simulations of Ice Sheet Models.Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining A. Stein, J. Shi & W. Bijker(eds), 175-196 .

Walz, A., Bebi, P. & Purves, R.S. 2008. A Comparison of Two Techniques for Local Land-Use Change Simulation in the Swiss Mountain Area.GIS for Environmental Decision-Making Lovett, A. and Appleton, K.(eds), 131-148.

Laube, P., Purves, R.S., Imfeld, S. & Weibel, R. 2007. Analysing Point Motion with Geographic Knowledge Discovery Techniques.Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time Drummond, J. and Billen, R. and Joao E. and Forrest D.(eds), 263-286.

Corripio, J. G. & Purves, R. S. 2005. Surface Energy Balance of High Altitude Glaciers in the Central Andes: the Effect of Snow Penitentes.Climate & Hydrology in Mountain Areas De Jong, Collins. Ranzi(eds), .

Hugentobler, M., Purves, R.S. & Schneider, B. 2004. Evaluating methods for interpolating continuous surfaces from irregular data: a case study.Developments in Spatial Data Handling Peter Fisher(eds), 109-124.

Purves, R. S., Mackaness, W.A. & Dowers, S. 2002. Providing context in Virtual Reality: The example of a CAL for mountain navigation.Virtual Reality in Geography P. Fisher and D. Unwin(eds), .

Purves, R.S., Mackaness, W.A., Sugden, D. E. & Barton., J. 1999. Innovations in GIS 6 - Integrating Information Infrastructures with Geographical Information TechnologyThe Application of GIS to the Modelling of Snow Drift. B.M. Gittings(eds), 243-254.

Conference papers and Extended Abstracts

Dykes, J., Purves, R.S., Edwardes, A.J. & Wood, J. 2008. Exploiting Volunteered Geographic Information to Describe Place: Visualisation of the 'Geograph British Isles' Collection. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 16th Annual Conference,Lambrick, D.(eds), 256-267.

Purves, R. S., Edwardes, A. J & Sanderson, M. 2008. Describing the Where – improving image annotation and search through geography. First Intl. Workshop on Metadata Mining for Image Understanding (MMIU 2008),.

Purves, R.S. & Edwardes, A.J. 2008. Exploiting Volunteered Geographic Information to Describe Place. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 16th Annual Conference,Lambrick, D.(eds), 252-255.

Purves, R.S. & Edwardes, A.J. 2008. Exploiting Volunteered Geographic Information to Describe Place. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 16th Annual Conference,Lambrick, D.(eds), 252-255.

Tomko, M. & Purves, R.S. 2008. Categorical Prominence and the Characteristic Description of Regions. Workshop on Semantic Web meets Geospatial Applications,.

Derungs, C. & Purves, R.S. 2007. Empirical Experiments on the Nature of Swiss Mountains. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK Conference,Winstanley, A.C.(eds), 348-352.

Edwardes, A.J. & Purves, R.S. 2007. A theoretical grounding for semantic descriptions of place. Proceedings of 7th Intl. Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS), Cardiff, UK, 28-29th Nov. 2007,(4857), Ware, M. and Taylor, G.(eds), 106-121.

Edwardes, A.J. & Purves, R.S 2007. Eliciting Concepts of Place for Text-based Image Retrieval. Proceedings of Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR'07), CIKM 2007, Nov 6-9, Lisboa, Portugal,15-17.

Purves, R.S. & Korup, O. 2007. Multiscale Analysis of Hillslope Height for Geomorphometry. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK Conference,Winstanley, A.C.(eds), 484-488.

Suter, C., Purves, R.S. & Harvey, S. 2007. Avalanche Education with mLearning. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK Conference,Winstanley, A.C.(eds), 35-39.

Straumann, R.K & Purves, R.S. 2007. Resolution Sensitivity of a Compound Terrain Derivative as Computed from LiDAR-Based Elevation Data.Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography - The European Information Society Fabrikant, S.I and Wachowicz, M.(eds), 87-109.

Yang, B., Purves, R.S., Syed, A.K. & Weibel, R. 2006. Web-Based Visualisation Tools for Spatial Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK Conference,Priestnall, G. and Aplin, P.(eds), 263-267.

Laube, P. & Purves, R.S. 2005. Evaluation of an Approach to Motion Pattern Detection using Random Walk Models. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK Conference,Drummond, J. and Billen, R. and Forrest D. and Joao E.(eds), 130-135.

Purves, R.S., Clough, P. & Joho, H. 2005. Identifying Imprecise Regions for Geographic Information Retrieval from the Web. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK Conference,Drummond, J. and Billen, R. and Forrest D. and Joao E.(eds), 313-318.

Burghardt, D., Purves, R. S. & Edwardes, A. J. 2004. Techniques for on-the-fly generalisation of thematic point data using hierarchical data structures.. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 12th Annual Conference,.

Hebeler, F. & Purves, R.S. 2004. Representation of topography and its role in uncertainty: a case study in ice sheet modelling. Proceedings of the GIScience 2004 conference,M. Egenhofer, C. Freksa and H. Miller(eds), 118-121.

Purves, R.S., Mackaness, W.A., Medyjckyi-Scott, D.J & Weibel, R. 2004. Learning from difference: GITTA and e-MapScholar - contrasting experiences in developing e-learning for GIScience. Fourth European GIS Education Seminar,.

Walz, A., Bebi, P. & Purves, R.S. 2004. Land-use simulations for small regions in the Swiss mountain area Ð comparison of two modelling techniques. Proceedings of GISRUK 12th Annual Conference,356-359.

Yang, B.S., Purves, R. S. & Weibel, R. 2004. Implementation of progressive vector transmission algorithms for vector map data in web-based visualization. XXth Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS),.

Corripio, J.C. & Purves, R.S. 2003. The influence of penitentes on the energy balance of high altitude glaciers in the dry Central Andes. Abstracts of EGS XXVIII General Assembly, April 2003, Nice, France,.

Purves, R.S. 2003. Daisies and topography - investigating representation of topography in environmental modelling. Proceedings of GISRUK (GIS Research in the UK) 2003, 48-52,.

Purves, R.S., Medyckyj-Scott, D.J. & Mackaness, W.A. 2003. The e-MapScholar Project - An example of interoperability in GIScience education. Proceedings of the 6th AGILE Conference, CD-ROM,.

Corripio, J.C. & Purves, R.S. 2002. Energy Balance of high altitude glaciarised basins in the Central Andes: climatic and hydrological aspects. Abstracts of EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002,.

Hulton, N.R.J. & Purves, R.S. 2002. Modelling the sensitivity and response of the Patagonian Ice Sheet to realistic climate signals. Abstracts of EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002,.

Jones C., Purves, R.S., Ruas, A., Sanderson, M., Sester, M., van Kreveld, M.J. & Weibel, R. 2002. Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project. SIGIR 2002 Tampere, Finland, 387-388,.

Purves, R.S., Medycki-Scott, D.J., Fairbairn, D., Mackaness, W.A., Robertson, L. & Wood, J. 2002. Bridging the gap - delivering customisable learning materials to enhance utilisation of geographic data. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 10th annual conference, Sheffield, UK, 40-44.,.

Purves, R.S., Morrison, K.W., Moss, G. & Wright, D.S.B. 2002. Nearest neighbours for avalanche forecasting in Scotland - development, verification and optimisation of a model. Proceedings of the International Snow Science, Penticton, B.C., Canada.,.