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Title: Branch Head
Affiliation: NASA
Contact: E-mail
Office Phone: 301-614-5811
Fax: 301-614-5808

Short Biography

Dr. Christa D. Peters-Lidard graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Geophysics and a minor in Mathematics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in 1991. She then went on to earn her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Water Resources Program in the Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research at Princeton University in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Dr. Peters-Lidard was an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2001. She is currently the Head of the Hydrological Sciences Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she has been a Physical Scientist since 2001. She has served as an Editor for the American Meteorological Society Journal of Hydrometeorology (2004-2007) and an Associate Editor for Water Resources Research (2002-2004). Her research interests include land-atmosphere interactions, soil moisture measurement and modeling, and the application of high performance computing and communications technologies in Earth system modeling, for which her Land Information System team was awarded the 2005 NASA Software of the Year Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Commission A Zeldovich Medal in 2004 and the Arthur S. Flemming Award in 2007.

Education

Ph.D.
Civil Engineering and Operations Research (now Civil and Environmental Engineering), Program in Water Resources, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, January 1997.

M.A.
Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Princeton University, June 1993.

B.S.
Geophysics , Summa Cum Laude, Minor: Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, Virginia, May 1991.

Professional Experience

GS-15 Supervisory Physical Scientist (Branch Head)
NASA/GSFC Hydrological Sciences Branch
August, 2005 – present. Supervise 8 Civil Servant scientists and 20-30 contractors and research scientists. Responsible for $2M+ annual budget and coordination of NASA- and externally funded program of earth and space science research and applications. Continue to serve as PI on research and applications projects including PMM science team, transitioning the award-winning Land Information System (LIS; http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov) for research and applications with partners at the Air Force Weather Agency, NOAA/NCEP, USACE, USDA, and NWS/OHD and the a NASA NEWS-funded project with Dr. W-K Tao in which LIS is coupled to mesoscale (WRF) and global cloud resolving (MMF) models.

GS-14 Physical Scientist,
NASA/GSFC Hydrological Sciences Branch
August, 2004 – August, 2005. Lead research on measurement and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions, with emphasis on soil moisture remote sensing and application of advanced computational technologies for offline and coupled land surface modeling. Projects include membership on the PMM science team, transitioning the award-winning Land Information System (LIS; http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov) for research and applications with partners at the Air Force Weather Agency, NOAA/NCEP, USACE, USDA, and NWS/OHD and a NASA ESTO/AIST-funded project with Dr. W-K Tao in which LIS has been coupled to mesoscale (WRF) and cloud resolving (GCE) models.

GS-13 Physical Scientist,
NASA/GSFC Hydrological Sciences Branch
September, 2001 – August, 2004

Assistant Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, January 1997-August 2001 (on leave 2001-2002). Taught senior level class CEE4210 (Formerly CE4353): Hydrology and graduate level class CEE6221 (Formerly CE 6374): Physical Hydrology. Conducted independent research program on measurement and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions.

Research Assistant
Water Resources Program, Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. July 1991-November 1996. Conducted research on the effect of land surface heterogeneity on land-atmosphere interactions and analysis of error in rain gauge measurement of rainfall. Participated in four NASA/USDA field experiments to collect soil moisture, land cover, and atmospheric data for hydrologic-atmospheric model. Analyzed spatial structure and scaling properties of land cover data and distributed model output.

Teaching Assistant
Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Princeton University. Held weekly problem sessions and graded biweekly homework and midterm exam for class of 60 students "CIV 303: Environmental Studies" Professor: Peter Jaffe. February-May 1993.

Hydrologic Technician
United States Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, Reston, Virginia. Digitized and constructed domains for hydrodynamic modeling using geographic information system ARC/INFO. May-August 1990.

Hydrologic Technician
United States Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, Richmond, Virginia. Digitized and constructed domain for regional groundwater model of Virginia coastal plain using geographic information system ARC/INFO. May-August, December 1989.

Honors and Awards

-Arthur S. Flemming Award, 2007

-NASA Software of the Year Award for the Land Information System, 2005

-COSPAR Scientific Commission A Zeldovich Medal, 2004

-NASA Special Act/Performance Awards, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

- NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at GSFC, 1997

- George Van Ness Lothrop Honorific Fellowship in Engineering, 1995-1996

- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1992-1995

- Phi Beta Kappa, 1991

- Alpha Phi Foundation Howell Graduate Scholarship, 1991

- Department of Geological Sciences Outstanding Senior Award (Virginia Tech), 1991

- Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, 1990

- Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society, 1990

- Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1990

- Texaco Philanthropic Foundation Scholarship, 1990; 1989

- Order of Omega Greek Honorary, 1989

- Golden Key National Honor Society, 1989

- Amoco Scholarship Grant, 1988

- Distinguished University Scholarship (Virginia Tech), 1987-1991

Research Interests

Overview

Dr. Peters-Lidard's primary research objectives are

- Measurement of water and energy fluxes via field experiments and remote sensing;
- Modeling land-atmosphere interactions using coupled hydrological models; and
- Understanding the space-time structure of precipitation, evapotranspiration and soil moisture.

Thus, her work focuses on measurement and modeling of terrestrial water and energy balances and fluxes due to land-atmosphere interactions over a range of temporal and spatial scales. This research encompasses the areas of micrometeorology, boundary layer meteorology, field experiments, hillslope hydrology, hydrometeorology, numerical modeling, spatial data analysis, and remote sensing. High performance computing technologies are making simulation of these complex cross-media problems tractable. The modeling activities are complemented by participation in multisensor field experiments such as SGP97 which provide the critical data for improving our process representations. Remote sensing provides spatial data to estimate land surface model forcings and hydrologic and energetic states of the terrestrial system. Improved understanding of the physical processes that control the water and energy cycles at the land surface is central to improvements in weather prediction, understanding climatic variability and ultimately in the management of water resources.



Example Projects

Land Information Systems
Web Site: http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov

Dr. Peters-Lidard serves as PI on several research and applications projects in which LIS is being further developed and applied with partners at the Air Force Weather Agency, NOAA/NCEP, USACE, USDA, and NWS/OHD and the a NASA NEWS-funded project with Dr. W-K Tao in which LIS is coupled to mesoscale (WRF) and global cloud resolving (MMF) models.

Professional Activities

Editorial Service
Journal of Hydrology
Associate Editor, 2007-present.

Journal of Hydrometeorology
Editor, 2004-2007.

Water Resources Research
Associate Editor, 2002-2003.


Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union, Hydrology Section, March 1990-present.

American Meteorological Society, January 1993-present.


Committees

GEWEX (WCRP Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment)
Member, GLASS Panel
(2004-present)

US Global Change Research Program
Member, Water Cycle Science Steering Group
(2002-2005)

CLIVAR (WCRP International Research Program on Climate Variability and Predictability)
Member, Pan American Implementation Panel,
(2003-2005)



National Research Council Committee on Hydrologic Science (1999-2001)

American Geophysical Union Technical Committee on Precipitation (1997-present)

American Geophysical Union Technical Committee on Remote Sensing (1997-present)

American Meteorological Society Hydrology Committee (1998-2004)


Conference Chairmanship

Conference Chair, American Meteorological Society 17th Conference on Hydrology

Conference Chair, American Meteorological Society 18th Conference on Hydrology

Conference Chair, American Meteorological Society 19th Conference on Hydrology

American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting (May 26-29, 1998), Hydrology Section Session H03: "The Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Experiment".

American Meteorological Society 14th Conference on Hydrology (10-15 January, 1999), JOINT SESSION J7: BOUNDARY LAYER STUDIES DURING THE SGP97 AND CASES PROGRAMS (Joint with 13th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence)

Students Supervised

Ph.D.
Feifei Pan, 1997-2002

M.S.
Luke Davis, 6/1997-8/1999
James Hoskin, 1/2000-5/2001
Brian Keel, 8/1999-8/2001
Adam Stewart, 8/2000-12/2001

B.S. Undergraduate Researchers
Lois Boxill, W,S97
Richard Greuel, S97
Katherine McLeod, S97
Amy Schack, W99
Chad Jacobs, Su-F99
Sara Henry, F99
William Mackiewicz, S00
Kelly Linder, S01
Sally Barton, S-Su01

Publications

Journal Articles (Reverse Chronological)

  1. Case, Jonathan L., William L. Crosson, Sujay V. Kumar, William M. Lapenta, Christa D. Peters-Lidard, 2008. Impacts of High-Resolution Land Surface Initialization on Regional Sensible Weather Forecasts from the WRF Model. In press, Journal of Hydrometeorology.
  2. Tao, Wei-Kuo, Jiun-Dar Chern, Robert Atlas, David Randall, Marat Khairoutdinov, Jui-Lin Li, Duane E. Waliser, Arthur Hou, Xin Lin, Christa Peters-Lidard, William Lau, Jonathan Jiang, and Joanne Simpson, 2008: A Multi-scale Modeling System: Developments, Applications and Critical Issues. In press, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
  3. Kumar, Sujay V., Rolf H. Reichle, Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Randal D. Koster, Xiwu Zhan, Wade T. Crow, John B. Eylander, and Paul R. Houser, 2008. A Land Surface Data Assimilation Framework using the Land Information System: Description and Applications, In press, Advances in Water Resources.
  4. Tian, Y., C. D. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kumar, J. Geiger, P. R. Houser, J. L. Eastman, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty and J. Adams, 2008: High Performance Land Surface Modeling with a Linux Cluster. In press, Computers & Geosciences.
  5. Peters-Lidard C. D., D. M. Mocko, M. Garcia, J. A. Santanello Jr., M. A. Tischler, M. S. Moran, Y. Wu (2008), Role of precipitation uncertainty in the estimation of hydrologic soil properties using remotely sensed soil moisture in a semiarid environment, Water Resour. Res., 44, W05S18, doi:10.1029/2007WR005884.
  6. Garcia M., C. D. Peters-Lidard, D. C. Goodrich, 2008: Spatial interpolation of precipitation in a dense gauge network for monsoon storm events in the southwestern United States, Water Resour. Res., 44, W05S13, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006WR005788.
  7. Thoma, D. R., M.S. Moran, R. Bryant, M. Rahman, C. Holifield Collins, T. Keefer, R. Noriega, I. Osman, S. Skrivin, M. Tischler, D. Bosch, P. Starks, and C. Peters-Lidard, 2008. Appropriate scale of soil moisture retrieval from high-resolution radar imagery for bare and minimally vegetated soils. Appropriate scale of soil moisture retrieval from high-resolution radar imagery for bare and minimally vegetated soils. Remote Sensing of Environment. 112:403-414.
  8. Kumar, S., C. D. Peters-Lidard, J.L. Eastman, and W. Tao, 2008. An Integrated High Resolution Hydrometeorological Modeling Testbed using LIS and WRF, Environmental Modelling & Software, 23(2), 169-181, DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.05.012.
  9. Pan, Feifei and Christa D. Peters-Lidard, 2008: On the Relationship Between Mean and Variance of Soil Moisture Fields. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 44(1):1-8. DOI: 10.1111 ⁄ j.1752-1688.2007.00150.x
  10. Thoma, D.P., M.S. Moran, R. Bryant, M.M. Rahman, C.D. Holifield Collins, T.O. Keefer, R. Noriega, I. Osman, S.M. Skrivin, M.A. Tischler, D.D. Bosch, P.J. Starks and C.D. Peters-Lidard, 2008: Appropriate scale of soil moisture retrieval from high resolution radar imagery for bare and minimally vegetated soils. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112(2), 403-414, DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2007.06.021.
  11. Peters-Lidard, C. D., P. R. Houser, Y. Tian, S. V. Kumar, J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E.F. Wood, J. Sheffield, 2007: High Performance Earth System Modeling with NASA/GSFC’s Land Information System. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, 3(3), 157-165, DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11334-007-0028-x.
  12. Santanello, J.A., Jr., C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. Garcia, D. Mocko, M. Tischler, MS. Moran, and D.P. Thoma, 2007: Using Remotely-Sensed Estimates of Soil Moisture to Infer Soil Texture and Hydraulic Properties across a Semi-arid Watershed, Remote Sensing of Environment, 110(1), 79-97, DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.007.
  13. Tian Y., C. D. Peters-Lidard (2007), Systematic anomalies over inland water bodies in satellite-based precipitation estimates, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L14403, DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007GL030787.
  14. Tian, Y., C.D. Peters-Lidard, B.J. Choudhury, and M. Garcia, 2007: Multitemporal Analysis of TRMM-Based Satellite Precipitation Products for Land Data Assimilation Applications. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 1165–1183.
  15. Tischler, M., Garcia, M., Peters-Lidard, C., Moran, M. S., Miller, S., Thoma, D., Kumar, S., and Geiger, J. 2007. A GIS framework for surface-layer soil moisture estimation combining satellite radar measurements and land surface modeling with soil physical property estimation. Environ. Model. Softw. 22 (6), 891-898, DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.05.022
  16. Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, S. Lang, C. Peters-Lidard, J. Simpson, S. Xie, S. Kumar, J. V. Geiger, C.-L. Shie, and J. L.. Eastman, 2007: Evaluation of long-term cloud-resolving modeling with observational cloud data. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4153-4177, DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2007JAS2170.1.
  17. Kumar, S. V., C. D. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, P. R. Houser, J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J. L. Eastman, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E. F. Wood and J. Sheffield, 2006. Land Information System - An Interoperable Framework for High Resolution Land Surface Modeling. Environmental Modelling & Software, 21, 1402-1415, DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.07.004.
  18. Krajewski W. F., et al. (2006), A remote sensing observatory for hydrologic sciences: A genesis for scaling to continental hydrology, Water Resour. Res., 42, W07301, DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005WR004435.
  19. Lawford, R., M. Bosilovich, S. Eden, S. Benedict, C. Brown, A. Gruber, P. Houser, K. Hsu, J. Huang, W. Lau, T. Meyers, K. Mitchell, C. Peters-Lidard, J. Roads, M. Rodell, S. Sorooshian, D. Tarpley, and S. Williams, 2006: U.S. Contributions to the CEOP. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 927–939, DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-87-7-927.
  20. Pielke, Roger A., Sr, Toshihisa Matsui, Giovanni Leoncini, Timothy Nobis, Udaysankar S. Nair, Er Lu, Joseph Eastman, Sujay Kumar, Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Yudong Tian, and Robert L Walko, 2006: A New Paradigm for Parameterizations in Numerical Weather Prediction and other Atmospheric Models. National Weather Digest, 30, 93-99.
  21. Moran, M.S., C.D. Peters-Lidard, J.M. Watts, and S. McElroy, 2004. Estimating soil moisture at the watershed scale with satellite-based radar and land surface models, Canadian J. Rem. Sens. 30:1-22.
  22. Pan, F., C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. J. Sale, and A. W. King, 2004. A comparison of geographical information systems–based algorithms for computing the TOPMODEL topographic index, Water Resour. Res., 40, W06303, doi:10.1029/2004WR003069.
  23. Pan, F.; C. D. Peters-Lidard and M. J. Sale, 2003. An analytical method for predicting surface soil moisture from rainfall observations. Water Resour. Res., Vol. 39, No. 11, 1314. 10.1029/2003WR002142
  24. Bradley, A. A., C. D. Peters-Lidard, B. R. Nelson, J. A. Smith, and C. B. Young, 2002. Raingage Network Design Using NEXRAD Precipitation Estimates. J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc., 38, No 5, 1393-1407.
  25. Peters-Lidard, C. D., F. Pan, and E. F. Wood, 2001. A re-examination of modeled and measured soil moisture spatial variability and its implications for land surface modeling. Adv. Water Resources (Special Issue on Non-Linear Propagation of Multi-scale Dynamics Through Hydrologic Subsystems), 24 (9-10), 1069-1083.
  26. Peters-Lidard, C. D. and L. H. Davis, 2000: Regional Flux Estimation in a Convective Boundary Layer Using a Conservation Approach. J. Hydrometeorology, 1, 170-182.
  27. Young, C. B., B. R. Nelson, A. A. Bradley, J. A. Smith, C. D. Peters-Lidard, A. Kruger and M. L. Baeck, 1999: An Evaluation of NEXRAD Precipitation Estimates in Complex Terrain. J. Geophys. Res., 104 (D16), 19,691-19,704.
  28. Peters-Lidard, C. D., E. Blackburn, X. Liang and E. F. Wood, 1998: The Effect of Soil Thermal Conductivity Parameterization on Surface Energy Fluxes and Temperatures: J. Atmos. Sci., 55 (7), 1209-1224.
  29. Peters-Lidard, C. D., M. S. Zion and E. F. Wood, 1997: A soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer scheme for modeling spatially variable water and energy balance processes, J. Geophys. Res., 102 (D4), 4303-4324.
  30. Peters-Lidard, Christa D. and Eric F. Wood, 1994: Estimating storm areal average rainfall intensity in field experiments. Water Resources Research, 30 (7), pp. 2119 2131.

Selected Publications

Bounoua, L., A. Safia, J. Masek, C. Peters-Lidard, and M. Imhoff (2009). Impact of Urban Growth on Surface Climate: A Case Study in Oran, Algeria. J. Applied Meteorology Climatology, 48(2), 217-231
10.1175/2008JAMC2044.1

Santanello, J.A., C. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, C. Alonge, and W.-K. Tao (2009). A Modeling and Observational Framework for Diagnosing Local Land-Atmosphere Coupling on Diurnal Time Scales. J. Hydrometeorology, 10(3), 577-599
10.1175/2009JHM1066.1

Tao, W.-T., J.-D. Chern, R. Atlas, D. Randall, M. Khairoutdinov, J.-L. Li, D.E. Waliser, A. Hou, X. Lin, C. Peters-Lidard, W. Lau, J. Jiang, and J. Simpson (2009). A Multiscale Modeling System: Developments, Applications, and Critical Issues. BAMS, 90(4), 515-534
10.1175/2008BAMS2542.1

Case, J.L., W.L. Crosson, S.V. Kumar, W.M. Lapenta, and C. Peters-Lidard (2008). Impacts of High-Resolution Land Surface Initialization on Regional Sensible Weather Forecasts from the WRF Model. J. Hydrometeorol., 9, 1249-1266
10.1175/2008JHM9990.1

Garcia, M., C. Peters-Lidard, and D.C. Goodrich (2008). Spatial interpolation of precipitation in a dense gauge network for monsoon storm events in the southwestern United States. Water Resources Res., 44(W05S13), 14 pp
10.1029/2006WR005788

Kumar, S.V., C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, R. Reichle, J. Geiger, C. Alonge, J. Eylander, and P. Houser (2008). An Integrated Hydrologic Modeling and Data Assimilation Framework. IEEE Computer Society, 41(12), 52-59
10.1109/MC.2008.511

Kumar, S.V., C. Peters-Lidard, J.L. Eastman, and W.-K. Tao (2008). An integrated high-resolution hydrometeorological modeling testbed using LIS and WRF. Environ. Modelling and Software, 23, 169-181
10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.05.012

Pan, F., and C. Peters-Lidard (2008). On the Relationship Between Mean and Variance of Soil Moisutre Fields. J. American Water Resources Association, 44(1), 235-242
10.111/j.1752-1688.2007.00150.x

Peters-Lidard, C., D.M. Mocko, M. Garcia, J.A. Santanello Jr., M.A. Tischler, M.S. Moran, and Y. Wu (2008). Role of precipitation uncertainty in the estimation of hydrologic soil properties using remotely sensed soil moisture in a semiarid environment. Water Resources Res., W05S18, 22 pp
10.1029/2007WR005884

Thoma, D.P., M.S. Moran, R. Bryant, M.M. Rahman, C.D. Holifield Collins, T.O. Keefer, R. Noriega, I. Osman, S.M. Skrivin, M.A. Tischler, D.D. Bosch, P.J. Starks, and C. Peters-Lidard (2008). Appropriate scale of soil moisture retrieval from high resolution radar imagery for bare and minimally vegetated soils. Remote Sens. Environ., 112, 403-414
10.1016.j.rse.2007.06.021

Tian, Y., C. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, J. Geiger, P.R. Houser, J.L. Eastman, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, and J. Adams (2008). High-performance land surface modeling with Linux cluster. Computers Geosci., 34, 1492-1504
10.1016/j.cageo.2007.12.014

Santanello Jr., J.A., C. Peters-Lidard, M.E. Garcia, D.M. Mocko, M.A. Tischler, M.S. Moran, and D.P. Thoma (2007). Using remotely-sensed estimates of soil moisture to infer soil texture and hydraulic properties across a semi-arid watershed. Remote Sens. Environ., 110, 79-97

Tian, Y., C. Peters-Lidard, B. Choudhury, and M. Garcia (2007). Multitemporal Analysis of TRMM-Based Satellite Precipitation Products for Land Data Assimilation Applications. J. Hydrometeorol., 8, 1165-1183

Tian, Y., and C. Peters-Lidard (2007). Systematic anomalies over inland water bodies in satellite-based precipitation estimates. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(L14403), 5 pp

Tischler, M., M. Garcia, C. Peters-Lidard, M.S. Moran, S. Miller, D Thoma, S.V. Kumar, and J. Geiger (2007). A GIS framework for surface-layer soil moisture estimation combining satellite radar measurements and land surface modeling with soil physical property estimation. Enviorn. Modelling and Software, 22(6), 891-898

Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, C. Peters-Lidard, S. Land, J. Simpson, S.V. Kumar, S. Xie, J.L. Eastman, C.-L. Shie, and J.V. Geiger (2007). Evaluating Clouds in Long-Term Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations with Observational Data. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4153-4177

Krajewski, W.F., M.C. Anderson, W.E. Eichinger, D. Entekhabi, B.K. Hornbuckle, P.R. Houser, G.G. Katul, W.P. Kustas, J.M. Norman, C. Peters-Lidard, and E.F. Wood (2006). A remote sensing observatory for hydrologic sciences: A genesis for scaling to continental hydrology. Water Resources Res., 42(W07301), 13 pp

Kumar, S.V., C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, P.R. Houser, J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J.L. Eastman, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E.F. Wood, and J. Sheffield (2006). Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling. Environ. Modelling Software, 21, 1402-1415

Kumar, S.V., Y. Tian, C. Peters-Lidard, P.R. Houser, J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J.L. Eastman, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E.F. Wood, and J. Sheffield (2006). Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling. Environ. Modelling Software, 21, 1402-1415

Lawford, R., M. Bosilovich, S. Eden, S. Benedict, C. Brown, A. Gruber, P. Houser, K. Hsu, J. Huang, W. Lau, T. Meyers, K. Mitchell, C. Peters-Lidard, J. Roads, M. Rodell, S. Sorooshian, D. Tarpley, and S. Williams (2006). U.S. Contributions to the CEOP. BAMS, 87(7), 927-939

Wu, Y., J. Walker, C. Peters-Lidard, D. Schwede, R. Dennis, and W. Robarge (2006). Role of leaf surface water in the bi-directional ammonia exchange between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere. Proc. Workshop on Agricultural Air Quality: State of Science, 1250-1253

Houser, P.R., M. Bosilovich, C. Peters-Lidard, and W-K Tao (2004). Ultra-high Resolution Observation-driven Land Modeling Needed to Enable the Development of Global Cloud Resolving Earth System Models. GEWEX, 8-9

Pan, F., C. Peters-Lidard, M.J. Sale, and A.W. King (2004). A comparison of geographical information systems-based algorithms for computing the TOPMODEL topographic index. Water Resour. Res., 40, 1-11

Pan, F., C. Peters-Lidard, and M.J. Sale (2003). An analytical method for predicting surface soil moisture from rainfall observations. Water Resources Res., 39(11), 3-1 - 3-12

Bradley, A.A., C. Peters-Lidard, B. Nelson, J.A. Smith, and C.B. Young (2002). Raingage Network Design Using NEXRAD Precipitation Estimates. J. Amer. Water Resources Assoc., 38(5), 1393-1407

Mitchell, K., M. Ek, D. Lohmann, V. Koren, J. Schaake, Q. Duan, P. Grunmann, G. Gayno, Y. Lin, E. Rogers, D. Tarpley, and C. Peters-Lidard (2002). Reducing Near-Surface Cool/Moist Biases Over Snowpack and Early Spring Wet soils in NCEP ETA Model Forecasts Via Land Surface Model Upgrades. In, 16th Conference on Hydrology (J1-J6). Orlando, Florida: Proc. AMS 2002 Annual Meeting

Peters-Lidard, C. (2002). Design and evaluation of the coupled MM5/TOPLATS modeling system for a Texas air quality exceedance episode. Proc. Twelfth PSU/NCAR Mesocale Model Users. Workshop, URL: http://www.mmm.

Peters-Lidard, C. (2002). The Effects of Implementing Topmodel Concepts in the NOAH Model. In, 16th Conference on Hydrology (J132-J135). Orlando, Florida: Proc. AMS 2002 Annual Meeting

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