Publications: 2001

Refereed Publications

A.G. Fountain, D.K. Hall, R. Kwok, submitted: Synthetic aperture radar detection of the snowline on polar glaciers, Taylor Valley, Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology.

Bindschadler, R.A., J. Dowdeswell, D.K. Hall and J.-G. Winther, Glaciological applications with Landsat-7 imagery: early assessments, Remote Sening of Environment, 2001.

Bradley, A. A., C. Peters-Lidard, B. R. Nelson, J. A. Smith, and C. B. Young, 2001. Raingage Network Design Using NEXRAD Precipitation Estimates. Submitted to: Journal of the American Water Resources Association.

Chang, A.T.C., "Microwave remote sensing of atmospheric parameters: Modeling and retrieval", J. Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 6, 1-20, 2001.

Chang, A.T.C., and L. S. Chiu, 2001: Nonsystematic errors of oceanic monthly rainfall derived from microwave radiometry, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(7), 1223-1226.

Chen, C.T., L. Tsang, A. Chang, K.H. Ding and J.J. Guo, "Frequency dependence of scattering and extinction of dense media based on three-dimensional simulations of Maxwell's equations with applications to snow", (Submitted to IEEE Trans. GRS), 2001.

Choudhury, B. J., Estimating gross photosynthesis using satellite and ancillary data: Approach and preliminary results. Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 75, pp. 1-21, 2001.

Choudhury, B. J., Modeling radiation- and carbon-use efficiencies of maize, sorghum, and rice. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 106, pp. 317-330, 2001.

Choudhury, B. J., Implementing a nitrogen-based model for autotrophic respiration using satellite and field observations. Tropical Ecology, vol. 42, xxx-xxx, 2002.

Foster, J., A. Chang, L. Tsang, C, Chen, D. Hall, A. Tait, and J. Barton, "35 GHz measurements of CO2 crystals" Radio Science, (in press) 2001.

Guo, J., L. Tsang, K.Ding, A. Chang and C. Chen, "Frequency dependence of scattering by dense media of small particles based on Monte Carlo simulation of Maxwell's equations", IEEE Trans. GRS, (in press) 2001.

Hall, D.K., J.L. Foster, V.V. Salomonson, A.G. Klein and J.Y.L. Chien, "Development of a Technique to Assess Snow-Cover Mapping Accuracy from Space," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 39(2):232-238, 2001.

Hall, D.K., R.E.J. Kelly, G.A. Riggs, A.T.C. Chang and J.L. Foster, in press: Assessment of the relative accuracy of hemispheric-scale snow-cover maps, Annals of Glaciology.

Hall, D.K., V.V. Salomonson, G.A. Riggs and K.A. Bayr, MODIS snow-cover products, submitted: Remote Sensing of Environment, accepted for publication.

Kaufman, Y.J., R.G. Kleidman, D.K. Hall, V.J. Martins and J.S. Barton, Remote rensing of subpixel snow cover using 0.66 and 2.1 mm channels, submitted to Geophysical Research Letters (January 2001).

Koster, R. D., P. A. Dirmeyer, P. C. D. Milly, and G. L. Russell, Comparing GCM-generated land surface water budgets using a simple common framework, Land Surface Hydrology, Meteorology, and Climate: Observations and Modeling, edited by V. Lakshmi, Water Science and Application Volume 3, pp. 95-105, American Geophysical Union, 2001.

Koster, R. D., and M. J. Suarez, Soil moisture memory in climate models, J. Hydromet., in press.

Peters-Lidard, C. D. and F. Pan, 2001. Consistency between flow direction and slope algorithms for computing the TOPMODEL topographic index. Submitted to Water Resources Research.

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. Advances in Water Resources (Special Issue on Non-Linear Propagation of Multi-scale Dynamics Through Hydrologic Subsystems).

Pinheiro, A., Privette, J.L., Tucker, C.J., Entekhabi, D. and Berry, J.A., 2001: Assessing the relationship between temperature and soil moisture in southern Africa, Remote Sensing and Hydrology, IAHS Public. No. 267, pp.1-6.

Reichle, R., D. B. McLaughlin, and D. Entekhabi: "Hydrologic data assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman filter", Monthly Weather Review, in press, 2001.

Reichle, R., D. Entekhabi, and D. B. McLaughlin: "Downscaling of radiobrightness measurements for soil moisture estimation: A four-dimensional variational data assimilation approach", Water Resources Research, 37 (9), 2353-2364, 2001.

Reichle, R., D. B. McLaughlin, and D. Entekhabi: "Variational data assimilation of microwave radiobrightness observations for land surface hydrology applications", IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 39 (8), 1708-1718, 2001.

Rodell, M., and J. S. Famiglietti, An analysis of terrestrial water storage variations in Illinois with implications for the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), Wat. Resour. Res., 37, 1327-1340, 2001.

Shin, D-B., L. Chiu, and M. Kafatos, 2001: Comparison of the monthly precipitation derived from the TRMM satellite, Geophysical Research Letters, 28 (5) , 795-798.

Stieglitz, M., A. Ducharne, R. D. Koster, and M. J. Suarez, The impact of detailed snow physics on the simulation of snow cover and subsurface thermodynamics at continental scales, J. Hydromet., 2, 228-242, 2001.

Sud, Y. C., D. M. Mocko, G. K. Walker, and R. D. Koster, Influence of land-surface fluxes on precipitation: Inferences from simulations performed with ARM-CART SCM dataset, Mon. Weather Rev., 14, 3666-3691, 2001.

Tait, A.B., J. S. Barton, D.K. Hall, A prototype MODIS/SSM/I snow-mapping algorithm, International Journal of Remote Sensing, accepted for publication, in press.

Walker, J.P., P. R. Houser, 2001: A methodology for initialzing soil moisture in a global climate model: Assimilation of near-surface soil moisture observations. J. Geophys. Res., 106, D10, 11,761-11,774.

Zhu P., B. Albrecht, J. Gottschalck, 2001: Formation and development of nocturnal boundary layer clouds over the southern Great Plains, J. Atmos. Sci. , 58 (11), 1409-1426.

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Other Contributions

Barton, S., K. Linder, A. Stewart, C. Peters-Lidard, J. N. McHenry, C. J. Coats, Jr., and A. Trayanov, 2001. "Coupled Hydrological-Meteorological Modeling to Support Simulation of an Ozone Exceedance Episode over Texas," Spring Meeting, AGU, Boston, MA, May 29-June 2, 2001.

Chang, A.T.C. and L. S. Chiu, Non-systematic Error of Monthly Oceanic Rain Rate from Microwave Radiometry, IGARSS, Sydney, Australia, 9-13 July 2001.

Chang, A.T.C. and L. S. Chiu, Non-systematic Error of Monthly Oceanic Rain Rate from Microwave Radiometry, IGARSS, Sydney, Australia, 9-13 July 2001.

Chiu, L. S., and A.T.C Chang, Diurnal cycle of oceanic precipitation from microwave radiometry, IGARSS, Sydney, Australia, 9-13 July 2001.

Chiu, L. S., G. Serafino, and W. L. Teng, Applications of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Data, IGARSS, Sydney, Australia, 9-13 July 2001.

Chiu, L. and A. Chang, 2001: Precipitation from TMI and SSM/I: annual mean and sampling errors, WCRP/SCOR workshop on Intercomparison and Validation of Ocean-Atmosphere Flux Fields, Washington D.C (to appear)

Chiu, L., Z. Liu, B. Teng, G. Serafino, S. Morain, A. Budge, C. Bales, and T. Wulff, Comparison of TRMM and rain gauge rain rates over New Mexico, Preprint, AMS Symposium on precipitation extremes: prediction, impacts, and responses, 14-19, January, 2001, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

D. Entekhabi, E. Njoku, P. Houser, R. Gurney, T. Jackson, J. Kimball, R. Koster, K. McDonald, P. O'Neill, S. Running, J. Van Zyl, and E. Wood, 2001. "Spaceborne Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Freeze-Thaw Dynamics at High Resolution Using Combined Active and Passive Instruments," Spring Meeting, AGU, Boston, MA, May 29-June 2, 2001.

D B McLaughlin, D Entekhabi, R H Reichle: Hydrologic Data Assimilation: Challenges and Promising Solutions, Invited Talk at the AGU Spring Meeting, May 2001, Boston, MA, USA.

D.K. Hall, V.V. Salomonson, G.A. Riggs and J.Y.L. Chien, "Snow-Cover Variability in North America in the 2000-2001 Winter as Determined from MODIS Snow Products," Proceedings of IGARSS'01, 9 - 13 July 2001, Sydney, Australia, 2001.

D.K. Hall, K.J. Bayr, R.A. Bindschadler and W. Schoener, in press: "Changes of the Pasterze Glacier, Austria (1976-2000) as measured from space," Proceedings of the Eastern Snow Conference, 14-17 May 2001, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Video production: Completed a 17-minute EOS/MODIS/snow video production entitled, "Global Snow-Cover Mapping from Space," written by D.K. Hall, A.B. Tait and J.L. Foster, produced by C. Starr and directed by D.K. Hall.

Foster, J.L., A.T.C. Chang, D.K. Hall and R.E. Kelly, "Passive microwave measurements of seasonal snow in South America," Proceedings of IGARSS'01, 9 - 13 July 2001, Sydney, Australia, 2001.

Hsu, A., P. O'Neill, C. Peters-Lidard, and T. Jackson, 2001. "Intercomparison of Surface Soil Moisture Derived from ESTAR and Predicted by NOAH," Spring Meeting, AGU, Boston, MA, May 29-June 2, 2001.

J. Vongsaard, L. S. Chiu, T. El-Ghazawi, M. Kafatos, and R.Yang, The Continuous Tracking of Reflectivity Data from Multi-platforms Observations Using Genetic Algorithm, IGARSS, Sydney, Australia, 9-13 July 2001.

K. Mitchell, M. Ek, D. Lohmann, V. Koren, J. Schaake, Q. Duan, P. Grunmann, G. Gayno, Y. Lin, E. Rogers, D. Tarpley, 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", 2001. Oral Presentation J1.1 at the Conference on Hydrology, 82nd AMS Annual Meeting, Jan 2002, Orlando, FL, USA. Australia, July 9-13, 2001.

Kyle, L., W. Teng, G. Serafino, N. Pollack, J. Qu, L. Chiu, 2001: Opening GES DISC data to GIS users, The Global Scanner.

Menas Kafatos, Long S. Chiu, Ruixin Yang, Dong-Bin Shin, Yukun Xing, Jearanai Vongssaard, Kwang-Su Yang, Interannual Variation of Oceanic Precipitation, IGARSS, Sydney, Australia, 9-13 July 2001.

O'Neill, P., A. Hsu, E. Kim, C. Peters-Lidard, and T. England, 2001. "Performance Comparison of a Point-Scale LSP Model and the NOAH Distributed SVAT Model for Soil Moisture Estimation Using Microwave Remote Sensing," Proc. of IGARSS '01, Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, 2001.

O'Neill, P., 2001. "Chapter IX: Trade Studies Update" and "Chapter X: IIP Projects Update" in "Soil Moisture Mission Workshop Report," Soil Moisture Mission Working Group, NASA Land Surface Hydrology Program, Las Vegas, NV, Sept. 12-13, 2000.

Pan, F. and C.D. Peters-Lidard, 2001. "Downscaling and assimilating remotely sensed soil moisture data for the TOPLATS model," Spring Meeting, AGU, Boston, MA, May 29-June 2, 2001.

Pellerano, F., P. O'Neill, and L. Dod, 2001. "An Architecture Trade Study for Passive 10 km Soil Moisture Measurements from Low-Earth Orbit," Proc. of IGARSS '01, Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, 2001.

Peters-Lidard, C., F. Pan, A. Hsu, and P. O'Neill, 2001. "ESTAR- and Model-Derived Multiscaling Characteristics of Soil Moisture during SGP97, Washita '92, and Washita '94," Proc. of IGARSS '01, Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, 2001.

Peters-Lidard, C. D., "Advances in Coupling Environmental Models: Land Surface, Atmosphere and Groundwater," Indiana University, Hydrologic Science Seminar, April 19, 2001.

Peters-Lidard, C. D., "(Mis-)Representation of Hydrologic Processes in Land-Atmosphere Models" University of Georgia State-of-the-Art SYMPOSIUM 2001: The Big Unknowns in Global Change, April 5-6, 2001, Athens, Georgia.

Peters-Lidard, C. D., "Advances in Coupling Environmental Models: Land Surface, Atmosphere and Groundwater," Duke University, Hydrologic Science Seminar, January 29, 2001, Durham, North Carolina.

Peters-Lidard C. D., 2002. "The effects of implementing TOPMODEL concepts in the NOAH model" Oral Presentation J4.4 at the Conference on Hydrology, 82nd AMS Annual Meeting, Jan 2002, Orlando, FL, USA. Australia, July 9-13, 2001.

Peters-Lidard, C. D., H. Haitjema, C. J. Coats, Jr., J. N. McHenry, A. Trayanov, F. Pan and B. Keel, 2001. "Advances in Coupling Environmental Models: Land, Atmosphere and Groundwater" Invited Talk at Spring Meeting, AGU, Boston, MA, May 29-June 2, 2001.

R.E.J. Kelly, A.T.C. Chang, J.L. Foster and D.K. Hall, "Snow cover observations in north-east Asia using multi-sensor satellite imagery," Proceedings of IGARSS'01, 9 - 13 July 2001, Sydney, Australia, 2001.

R H Reichle, R D Koster, J P Walker, M M Rienecker, P R Houser: "Aspects of the Extended and Ensemble Kalman filters for land data assimilation in the NASA Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project", Oral Presentation at the 82nd AMS Annual Meeting, Jan 2002, Orlando, FL, USA.

R H Reichle, J P Walker, R D Koster, M M Rienecker, P R Houser: "Assimilation of soil moisture with the Ensemble Kalman filter in support of NASA's Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project", Oral/Poster Presentation at the International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation, Sep 2001, Wageningen, Netherlands.

R H Reichle, D B McLaughlin, D Entekhabi: "Soil Moisture Data Assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter", Oral Presentation at the AGU Spring Meeting, May 2001, Boston, MA, USA.

Riggs, G., Hall, D.K. and Key, J.R., 2001, Initial Evaluation of MODIS Sea Ice Observations, Proceedings of the Eastern Snow Conference, 15-17 May 2001, Ottawa, Ontario, Canda. In Press.

Scherer, D., D.K. Hall, V. Hochschild, M. Konig, C. Matzler, F. Rau, J. Schaper, K. Seidel, R. Solberg, A. Walker and J.-G. Winther: Snow Covers, a chapter in a book on remote sensing in northern hydrology, edited by Claude Duguay and Alain Pietroniro Bardell, P., in press.

Shi, J-C, Q. Li, K. Chen, T. Jackson, E. Njoku, and P. O'Neill, 2001. "A Numerical Simulation of Estimating Soil Moisture with L-Band Radiometer," Proc. of IGARSS '01, Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, 2001.

William Teng, Nathan Pollack, George Serafino, Long Chiu, Paul Sweatman, GIS and Data Interoperability at the NASA Goddard DAAC, IGARSS, Sydney, Australia, 9-13 July 2001.

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