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Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (614)

Publications: 2009

This document is a compilation of publications of the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (614) for calendar year 2009. If you wish further information, or a reprint, please contact the author of the article or the publisher. Currently, there are 54 publications, papers, or other works listed for 2009.

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Journal Articles

  • Alexandrov, M.A., B. Schmid, D.D. Turner, B. Cairns, V. Oinas, A.A. Lacis, S.I. Gutman, E.R. Westwater, A. Smirnov, and J. Eilers (2009). Columnar water vapor retrievals from MFRSR data J. Geophys. Res., 114(D02306)
    10.1029/2008JD010543
  • 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
  • Cong, Z., S. Kang, A. Smirnov, and B.N. Holben (2009). Aerosol optical properties at Nam Co, a remote site in central Tibetan Plateau Atm. Res., 92(42-48)
  • Dinnat, E.P., S. Abraham, D.M. Le Vine, P. de Matthaeis, and S. Jacob (2009). Effect of Emission From the Moon on Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Salinity: An Example With the Aquarius Radiometer Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE, 6(2), 239-243
  • Durand, M., E. Kim, and S.A. Margulis (2009). Radiance assimilation shows promise for snowpack characterization Geophys. Res. Lett., 36(L02503)
    10.1029/2008GL035214
  • Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, J.S. Reid, A. Siniuk, E.J. Hyer, N.T. O'Neil, G.E. Shaw, J.R. Vande Castle, F.S. Chapin, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, E. Vermote, J.S. Schafer, D.M. Giles, I. Slutsker, M. Sorokin, and W.W. Newcomb (2009). Optical properties of boreal region biomass burning aerosols in central Alaska and seasonal variation of aerosol optical depth at an Arctic coastal site J. Geophys. Res., 114(D11201)
    10.1029/2008JD010870
  • Farrell, S.L., S.W. Laxon, D.C. McAdoo, D. Yi, and H.J. Zwally (2009). Five years of Arctic sea ice freeboard measurements from the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite J. Geophys. Res., 114(C04008)
    10.1029/2008JC005074
  • Hakkinen, S., and P.B. Rhines (2009). Shifting surface currents in the northern North Atlantic Ocean J. Geophys. Res., 114(C04005)
    10.1029/2008JC004883
  • Hiker, T., N.C. Coops, F.G. Hall, and A.T. Black (2009). Towards an assessment of photosynthetic light use efficiency from space: Modeling the atmospheric and directional impacts on PRI reflectance Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, 2463-2475
    10.1016/j.rse.2009.07.012
  • Houborg, R., M.C. Anderson, J.M. Norman, T. Wilson, and T. Meyers (2009). Intercomparison of a ‘bottom up’ and ‘top-down’ modeling paradigm for estimating carbon and latent heat fluxes over a variety of vegetative regimes across the U.S. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, in press
    10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.06.014
  • Houborg, R., and M.C. Anderson (2009). Utility of an image-based canopy reflectance modeling tool for remote estimation of LAI and leaf chlorophyll content at regional scales Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 3(033529)
    10.1117/1.3141522
  • Houborg, R., M.C. Anderson, and C. Daughtry (2009). Utility of an image-based canopy reflectance modeling tool for remote estimation of LAI and leaf chlorophyll content at the field scale Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, 259-274
    10.1016/j.rse.2008.09.014
  • Howell, S.E.L., C.R. Duguay, and T. Markus (2009). Sea ice conditions and melt season duration variability within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: 1979–2008 Geophys. Res. Lett., 36(L10502)
    10.1029/2009GL037681
  • Keefer, T.O., M.S. Moran, R.L. Scott, P.E. O'Neill, W.E. Emmerich, M. Hernandez, G.S. Nearing, G.B. Nearing, G.B. Paige, and M.H. Cosh (2009). Partitioning evapotranspiration in semiarid grassland and shrubland ecosystems using time series of soil surface temperature Agricultural Forest Meteorology, 149, 59-72
  • Kurtz, N.T., T. Markus, D.J. Cavalieri, L.C. Sparling, W. Krabill, A.J. Gasiewski, and J.G. Sonntag (2009). Retrieval of sea ice thickness distributions through the combination of large-scale snow depth and satellite laser altimetry measurements J. Geophys. Res., in press
  • Kwok, R., G.F. Cunningham, M. Wensnahan, I. Rigor, and H.J. Zwally (2009). Thinning and volume loss of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover: 2003–2008 J. Geophys. Res., 114(C07005)
    10.1029/2009JC005312
  • Lipscomb, W., R. Bindschadler, E. Bueler, D. Holland, J. Johnson, and S. Price (2009). A Community Ice Sheet Model for Sea Level Prediction Eos Trans. AGU, 90(3)
    10.1029/2009EO030004
  • Liu, J., C.B. Schaaf, A.H. Strahler, Z. Jiao, Y. Shuai, Q. Zhang, M.O. Román, J.A. Augustine, and E.G. Dutton (2009). Validation of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) albedo retrieval algorithm: Dependence of albedo on solar zenith angle J. Geophys. Res., 114(D01106)
    10.1029/2008JD009969
  • Livingston, J.M., J. Redermann, P.B. Russell, O. Torres, B. Veihelmann, P. Veefkind, R. Braak, A. Smirnov, L. Remer, R.W. Bergstrom, O. Coddington, K.S. Schmidt, P. Pilewskie, R. Johnson, and Q. Zhang (2009). Comparison of aerosol optical depths from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on Aura with results from airborne sunphotometry, other space and ground measurements during MILAGRO/INTEX-B Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6743-6165
  • Markus, T., and D.J. Cavalieri (2009). The AMSR-E NT2 sea ice concentration algorithm: its basis and implementation Journal of The Remote Sensing Society of Japan, 29(1), 216-225
  • Maynard, N.G., A. Oskal, J.M. Turi, S.D. Mathiesen, I.M.G. Eira, B.S. Yurchak, V. Etylin, and J. Gebelein (2009). Eurasian reindeer pastoralism in a change climate: indigenous knowledge and remote sensing, in press
  • Newman, A.J., Kucera, P.A., and F. Bliven (2009). Presenting the Snowflake Video Imager (SVI) J. Atmos. Oce. Technol., 26(2), 167-179
    10.1175/2008JTECHA1148.1
  • Newman, A.J., Kucera, P.A., C.R. Williams, and F. Bliven (2009). Snowflake Size Spectra Retrieved from a UHF Vertical Profiler J. Atmos. Oce. Technol., 26(2), 180-199
    10.1175/2008JTECHA1105.1
  • Rodell, M., I. Velicogna, and J.S. Famiglietti (2009). Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India Nature, 460, 999-1002
    10.1038/460789a
  • Román, M.O., C.B. Schaaf, C.E. Woodcock, A.H. Strahler, X. Yang, R.H. Braswell, P.S. Curtis, K.J. Davis, D. Dragoni, L. Gu, M.L. Goulden, D.Y. Hollinger, T.E. Kolb, T.P. Meyers, J.W. Munger, J.L. Privette, A.D. Richardson, T.B. Wilson, and S.C. Wofsy (2009). The MODIS (Collection V005) BRDF/albedo product: Assessment of spatial representativeness over forested landscapes Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, 2476-2498
    10.1016/j.rse.2009.07.009
  • Rutan, D., F. Rose, M.O. Román, N. Manalo-Smith, C. Schaaf, and T. Charlock (2009). Development and assessment of broadband surface albedo from Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System Clouds and Radiation Swath data product J. Geophys. Res., 114(D08125)
    10.1029/2008JD010669
  • Sakerin, S.M., S.A. Beresnev, S.Yu. Gorda, D.M. Kabanov, G.I. Kornienko, Yu.I. Markelov, A.V. Mikhalev, S.V. Nikolashkin, M.V. Panchenko, V.V. Pol'kin, A. Smirnov, M.A. Tashchilin, S.A. Turchinovich, Yu.S. Turchinovich, B.N. Holben, and T.A. Eremina (2009). Annual aerosol spectral optical depth characterization in Siberia Atm. Ocean Optics, 22(6), 566-574
  • 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
  • Satheesh, S.K., O. Torres, L.A. Remer, S.S. Babu, V. Vinoj, T.F. Eck, R.G. Kleidman, and B.N. Holben (2009). mproved assessment of aerosol absorption using OMI-MODIS joint retrieval J. Geophys. Res., 114(D05209)
    10.1029/2008JD011024
  • Signorini, S.R., and C.R. McClain (2009). Effect of uncertainties in climatologic wind, ocean p CO 2, and gas transfer algorithms on the estimate of global sea-air CO 2 flux Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 23(GB2025)
    10.1029/2008GB003246
  • Signorini, S.R., and C.R. McClain (2009). Environmental factors controlling the Barents Sea spring-summer phytoplankton blooms Geophys. Res. Lett., 36(L10604)
    10.1029/2009GL037695
  • Smirnov, A., B.N. Holben, I. Slutsker, D.M. Giles, C.R. McClain, T.F. Eck, S.M. Sakerin, A. Macke, P. Croot, G. Zibordi, P.K. Quinn, J. Sciare, S. Kinne, M. Harvey, T.J. Smyth, S. Piketh, T. Zielinski, A. Proshutinsky, J.I. Goes, N.B. Nelson, P. Larouche, V.F. Radionov, P. Goloub, K. Krishna Moorthy, R. Matarrese, E.J. Robertson, and F. Jourdin (2009). Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of Aerosol Robotic Network J. Geophys. Res., 114(D06204)
    10.1029/2008JD011257
  • Soenen, S.A., D.R. Peddle, C.A. Coburn, R.J. Hall, and F.G. Hall (2009). Canopy Reflectance Model Inversion in Multiple Forward Mode: Forest Structural Information Retrieval from Solution Set Distributions Photo. Engr & Rem. Sens., 75(4), 361-374
  • 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
  • Tilmes, C., M. Linda, and A. Fleig (2009). Atmospheric Composition Processing System (ACPS) IEEE Trans. Geosci. , 47(1), 51-58
    10.1109/TGRS.2008.20
  • Turner, J., J.C. Comiso, G.J. Marshall, T.A. Lachlan-Cope, T. Bracegirdle, T. Maksym, M.P. Meredith, Z. Wang, and A. Orr (2009). Non-annular atmospheric circulation change induced by stratospheric ozone depletion and its role in the recent increase of Antarctic sea ice extent Geophys. Res. Lett., 36(L08502)
    10.1029/2009GL037524
  • Vila, D.A., L. de Goncalves, D. Toll, and J.R. Rozante (2009). Statistical Evaluation of Combined Daily Gauge Observations and Rainfall Satellite Estimates over Continental South America J. Hydrometeorology, 10(2), 533-543
    10.1175/2008JHM1048.1
  • Werdell, P.J., S.W. Bailey, B.A. Franz, L.W. Harding Jr., G.C. Feldman, and C.R. McClain (2009). Regional and seasonal variability of chlorophyll-a in Chesapeake Bay as observed by SeaWiFS and MODIS-Aqua Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, 1319-1330
  • Winberry, J.P., S. Anandakrishnan, R.B. Alley, R. Bindschadler, and M.A. King (2009). Basal mechanics of ice streams: Insights from the stick-slip motion of Whillans Ice Stream J. Geophys. Res., 114(F01016)
    10.1029/2008JF001035
  • Wright, C., E. Walsh, W. Krabill, W.A. Shaffer, S.R. Baig, M. Peng, L.J. Pietrafesa, A.W. Garcia, F.D. Marks Jr., P.G. Black, J. Sonntag, and B.D. Beckley (2009). Measuring Storm Surge with an Airborne Wide-Swath Radar Altimeter J. Atmos. Oce. Technol., 26(10), 2200-2215
    10.1175/2009JTECHO627.1
  • Zaitchik, B.F., and M. Rodell (2009). Forward-Looking Assimilation of MODIS-Derived Snow-Covered Area into a Land Surface Model J. Hydrometeorology, 10(1), 130-148
    10.1175/2008JHM1042.1
  • Zibordi, G., B.N. Holben, I. Slutsker, D.M. Giles, D. D'Alimonte, F. Melin, J.-F. Berthon, D. Vandermark, H. Feng, G. Schuster, B.E. Fabbri, S. Kaitala, and J. Seppala (2009). AERONET-OC: A Network for the Validation of Ocean Color Primary Products J. Atmos. Oce. Technol., 26(8), 1634-1651
    10.1175/2009JTECHO654.1
  • de Goncalves, L., W.J. Shuttleworth, D. Vila, E. Larroza, M.J. Bottino, D.L. Herdies, J.A. Aravequia, J.G.Z. De Mattos, D. Toll, M. Rodell, and P. Houser (2009). The South American Land Data Assimilation System (SALDAS) 5-Yr Retrospective Atmospheric Forcing Datasets J. Hydrometeorology, 10(4), 999-1010
    10.1175/2009JHM1049.1
  • van der Werf, G.R., D.C. Morton, R.S. DeFries, L. Gilgio, J.T. Randerson, G.J. Collatz, and P.S. Kasibhatla (2009). Estimates of deforestation-induced carbon fluxes in the southern Amazon based on satellite data and biogeochemical modeling Biogeosciences, 6, 239-245
  • Non-refereed Publications or Other Contributions
  • Brown, M.E. (2009). Food Security, Decision Making and the use of Remote Sensing in Famine Early Warning Systems Geography Compass, 3(4), 1381–1407
  • Brown, M.E., B. Hintermann, and N. Higgins (2009). Markets, Climate Change and Food Security in West Africa Environmental Science and Technology, 43(18)
  • Campbell, B., and R. Bindschadler (2009). The Landsat Image Mosiac of Antarctica (LIMA) The Science Teacher, 34-40
  • Corp, L.A., E.M. Middleton, P.K. Campbell, K.F. Huemmrich, Y.B. Cheng, and C.S.T. Daughtry (2009). Remote Sensing techniques to monitor Nitrogen driven Carbon dynamics in vegetation SPIE Optics Photonics, Optical Engineering plus Applications, Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability
  • Corp, L.A., Y.B. Cheng, E.M. Middleton, G.G. Parker, K.F. Huemmrich, and P.K. Campbell (2009). Hyperspectral-LIDAR system and data product integration for terrestrial applications SPIE Optics Photonics, Optical Engineering plus Applications, Imaging Spectrometry
  • Foster, J.L., D.K. Hall, J.B. Eyelander, G.A. Riggs, S.V. Nghiem, M. Tedesco, E. Kim, P. Montesano, R.E. Kelly J., K.A. Casey, and B. Choudhury (2009). A blended global snow product using visible, passive microwave and scatterometer data International Journal of Remote Sensing, (in press)
  • Funk, C., and M.E. Brown (2009). Declining Global per Capital Agricultural Capacity and Warming Oceans Threaten Food Security Food Security Journal
    10.1007/s12571-009-0026-y
  • Hall, D.K., S.V. Nghiem, C.B. Schaaf, N. DiGirolamo, and G. Neumann (2009). Evaluation of surface and near-surface melt characteristics on the Greenland Ice Sheet Using MODIS and QuikSCAT data JGR - Earth Science, 114, 13 pgs
    10.1029/2009JF001287
  • Hall, D.K., G.A. Riggs, J.L. Foster, and S.V. Kumar (2009). Development and Evaluation of a Cloud-Gap-Filled Modis Daily Snow-Cover Product RSE, (accepted for publication)
  • Ross, K.W., M.E. Brown, J. Verdin, and L.W. Underwood (2009). Review of FEWS NET biophysical monitoring requirements Environmental Research Letters, 4(2), 024009
    10.1088/1748-9326/4/2/024009
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