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Dr. Xubin Zeng is the Agnese N. Haury Chair in Environment, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, and Director of the Climate Dynamics and Hydrometeorolgy Center at the University of Arizona. He is an affiliated professor of the Applied Mathematics, Global Change, and Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis Interdisciplinary Programs. He also directs the Land-Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction (LAOI) Group. Through over 200 peer-reviewed papers, Dr. Zeng's research has focused on land-atmosphere-ocean interface processes, weather and climate modeling, hydrometeorology, remote sensing, nonlinear dynamics, and big data analytics. His model parameterizations and global value-added observation-based datasets have been widely used in weather and climate models (CESM, E3SM, NCEP, ECMWF, WRF). He acts as a bridge linking measurement technology, in situ and satellite data, and modeling communities. Dr. Zeng is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and served on its Council and Executive Committee. He received the AMS Charles Franklin Brooks Award for Outstanding Service to the Society in 2021. He is also a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He received the Special Creativity Award from the National Science Foundation and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the University’s Asian American Faculty, Staff and Alumni Association. He received the Colorado State University Atmospheric Science Outstanding Alum Award. He is an Arizona Leadership Institute Fellow and Galileo Circle Fellow. He was just named a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), starting from August 2022. Dr. Zeng co-chairs the Global Energy and Water Exchange (GEWEX) Scientific Steering Group, starting from May 2021. He co-chaired the January 2019 AMS Annual Meeting Overall Planing Committee (with 3,800 attendees). He also serves on the NOAA Science Advisory Board Environmental Information Services Working Group and Science Advisory Board of DOE PNNL Earth & Biological Sciences Directorate. In the past decade, he co-chaired the NASA Earth Science Community Workshop and White Paper on future directions in the Weather Focus Area, chaired the NSF AGS Community Workshop and White Paper on lower-atmosphere observing facilities (LAOF) for climate studies, chaired the NOAA white paper on the use of observing system simulation experiments which was forwarded to the U.S. Congress, and served on the National Academies BASC Board and NASA/NOAA/USGS Decadal Survey Weather and Air Quality Panel

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Courses
  • BLMSP
    Boundary Layer Meteorology & Surface Processes

  • DMII
    Dynamic Meteorology II

  • H
    Hydrology

  • DMI
    Dynamic Meteorology I

  • IWC
    Introduction to Weather and Climate

Grants
  • Funding agency logo
    Physical, Accurate, and Efficient Atmosphere and Surface Coupling Across Scales

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2023

    $120.0K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Evaluations and Improvements for Lidar Retrieval of Snow Depth and Other Properties

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2023

    $113.8K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Quantifying and Understanding the Sub Seasonal-to-Seasonal Predictability of Land Hydrology Over the Conterminous United States

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $228.2K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Model Evaluations and Improvements for the DWR Atmospheric River Program

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2022

    $175.4K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    EXCITE: Expanding Reach of NASA Earth Sciences Research At a HSI In Southern Arizona (University Of Arizona)

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2022

    $150.0K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Quantum Lidar for Surface Topography and Vegetation

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $50.0K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Evaluating and Improving the DOE E3SM Land Model

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $25.0K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Enhancing the Use of NASA Products in Regional and Global Energy and Water Cycle Research Through GEWEX Activities

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $366.6K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Assessing and Improving the Numerical Solution of Atmospheric Physics in E3SM, Phase 2

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $375.0K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic (ACTIVATE)

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2019

    $3.8M
    Active
Books
  • Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    2010

  • Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    2004

News
  • Experts predict this hurricane season will only be slightly above average

    2022

  • Mapping Extreme Snowmelt and its Potential Dangers

    2021

  • Record-Breaking Temperatures More Likely in Populated Tropics

    2021

  • Above-Average Atlantic Hurricane Activity Again Expected in 2021

    2021

  • Decoding the Skies: The Impact of Water Vapor on Afternoon Rainfall

    2020

  • UArizona Experts Predict a Very Active Hurricane Season

    2020

  • UA Forecast: Above-Average Hurricane Activity

    2019

  • 3 From UA Recognized by AAAS in New Class of Fellows

    2018

  • NASA Funds UA-Led $30M Project to Study Cloud-Aerosol Interactions

    2018

  • Declining Snowpack over Western US Mapped at a Finer Scale

    2018

  • UA Forecast: Below-Average Hurricane Activity

    2018

  • Does Rain Follow the Plow?

    2018

  • A Tale of Two Hurricanes – and Two Cities' Readiness

    2017

  • Analysis to Figure Out How Fast Greenland Is Melting

    2017

  • Two Things to Know About the Hurricane Season of 2017

    2017

  • Future of Hurricane Forecasting Looking Up

    2016

  • A Better Method for Forecasting Hurricane Season

    2015

  • UA Climate Scientists put Predictions to the Test

    2012

  • UA Awarded $2.95M to Study Monsoon Ecology

    2011

  • UA Awarded $5.45M for Network to Improve Weather Forecasting

    2009

  • Biosphere 2 Offers Special Events for Saturday Visitors

    2008

  • Proposed New Degree Programs Begin Application Process

    2008

  • The University of Arizona Launches Major Scientific Research Initiative at Biosphere 2

    2007

  • Faculty Senate to Fill Committee Slots in May 6 Meeting

    2002

Publications (313)
Recent
  • Global Three‐Dimensional Water Vapor Feature‐Tracking for Horizontal Winds Using Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder Data From Overlapped Tracks of Two Satellites

    2023

  • Tropical mesoscale convective system formation environments

    2023

  • The First 30 Years of GEWEX

    2023

  • Large-Eddy Simulations of Marine Boundary-Layer Clouds Associated with Cold-Air Outbreaks During the ACTIVATE Campaign. Part II: Aerosol ndash;Meteorology ndash;Cloud Interaction

    2023

  • CondiDiag1.0: a flexible online diagnostic tool for conditional sampling and budget analysis in the E3SM atmosphere model (EAM)

    2022

  • Deriving Snow Depth From ICESat-2 Lidar Multiple Scattering Measurements: Uncertainty Analyses

    2022

  • Improving the Estimate of Summer Daytime Planetary Boundary Layer Height Over Land From GPS Radio Occultation Data

    2022

  • Exploring the Potential of Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Improving Understanding of Continental- and Regional-Scale Snowpack Dynamics

    2022

  • Three Kinds of Butterfly Effects within Lorenz Models

    2022

  • Advances in Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Relevant to Water Management in the Western United States

    2022

  • The DOE E3SM Model Version 2: Overview of the Physical Model and Initial Model Evaluation

    2022

  • A Surface Flux Estimation Scheme Accounting for Large‐Eddy Effects for Land Surface Modeling

    2022

  • Ocean Surface Flux Algorithm Effects on Tropical Indo‐Pacific Intraseasonal Precipitation

    2022

  • One Saddle Point and Two Types of Sensitivities within the Lorenz 1963 and 1969 Models

    2022

  • Large-Eddy Simulations of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds Associated with Cold-Air Outbreaks during the ACTIVATE Campaign. Part I: Case Setup and Sensitivities to Large-Scale Forcings

    2022

  • Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau and Global-Scale Summer Precipitation: Initialization and Improved Prediction

    2022

  • Aircraft Observations of Turbulence in Cloudy and Cloud-Free Boundary Layers Over the Western North Atlantic Ocean From ACTIVATE and Implications for the Earth System Model Evaluation and Development

    2022

  • The Dual Nature of Chaos and Order in the Atmosphere

    2022

  • Deriving Snow Depth From ICESat-2 Lidar Multiple Scattering Measurements

    2022

  • Better calibration of cloud parameterizations and subgrid effects increases the fidelity of the E3SM Atmosphere Model version 1

    2022

  • A novel approach to solve forward/inverse problems in remote sensing applications

    2022

  • The Compensatory CO sub 2 /sub Fertilization and Stomatal Closure Effects on Runoff Projection From 2016 ndash;2099 in the Western United States

    2022

  • Re-Evaluation of Low Cloud Amount Relationships With Lower-Tropospheric Stability and Estimated Inversion Strength

    2022

  • The Control of Plant and Soil Hydraulics on the Interannual Variability of Plant Carbon Uptake Over the Central US

    2022

  • The Effect of Surface Heating Heterogeneity on Boundary Layer Height and Its Dependence on Background Wind Speed

    2022

  • Precipitation over the U.S. Coastal Land/Water Using Gauge-Corrected Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor System and Three Satellite Products

    2022

  • Is Weather Chaotic?: Coexistence of Chaos and Order within a Generalized Lorenz Model

    2021

  • Implementation of Snowpack Treatment in the CPC Water Balance Model and Its Impact on Drought Assessment

    2021

  • Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): Organization and Experimental design

    2021

  • Cloud drop number concentrations over the western North Atlantic Ocean: seasonal cycle, aerosol interrelationships, and other influential factors

    2021

  • Characteristics and Causes of Extreme Snowmelt over the Conterminous United States

    2021

  • Two-Stage Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Calculating Moisture-Tracking Atmospheric Motion Vectors

    2021

  • Ocean surface flux algorithm effects on Earth system model energy and water cycles

    2021

  • Better calibration of cloud parameterizations and subgrid effects increases the fidelity of E3SM Atmosphere Model version 1

    2021

  • Long-Term Single-Column Model Intercomparison of Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation Over Midlatitude and Tropical Land

    2021

  • The Amazon Water Cycle: Perspectives from Water Budget Closure and Ocean Salinity

    2021

  • CondiDiag1. 0: A flexible online diagnostic tool for conditional sampling and budget analysis in the E3SM atmosphere model (EAM)

    2021

  • Long‐term single‐column model intercomparison of diurnal cycle of precipitation over midlatitude and tropical land

    2021

  • Understanding water and energy fluxes in the Amazonia: Lessons from an observation‐model intercomparison

    2021

  • An Overview of Atmospheric Features Over the Western North Atlantic Ocean and North American East Coast mdash;Part 2: Circulation, Boundary Layer, and Clouds

    2021

  • An overview of atmospheric features over the Western North Atlantic Ocean and North American East Coast?Part 2: Circulation, boundary layer, and clouds

    2021

  • Observing System Simulation Experiments Today and Tomorrow

    2021

  • On Assessing ERA5 and MERRA2 Representations of Cold-Air Outbreaks Across the Gulf Stream

    2021

  • Attribution of snowpack errors to simulated temperature and precipitation in E3SMv1 over the contiguous United States

    2021

  • Quantifying and attributing time step sensitivities in present-day climate simulations conducted with EAMv1

    2021

  • Improving Time Step Convergence in an Atmosphere Model With Simplified Physics: The Impacts of Closure Assumption and Process Coupling

    2020

  • Stratocumulus cloud clearings: statistics from satellites, reanalysis models, and airborne measurements

    2020

  • Correction: Oveisgharan, S., et al. Evaluating the Preconditions of Two Remote Sensing SWE Retrieval Algorithms over the US, Remote Sensing 2020, 12, 2021

    2020

  • Enhancing the Noah‐MP Ecosystem Response to Droughts With an Explicit Representation of Plant Water Storage Supplied by Dynamic Root Water Uptake

    2020

  • Increased Likelihood of Appreciable Afternoon Rainfall Over Wetter or Drier Soils Dependent Upon Atmospheric Dynamic Influence

    2020

  • Climate sensitivity to decadal land cover and land use change across the conterminous United States

    2020

  • Quantifying and attributing time step sensitivities in present-dayclimate simulations conducted with EAMv1

    2020

  • Why Are There More Summer Afternoon Low Clouds Over the Tibetan Plateau Compared to Eastern China?

    2020

  • Evaluating the Preconditions of Two Remote Sensing SWE Retrieval Algorithms over the US

    2020

  • Atmospheric Research Over the Western North Atlantic Ocean Region and North American East Coast: A Review of Past Work and Challenges Ahead

    2020

  • Highly sampled measurements in a controlled atmosphere at the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory

    2020

  • Use of Observing System Simulation Experiments in the United States

    2020

  • The Hurricane Harvey (2017) Texas Rainstorm: Synoptic Analysis and Sensitivity to Soil Moisture

    2020

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

    2019

  • Ocean Barrier Layers in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model

    2019

  • A Wet‐Bulb Temperature‐Based Rain‐Snow Partitioning Scheme Improves Snowpack Prediction Over the Drier Western United States

    2019

  • AEROSOL-CLOUD-METEOROLOGY INTERACTION AIRBORNE FIELD INVESTIGATIONS: Using Lessons Learned from the U.S. West Coast in the Design of ACTIVATE off the U.S. East Coast.

    2019

  • Further Improvement of Surface Flux Estimation in the Unstable Surface Layer Based on Large‐Eddy Simulation Data

    2019

  • Aerosol–Cloud–Meteorology Interaction Airborne Field Investigations: Using Lessons Learned from the U.S. West Coast in the Design of ACTIVATE off the U.S. East Coast

    2019

  • Large and local-scale features associated with heat waves in the United States in reanalysis products and the NARCCAP model ensemble

    2019

  • The Intraseasonal and Interannual Variability of Arctic Temperature and Specific Humidity Inversions

    2019

  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution

    2019

  • Subtropical Marine Low Stratiform Cloud Deck Spatial Errors in the E3SMv1 Atmosphere Model

    2019

  • The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty

    2019

  • Observations for Advancing Global Earth Surface Modelling: A Review (vol 10, 2038, 2018)

    2019

  • Snowpack Change from 1982-2016 over Conterminous United States

    2018

  • Thriving on Our Changing Planet

    2018

  • Future Community Efforts in Understanding and Modeling Atmospheric Processes

    2018

  • Assessing the performance of a physically-based soil moisture module integrated within the Soil and Water Assessment Tool

    2018

  • Controlled Experiments of Hillslope Coevolution at the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory: Toward Prediction of Coupled Hydrological, Biogeochemical, and Ecological Change

    2018

  • Evaluation of the atmosphere–land–ocean–sea ice interface processes in the Regional Arctic System Model version 1 (RASM1) using local and globally gridded observations

    2018

  • Satellite and in-situ observations for advancing global Earth surface modelling: a review

    2018

  • 10.3390/rs10122038

    2018

  • Structures and Functions of Hillslope Hydrology with Relevance to Earth System Modeling: Syntheses and Testable Hypotheses

    2018

  • Evaluation of Remotely Sensed Snow Water Equivalent and Snow Cover Extent over the Contiguous United States

    2018

  • Evaluation of Atmosphere-Land-Ocean-Sea Ice Interface Processes in the Regional Arctic System Model Version 1.0 (RASM1.0) Using Local and Globally Gridded Observations

    2018

  • Large and Local Scale Features Associated with Heat Waves in the United States in MERRA-2 and the NARCCAP model Ensemble

    2018

  • Satellite and In Situ Observations for Advancing Global Earth Surface Modelling: A Review

    2018

  • Evaluation of SMAP Soil Moisture Relative to Five Other Satellite Products Using the Climate Reference Network Measurements Over USA

    2018

  • Does Soil Moisture Affect Warm Season Precipitation Over the Southern Great Plains?

    2018

  • Evaluation of Atmosphere-Land-Ocean-Sea Ice Interface Processes in the Regional Arctic System Model Version 1.0 (RASM1.0)

    2018

  • Snowpack Change From 1982 to 2016 Over Conterminous United States

    2018

  • Seasonal Prediction of North Atlantic Accumulated Cyclone Energy and Major Hurricane Activity

    2018

  • Advancing Understanding of Hydrological and Biogeochemical Interactions in Evolving Landscapes through Controlled Experimentation at the Landscape Evolution Observatory

    2017

  • Evaluation of Greenland near surface air temperature datasets

    2017

  • Development of the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM): Near-Surface Atmospheric Climate Sensitivity

    2017

  • A New Snow Density Parameterization for Land Data Initialization

    2017

  • Relationships between giant sea salt particles and clouds inferred from aircraft physicochemical data

    2017

  • Impact of Irrigation over the California Central Valley on Regional Climate

    2017

  • CO2diffusion into pore spaces limits weathering rate of an experimental basalt landscape

    2017

  • A Hydro-meteorological Perspective on the Karakoram Anomaly using Unique Valley-based Synoptic Weather Observations

    2017

  • Impacts of internal climate variability on meteorological drought changes in China

    2017

  • The Impact of a Low Bias in Snow Water Equivalent Initialization on CFS Seasonal Forecasts

    2017

  • Testing the hybrid-3-D hillslope hydrological model in a controlled environment: CONTROLLED TESTING OF THE h3D HILLSLOPE MODEL

    2016

  • Why Do Global Reanalyses and Land Data Assimilation Products Underestimate Snow Water Equivalent?

    2016

  • Testing the hybrid-3-D hillslope hydrological model in a controlled environment

    2016

  • Linking snowfall and snow accumulation to generate spatial maps of SWE and snow depth

    2016

  • Soil Lysimeter Excavation for Coupled Hydrological, Geochemical, and Microbiological Investigations

    2016

  • Implementing and Evaluating Variable Soil Thickness in the Community Land Model, Version 4.5 (CLM4.5)

    2016

  • Urban Effects on Regional Climate: A Case Study in the Phoenix and Tucson ldquo;Sun Corridor rdquo;

    2016

  • Estimates of Global Surface Hydrology and Heat Fluxes from the Community Land Model (CLM4.5) with Four Atmospheric Forcing Datasets

    2016

  • Do dynamic global vegetation models capture the seasonality of carbon fluxes in the Amazon basin? A data-model intercomparison

    2016

  • Potential impacts of the continuing urbanization on regional climate

    2016

  • Development of a 0.5° global monthly raining day product from 1901 to 2010

    2016

  • Land Surface Climate in the Regional Arctic System Model

    2016

  • Challenges and Opportunities in NASA Weather Research

    2016

  • An Evaluation of Snow Initializations in NCEP Global and Regional Forecasting Models

    2016

  • Evaluation of 22 Precipitation and 23 Soil Moisture Products over a Semiarid Area in Southeastern Arizona

    2016

  • Implementing and evaluating variable soil thickness in the Community Land Model version 4.5 (CLM4.5)

    2016

  • Urban Effects on Regional Climate: A Case Study in the Phoenix and Tucson Sun Corridor''

    2016

  • A gridded global data set of soil, intact regolith, and sedimentary deposit thicknesses for regional and global land surface modeling

    2016

  • Global warming projection in the 21st century based on an observational data-driven model: Global Warming Projection

    2016

  • Influence of dynamic vegetation on carbon-nitrogen cycle feedback in the Community Land Model (CLM4)

    2016

  • Global warming projection in the 21st century based on an observational data-driven model

    2016

  • Coupled Evaluation of Below- and Aboveground Energy and Water Cycle Variables from Reanalysis Products over Five Flux Tower Sites in the United States

    2016

  • Stratocumulus Cloud Clearings and Notable Thermodynamic and Aerosol Contrasts across the Clear–Cloudy Interface

    2016

  • Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

    2015

  • A New Statistical Model for Predicting Seasonal North Atlantic Hurricane Activity

    2015

  • Quantitative characterization of spurious numerical oscillations in 48 CMIP5 models

    2015

  • A hybrid‐3D hillslope hydrological model for use in E arth system models

    2015

  • Global hourly land surface air temperature datasets: inter‐comparison and climate change

    2015

  • Evaluation of 22 Precipitation and 23 Soil Moisture Products over a Semiarid Area in Southeastern Arizona*

    2015

  • The Landscape Evolution Observatory: A large-scale controllable infrastructure to study Earth-surface processes.

    2015

  • An integrated modelling framework of catchment- scale ecohydrological processes: 1. Model description and tests over an energy- limited watershed

    2014

  • A Global Land Cover Climatology Using MODIS Data

    2014

  • Translating aboveground cosmic-ray neutron intensity to high-frequency soil moisture profiles at sub-kilometer scale

    2014

  • Impacts of modified Richards equation on RegCM4 regional climate modeling over East Asia

    2014

  • Intercomparison of Seven NDVI Products over the United States and Mexico

    2014

  • A MODIS-Based Global 1-km Maximum Green Vegetation Fraction Dataset

    2014

  • Assimilation of near-surface cosmic-ray neutrons improves summertime soil moisture profile estimates at three distinct biomes in the USA

    2014

  • Comparison of land skin temperature from a land model, remote sensing, and in situ measurement

    2014

  • An integrated modelling framework of catchment- scale ecohydrological processes: 2. The role of water subsidy by overland flow on vegetation dynamics in a semi- arid catchment

    2014

  • Differences in carbon cycle and temperature projections from emission- and concentration-driven earth system model simulations

    2014

  • Mechanisms of water supply and vegetation demand govern the seasonality and magnitude of evapotranspiration in Amazonia and Cerrado

    2014

  • Comparison of land skin temperature from a land model, remote sensing, and in situ measurement: Comparison of land skin temperature

    2014

  • Hillslope-scale experiment demonstrates the role of convergence during two-step saturation

    2014

  • Summer Soil Moisture Spatiotemporal Variability in Southeastern Arizona

    2014

  • Global Hourly Land Surface Air Temperature Data Sets Covering 61 Years Now Available

    2014

  • Incipient subsurface heterogeneity and its effect on overland flow generation – insight from a modeling study of the first experiment at the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory

    2014

  • Range of monthly mean hourly land surface air temperature diurnal cycle over high northern latitudes

    2014

  • A climatology of tropospheric humidity inversions in five reanalyses

    2014

  • Development of global hourly 0.58 land surface air temperature datasets

    2013

  • Overview of the large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in amazonia data model intercomparison project (LBA-DMIP)

    2013

  • Soil microbial respiration from observations and Earth System Models

    2013

  • An integrated modelling framework of catchment-scale ecohydrological processes: 1. Model description and tests over an energy-limited watershed: A CATCHMENT-SCALE ECOHYDROLOGICAL MODEL

    2013

  • An integrated modelling framework of catchment-scale ecohydrological processes: 1. Model description and tests over an energy-limited watershed

    2013

  • Spatiotemporal Variability of Summer Precipitation in Southeastern Arizona

    2013

  • The Effect of Atmospheric Water Vapor on Neutron Count in the Cosmic-Ray Soil Moisture Observing System

    2013

  • Overview of the Large-Scale Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia Data Model Intercomparison Project (LBA-DMIP)

    2013

  • Development of Global Hourly 0.5° Land Surface Air Temperature Datasets

    2013

  • Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Climate Relations in Eight CMIP5 Earth System Models

    2013

  • Assessment of CMIP5 model simulations of the North American monsoon system

    2013

  • An integrated modelling framework of catchment-scale ecohydrological processes: 2. The role of water subsidy by overland flow on vegetation dynamics in a semi-arid catchment

    2013

  • Towards a comprehensive approach to parameter estimation in land surface parameterization schemes

    2012

  • What is monthly mean land surface air temperature?

    2012

  • Evaluation of multireanalysis products with in situ observations over the Tibetan Plateau

    2012

  • Earth System Model, Modeling the Land Component of

    2012

  • Evaluation of the reanalysis products from GSFC, NCEP, and ECMWF using flux tower observations

    2012

  • Urban Meteorology

    2012

  • Improvement of daytime land surface skin temperature over arid regions in the NCEP GFS model and its impact on satellite data assimilation

    2012

  • Temporal- and spatial-scale dependence of three CMIP3 climate models in simulating the surface temperature trend in the twentieth century

    2012

  • Measurement depth of the cosmic ray soil moisture probe affected by hydrogen from various sources

    2012

  • Earth System earth system Model, Modeling the Land Component earth system modeling the land component of

    2012

  • COSMOS: the COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System

    2012

  • A toy model for monthly river flow forecasting

    2012

  • Towards a comprehensive approach to parameter estimation in land surface parameterization schemes: COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN LAND SURFACE MODELS

    2012

  • Surface skin temperature and the interplay between sensible and ground heat fluxes over arid regions

    2012

  • A fully multiple-criteria implementation of the Sobol' method for parameter sensitivity analysis

    2012

  • The hindcast skill of the CMIP ensembles for the surface air temperature trend

    2012

  • Sensitivities of terrestrial water cycle simulations to the variations of precipitation and air temperature in China

    2011

  • An assessment of the uncertainties in ocean surface turbulent fluxes in 11 reanalysis, satellite-derived, and combined global datasets

    2011

  • Natural and drought scenarios in an east central Amazon forest: Fidelity of the Community Land Model 3.5 with three biogeochemical models

    2011

  • Cosmic-Ray Neutrons, An Innovative Method for Measuring Area-Average Soil Moisture

    2011

  • Reply to comments on what is the atmosphere's effect on earth's surface temperature?

    2010

  • A comparison of ship and satellite measurements of cloud properties with global climate model simulations in the southeast Pacific stratus deck

    2010

  • Reply to Comments on “What Is the Atmosphere's Effect on Earth's Surface Temperature?”

    2010

  • Revising the Ensemble-Based Kalman Filter Covariance for the Retrieval of Deep-Layer Soil Moisture

    2010

  • Land surface modeling inside the Biosphere 2 tropical rain forest biome

    2010

  • Evaluation of snow albedo in land models for weather and climate studies

    2010

  • Comparison of Land–Precipitation Coupling Strength Using Observations and Models

    2010

  • Improving snow processes in the Noah land model

    2010

  • Comparison of land-precipitation coupling strength using observations and models

    2010

  • Reply

    2010

  • What Is the Atmosphere's Effect on Earth's Surface Temperature?

    2010

  • What is the atmospheres effect on Earth's surface temperature?

    2010

  • When Weather Matters

    2010

  • Technical description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    2010

  • The COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System (COSMOS): a non-invasive, intermediate scale soil moisture measurement network

    2010

  • Parameterization Improvements and Functional and Structural Advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model

    2009

  • Precipitation and precipitable water: Their temporal-spatial behaviors and use in determining monsoon onset/retreat and monsoon regions

    2009

  • The hills are alive: Earth science in a controlled environment

    2009

  • Improving the numerical solution of soil moisture-based Richards equation for land models with a deep or shallow water table

    2009

  • Impact of Modified Richards Equation on Global Soil Moisture Simulation in the Community Land Model (CLM3.5)

    2009

  • Improving the Numerical Solution of Soil Moisture ndash;Based Richards Equation for Land Models with a Deep or Shallow Water Table

    2009

  • Effects of soil wetness, plant litter, and under-canopy atmospheric stability on ground evaporation in the Community Land Model (CLM3.5)

    2009

  • Effects of soil wetness, plant litter, and under-canopy atmospheric stability on ground evaporation in the Community Land Model (CLM3.5): NEW SCHEMES FOR CLM3.5 SOIL EVAPORATION

    2009

  • Improving the treatment of the vertical snow burial fraction over short vegetation in the NCAR CLM3

    2009

  • The equatorial pacific cold tongue bias in a coupled climate model

    2008

  • Snow Albedo rsquo;s Dependence on Solar Zenith Angle from In Situ and MODIS Data

    2008

  • Growing temperate shrubs over arid and semiarid regions in the Community Land Model-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model: GROWING TEMPERATE SHRUBS IN CLM-DGVM

    2008

  • Growing temperate shrubs over arid and semiarid regions in the Community Land Model-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

    2008

  • Dependence of land surface albedo on solar zenith angle: Observations and model parameterization

    2008

  • Snow albedo’s dependence on solar zenith angle from in situ and MODIS data

    2008

  • Integration of a prognostic sea surface skin temperature scheme into weather and climate models

    2008

  • Consistent Parameterization of Roughness Length and Displacement Height for Sparse and Dense Canopies in Land Models

    2007

  • Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer bidirectional reflectance distribution function–based albedo parameterization for weather and climate models

    2007

  • Environmental Data Management at NOAA

    2007

  • Transition and pattern diversity in arid and semiarid grassland: A modeling study: TRANSITION AND PATTERN OF GRASSLAND

    2007

  • Transition and pattern diversity in arid and semiarid grassland: A modeling study

    2007

  • An intercomparison of bulk aerodynamic algorithms used over sea ice with data from the Surface Heat Budget for the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) experiment

    2006

  • Areal estimation of intensity and frequency of summertime precipitation over a midlatitude region

    2006

  • Intermediately complex models for the hydrological interactions in the atmosphere-vegetation-soil system

    2006

  • Time Scales of Land Surface Hydrology

    2006

  • An analysis of statistical characteristics of stratus and stratocumulus over eastern Pacific

    2006

  • Extending AGU's digital library

    2006

  • The Community Land Model and its climate statistics as a component of the Community Climate System Model

    2006

  • Characteristics of the atmospheric surface layer and heat budget over the Arctic ice in summer

    2006

  • Characteristics of Atmospheric Surface Layer and Heat Budget over the Arctic Ice in Summer

    2006

  • An empirical formulation of soil ice fraction based on in situ observations

    2006

  • Sensitivity of the NCEP/Noah land surface model to the MODIS green vegetation fraction data set

    2006

  • Ecological dynamic model of grassland and its practical verification

    2005

  • A prognostic scheme of sea surface skin temperature for modeling and data assimilation

    2005

  • A global 0.05° maximum albedo dataset of snow-covered land based on MODIS observations

    2005

  • Some studies of the hydrological interactions in the atmosphereecosystem-soil system

    2005

  • Comment on: Multiple equilibrium states and the abrupt transitions in a dynamical system of soil water interacting with vegetation. Authors replay

    2005

  • Models and numerical simulations of atmosphere-vegetaion-soil interactions and ecosystem dynamics

    2005

  • Understanding different precipitation seasonality regimes from water vapor and temperature fields: Case studies

    2005

  • Understanding different precipitation seasonality regimes from water vapor and temperature fields: Case studies: PRECIPITATION SEASONALITY

    2005

  • A global 0.05 deg; maximum albedo dataset of snow-covered land based on MODIS observations: MAXIMUM ALBEDO OF SNOW-COVERED LAND

    2005

  • Vegetation–soil water interaction within a dynamical ecosystem model of grassland in semi-arid areas

    2005

  • Reply to comment by Dekker and Rietkerk on “Multiple equilibrium states and the abrupt transitions in a dynamical system of soil water interacting with vegetation”

    2005

  • The solar zenith angle dependence of desert albedo

    2005

  • Treatment of Undercanopy Turbulence in Land Models

    2005

  • Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model

    2004

  • Multiple equilibrium states and the abrupt transitions in a dynamical system of soil water interacting with vegetation: SOIL WATER INTERACTING WITH VEGETATION

    2004

  • Multiple equilibrium states and the abrupt transitions in a dynamical system of soil water interacting with vegetation

    2004

  • Technical description of the community land model (CLM)

    2004

  • The Global Climate

    2004

  • Likelihood of rapidly increasing surface temperatures unaccompanied by strong warming in the free troposphere

    2004

  • Globally Unified Monsoon Onset and Retreat Indexes

    2004

  • Using MODIS BRDF and albedo data to evaluate global model land surface albedo

    2004

  • A virtual publications forum

    2004

  • Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height over the Eastern Pacific: Data Analysis and Model Evaluation

    2004

  • SEAFLUX

    2004

  • Impact of observed vegetation root distribution on seasonal global simulations of land surface processes

    2004

  • On the regulation of minimum mid-tropospheric temperatures in the Arctic

    2004

  • The effects of observed fractional vegetation cover on the land surface climatology of the community land model

    2004

  • Which Bulk Aerodynamic Algorithms are Least Problematic in Computing Ocean Surface Turbulent Fluxes?

    2003

  • The Common Land Model

    2003

  • Interannual Variability and Decadal Trend of Global Fractional Vegetation Cover from 1982 to 2000

    2003

  • Preliminary study on the relationship between temporal and spatial evolution of ecological landscape pattern and climate change in Xinjiang, China

    2003

  • How does the partitioning of evapotranspiration and runoff between different processes affect the variability and predictability of soil moisture and precipitation?

    2003

  • Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of albedos from Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model

    2003

  • Relating MODIS-derived surface albedo to soils and rock types over Northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula: RELATING MODIS-DERIVED SURFACE ALBEDO TO SOILS AND ROCK TYPES

    2002

  • How does snow impact the albedo of vegetated land surfaces as analyzed with MODIS data?

    2002

  • The Land Surface Climatology of the Community Land Model Coupled to the NCAR Community Climate Model*

    2002

  • A proposed mechanism for the regulation of minimum midtropospheric temperatures in the Arctic

    2002

  • Parameterization of wind gustiness for the computation of ocean surface fluxes at different spatial scales

    2002

  • The land surface climatology of the community land model coupled to the NCAR community climate model

    2002

  • Coupling of the Common Land Model to the NCAR Community Climate Model

    2002

  • More heat over greenhouse gases

    2002

  • Analysis of a multiyear global vegetation leaf area index data set

    2002

  • Relating MODIS-derived surface albedo to soils and rock types over Northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula

    2002

  • Uncertainties in sea surface turbulent flux algorithms and data sets

    2002

  • Progress in the parameterization of mesoscale enhancement of ocean surface fluxes in large-scale models

    2001

  • Comparison of albedos computed by land surface models and evaluation against remotely sensed data

    2001

  • Global vegetation root distribution for land modeling

    2001

  • Evaluation of the utility of satellite-based vegetation leaf area index data for climate simulations

    2001

  • Some problems in the computation of ocean surface moisture and heat fluxes in atmospheric models

    2000

  • Derivation and evaluation of global 1-km fractional vegetation cover data for land modeling

    2000

  • Measurements of fine-scale structure at the top of marine stratocumulus

    2000

  • The Relationship among Precipitation, Cloud-Top Temperature, and Precipitable Water over the Tropics

    1999

  • A multiyear hourly sea surface skin temperature data set derived from the TOGA TAO bulk temperature and wind speed over the tropical Pacific

    1999

  • A diagnostic study of the relationship between surface fluxes and environmental variables over the tropical western Pacific

    1999

  • The role of root distribution for climate simulation over land

    1998

  • Boundary layer processes and land surface interactions on the mesoscale

    1998

  • Adjustment of GCM Precipitation Intensity over the United States

    1998

  • Intercomparison of bulk aerodynamic algorithms for the computation of sea surface fluxes using TOGA COARE and TAO data

    1998

  • Effect of surface sublayer on surface skin temperature and fluxes

    1998

  • Impact of diurnally-varying skin temperature on surface fluxes over the tropical Pacific

    1998

  • Interactions between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems: influence on weather and climate

    1998

  • Several Unresolved Issues in Numerical Modelling of Geophysical Flows

    1997

  • Mesoscale fluxes over heterogeneous flat landscapes for use in larger scale models

    1997

  • Climatic impact of Amazon deforestation - A mechanistic model study

    1996

  • Heat and momentum fluxes induced by thermal inhomogeneities with and without large-scale flow

    1996

  • Climatic Impact of Amazon Deforestation—A Mechanistic Model Study

    1996

  • Comparison of Precipitation Observed over the Continental United States to That Simulated by a Climate Model

    1996

  • : Stochastic aspects in estimating the probability of producing good products by a system

    1995

  • Landscape-Induced Atmospheric Flow and its Parameterization in Large-Scale Numerical Models

    1995

  • Further Study on the Predictability of Landscape-Induced Atmospheric Flow.

    1995

  • Atmospheric Vortices

    1995

  • LANDSCAPE-INDUCED ATMOSPHERIC FLOW AND ITS PARAMETERIZATION IN LARGE-SCALE NUMERICAL-MODELS

    1995

  • LONG-TERM VARIABILITY OF CLIMATE

    1994

  • Chaos Theory and Its Applications to the Atmosphere

    1993

  • What does a low-dimensional weather attractor mean?

    1993

  • Atmosphere-terrestrial ecosystem interactions: implications for coupled modeling

    1993

  • Error-growth dynamics and predictability of surface thermally induced atmospheric flow

    1993

  • ERROR-GROWTH DYNAMICS AND PREDICTABILITY OF SURFACE THERMALLY-INDUCED ATMOSPHERIC FLOW

    1993

  • Extracting Lyapunov exponents from short time series of low precision

    1992

  • Estimating the fractal dimension and the predictability of the atmosphere

    1992

  • Reply to Jascourt and Raymond

    1992

  • Estimating the Lyapunov-exponent spectrum from short time series of low precision

    1991

  • Chaos in daisyworld

    1990

  • Three-dimensional numerical simulations of the interaction between urban heat island circulation and land breeze under sloping terrains

    1989

  • A study of wind profiles below 140 M under stable conditions

    1987

  • The computation of the wind speed in the tower layer under near-neutral atmosphere

    1986

  • Influence on severe storm development of irrigated land

    1984

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