Dr. Matthew Rodell is the Deputy Director of Earth Sciences for Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics (HBG) at NASA/GSFC. HBG comprises more than 400 scientists and engineers within five laboratories involved in remote sensing and numerical modeling of land and ocean processes and related applications. From 2012 to 2019 Dr. Rodell was Chief of the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, and from 2019 to 2022 he was the Associate Deputy Director for HBG. He is a member of the science team for NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow On (GRACE-FO) mission and has co-led research and applications for the Mass Change Designated Observable Study. He leads the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) and projects focused on monitoring groundwater storage changes, mapping and forecasting drought/wetness, and detecting climate related variations in the water cycle. Dr. Rodell is a past Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydrology and a current Editor for the Journal of Hydrometeorology. He has also chaired the Hydrology Program for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting (2009-2011) and led various national and international scientific working groups. He received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2006, a NASA/GSFC Earth Science Achievement Award in 2007, a Robert H. Goddard Award for Exceptional Achievement in Science in 2011, and an Arthur S. Flemming Award for outstanding federal service in the area of basic science in 2015. He was elected to AGU Fellow in 2022. Dr. Rodell has more than 140 peer-reviewed publications and appears on Clarivate Web of Science's 2018-2022 lists of Highly Cited Researchers. He holds a B.S. in environmental science from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. in geological sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.
Matthew Rodell
(Deputy Director for Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics)
| Email: | matthew.rodell@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.9143 |
| Org Code: | 610 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 610.9 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
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Missions & Projects
Brief Bio
Positions/Employment
Acting Deputy Director of Earth Sciences for Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
January 2021 - Present
Associate Deputy Director of Earth Sciences for Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
December 2019 - Present
Chief, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
May 2012 - December 2019
Research Physical Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
December 2001 - May 2012
Visiting Research Associate
University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Greenbelt, MD
August 2000 - December 2001
Teaching Assistant
The University of Texas - Austin, TX
August 1998 - June 1999
Courses taught: Physical Hydrology; Groundwater Field Methods
Environmental Technician
EMS Environmental, Inc. - Woodbridge, NJ
June 1994 - August 1995
Education
• Doctor of Philosophy, Geological Sciences, 2000.
• Dissertation title: "Estimating Changes in Terrestrial Water Storage".
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
• Bachelor of Science, Environmental Science; minor in Mathematics, 1994.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas, 1998-99.
• Physical Hydrology and Groundwater Field Methods.
Director, Waveny Day Camp, New Canaan, CT, 1993.
Nature Specialist, Waveny Day Camp, New Canaan, CT, 1992.
Awards
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2022.
Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
NASA/GSFC Robert H. Goddard Outreach Award for the Earth Science Exhibit Team, 2017.
Arthur S. Flemming Award for Basic Science, 2015.
NASA/GSFC Robert H. Goddard Award for Exceptional Achievement in Science, 2011.
NASA/GSFC Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Outstanding Publication Award, 2010.
NASA/GSFC Earth Science Achievement Award, 2007.
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2006.
NASA/GSFC Special Act Incentive Awards, 2002-19 (annual).
National Research Council Research Associateship, 2000.
NASA Earth System Science Fellowship, 1998-2000.
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
• Fellow, 2022 • Chair, Ad Hoc Committee for Technical Committee Chair Terms of Reference, 2018 • Program Committee, Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle, 2012. • Chair, Hydrology Section Fall Program Committee, 2011. • Co-chair, Hydrology Section Fall Program Committee, 2009-10. • Chair, Hydrology Remote Sensing Technical Committee, 2006-07.
1996 - Present
American Meteorological Society
1996 - Present
Professional Service
Advisory Council, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas, 2019-present.
Editor, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2017-present.
Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology, 2012-2015.
NASA-ESA Interagency Gravity Science Working Group, 2013-15.
GRACE Science Team, 2004-present.
• Chair, GRACE Hydrology Product Working Group.
• Organized GRACE hydrology product working group meeting, 19 May 2010.
• Organized 2nd GRACE Hydrology Workshop, 4 November 2009.
GEWEX Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) Panel, 2008 – present.
Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) Science Panel, 2009 - present.
GEWEX Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observations Project (CEOP), 2002 – 2010.
• Chair, Land Modeling Subgroup, 2007 - 2010.
NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study (NEWS) Program.
• Co-chair, Energy and Water Cycle Climatology group, 2009-2011.
European Land Data Assimilation System Advisory Board, 2004.
NASA/GSFC Science Director's Council, 2007-09.
• Chair, 2007-08.
Goddard Child Development Center Board of Directors, 2005-08.
• Vice president, 2006-08.
Grants
Terrestrial Hydrology from GRACE and GRACE-FO: Refining the Interpretation of Water Storage Variations During All Phases of the Mass Change Data Record - NASA - Awarded: 2020-01-22
Dates: 2020-01-01 - 2023-12-13
Bridging Spatial and Temporal Gaps in Terrestrial Freshwater Understanding using GRACE / GRACE-FO - NASA - Awarded: 2020-01-22
Dates: 2020-01-01 - 2023-12-31
An Advanced Coupled Surface-Subsurface Hydrologic Modeling and Data Assimilation System Using LIS and ParFlow - NASA - Awarded: 2020-04-03
Dates: 2020-04-01 - 2023-03-31
Global and Regional Water and Energy Variations Under a Changing Climate - NASA - Awarded: 2020-03-03
Dates: 2020-04-01 - 2023-03-31
Other Professional Information
Researcher ID: E-4946-2012
ORCID: 0000-0003-0106-7437
Selected Publications
Refereed
2024. "Nonstationarity in the global terrestrial water cycle and its interlinkages in the Anthropocene." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (45): [10.1073/pnas.2403707121] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Chapter 8 Water Scarcity and Availability in ["Water Matters", Editor: Mukherjee]" ." [Book]
2024. "Report of MAGIC Science and Applications Workshop 2023." [10.5270/magic-workshop-2023] [Report]
2024. "Terrestrial water storage in 2023." Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 5 (4): 247-249 [Full Text] [10.1038/s43017-024-00545-x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "How have hydrological extremes changed over the past 20 years?." Journal of Climate [10.1175/jcli-d-23-0199.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "State of the Climate in 2022: Introduction." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104 (9): S1-S10 [10.1175/2023bamsstateoftheclimate_intro.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Wetting and drying trends under climate change." Nature Water 1 (6): 502-513 [Full Text] [10.1038/s44221-023-00073-w] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Changing intensity of hydroclimatic extreme events revealed by GRACE and GRACE-FO." Nature Water 1 (3): [Full Text] [10.1038/s44221-023-00040-5] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Contesting with the Ganges Water Machine in South Asia: Theory versus Reality." ACS ES&T Water 3 (3): 626-628 [10.1021/acsestwater.3c00052] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Water cycle science enabled by the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite missions." Nature Water 1 (1): 47-59 [Full Text] [10.1038/s44221-022-00005-0] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Using Satellite-Based Terrestrial Water Storage Data: A Review." Surveys in Geophysics [10.1007/s10712-022-09754-9] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Groundwater depletion in California’s Central Valley accelerates during megadrought." Nature Communications 13 (1): 7825 [10.1038/s41467-022-35582-x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "A Google Earth-GIS based approach to examine the potential of the current rainwater harvesting practices to meet water demands in Mityana district, Uganda." PLOS Water 1 (11): e0000045 [10.1371/journal.pwat.0000045] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Remote Sensing of Groundwater: Current Capabilities and Future Directions." Water Resources Research 58 (10): [10.1029/2022wr032219] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Groundwater and terrestrial water storage [in "State of the Climate in 2021"]." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 103 (8): S63-S64 [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "The Mass Change Designated Observable Study: Overview and Results." Earth and Space Science [10.1029/2022ea002311] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Groundwater Variability Across India, Under Contrasting Human and Natural Conditions." Earth's Future 10 (4): [10.1029/2021ef002513] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Achieving Breakthroughs in Global Hydrologic Science by Unlocking the Power of Multisensor, Multidisciplinary Earth Observations." AGU Advances 2 (4): [10.1029/2021av000455] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Groundwater and terrestrial water storage [in "State of the Climate in 2020"]." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 102 (8): S65-S66 [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Contribution of Meteorological Downscaling to Skill and Precision of Seasonal Drought Forecasts." Journal of Hydrometeorology [10.1175/jhm-d-20-0259.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Data Assimilation of Terrestrial Water Storage Observations to Estimate Precipitation Fluxes: A Synthetic Experiment." Remote Sensing 13 (6): 1223 [10.3390/rs13061223] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "A high‐resolution land data assimilation system optimized for the western United States." JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 57 (5): 692-710 [10.1111/1752-1688.12910] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Groundwater recharge estimated by land surface models: an evaluation in the conterminous U.S." J. Hydrometeor. 22 (2): 499-522 [10.1175/JHM-D-20-0130.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "An Evaluation of Remotely Sensed and In Situ Data Sufficiency for SGMA‐Scale Groundwater Studies in the Central Valley, California." JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 1752-1688.12898 [10.1111/1752-1688.12898] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Irrigation water demand sensitivity to climate variability across the Contiguous United States." Water Resources Research 57 (3): [10.1029/2020wr027738] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Chapter 11 Groundwater Drought: environmental controls and monitoring [in "Global Groundwater", Editors: Mukherjee et al]." [Book]
2020. "Basin‐Scale River Runoff Estimation From GRACE Gravity Satellites, Climate Models, and In Situ Observations: A Case Study in the Amazon Basin." Water Resources Research 56 (10): [10.1029/2020wr028032] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Underlying Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering for River Network Modeling." Journal of Hydrometeorology 21 (3): 453-474 [10.1175/jhm-d-19-0084.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Groundwater storage change detection from in situ and GRACE-based estimates in major river basins across India." Hydrological Sciences Journal 65 (4): 650-659 [10.1080/02626667.2020.1716238] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "GRACE improves seasonal groundwater forecast initialization over the United States." Journal of Hydrometeorology 21 59-71 [10.1175/jhm-d-19-0096.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Assimilating GRACE Into a Land Surface Model in the Presence of an Irrigation‐Induced Groundwater Trend." Water Resources Research 2019WR025363 [10.1029/2019wr025363] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Global GRACE data assimilation for groundwater and drought monitoring: Advances and challenges." Water Resour. Res. 55 (9): 7564-7586 [10.1029/2018wr024618] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "100 Years of Progress in Hydrology." Meteorological Monographs 59 25.1-25.51 [10.1175/amsmonographs-d-18-0019.1] [Article in Book]
2019. "NCA-LDAS: Overview and analysis of hydrologic trends for the National Climate Assessment." J. Hydrometeor. 20 (8): 1595-1617 [10.1175/JHM-D-17-0234.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "NCA-LDAS land analysis: Development and performance of a multisensor, multivariate land data assimilation system for the National Climate Assessment." J. Hydrometeor. 20 (8): 1571-1593 [10.1175/JHM-D-17-0125.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Long-term, non-anthropogenic groundwater storage changes simulated by three global-scale hydrological models." Scientific Reports 9 (1): 10746 [10.1038/s41598-019-47219-z] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Multi-sensor assimilation of SMOS brightness temperature and GRACE terrestrial water storage observations for soil moisture and shallow groundwater estimation." Remote Sensing of Environment 227 12-27 [10.1016/j.rse.2019.04.001] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Terrestrial water storage." Extreme Hydroclimatic Events and Multivariate Hazards in a Changing Environment 41-64 [10.1016/b978-0-12-814899-0.00002-x] [Article in Book]
2019. "Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change." Nature Climate Change 9 (5): 358-369 [10.1038/s41558-019-0456-2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Earth Observations and Integrative Models in Support of Food and Water Security." Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences [10.1007/s41976-019-0008-6] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Evaluation of Simulated Snow and Snowmelt Timing in the Community Land Model Using Satellite‐Based Products and Streamflow Observations." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 10 (11): 2933-2951 [10.1029/2018ms001389] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "In-Situ and GRACE-based Groundwater Observations: Similarities, Discrepancies, and Evaluation in the High Plains Aquifer in Kansas." Water Resources Research 54 (10): 8034-8044 [10.1029/2018wr023836] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Groundwater Withdrawals Under Drought: Reconciling GRACE and Land Surface Models in the United States High Plains Aquifer." Water Resources Research 54 [10.1029/2017wr022178] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Emerging trends in global freshwater availability." Nature 557 (7707): 651-659 [Full Text] [10.1038/s41586-018-0123-1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The Value of Remotely Sensed Information: The Case of a GRACE-Enhanced Drought Severity Index." Weather, Climate, and Society 10 (1): 187-203 [10.1175/wcas-d-16-0044.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The sensitivity of US wildfire occurrence to pre-season soil moisture conditions across ecosystems." Environmental Research Letters 13 (1): 014021 [10.1088/1748-9326/aa9853] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Detecting the 2012 drought in the southeastern US with MODIS- and GRACE-based drought indicators." Remote Sensing of Hydro-Meteorological Hazards [Article in Book]
2017. "How Might Recharge Change Under Projected Climate Change in the Western U.S.?." Geophysical Research Letters 44 (20): 10,407-10,418 [10.1002/2017gl075421] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Rivers and floodplains as key components of global terrestrial water storage variability." Geophysical Research Letters 44 (20): 10359-10368 [10.1002/2017GL074684] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Groundwater rejuvenation in parts of India influenced by water-policy change implementation." Scientific Reports 7 (1): 7453 [10.1038/s41598-017-07058-2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "The future of Earth observation in hydrology." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21 (7): 3879-3914 [10.5194/hess-21-3879-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Assessment of Irrigation Physics in a Land Surface ModelingFramework using Non-Traditional and Human-Practice Datasets." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21 2953-2966 [10.5194/hess-2017-51] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Trade-off between cost and accuracy in large-scale surface water dynamic modeling." Water Resources Research 53 (6): 4942-4955 [10.1002/2017wr020519] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Benefits and Pitfalls of GRACE Data Assimilation: a Case Study of Terrestrial Water Storage Depletion in India." Geophysical Research Letters 44 4107-4115 [10.1002/2017gl072994] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Comparison and assessment of three advanced land surface models in simulating terrestrial water storage components over the United States." J. Hydrometeor. 18 (3): 625-649 [10.1175/jhm-d-16-0112.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Comparing potential recharge estimates from three Land Surface Models across the western US." Journal of Hydrology 545 410-423 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.12.028] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Spatio-temporal variability of groundwater storage in India." Journal of Hydrology 544 428-437 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.11.052] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "[Global Climate: Hydrological Cycle] Groundwater and terrestrial water storage. In "State of the Climate in 2016"." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (8): S30 [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Chapter 92: Large-Scale and Global Hydrology." Handbook of Applied Hydrology 92.1-92.7 [Article in Book]
2016. "Estimating Snow Water Storage in North America Using CLM4, DART, and Snow Radiance Data Assimilation." Journal of Hydrometeorology 17 (11): 2853-2874 [10.1175/jhm-d-16-0028.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "GRACE-based estimates of global groundwater depletion." Terrestrial Water Cycle and Climate Change: Natural and Human-Induced Impacts 137-146 [Article in Book]
2016. "[Global Climate: Hydrological Cycle] Groundwater and terrestrial water storage. In 'State of the Climate in 2015'." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 97 (8): S30-S31 [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Assimilation of gridded GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System." J. Hydrometeor. 17 (7): 1951-1972 [10.1175/jhm-d-15-0157.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Using climate regionalization to understand Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) precipitation performance for the Conterminous United States (CONUS)." Geophysical Research Letters 43 (12): 6485-6492 [10.1002/2016gl069150] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Assimilation of gridded terrestrial water storage observations from GRACE into a Land Surface Model." Water Resour. Res. 52 4164-4183 [10.1002/2015wr018417] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Implications of projected climate change for groundwater recharge in the western United States." Journal of Hydrology 534 124-138 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.12.027] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Evaluation of the Snow Simulations from the Community Land Model, Version 4 (CLM4)." Journal of Hydrometeorology 17 (1): 153-170 [10.1175/jhm-d-14-0165.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Assimilation of GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Observations into a Land Surface Model for the Assessment of Regional Flood Potential." Remote Sensing 7 (11): 14663-14679 [10.3390/rs71114663] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "The Observed State of the Energy Budget in the Early Twenty-First Century." Journal of Climate 28 (21): 8319–8346 [10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00556.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "The Observed State of the Water Cycle in the Early Twenty-First Century." Journal of Climate 28 (21): 8289–8318 [10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00555.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Error Characterization of Coupled Land Surface-Radiative Transfer Models for Snow Microwave Radiance Assimilation." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 53 (9): 5247-5268 [10.1109/tgrs.2015.2419977] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Satellites provide the big picture." Science 349 (6249): 684-685 [10.1126/science.aac9238] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "[Global Climate: Hydrological Cycle] Terrestrial water storage. In 'State of the Climate in 2014'." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 96 (7): S27-S27 [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Groundwater storage changes: present status from GRACE observations." Surveys in Geophysics 36 1-21 [10.1007/s10712-015-9332-4] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Uncertainty in global groundwater storage estimates in a Total Groundwater Stress framework." Water Resources Research 51 (7): 5198-5216 [10.1002/2015WR017351] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE." Water Resources Research 51 (7): 5217-5238 [10.1002/2015WR017349] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Chapter 17: Remote sensing of droughts: emergence of a satellite-based monitoring toolkit for the United States." Remote Sensing Handbook Vol. III: Water Resources, Disasters, and Urban: Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping 367-399 [doi:10.1201/b19321-24] [Article in Book]
2015. "Impact of irrigation methods on land surface model spinup and initialization of WRF forecasts." Journal of Hydrometeorology 16 1135-1154 [doi:10.1175/JHM-D-14-0203.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Groundwater variability across temporal and spatial scales in the central and northeastern U.S." Journal of Hydrology 525 769-780 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.04.033] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Evaluation of a model-based groundwater drought indicator in the conterminous U.S." Journal of Hydrology 526 78-88 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.09.027] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Water Balance in the Amazon Basin from a Land Surface Model Ensemble." J. Hydrometeor 15 (6): 2586-2614 [10.1175/JHM-D-14-0068.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Groundwater depletion during drought threatens future water security of the Colorado River Basin." Geophys. Res. Lett. 41 (16): 5904–5911 [10.1002/2014GL061055] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Assimilation of MODIS snow cover through the Data Assimilation Research Testbed and the Community Land Model version 4." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119 (12): 7091–7103 [10.1002/2013JD021329] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "[Global Climate: Hydrological Cycle] Groundwater and terrestrial water storage. In 'State of the Climate in 2013'." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 95 (7): S24-S25 [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "A GRACE-based water storage deficit approach for hydrological drought characterization." Geophys. Res. Lett. 41 (5): 1537–1545 [10.1002/2014GL059323] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Hydrological evaluation of the Noah-MP land surface model for the Mississippi River Basin." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119 (1): 23-38 [10.1002/2013JD020792] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "[Global Climate: Hydrological Cycle] Groundwater and terrestrial water storage. In 'State of the Climate in 2012'." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 94 (8): S24 [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Application of satellite gravimetry for water resource vulnerability assessment." Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources 151-159 [10.1016/B978-0-12-384703-4.00521-9] [Article in Book]
2013. "Groundwater depletion in the Middle East from GRACE with implications for transboundary water management in the Tigris-Euphrates-Western Iran region." Water Resour. Res. 49 (2): 904-914 [10.1002/wrcr.20078] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Water in the Balance." Science 340 (6138): 1300-1301 [10.1126/science.1236460] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Spatial variability and its scale dependency of observed and modeled soil moisture over different climate regions." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17 (3): 1177-1188 [10.5194/hess-17-1177-2013] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Future opportunities and challenges in remote sensing of drought." Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches 389-410 [Article in Book]
2012. "Satellite gravimetry applied to drought monitoring." Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches 261-280 [Article in Book]
2012. "Future Opportunities and Challenges in Remote Sensing of Drought." Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches 289-410 [Article in Book]
2012. "Ground water and climate change." Nature Climate change 3 (4): 322-329 [10.1038/nclimate1744] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Toward calibration of regional groundwater models using GRACE data." Journal of Hydrology 422-423 1-9 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.025] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Assimilation of GRACE terrestrial water storage into a land surface model: Evaluation and potential value for drought monitoring in western and central Europe." Journal of Hydrology 446-447 103-115 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.04.035] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "[Global Climate: Hydrological Cycle] Groundwater and terrestrial water storage. In "State of the Climate in 2011"." Bulletin American Meteor Soc 93 (7): S29-S30 [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Impact of water withdrawals from groundwater and surface water on continental water storage variations." J Geodynamics 59-60 143-156 [10.1016/J.JOG.2011.05.001] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Assimilation of terrestrial water storage from GRACE in a snow-dominated basin." Water Resour. Res. 48 (1): W01507 [10.1029/2011WR011239] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Drought indicators based on model-assimilated Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) terrestrial water storage observations." Water Resour. Res. 48 (7): W07525 [Full Text] [10.1029/2011WR011291] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Observation of Hydrological Processes Using Remote Sensing." Treatise on Water Science [Article in Book]
2011. "Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations." J Geophys Res 38 (6): L06402 [10.1029/2010GL046230] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Global intercomparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates." J Geophys Res 116 (D2): D02108 [10.1029/2010JD014545] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "[Global Climate: Hydrological Cycle] Groundwater and terrestrial water storage. In "State of the Climate in 2010"." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 92 (6): S49-52 [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Sidebar 2.2: Contributions of GRACE to climate monitoring." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 92 (6): S49-S52 [10.1175/1520-0477-92.6.S1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Estimating evapotranspiration using an observation based terrestrial water budget." Hydrological Processes 25 (26): 4082–4092 [10.1002/hyp.8369] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Possible link between irrigation in the U.S. High Plains and increased summer streamflow in the Midwest." Water Resour. Res. 47 (3): W03522 [10.1029/2010WR010046] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Use of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment terrestrial water storage retrievals to evaluate model estimates by the Australian water resources assessment system." Wat Resour Res 47 (11): W11524 [10.1029/2011WR010714] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Satellites measure recent rates of groundwater depletion in California's Central Valley." Geophys. Res. Letter 38 (3): L03403 [10.1029/2010GL046442] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Movement of Amazon surface water from time-variable satellite gravity measurements and implications for water cycle parameters in land surface models." Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 11 (9): Q09007 [10.1029/2010GC003214] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Evaluation of the Global Land Data Assimilation System using global river discharge data and a source-to-sink routing scheme." Water Resour. Res. 46 (6): W06507 [10.1029/2009WR007811] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Inferring aquifer storage parameters using satellite and in situ measurements: Estimation under uncertainty." Geophys Res Lett 37 (10): L10401 [10.1029/2010GL043231] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Simulating the Effects of Irrigation over the United States in a Land Surface Model Based on Satellite-Derived Agricultural Data." J. Hydrometeor 11 (1): 171-184 [10.1175/2009JHM1116.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India." Nature 460 (7258): 999-1002 [10.1038/nature08238] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Influence of thermodynamic soil and vegetation parameterizations on the simulation of soil temperature states and surface fluxes by the Noah LSM over a Tibetan plateau site." Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci 13 759-777 [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Forward-Looking Assimilation of MODIS-Derived Snow-Covered Area into a Land Surface Model." J. Hydrometeor. 10 (1): 130-148 [10.1175/2008JHM1042.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "The South American Land Data Assimilation System (SALDAS) 5-Yr Retrospective Atmospheric Forcing Datasets." J. Hydrometeor 10 (4): 999-1010 [10.1175/2009JHM1049.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Evaluation and validation of mascon recovery using GRACE KBRR data with independent mass flux estimates in the Mississippi Basin." J Geodesy 83 (9): 817-827 [10.1007/s00190-009-0301-x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Assimilation of GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Data into a Land Surface Model: Results for the Mississippi River Basin." J. Hydrometeorol. 9 (3): 535-548 [10.1175/2007JHM951.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Field observations of soil moisture variability across scales." Water Resources Res. 44 (1): W01423 [10.1029/2006WR005804] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Analysis of terrestrial water storage changes from GRACE and GLDAS." Water Resour. Res. 44 (2): W02433 [10.1029/2006WR005779] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Contemporary estimates of Pan-Arctic freshwater discharge from GRACE and reanalysis." Geophys Res Lett 34 (L19404): 6 pp [10.1029/2007GL031254] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Comparison of seasonal terrestrial water storage variations from GRACE with groundwater-level measurements from the High Plains Aquifer (USA)." Geophys Res Lett 34 (L14402): 5 pp [10.1029/2007GL030139] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Attenuation effect on seasonal basin-scale water storage changes from GRACE time-variable gravity." J Geod 81 (4): 237-245 [10.1007/s00190-006-0104-2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Improving land-surface model hydrology: Is an explicit aquifer model better than a deeper soil profile?." Geophys Res Lett 34 (L09402): 5 pp [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Estimating groundwater storage changes in the Mississippi River basin (USA) using GRACE." Hydrogeology Journal 15 (1): 159-166 [10.1007/s10040-006-0103-7] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Sensitivity of Land Surface Simulations to Model Physics Land Characteristics and Forcings at Four CEOP Sites." J Meteor Soc Japan 85A 187-204 [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Retrieving snow mass from GRACE terrestrial water storage change with land surface model." Geophys Res Lett 34 (L15704): 5 pp [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "A framework for assessing the potential of remote-sensed gravity to provide new insight on the hydrology of the Murray-Darling Basin." Australian Journal of Water Resources 10 (2): 125-138 [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Terrestrial water mass load changes from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)." Water Resources Res 42 (W05417): 15 pp [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Toward a South American Land Data Assimilation System: Aspects of land surface model spin-up using the Simplified Simple Biosphere." J Geophys Res 111 (D17110): 13 pp [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "U.S. Contributions to the CEOP." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 87 (7): 927-939 [10.1175/BAMS-87-7-927] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Remote sensing of groundwater storage changes in Illinois using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)." Water Resources Res 42 (W12203): 7 pp [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Impact of different initial soil moisture fields on Eta model weather forecasts for South America." J Geophys Res 111 (D17102): 14 pp [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Development of a hydrometeorological forcing data set for global soil moisture estimation." Int. J. Climatol. 25 (13): 1697-1714 [10.1002/joc.1203] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Analysis of Multiple Precipitation Products and Preliminary Assessment of Their Impact of Global Land Data Assimilation System Land Surface States." J Hydrol 6 (5): 573-598 [10.1175/JHM437.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Total basin discharge for the Amazon and Mississippi River basins from GRACE and a land-atmosphere water balance." Geophysical Research Letters 32 (24): L24404 [10.1029/2005GL024851] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Seasonal global mean sea level change from satellite altimeter, GRACE, and geophysical models." J. Geodesy 79 (9): 532-539 [10.1007/s00190-005-0005-9] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Spatial sensitivity of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) time-variable gravity observations." J. Geophys. Res. 110 (B8): B08408 [10.1029/2004JB003536] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Low degree spherical harmonic influences on Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) water storage estimates." Geophysical Research Letters 32 (14): L14405 [10.1029/2005GL022964] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Evaluation of 10 Methods for Initializing a Land Surface Model." J Hydromet 6 (2): 146-155 [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Global Biomass Variation and Its Geodynamic Effects: 1982-98." Earth Interactions 9 (2): 19 pp [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Basin scale estimates of evapotranspiration using GRACE and other observations." Geophys Res Lett 31 (20): L20504 [10.1029/2004GL020873] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Realistic Initialization of Land Surface States: Impacts on Subseasonal Forecast Skill." Journal of Hydrometeorology 5 (6): 1049-1063 [10.1175/JHM-387.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "The Global Land Data Assimilation System." BAMS 381-394 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Updating a Land Surface Model with MODIS-Derived Snow Cover." J Hydrometeorol 5 1064-1075 [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Spatial distribution of soil moisture over 6 and 30 cm depth." J. Hydrology 276 254-274 [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "The potential for satellite-based monitoring of groundwater storage changes using GRACE: The High Plains aquifer, central U.S." J. Hydrology 263 245-256 [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "An analysis of terrestrial water storage variations in Illinois with implications for the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)." Water Resources Research 37 (5): 1327-1339 [10.1029/2000WR900306] [Journal Article/Letter]
1999. "Detectability of variations in continental water storage from satellite observations of the time dependent gravity field." Water Resources Research 35 2705-2723 [10.1029/1999WR900141] [Journal Article/Letter]
1999. "Ground-based investigation of soil moisture variability within remote sensing footprints during the Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Experiment." Water Resources Research 35 1839-1851 [Journal Article/Letter]
1998. "Variability in surface moisture content along a hillslope transect: Rattlesnake Hill, Texas." Journal of Hydrology 210 259-281 [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2020. "Groundwater and terrestrial water storage [in "State of the Climate in 2019"]." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101 (8): S1-S429 [10.1175/2020bamsstateoftheclimate.1] [Report]
2019. "[Global Climate: Hydrological Cycle] Groundwater and terrestrial water storage. In "State of the Climate in 2018"." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society S37-S38 [Report]
2011. "Diary of a Fall Program Chair." AGU Hydrology Section Newsletter 15-17 [Newsletter]
2010. "Realizing the Potential of GRACE for Hydrology." EOS Trans. AGU 91 (10): 96 [Journal Article/Letter]