Brief Bio

John is Chief of the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and he is serving as Associate Program Manager of Water Resources for the NASA Applied Sciences Program. He is also leading NASA's International Water Strategy.  His research focuses on the application of satellite-based remote sensing and land surface hydrological modeling for improved ecological and water resource management. He is involved in several water resources management efforts addressing flood monitoring, flood damage assessment, and agriculture drought forecasting and mitigation. He is leading projects in the Middle East, Central and North Africa, Southeast Asia, and United States. He has served on the Panel on Global Hydrological Cycles and Water Resources for the 2017-2027 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space. He is serving as NASA DEVELOP Program Lead Science Advisor for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He has served as the NASA GRACE Mission Applications Deputy Representative for Water and Coastal Resources, Chair of the American Geophysical Union’s Hydrology Remote Sensing Technical Committee, and Co-lead on the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS), Flood Disaster Pilot Risk Management Team. His most recent research includes the development of an improved hydrological decision support system for the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center and Mekong River Commission, development of the operational global soil moisture product for the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service crop forecasting system, and a deep learning-based system for improved satellite-based agricultural monitoring products. He has received multiple awards including the 2019 Arthur S. Flemming Award for Applied Science, the 2019 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the 2019 Department of State award for supporting the drafting and implementation of the US Global Water Strategy, the 2019 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science, as well as multiple NASA Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences annual awards for Outstanding Scientific Achievement, and Outreach. John is very involved in the scientific community and regularly gives invited keynote lectures, seminars, and tutorials on his research as well as the activities of NASA’s Applied Sciences Program related to water resources management around the globe. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology with an emphasis in hydrology and remote sensing from the University of South Carolina.

Publications

Refereed

Lakshmi, V., M.-H. Le, B. D. Goffin, et al. J. Besnier, H. T. Pham, H.-X. Do, B. Fang, I. Mohammed, and J. D. Bolten. 2023. "Regional analysis of the 2015–16 Lower Mekong River basin drought using NASA satellite observations." Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 46 101362 [10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101362]

Chang, C.-H., H. Lee, S. K. Do, et al. T. L. Du, K. Markert, F. Hossain, S. K. Ahmad, T. Piman, C. Meechaiya, D. D. Bui, J. D. Bolten, E. Hwang, and H. C. Jung. 2023. "Operational forecasting inundation extents using REOF analysis (FIER) over lower Mekong and its potential economic impact on agriculture." Environmental Modelling & Software 105643 [10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105643]

Tran, T.-N.-D., B. Q. Nguyen, N. D. Vo, et al. M.-H. Le, Q.-D. Nguyen, V. Lakshmi, and J. D. Bolten. 2022. "Quantification of global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) – A case study of the newly released NASADEM for a river basin in Central Vietnam." Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 45 101282 [10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101282]

Bruce Baker, C., M. Cosh, J. Bolten, et al. M. Brusberg, T. Caldwell, S. Connolly, I. Dobreva, N. Edwards, P. E. Goble, T. E. Ochsner, S. M. Quiring, M. Robotham, M. Skumanich, M. Svoboda, W. Alex White, and M. Woloszyn. 2022. "Working toward a National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network: vision, progress, and future directions." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society [10.1175/bams-d-21-0178.1]

Zhang, C., Z. Yang, H. Zhao, et al. Z. Sun, L. Di, R. Bindlish, P.-W. Liu, A. Colliander, R. Mueller, W. Crow, R. H. Reichle, J. Bolten, and S. H. Yueh. 2022. "Crop-CASMA: A web geoprocessing and map service based architecture and implementation for serving soil moisture and crop vegetation condition data over U.S. Cropland." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 112 102902 [10.1016/j.jag.2022.102902]

Le, M.-H., B. Q. Nguyen, H. T. Pham, et al. A. Patil, H. X. Do, R. Ramsankaran, J. D. Bolten, and V. Lakshmi. 2022. "Assimilation of SMAP Products for Improving Streamflow Simulations over Tropical Climate Region—Is Spatial Information More Important Than Temporal Information?" Remote Sensing 14 (7): 1607 [10.3390/rs14071607]

Mohammed, I. N., J. D. Bolten, N. J. Souter, K. Shaad, and D. Vollmer. 2022. "Diagnosing challenges and setting priorities for sustainable water resource management under climate change." Scientific Reports 12 (1): 796 [10.1038/s41598-022-04766-2]

Sazib, N., J. D. Bolten, and I. E. Mladenova. 2021. "Leveraging NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive for Assessing Fire Susceptibility and Potential Impacts Over Australia and California." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 15 779-787 [10.1109/jstars.2021.3136756]

Bayat, B., F. Camacho, J. Nickeson, et al. M. Cosh, J. Bolten, H. Vereecken, and C. Montzka. 2021. "Toward operational validation systems for global satellite-based terrestrial essential climate variables." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 95 102240 [10.1016/j.jag.2020.102240]

Cosh, M. H., T. G. Caldwell, C. B. Baker, et al. J. D. Bolten, N. Edwards, P. Goble, H. Hofman, T. E. Ochsner, S. Quiring, C. Schalk, M. Skumanich, M. Svoboda, and M. E. Woloszyn. 2021. "Developing a strategy for the national coordinated soil moisture monitoring network." Vadose Zone Journal 20 (4): [10.1002/vzj2.20139]

Sazib, N., L. E. Mladenova, and J. D. Bolten. 2020. "Assessing the Impact of ENSO on Agriculture Over Africa Using Earth Observation Data." Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4 [10.3389/fsufs.2020.509914]

Shellito, P. J., S. V. Kumar, J. A. Santanello, et al. P. Lawston-Parker, J. D. Bolten, M. H. Cosh, D. D. Bosch, C. D. Holifield Collins, S. Livingston, J. Prueger, M. Seyfried, and P. J. Starks. 2020. "Assessing the Impact of Soil Layer Depth Specification on the Observability of Modeled Soil Moisture and Brightness Temperature." Journal of Hydrometeorology 1-54 [10.1175/jhm-d-19-0280.1]

Sazib, N., J. Bolten, and I. Mladenova. 2020. "Exploring Spatiotemporal Relations between Soil Moisture, Precipitation, and Streamflow for a Large Set of Watersheds Using Google Earth Engine." Water 12 (5): 1371 [10.3390/w12051371]

Forgotson, C., P. E. O'Neill, M. L. Carrera, et al. S. Belair, N. N. Das, I. E. Mladenova, J. D. Bolten, J. M. Jacobs, E. Cho, and V. M. Escobar. 2020. "How Satellite Soil Moisture Data Can Help to Monitor the Impacts of Climate Change: SMAP Case Studies." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 13 1590-1596 [10.1109/jstars.2020.2982608]

Mladenova, I. E., J. D. Bolten, W. Crow, N. Sazib, and C. Reynolds. 2020. "Agricultural Drought Monitoring via the Assimilation of SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals Into a Global Soil Water Balance Model." Frontiers in Big Data 3 [10.3389/fdata.2020.00010]

Spruce, J., J. Bolten, I. N. Mohammed, R. Srinivasan, and V. Lakshmi. 2020. "Mapping Land Use Land Cover Change in the Lower Mekong Basin From 1997 to 2010." Frontiers in Environmental Science 8 [10.3389/fenvs.2020.00021]

Le, M.-H., V. Lakshmi, J. Bolten, and D. D. Bui. 2020. "Adequacy of Satellite-derived Precipitation Estimate for Hydrological Modeling in Vietnam Basins." Journal of Hydrology 586 124820 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124820]

Vu, Q. M., V. Lakshmi, and J. Bolten. 2019. "Assessment of the Biomass Productivity Decline in the Lower Mekong Basin." Remote Sensing 11 (23): 2796 [10.3390/rs11232796]

Mohammed, I. N., J. D. Bolten, B. Fang, M. A. Banti, and V. Lakshmi. 2019. "Processing Remotely Sensed Data." Advanced Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing Time Series Data and R 114 [Full Text (Link)] [10.1201/9780429262050-5]

Dandridge, C., V. Lakshmi, J. Bolten, and R. Srinivasan. 2019. "Evaluation of Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates in the Lower Mekong River Basin (Southeast Asia)." Remote Sensing 11 (22): 2709 [10.3390/rs11222709]

Skaskevych, A., J. Lee, H. C. Jung, et al. J. Bolten, J. L. David, F. S. Policelli, I. B. Goni, G. Favreau, S. San, and C. M. Ichoku. 2019. "Application of GRACE to the estimation of groundwater storage change in a data poor region: a case study of Ngadda catchment in the Lake Chad Basin.." Hydrological Processes hyp.13613 [10.1002/hyp.13613]

Jasinski, M. F., J. S. Borak, S. V. Kumar, et al. D. M. Mocko, C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. Rodell, H. Rui, H. K. Beaudoing, B. E. Vollmer, K. R. Arsenault, B. Li, J. D. Bolten, and N. Tangdamrongsub. 2019. "NCA-LDAS Noah-3.3 Land Surface Model L4 Trends 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0, Annual Trends Data Product." Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) v 2.0 [10.5067/QFZZBKCO5YJG]

Oddo, P. C., and J. D. Bolten. 2019. "The Value of Near Real-Time Earth Observations for Improved Flood Disaster Response." Frontiers in Environmental Science 7 [10.3389/fenvs.2019.00127]

McDonald, S., I. N. Mohammed, J. D. Bolten, et al. S. Pulla, C. Meechaiya, A. W. Markert, J. Nelson, R. Srinivasan, and V. Lakshmi. 2019. "Web-based decision support system tools: The Soil and Water Assessment Tool Online visualization and analyses (SWATOnline) and NASA earth observation data downloading and reformatting tool (NASAaccess)." Environmental Modelling & Software 104499 [10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104499]

Jasinski, M. F., J. S. Borak, S. V. Kumar, et al. D. M. Mocko, C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. Rodell, H. Rui, H. K. Beaudoing, B. E. Vollmer, K. R. Arsenault, B. Li, J. D. Bolten, and N. Tangdamrongsub. 2019. "NCA-LDAS: Overview and analysis of hydrologic trends for the National Climate Assessment." J. Hydrometeor. 20 1595-1617 [10.1175/JHM-D-17-0234.1]

Mladenova, I. E., J. D. Bolten, W. T. Crow, et al. N. Sazib, M. H. Cosh, C. J. Tucker, and C. Reynolds. 2019. "Evaluating the Operational Application of SMAP for Global Agricultural Drought Monitoring." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 1-11 [10.1109/jstars.2019.2923555]

Clayton, J., S. Quiring, T. Oschner, et al. M. Cosh, C. Baker, T. Ford, J. D. Bolten, and M. Woloszyn. 2019. "Building a one-stop shop for soil moisture information." EOS 100 [10.1029/2019EO123631]

McNally, A., S. McCartney, A. C. Ruane, et al. I. E. Mladenova, A. K. Whitcraft, I. Becker-Reshef, J. D. Bolten, C. D. Peters-Lidard, C. Rosenzweig, and S. Schollaert Uz. 2019. "Hydrologic and Agricultural Earth Observations and Modeling for the Water-Food Nexus." Frontiers in Environmental Science 7 pp. 23 [10.3389/fenvs.2019.00023]

Schollaert Uz, S., A. C. Ruane, B. N. Duncan, et al. C. J. Tucker, G. J. Huffman, I. E. Mladenova, B. Osmanoglu, T. R. Holmes, A. McNally, C. Peters-Lidard, J. D. Bolten, N. Das, M. Rodell, S. McCartney, M. C. Anderson, and B. Doorn. 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]

Hess, K., C. Cullen, J. Cobian-Iñiguez, et al. J. Ramthun, V. Lenske, D. Magness, J. Bolten, A. Foster, and J. Spruce. 2019. "Satellite-Based Assessment of Grassland Conversion and Related Fire Disturbance in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska." Remote Sensing 11 (3): 283 [10.3390/rs11030283]

Spruce, J., J. Bolten, R. Srinivasan, and V. Lakshmi. 2018. "Developing Land Use Land Cover Maps for the Lower Mekong Basin to Aid Hydrologic Modeling and Basin Planning." Remote Sensing 10 (12): 1910 [10.3390/rs10121910]

Mohammed, I. N., J. D. Bolten, R. Srinivasan, et al. C. Meechaiya, J. P. Spruce, and V. Lakshmi. 2018. "Ground and satellite based observation datasets for the Lower Mekong River Basin." Data in Brief 21 2020-2027 [10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.038]

Lakshmi, V., J. Fayne, and J. Bolten. 2018. "A comparative study of available water in the major river basins of the world." Journal of Hydrology 567 510-532 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.10.038]

Le, M.-H., J. Sutton, D. Bui, J. Bolten, and V. Lakshmi. 2018. "Comparison and Bias Correction of TMPA Precipitation Products over the Lower Part of Red–Thai Binh River Basin of Vietnam." Remote Sensing 10 (10): 1582 [10.3390/rs10101582]

Sazib, N., I. Mladenova, and J. Bolten. 2018. "Leveraging the Google Earth Engine for Drought Assessment Using Global Soil Moisture Data." Remote Sensing 10 (8): 1265 [10.3390/rs10081265]

Mohammed, I. N., J. D. Bolten, R. Srinivasan, and V. Lakshmi. 2018. "Satellite observations and modeling to understand the Lower Mekong River Basin streamflow variability." Journal of Hydrology 564 559-573 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.07.030]

Mohammed, I., J. Bolten, R. Srinivasan, and V. Lakshmi. 2018. "Improved Hydrological Decision Support System for the Lower Mekong River Basin Using Satellite-Based Earth Observations." Remote Sensing 10 (6): 885 [10.3390/rs10060885]

Oddo, P., A. Ahamed, and J. Bolten. 2018. "Socioeconomic Impact Evaluation for Near Real-Time Flood Detection in the Lower Mekong River Basin." Hydrology 5 (2): 23 [10.3390/hydrology5020023]

Bolten, J. D. 2018. "Global Hydrological Cycles and Water Resources." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space [10.17226/24938]

Jasinski, M. F., S. V. Kumar, J. S. Borak, et al. D. M. Mocko, C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. Rodell, H. Rui, H. K. Beaudoing, K. R. Arsenault, B. Li, and J. D. Bolten. 2018. "NCA-LDAS Noah-3.3 Land Surface Model L4 Daily 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0, Daily Data." Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Version 2.0 [10.5067/7V3N5DO04MAS]

Kumar, S. V., P. A. Dirmeyer, C. D. Peters-Lidard, R. Bindlish, and J. Bolten. 2017. "Information theoretic evaluation of satellite soil moisture retrievals." Remote Sensing of Environment 204 392-400 [10.1016/j.rse.2017.10.016]

Ahamed, A., and J. Bolten. 2017. "A MODIS-based automated flood monitoring system for southeast asia." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 61 104-117 [10.1016/j.jag.2017.05.006]

Mladenova, I. E., J. D. Bolten, W. T. Crow, et al. M. C. Anderson, C. R. Hain, D. M. Johnson, and R. Mueller. 2017. "Intercomparison of Soil Moisture, Evaporative Stress, and Vegetation Indices for Estimating Corn and Soybean Yields Over the U.S.." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 10 (4): 1328-1343 [10.1109/jstars.2016.2639338]

Fayne, J. V., J. D. Bolten, C. S. Doyle, et al. S. Fuhrmann, M. T. Rice, P. R. Houser, and V. Lakshmi. 2017. "Flood mapping in the lower Mekong River Basin using daily MODIS observations." International Journal of Remote Sensing 38 (6): 1737-1757 [10.1080/01431161.2017.1285503]

Fayne, J., J. Bolten, V. Lakshmi, and A. Ahamed. 2016. "Optical and Physical Methods for Mapping Flooding with Satellite Imagery." Remote Sensing of Hydrological Extremes 83-103 [10.1007/978-3-319-43744-6_5]

Mladenova, I. E., G. S. Nearing, J. D. Bolten, and V. Lakshmi. 2016. "Remote Sensing Techniques and Data Assimilation for Hydrologic Modeling." Handbook of Applied Hydrology, Second Edition

Ichoku, C., L. T. Ellison, K. E. Willmot, et al. T. Matsui, A. K. Dezfuli, C. K. Gatebe, J. Wang, E. M. Wilcox, J. Lee, J. Adegoke, C. Okonkwo, J. Bolten, F. S. Policelli, and S. Habib. 2016. "Biomass burning, land-cover change, and the hydrological cycle in Northern sub-Saharan Africa." Environmental Research Letters 11 (9): 095005 [10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/095005]

Schumann, G. J., S. Frye, G. Wells, et al. R. Adler, R. Brakenridge, J. Bolten, J. Murray, D. Slayback, F. Policelli, D. Kirschbaum, H. Wu, P. Cappelaere, T. Howard, Z. Flamig, R. Clark, T. Stough, M. Chini, P. Matgen, D. Green, and B. Jones. 2016. "Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation during the 2015 Texas flood disaster." Water Resources Research 52 (5): 3288-3293 [10.1002/2015wr018428]

Ahamed, A., J. D. Bolten, C. Doyle, and J. Fayne. 2016. "Near Real-Time Flood Monitoring and Impact Systems." Remote Sensing of Hydrological Extremes 105-118 [10.1007/978-3-319-43744-6]

Lee, C. M., A. Serrat-Capdevila, N. Iqbal, et al. M. Ashraf, B. Zaitchik, J. Bolten, F. Melton, and B. Doorn. 2016. "Applying Earth Observations to Water Resources Challenges." Earth Science Satellite Applications 147-171 [10.1007/978-3-319-33438-7_6]

Bolten, J. D., C. Lee, and P. Houser. 2015. "Satellite data for water resources management." Eos 96 [10.1029/2015EO035971]

Han, E., W. T. Crow, T. Holmes, and J. D. Bolten. 2014. "Benchmarking a Soil Moisture Data Assimilation System for Agricultural Drought Monitoring." J. Hydrometeor. 15 (3): 1117–1134 [10.1175/JHM-D-13-0125.1]

Khedun, C. P., A. K. Mishra, J. D. Bolten, et al. H. Kato-Beaudoing, R. A. Kaiser, J. R. Giardino, and V. P. Singh. 2012. "Understanding changes in water availability in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo del Norte basin under the influence of large-scale circulation indices using the Noah land surface model." J. Geophys. Res. 117 (D5): D05104 [Full Text (Link)] [10.1029/2011JD016590]

Crow, W. T., S. V. Kumar, and J. D. Bolten. 2012. "On the utility of land surface models for agricultural drought monitoring." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16 (9): 3451-3460 [10.5194/hess-16-3451-2012]

Bolten, J., and W. Crow. 2012. "Improved prediction of quasi-global vegetation conditions using remotely-sensed surface soil moisture." Geophysical Research Letters 39 (19): L19406 [10.1029/2012GL053470]

Khedun, C. P., A. K. Mishra, M. Özger, et al. H. Kato-Beaudoing, J. D. Bolten, J. R. Giardino, and V. P. Singh. 2010. "Assessing the Impacts of Climate Variability on the Water Resources in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin." World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010 [10.1061/41114(371)9]

Bolten, J., W. T. Crow, X. Zhan, T. J. Jackson, and C. A. Reynolds. 2010. "Evaluating the Utility of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Retrievals for Operational Agricultural Drought Monitoring." IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing 3 (1): 57-66 [10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2037163]

Bolten, J. D., and V. Lakshmi. 2009. "An evaluation of soil moisture retrievals using aircraft and satellite passive microwave observations during SMEX02." Journal of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan 29 (1): 293-300 [10.11440/rssj.29.293]

Bindlish, R., T. Jackson, A. Gasiewski, et al. B. Stankov, M. Klein, M. Cosh, I. Mladenova, C. Watts, E. Vivoni, V. Lakshmi, J. D. Bolten, and T. Keefer. 2008. "Aircraft based soil moisture retrievals under mixed vegetation and topographic conditions." Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2): 375-390 [10.1016/j.rse.2007.01.024]

Crow, W., and J. D. Bolten. 2007. "Estimating precipitation errors using spaceborne surface soil moisture retrievals." Geophysical Research Letters 34 [Full Text (Link)]

Vivoni, E., H. Gutiérrez-Jurado, C. Aragón, et al. A. Rinehart, R. Wyckoff, J. Rodríguez, C. Watts, J. D. Bolten, V. Lakshmi, and T. Jackson. 2007. "Variation of Hydrometeorological Conditions along a Topographic Transect in Northwestern Mexico during the North American Monsoon." Journal of Climate 20 (9): 1792-1809 [10.1175/JCLI4094.1]

Bolten, J., U. Narayan, L. Guijarro, and V. Lakshmi. 2004. "Passive-Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture at both L and C bands: A comparison of two field experiments." Italian Journal of Remote Sensing 30/31 65-86

Njoku, E., W. Wilson, S. Yueh, et al. T. Jackson, V. Lakshmi, and J. D. Bolten. 2003. "Observations of soil moisture using a passive and active low-frequency microwave airborne sensor during SGP99." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 40 2659-2673

Bolten, J., V. Lakshmi, and E. Njoku. 2003. "Soil moisture retrieval using the passive/active L and S- band radar/radiometer." EEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41 2792-2801

Non-Refereed

Mohammed, I. N., J. D. Bolten, N. J. Souter, K. Shaad, and D. Vollmer. 2021. "The Lower Mekong River Basin freshwaters sustainability: Prospects for the future." OSF [10.17605/OSF.IO/K6HV4]

Peredo, J., C. Wayman, B. Whong, et al. A. Thieme, L. R. Kline, S. Yadav, B. Eder, V. Lenske, D. Portillo, S. McCartney, J. Fitz, P. Oddo, J. Keppler, D. Hively, J. Bolten, G. McCarty, and A. Lyon. 2020. "UTILIZING LANDSAT AND SENTINEL-2 TO REMOTELY MONITOR AND EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE OF WINTER COVER CROPS THROUGHOUT MARYLAND." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-3/W11 125-130 [10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w11-125-2020]

Montzka, C., M. Cosh, B. Bayat, et al. A. Al Bitar, A. Berg, R. Bindlish, H. R. Bogena, J. D. Bolten, F. Cabot, T. Caldwell, S. Chan, A. Colliander, W. Crow, N. Das, G. De Lannoy, W. Dorigo, S. R. Evett, A. Gruber, S. Hahn, T. Jagdhuber, S. Jones, Y. Kerr, S. Kim, C. Koyama, M. Kurum, E. Lopez-Baeza, F. Mattia, K. McColl, S. Mecklenburg, B. Mohanty, P. E. O'Neill, D. Or, T. Pellarin, G. P. Petropoulos, M. Piles, R. H. Reichle, N. Rodriguez-Fernandez, C. Rüdiger, T. Scanlon, R. C. Schwartz, D. Spengler, P. Srivastava, S. Suman, R. van der Schalie, W. Wagner, U. Wegmüller, J.-P. Wigneron, F. Camacho, and J. E. Nickeson. 2020. "Soil moisture product validation good practices protocol, version 1.0." Committee on Earth Observation Satellites 123 pp. [10.5067/doc/ceoswgcv/lpv/sm.001]

Bolten, J. D. 2017. "U.S. Government Global Water Strategy ." U.S. Government Global Water Strategy [Full Text (Link)]

Doorn, B., M. F. Jasinski, J. Reager, et al. M. Srinivasan, S. Bettadpur, J. D. Bolten, M. Brown, F. Flechtner, E. Ivins, S. V. Kumar, F. Landerer, P. Morton, F. S. Policelli, M. Rodell, L. Tsaoussi, and F. Webb. 2016. "Applications Plan for the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) Missions: GRACE, GRACE-FO, and Future Missions." GRACE Tellus 15 [Full Text (Link)]

Mladenova, I. E., J. D. Bolten, W. Crow, and R. de Jeu. 2015. "Evaluating the application of microwave-based vegetation observations in an operational soil moisture data assimilation system." 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) [10.1109/igarss.2015.7327003]

Peters-Lidard, C. D., J. B. Eylander, R. D. Koster, et al. B. Narapusetty, S. V. Kumar, M. Rodell, J. D. Bolten, D. M. Mocko, G. K. Walker, K. R. Arsenault, and S. W. Rheingrover. 2014. "Drought Prediction for Socio-Cultural Stability Project." NASA/TM-2014-218303 [Full Text (Link)]

Bolten, J. D., W. Crow, X. Zhan, et al. T. Jackson, C. Reynolds, and M. Rodell. 2010. "Evaluation and application of remotely sensed soil moisture products." 2 pp.