Science Publications

2025

Drought to Flood to Drought: A Review of Definitions of Precipitation Whiplash Events, What Causes Them and Their Impacts Over the Continental United States

E. Mullens and J. Engström

International Journal of Climatology

Perspectives on Innovative Approaches in Agriculture to Managing Water Scarcity in the Middle Rio Grande Basin

E. C. Hasenback, C. E. Scruggs, M. Morgan, J. Wang, A. J. Webster, and C. M. Gomez Agriculture

More than modelling: Building trust for positive change in water resources management

R. B. Sowby, A. J. South, N. L. Jones, E. G. Hopkins, and D. P. Ames

Environmental Modelling & Software

Attributing climate and weather extremes to Northern Hemisphere sea ice and terrestrial snow: Progress, challenges and ways forward

K. Ye, J. Cohen, H. W. Chen, S. Zhang, D. Luo, NS M. E. Hamouda

EGU General Assembly 2025

Assessing future changes in daily precipitation extremes across the contiguous United States with the extended Generalized Pareto distribution

J.S. Nanditha, G. Villarini, and P. Naveau

Journal of Hydrology

Two Decades of Dust Radiative Forcing on Snow Cover Across the Great Salt Lake Basin

O. I. Lang, P. Naple, D. Mallia, T. Hosler, B. Adams, and S. M. Skiles

Journal of Geophysical Research

A Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Simulation of Changes in Precipitation and Snowpack in a Warmer Climate over the Interior Western United States

Y. Wang, B. Geerts, C. Liu, and X. Jing Climate

2024

The impact of spatial resolution on inland water quality monitoring from space

R. P. M. Frasson, D. R. Ardila, et al.

Environmental Research Communication

Estimating the value of satellite-derived measurements of evapotranspiration to inform irrigation scheduling in California almond orchards

D. Lapidus, C. Milliken, K. Knipper, S. Saa, T. Devol, et al.

The Journal of Technology Transfer

California’s 2023 snow deluge: Contextualizing an extreme snow year against future climate change

A. M. Marshall, J. T. Abatzoglou, S. Rahimi, D. P. Lettenmaier, and A. Hall

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Critical Effects of Precipitation on Future Colorado River Flow

M. P. Hoerling, J. K. Eischeid, H. F. Diaz, B. Rajagopolan, and E. Kuhn

Journal of Climate

Leveraging next-generation satellite remote sensing-based snow data to improve seasonal water supply predictions in a practical machine learning-driven river forecast system

S.W. Fleming, K. Rittger, C. M Oaida Taglialatela, and I. Graczyk

Water Resources Research

The Tree-Crop Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration Experiment (T-REX): A Science-Based Path for Sustainable Water Management and Climate Resilience

N. Bambach, et al.

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications for Sustainable Water Management and Climate Resilience

J. Volk, J. Huntington, F. Melton, et al.

Nature Water

2023

The AquaSat-1 Mission Concept: Actionable Information on Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystems for Australia and Western USA

C. Bright, D. Ardila, E. Hestir, T. J. Malthus, M. Matthews, and D. R. Thompson

IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Identifying Double-cropped Fields with Remote Sensing in Areas with High Crop Diversity

H. Noorazar, M. Brady, S. Savalkar, M. Liu, P. Beale, et al.

Preprints.org

Field evaluations of the CropManage decision support tool for improving irrigation and nutrient use of cool season vegetables in California

M. Cahn, R. Smith, and F. Melton

Agricultural Water Management

2022

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

A. Sengupta, B. Singh, M. J. DeFlorio, C. Raymond, A. W. Robertson, et al.

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Evapotranspiration Based Irrigation Trials Examine Water Requirement, Nitrogen Use, and Yield of Romaine Lettuce in the Salinas Valley

M. Cahn, L. Johnson, and S. Benzen

Horticulturae

Effects of meteorological and land surface modeling uncertainty on errors in winegrape ET calculated with SIMS

C. Doherty, L. Johnson, J. Volk, M. Mauter, N. Bambach, et al.

Irrigation Science

2021

Introduction to Featured Collection on Use of NASA and Other Earth Observations Data, Assets, and Tools to Support Water Management — Part 1

J. Bales and C. Lee

Journal of American Water Resources Association

OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States

F. Melton, J. Huntington, R. Grimm, et al.

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

WSU researchers to study double-cropping trends in western U.S.

Yahoo News

NASA funds satellite image project measuring double cropping

Washington State University Insider

Prediction of crop coefficients from fraction of ground cover and height: Practical application to vegetable, field and fruit crops with focus on parameterization

L. Pereira, P. Paredes, F. Melton, L. Johnson, M. Mota, et al.

Agricultural Water Management

A High-Resolution Land Data Assimilation System Optimized for the Western United States

J. Erlingis, M. Rodell, C.D. Peters-Lidard, B. Li, S.V. Kumar, et al.

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Satellite-Based Drought Reporting on the Navajo Nation

A.J.K. McCullum, C. McClellan, B. Daudert, J. Huntington, R. Green, et al.

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Groundwater Recharge Estimated by Land Surface Models: An Evaluation in the Conterminous United States

B. Li, M. Rodell, C. Peters-Lidard, J. Erlingis, S. Kumar, et al.

Journal of Hydrometerology

Assessing Disaggregated SMAP Soil Moisture Products in the United States

P. Liu, R. Bindlish, B. Fang, V. Lakshimi, P. O’Neill, et al.

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Evaluation of crop coefficient and evapotranspiration data for sugar beets from landsat surface reflectances using micrometeorological measurements and weighing lysimetry

T. Wang, F. Melton, T. Thao, K. Post, L. Johnson, et al.

Agricultural Water Management

2020

Managing the Navajo Nation’s Water Resources with NASA Data

NASA Applied Sciences

Prediction of crop coefficients from fraction of ground cover and height. Background and validation using ground and remote sensing data

L. Pereira, P. Paredes, F. Melton, L., Johnson, T. Wang, et al.

Agricultural Water Management

Evaluation and validation of a high spatial resolution satellite soil moisture product over the Continental United States

B. Fang, V. Lakshmi, R. Bindlish, T. Jackson, and P. Liu

Journal of Hydrology

A California Collaboration Supporting Indigenous Communities

NASA Applied Sciences

Carrying Water for the Community

NASA Western Water Applications Office

Community-based Science and Capacity Building with NASA and the Navajo Nation

StoryCorps Archive

Tracking Water for the Navajo Nation

Earth Observatory