Science Publications

2025

Rethinking Resilience: How a new era of extremes is changing how utilities invest

T. Lutkin, C. Gasson, and K. Wilson

Global Water Intelligence

Methodological Considerations in Climate Attribution: Disparities in Representing the Impact of Climate Change during the 2020-2021 Record Breaking Western United States Drought

S. Graves, B. Bass, S. Rahimi, and A. Hall

Journal of Climate

Impacts of Policy Design and Risk Management on Groundwater Conservation Program Effectiveness

Q. C. Yu, C.-Y. Kin, M. E. O. Alegria, J. Yu, J. Ifft, S. Zipper, and L. T. Marston

ESS Open Archive

Characterizing community water systems exposed to wildfire in the Western U.S.

C. Wachter, J. F. Suter, J. Burkhardt, W. Austin, B. M. Haley, S. Pan, and S. H. Kolstoe

Science of the Total Environment

Analyzing Atmospheric River Reforecasts: Self-Organizing Error Patterns and Synoptic-Scale Settings

G. Easthim, G. M. Lackmann, M. J. Molina, L. DeHaan, and J. M. Cordeira

Weather and Forecasting

Great Expectations: A Review of the Colorado River Basin Pilot Project—The Nation’s Most Expensive Randomized Orographic Cloud-Seeding Experiment

A. L. Rangno and D. M. Schultz

Weather, Climate, and Society

Wet Antecedent Soil Moisture Increases Atmospheric River Streamflow Magnitudes Nonlinearly

M. J. Webb, C. M. Albano, A. A. Harpold, D. M. Wagner, and A. M. Wilson

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Warming accelerates global drought severity

S. H. Gebrechorkos, J. Sheffield, S. M. Vincente-Serrano, C. Funk, D. G. Miralles, J. Peng, E. Dyer, J. Talib, H. E. Beck, M. B. Singer, and S. J. Dadson

Nature

A foundation model for the Earth system

C. Bodnar, W. P. Bruinsma, A. Lucic, M. Stanley, A. Allen, J. Brandsetter, P. Garvan, M. Riechert, J. A. Weyn, H. Dong, J. K. Gupta, K. Thambiratnam, A. T. Archibald, C.-C. Wu, E. Heider, M. Welling, R. E. Turner, and P. Perdikaris

Nature

Bridging the gap on data, metrics, and analyses for grid resilience to weather events

M. Collins, M. Whiting, J. Schellenberg and L. Scwartz

Energy Markets and Policy

Exploring Water System Vulnerabilities in California's Central Valley Under the Late Renaissance Megadrought and Climate Change

R. S. Gupta, S. Steinschneider, and P. M. Reed

Earth's Future

End-of-Century Changes in Orographic Precipitation with the Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research Model over the Western United States

W. R. Currier, R. McCrary, M. R. Abel, T. Eidhammer, B. Kruyt, A. Smith, T. Enzminger, K. Mahoney, R. Cifelli, and E. D. Gutmann

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Colorado River Allocations and Water Management

G. Sencan and B. Gray

Policy Commons

Western United States wintertime precipitation response to warming: an assessment in a global storm-resolving model

T.-L. Hsieh, L. Harris, K.-Y. Cheng, A. Kaltenbaugh, L. Zhou, L. Jia, and M. Zhao

Climate Dynamics

Assessment of evapotranspiration from a Noah-MP ensemble with multi-source products under different land-cover types over the continental United States

W. Fei, L. Shen, Y. Zhang, Y. Liu, J. Wu, A. Wang, and R. Cai

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Global Impacts of Wet Extremes on Evapotranspiration: Role of Watershed Characteristics

M. Neelam and C. R. Hain

ESS OPEN ARCHIVE

Resilient and Sustainable Water Resources Management in the United States: The Role of Water-Use Data and Interagency Knowledge Exchange

K. L. Fewless, O. V. Wilhelmi, and M. Tye

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Synthesis of publications on the anomalous June 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, United States and Canada

E. Fleishman, D. E. Rupp, P. C. Loikith, K. A. Bumbaco, and L. W. O’Neill

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The Influence of Land-Surface Conditions on the 2020–2021 Western US Drought

Y. Jiang, J. E. Smerdon, R. Seager, G. Wang, B. I. Cook, C.Zheng, J. S. Mankin, A. P. Williams

Water Resources Research

Beyond Expectations: Investigating Anomalous 2022–23 Winter Weather Conditions and Water Resources Impacts in California

C. J. Arellano, N. Rouzegari, V. Dao, M. B. Zadeh, E. Shearer, V. A. Gorooh, P. Nguyen, K.-L. Hsu, and S. Sorooshian

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Quantifying Summer Internal Phosphorus Loading in Large Lakes across the United States

N. G. Nelson, O. W. Duckworth, and D. R. Obenour

Environmental Science & Technology

Global patterns of rain-on-snow and its impacts on runoff from past to future projections

F. Z. Maina and S. V. Kumar

Nature Communications

Relationships between atmospheric circulation and Southwestern United States 21st century precipitation trends in statistically downscaled CMIP6 models

M. Kelleher, P. Morefield, and K. M. Grise

ESS OPEN ARCHIVE

Declining Freshwater Availability in the Colorado River Basin Threatens Sustainability of Its Critical Groundwater Supplies

K. Abdelmohsen, J. S. Famiglietti, Y. Z. Ao, B. Mohajer, and H. A. Chandanpurkar

Geophysical Research Letters

Snow droughts over 1951–2021 show a decreasing and then increasing trend

G. Ari, D. Liu, X. Zhao, and Q. Zhang

Atmospheric Research

Rethinking Water Scarcity, Energy, and Agriculture: Coupling Agrivoltaics With Addressing Groundwater Depletion

Laurel Saito, Jake Tibbitts, Peter Gower, Grant Zimmerman, Devin McHugh

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Evaluation of GRACE-derived groundwater storage variations: An application for the Chicot Aquifer, LA, USA

M. Saber, E. Habib, S. A. Kantoush, A. M. Elfeky, and T. Sumi

Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Planetary-Scale Dynamics of Extreme Precipitation Regimes: Precursors and Contributors to Intensity and Longevity

Y. Low and J. R. Gyakum

Monthly Weather Review

How quickly does elastic deformation respond to seasonal changes in hydraulic head? Insights from modeling and field data in the western USA

R. Smith and S. Vajedian

Hydrogeology Journal

Enhancing Deterministic Freezing Level Predictions in the Northern Sierra Nevada Through Deep Neural Networks

V. A. Gorooh, A. Sengupta, S. Roj, R. Weihs, B. Kawzenuk, L. D. Monache, and F. M. Ralph

arXiv

Low-Rank Gap Filling and Downscaling for SMAP Soil Moisture Datasets

K. Beale, R. L. Bras, and J. Romberg

Ecohydrology

Increasing probability of extreme rainfall preconditioned by humid heatwaves in global coastal megacities

P. Ganguli and B. Merz

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Reimagining river governance: Insights from the Colorado river crisis

S.Fernandes, G. W. Fernandes, C. C. Pereira, J. Raty, and K. Wheeler

BioScience

Intercomparison of the U.S. National Water Model with OpenET over the Bear River Basin, U.S.

A. Nassar, D. Tarboton, M. Anderson, Y. Yang, J. B. Fisher, A. J. Purdy, F. Baig, C. He, D. Gochis, F. Melton, and J. Volk

Journal of Hydrology

Role of evolving sea surface temperature modes of variability in improving seasonal precipitation forecasts

A. Sengupta, D. E. Waliser, M. J. DeFlorio, . Guan, L. D. Monache and F. M. Ralph

Communications Earth & Environment

Reservoir assessment tool (RAT): a Python package for monitoring the dynamic state of reservoirs and analyzing dam operations

S. Minocha, P. Das, and F. Hossain

Digital Water

Bias correction for near-real-time estimation of snow water equivalent using machine learning algorithms: A case study in the Tuolumne River basin, California

K. Yang, T. H. Painter, J. S. Deems, and N/ P. Molotch

Remote Sensing of Environment

Advancing lakes algal chlorophyll estimation in the contiguous USA: A comparative study of machine learning models and satellite data

M. Mamun and X. Yang

Ecological Informatics

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

Monitoring reservoir water elevation changes using Jason-2/3 altimetry satellite missions: exploring the capabilities of JASTER (Jason-2/3 Altimetry Stand-Alone Tool for Enhanced Research)

N. Ross, A. Rostami, H. Lee, C.-H. Chang, F. Hossain, P. Mililo, T. L. T. Du, S. Jayasinghe, and P. Towashiraporn

International Journal of Digital Earth

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

Machine learning in Earth and environmental science requires education and research policy reforms

S. W. Fleming, J. R. Watson, A. Ellenson, A. J. Cannon and V. C. Vesselinov

Nature Geoscience

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

2019

Groundwater in the Intermountain West

D. W. Johnson

Water Resources IMPACT