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Publications

2016

Kumar, S.V., B.F. Zaitchik, C.D. Peters-Lidard, M. Rodell, R.H. Reichle, B. Li, D. Mocko, A. Getirana, G. Lannoy, M. Cosh, C. Hain, M. Anderson, K. Arsenault, Y. Xia, M. Ek, 2016: Assimilation of gridded GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System, J. Hydrometeor., in print, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0157.1

Nearing, G.S., D.M. Mocko, C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, Y. Xia: Benchmarking NLDAS-2 soil moisture and evapotranspiration to separate uncertianty contributions, Journal of Hydrometeor., 17(3), 745-759, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0063.1

McNally, A., S. Shukla, K. Arsenault, S. Wang, C. Peters-Lidard, J.P. Verdin: Evaluating ESA CCI soil moisture in East Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2016.01.001.

2015

Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, J.A. Santanello, R.H. Reichle, C.S. Draper, R.D. Koster, G. Nearing, M.F. Jasinski, 2015:
Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 4463--4478, doi:10.5194/hess-19-4483-2015.

Santanello, J.A., S.V. Kumar, C.D. Peters-Lidard, P. Lawston, 2015:
Impact of soil moisture assimilation on land surface model spinup and coupled land-atmosphere prediction, J. Hydromet., doi:10.1175/JHM-D-15-0072.1

Tian, Y., C.D. Peters-Lidard, K.W. Harrison, Y. You, S. Ringerud, S.V. Kumar, J. Turk, 2015:
An examination of methods estimating land surface microwave emissivity, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD023582.

Mazrooei, A., T. Sinha, A. Sankarasubramanian, S. V. Kumar, and C. D. Peters-Lidard, 2015: 
Decomposition of sources of errors in seasonal streamflow forecasting over the US Sunbelt, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD023687.

Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, K.R. Arsenault, A. Getirana, D. Mocko, Y. Liu, 2015:
Quantifying the added value of snow cover area observations in passive microwave snow depth data assimilation, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 16, 1736-1741, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-15-0021.1

Peters-Lidard, C.D., E. M. Kemp, T. Matsui, J. A. Santanello, Jr., S. V., Kumar, J. P. Jacob, T. Clune, W.-K. Tao, M. Chin, A. Hou, J. L. Case, D. Kim, K.-M. Kim, W. Lau, Y. Liu, J.-J. Shi, D. Starr, Q. Tan, Z. Tao, B. F. Zaitchik, B. Zavodsky, S. Q. Zhang, M. Zupanski, 2015:
Integrated modeling of aerosol, cloud, precipitation and land processes at satellite-resolved scales, Environmental Modelling & Software, 67, 149–159.  doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.01.007

Liu, Y., C. Peters-Lidard, S. Kumar, K. Arsenault, and D. Mocko, 2015:
Blending Satellite-Based Snow Depth Products with In situ Observations for Streamflow Predictions in the Upper Colorado River Basin.  Water Resources Research.  51, 1182–1202.  doi:10.1002/2014WR016606

McNally, A., G. J. Husak, M. Brown, M. Carroll, C. Funk, S. Yatheendradas, K. Arsenault, C. Peters-Lidard, and J. P. Verdin, 2015: 
Calculating Crop Water Requirement Satisfaction in the West Africa Sahel with Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture.  Journal of Hydrometeorology, 16, 295-305. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0049.1

 

2014

Kumar, S.V., K.W. Harrison, C.D. Peters-Lidard, J.A.Santanello, D. Kirschbaum: 2014
Assessing the impact of L-band observations on drought and flood risk estimation: A decision theoretic approach in an OSSE environment. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, 2140-2156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-13-0204.1

Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, D. Mocko, R. Reichle, Y. Liu, K. Arsenault, Y. Xia, M. Ek, G. Riggs, B. Livneh, M. Cosh: 2014
Assimilation of remotely sensed soil moisture and snow depth retrievals for drought estimation. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, 2446-2469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-13-0132.1
 
Getirana, A.C.V., E. Dutra, M. Guimberteau, J. Kam, H.-Y. Li, B. Decharme, Z. Zhang, A. Ducharne, A. Boone, G. Balsamo, M. Rodell, A. M. Toure, Y. Xue, C. D. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kumar, K. Arsenault, G. Drapeau, L. R. Leung, J. Ronchail, J. Sheffield: 2014
Water Balance in the Amazon Basin from a Land Surface Model Ensemble.  Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15 (6), pp. 2586-2614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0068.1
 
Ringerud, S., C. Kummerow, C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, and K. Harrison: 2014
A Comparison of Microwave Window Channel Retrieved and Forward-Modeled Emissivities Over the U.S. Southern Great Plains. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transations on, vol. 52, no.5, pp. 2395-2412.  http://10.1109/TGRS.2013.2260759
 
Arsenault, K.R., P.R. Houser, G.J.M. De Lannoy: 2014
Evaluation of the MODIS Snow Cover Fraction Product. Hydrological Processes, 28(3), 980--998, doi: 10.1002/hyp.9636
 

Yilmaz, M.T., M.C. Anderson, B.F. Zaitchik, C.R. Hain, W.T. Crow, M. Ozdogan, J.A. Chun, and J.P. Evans: 2014
Comparison of prognostic and diagnostic surface flux modeling approaches over the Nile River basin. Water Resources Research, vol. 50, pp. 386-408.  doi:10.1002/2013WR014194.
 

2013

Santanello, J.A.., C.D. Peters-Lidard, A. Kennedy, S.V. Kumar: 2013
Diagnosing the nature of land-atmosphere coupling: A case study of dry/wet extremes in the U.S. Southern Great Plains Journal of Hydrometeorology, 14, 3-24, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-12-023.1

Santanello, J.A.., S.V. Kumar, C.D. Peters-Lidard, K.W. Harrison, S.Zhou: 2013
Impact of land model calibration on coupled land-atmosphere prediction Journal of Hydrometeorology, 14,1373--1400, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-12-0127.1

Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, D. Mocko and Y. Tian: 2013
Multiscale evaluation of the improvements in surface snow simulation through terrain adjustments to radiation. Journal of Hydrometeorology,14,220-232, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-12-046.1

Zaitchik, B.F., J.A. Santanello, S.V. Kumar and C.D. Peters-Lidard: 2013
Representation of soil moisture feedbacks during drought in NASA Unified WRF (NU-WRF). Journal of Hydrometeorology,14, 360--367, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-12-069.1

Case, J.L., LaFontaine, F.J., G.J. Jedlovec, S.V. Kumar, and C.D. Peters-Lidard: 2013
A real-time MODIS vegetation product for land surface and numerical weather prediction models IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 52(3), 1772--1786, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2255059

Mohr, K.I, W.-K. Tao, J.-D. Chern, S.V. Kumar, C.D. Peters-Lidard, 2013
The NASA-Goddard Multi-scale Modeling Framework-Land Information System: Global land/atmosphere interaction with resolved convection, Environmental Modeling and Software, 39, pp 103--115, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.02.023

Liu, Y., C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, J.L. Foster, M. Shaw, Y. Tian, G.M. Fall, 2013:
Assimilating satellite-based snow depth and snow cover products for improving snow predictions in Alaska, Advances in Water Resources, 54, pp 208--227, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.02.005.

Arsenault, K. R., P. R. Houser, G. J. M. De Lannoy, and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2013:
Impacts of snow cover fraction data assimilation on modeled energy and moisture budgets, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 118, 7489–7504, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50542.

 

2012

Harrison, K.E., S.V. Kumar, J.A. Santanello, C.D. Peters-Lidard: 2012
Quantifying the change in soil moisture modeling uncertainty from remote sensing observations using Bayesian inference techniques. Water Resources Research, 48(11), doi: 10.1029/2012WR012337

Yatheendradas, S., C.D. Peters-Lidard, V.I. Koren, B. Cosgrove, L.G.G. de Goncalves, M.B. Smith, J. Geiger, Z. Cui, J. Borak, S. Kumar, D. Toll, G.A. Riggs and N. Mizukami, 2012
Distributed assimilation of satellite-based snow extent for improving simulated streamflow in mountainous, dense forests: An example over the DMIP2 western basins. Water Resources Research DOI:10.1029/2011WR011347

Crow, W.T., S.V. Kumar, J.D. Bolten: 2012
On the utility of land surface models for agricultural drought monitoring Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. , 16, 3451--3460. doi:10.5194/hess-16-3451-2012

Kumar, S.V., R.H. Reichle, K.W. Harrison, C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.Yatheendradas, J. Santanello, 2012:
A comparison of methods for a priori bias correction in soil moisture data assimilation. Water Resources Research, 48(3), doi: 10.1029/2010WR010261

Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, J. Santanello, K. Harrison, Y. Liu, and M. Shaw, 2012:
Land surface Verification Toolkit (LVT) - a generalized framework for land surface model evaluation, Geosci. Model Dev., 5, 869--886, doi:10.5194/gmd-5-869-a

 
De Lannoy, G., R.H. Reichle, K.R. Arsenault, P.R. Houser, S.V. Kumar, N.E.C. Verhoest, V.R.N. Pauwels, 2012:
Multiscale assimilation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–EOS snow water equivalent and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer snow cover fraction observations in northern Colorado. Water Resources Research, 48, W01522, 18 PP. doi:10.1029/2011WR010588
 

Case, J.L., S.V. Kumar, J. Srikishen, G.J. Jedlovec, 2012:
Improving Numerical Weather Predictions of Summertime Precipitation over the Southeastern United States through a High-Resolution Initialization of the Surface State. Weather and Forecasting, 26(6), 785--807. DOI:10.1175/2011WAF2222455.1

Anderson, W.B., B.F. Zaitchik, C.R. Hain, M.C. Anderson, M.T. Yilmaz, J. Mecikalski, and L. Schultz, 2012:
Towards an integrated soil moisture drought monitor for East Africa. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16: 2893-2913; doi:10.5194/hess-16-2893-2012
 

2011

Peters-Lidard, C.D, S.V. Kumar, D.M. Mocko, Y. Tian, 2011:
Estimating evapotranspiration with land data assimilation systems, Hydrological Processes, 25(26), 3979--3992, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8387

Santanello,J.A., C.D. Peters-Lidard and S.V. Kumar, 2011:
Diagnosing the sensitivity of local land-atmosphere coupling via the soil moisture boundary layer interaction. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 12, 766--786. DOI:10.1175/JHM-D-10-05014.1

 

2010

Dong, J., and C.D. Peters-Lidard, 2010:
On the Relationship Between Temperature and MODIS Snow Cover Retrieval Errors in the Western U.S., IEEE J. Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 3(1), 132-140, DOI:10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2039698

Hall, D.K., G.A. Riggs, J.L. Foster, and S.V. Kumar, 2010:
Development and Evaluation of a Cloud-Gap-Filled Modis Daily Snow-Cover Product, Remote Sens. Environ., 114, 496-503 DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2009.10.007

Reichle, R.H., S.V. Kumar, S.P.P. Mahanama, R.D. Koster, and Q. Liu, 2010:
Assimilation of satellite-derived skin temperature observations into land surface models, Journal of Hydrometeorology, DOI:10.1175/2010JHM1262.1

Tian, Y., C.D. Peters-Lidard, R.F. Adler, T. Kubota, and T. Ushio, 2010:
Evaluation of GSMaP Precipitation Estimates over Contiguous U.S., J. Hydrometeorology, 11(2), 566-574 DOI:10.1175/2009JHM1190.1

 

2009

Bounoua, L., A. Safia, J. Masek, C.D. Peters-Lidard, and M.L. Imhoff, 2009:
Impact of Urban Growth on Surface Climate: A Case Study in Oran, Algeria. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 48, 217-231, DOI:10.1175/2008JAMC2044.1

Kumar, S.V., R.H. Reichle, R.D. Koster, W.T. Crow, and C.D. Peters-Lidard, 2009:
Role of subsurface physics in the assimilation of surface soil moisture observations. Journal of Hydrometeorology 10, 1534-1547 DOI:10.1175/2009JHM1134.1

Santanello, Jr. J.A., C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, C.A. Alonge, and W.-K. Tao, 2009:
A modeling and observational framework for diagnosing local land-atmosphere coupling on diurnal time scales Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10, 577-599, DOI:10.1175/2009JHM1066.1

Tao, W.K., J.D. Chern, R. Atlas, D. Randall, M. Khairoutdinov, J.L. Li, D.E. Waliser, A. Hou, X. Lin, C.D. Peters-Lidard, W. Lau, J. Jiang, and J. Simpson, 2009:
A Multiscale Modeling System: Developments, Applications, and Critical Issues. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90(4), 515-534, DOI:10.1175/2008BAMS2542.1

Tian, Y., C.D. Peters-Lidard, J.B. Eylander, R.J. Joyce, G.J. Huffman, R.F. Adler, K. Hsu, F.J. Turk, M. Garcia, and J. Zeng, 2009:
Component analysis of errors in satellite-based precipitation estimates, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D24101, DOI:10.1029/2009JD011949

Zaitchik, B.F. and M. Rodell, 2009:
Forward-looking assimilation of MODIS-derived Snow Covered Area into a Land Surface Model.  Journal of Hydrometeorology 10(1): 130-148.
 

2008

Case, J.L., W.L. Crosson, S.V. Kumar, W.M. Lapenta, and C.D. Peters-Lidard, 2008:
Impacts of High-Resolution Land Surface Initialization on Regional Sensible Weather Forecasts from the WRF model, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 9(6), 1249-1266, DOI:10.1175/2008JHM990.1

Garcia, M., C.D. Peters-Lidard, and D.C. Goodrich, 2008:
Spatial interpolation of precipitation in a dense gauge network for monsoon storm events in the southwestern United States, Water Resour. Res., 44, W05S13, DOI:10.1029/2006WR005788

Kumar, S., C.D. Peters-Lidard, J.L. Eastman, and W.-K. Tao, 2008:
An Integrated High Resolution Hydrometeorological Modeling Testbed using LIS and WRF, Environmental Modelling & Software, 23(2), 169-181, DOI:10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.05.012

Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, R.H. Reichle, J. Geiger, C. Alonge, J. Eylander, and P. Houser, 2008:
An integrated hydrologic modeling and data assimilation framework enabled by the Land Information System (LIS), IEEE Computer, 41(12)52-59, DOI:10.1109/MC.2008.475

Kumar, S.V., R.H. Reichle, C.D. Peters-Lidard, R.D. Koster, X. Zhan, W.T. Crow, J.B. Eylander, and P. R. Houser, 2008:
A Land Surface Data Assimilation Framework using the Land Information System: Description and Applications, Advances in Water Resources, 31, 1419-1432, DOI:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.01.013

Peters-Lidard, C.D., D.M. Mocko, M. Garcia, J A. Santanello Jr., M.A. Tischler, M.S. Moran, and Y. Wu, 2008:
Role of precipitation uncertainty in the estimation of hydrologic soil properties using remotely sensed soil moisture in a semiarid environment, Water Resour. Res., 44, W05S18, DOI:10.1029/2007WR005884

Tian, Y., C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, J. Geiger, P.R. Houser, J.L. Eastman, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, and J. Adams, 2008:
High-performance land surface modeling with a Linux cluster, Comput. Geosci. 34, 11, 1492-1504, DOI:10.1016/j.cageo.2007.12.014

 

2007

Peters-Lidard , C.D., P.R. Houser, Y. Tian, S.V. Kumar, J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E.F. Wood and J. Sheffield, 2007:
High-performance Earth system modeling with NASA/GSFC's Land Information System. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering. 3(3), 157-165. DOI:10.1007/s11334-007-0028-x

Santanello, Jr., J.A., Jr., C.D. Peters-Lidard, M. Garcia, D. Mocko, M. Tischler, M.S. Moran, and D.P. Thoma, 2007:
Using Remotely-Sensed Estimates of Soil Moisture to Infer Soil Texture and Hydraulic Properties across a Semi-arid Watershed, Remote Sensing of Environment, 110(1), 79-97, DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.007

Tian, Y., C.D. Peters-Lidard, B.J. Choudhury, and M. Garcia, 2007:
Multitemporal Analysis of TRMM-Based Satellite Precipitation Products for Land Data Assimilation Applications. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 1165-1183.

Tischler, M., M. Garcia, C.D. Peters-Lidard, M.S. Moran, S. Miller, D. Thoma, S. Kumar, and J. Geiger, 2007:
A GIS framework for surface-layer soil moisture estimation combining satellite radar measurements and land surface modeling with soil physical property estimation. Environ. Model. Softw. 22(6), 891-898, DOI:10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.05.022

Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, S. Lang, C. Peters-Lidard, J. Simpson, S. Xie, S. Kumar, J.V. Geiger, C.-L. Shie, and J. L.. Eastman, 2007:
Evaluating Clouds in Long-Term Cloud Resolving Model Simulations with Observational Data, Journal of Atmospheres, 64(12), pp 4153-4177. DOI:10.1175/2007JAS2170.1

 

2006

Kumar , S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, P.R. Houser, J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J.L. Eastman, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E. F. Wood and J. Sheffield, 2006:
Land Information System - An Interoperable Framework for High Resolution Land Surface Modeling. Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol.21, 1402-1415. DOI:10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.07.004