Publications

Soylu, M. E. and Bras, R. L. “Global Shallow Groundwater Patterns from Soil Moisture Satellite Retrievals,” in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3124892. 2021.

Soylu, M. E., &  Bras, R. L. Detecting shallow groundwater from spaceborne soil moisture observations. Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR029102. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029102. 2021

Dong, B., Lenters, J.D., Hu, Q., Kucharik, C.J., Wang, T., Soylu, M.E. and Mykleby, P.M. Decadal-Scale Changes in the Seasonal Surface Water Balance of the Central United States from 1984 to 2007Journal of Hydrometeorology21(9), pp.1905-1927. 2020.

Zhang, J., L.-F. Lin, R.L. Bras, Effect of Logarithmically Transformed IMERG Precipitation Observations in WRF 4D-Var Data Assimilation SystemWater, 12, 1918, 2020

Zhang, J., R.L. Bras, T. Heartsill Scalley, Tree census at Bisley Experimental Watersheds three months after Hurricane Maria. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archivehttps://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0012. 2020

Moghim S., and R.L. Bras, Regression-Based Regionalization for Bias Correction of Temperature and Precipitation, DOI: 10.1002/joc.6020, JoC, 2019

Dialynas, Y., R.L. Bras, Hydro-geomorphic Behavior of Contrasting Tropical Landscapes and Critical Zone Response to Changing Climate, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.4503, Vol 44, no. 2,  Feb., 2019

Zhang, J., L.-F., Lin, R.L.Bras, Evaluation of the quality of precipitation products: A case study using WRF and IMERG data over the central United States, Journal of Hydrometeorology, JHM-D-18-0153.1, 2018

S. Bastola, Y. G.  Dyalinas, R.L. Bras. V.L. Noto. E. Istanbilluoglu, The Role of Vegetation on Gully Erosion Stabilization at a Severely Degraded Landscape: a Case Study from Calhoun Experimental Critical Zone Observatory, Geomophology, 308, DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph. 2017.12.032

Lin, L-F, A.M Ebtehaj, A.N. Flores, S. Bastola, R.L. Bras, Combined Assimilation of Satellite Precipitation and Soil Moisture: A Case Study Using TRMM and SMOS DataMonthly Weather Review, Dec. 2017, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0125.1

Moghim, S. and R.L. Bras, “Bias Correction of Climate Modeled Temperature and Precipitation Using Artificial Neural Networks“, JHM-D-16-0247, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2017

Noto L, S. Bastola, Y. Dialynas, E.Arnone, R. L. Bras. Integration of fuzzy logic and image analysis for the detection of gullies in the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory using airborne LiDAR data,  ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 126, 209-224. DOI information: 10.1016/j. 2017

Dialynas, Y. G., R. L. Bras, and D. B. Richter. Hydro-geomorphic perturbations on the soil-atmosphere CO2 exchange: How (un)certain are our balances?Water Resour. Res., 53, 1664–1682, doi:10.1002/2016WR019411.isprsjprs.2017.02.013, Volume 126, Pages 209–224. 2017

Lin, L.-F., A. M. Ebtehaj, J. Wang, and R. L. Bras. Soil moisture background error covariance and data assimilation in a coupled land-atmosphere modelWater Resour. Res., 53, 1309–1335, doi:10.1002/2015WR017548. 2017

Arnone, E., D. Caracciolo, L. V. Noto, F. Preti, and R. L. Bras. Modeling the hydrological and mechanical effect of roots on shallow landslidesWater Resour. Res., 52, 8590–8612, doi:10.1002/2015WR018227. 2016

Dialynas, Y., S. Bastola, R.L.Bras, E. Marin-Spiotta, W. Silver, E. Arnone,  L. Noto. Impact of hydrologically driven hillslope erosion and landslide occurrence on soil organic carbon dynamics in tropical watershedsWater Resour. Res., doi: 10.1002/2016WR018925. 2016

Dialynas, Y., S. Bastola, R.L.Bras, S. Billings, D. Markewitz, and D. Richter, Topographic variability in the influence of soil erosion on the carbon cycleGlobal Biogeochemical Cycles, 30(5), 644-660, doi: 10.1002/2015GB005302, 2016

Moghim, S., S. McKnight, K. Zhang, M. Ebtehaj, R.G. Knox, R.L. Bras, P. Moorcroft, J.F. Wang, A Bias-corrected Data set of Climate Model Outputs at Uniform Space-Time Resolution for Land Surface Modeling over Amazonia, JOC-14-0285.R3, Journal of Climate, 2016

Ebtehaj, A.M., R.L. Bras and E. Foufoula-Georgiou, Evaluation of ShARP passive rainfall retrievals over snow-covered land surfaces and coastal zonesJournal of Hydrometeorology, JHM-D-15-0164, 2015

Arnone E., Y. G. Dialynas, L. V. Noto and R. L. Bras, Accounting for Soils Parameter Uncertainty in a Physically-Based and Distributed Approach for Rainfall-Triggered LandslidesHydrological Processes, 30(6), 927-944, doi: 10.1002/hyp.10609,  2016

Bras, R.L., Complexity and Organization in Hydrology: A Personal ViewWater resources Research, 2015WR016958, 2015

Zhang, Ke; A. Castanho, D. Galbraith, S. Moghim, N. Levine, R.L. Bras, M. Coe, M.H. Costa, Y. Malhi, M. Longo, R. Knox, S. McKnight, JF Wang, P. Moorcroft, The Fate of Amazonian Ecosystems over the Coming Century Arising from Changes in Climate, Land-use and CO2“, Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12903. 2015

Lin, L., A. Ebtehaj, R. Bras, A. Flores, and J. Wang, 2014: Dynamical Precipitation Downscaling for Hydrologic Applications Using WRF 4D-Var Data Assimilation: Implications for GPM EraJ. Hydrometeor. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-14-0042.1, 2015

Yetemen O., E. Istanbulluoglu, J. Homero Flores-Cervantes, E. R. Vivoni, and R. L. Bras, Ecohydrologic role of solar radiation on landscape evolution, Water Resources Research, 01/2015; DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016169. 2015 (2015 Editor’s Choice Award)

Parolari A.J., M.L. Goulden, and R.L. Bras. Ecohydrological controls on grass and shrub above-ground primary productivity in a seasonally-dry climateEcohydrology815721583. doi: 10.1002/eco.1605, 2015

Ebtehaj, A. M., E. Foufoula-Georgiou, G. Lerman, and R. L. Bras, Compressive Earth observatory: An insight from AIRS/AMSU retrievalsGeophys. Res. Lett., 42, 1–8, doi:10.1002/2014GL062711. 2015

Ebtehaj A.M., R.L. Bras, and E. Foufoula-Georgiou. Shrunken Locally Linear Embedding for Passive Microwave Retrieval of PrecipitationIEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)., TGRS-2014-00896.R1, 2015

Knox R.G., M. Longo, A.L.S. Swann, K. Zhang, N.M. Levine, P.R. Moorcroft, and R.L. Bras, Hydrometeorological Effects of Historical Land-Conversion in an Ecosystem-Atmosphere Model of Northern South AmericaHydrology and Earth System Sciences 01/2015; 19:241-273. DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-241-2015

Wang, JF, R.L. Bras, V. Nieves, Y Deng, A Model of Energy Budget over Water, Snow and Ice SurfacesJournal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JD021150, 2014

Arnone E., Y. Dialynas, L.V. Noto, R.L. Bras. Parameter uncertainty in shallow rainfall-triggered landslide modeling at basin scale: a probabilistic approachProcedia Earth and Planetary Science, Elsevier, (special issue including material from The Third Italian Workshop on Landslides, 23-24 October, Naples, Italy, 2013), DOI: 10.1016/j.proeps.2014.06.003. 2013

Flores, A., D. Entekhabi, and R.L. Bras, Application of a hillslope-scale soil moisture data assimilation system to military trafficability assessmentJournal of Terramechanics, 51C, pp. 53-66, DOI: 10.1016/j.jterra.2013.11.004. 2014

Flores-Cervantes, J.H., E. Istanbulluoglu, E.R. Vivoni, and R.L. Bras A geomorphic perspective on terrain-modulated organization of vegetation productivity: Analysis in two semiarid grassland ecosystems in Southwestern United StatesEcohydrology. DOI: 10.1002/eco.1333. 2014.

Gutierrez-Jurado H., E. Vivoni, C. Cikoski, B. Harrison, R. L. Bras, E. Istanbulluoglu, On the observed ecohydrologic dynamics of a semiarid basin with aspect-delimited ecosystemsWater Resources Research, Vol. 49, 8263–8284, doi:10.1002/2013WR014364, 2013

Campo, M., J.F. Cervantes, R.L. Bras, J. Casali, and J. Giraldez, Evaluation of a gully headcut retreat model using multitemporal aerial photographs and DEMs, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface. 2012JF002668, 2013

Sivandran, G., and R. L. Bras, Dynamic root distributions in ecohydrological modeling: A case study at Walnut Gulch Experimental WatershedWater Resour. Res., 49, doi:10.1002/wrcr.20245, 2013

Sivandran, G., and R. L.Bras, Identifying the optimal spatially and temporally invariant root distribution for a semiarid environmentWater Resour. Res., 48, W12525, doi:10.1029/2012WR012055, 2013

Lepore, C., Arnone, E., Noto, V., Sivandran, G., and R. L. Bras, Physically Based Modeling of Rainfall-Triggered Landslides: A case study in the Luquillo Forest, Puerto Rico, Hydrology and Earth System Science, hess-2012-512, 2013

Flores, A., D. Entekhabi, and R.L. Bras, Hydrologic data assimilation with a hillslope-scale resolving model and L-band radar observations: Synthetic experiments with the ensemble Kalman filterWater Resources Research, 2011WR011500, 2012

Parolari A.J., M.L. Goulden, and R.L. Bras, Fertilization reveals mechanism of vegetation-water feedback  in a  Southern California annual grasslandGeophysical Research Letters, Vol. 39, L08405, doi:10.1029/2012GL051411, 2012

Francipane, A.,  V. Ivanov, L.V. Noto, E. Istanbulluoglu, E. Arnone, and R.L. Bras, tRIBS-Erosion: a parsimonious physically-based model for studying catchment hydrogeomorphic responseCatena, DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2011.10.005. 2011

Yeonjoo, K., R. Knox, M.  Longo, D.  Medvigy, L. Hutyra, E. Pyle, S. Wofsy, R. Bras, and P. Moorcroft, Seasonal carbon dynamics and water fluxes in an Amazon rainforestGlobal Change Biology, 18(4), 1322-1334, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02629.x., 2011

Nieves, V., J. Wang, and R. L. Bras, Statistics of multifractal processes using the maximum entropy methodGeophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2011GL048716, 2011

Vivoni E. R, G.Mascaro,S. Mniszewski,P. Fasel, E. Springer. V.Ivanov,and R.L. Bras, Real-world Hydrologic Assessment of a Fully-Distributed Hydrological Model in a Parallel Computing EnvironmentJournal of Hydrology,  409, issue 1-2, 483-496. 2011

Wang, J., and R. L. Bras, 2011, Response to the Comments on “An Extremum Solution of Monin-Obukhov Similarity Equations” by van de Wiel et al., J. Atmos. Sci., 68(6), 1409-1412

Bisht, G., R.L. Bras, Estimation of Net Radiation from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Over the Continental United StatesIEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 49 Issue 6, DOI: 101109/TGRS.2010.2096227, Part 2. 2011

Lepore, C, Kamal, S. A., Shanahan, P, Bras R.L., Rainfall-Induced Landslide Susceptibility Zonation of Puerto RicoEnvironmental Earth Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-0976-1, 2011

Arnone, E., L. V. Noto, C. Lepore, R. L. Bras, Physically-based and distributed approach to analyze rainfall-triggered landslides at watershed scaleGeomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.03.019, 2011

Wang, J. F., Bras, R.L., A Model of Evapotranspiration Based on the Theory of Maximum Entropy ProductionWater Resources Research, VOL. 47, W03521, 10 PP., 2011 doi:10.1029/2010WR009392, 2011

Knox, R., G. Bisht, J. Wang, and R. L. Bras, Precipitation Variability over the Forest to Non-Forest Transition in Southwestern AmazoniaJ. Climate, 24, 2368-2377. doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3815.1, 2011