Publications

Land evaporation [in “State of the Climate in 2018”]

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Year: 2019 DOI:10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

Authors: D.G. Miralles, B. Martens, H.E. Beck, A.J. Dolman, C. Jimenez, M.F. McCabe, E.F. Wood

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 99(8), S34

Retrieval of High-Resolution Soil Moisture through Combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data

Year: 2020 DOI:10.3390/rs12142303

Authors: Ch. Ma, X. Li, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sens. 2020, 12(14), 2303

synthetic aperture radar
precision agriculture
microwave remote sensing
Soil moisture

Automated Georectification and Mosaicking of UAV-Based Hyperspectral Imagery from Push-Broom Sensors

Year: 2020 DOI:10.3390/rs12010034

Authors: Y. Angel, D. Turner, S. Parkes, Y. Malbéteau, A. Lucieer, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Issue 1, p. 34, (2020)

georectification
mosaicking
Push broom
UAV
Hyperspectral imaging

Mapping groundwater abstractions from irrigated agriculture: big data, inverse modeling and a satellite-model fusion approach

Year: 2020 DOI:10.5194/hess-2020-50

Authors: O. Lopez, k. Johansen, B. Aragon, T. Li, R. Houborg, Y. Malbéteau, Al-Mashharawi SK, M. U. Altaf, E. M. Fallatah, H. P. Dasari, Hoteit I, M.F. McCabe

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, (2020)

The role of topography, soil, and remotely sensed vegetation condition towards predicting crop yield

Year: 2020 DOI:10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107788

Authors: T.E.Franz, S. Pokal, J.P. Gibson, Y. Zhou, H. Gholizadeh, F. A. Tenorio, D. Rudnick, D. Heeren, M.F. McCabe, M.G. Ziliani, Z. Jin, K. Guan, M. Pan, J. Gates, B. Wardlow

Field Crops Research, Vol. 252,p. 107788, (2020)

Maize and soybean
yield
spatiotemporal kriging
Statistics
Remote sensing

Predicting Biomass and Yield in a Tomato Phenotyping Experiment Using UAV Imagery and Random Forest

Year: 2020 DOI:10.3389/frai.2020.00028

Authors: k. Johansen, M.J.L. Morton, Y. Malbéteau, B. Aragon, Al-Mashharawi SK, M.G. Ziliani, Y. Angel, G. Fiene, S. Negrao, M. A. A. Mousa, M. A. Tester, M.F. McCabe

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, (2020)

biomass
UAV
Random forest

Current Practices in UAS-based Environmental Monitoring

Year: 2020 DOI:10.3390/rs12061001

Authors: G. Tmušic, S. Manfreda, H. Aasen, M. R. James, G. Gonçalves, A. Brook, M. Polinova, J. J. Arranz, J. Mészáros, R. Zhuang, k. Johansen, Y. Malbéteau, I. P. de Lima, C. Davids, S. Herban, E. Ben Dor, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Issue 6, (2020)

UAS-based mapping
environmental monitoring
effective workflow
guidelines

Mapping the condition of macadamia tree crops using multi-spectral UAV and WorldView-3 imagery

Year: 2020 DOI:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.04.017

Authors: k. Johansen, Q. Duan, Yu-HsuanTu, C. Searle, D. Wu, S. Phinn, A. Robson, M.F. McCabe

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 165, pp. 28-40, (2020)

UAV
WorldView-3
High spatial resolution
Macadamia
Tree condition
Random forest

ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

Year: 2020 DOI:10.1029/2019WR026058

Authors: J.B. Fisher, B. Lee, A. J. Purdy, G.H. Halverson, M.B. Dohlen, K. Cawse-Nicholson, A. Wang, R.G. Anderson, B. Aragon, M. Altaf Arain, D.D. Baldocchi, J.M. Baker, H. Barral, C.J. Bernacchi, C. Bernhofer, S.C. Biraud, G. Bohrer, N. Brunsell, B. Cappelaere, S. Castro‐Contreras, J. Chun, B. J. Conrad, E. Cremonese, J. Demarty, A. R. Desai, A. De Ligne, L. Foltýnová, M.L. Goulden, T.J. Grifﬁs, T. Grünwald, M.S. Johnson, M. Kang, D. Kelbe, N. Kowalska, Jong‐Hwan Lim, I. Maïnassara, M.F. McCabe, J.E.C. Missik, B.P. Mohanty, C.E. Moore, L. Morillas, R. Morrison, J.W. Munger, G. Posse, A.D. Richardson, E.S. Russell, Y. Ryu, A. Sanchez‐Azofeifa, M. Schmidt, E. Schwartz, I. Sharp, L. Šigut, Y Tang, G. Hulley, M. Anderson, C. Hain, A. French, E. Wood, S. Hook

Water Resources ResearchVolume 56, Issue 4, (2020)

ECOSTRESS
Evapotranspiration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
thermal infrared radiation (TIR)
Ecosystem

Evidence for intensification of meteorological droughts in Oman over the past four decades

Year: 2020 DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105126

Authors: Ahmed M.El Kenawy, A. Al Buloshi, T. Al-Awadhi, N. Al Nasiri, F. Navarro-Serrano, S. Alhatrushi, S.M. Robaa, F. Domínguez-Castro, M.F. McCabe, Petra-Manuela Schuwerack, J. I.Lopez-Moreno, S. M. Vicente-Serrano

Atmospheric Research, Vol. 246, p. 105126, (2020)

Drought
SPEI
Rainfall
Circulation patterns
Principal Components Analysis
Oman

A Calibration Procedure for Field and UAV-Based Uncooled Thermal Infrared Instruments

Year: 2020 DOI:10.3390/s20113316

Authors: B. Aragon, k. Johansen, S. Parkes, Y. Malbéteau, S. Al-Mashharawi, T. Al-Amoudi, C.F. Andrade, D. Turner, Arko Lucieer, M.F. McCabe

Sensors 2020, Vol. 20, Issue 11, (2020)

thermal infrared camera
calibration
vignetting
UAV
agricultural monitoring
Apogee SI-111
FLIR A655sc
TeAx 640
Tau 2
RPAS

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to assess the rehabilitation performance of open cut coal mines

Year: 2019 DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.287

Authors: k. Johansen, P.D. Erskine, M.F. McCabe

Journal of Cleaner Production, volume 209, pp. 819-833, (2019)

Open cut mine
Rehabilitation
Monitoring
UAV
Object-based image analysis
Indicators

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Phenotyping Using Morphometric and Spectral Analysis Can Quantify Responses of Wild Tomato Plants to Salinity Stress

Year: 2019 DOI:10.3389/fpls.2019.00370

Authors: k. Johansen, M.J.L. Morton, Y. Malbéteau, B. Aragon, S. Al-Mashharawi, M.G. Ziliani, Y. Angel, G. Fiene, S.S.C. Negrao, M. A. A. Mousa, M. A. Tester, M.F. McCabe

Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 10, p. 370, (2019)

UAV
imagery
phenotyping
wild tomato
Solanum pimpinellifolium
salt tolerance
growth
yield

Spatiotemporal monitoring of soil moisture from EMI data using DCT-based Bayesian inference and neural network

Year: 2019 DOI:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2019.07.004

Authors: D. Moghadas, K. Z. Jadoon, M.F. McCabe

Journal of Applied Geophysics, volume 169, pp. 226-238, (2019)

Electromagnetic induction
Soil moisture
Discrete cosine transform
Multiple point statistics
Bayesian inference
Artificial neural network

Spatial assessment of the performance of multiple high‐resolution satellite‐based precipitation data sets over the Middle East

Year: 2019 DOI:10.1002/joc.5968

Authors: A.M. El Kenawy, M.F. McCabe, J.I. Lopez-Moreno, Y. Hathal, S.M. Robaa, A.L. Al Budeiri, K. Z. Jadoon, A. Abouelmagd, A. Eddenjal, F. Domínguez-Castro, R.M. Trigo, S.M. Vicente-Serrano

International Journal of Climatology, volume 39, Issue 5, pp. 2522-2543, (2019)

CMORPH
extreme wet events
Middle East
PERSIANN
Daily rainfall
TRMM-3B42

Reconstructing Cloud Contaminated Pixels Using Spatiotemporal Covariance Functions and Multitemporal Hyperspectral Imagery

Year: 2019 DOI:10.3390/rs11101145

Authors: Y. Angel, R. Houborg, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing, volume 11, Issue 10, p. 1145, (2019)

Hyperspectral
multi-temporal
non-separable
covariance
spatiotemporal kriging
Remote sensing
Gap filling

Radiometric Assessment of a UAV-Based Push-Broom Hyperspectral Camera

Year: 2019 DOI:10.3390/s19214699

Authors: M. Alejandra P. Barreto, k. Johansen, Y. Angel, M.F. McCabe

Sensors, volume 19, Issue 21, p. 4699, (2019)

Hyperspectral
radiometric
UAV
Remote sensing
Headwall Nano-Hyperspec
spectroradiometer

Predicting biomass and yield at harvest of salt-stressed tomato plants using UAV imagery

Year: 2019 DOI:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-407-2019

Authors: k. Johansen, M. J. L. Morton, Y. Malbeteau, B. Aragon, S. Al-Mashharawi, M. Ziliani, Y. Angel, G. Fiene, S. Negrao, M. A. A. Mousa, M. A. Tester, M.F. McCabe

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-2/W13, pp. 407-411, (2019)

UAV
yeild
tomato plants
biomass
salinity

Enhanced flood forecasting through ensemble data assimilation and joint state-parameter estimation

Year: 2019 DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.123924

Authors: M.G. Ziliani, R. Ghostine, B. Ait-El-Fquih, M.F. McCabe, Hoteit I

Journal of Hydrology, Volume 577, pp. 123924, (2019)

Flood modeling
Shallow water equations
Continuous data assimilation
Ensemble Kalman filter
State-parameter estimation

Daily temperature extremes over Egypt: Spatial patterns, temporal trends, and driving forces

Year: 2019 DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.04.030

Authors: J. I.Lopez-Moreno, M.F. McCabe, S.M. Robaa, F. Domínguez-Castro, M. Peña-Gallardo, R. M.Trigo, M. E.Hereher, T. Al-Awadhi, S. M. Vicente-Serrano

Atmospheric Research, volume 226, pp. 219-239, (2019)

Daily air temperature
Extremes
Trend analysis
Atmospheric configurations
Egypt

Advances in the Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Evaporation

Year: 2019 DOI:10.3390/rs11091138

Authors: M.F. McCabe, D.G. Miralles, T. R.H. Holmes, J. B. Fisher

Remote Sensing, volume 11, Issue 9, p. 1138, (2019)

Evaporation
Remote sensing
Earth observation
land surface modeling
land surface flux
Cubesat
high-resolution

A variational approach for parameter estimation based on balanced proper orthogonal decomposition

Year: 2019 DOI:10.1016/j.cma.2018.10.013

Authors: M.U. Altaf, M.F. McCabe

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, volume 344, pp. 694-710, (2019)

Proper orthogonal decomposition
4DVAR
Model order reduction

A Random Forest Machine Learning Approach for the Retrieval of Leaf Chlorophyll Content in Wheat

Year: 2019 DOI:10.3390/rs11080920

Authors: S. H. Shah, Y. Angel, R. Houborg, S. Ali, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing, volume 11, Issue 8, p. 920, (2019)

Chlorophyll
wheat
photosynthetic pigment
linear regression
vegetation indices
Hyperspectral
leaf
retrieval
prediction

Using Multi-Spectral UAV Imagery to Extract Tree Crop Structural Properties and Assess Pruning Effects

Year: 2018 DOI:10.3390/rs10060854

Authors: k. Johansen, T. Raharjo, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sens. 2018, 10(6), 854

UAV
multi-spectral
lychee
pruning
tree crop structure
change detection

Partitioning of evapotranspiration in remote sensing-based models

Year: 2018 DOI:10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.05.010

Authors: C.J. Talsma, S. P. Good, C. Jimenez, B. Martens, J. B. Fisher, D.G. Miralles, M.F. McCabe, A. J. Purdy

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, volumes 260 to 261, pp. 131-143, (2018)

Evapotranspiration
Partitioning
modeling
Remote sensing
Transpiration
soil evaporation

On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring

Year: 2018 DOI:10.3390/rs10040641

Authors: S. Manfreda, M.F. McCabe, P.E. Miller, R. Lucas, V.P. Madrigal, G. Mallinis, E. Ben Dor, D. Helman, L. Estes, G. Ciraolo, J. Müllerová, F. Tauro, M. I. de Lima, J.L.M.P. de Lima, A. Maltese, F. Frances, K. Caylor, M. Kohv, M. Perks, G. Ruiz-Pérez, Z. Su, G. Vico, B. Toth

Remote Sens. 2018, 10 (4), 641

UAS
Remote sensing
environmental monitoring
precision agriculture
vegetation indices
Soil moisture
river monitoring

Intra-Season Crop Height Variability at Commercial Farm Scales Using a Fixed-Wing UAV

Year: 2018 DOI:10.3390/rs10122007

Authors: M. G. Ziliani, S. Parkes, Hoteit I, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing, volume 10, Issue 12, p. 2007, (2018)

dynamic crop height
UAV
digital image processing
image matching
site-specific crop management
intra-field spatial variability

Enhanced canopy growth precedes senescence in 2005 and 2010 Amazonian droughts

Year: 2018 DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035

Authors: Liu YY, Van Dijk AIJM, D.G. Miralles, M.F. McCabe, J.P. Evans, R. A.M. De Jeu, P. Gentine, A. Huete, R.M. Parinussa, L. Wang, K. Guan, J. Berry, N. Restrepo-Coupe

Remote Sensing of Environment, volume 211, pp. 26-37, (2018)

Amazonian droughts
Canopy water content
Satellite
Passive microwave
Soil water deficit
Surface temperature
Vapor pressure deficit

Daily Retrieval of NDVI and LAI at 3 m Resolution via the Fusion of CubeSat, Landsat, and MODIS Data

Year: 2018 DOI:10.3390/rs10060890

Authors: R. Houborg, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing, volume 10, issue 6, (2018)

Cubesat
Landsat
MODIS
LAI
NDVI
Random forests
Cubist
phenology

CubeSats in Hydrology: Ultrahigh‐Resolution Insights Into Vegetation Dynamics and Terrestrial Evaporation

Year: 2018 DOI:10.1002/2017wr022240

Authors: M.F. McCabe, B. Aragon, R. Houborg, J. Mascaro

Water Resources Research, volume 53, issue 12, pp. 10017-10024, (2018)

Cubesat
Hydrology
Remote sensing

CubeSats Enable High Spatiotemporal Retrievals of Crop-Water Use for Precision Agriculture

Year: 2018 DOI:10.3390/rs10121867

Authors: B. Aragon, R. Houborg, Kevin Tu, Joshua B. Fisher, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing, volume 10, Issue 12, p. 1867, (2018)

Cubesat
Evapotranspiration
PT-JPL
Remote sensing
Saudi Arabia
high-resolution
precision agriculture

Capturing the Diurnal Cycle of Land Surface Temperature Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Year: 2018 DOI:10.3390/rs10091407

Authors: Y. Malbéteau, S. Parkes, B. Aragon, J. Rosas, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing, volume 10, issue 9, pp. 1407, (2018)

Land surface temperature
diurnal temperature cycle
Thermal infrared
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)

A hybrid training approach for leaf area index estimation via Cubist and random forests machine-learning

Year: 2018 DOI:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.10.004

Authors: R. Houborg, M.F. McCabe

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, volume 135, pp. 173-188, (2018)

Machine-learning
LAI
Cubist
Random forests
Hybrid
REGFLEC

A Cubesat enabled Spatio-Temporal Enhancement Method (CESTEM) utilizing Planet, Landsat and MODIS data

Year: 2018 DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.067

Authors: R. Houborg, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing of Environment, volume 209, pp. 211-226, (2018)

Cubesat
Planet
Landsat
MODIS
Cubist
Machine-learning
VNIR
Spatio-temporal enhancement

Time series from hyperion to track productivity in pivot agriculture in Saudi Arabia

Year: 2017 DOI:10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127641

Authors: R. Houborg, M.F. McCabe, Y. Angel, E. M. Middleton

2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), (2017)

Terrain mapping
Time series
Vegetation
Vegetation mapping
Biological system modeling
Earth
Hyperspectral imaging
Predictive models
Productivity

The Future of Evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources

Year: 2017 DOI:10.1002/2016wr020175

Authors: J.B. Fisher, F. Melton, E. Middleton, C. Hain, M. Anderson, R. Allen, M.F. McCabe, S. Hook, D. Baldocchi, P.A. Townsend, A. Kilic, K. Tu, D.D. Miralles, J. Perret, J.-P. Lagouarde, D. Waliser, A.J. Purdy, A. French, D. Schimel, J.S. Famiglietti, G. Stephe

Water Resources Research, volume 53, issue 4, pp. 2618-2626, (2017)

Evapotranspiration
Global
Satellite
Agriculture
Water resources
Ecosystem
Climate

The future of Earth observation in hydrology

Year: 2017 DOI:10.5194/hess-21-3879-2017

Authors: M.F. McCabe, M. Rodell, D.E. Alsdorf, D.G. Miralles, R. Uijlenhoet, W. Wagner, A. Lucieer, R. Houborg, N.E.C. Verhoest, T.E. Franz, J. Shi, H. Gao, E.F. Wood

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, volume 21, pp. 3879-3914, (2017)

Remote sensing
Hydrology
Cubesat
UAV
Earth observation

Spatiotemporal monitoring of soil water content profiles in an irrigated field using probabilistic inversion of time-lapse EMI data

Year: 2017 DOI:10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.10.019

Authors: D. Moghadas, K.Z. Jadoon, M.F. McCabe

Advances in Water Resources, volume 110, pp. 238-248, (2017)

Spatiotemporal monitoring

Sensitivity of Landsat 8 Surface Temperature Estimates to Atmospheric Profile Data: A Study Using MODTRAN in Dryland Irrigated Systems

Year: 2017 DOI:10.3390/rs9100988

Authors: J. Rosas, R. Houborg, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing, volume 9 (10), p. 988, (2017)

Land surface temperature
Landsat
Atmospheric correction
Thermal infrared
Remote sensing
AIRS
ECMWF
MOD07
NCEP
IGRA

Response of water vapour D-excess to land–atmosphere interactions in a semi-arid environment

Year: 2017 DOI:10.5194/hess-21-533-2017

Authors: S.D. Parkes, M.F. McCabe, A.D. Griffiths, L. Wang, S. Chambers, A. Ershadi, A.G. Williams, J. Strauss, A. Element

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, volume 21, pp. 533-548, (2017)

Stable isotopes
D-excess
water vapour
land-atmosphere coupling

Response of Chlorophyll, Carotenoid and SPAD-502 Measurement to Salinity and Nutrient Stress in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Year: 2017 DOI:10.3390/agronomy7030061

Authors: S.H. Shah, R. Houborg, M.F. McCabe

Agronomy, volume 7 (3), p. 61, (2017)

Wheat crop
SPAD measurement
Chlorophyll
Carotenoids
Pigment
Salinity stress
Nutrient stress
Photosynthesis

Pushbroom hyperspectral imaging from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) - geometric processing workflow and accuracy assessment

Year: 2017 DOI:10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w6-379-2017

Authors: D. Turner, A. Lucieer, M.F. McCabe, I. Clarke

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, volume XLII-2/W6, pp. 379-384, (2017)

Geometric accuracy
Hyperspectral
PARGE
Push broom
UAS

Land surface albedo and vegetation feedbacks enhanced the millennium drought in south-east Australia

Year: 2017 DOI:10.5194/hess-21-409-2017

Authors: J.P. Evans, X. Meng, M.F. McCabe

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 409-422, (2017)

Atmospheric pressure
Climate models
Climatology
Soil moisture
Solar radiation
Surface measurement
Vegetation

Inferring soil salinity in a drip irrigation system from multi-configuration EMI measurements using adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo

Year: 2017 DOI:10.5194/hess-21-5375-2017

Authors: K.Z. Jadoon, Altaf MU, M. F. McCabe, Hoteit I, N. Muhammad, D. Moghadas, L. Weihermüller

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, volume 21, issue: 10, pp. 5375-5383, (2017)

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Impacts of dust aerosol and adjacency effects on the accuracy of Landsat 8 and RapidEye surface reflectances

Year: 2017 DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2017.03.013

Authors: Houborg R, M. F. McCabe

Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 194, pp. 127-145, (2017)

6SV
Adjacency effects
Aerosols
Atmospheric correction
Desert dust
FieldSpec
Landsat
NDVI
RapidEye
Red-edge
Surface reflectance
T-matrix
Validation

Identification of Tropical-Extratropical Interactions and Extreme Precipitation Events in the Middle East Based On Potential Vorticity and Moisture Transport

Year: 2017 DOI:10.1002/2017jd027587

Authors: A.J. de Vries, H.G. Ouwersloot, S.B. Feldstein, M. Riemer, A.M. El Kenawy, M.F. McCabe, J. Lelieveld

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, (2017)

Heavy rainfall
Algorithm
Stratospheric intrusions
Integrated vapor transport
Rossby wave breaking
Atmospheric rivers

Gap-filling of landsat 7 imagery using the direct sampling method

Year: 2017 DOI:10.3390/rs9010012

Authors: G. Yin, G. Mariethoz, M.F. McCabe

Remote Sensing, Volume 9, Issue 1, Article number 12, (2017)

Gap filling
Landsat ETM+
Multiple-point geostatistics
Scan line corrector
SLC

Future projections of synoptic weather types over the Arabian Peninsula during the twenty-first century using an ensemble of CMIP5 models

Year: 2016 DOI:10.1007/s00704-016-1874-y

Authors: A.M. El Kenawy, M.F. McCabe

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, volume 130 (1-2), pp. 173-189, (2017)

Atmospheric temperature
Climate change
Controlling factors
Geomorphological mapping

Evaluating the hydrological consistency of evaporation products using satellite-based gravity and rainfall data

Year: 2017 DOI:10.5194/hess-21-323-2017

Authors: O. Lopez, R. Houborg, M.F. McCabe

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 323-343, (2017)

Digital storage
Evaporation
Evapotranspiration
Geodetic satellites
Metadata
Precipitation (meteorology)
Daily rainfall
Remote sensing
Rivers
Water supply
Watersheds

Downscaling the 2D Bénard convection equations using continuous data assimilation

Year: 2017 DOI:10.1007/s10596-017-9619-2

Authors: Altaf MU, E.S.Titi, T. Gebrael, O.M. Knio, L. Zhao, M. F. McCabe, Hoteit I

Computational Geosciences, volume 21, pp. 393-410, (2017)

Continuous data assimilation
Bénard convection equation
Dynamical downscaling

A comparison of gap-filling approaches for Landsat-7 satellite data

Year: 2017 DOI:10.1080/01431161.2017.1363432

Authors: G. Yin, G. Mariethoz, Y. Sun, M. F. McCabe

International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 38, issue 23, pp. 6653-6679, (2017)

A comparison of gap-filling approaches for Landsat-7 satellite data

Partitioning of evapotranspiration using a stable isotope technique in an arid and high temperature agricultural production system

Year: 2016

Authors: Lu X, Liang LL, Wang L, Jenerette GD, McCabe MF, Grantz DA

Biofuel
Climate change
Drought
Ecohydrology
El centro
Imperial valley
Irrigation
Water resources
Water use efficiency

Adapting a regularized canopy reflectance model (REGFLEC) for the retrieval challenges of dryland agricultural systems

Year: 2016

Authors: Houborg R, McCabe MF

REGFLEC
HALO
Desert agriculture
Tawdeehiya
RapidEye
Landsat
McCabe
Houborg

Global land evaporation

Year: 2016

Authors: Miralles DG, Martens B, Dolman AJ, Jimenez C, McCabe MF, Wood EF

Global evaporation
Climate
2015

Recent changes in continentality and aridity conditions over the Middle East and North Africa region, and their association with circulation patterns

Year: 2016

Authors: El Kenaway AM, McCabe MF, Vicente-Serrano SM, Robaa SM, Lopez-Moreno JI

Continentality
Aridity
MENA
Circulation patterns

Changes in the frequency and severity of hydrological droughts over Ethiopia from 1960 to 2013

Year: 2016

Authors: El Kenaway AM, McCabe MF, Vicente-Serrano SM, Lopez-Moreno JI, Robaa SM

Drought
Frequency
Ethiopia
Hydrology

Future projections of synoptic weather types over the Arabian Peninsula during the 21st Century using an ensemble of CMIP5 models

Year: 2016

Authors: El Kenawy AM, McCabe MF

CMIP5
Future projections
Weather types
Arabian peninsular
ENSEMBLES

A study of reduced-order 4DVAR with a finite element shallow water model

Year: 2016

Authors: Altaf MU, Ambrozic M, McCabe MF, Hoteit I

4DVAR
Data assimilation
Hydrology
Shallow water

The WACMOS-ET project – Part 1: Tower-scale evaluation of four remote-sensing-based evapotranspiration algorithms

Year: 2016

Authors: Michel D, Jiménez C, Miralles DG, Jung M, Hirshi M, Ershadi A, Martens B, McCabe MF, Fisher JB, Mu Q, Seneviratne SI, Wood EF, Fernández-Prieto D

WACMOS-ET
Global
Evaporation
Climate
HESS
PT-JPL
GLEAM
SEBS
Hydrology

The WACMOS-ET project – Part 2: Evaluation of global terrestrial evaporation data sets

Year: 2016

Authors: Miralles DG, Jiménez C, Jung M, Michel D, Ershadi A, McCabe MF, Hirschi M, Martens B, Dolman AJ, Fisher JB, Mu Q, Seneviratne SI, Wood EF, Fernández-Prieto D

WACMOS-ET
Evaporation
Global data
Climate
Hydrology
PT-JPL
MODIS
PM-Mu
SEBS
GLEAM

Elevated CO2 as a driver of global dryland greening

Year: 2016

Authors: Lu X, Wang L, McCabe MF

CO2
Global change
Climate
Drylands
Greening

A Spatio-Temporal Enhancement Method for medium resolution LAI (STEM-LAI)

Year: 2016

Authors: Houborg R, McCabe MF, Gao F

Landsat
MODIS
STARFM
LAI
Data fusion
Downscaling
Multi-scale
Regression tree
Spatio-temporal enhancement
Data mining

The GEWEX LandFlux project: Evaluation of model evaporation using tower-based and globally gridded forcing data

Year: 2016

Authors: McCabe MF, Ershadi A, Jimenez C, Miralles DG, Michel D, Wood EF

Global evaporation
Hydrology
Landflux
GEWEX

A multi-decadal assessment of the performance of gauge- and model-based rainfall products over Saudi Arabia: Climatology, anomalies and trends

Year: 2016

Authors: El Kenawy AM, McCabe MF

Rainfall
Gauge-based products
Global climate models
Trends
Cross-tabulation
Saudi Arabia

Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass

Year: 2015

Authors: Liu YY, Van Dijk AIJM, De Jeu RAM, Canadell JG, McCabe MF, Evans JP, Wang G

Global climate change
Vegetation optical depth
Aboveground carbon biomass
Microwave
Vegetation change

A comparison of optical and microwave scintillometers with eddy covariance derived surface heat fluxes

Year: 2015

Authors: Yee MS, Pauwels VRN, Daly E, Beringer J, Rüdiger C, McCabe MF, Walker JP

Evapotranspiration
Eddy-covariance
Scintillometer
Sensible heat
Latent heat flux

A space and time scale-dependent non-linear geostatistical approach for downscaling daily precipitation and temperature

Year: 2015

Authors: Jha SK, Mariethoz G, Evans J, McCabe MF, Sharma A

Multi-point geostatistics
MPS
WRF
Downscaling
GCM
Preciptiation
Temperature
Murray-Darling basin

Temporal monitoring of the soil freeze-thaw cycles over a snow-covered surface by using air-launched ground-penetrating radar

Year: 2015

Authors: Jadoon KZ, Weihermüller L, McCabe MF, Moghadas D, Vereecken H, Lambot S

Ground-penetrating radar
Freeze-thaw cycles
Seasonal snow cover
Inversion

Estimation of soil salinity in a drip irrigation system by using joint inversion of multicoil electromagnetic induction measurements

Year: 2015

Authors: Jadoon KZ, Moghadas D, Jadoon A, Missimer TM, Al-Mashharawi SK, McCabe MF

Electromagnetic induction
Soil salinity
Drip irrigation
EMI
Saudi Arabia
Conductivity

Leaf chlorophyll constraint on model simulated gross primary productivity in agricultural systems

Year: 2015

Authors: Houborg R, McCabe MF, Cescatti A, Gitelson AA

Landsat
Leaf chlorophyll content
Vmax
Leaf photosynthetic capacity
Community Land Model
Agriculture
Rubisco
Nitrogen

Joint leaf chlorophyll content and leaf area index retrieval from Landsat data using a regularized model inversion system (REGFLEC)

Year: 2015

Authors: Houborg R, McCabe M, Cescatti A, Gao F, Schull M, Gitelson A

Landsat
Leaf chlorophyll
LAI
SAIL
PROSPECT
Canopy reflectance
Model inversion

To what extent do long-duration high-volume dam releases influence river–aquifer interactions? A case study in New South Wales, Australia

Year: 2015

Authors: Graham PW, Andersen MS, McCabe MF, Ajami H, Baker A, Acworth I

Surface water hydrology
Dam releases
Groundwater-surface-water relations
Water management
Australia

Impact of model structure and parameterization on Penman-Monteith type evaporation models

Year: 2015

Authors: Ershadi A, McCabe MF, Evans JP, Wood EF

Latent heat flux
Evaporation
Evapotranspiration
Penman–Monteith
Surface resistance
Aerodynamic resistance

Evaluation of the TMPA-3B42 precipitation product using a high-density rain gauge network over complex terrain in northeastern Iberia

Year: 2015

Authors: El Kenawy AM, López-Moreno JI, McCabe MF, Vicente-Serrano SM

Precipitation
Rain gauges
TMPA-3B42
Evaluation
Iberia

Daily temperature changes and variability in ENSEMBLES regional models predictions: Evaluation and intercomparison for the Ebro Valley (NE Iberia)

Year: 2015

Authors: El Kenawy A, López-Moreno JI, McCabe MF, Brunsell NA, Vicente-Serrano SM

Climate models
ENSEMBLES
Trends
Temperature percentiles
Maximum temperature
The Ebro Valley

Simulation of flash-flood-producing storm events in Saudi Arabia using the weather research and forecasting model.

Year: 2015

Authors: Deng L, McCabe MF, Stenchikov G, Evans JP, Kucera PA

Synoptic climatology
Extreme events
Flood events
Cloud resolving models
Model evaluation/performance

Stable water isotope and surface heat flux simulation using ISOLSM: Evaluation against in-situ measurements

Year: 2015

Authors: Cai MY, Wang L, Parkes SD, Strauss J, McCabe MF, Evans JP, Griffiths AD

FTIR
Hydrogen
ISOLSM
Isotope
Oxygen
Spectroscopy

Impacts of model initialization on an integrated surface water-groundwater model

Year: 2015

Authors: Ajami H, McCabe MF, Evans JP

Groundwater-surface water interactions
PARFLOW.CLM
HOBE
Model initialization

The Dependency between the Arabian Peninsula Wet Events and Sea Level Pressure Patterns during Spring Season

Year: 2014

Authors: El Kenawy AM, McCabe MF, Stenchikov G, Raj J

Arabian peninsular
Precipitation
Sea levle pressure
Spring
Principal component analysis

Links between Synoptic Weather Types and Extreme Wet Events in the Arabian Peninsula (1960-2100)

Year: 2014

Authors: El Kenawy AM, McCabe MF, Stenchikov G, Raj J

Weather types
Precipitation
Saudi Arabia
Extreme events
RCP
Lamb classification
CMIP5

The influence of inter-annually varying albedo on regional climate and drought

Year: 2014

Authors: Meng XH, Evans JP, McCabe MF

Albedo
Land–atmosphere feedback
Drought
Regional climate model
Australia

The impact of observed vegetation changes on land-atmosphere feedbacks during drought

Year: 2014

Authors: Meng XH, Evans JP, McCabe MF

Atmosphere-land interaction
Climate change
Feedback
Soil moisture

Multi-site evaluation of terrestrial evaporation models using FLUXNET data

Year: 2014

Authors: Ershadi A, McCabe MF, Evans JP, Chaney NW, Wood EF

Multi-model intercomparison
Latent heat flux
Energy balance
Penman–Monteith
Advection-aridity
Priestley–Taylor

Multi-decadal classification of synoptic weather types, observed trends and links to rainfall characteristics over Saudi Arabia

Year: 2014

Authors: El Kenawy AM, McCabe MF, Stenchikov G, Raj J

Weather types
Directional flows
Daily rainfall
Circulation patterns
Extremes
Saudi Arabia

Constraining snowmelt in a temperature-index model using simulated snow densities

Year: 2014

Authors: Bormann KJ, Evans JP, McCabe MF

Snow density
Snow modelling
Melt factor
Degree-day factor
Warm maritime snowpack dynamics
Snow depth

Technical note: Reducing the spin-up time of integrated surface water-groundwater models

Year: 2014

Authors: Ajami H, Evans JP, McCabe MF, Stisen S

Integrated model
Surface water groundwater
Spin-up
HOBE
PARFLOW.CLM

Assessing the impact of model spin-up on surface water-groundwater interactions using an integrated hydrologic model

Year: 2014

Authors: Ajami H, McCabe MF, Evans JP, Stisen S

Surface-water
Groundwater
Interactions
Model
Spin-up
HOBE

Global vegetation biomass change (1988–2008) and attribution to environmental and human drivers

Year: 2013

Authors: Liu YY, Van Dijk AIJM, McCabe MF, Evans JP, De Jeu RAM

Crop production
Deforestation
Fire
Long-term change
Passive microwave
Precipitation
Vegetation optical depth

Effect of model resolution on a regional climate model simulation over southeast Australia

Year: 2013

Authors: Evans JP, McCabe MF

WRF
Regional climate model
Model resolution
Downscaling
GCM
Rainfall
Murray-Darling basin

The effect of warming on grassland evapotranspiration partitioning using laser-based isotope monitoring techniques

Year: 2013

Authors: Wang L, Niu S, Good SP, Soderberg K, McCabe MF, Sherry RA, Luo Y, Zhou X, Xia J, Caylor KK

Stable water isotope
Deuterium
Transpiration
Evaporation
Partitioning
Chamber
Grassland
Craig-Gordon model
Warming effects

Improved mixing height monitoring through a combination of lidar and radon measurements

Year: 2013

Authors: Griffiths AD, Parkes SD, Chambers SD, McCabe MF, Williams AG

Radon
Lidar
Mixing height
Boundary layer
Baldry

Spatial and temporal variability in seasonal snow density

Year: 2013

Authors: Bormann KJ, Westra S, Evans JP, McCabe MF

Snow density
Snow densification
Climate variability
Spring snow density
Snow hydrology

Changing climate and overgrazing are decimating Mongolian Steppes

Year: 2013

Authors: Liu YY, Evans JP, McCabe MF, De Jeu RAM, Van Dijk AIJM, Dolman AJ, Saizen I

Mongolia
Over grazing
VOD
Remote sensing
Vegetation optical depth
Anthropogenic

Effects of spatial aggregation on the multi-scale estimation of evapotranspiration

Year: 2013

Authors: Ershadi A, McCabe MF, Evans JP, Walker JP

Landsat
MODIS
Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS)
Flux aggregation
Input aggregation
Upscaling
Land surface temperature
Uncertainty
Roughness
Aerodynamic resistance

Demonstration of a geostatistical approach to physically consistent downscaling of climate modeling simulations

Year: 2013

Authors: Jha SK, Mariethoz G, Evans JP, McCabe MF

Multi-point geostatistics
MPS
Downscaling
Murray-Darling basin
Geostatistics
Remote sensing
Image fusion
GCM
Regional climate model

A Bayesian analysis of sensible heat flux estimation: quantifying uncertainty in meteorological forcing to improve model prediction

Year: 2013

Authors: Ershadi A, McCabe MF, Evans JP, Mariethoz G, Kavetski D

Bayesian uncertaintly
Evaporation
Sensible heat
SEBS
Bayesian inference

Large eddy simulation of atypical wildland fire spread on leeward slopes

Year: 2013

Authors: Simpson CC, Sharples JJ, Evans JP, McCabe MF

Fire modeling
WRF
Leeward flow
Fire spread
Channelling

Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-data set synthesis

Year: 2013

Authors: Mueller B, Hirschi M, Jimenez C, Ciais P, Dirmeyer PA, Dolman AJ, Fisher JB, Jung M, Ludwig F, Maignan F, Miralles DG, McCabe MF, Reichstein M, Sheffield J, Wang K, Wood EF, Zhang Y, Seneviratne SI

Evaporation
Benchmark
Model
GCM
Reanalysis
Diagnostic

Global scale estimation of land surface heat fluxes from space: current status, opportunities and future directions

Year: 2013 ISSN:ISBN 9781466505780 - CAT# K14587

Authors: McCabe M, Kustas W, Anderson M, Kongoli C, Ershadi A, Hain C

Remote sensing
Global
Evaporation

Global scale estimation of land surface heat fluxes from space: product assessment and intercomparison

Year: 2013 ISSN:ISBN 9781466505780 - CAT# K14587

Authors: McCabe M, Miralles D, Jimenez C, Ershadi A, Fisher J, Mu Q, Liang M, Mueller B, Sheffield J, Seneviratne S, Wood E

Remote sensing
Global
Evaporation

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