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Validation of the CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates over eastern Africa Validation of the CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates over eastern Africa
Long and temporally consistent rainfall time series are essential in climate analyses and applications. Rainfall data from station observations are inadequate over many parts of the world due to sparse or non-existent observation networks, or limited reporting of gauge observations. As a result, satellite rainfall estimates have been used as an alternative or as a supplement to station
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Tufa Dinku, Chris Funk, Pete Peterson, Ross Maidment, Tsegaye Tadesse, Pietro Ceccato
Satellite remote sensing estimation of river discharge: Application to the Yukon River Alaska Satellite remote sensing estimation of river discharge: Application to the Yukon River Alaska
A methodology based on general hydraulic relations for rivers has been developed to estimate the discharge (flow rate) of rivers using satellite remote sensing observations. The estimates of discharge, flow depth, and flow velocity are derived from remotely observed water surface area, water surface slope, and water surface height, and demonstrated for two reaches of the Yukon River in...
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David Bjerklie, Charon Birkett, John Jones, Claudia Carabajal, Jennifer Rover, John Fulton, Pierre-Andre Garambois
Earth as art 5 Earth as art 5
Fanciful Fluorescence. Lurking Madness. Serene Expressions. The titles of the images in this fifth edition of Earth As Art speak to the powerfully artistic qualities of Earth’s natural features when tinged with unnatural colors. Art serves as a great partner in the communication of science, bringing emotion to the pursuit of understanding. The pieces in this collection look like abstract...
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A new generation of the United States National Land Cover Database: Requirements, research priorities, design, and implementation strategies A new generation of the United States National Land Cover Database: Requirements, research priorities, design, and implementation strategies
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with several federal agencies, has developed and released four National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products over the past two decades: NLCD 1992, 2001, 2006, and 2011. These products provide spatially explicit and reliable information on the Nation’s land cover and land cover change. To continue the legacy of NLCD and further establish a...
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Limin Yang, Suming Jin, Patrick Danielson, Collin Homer, Leila Gass, Stacie Bender, Adam Case, Catherine Costello, Jon Dewitz, Joyce Fry, Michelle Funk, Brian Granneman, Greg Liknes, Matthew Rigge, George Xian
Continuing progress toward a national assessment of water availability and use Continuing progress toward a national assessment of water availability and use
Executive Summary The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111—11) was passed into law on March 30, 2009. Subtitle F, also known as the SECURE Water Act, calls for the establishment of a “national water availability and use assessment program” within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS issued the first report on the program in 2013. Program progress over the...
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Eric J. Evenson, Sonya Jones, Nancy Barber, Paul Barlow, David Blodgett, Breton Bruce, Kyle R. Douglas-Mankin, William Farmer, Jeffrey M. Fischer, William Hughes, Jonathan G. Kennen, Julie Kiang, Molly Maupin, Howard Reeves, Gabriel B. Senay, Jennifer Stanton, Chad R. Wagner, Jennifer Wilson
Multi-year data from satellite- and ground-based sensors show details and scale matter in assessing climate’s effects on wetland surface water, amphibians, and landscape conditions Multi-year data from satellite- and ground-based sensors show details and scale matter in assessing climate’s effects on wetland surface water, amphibians, and landscape conditions
Long-term, interdisciplinary studies of relations between climate and ecological conditions on wetland-upland landscapes have been lacking, especially studies integrated across scales meaningful for adaptive resource management. We collected data in situ at individual wetlands, and via satellite for surrounding 4-km2 landscape blocks, to assess relations between annual weather dynamics...
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Walter Sadinski, Alisa Gallant, Mark Roth, Jesslyn Brown, Gabriel Senay, Wayne Brininger, Perry Jones, Jason Stoker
Drought and land-cover conditions in the Great Plains Drought and land-cover conditions in the Great Plains
Land–atmosphere interactions play a critical role in the Earth system, and a better understanding of these interactions could improve weather and climate models. The interaction among drought, vegetation productivity, and land cover is of particular significance. In a semiarid environment, such as the U.S. Great Plains, droughts can have a large influence on the productivity of...
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Heather Tollerud, Jesslyn Brown, Thomas Loveland, Rezaul Mahmood, Norman Bliss
U.S. Landsat Analysis Ready Data U.S. Landsat Analysis Ready Data
U.S. Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) are a revolutionary new U.S. Geological Survey science product that allows the Landsat archive to be more accessible and easier to analyze and reduces the amount of time users spend on data processing for monitoring and assessing landscape change. U.S. Landsat ARD are Level-2 products derived from Landsat Collections Level-1 precision and terrain...
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Assessing historical and projected carbon balance of Alaska: A synthesis of results and policy/management implications Assessing historical and projected carbon balance of Alaska: A synthesis of results and policy/management implications
We summarize the results of a recent interagency assessment of land carbon dynamics in Alaska, in which carbon dynamics were estimated for all major terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems for the historical period (1950–2009) and a projection period (2010–2099). Between 1950 and 2009, upland and wetland (i.e., terrestrial) ecosystems of the state gained 0.4 Tg C/yr (0.1% of net primary...
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A. McGuire, Hélène Genet, Zhou Lyu, Neal Pastick, Sarah Stackpoole, Richard Birdsey, David D'Amore, Yujie He, T. Scott Rupp, Robert Striegl, Bruce Wylie, Xiaoping Zhou, Qianlai Zhuang, Zhiliang Zhu
Priority questions in multidisciplinary drought research Priority questions in multidisciplinary drought research
Addressing timely and relevant questions across a multitude of spatio-temporal scales, state-of-the-art interdisciplinary drought research will likely increase in importance under projected climate change. Given the complexity of the various direct and indirect causes and consequences of a drier world, scientific tasks need to be coordinated efficiently. Drought-related research...
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Miroslav Trnka, Michael Hayes, Frantisek Jurecka, Lenka Bartosova, Martha Anderson, Rudolf Brazdil, Jesslyn Brown, Jesus Camarero, Pavel Cudlin, Petr Dobrovolny, Josef Eitzinger, Song Feng, Taryn Finnessey, Gregor Gregoric, Petr Havlik, Christopher Hain, Ian Holman, David Johnson, Kurt Kersebaum, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Jurg Luterbacher, Fabio Micale, Claudia Hartl-Meier, Martin Mozny, Pavol Nejedlik, Jorgen Eivind Olesen, Margarita Ruiz-Ramos, Reimund Rotter, Gabriel Senay, Sergio Vicente-Serrano, Mark Svoboda, Andreja Susnik, Tsegaye Tadesse, Adam Vizina, Brian Wardlow, Zdenek Zalud, Ulf Buntgen
Sentinel-2A MSI and Landsat-8 OLI radiometric cross comparison over desert sites Sentinel-2A MSI and Landsat-8 OLI radiometric cross comparison over desert sites
The Sentinel-2A and Landsat-8 satellites carry on-board moderate resolution multispectral imagers for the purpose of documenting the Earth’s changing surface. Though they are independently built and managed, users will certainly take advantage of the opportunity to have higher temporal coverage by combining the datasets. Thus it is important for the radiometric and geometric calibration...
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Julia Barsi, Bahjat Alhammoud, Jeffrey Czapla-Myers, Ferran Gascon, Obaidul Haque, Morakot Kaewmanee, Larry Leigh, Brian Markham
Accuracy assessment of NLCD 2011 impervious cover data for the Chesapeake Bay region, USA Accuracy assessment of NLCD 2011 impervious cover data for the Chesapeake Bay region, USA
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) contains three eras (2001, 2006, 2011) of percentage urban impervious cover (%IC) at the native pixel size (30 m-x-30 m) of the Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite. These data are potentially valuable to environmental managers and stakeholders because of the utility of %IC as an indicator of watershed and aquatic condition, but lack an accuracy...
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James Wickham, Nate Herold, Stephen Stehman, Collin Homer, George Xian, Peter Claggett