Journal Articles

*Current or Former UNC Student/Postdoc

2025

*Dolan, W., Pavelsky, T. M., Davis, J., Laframboise, N., Polik, C. A., and Cory, R. M. (in press) Constraints on photomineralization of dissolved organic matter across the Lake-to-channel connectivity spectrum in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada. JGR Biogeosciences.

*Kica, S., Pavelsky, T. M., Fayne, J. V., and Williams, B. (2025) SWOT Water Surface Elevation in Herbaceous Wetlands of Florida’s Everglades. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(9), e2025GL114956.

Wang, C., Song, C., Schroeder, T. A., Woodcock, C. E., Pavelsky, T. M., Han, Q., and Yao, F. (2025) Interpretable Multi-Sensor Fusion of Optical and SAR Data for GEDI-Based Canopy Height Mapping in Southeastern North Carolina. Remote Sensing, 17(9), 1536.

Daroya, R., Lucchese, L. V., Simmons, T., Prum, P., Pavelsky, T. M., Gardner, J. R., Gleason, C. J., and Maji, S. (2025) Improving Satellite Imagery Masking using Multi-task and Transfer Learning. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, 18, 8777–8796.

Culpepper, J., Sharma, S., Gunn, G., and 23 other authors including Pavelsky, T. M. (2025) One-hundred fundamental, open questions to integrate methodological approaches in lake ice research. Water Resources Research, 61(5), e2024WR039042.

Wade, J., David, C. H., *Altenau, E. H., *Collins, E. L., Oubanas, H., Coss, S., Cerbelaud, A., Tom, M., Durand, M. T., and Pavelsky, T. M. (2025) Bidirectional translations between observational and topography-based hydrographic datasets: MERIT-Basins and the SWOT River Database (SWORD). Water Resources Research, 61(5), e2024WR038633.

Andreadis, K. M., Coss, S. P., Durand, M. T., and 39 additional authors including Pavelsky, T. M. (2025) A first look at river discharge estimation from SWOT satellite observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(9), e2024GL114185.

Wang, J., Pottier, C., Cazals, C., 17 additional authors, and Pavelsky, T. M. (2025) The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission Prior Lake database (PLD): Lake mask and operational auxiliaries. Water Resources Research, 61(3), e2023WR036896.

Lehner, B., Anand, M., Fluet-Chouinard, E., and 23 other authors including Pavelsky, T. M. (2025) Mapping the world’s inland surface waters: An update to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2). Earth System Science Data, 17(6), 2277–2329.

Buzzanga, B., Hamlington, B., Bekaert, D., Pavelsky, T. M., Handwerger, A. L., Lee, C., and Bonnema, M. (2025) Monitoring water from space: An illustration in Death Valley, California. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(5), e2024GL110250.

Simoes-Sousa, I. T., Camargo, C. M., Tavora, J., Braga, A. P., Farrar, J. T., and Pavelsky, T. M. (2025) The May 2024 Flood Disaster in Southern Brazil: Causes, Impacts, and SWOT-Based Volume Estimation. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(4), e2024GL112442.

Vinogradova, N. T., Pavelsky, T. M., Farrar, J. T., Hossain, F., and Fu, L. L. (2025) A new look at Earth’s water, energy, and climate with SWOT. Nature Water, 3, 27–37.

2024

Prajapati, R., Gardner, J., Pavelsky, T. M., and Talchabhadel, R. (2024) Longitudinal recovery of suspended sediment downstream of large dams. Water Resources Research, 60(6), e2023WR036759.

Arp, C. D., Bondurant, A. C., Clement, S., Eidam, E., *Langhorst, T., Pavelsky, T. M., *Davis, J., and Spellman, K. (2024) Observations of high sediment concentrations entrained in jumble river ice. River Research and Applications, 40(8), 1560–1570.

Durand, M. T., Dai, C., Moortgat, J., Yadav, B., Frasson, R. P. M., Li, Z., Wadkowski, K., Howat, I., and Pavelsky, T. M. (2024) Using river hypsometry to improve remote sensing of river discharge. Remote Sensing of Environment, 315, 114455.

*Collins, E., David, C., Riggs, R., Allen, G., Pavelsky, T. M., Lin, P., Pan, M., Yamazaki, D., Meentermeyer, R. K., and Sanchez, G. M. (2024) Residence time is a prominent driver of global river water storage. Nature Geoscience, 17, 433–439.

Jaramillo, F., Aminjafari, S., Castellazzi, P., and 57 other authors including Pavelsky, T. M. (2024) The potential of hydrogeodesy to address water-related problems and sustainability challenges. Water Resources Research, 60(11), e2023WR037020.

Lehner, B., Beames, P., Mulligan, M., and 21 other authors including Pavelsky, T. M. (2024) The Global Dam Watch database of river barrier and reservoir information for large-scale applications. Scientific Data, 11(1), 1069.

Fu, L. L., Pavelsky, T. M., Cretaux, J. F., Morrow, R., Farrar, J. T., Vaze, P., Sengenes, P., Vinogradova-Shiffer, N., Sylvestre-Baron, A., Picot, N., and Dibarboure, G. (2024) The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: A breakthrough in radar remote sensing of the ocean and land surface water. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(4), e2023GL107652.

*Dolan, W., Pavelsky, T. M., and Piliouras, A. (2024) Remote sensing of multitemporal functional lake-to-channel connectivity and implications for water movement through the Mackenzie River Delta, Canada. Water Resources Research, 60(4), e2023WR036614.

Clement, S., Spellman, K., Eidam, E., *Langhorst, T., Arp, C., *Davis, J., Pavelsky, T. M., and Bondurant, A. (2024) How do you sample a frozen river? Increasing K-12 STEM engagement through real-world problem solving and scientific research. Connected Science Learning, 6(2), 66–76.

Khan, S., Hossain, F., Pavelsky, T. M., *Gomez, A., Ghafoor, S., Lane, M., Parkins, G., Minocha, S., Bhuyan, M. A., Al Fayyaz, T. A., Haque, M. N., Sarker, P. K., Borua, P. P., and P. P. (2024) A network design approach for citizen science-satellite monitoring of surface water volume changes in Bangladesh. Environmental Modelling & Software, 172, 105919.

2023

*Langhorst, T. E., Pavelsky, T. M., Eidam, E. F., Cooper, L., Davis, J., Spellman, K., Clement, S., Arp, C., Bondurant, A., Friedman, E., and Gleason, C. (2023) Increased scale and accessibility of sediment transport research in rivers through practical, open-source turbidity and depth sensors. Nature Water, 1, 760–768.

*Yang, X., *Langhorst, T. E., and Pavelsky, T. M. (2023) A2.4 River Morphology, in Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine: Fundamentals and Applications, Cardille, J. A., Crowley, M. A., Saah, D., and Clinton, N. E. (eds). Springer.

Sidker, M. S., Wang, J., Allen, G. H., Sheng, Y., Yamazaki, D., Song, C., Ding, M., Cretaux, J.-F., and Pavelsky, T. M. (2023) Lake-TopoCat: A global lake drainage topology and catchment database. Earth System Science Data, 15, 3483–3511.

*Wang, C., Pavelsky, T. M., and 18 additional authors. (2023) Quantification of wetland vegetation communities features with airborne AVIRIS-NG, UAVSAR, and UAV LiDAR data in Peace-Athabasca Delta. Remote Sensing of Environment, 294, 113646.

Moragoda, N., Cohen, S., Gardner, J. R., Muñoz, D., Narayana, A., Moftakhari, H., and Pavelsky, T. M. (2023) Modeling and analysis of sediment trapping efficiency of large dams using remote sensing. Water Resources Research, 59(6), e2022WR033296.

*Gardner, J. R., Pavelsky, T. M., *Yang, X., *Topp, S. N., Ross, M. R. V., and Cohen, S. (2023) Human activities change patterns in suspended sediment concentration along rivers. Environmental Research Letters, 18(6), 064032.

Riggs, R. M., Allen, G. H., Wang, J., Pavelsky, T. M., Gleason, C. J., David, C. H., and Durand, M. T. (2023) Extending Global River Gauge Records Using Satellite Observations. Environmental Research Letters, 18(6), 064027.

Wu, Q., Ke, L., Wang, J., Pavelsky, T. M., and 11 additional authors. (2023) Satellites reveal hotspots of global river extent change. Nature Communications, 14(1), 1587.

Neville, J. A., Emanuel, R. E., Ardón, M., and Pavelsky, T. M. (2023) Location and design of flow control structures determine salinity patterns under varying hydrologic conditions. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 149(6), 05023002.

Durand, M. T., Gleason, C. J., Pavelsky, T. M., Frasson, R. P. M., and 27 additional authors. (2023) A framework for estimating global river discharge from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission. Water Resources Research, 59(4), e2021WR031614.

Wang, B., Smith, L. C., Gleason, C., Kyzivat, E. D., Fayne, J. V., Harlan, M. E., *Langhorst, T., Feng, D., Eidam, E., Munoz, S., *Davis, J., Pavelsky, T. M., and Peters, D. L. (2023) Athabasca River Avulsion Underway in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada. Water Resources Research, 59, e2022WR034114.

*Gómez, A. M., Parra, A., Pavelsky, T. M., Wise, E., Villegas, J. C., and Meijide, A. (2023) Ecohydrological impacts of oil palm expansion: a systematic review. Environmental Research Letters, 18, 033005.

*Langhorst, T., and Pavelsky, T. M. (2023) Global Observations of Riverbank Erosion and Accretion From Landsat Imagery. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128, e2022JF006774.

Battin, T. J., Lauerwald, R., Bernhardt, E. S., Bertuzzo, E., Gener, L. G., Hall, R. O., Hotchkiss, E. R., Maavara, T., Pavelsky, T. M., Ran, L., Raymond, P., Rosentreter, J. A., and Regnier, P. (2023) River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world. Nature, 613, 449.

Khan, S., Hossain, F., Pavelsky, T. M., Parkins, G. M., Lane, M. R., *Gomez, A. M., Minocha, S., Das, P., Ghafoor, S., Bhuyan, M. A., Haque, M. N., Sarker, P. K., Borua, P. P., Cretaux, J.-F., Picot, N., Balakrishnan, V., Ahmad, S., Thapa, N., Bhattarai, R., Hasan, F., Fatima, B., Ashraf, M., Ahmad, S. K., and Compin, A. (2023) Understanding Volume Estimation Uncertainty of Lakes and Wetlands Using Satellites and Citizen Science. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 16, 2386.

Coss, S., Durand, M. T., Shum, C. K., Yi, Y., *Yang, X., Pavelsky, T. M., Getirana, A., and Yamazaki, D. (2023) Channel Water Storage Anomaly: A New Remotely Sensed Quantity for Global River Analysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL100185.

Kurek, M. R., Garcia-Tigreros, F., Wickland, K. P., Frey, K. E., Dornblaser, M. M., Striegl, R. G., Niles, S. F., McKenna, A. M., Aukes, P. J. K., Kyzivat, E. D., *Wang, C., Pavelsky, T. M., Smith, L. C., Schiff, S. L., Butman, D., and Spencer, R. G. M. (2023) Hydrologic and Landscape Controls on Dissolved Organic Matter Composition Across Western North American Arctic Lakes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37, e2022GB007495.

2022

Kyzivat, E. D., Smith, L. C., Garcia-Tigreros, F., Huang, C., *Wang, C., *Langhorst, T., Fayne, J. V., Harlan, M. E., Ishitsuka, Y., Feng, D., *Dolan, W., Pitcher, L. H., Wickland, K. P., Dornblaser, M. M., Striegl, R. G., Pavelsky, T. M., Butman, D. E., & Gleason, C. J. (2022) The Importance of Lake Emergent Aquatic Vegetation for Estimating Arctic-Boreal Methane Emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2021JG006635.

Wang, B., Smith, L. C., Altenau, E. H., Bates, P. D., Gleason, C. J., Pavelsky, T. M., Pietroniro, A., Rodriguez, E., and *Yang, X. (2022) Remote sensing of broad-scale controls on large river anabranching. Remote Sensing of Environment, 281, 113243.

*Yang, X., O’Reilly, C. M., Gardner, J. R., Ross, M. R. V., *Topp, S. N., Wang, J., and Pavelsky, T. M. (2022) The Color of Earth’s lakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(18), e2022GL098925.

*Wrzesien, M., Pavelsky, T. M., Sobolowski, S. P., Huning, L. S., Cohen, J. S., and Herman, J. D. (2022) Tracking the impacts of precipitation phase changes through the hydrologic cycle in snowy regions: from precipitation to reservoir storage. Frontiers in Earth Science, 1723.

Feng, D., Gleason, C. J., Yang, X., Allen, G. H., and Pavelsky, T. M. (2022) How have global river widths changed over time?. Water Resources Research, 58(8), e2021WR031712.

*Tashie, A., Pavelsky, T. M., & Kumar, M. (2022) A Calibration-Free Groundwater Module for Improving Predictions of Low Flows. Water Resources Research, 58(3), e30800.

*Wang, C., Pavelsky, T. M., Yao, F., *Yang, X., Zhang, S., Chapman, B., Song, C., Sebastian, A., Frizzelle, B., Frankenberg, E., and Clinton, N. (2022) Flood Extent Mapping During Hurricane Florence With Repeat-Pass L-Band UAVSAR Images. Water Resources Research, 58(3), e30606.

Tulbure, M. G., Broich, M., Perin, V., Gaines, M., Ju, J., Stehman, S. V., Pavelsky, T. M., Masek, J. G., Yin, S., Mai, J., & Betbeder-Matibet, L. (2022) Can we detect more ephemeral floods with higher density harmonized Landsat Sentinel 2 data compared to Landsat 8 alone?. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 185, 232.

*Yang, X., Pavelsky, T. M., *Bendezu, L. P., and Zhang, S. (2022) Simple method to extract lake ice condition from Landsat images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60, 3088144.

Ehlers, D., Wang, C., Coulston, J., Zhang, Y., Pavelsky, T. M., Frankenberg, E., Woodcock, C., and Song, C. (2022) Mapping Forest Aboveground Biomass Using Multisource Remotely Sensed Data. Remote Sensing, 14(5), 1115.

*Yang, X., Pavelsky, T. M., Ross, M. R. V., Januchowski-Hartley, S. R., *Dolan, W., *Altenau, E. H., *Belanger, M., *Byron, D., Durand, M., Van Dusen, I., *Galit, H., Jorissen, M., *Langhorst, T., Lawton, E., Lynch, R., *Mcquillan, K. A., Pawar, S., and Whittemore, A. (2022) Mapping Flow-Obstructing Structures on Global Rivers. Water Resources Research, 58(1), e30386.

Hossain, F., and 32 additional authors; Pavelsky, T. M. last author. (2022) Building user readiness for satellite earth observing missions: the case of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission. AGU Advances, 3(6), e2022AV000680.

Yang, X., Pavelsky, T. M., Ross, M., Januchowski-Hartley, S., Dolan, W., Altenau, E. H., Belanger, M., Byron, D., Durand, M., Dusen, I., Galit, H., Jorissen, M., Langhorst, T., Lawton, E., Lynch, R., Mcquillan, K., Pawar, S., & Whittemore, A. (2022) Mapping flow-obstructing structures on global rivers. Water Resources Research, 10.1029/2021WR030386.

2021

Altenau, E. H., Pavelsky, T. M., Durand, M. T., Yang, X., Prata de Moraes Frasson, R., & Bendezu, L. (2022) The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission River Database (SWORD): A global river network for satellite data products. Water Resources Research, e2021WR030054.

Dolan, W., Pavelsky, T. M., Yang, X. (2021) Functional Delta Connectivity and Impacts on Lake Ice in the Colville Delta, Alaska. ESS Open Archive, 10.1002/essoar.10507691.1.

Gardner J R, Yang X, Topp S N, Ross M R V, Altenau E H and Pavelsky T M (2021). The Color of Rivers. Geophys. Res. Lett. 48 e2020GL088946.

Ishitsuka, Yuta, Colin J. Gleason, Mark W. Hagemann, Edward Beighley, George H. Allen, Dongmei Feng, Peirong Lin, Ming Pan, Konstantinos Andreadis, and Tamlin M. Pavelsky (2021). "Combining Optical Remote Sensing, McFLI Discharge Estimation, Global Hydrologic Modeling, and Data Assimilation to Improve Daily Discharge Estimates Across an Entire Large Watershed." Water Resources Research 57, no. 3: e2020WR027794.

Little, S., Pavelsky, T. M., Hossain, F., Ghafoor, S., Parkins, G. M., Yelton, S. K., ... & Topp, S. N. (2021). Monitoring Variations in Lake Water Storage with Satellite Imagery and Citizen Science. Water, 13(7), 949.

Harlan, M. E., Gleason, C. J., Altenau, E. H., Butman, D., Carter, T., Chu, V. W., et al. (2021). Discharge estimation from dense arrays of pressure transducers. Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR028714. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028714.

*Zhang, S., T.M. Pavelsky, C.D. Arp, and X. Yang (2021), Remote sensing of lake ice phenology in Alaska, Environmental Research Letters, 16 (6), 064007.

*Topp, S.N., T.M. Pavelsky, H. Dugan, *X. Yang, *J. Gardner, and M.R.V. Ross (2021) Shifting patterns of lake color phenology in over 26,000 US lakes, Water Resources Research, 57(5), e2020WR029123.

Boothroyd, Richard J., Richard D. Williams, Trevor B. Hoey, Pamela LM Tolentino, Xiao Yang. (2021) “National-scale assessment of decadal river migration at critical bridge infrastructure in the Philippines”, Science of the Total Environment. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144460.

Topp, S. N., Pavelsky, T. M., Stanley, E. H., Yang, X., Griffin, C. G., & Ross, M. R. (2021). Multi-decadal improvement in US Lake water clarity. Environmental Research Letters, 16(5), 055025.

2020

*Whittemore, A., *Ross, M. R. V., *Dolan, W., *Langhorst, T., *Yang, X., Pawar, S., et al. (2020). A participatory science approach to expanding instream infrastructure inventories, Earth's Future, 8, e2020EF001558. https://doi. org/10.1029/2020EF001558.

Gerson J R, *Topp S N, Vega C M, *Gardner J R, Yang X, Fernandez L E, Bernhardt E S and *Pavelsky T M (2020) Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining, Sci. Adv. 6 eabd4953.

Sharma, S., Meyer, M. F., Culpepper, J., *Yang, X., Hampton, S., Berger, S. A., ... & Kirillin, G. (2020), Integrating perspectives to understand lake ice dynamics in a changing world, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125(8), e2020JG005799.

A Flores, J., Q Wu, J., O Stöckle, C., P Ewing, R., & *Yang, X. (2020), Estimating River Sediment Discharge in the Upper Mississippi River Using Landsat Imagery, Remote Sensing, 12(15), 2370.

*Allen, G. H., *Yang, X., *Gardner, J., Holliman, J., David, C. H., & *Ross, M. (2020), Timing of Landsat Overpasses Effectively Captures Flow Conditions of Large Rivers, Remote Sensing, 12(9), 1510.

Durand, M.T., C. Chen, R. Frasson, *T.M. Pavelsky, B. Williams, *X. Yang, and A. Fore (2020), How will radar layover impact SWOT measurements of water surface elevation and slope, and estimates of river discharge?, Remote Sensing of Environment, 247, 111883.

*Yang, X., *T.M. Pavelsky, and *G.H. Allen (2020), The past and future of global river ice, Nature, 557(7788), 69-73.

*Tashie, A., *T.M. Pavelsky, and R.E. Emanuel (2020), Spatial patterns and temporal trends in baseflow recession at the continental scale, Water Resources Research, 56(3), e2019WR026425.

Holtzman, N.M., T.M. Pavelsky, J.S. Cohen, *M.L. Wrzesien, and J.D. Herman (2020), Tailoring WRF and Noah-MP to improve process representation of Sierra Nevada runoff: Diagnostic evaluation and applications, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(3), e2019MS001832.

Topp, S.N., T.M. Pavelsky, M.R. Ross, D. Jensen, and M. Simard (2020), Research trends in the use of remote sensing for inland water quality science: Moving towards multidisciplinary applications, Water, 12(1), 169.

Yang, X., T.M. Pavelsky, G.H. Allen, and G. Donchyts (2020), RivWidthCloud: Automated Google Earth Engine algorithm for river width extraction from remotely sensed imagery, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 17(2), 217 - 221.

Tashie, A., T.M. Pavelsky, and L.E. Band (2020), An Empirical Reevaluation of Streamflow Recession Analysis at the Continental Scale, Water Resources Research, 56(1), e2019WR025448.

Ahmad, S., F. Hossain, H. Eldardiry, and T.M. Pavelsky (2020), A Fusion Approach for Water Area Classification using Visible, Near Infrared and Synthetic Aperture Radar for South Asian Conditions, IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58(4), 2471 - 2480.

Coss, S., M.T. Durand, Y. Yi, Y. Jia, Q. Guo, S. Tuozzolo, C.K. Shum, G.H. Allen, S. Calmant, and T.M. Pavelsky (2020), Global River Radar Altimetry Time Series (GRRATS): New River Elevation Earth Science Data Records for the Hydrologic Community, Earth System Science Data, 12(1), 137-150.

2019

Wrzesien, M. and T.M. Pavelsky (2019), Projected changes to extreme runoff and precipitation events from a downscaled simulation over the western United States, Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 355.

Ross, M.R., *S.N. Topp, A. Appling, *X. Yang, C. Kuhn, D. Butman, M. Simard, and T.M. Pavelsky (2019), AquaSat: a dataset to enable remote sensing of water quality for inland waters, Water Resources Research, 55(11), 10012-10025.

Wrzesien, M.L., T.M. Pavelsky, M.T. Durand, J. Dozier, and J.D. Lundquist (2019), Characterizing biases in mountain snow accumulation from global datasets, Water Resources Research, 55(11), 9873-9891.

Denbina, M., M. Simard, E. Rodriguez, X. Wu, A. Chen, and T.M. Pavelsky (2019), Mapping water surface elevation and slope in the Mississippi river delta using the AirSWOT Ka-Band interferometric synthetic aperture radar, Remote Sensing, 11(23), 2739.

Feng, D., C.J. Gleason, *X. Yang, and T.M. Pavelsky (2019), Comparing discharge estimates in high-order Arctic rivers derived solely from optical CubeSat, Landsat, and Sentinel-2 data, Water Resources Research, 55(9), 7753-7771.

Lin, P., M. Pan, H.E. Beck, Y. Yang, D. Yamazaki, R. Frasson, C.H. David, M.T. Durand, T.M Pavelsky, G.H. Allen, C.J. Gleason, and E.F. Wood (2019), Global reconstruction of naturalized river flows at 2.94 million reaches, Water Resources Research, 55(8), 6499-6516.

Barefoot, E., T.M. Pavelsky, G.H. Allen, M.A. Zimmer, and B.L. McGlynn (2019), Temporally Variable Stream Width and Surface Area Distributions in a Headwater Catchment, Water Resources Research, 55(8), 7166-7181.

Tuozzolo, S., *T. Langhorst, R.P.M. Frasson, T.M. Pavelsky, and M. Durand (2019), the impact of reach averaging Manning’s equation for an in situ dataset of water surface elevation, width, and slope: implications for remote sensing river discharge algorithms, Journal of Hydrology, 578, 123866.

Kyzivat, E.D., L.C. Smith, L.H. Pitcher, J.V. Fayne, S.W. Cooley, M.G. Cooper, *S.N. Topp, *T. Langhorst, M. Harlan, C. Horvat, C.J. Gleason, and T.M. Pavelsky (2019), A high-resolution airborne color-infrared camera water mask for the NASA ABoVE campaign, Remote Sensing, 11(18), 2163.

Pietroniro, A., D.L. Peters, D. Yang, J.-M. Fiset, R. Saint-Jean, V. Fortin, R. Leconte, J. Bergeron, G.L.Siles, M. Trudel, C. Garnaud, P. Matte, L.C. Smith, C.J. Gleason, and T.M. Pavelsky (2019), Canada’s Contributions to the SWOT Mission, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 45 (2), 116-138.

Zhang, S. and T.M. Pavelsky (2019), Remote sensing of ice phenology across a Range of Lakes Sizes, ME, USA, Remote Sensing, 11(14), 1718.

Jensen, D, M. Simard, K. Cavanaugh, Y. Sheng, C. Fichot, T.M. Pavelsky, and R. Twilley (2019), Improving the Transferability of Suspended Solid Estimation in Wetland and Deltaic Waters with an Empirical Hyperspectral Approach, Remote Sensing, 11(13), 1629.

Yamazaki, D., D. Ikeshima, J. Sosa, P. Bates, G.H. Allen, and T.M. Pavelsky (2019), MERIT Hydro: A high-resolution global hydrography map based on latest topography datasets, Water Resources Research, 55(6), 5053-5073.

Wrzesien, M.L., M.T. Durand, and T.M. Pavelsky (2019), A reassessment of North American river basin cool-season precipitation: Developments from a new mountain climatology dataset, Water Resources Research, 55(4), 3502-3519.

Langhorst, T., T.M. Pavelsky, R.P.M. Frasson, R. Wei, A. Domeneghetti, E.H. Altenau, M.T. Durand, J.T. Minear, K. Wegmann, and M. Fuller (2019), Anticipated improvements to in-river DEMs from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, Frontiers in Earth Science, 7(102), 1-13.

Frasson, R.P.M., T.M. Pavelsky, M.A. Fonstad, M.T. Durand, G.H. Allen, G. Schumann, C. Lion, R.E. Beighley, and X. Yang (2019), Global Relationships Between River Width, Slope, Catchment Area, Meander Wavelength, Sinuosity, and Discharge, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 3252-3262.

Altenau, E.H., T.M. Pavelsky, D.K. Moller, L.H. Pitcher, P.D. Bates, M.T. Durand, and L.C. Smith (2019), Temporal Variations in River Water Surface Elevation and Slope Captured by AirSWOT, Remote Sensing of Environment, 224, 304-316.

Gardner, J.R., T.M. Pavelsky, and M.W. Doyle (2019), The abundance, size, and spacing of lakes within river networks, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(5), 2592-2601.

Cooley, S.W., L.C. Smith, J.C. Ryan, L.H. Pitcher, and T.M. Pavelsky (2019), Sub-seasonal Arctic-Boreal lake dynamics revealed using CubeSat imagery, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(4), 2111-2120.

Pitcher, L.H., T.M. Pavelsky, L.C. Smith, D.K. Moller, E.H. Altenau, G.H. Allen, C. Lion, D. Butman, S.W Cooley, J. Fayne, M. Bertram (2019), AirSWOT InSAR mapping of surface water elevations and hydraulic gradients across the Yukon Flats Basin, Alaska, Water Resources Research

2018

Allen, G.H. and T.M. Pavelsky (2018), Global extent of rivers and streams, Science, 6402, 585-588

Domeneghetti, A.G. Schumann, R.P.M. Frasson, R. Wei, T.M. Pavelsky, A. Castellarin, A. Brath, and M. Durand (2018), Characterizing water surface elevation under different flow conditions for the upcoming SWOT mission: application to the Po River , Journal of Hydrology, 561, 848-861

Dai, C., I. Howat, M.T. Durand, E.H. Altenau, and T.M. Pavelsky (2018), Estimating river surface elevation from ArcticDEM, Geophysical Research Letters, 45(7), 3107-3114

Allen. G.H., T.M. Pavelsky. E.A. Barefoot, M.P. Lamb, D. Butman, A. Tashie, and C.J. Gleason (2018), Similarity of stream hydromorphology across headwaters systems, Nature Communications, 6(1), 610.

Wrzesien, M.L., M.T. Durand, T.M. Pavelsky, S. Kapnick, Y. Zhang, J. Guo, and C.K. Shum (2018), A new estimate of North American mountain snow accumulation from regional climate model simulations , Geophysical Research Letters, 45(3), 1423-1432

2017

Pavelsky, T. M., and J. P. Zarnetske (2017). Rapid decline in river icings detected in Arctic Alaska: Implications for a changing hydrologic cycle and river ecosystems,Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 3228-3235.

Frasson, R.P., R. Wei, M. Durand, J.T. Minear, A. Domeneghetti, G. Schumann, B.A. Williams, E. Rodriguez, C. Picamilh, C. Lion, T.M. Pavelsky, and P.A. Garambois (2017). Automated river reach definition strategies: Applications for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission, Water Resources Research, 53(10), 8164-8186.

Altenau, E. H., T. M. Pavelsky, P. D. Bates, and J. C. Neal (2017). The effects of spatial resolution and dimensionality on modeling regional-scale hydraulics in a multichannel river,Water Resources Research,53, 1683–1701.

Altenau, E. H., T. M. Pavelsky, D. Moller, C. Lion, L. H. Pitcher, G. H. Allen, P. D. Bates, S. Calmant, M. Durand, and L. C. Smith (2017). AirSWOT measurements of river water surface elevation and slope: Tanana River, AK,Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 181–189.

Wrzesien, M.L., M.T. Durand, T.M. Pavelsky, I.M. Howat, S.A. Margulis, and L.S. Huning (2017). Comparison of Methods to Estimate Snow Water Equivalent at the Mountain Range Scale: A Case Study of the California Sierra Nevada,Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18, 1101-1119.

2016

Durand. M.. C.J. Gleason, P.A. Garambois. D. Bjerklie. L.C. Smith, H. Roux. E. Rodriguez. P.D.Bates, T.M. Pavelsky. and 19 others (In Press), An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge stimation algorithms from measurement of river height, width, and slope. Water Resources Research.

S.W. Cooley and T.M. Pavelsky (2016). Spatial and temporal patterns in Arctic river ice breakup revealed by automated ice detection from MODIS imagery.Remote Sensing of Environment. 175. 310-322.

Tashie, A., B. Mirus. and T.M. Pavelsky (2016). Long term empirical relations between storm characteristics and episodic groundwater recharge across geographic and land -use gradients. Water Resources Research.52.1-15.

Yoon, Y., R.E. Beighley. H. Lee T.M. Pavelsky. and G.H. Allen (2016). Estimating flood discharges in reservoir -regulated river basins by integrating synthetic SWOT satellite observations and hydrologic modeling, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 05015030.

Biancamaria, S., D. Lettenmaier. and T.M. Pavelsky (2016), The SWOT mission and its applications in land hydrology, Surveys in Geophysics, 37, 307-337.

2015

Putnam. R., A.F. Glazner. D.S. Coleman. A.R.C. Kylander-Clark, T.M. Pavelsky. and M. Ingalls (2015). Plutonism in three dimensions: field and geochemical relations on the southeast face of El Capitan. Yosemite National Park. California. Geosphere.11(4). 1-25.

Wrzesten, ML.. T.M. Pavelsky. S.B. Kapnick, M.T. Durand, and T.H. Painter (2015). Evaluation of snow cover fraction for regional climate simulations in the Sierra Nevada. International Journal of Climatology. 5(9). 2472-2484.

Allen. G.H. and T.M. Pavelsky (2015). Patterns of river width and surface area revealed by the satellite- derived North American River Width dataset. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(2),395-402.

2014

Miller. Z.F.. T.M. Pavelsky. and G.H. Allen (2014). Quantifying river form variations in the Mississippi Basin using remotely sensed imagery. Hydrology and Earth System Science. 18.4883-4895.

Pavelsky, T.M., M.T. Durand. K.M. Andreadts, R.E. Beighley, R.C.D. Paiva. G.H. Allen, and Z.F. Miller (2014). Assessing the potential global extent of SWOT river discharge observations. Journal of Hydrology.519. 1516-1525.

Pavelsky, T.M.. G.H. Allen. and Z.F. Miller (2014). Patterns of river width in the Yukon River Basin observed from space. in Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle.ed. V. Lakshmi. Wiley.

Yamazaki. D.. F. O'Loughlin. M.A. Trigg. Z.F. Miller, T.M. Pavelsky. and P.D. Bates (2014), Development of he global width database for large rivers. Water Resources Research,50(4), 3467-3480.

Pavelsky, T.M. (2014). Using width -based rating curves from spatially discontinuous satellite imagery to monitor river discharge, Hydrological Processes, 28(6),3035-3040.

2013

Andreadis. K.. G. Schumann. and T.M. Pavelsky (2013). A simple global river bankfull width and depth eatabase, Water Resources Research. 49(10). 7164-7168.

Allen, G.. J.B. Barnes. T.M. Pavelsky. and E. Kirby (2013), Lithologic and tectonic controls on bedrock channel form at the northwest Himalayan front. Journal of Geophysical Research -Earth Surface,118(3),1806-1825.

Long. C.M. and T.M. Pavelsky (2013). Remote sensing of suspended sediment concentration and hydrologic connectivity in a complex wetland environment. Remote Sensing of Environment. 129.197-209.

2012

Pavelsky, T.M. and M.T. Durand (2012), Developing new algorithms for estimating river discharge from space.EOS Transactions of AGU,93(45). 457.

Pavelsky, T.M.. S. Sobolowski. S.B. Kapnick, and J.B. Barnes (2012). Changes in orographic precipitation. patterns caused by a shift from snow to rain. Geophysical Research Letters. 39, L18706.

Sobolowski. S and T.M. Pavelsky (2012). Evaluation of present and future NARCCAP regional climate simulations over the Southeast U.S., Journal of Geophysical Research -Atmospheres.117. 001101

2011

Pavelsky, T.M.. S. Kapnick, and A. Hall (2011). Accumulation and melt dynamics of snowpack from a multiresolution regional climate model in the central Sierra Nevada, California, Journal of Geophysical Research -Atmospheres. 116. D16155. 18 pp.

Pavelsky, T.M.. J. Boe, A. Hall. and E.J. Fetzer (2011). Atmospheric inversion strength over polar oceans in Winter regulated by sea ice, Climate Dynamics. 36.945-955.

2009

Pavelsky, T.M. and L.C. Smith (2009). Remote sensing of suspended sediment concentration, flow velocity. and lake recharge in the Peace -Athabasca Delta, Canada. mWater Resources Research.45. W11417. doi:10.1029/2008WR007424

Smith, L.C. and T.M. Pavelsky (2009). Remote sensing of volumetric storage changes in lakes, Earth surface Processes and Landforms, 34. 1353-1358.

Rawlins. M.A.. M. Steele. M.G. Serreze. C.J. Vorosmarty. W. Ermold. R.B. Lammers. T.M. Pavelsky. A. Shiklomanov. and J. Zhang (2009). Tracing freshwater anomalies through the air -land -ocean system: a case study from the Mackenzie River Basin and the Beaufort Gyre. Atmosphere/Ocean.47(1). 79-97.

2008

Pavelsky, T.M. and L.C. Smith (2008). Remote sensing of hydrologic recharge in the Peace -Athabasca Delta, Canada. Geophysical Research Letters, 35(8). L08403.

Pavelsky, T.M. and L.C. Smith (2008). Rivwidth: a software tool for the automated detection of river widths from remotely sensed imagery. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters,5(1), 70-73.

Smith. L.C.and T.M. Pavelsky (2008). Estimation of river discharge, propagation speed and hydraulic geometry from space: Lena River, Siberia. Water Resources Research.44. W03427.

2007

Smith. L.C.. T.M. Pavelsky. G.M. MacDonald. A.I. Shiklomanov. and R. Lammers (2007). Rising minimum flows in northern Eurasian rivers suggest a growing influence of groundwater in the high -latitude water cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences,112. G04547.

Shiklomanov. Al.. R. Lammers. M. Rawlins. L.C. Smith, and T.M. Pavelsky (2007). Temporal and spatial variations in maximum river discharge from a new Russian data set. Journal of Geophysical Research- Biogeosciences.112. G04 S53.

2006

Pavelsky, T.M. and L.C. Smith (2006). Intercompanson of four global precipitation data sets and their correlation with increased Eurasian river discharge to the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres,111. D21112.

2004

Pavelsky, T.M. and L.C. Smith (2004). Spatial and temporal patterns in Arctic river ice breakup observed with MODIS and AVHRR time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 93(3). 328-338.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Pavelsky, T.M., C H David. J.D. Bales. M.M. therach. L. Giosan. M.P. Lamb. C.J. Legleiter, J.M. Melack. F.E. Muller-Karger. J.E. Richey. E. Rodriguez, M. Simard. and L.C. Smith (2016). From the Mountains to the Sea: Interdisciplinary Science and Applications Driven by the Flow of Water. Sediment. and Carbon. White Paper for 2017 NRC Decadal Survey in Earth Sciences and applications from Space.

Long. C.M. and T.M. Pavelsky (2012) Water Quality and Spectral Reflectance, Peace -Athabasca Delta. Canada. 2012. http://daac.ornl.gov/http://daac.ornl.govj from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center. 'ak Ridge. Tennessee. U.S.A. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1133

Pavelsky, T.M. (2012). Section 4.5: Arctic Hydrology. pp. 92-98 in Fu. L.L.. D. Alsdorf, R. Morrow, E. Rodriguez. and N. Mognard. eds.. SWOT: The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: Wide- Swath Altimetric Measurement of Water Elevation on Earth. JPL-Publication 12-05. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Pasadena, California. USA. 228 pp.

Pavelsky, T.M. and L.C. Smith (2009) Surface Water Elevation and Quality. Peace -Athabasca Delta, Canada. 2006-2007. Data set. Available on-line [Mtp://daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National LaboratoryDistributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge. Tennessee, U.S.A. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNL0AAC/935

Pavelsky, T.M. (2008) Spatial and Temporal Patterns in High -Latitude Hydrologic Systems. Ph.D.Dissertation. 217 pp., UCLA.

Pavelsky, T.M. (2004) MODIS and AVHRR Observations of Spring Ice Breakup on the Ob'. Lena. Yenisey, and Mackenzie Rivers, M.A. Thesis. 79 pp., UC