Journal Articles
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2022
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.
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.
2021
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