Fall Publications led or co-authored by GESTAR II Researchers

Sayer, A. M. (616/UMBC), Cairns, B., Knobelspiesse, K. D., Lelli, L., Rajapakshe, C., Giangrande, S. E., Thomas, G. E., and Zhang, D. (2025), Evaluation of cloud height, optical thickness, and phase retrievals from the CHROMA algorithm applied to Sentinel-3 OLCI data, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-6681-2025.

Note from Dr. Sayer: This work confirms a lot of our prior analysis on simulated retrievals and also establishes the framework for how we will validate cloud top heights from PACE OCI (which I have begun with some early results online here: 
https://pace.odyseallc.net/pace_cloud_top_height.htm).

Orland, E. (617/UMBC), T. D. McCabe, Y. Chen, R. C. Scholten, Z. Becker, R. A. Loehman, J. T. Randerson, S. R. Coffield, T. Liu, A.N. Shiklomanov, et al. (2025), Near real-time indicators of burn severity in the western U.S. from active fire tracking, Fire Ecology, Vol. 21, 55,  https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-025-00407-x.

Lee, E. (610.1/UMBC), Koster, R. D., Arias, M. E., Lim, Y., Zeng, Y. (610.1/UMBC), Phy, S. R., Kolassa, J., Liu, Q., Dang, T. D., Laverde-Barajas, M., and Jayasinghe, S. (2025), Improved Hydrological Forecasting of Subseasonal Streamflow for the Irrawaddy and Mekong Rivers in Southeast Asia, Water Resources Research, 61 (10), https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR040561.

Ultee, L. (615/MSU) (2025), How does glacier flow vary by season?, Science, 390, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec7025.

Huemmrich, K.F. (618/UMBC), Caplan, S., Gamon, J.A., and Campbell, P.K.E. (618/UMBC) (2025), Determining terrestrial ecosystem gross primary productivity from PACE OCI, IEEE Geosci. Rem. Sens. Lett., 22, https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2025.3587584. 

Lim, Y.-K. (610.1/UMBC), A. M. DeAngelis, N. P. Thomas (610.1/UMBC), S. D. Schubert, Y. Chang (610.1/MSU), A. B. Collow (610.1/UMBC), and A. Dezfuli (610.1/UMBC) (2025), Remote forcing and prediction of the June 2023 Texas heatwave, J. Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-25-0018.1.

Maina, F. Z. (617/UMBC), and S. V. Kumar (2025), Comparative analysis of gridded precipitation products and the development of a blended product in the Andes and surrounding regions, J. Hydrometeor., https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-25-0035.1.

Seo, H., Lee, E. (610.1/UMBC), Kim, J., Choi, S., Kolassa, J., and Kim, Y. (2025), Effects of land surface model resolution on soil moisture and wildfire simulations using Community Land Model version 5 – Biogeochemistry, Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134085.

Abbaszadeh, P., F. Maina (617/UMBC), C. Yang, D. Rosen, S.V. Kumar, M. Rodell, and R. Maxwell (2025), Coupling the ParFlow integrated hydrology model with the NASA Land Information System: A case study over the Upper Colorado River basin, Hydrol. Earth Sys. Sci., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2024-280.

Vershel, R., J. Sutton (617/UMBC), T. Stanley (617/UMBC), et al. (2025), Open Inventories of Rainfall‐Triggered Landslides, Geosci. Data J., 12, https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.70023.

Rostal, M.K., Thompson, P.N., Anyamba, A. (610/UMBC). Bett, B., Cêtre-Sossah, C. Chevalier, V., Guarido, M., Karesh, W.B., Kemp, A., Desiree-LaBeaud, A., et al. (2025), Rift Valley fever epidemiology: Shifting the paradigm and rethinking research priorities, Lancet Planet. Health, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101299.