


2025 Ames Earth Science Publications
June 2025
A method for quantifying uncertainty in spatially interpolated meteorological data with application to daily maximum air temperature Doherty, C. T., Wang, W., Hashimoto, H., and Brosnan, I. G. (2025). A method for quantifying uncertainty in spatially interpolated meteorological data with application to daily maximum air temperature. Geoscientific Model Development. 18(10):3003-3016. |
Improvement of land surface phenology monitoring by fusing VIIRS observations with GOES-16/17 ABI time series Gao, S., X. Zhang, Y. Shen, K. H. Tran, Y. Ye, and Y. Liu. 2025. Improvement of land surface phenology monitoring by fusing VIIRS observations with GOES-16/17 ABI time series. Remote Sensing of Environment 326:114803. |
Short-term energy and meteorological impacts on Thanksgiving CO2 in Salt Lake City Ju-Mee Ryoo, Inez Fung, James R. Ehleringer (2025). Short-term energy and meteorological impacts on Thanksgiving CO2 in Salt Lake City. Environ. Res. Commun. 7 065001 |
HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts Whaley, C. H., Butler, T., Adame, J. A., Ambulkar, R., Arnold, S. R., Buchholz, R. R., Gaubert, B., Hamilton, D. S., Huang, M., Hung, H., Kaiser, J. W., Kaminski, J. W., Knote, C., Koren, G., Kouassi, J.-L., Lin, M., Liu, T., Ma, J., Manomaiphiboon, K., Bergas Masso, E., McCarty, J. L., Mertens, M., Parrington, M., Peiro, H., Saxena, P., Sonwani, S., Surapipith, V., Tan, D. Y. T.,Tang, W., Tanpipat, V., Tsigaridis, K., Wiedinmyer, C., Wild, O., Xie, Y., & Zuidema, P. (2025). HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts, Geosci. Model Dev. 18, 3265–3309. |
WetCH4: a machine-learning-based upscaling of methane fluxes of northern wetlands during 2016–2022 Ying, Q., Poulter, B., Watts, J. D., Arndt, K. A., Virkkala, A.-M., Bruhwiler, L., Oh, Y., Rogers, B. M., Natali, S. M., Sullivan, H., Armstrong, A., Ward, E. J., Schiferl, L. D., Elder, C. D., et al. (2025). WetCH4: a machine-learning-based upscaling of methane fluxes of northern wetlands during 2016–2022, Earth Syst. Sci. Data 17: 2507–2534. |
Mitigation of satellite OCO-2 CO2 biases in the vicinity of clouds with 3D calculations using the Education and Research 3D Radiative Transfer Toolbox (EaR3T) Chen, Y.-W., Schmidt, K. S., Chen, H., Massie, S. T., Kulawik, S. S., and Iwabuchi, H. (2025). Mitigation of satellite OCO-2 CO2 biases in the vicinity of clouds with 3D calculations using the Education and Research 3D Radiative Transfer Toolbox (EaR3T). Atmos. Meas. Tech. 18: 1859–1884. |
Average optical path length estimation in a slab of arbitrary finite thickness Kindervatter, T., Li, W., Chen, N., Huang, Y., Hu, Y., Stamnes, S., Lu, X., Hamre, B., Stamnes, J.J., Tanizawa, T., Lee, J., Weimer, C., Zeng, X., Gatebe, C.K., and Stamnes, K. (2025). Average optical path length estimation in a slab of arbitrary finite thickness. Front. Remote Sensing 6: 16pp. |
Evaluation of ECOSTRESS Collection 2 evapotranspiration products: Strengths and uncertainties for evapotranspiration modeling Pierrat, Z. A., A. J. Purdy, G. Halverson, J. B. Fisher, K. Mallick, M. Pascolini-Campbell, Y. Ryu, M. C. Anderson, C. Villanueva-Weeks, M. C. Johnson, B. Hatch, E. Davis, Y. Yang, and K. Cawse-Nicholson. 2025. Evaluation of ECOSTRESS Collection 2 evapotranspiration products: Strengths and uncertainties for evapotranspiration modeling. Water Resources Research 61: 29pp. [e2024WR039404]. |
May 2025
Airborne imaging spectroscopy surveys of Arctic and boreal Alaska and northwestern Canada 2017–2023 Miller, C.E., Green, R.O., Thompson, D.R., Thorpe, A.J., Eastwood, M.L., McCubbin, I.B., Oslon-Duvall, W., Bernas, M.A., Sarture, C.M., Rios, L.M., Hernandez, M.A., Bue, S.R., Lundeen, S.R., Pavlick, R., Chapman, J.W., Brodrick, P.G., Eckert, R.F., Coleman, R.W., Baskaran, L., Elder, C.D., Townsend, P.A., et al. (2025). Airborne imaging spectroscopy surveys of Arctic and boreal Alaska and northwestern Canada 2017–2023. Scientific Data 12(1), 12p. [692.2025]. |
Highlighting the Impact of Anthropogenic OCS Emissions on the Stratospheric Sulfur Budget With In Situ Observations Gurganus, C., Rollins, A., Waxman, E.,Pan, L. L., Smith, W. P., Ueyama, R., et al. (2025). Highlighting the impact of anthropogenic OCS emissions on the stratospheric sulfur budget with in situ observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 130(9):20p. [e2024JD042588]. |
Two-Stream Approximation in Radiative Transfer: Average Optical Pathlength Estimation Stamnes, K., Kindervatter, T., Li, W., Chen, N., Huang, Y., Hu, Y., Stamnes, S., Lu, X., Hamre, B., Tanikawa, T., Lee, J., Weimer, C., Zeng, X., Gatebe, C.K., Stamnes, J.J. (2025). Two-Stream Approximation in Radiative Transfer: Average Optical Pathlength Estimation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 82(5):943-953. |
Global Methane Budget 2000–2020 Saunois, M., Martinez, A., Poulter, B., Zhang, Z., Raymond, P.A., Regnier, P., Canadell, J.G., Jackson, R.B., Patra, P.K., Bousquet, P., Ciais, P., (…) Johnson, M.S., et al. (2025). Global methane budget 2000–2020. Earth System Science Data 17(5):1873-1958. |
Retrievals of Biomass Burning Aerosol and Liquid Cloud Properties from Polarimetric Observations Using Deep Learning Techniques Segal Rozenhaimer, M., Knobelspiesse, K., Miller, D. and Batenkov, D. (2025). Retrievals of Biomass Burning Aerosol and Liquid Cloud Properties from Polarimetric Observations Using Deep Learning Techniques. Remote Sensing 17(10):32p. [1693]. DOI: 10.3390/rs17101693 |
The Impacts of Gravity Waves and Wind Shear on the Lifecycle of Cirrus Clouds in the Tropical Tropopause Layer Jensen, E.J., Ueyama, R., Pfister, L. and Atlas, R.L., 2025. The impacts of gravity waves and wind shear on the lifecycle of cirrus clouds in the tropical tropopause layer. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 130(10):18p. [e2024JD042308]. |
April 2025
Multi-species telemetry quantifies current and future efficacy of a remote marine protected area Gilmour, ME, K Pollock, J Adams, BA Block, JE Caselle, A Filous, AM Friedlander, ET Game, EL Hazen, M Hill, ND Holmes, KD Lafferty, SM Maxwell, DJ McCauley, R Schallert, SA Shaffer, NH Wolff, A Wegmann. 2025. Multi-species telemetry quantifies current and future efficacy of a remote marine protected area. Global Change Biology 31:17p [e70138]. |
Transport by Asian Summer Monsoon Convection to the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere During ACCLIP (2022) Smith, W.P., Pan, L.L., Ueyama, R., Honomichl, S., Campos, T., Viciani, S., D’Amato, F., Bianchini, G., Barruci, M., Hornbrook, R.S., Apel, E.C., et al. 2025. Transport by Asian summer monsoon convection to the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere during ACCLIP (2022). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 130(7):14p. [e2024JD042732]. |
Assessing Ambient Formaldehyde Exposure and Estimating Cancer Risks over India using the Ozone Monitoring Instrument Satellite Sensor Gautam, D., Philip, S., Dey, S., Johnson, M.S., Chaudhary, E., Ayazpour, Z. and González Abad, G., 2025. Assessing Ambient Formaldehyde Exposure and Estimating Cancer Risks over India using the Ozone Monitoring Instrument Satellite Sensor. ACS ES&T Air 2(4): 437–445. |
Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country Little, K., Vitali, R., Belcher, C.M., Kettridge, N., Pellegrini, A.F.A., Ford, A.E.S., Smith, A.M.S., Elliott, A., Voulgarakis, A., Stoof, C.R., Kolden, C.A., Schwilk, D.W., Kennedy, E.B., Newman Thacker, F.E., Millin-Chalabi, G.R., Clay, G.D., Morison, J.I., McCarty, J.L., Ivison, K., Tansey, K., Simpson, K.J., Jones, M.W., Mack, M.C., Fulé, P.Z., Gazzard, R., Harrison, S.P., New, S., Page, S.E., Hall, T.E., Brown, T., Jolly, W.M., and Doerr, S. 2025. Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 380: 15p [20240001]. |
The changing face of the Arctic: four decades of greening and implications for tundra ecosystems Frost G.V., U. S. Bhatt, M. J. Macander, L. T. Berner, D. A. Walker, M. K. Raynolds, R. I. Magnusson, A. Bartsch, J. W. Bjerke, H. E. Epstein, B. C. Forbes, S. J. Goetz, E. E. Hoy, S. R. Karlsen, T. Kumpula, T. C. Lantz, M. J. Lara, E. López-Blanco, P. M. Montesano, C. S. R. Neigh, I. Nitze, K. M. Orndahl, T. Park, et al. (2025). The changing face of the Arctic: four decades of greening and implications for tundra ecosystems. Frontiers in Environmental Science 13:15p. [1525574]. |
March 2025
Evaluation of ECOSTRESS Collection 2 evapotranspiration products: Strengths and uncertainties for evapotranspiration modeling Pierrat, Z. A., A. J. Purdy, G. Halverson, J. B. Fisher, K. Mallick, M. Pascolini-Campbell, Y. Ryu, M. C. Anderson, C. Villanueva-Weeks, M. C. Johnson, B. Hatch, E. Davis, Y. Yang, and K. Cawse-Nicholson. 2025. Evaluation of ECOSTRESS Collection 2 evapotranspiration products: Strengths and uncertainties for evapotranspiration modeling. Water Resources Research 61: 29pp. [e2024WR039404]. |
A transformer-based model for detecting land surface phenology from the irregular harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series across the United States Tran, K. H., X. Zhang, H. K. Zhang, Y. Shen, Y. Ye, Y. Liu, S. Gao, and S. An. 2025. A transformer-based model for detecting land surface phenology from the irregular harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series across the United States. Remote Sensing of Environment 320: 114656. |
Intercomparison of the U.S. National Water Model with OpenET over the Bear River Basin, U.S. Nassar, A., Tarboton, D., Anderson, M., Yang, Y., Fisher, J.B., Purdy, A.J., Baig, F., He, C., Gochis, D., Melton, F. and Volk, J., 2025. Intercomparison of the US National water model with OpenET over the Bear River Basin, US. Journal of Hydrology 656:132826. |
Applying Gaussian Process Machine Learning and Modern Probabilistic Programming to Satellite Data to Infer CO2 Emissions Jeong, S., S. D. Hamilton, M. S. Johnson, D. Wu, A. J. Turner, and M. L. Fischer. 2025. Applying Gaussian Process Machine Learning and Modern Probabilistic Programming to Satellite Data to Infer CO2 Emissions. Environmental Science & Technology 59(9): 4376−4387. |
Inference of Wildfire Causes From Their Physical, Biological, Social and Management Attributes Pourmohamad, Y., Abatzoglou, J.T., Fleishman, E., Short, K.C., Shuman, J., AghaKouchak, A., Williamson, M., Seydi, S.T. and Sadegh, M., 2025. Inference of wildfire causes from their physical, biological, social and management attributes. Earth’s Future 13(1): 14pp [e2024EF005187]. |
Evapotranspiration-Based Irrigation Management Effects on Yield and Water Productivity of Summer Cauliflower on the California Central Coast Cahn, M., Johnson, L. and Benzen, S., 2025. Evapotranspiration-Based Irrigation Management Effects on Yield and Water Productivity of Summer Cauliflower on the California Central Coast. Horticulturae 11(3): 18p. [322]. |
Unlocking ecological insights from sub-seasonal visible-to-shortwave infrared imaging spectroscopy: The SHIFT campaign K. Dana Chadwick, Frank Davis, Kimberley R. Miner, Ryan Pavlick, (…), Clayton D. Elder, et al. (2024). Unlocking ecological insights from sub-seasonal visible-to-shortwave infrared imaging spectroscopy: The SHIFT campaign. Ecosphere 16(3): 33p. [e70194]. |
Tundra recovery post-fire in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. Clayton, L.K., Schaefer, K., Hoy, E., Elder, C., French, N., Frost, G.V., Wig, E. and Lee, X., 2025. Tundra recovery post-fire in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. Environmental Research Letters 20:13p. [044018]. |
February 2025
Analysis of atmospheric conditions responsible for an ozone exceedance event in southeast Virginia on June 15, 2022 Phoenix D. B., T. A. Berkoff, G. P. Gronoff, D. Salkovitz, C. Bernier, K. E. Knowland, J. T. Sullivan, L. W. Twigg, M. Roots, and T. Knepp. 2025. Analysis of atmospheric conditions responsible for an ozone exceedance event in southeast Virginia on June 15, 2022. Atmospheric Pollution Research, Volume 16, Issue 3, 1309-1042. |
Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone—The Primary Entryway for Chlorinated Very-Short-Lived Substances to the Stratosphere Qing Liang, Paul A. Newman, Eric L. Fleming, Leslie R. Lait, Elliot Atlas, Laura Pan, Doug Kinnison, Luke M. Western, Sue Schauffler, Katie Smith, Victoria Treadaway, Roger Hendershot, Stephen Donnelly, Richard Lueb. 2025. Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone—The Primary Entryway for Chlorinated Very-Short-Lived Substances to the Stratosphere. American Geophysical Union. |
Spatial resolution for forest carbon maps Duncanson, L., N. Hunka, T. Jucker, J. Armston, N. Harris, L. Fatoyinbo, C. Williams, J. Atkins, B. Raczka, S. Serbin, M. Keller, R. Dubayah, C. Babcock, M. Cochrane, A. Hudak, G. Hurtt, P. Montesano, M. Moskal, T. Park, S. Saatchi, C. Silva, H. Tang, R. Vargas, A. Weiskittel, K. Wessels, and S.J. Goetz. 2025. Spatial resolution for forest carbon maps. Science 387(6732): 370-371. |
Black Carbon Reflects Extremely Efficient Aerosol Wet Removal in Monsoonal Convective Transport Berberich, J., Jacoby, S.A., Michailoudi, G., Schwarz, J.P., Viciani, S., D’Amato, F., Bianchini, G., Barucci, M., Campos, T., Ullman, K., Podolske, J.R. C. Gurganus, W. P. Smith, R. Ueyama, S. B. Honomichl, L. L. Pan, S. Woods, B. Wienzierl, M. Dollner, A. E. Perring (2025). Black carbon reflects extremely efficient aerosol wet removal in monsoonal convective transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 130(3):12p. [e2024JD042692]. |
Feasibility of robust estimates of ozone production rates using a synergy of satellite observations, ground-based remote sensing, and models Souri, A. H., G. González Abad, G. M. Wolfe, T. Verhoelst, C. Vigouroux, G. Pinardi, S. Compernolle, B. Langerock, B. N. Duncan, and M. S. Johnson. 2025. Feasibility of robust estimates of ozone production rates using a synergy of satellite observations, ground-based remote sensing, and models. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 25(4): 2061–2086. |
Tropospheric aerosols over the western North Atlantic Ocean during the winter and summer deployments of ACTIVATE 2020: life cycle, transport, and distribution Liu, H., B. Zhang, R. H. Moore, L. D. Ziemba, R. A. Ferrare, H. Choi, A. Sorooshian, D. Painemal, H. Wang, M. A. Shook, A. J. Scarino, J. W. Hair, E. C. Crosbie, M. A. Fenn, T. J. Shingler, C. A. Hostetler, G. Chen, M. M. Kleb, G. Luo, F. Yu, M. A. Vaughan, Y. Hu, G. S. Diskin, J. B. Nowak, J. P. DiGangi, Y. Choi, C. A. Keller, and M. S. Johnson. 2025. Tropospheric aerosols over the western North Atlantic Ocean during the winter and summer deployments of ACTIVATE 2020: life cycle, transport, and distribution. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 25(4): 2087–2121. |
January 2025
Plasticity in Hydraulic Architecture: Riparian Trees Respond to Increased Temperatures with Genotype-Specific Adjustments to Leaf Traits Garthwaite, I.J., Lepp, C., Maldonado, Z.S.R., Blasini, D., Grady, K.C., Gehring, C.A., Hultine, K.R., Whitham, T.G., Allan, G.J. and Best, R.J. (2024), Plasticity in Hydraulic Architecture: Riparian Trees Respond to Increased Temperatures With Genotype-Specific Adjustments to Leaf Traits. Ecol Evol, 14: e70683. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70683 |
Hyperspectral Leaf Reflectance Detects Interactive Genetic and Environmental Effects on Tree Phenotypes, Enabling Large-Scale Monitoring and Restoration Planning Under Climate Change Corbin, J.P.M., Best, R.J., Garthwaite, I.J., Cooper, H.F., Doughty, C.E., Gehring, C.A., Hultine, K.R., Allan, G.J. and Whitham, T.G. (2025), Hyperspectral Leaf Reflectance Detects Interactive Genetic and Environmental Effects on Tree Phenotypes, Enabling Large-Scale Monitoring and Restoration Planning Under Climate Change. Plant, Cell & Environment, 48: 1842-1857. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.15263 |
NASA Earth Exchange Downscaled Climate Projections 30 Arcseconds CMIP6 Thrasher, B., Khajehei, S., Kim, J.B., Brosnan, I. NASA Earth Exchange Downscaled Climate Projections 30 Arcseconds CMIP6. Sci Data 11, 1346 (2024) |
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Marine Heatwaves Globally Scannell, H. A., C. Cai, L. Thompson, D. B. Whitt, D. J. Gagne, and R. P. Abernathey. 2024. Spatiotemporal Evolution of Marine Heatwaves Globally. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. 41:1247-1263 |
The potential of remote sensing for improved infectious disease ecology research and practice Teitelbaum, C. S., A. Ferraz, S. E. W. De La Cruz, M. E. Gilmour, and I. G. Brosnan. 2024. The potential of remote sensing for improved infectious disease ecology research and practice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291: 20241712. |
Aerosol hygroscopicity over the southeast Atlantic Ocean during the biomass burning season – Part 1: From the perspective of scattering enhancement Zhang, L., M. Segal-Rozenhaimer, H. Che, C. Dang, J. Sun, Y. Kuang, P. Formenti, and S. G. Howell Article: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 24: 13849–13864 |
Fisher Discriminant Analysis for Extracting Interpretable Phenological Information from Multivariate Time Series Data Conor T. Doherty; Meagan S. Mauter. 2024. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. |
Global estimates of the storage and transit time of water through vegetation Andrew J. Felton, Joshua B. Fisher, Koen Hufkens, Adam J. Purdy, Seth A. Spawn-Lee, Lou F. Duloisy & Gregory R. Goldsmith.2025. Nat Water (2025). |
Near real-time corn and soybean mapping at field-scale by blending crop phenometrics with growth magnitude from multiple temporal and spatial satellite observations Shen, Y., X. Zhang, K. H. Tran, Y. Ye, G. Shuai, Y. Liu, and A. Shuai, 2024. Near real-time corn and soybean mapping at field-scale by blending crop phenometrics with growth magnitude from multiple temporal and spatial satellite observations. Remote Sensing of Environment 318, 114605. |