Publications

Journal Articles

Brown, J.C., W.E. Jepson, J.H. Kastens, B.D. Wardlow, J. M. Lomas and K. P. Price, 2007. Multitemporal, Moderate-Spatial-Resolution Remote Sensing of Modern Agricultural Production and Land Modification in the Brazilian Amazon. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 44(2):117–148

Gitelson, A. A., B. D. Wardlow, G. P. Keydan, and B. Leavitt. 2007. An evaluation of MODIS 250-m data for green LAI estimation in crops. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L20403.  doi:10.1029/2007GL031620.

Gu, Y. J. F. Brown, J. P. Verdin, and B.Wardlow. 2007.A five-year analysis of MODIS NDVI and NDWI for grassland drought assessment over the central Great Plains of the United States. Geophysical Research Letters. 34 (L06407) March 2007.

Hunt, E., J. B. Basara, and C. R. Morgan. 2007. Significant inversions and rapid in situ cooling at a well-sited Oklahoma Mesonet station. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 46 (3):353-367.

Knutson, C. L., M. J. Hayes, and M. D. Svoboda. 2007. Case study of tribal drought planning:  The Hualapai Tribe. Natural Hazards Review 8 (4):125-131.

Wardlow, B. D., S. L. Egbert, and J. H. Kastens. 2007. Analysis of time-series MODIS 250 m vegetation index data for crop classification in the U.S. Central Great Plains. Remote Sensing of Environment 108 (3):290-310.

Wilhite, D. A., M. D. Svoboda, and M. J. Hayes. 2007. Understanding the complex impacts of drought: A key to enhancing drought mitigation and preparedness. Water Resources Management 21 (5):763-774.

Wu, H., M.D. Svoboda, M.J. Hayes, D.A. Wilhite, and F. Wen. 2007. Appropriate application of the Standardized Precipitation Index in arid locations and dry seasons. International Journal of Climatology, 27:65-79.

Book Chapters and Technical Reports

Hayes, M. J. and M. D. Svoboda. 2007. An assessment of drought management activities in Morocco prepared for USAID's Integrated Agriculture and Agribusiness Project. Office of Economic Growth, USAID, Morocco.

Knutson, C. L., P. Basabe, D. Wood, D. L. Woudenberg, M. Sittler, K. H. Smith, and D. Gutzmer. 2007. Drought risk reduction framework and practices: Contributing to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for action. United Nations Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland. 150 pp.

Rosenberg, N. J., V. M. Mehta, M. J. Hayes, C. L. Knutson, and M. Sittler. 2007. Decadal climate information needs of stakeholders and policymakers in the Missouri River Basin: A report of the elicitation trip to Nebraska, 11-14 December 2006. NOAA Climate Program Office, Sectoral Application Research Program, Silver Spring, MD.

Woudenberg, D. L., C. L. Knutson, M. D. Svoboda, and S. Jones. 2007. Low flow/stage related impacts in the upper Trinity River Basin, Texas: Low water impact information database project.  Report to Southern Region Hydrologic Services, NOAA National Weather Service, Forth Worth, TX. 53 pp.

Woudenberg, D. L., C. L. Knutson, M. D. Svoboda, and S. Jones. 2007. Low flow/stage related impacts in the Red River of the North and Upper Mississippi River Basins, North Dakota and Minnesota: Low water impact information database project.  NDMC Technical Report to Central Regional Climate Services, NOAA National Weather Service, Kansas City, MO. 58 pp.

Conference Proceedings

Brown, J.C., J. Kastens, B.Wardlow, W. Jepsen, A.C. Coutinho A. Venturieri, J. Lomas and K. Price. 2007, Using MODIS to Detect Cropping Frequency Variation in Mechanized Agriculture in Amazonia. In 13th Annual Brazilian Remote Sensing Symposium, Florianopolis, Brazil. April 21-26, 2007. pp. 99-101.

Ding, Y. and K. Schoengold. 2007. The impact of weather extremes on agricultural production methods: Does drought increase the adoption of conservation tillage practices? American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting.  Portland, OR. July 29-31.

Dubrovsky, M., M. D. Svoboda, M. Trnka, M. J. Hayes, D. A. Wilhite, and Z. Zalud. 2007. Multi-GCM projections of global drought conditions with the use of the Palmer Drought Indices. American Geophysical Union Annual Meetings. San Francisco, CA. December.

Hayes, M. J., M. Trnka, M. D. Svoboda, P. Hlavinka, J. Balek, M. Dubrovsky, D. A. Wilhite, E. Pokorny, L. Bartosova, and J. Eitzinger. 2007. Understanding regional climate change consequences through the changes in soil moisture regimes. American Geophysical Union Annual Meetings. San Francisco, CA. December.

Knutson, C. L. 2007. United States National Drought Policy. Proceedings of the National Drought Strategy for Agriculture Working Group Meeting. Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. May 23-24. Agri-Food Canada.

Knutson, C. L., S. Jones, M. Sittler, M. D. Svoboda, and D. R. Kluck. 2007. Development of a low flow early warning system for the National Weather Service. Proceedings of the 2007 Universities Council on Water Resources/National Institutes of Water Resources Conference. Hazards in Water Resources. Boise, ID. July 24-26.

Knutson, C. L. 2007. Strategies for assessing and monitoring the effects of climate variability on water, food and health in Western India. Proceedings of the Workshop on Monsoon Climate Variability and Change, and Their Impacts on Water, Food and Health in Western India. Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. February 5-7.

Knutson, C. L., M. E. Burbach, B. Ramamurthy, and Y. Xue. 2007. Development and potential applications of a real-time ground water monitoring network for Nebraska. Proceedings of the Nebraska Association of Resource Districts Fall Conference. Kearney, NE. September 24.

Ryu, J. H. and M. D. Svoboda. 2007. El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and hydrologic drought in the United States. 2007 Nebraska GIS Symposium. Omaha, NE. April 3-5.

Ryu, J. H. and M. D. Svoboda. 2007. A GIS framework for climate change studies in Nebraska. Proceedings of the 7th International IWA Symposium on Systems Analysis and Integrated Assessment in Water Management. Washington, DC. May 7-9. IWA.

Tadesse, T. and B. D. Wardlow. 2007. The vegetation outlook (VegOut): A new tool for providing outlooks of general vegetation conditions using data mining techniques. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International conference on Data Mining. Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - Workshops. Omaha, NE. October 28-31. IEEE Computer Society.

Xue, Y., B. Ramamurthy, M. E. Burbach, and C. L. Knutson. 2007. A real-time ground water monitoring network for drought impact assessment. 2007 University of Nebraska Water Colloquium. Lincoln, NE. October 12.

Other

Hayes, M. J., C. Alvord, and J. Lowrey. 2007. Drought indices. Intermountain West Climate Summary 3(6). pp. 2 - 6.

Rosenberg, N. J., V. M. Mehta, J. R. Olsen, H. vonStorch, Michael J. Hayes, and Donald A. Wilhite. 2007. Societal adaptation to decadal climate variation in the U.S. Eos 88(43). October.

Smith, K. H. 2007. Book review of The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan. Prairie Fire Newspaper. December 2007. Lincoln, NE.