Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications
2018
The Impact of Sensor Response and Airspeed on the Representation of the Convective Boundary Layer and Airmass Boundaries by Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Adam L. Houston and Jason M. Keeler
Land-Cover Change and the ‘‘Dust Bowl’’ Drought in the U.S. Great Plains, Qi Hu, Jose Abraham Torres-Alavez, and Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Considerations for Atmospheric Measurements with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Jamey D. Jacob, Phillip B. Chilson, Adam L. Houston, and Suzanne Weaver Smith
Ensemble Sensitivity Analysis for Targeted Observations of Supercell Thunderstorms, George L. Limpert and Adam L. Houston
Sheeting joints and polygonal patterns in the Navajo Sandstone, southern Utah: Controlled by rock fabric, tectonic joints, buckling, and gullying, David B. Loope and Caroline M. Burberry
Sheeting joints and polygonal patterns in the Navajo Sandstone, southern Utah: Controlled by rock fabric, tectonic joints, buckling, and gullying, David B. Loope and Caroline M. Burberry
Sheeting joints and polygonal patterns in the Navajo Sandstone, southern Utah: Controlled by rock fabric, tectonic joints, buckling, and gullying, David Loope and Caroline M. Burberry
Using cumulative potential recharge for selection of GCM projections to force regional groundwater models: A Nebraska Sand Hills example, Nathan R. Rossman, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, and Clinton Rowe
An approach to hydrogeological modeling of a large system of groundwater-fed lakes and wetlands in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA, Nathan Rossman, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, and Clinton Rowe
Placing the Common Era in a Holocene context: millennial to centennial patterns and trends in the hydroclimate of North America over the past 2000 years, Bryan N. Shuman, Cody Routson, Nicholas McKay, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Darrell Kaufman, Matthew E. Kirby, Connor Nolan, Gregory T. Pederson, and Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques
First U-Pb zircon ages for late Miocene Ashfall Konservat-Lagerstatte and Grove Lake ashes from eastern Great Plains, USA, Jon J. Smith, Elijah Turner, Andreas Moller, Robert M. Joeckel, and Rick E. Otto
2017
Early Miocene quantitative calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy from the tropical Atlantic, Waheed A. Albasrawi and David K. Watkins
Crustal distribution in the central Gulf of Mexico from an integrated geophysical analysis, Irina Filina
The Future of Evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources, Joshua B. Fisher, Forrest S. Melton, Elizabeth M. Middleton, Christopher Hain, Martha C. Anderson, Richard G. Allen, Matthew McCabe, Simon Hook, Dennis Baldocchi, Philip A. Townsend, Ayse Kilic, Kevin Tu, Diego Miralles, Johan Perret, Jean-Pierre Lagouarde, Duane Waliser, Adam J. Purdy, Andrew French, David Schimel, James S. Famiglietti, Graeme Stephens, and Eric F. Wood
The Possible Role of Density Current Dynamics in the Generation of Low-Level Vertical Vorticity in Supercells, Adam L. Houston
Fire and Smoke Remote Sensing and Modeling Uncertainties: Case Studies in Northern Sub‐Saharan Africa, Charles Ichoku, Luke T. Ellison, Yun Yue, Jun Wang, and Johannes W. Kaiser
Tornado Warning Response and Perceptions among Undergraduates in Nebraska, Sabrina T. Jauernic and Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Dynamics of Cloud-Top Generating Cells in Winter Cyclones. Part III: Shear and Convective Organization, Jason M. Keeler, Robert M. Rauber, Brian F. Jewett, Greg M. McFarquhar, Roy M. Rasmussen, Lulin Xue, Changhai Liu, and Gregory Thompson
Interactions of a Paleocene River, a Rising Fold, and Early-Diagenetic Concretions, David B. Loope and Ross Secord
EVOLUTION OF A LONG-TRACK VIOLENT TORNADO WITHIN A SIMULATED SUPERCELL, Leigh Orf, Robert Wilhelmson, Bruce Lee, Catherine Finley, and Adam L. Houston
Rear-Flank Outflow Dynamics and Thermodynamics in the 10 June 2010 Last Chance, Colorado, Supercell, Curtis J. Riganti and Adam L. Houston
Evaporation from a shallow, saline lake in the Nebraska Sandhills: Energy balance drivers of seasonal and interannual variability, Diego Andrés Riveros-Iregui, John Lenters, Colin Peake, John T. Ong, Nathan C. Healey, and Vitaly A. Zlotnik
Intercomparison of MODIS and VIIRS Fire Products in Khanty-Mansiysk Russia: Implications for Characterizing Gas Flaring from Space, Ambrish Sharma, Jun Wang, and Elizabeth M. Lennartson
Polarimetric Radar Metrics Related to Tornado Life Cycles and Intensity in Supercell Storms, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
A warm-season comparison of WRF coupled to the CLM4.0, Noah-MP, and Bucket hydrology land surface schemes over the central USA, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke, Andrew Kalin, Jose Abraham Torres Alavez, Robert Oglesby, and Q. Steven Hu
Evaluation of aerosol optical depth and aerosol models from VIIRS retrieval algorithms over North China Plain, Jun Zhu, Xiangao Xia, Jun Wang, Huizheng Che, Hongbin Chen, Jinqiang Zhang, Xiaoguang Xu, Robert Levy, Min Oo, Robert Holz, and Mohammed Ayoub
Tropospheric emissions: Monitoring of pollution (TEMPO), P. Zoogman, X. Liu, R. M. Suleiman, W. F. Pennington, D. E. Flittner, J. A. Al-Saadi, B. B. Hinton, D. K. Nicks, M. J. Newchurch, J. L. Carr, S. J. Janz, M. R. Andraschko, A. Arola, B. D. Baker, B. P. Canova, C. Chan Miller, R. C. Cohen, J. E. Davis, M. E. Dussault, D. P. Edwards, J. Fishman, A. Ghulam, G. Gonzalez Abad, M. Grutter, J. R. Herman, J. Houck, D. J. Jacob, J. Joiner, B. J. Kerridge, J. Kim, N. A. Krotkov, L. Lamsal, C. Li, A. Lindfors, R. V. Martin, C. T. McElroy, C. McLinden, V. Natraj, D. O. Neil, C. R. Nowlan, E. J. O'Sullivan, P. I. Palmer, R. B. Pierce, M. R. Pippin, A. Saiz-Lopez, R. J. D. Spurr, J. J. Szykman, O. Torres, J. P. Veefkind, B. Veihelmann, H. Wang, and J. Wang
2016
The influence of the Great Falls Tectonic Zone on the thrust sheet geometry of the southern Sawtooth Range, Montana, USA, Caroline M. Burberry and J. M. Palu
THE GEOLOGIC CONTEXT OF WONDERSTONE: A COMPLEX, OUTCROP-SCALED PATTERN OF IRONOXIDE CEMENT, Derek T. Burgess, Richard M. Kettler, and David B. Loope
Applying Advanced Ground-Based Remote Sensing in the Southeast Asian Maritime Continent to Characterize Regional Proficiencies in Smoke Transport Modeling, James R. Campbell, Cui Ge, Jun Wang, Ellsworth J. Welton, Anthony Bucholtz, Edward J. Hyer, Elizabeth A. Reid, Boon Ning Chew, Soo-Chin Liew, Santo V. Salinas, Simon Lolli, Kathleen C. Kaku, Peng Lynch, Mastura Mahmud, Maznorizan Mohamad, and Brent N. Holben
Polarimetric remote sensing in oxygen A and B bands: sensitivity study and information content analysis for vertical profile of aerosols, Shouguo Ding, Jun Wang, and Xiaoguang Xu
Climatology, Synoptic Conditions, and Misanalyses of Mississippi River Valley Drylines, Rebecca S. Duell and Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Satellite-based global volcanic SO2 emissions and sulfate direct radiative forcing during 2005–2012, Cui Ge, Jun Wang, Simon Carn, Kai Yang, Paul Ginoux, and Nickolay Krotkov
Satellite-based global volcanic SO2 emissions and sulfate direct radiative forcing during 2005–2012, Cui Ge, Jun Wang, Simon Carn, Kai Yang, Paul Ginox, and Nickolay Krotkov
Intercomparison of Unmanned Aircraftborne and Mobile Mesonet Atmospheric Sensors, Adam L. Houston, Roger J. Laurence III, Tevis W. Nichols, Sean Waugh, Brian Argrow, and Conrad L. Ziegler
Atmospheric Responses to North Atlantic SST Anomalies in Idealized Experiments. Part II: North American Precipitation, Q. Steven Hu and Michael C. Veres
Biomass burning, land-cover change, and the hydrological cycle in Northern sub-Saharan Africa, Charles Ichoku, Luke T. Ellison, K. Elena Willmot, Toshihisa Matsui, Amin K. Dezfuli, Charles K. Gatebe, Jun Wang, Eric M. Wilcox, Jejung Lee, Jimmy Adegoke, Churchill Okonkwo, John Bolten, Frederick S. Policelli, and Shahid Habib
Accommodation of penetrative strain during deformation above a ductile décollement, Bailey A. Lathrop and Caroline M. Burberry
Sandstones and Utah’s canyon country: Deposition, diagenesis, exhumation, and landscape evolution, David Loope, Richard Kettler, Kendra Murray, Joel Pederson, and Peter Reiners
Did the widespread haze pollution over China increase during the last decade? A satellite view from space, Minghui Tao, Liangfu Chen, Zifeng Wang, Jun Wang, Jinhua Tao, and Xinhui Wang
Polarimetric Variability of Classic Supercell Storms as a Function of Environment, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Polarimetric Radar Observations of Precipitation Type and Rate from the 2–3 March 2014 Winter Storm in Oklahoma and Arkansas, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke, Dana M. Tobin, and Matthew R. Kumjian
Potential application of VIIRS Day/Night Band for monitoring nighttime surface PM2.5 air quality from space, Jun Wang, Clint Aegerter, Xiaoguang Xu, and James J. Szykman
A Multi-sensor View of the 2012 Central Plains Drought from Space, Jun Wang, Amy L. Kessner, Clint Aegerter, Ambrish Sharma, Laura Judd, Brian D. Wardlow, Jinsheng You, Martha Shulski, Suat Irmak, Ayse Kilic, and Jing Zeng
2015
Trans-Amazon Drilling Project (TADP): origins and evolution of the forests, climate, and hydrology of the South American tropics, P. A. Baker, S. C. Fritz, C. G. Silva, C. A. Rigsby, M. L. Absy, R. P. Almeida, M. Caputo, C. M. Chiessi, F. W. Cruz, C. W. Dick, S. J. Feakins, J. Figueiredo, K. H. Freeman, C. Hoorn, C. Jaramillo, A. K. Kern, E. M. Latrubesse, M. P. Ledru, A. Marzoli, A. Myrbo, A. Noren, W. E. Piller, M. I. F. Ramos, C. C. Ribas, R. Trnadade, A. J. West, I. Wahnfried, and D. A. Willard
Temporal dynamics of groundwater-dissolved inorganic carbon beneath a drought-affected braided stream: Platte River case study, Audrey R. Boerner and John B. Gates
Integration and Delivery of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar [Insar] Data Into Stormwater Planning Within Karst Terranes, Brian Bruckno, Andrea Vaccari, Edward Hoppe, Scott Acton, and Elizabeth Campbell
Spatial and temporal variation in penetrative strain during compression: Insights from analog models, Caroline M. Burberry
The Effect of Basement Fault Reactivation on the Triassic—Recent Geology of Kurdistan, North Iraq, Caroline M. Burberry
Post-Mississippian tectonic evolution of the Nemaha Tectonic Zone and Midcontinent Rift System, SE Nebraska and N Kansas, Caroline M. Burberry, R. Matthew Joeckel, and Jesse T. Korus
Hydroclimatic shifts in northeast Thailand during the last two millennia — The record of Lake Pa Kho, Sakonvan Chawchai, Akkaneewut Chabangborn, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Minna Väliranta, Carl-Magnus Mörth, Maarten Blaauw, Paul J. Reimer, Paul J. Kusic, Ludvig Löwemark, and Barbara Wohlfarth
Diatoms at >5000 meters in the Quelccaya Summit Dome Glacier, Peru, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Bruce E. Brinson, W. E. Billups, and Lonnie G. Thompson
8000 years of environmental evolution of barrier–lagoon systems emplaced in coastal embayments (NW Iberia), Rita González-Villanueva, Marta Pérez-Arlucea, Susana Costas, Roberto Bao, Xose L. Otero, and Ronald J. Goble
Integrating geoscience into undergraduate education about environment, society, and sustainability using place-based learning: Three examples, David Gosselin, Steven Burian, Tim Lutz, and Julie Maxson
Thunderstorm Observation by Radar (ThOR): An Algorithm to Develop a Climatology of Thunderstorms, Adam L. Houston, Noah A. Lock, Jamie Lahowetz, Brian L. Barjenbruch, George L. Limpert, and Cody Oppermann
Life and Liesegang: Outcrop-Scale Microbially Induced Diagenetic Structures and Geochemical Self-Organization Phenomena Produced by Oxidation of Reduced Iron, Richard M. Kettler, David B. Loope, Karrie A. Weber, and Paul B. Niles
Patterns of Terrestrial and Limnologic Development in the Northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (USA) during the Late-Glacial/Early-Holocene Transition, Teresa R. Krause, Yanbin Lu, Cathy Whitlock, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and Kenneth L. Pierce
A fast Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite simulator for cloudy atmospheres, Chao Liu, Ping Yang, Shaima L. Nasiri, Steven Platnick, Kerry G. Meyer, Chenxi Wang, and Shouguo Ding
A fast Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite simulator for cloudy atmospheres, Chao Liu, Ping Yang, Steven Platnick, Kerry G. Meyer, Chenxi Wang, and Shouguo Ding
The footprints of ancient CO2-driven flow systems: Ferrous carbonate concretions below bleached sandstone, David B. Loope and Richard M. Kettler
Diagenetic incorporation of Sr into aragonitic bivalve shells: implications for chronostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental interpretations, Maria C. Marcano, Tracy D. Frank, Samuel B. Mukasa, Kyger C. Lohmann, and Marco Taviani
FIRST REPORT ON DINOSAUR TRACKS FROM THE BURRO CAN YON FORMATION, SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH, USA – EVIDENCE OF A DIVERSE, HITHERTO UN KNOWN LOWER CRETACEOUS DINOSAUR FAUNA, Jesper Milan, Luis M. Chiappe, David B. Loope, James I. Kirkland, and Martin G. Lockley
Global Analysis of Saturation Artifacts in the VIIRS Infrared Channels and the Effects of Sample Aggregation, Thomas N. Polivka, Edward Hyer, Jun Wang, and David A. Peterson
Effect of cold wave on winter visibility over eastern China, Wenjun Qu, Jun Wang, Xiaoye Zhang, Zhifeng Yang, and Shanhong Gao
Temporal and spatial variability in dune reactivation across the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA, Rebecca L. Schmeisser McKean, Ronald J. Goble, Joseph B. Mason, James Swinehart, and David B. Loope
Polarimetric Tornadic Debris Signature Variability and Debris Fallout Signatures, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Polarimetric Radar Observations from a Waterspout-Producing Thunderstorm, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke and Cynthia A. Van Den Broeke
Aulacoseira stevensiae sp. nov. (Coscinodiscophyceae, Bacillariophyta), a new diatom from Ho Ba Bê, Bac Kan Province, Northern Viêt Nam, D. Marie Weide
A new taeniolabidoid multituberculate (Mammalia) from the middle Puercan of the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico, and a revision of taeniolabidoid systematics and phylogeny, Thomas E. Williamson, Stephen L. Brusatte, Ross Secord, and Sarah Shelley
Atmospheric circulation processes contributing to a multidecadal variation in reconstructed and modeled Indian monsoon precipitation, Qianru Wu and Qi Hu
4-D evolution of anticlines and implications for hydrocarbon exploration within the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, Mjahid M. Zebari and Caroline M. Burberry
2014
The Emerging Field of Geogenomics: Constraining Geological Problems with Genetic Data, Paul A. Baker, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Christopher W. Dick, Andrew J. Eckert, Brian K. Horton, Stefano Manzoni, Camila C. Ribas, Carmala N. Garzione, and David S. Battisti
Understanding and Assessing Climate Change: Implications for Nebraska, Deborah J. Bathke, Robert J. Oglesby, Clinton Rowe, and Donald A. Wilhite
Snowmelt onset over Arctic sea ice from passive microwave satellite data: 1979–2012, A. C. Bliss and M. R. Anderson
Daily Area of Snow Melt Onset on Arctic Sea Ice from Passive Microwave Satellite Observations 1979–2012, Angela C. Bliss and Mark R. Anderson
Cenomanian through basal Coniacian Calcareous Nannofossil biostratigraphy of theMancos Shale reference section, Mesa Verde National Park, CO, Matthew J. Corbett and David K. Watkins
Coastal geology and recent origins for Sand Point, Lake Superior, Timothy G. Fisher, David E. Krantz, Mario R. Castaneda, Walter L. Loope, Harry M. Jol, Ronald J. Goble, Melinda C. Higley, Samantha DeWald, and Paul R. Hanson
A 60,000-year Record of Hydrologic Variability in the Central Andes from the Hydrogen Isotopic Composition of Leaf Waxes in Lake Titicaca Sediments, Kyrstin L. Fornace, Konrad A. Hughen, Timothy M. Shanahan, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Paul A. Baker, and Sean P. Sylva
Toward enhanced understanding and projections of climate extremes using physics-guided data mining techniques, A. R. Ganguly, E. A. Kodra, A. Agrawal, A. Banerjee, S. Boriah, Sn. Chatterjee, So. Chatterjee, A. Choudhary, D. Das, J. Faghmous, P. Ganguli, S. Ghosh, K. Hayhoe, C. J. Hays, W. Hendrix, Q. Fu, J. Kawale, D. Kumar, V. Kumar, W. Liao, S. Liess, R. Mawalagedara, V. Mithal, R. Oglesby, K. Salvi, P. K. Snyder, K. Steinhaeuser, D. Wang, and D. Wuebbles
Lithologic influences on groundwater recharge through incised glacial till from profile to regional scales: Evidence from glaciated Eastern Nebraska, John B. Gates, Gregory V. Steele, Paolo Nasta, and Jozsef Szilagyi
Mesoscale modeling of smoke transport over the Southeast Asian Maritime Continent: coupling of smoke direct radiative effect below and above the low-level clouds, C. Ge, J. Wang, and J. S. Reid
Temperature Changes in Central Asia from 1979 to 2011 Based on Multiple Datasets, ZENGYUN HU, CHI ZHANG, Q. Steven Hu, and HANQIN TIAN
Architecture, heterogeneity, and origin of late Miocene fluvial deposits hosting the most important aquifer in the Great Plains, USA, R. Matthew Joeckel, Steve R. Wooden Jr., Jesse T. Korus, and Jon Garbisch
Late Holocene dune development and shift in dune-building winds along southern Lake Michigan, Zoran Kilibarda, Ryan Venturelli, and Ronald J. Goble
Empirical Examination of the Factors Regulating Thunderstorm Initiation, Noah A. Lock and Adam L. Houston
Combining Limnology and Palaeolimnology to Investigate Recent Regime Shifts in a Shallow, Eutrophic Lake, Linda Randsalu-Wendrup, Daniel J. Conley, Jacob Carstensen, Lars-Anders Hansson, Christer Brönmark, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Preetam Choudhary, Joyanto Routh, and Dan Hammarlund
Dune formation on late Holocene sandy bay barriers along Lake Michigan’s Door Peninsula: The importance of increased sediment supply following the Nipissing and Algoma high lake-level phases, J. Elmo Rawling III and Paul R. Hanson
Laurentian Great Lakes Phytoplankton and Their Water Quality Characteristics, Including a Diatom-Based Model for Paleoreconstruction of Phosphorus, Euan D. Reavie, Adam J. Heathcote, and Victoria L. Shaw Chraïbi
Vadose zone lag time and potential 21st century climate change effects on spatially distributed groundwater recharge in the semi-arid Nebraska Sand Hills, N. R. Rossman, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Clinton Rowe, and Jozsef Szilagyi
Prolonged Instability Prior to a Regime Shift, Trisha L. Spanbauer, Craig R. Allen, David G. Angeler, Tarsha Eason, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Kirsty L. Nash, and Jeffrey R. Stone
Effects of Mid- and Upper-Level Dry Layers on Microphysics of Simulated Supercell Storms, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Polarimetric Tornadic Debris Signatures, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke and Sabrina T. Jauernic
A numerical testbed for remote sensing of aerosols, and its demonstration for evaluating retrieval synergy from a geostationary satellite constellation of GEO-CAPE and GOES-R, Jun Wang, Xiaoguang Xu, Shouguo Ding, Jing Zeng, Robert Spurr, Xiong Liu, Kelly Chance, and Michael I. Mishchenko
The Influence of Basin Morphometry on the Regional Coherence of Patterns of Diatom-Inferred Salinity in Lakes of the Northern Great Plains (USA), Courtney R. Wigdahl, Jasmine E. Saros, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Jeffery R. Stone, and Daniel R. Engstrom
The New STEM Faculty Profile: Balancing Family and Dual Careers, Patricia Wonch Hill, Mary Anne Holmes, and Julia McQuillan
Retrieval of aerosol microphysical properties from AERONET photopolarimetric measurements: 1. Information content analysis, Xiaoguang Xu and Jun Wang
2013
A hydro-climatological lake classification model and its evaluation using global data, Brandi Bracht-Flyr, Erkan Istanbulluoglu, and Sherilyn C. Fritz
Validation of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar as a Tool for Identification of Geohazards and At-Risk Transportation Infrastructure, Brian Bruckno, Andrea Vaccari, Edward Hoppe, William Niemann, and Elizabeth Campbell
Lake Kumphawapi — An archive of Holocene paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic changes in northeast Thailand, Sakonvan Chawchai, A. Chabangborn, M. Kylander, L. Löwemark, C.-M. Mörth, M. Blaauw, W. Klubseang, P. J. Reimer, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and B. Wohlfarth
Potential climate change effects on groundwater recharge in the High Plains Aquifer, USA, Russell S. Crosbie, Bridget R. Scanlon, Freddie S. Mpelasoka, Robert C. Reedy, John B. Gates, and Lu Zhang