A5071727682- Plant responses to water stress
- Forest ecology and management
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Crystallization and Solubility Studies
- X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Market Dynamics and Volatility
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2023
Second Institute of Oceanography
2023
Ministry of Natural Resources
2023
Georgia Institute of Technology
2018-2022
University of Utah
2018
Hurricanes can cause severe damage to tropical forests. To understand the nature of hurricane impacts, we analyze and compare immediate effects from category-4 María in 2017 category-3 Hugo 1989 at Bisley Experimental Watersheds (BEW) Luquillo Forest, Puerto Rico. We show that caused lower mortality than Hugo, even though was a stronger event with higher sustained wind. The due combination accumulated cyclone energy site more wind-resistant forest structure composition time disturbance. our...
Abstract Hydrological applications rely on the availability and quality of precipitation products, especially model- satellite-based products for use in areas without ground measurements. It is known that complementary: model-based exhibit high during cold seasons while are better warm seasons. To explore complementary behavior this study uses 2-m air temperature as auxiliary information to evaluate high-resolution (0.1°/hourly) estimates from Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) Model version...
Abstract Seasonal climate forecasts have socioeconomic value, and the quality of is important to various societal applications. Here we evaluate seasonal three variables, vapor pressure deficit (VPD), temperature, precipitation, from operational dynamical models over major cropland areas South America; analyze their predictability global local circulation patterns, such as El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO); attribute source prediction errors. We show that European Centre for Medium-Range...
Abstract. Hurricanes commonly disturb and damage tropical forests. Hurricane frequency intensity are predicted to change under the changing climate. The short-term impacts of hurricane disturbances forests have been widely studied, but long-term rarely investigated. Modeling is critical investigate potential response future disturbances, particularly if nature with Unfortunately, existing models forest dynamics not presently able account for disturbances. Therefore, we implement Disturbance...
After hurricane disturbances in tropical forests, the size structure and species composition are affected by immediate mortality, subsequent recruitment individual growth. Often, post-disturbance stand-level data presented but understanding of components that affect changes growth longer-term responses to forest lacking. To answer questions about how recruitment, change among successional Plant Functional Types (PFT) through time after a disturbance, we use long-term census (1989–2014)...
Precipitation estimates from numerical weather prediction (NWP) models are uncertain. The uncertainties can be reduced by integrating precipitation observations into NWP models. This study assimilates Version 04 Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for the Global Measurement (GPM) (IMERG) Final Run Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model data assimilation (WRFDA) system using a four-dimensional variational (4D-Var) method. Three synoptic-scale convective events over central United...
Abstract The southern Bay of Bengal (BoB) is a region rich mesoscale eddy activity that plays an important role in modulating water exchange between the BoB and Arabian Sea. Although statistical surface characteristics eddies have been sufficiently explored previously, most studies concentrated on western central BoB, but rarely BoB. In this study, energetic anticyclonic (AE) was detected by long‐term mooring observations during June 2020. revealed AE‐induced maximum temperature salinity...
Abstract Hurricanes are expected to intensify throughout the 21st century, yet impact of frequent major hurricanes on tropical ecosystems remains unknown. To investigate forest damage and recovery under different hurricane regimes, we generate a suite scenarios based Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 climate projections increased recurrence intensity for Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. We then use Ecosystem Demography model predict changes in carbon stocks, structure...
S1: Estimation of hurricane wind speed at BEWHurricane field can be reconstructed using the HURRECON model, which estimates sustained speed, peak gust, and direction a given point information track, size, intensity cover type (land or water) (Boose et al. 1994;Boose 2004).The (Vs; m s -1 ) any P in northern hemisphere are estimated aswhere F is scaling parameter for friction (F = 1 if on water, 0.8 otherwise), S asymmetry (1.0), Vm maximum overwater (m hurricane, T clockwise angle (degree)...
Abstract. Hurricanes commonly disturb and damage tropical forests. It is predicted that changes in climate will result hurricane frequency intensity. Modeling needed to investigate the potential response of forests future disturbances. Unfortunately, existing models dynamics are not presently able account for We implement Hurricane Disturbance Ecosystem Demography model (ED2) (ED2-HuDi). The disturbance includes hurricane-induced immediate mortality subsequent recovery modules....