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Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Professor, University of California Irvine
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Understanding the varying performance of satellite precipitation products during the lifecycle of precipitation events
SPACE-BASED PRECIPITATION OBSERVATIONS: INNOVATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS V ORAL
hydrology | 13 december 2023
Runze Li, Clément Guilloteau, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirs...
Accurate representation of the timing, duration, magnitude and peak intensity of precipitation events (defined as continuous rainy periods) in satelli...
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Active Fire Line as a Key Control on Hourly Fire Growth for Predictive Modeling
THE ROLE OF FIRE IN THE EARTH SYSTEM: UNDERSTANDING DRIVERS, FEEDBACKS, AND INTERACTIONS WITH THE LAND, ATMOSPHERE, AND SOCIETY I POSTER
biogeosciences | 13 december 2023
Tianjia Liu, James T. Randerson, Yang Chen, Dougla...
Recent fire seasons in the western United States, particularly in California in 2020 and 2021, included dozens of megafires that lasted for weeks and ...
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Conditions Favoring the Formation of River Mouth Spits and Their Effects on Delta Morphodynamics
PREDICTING THE FATE OF RIVER DELTAS AND COASTAL WETLANDS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND EXPERIMENTATION III POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 13 december 2023
Connor Broaddus, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
River deltas are important depositional landforms at the land-water interface, supporting biodiversity and hosting a variety of natural resources. Man...
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Growing or Stagnant? Predict the kinematic status of a deltaic distributary channel network with a single hydrodynamic variable
PREDICTING THE FATE OF RIVER DELTAS AND COASTAL WETLANDS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND EXPERIMENTATION II ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 13 december 2023
Hongbo Ma, Lawrence M. Vulis, John Shaw, Alejandro...
Distributary channel networks (DCNs) are veins of river deltas, conveying water, nutrients, and sediment to receiving basins, such as oceans and lakes...
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Cloud’s life cycle and its influence on the accuracy of satellite precipitation estimation
SPACE-BASED PRECIPITATION OBSERVATIONS: INNOVATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS I POSTER
hydrology | 12 december 2023
Clément Guilloteau, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Passive radiances and active reflectivities measured in the microwave domain by low Earth orbit (LEO) instruments provide ample direct information reg...
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Using Repeat Airborne Laser Mapping for Prediction of Postfire Sediment Yield from Small Steep Catchments
FLASH FLOODS AND DEBRIS FLOWS AFTER WILDFIRE: PROCESS UNDERSTANDING TO HAZARD ASSESSMENT I ORAL
natural hazards | 11 december 2023
James J. Guilinger, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Andrew ...
In southern California, where debris flows following wildfires are a common occurrence, models have been developed by the USGS to predict sediment vol...
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Temporal Lags and Cloud Heights of Strong Mesoscale Soil Moisture-Cloud Feedback in the Central US
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE AND APPLIED SCIENCES USING MEASUREMENTS FROM THE NASA SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) SATELLITE MISSION I ORAL
hydrology | 11 december 2023
Yifu Gao, Clément Guilloteau, Efi Foufoula-Georgio...
The mesoscale soil moisture (SM)-cloud/precipitation feedback has been extensively studied in terms of signs, horizontal scales, and magnitudes of the...
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A New Event‐Based Error Decomposition Scheme for Satellite Precipitation Products
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
20 november 2023
Runze Li, Clément Guilloteau, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirs...
Understanding the nature and origin of errors in satellite precipitation products is important for applications and product improvement. Here we pr...