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Sarah Worden
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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Congo Basin Water Balance and Terrestrial Fluxes Inferred From Satellite Observations of the Isotopic Composition of Water Vapor
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
10 july 2024
John Worden, Sarah Worden, A. Anthony Bloom, Paul ...

Large spatio‐temporal gradients in the Congo basin vegetation and rainfall are observed. However, its water‐balance (evapotranspiration...

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The Role of Evapotranspiration in Initiating the Rainy Season in the Southern Congo Basin
TROPICAL ISLANDS, MOUNTAINS, AND FORESTS: UNDERSTANDING ECOSYSTEM, CLIMATE, AND HYDROLOGIC PROCESSES IN VULNERABLE REGIONS POSTER
biogeosciences | 11 december 2023
Sarah Worden, Rong Fu
The Congo Basin faces large changes to its rainfall regime; as such, many previous studies have focused on the mechanisms that control rainfall during...
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Water and Carbon Fluxes are Weakly Coupled Across Equatorial Africa
FOREST EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND ECOHYDROLOGY UNDER A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: PROCESSES AND QUANTIFICATIONS I ORAL
hydrology | 11 december 2023
Sarah Worden, Sassan S. Saatchi
Evapotranspiration (ET) and gross primary productivity (GPP) are often assumed to be tightly coupled processes. However, we show that within the tropi...
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Estimating Evapotranspiration in the Congo Basin Using Remotely-Sensed Measurements to Constrain a Terrestrial Ecosystem Model
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (ET): ADVANCES IN IN SITU ET MEASUREMENTS AND REMOTE-SENSING-BASED ET ESTIMATION, MAPPING, AND EVALUATION II ORAL
hydrology | 15 december 2022
Sarah Worden, Rong Fu, A. Anthony Bloom, Paul A. L...
Tropical rainforests are under immense stress due to forest disturbance from human activities and climate variability. However, while the Amazon and I...
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Merging multiple observational data streams to constrain carbon uptake and water loss in the Amazon basin
FROM PLANT TO ECOSYSTEM-SCALE: LEVERAGING GROUND, DRONE, AIRBORNE, AND SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS TO UNDERSTAND ECOHYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES IN TROPICS II ORAL
learning from observations | 21 june 2022
Paul A. Levine, A. Anthony Bloom, Alexandra G. Kon...
The Amazon River basin contains a substantial amount of carbon stored within terrestrial ecosystems. The unknown fate of this this carbon remains a su...
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Quantifying ET Over the Congo Basin Using a Combination of Remotely-sensed and Surface Measurements
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (ET): ADVANCES IN IN SITU ET MEASUREMENTS AND REMOTE-SENSING BASED ET ESTIMATION, MAPPING, AND EVALUATION III ORAL
hydrology | 17 december 2021
Sarah Worden, Rong Fu, John R. Worden, A. Anthony ...
The Congo Basin hosts the driest rainforest in the world, with large uncertainties in rainfall. Determining the moisture contributions to rainfall is ...
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Exploring the Potential of Unsupervised Machine Learning and Satellite Measurements to Derive Climate Zones in the USA
AGRICULTURE/CROP YIELD AND NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS PRODUCTIVITY FORECAST FOR BUILDING RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE ADAPTABILITY USING MODELING AND REMOTE SENSING III POSTER
hydrology | 17 december 2021
Sarah Worden, Matthew Worden, Jacob Bortnik, Rong ...
Identifying climate zones is important for assessing population and ecosystem vulnerabilities to climate changes. We explore the potential of using th...
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Where Does Moisture Come From Over the Congo Basin?
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: BIOGEOSCIENCES
21 august 2021
Sarah Worden, Rong Fu, SUDIP CHAKRABORTY, Junjie L...

The Congo Basin hosts the world's second largest rainforest and is a major rainfall center. However, the primary sources of moisture needed to main...

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