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Dennis P Lettenmaier P. Lettenmaier
Professor, University of California Los Angeles
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Did Historical Storms Used in Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) Estimation Reach Maximum Efficiency? A Large Model Ensemble Approach
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
16 december 2024
Emilie G. Tarouilly, Stefan Rahimi, Jason M. Corde...

The flood that would result from the greatest depth of precipitation “meteorologically possible”, or Probable Maximum Precipitation (PM...

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Simulating and Monitoring Reservoir Storage Changes Using SWOT Observations and Land Surface Models
THE SURFACE WATER AND OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY (SWOT) MISSION: NEW FRONTIERS IN HYDROLOGY IV POSTER
hydrology | 11 december 2024
Xiaoyu Ma, Konstantinos Andreadis, Dennis P. Lette...
Reservoirs play a crucial role for water management, yet comprehensive observations of reservoir storage changes remain sparse. Key parameters for rea...
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Increasing Spatial Contiguity of Drought-Based Fire Danger Events in the Western United States
HYDROCLIMATE AND EXTREMES IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES IN A CHANGING CLIMATE II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 10 december 2024
Bowen Wang, Gavin Dayanga Madakumbura, Qian He, De...
Wildfire activity has rapidly increased and intensified in the western United States (US) in recent decades due to a warming and drying climate. Atmos...
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Trends in atmospheric evaporative demand across the Tibetan Plateau,1980-2015
ADVANCES IN INTEGRATED WATER CONTINUUM FROM ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE TO RIVER SYSTEMS UNDER GLOBAL CHANGES POSTER
hydrology | 09 december 2024
Shiqin Xu, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Tim Mc Vicar, Pi...
The Tibetan Plateau, known as the Asian water tower, is a hotspot for complex hydroclimatic changes. Previous research indicated that the atmospheric ...
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Understanding Terrestrial Water and Carbon Cycles and Their Interactions Using Integrated SMAP Soil Moisture and OCO‐2 SIF Observations and Land Surface Models
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
12 september 2024
Zhijiong Cao, Yongkang Xue, Hara P. Nayak, Dennis ...

Recently, more advanced synchronous global‐scale satellite observations, the Soil Moisture Active Passive enhanced Level 3 (SMAP L3) soil moi...

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Decelerating Runoff Response to Warming with Declining Snowpacks in the Montane Western U.S.
APPLICATIONS IN SNOW HYDROLOGY: LINKING SNOWPACK AND STREAMFLOW ACROSS SCALES II ORAL
hydrology | 15 december 2023
Zhaoxin Ban, Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Snow loss under climate warming has been a prominent hydrologic signature across the Western United States (WUS) in recent decades, posing a threat to...
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Changes in hydrometeorology in the headwaters of the Yellow River Basin
THE THIRD POLE ENVIRONMENT (TPE) UNDER GLOBAL CHANGES I POSTER
global environmental change | 14 december 2023
Shiqin Xu, Zhongbo Yu, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Tim ...
Our study domain is the headwaters of the Yellow River Basin (HYRB) (around 122 000 km2) which is in the north-east of the Tibetan Plateau, and experi...
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Estimating river discharge from satellite observations with neural differential equations
THE SURFACE WATER AND OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY (SWOT) MISSION: A NEW SATELLITE FOR EARTH’S WATER CYCLE II POSTER
hydrology | 14 december 2023
Konstantinos Andreadis, Colin J. Gleason, J. T. Mi...
River discharge, arguably the most important hydrologic variable, is challenging to measure accurately and continuously, particularly in data-scarce r...
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