Daniel Short Gianotti
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  • Publications
    • Carbon Fixation Pathways Drive Grassland Responses to Soil Moisture and Atmospheric Dryness
    • Meteorological to Agricultural Drought Transitions Compounded by Heat Waves in Historical and Future Climates
    • Observed Interactions of Water in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Continuum Across Dry and Wet Regimes
    • Review of Soil Moisture Impacts on Human Heat Stress and Mortality
    • Soil Moisture Impact on Convective Initiation
    • Structural and Canopy Water-Use Efficiency Drivers of Water-Carbon Coupling Patterns
    • A global dataset of remote sensing-based soil critical point and permanent wilting point
    • Lightning Density and Its Coupled Covariates Within the Continental United States
    • Local and general patterns of terrestrial water-carbon coupling
    • Two sub-annual timescales and coupling modes for terrestrial water and carbon cycles
    • Land Surface Influence on Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) Change During Interstorms
    • Land Surfaces at the Tipping-Point for Water and Energy Balance Coupling
    • Remotely sensed soil moisture can capture dynamics relevant to plant water uptake
    • Tropical surface temperature response to vegetation cover changes and the role of drylands
    • Can Surface Soil Moisture Information Identify Evapotranspiration Regime Transitions?
    • Observed landscape responsiveness to climate forcing
    • Observed water and light limitation across global ecosystems
    • Satellite-based assessment of meteorological and agricultural drought in Mainland Southeast Asia
    • A long term spatially and temporally consistent global daily soil moisture dataset derived from AMSR-E/2
    • Patterns of plant rehydration and growth following pulses of soil moisture availability
    • Historical Landscape Drainage Estimates Derived from Satellite-Era Hydrological Dynamics
    • Land-atmosphere drivers of landscape-scale plant water content loss
    • Landscape-scale plant water content and carbon flux behavior following moisture pulses: from dryland to mesic environments
    • Terrestrial Evaporation and Moisture Drainage in a Warmer Climate
    • Value of chlorophyll fluorescence for quantifying hydrological states and fluxes: Current status and challenges
    • Landscape water storage and subsurface correlation from satellite surface soil moisture and precipitation observations
    • Mapped Hydroclimatology of Evapotranspiration and Drainage Runoff Using SMAP Brightness Temperature Observations and Precipitation Information
    • Satellite and station observations demonstrate water availability's effect on continental-scale evaporative and photosynthetic land surface dynamics
    • Satellite-based assessment of land surface energy partitioning-soil moisture relationships and effects of confounding variables
    • Estimation of landscape soil water losses from satellite observations of soil moisture
    • Hydrological storage length-scales represented by remote sensing estimates of soil moisture and precipitation
    • Partitioning evapotranspiration over the continental United States using weather station data
    • Pulse-response vegetation water uptake is persistent across biomes
    • Soil and atmospheric controls on the land surface energy balance: A generalized framework for distinguishing moisture- and energy-limited evaporation regimes
    • Global characterization of surface soil moisture drydowns
    • Tracking the Pacific Decadal Precession
    • A decadal precession of atmospheric pressures over the North Pacific
    • Dominant timescales of potentially predictable precipitation variations across the continental United States
    • Changes in Autumn Senescence in Northern Hemisphere Deciduous Trees: a Meta-Analysis of Autumn Phenology Studies
    • Characterizing the potential predictability of seasonal, station-based heavy precipitation accumulations and extreme dry-spell durations
    • Detectability of historical trends in station-based precipitation characteristics over the continental United States
    • The Potential Predictability of Precipitation Occurrence, Intensity, and Seasonal Totals over the Continental United States
    • Shifting seasonality and increasing frequency of precipitation in wet and dry seasons across the US
    • What Do Rain Gauges Tell Us about the Limits of Precipitation Predictability?
  • Talks
    • Global Mapping of Groundwater Recharge and Sustainable Aquifer Water Withdrawls using Satellite Observations
    • Patterns and Drivers of Water/Carbon Coupling Across Biomes
    • Analyses of the relationship between horizontal and vertical brightness temperatures for derivation of signal-to-noise ratio and vegetation metrics
    • Global Characterizations of Drydown Events from a Long-Term Satellite Soil Moisture Dataset
    • Land Surface Influence on Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) Change During Drydowns
    • Land Surface Influence on Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) Change During Interstorms
    • Remote sensing based framework for observing water and light limitation across global ecosystems
    • Remotely sensed soil moisture can capture dynamics relevant to plant water uptake
    • The Drought Cascade in a Changing Climate
    • Time-scales of water/carbon coupling and their similarities across biomes
    • Can Surface Soil Moisture Information Identify Landscape Evapotranspiration Regime Transitions?
    • Detection and mapping of shifts in dominant hydrologic processes guide model development
    • Ecosystem structural dynamics dominate water-use efficiency in coupling the terrestrial water and carbon cycles
    • Land Surface Influence on Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) Evolution During Drydowns
    • Observed landscape responsiveness to climate forcing
    • Soil Moisture Impacts on Convective Lightning Triggering
    • Tropical surface temperature response to vegetation cover changes and the role of drylands
    • A new framework for global soil moisture dry-down analysis and its application for vegetation water stress quantification
    • An emergent spatial Water/Energy/Carbon relationship explained by local coupling
    • Emergent observed coupling of terrestrial water, energy, and carbon fluxes
    • Observed landscape responsiveness to climate forcing
    • Climatic Changes in Land Surface Evaporation and Drainage to Streams
    • Emergent Climatological Coupling of the Terrestrial Carbon Sink with Water and Energy Availability
    • Land-atmosphere drivers of landscape-scale plant water content loss using satellite observations
    • Satellite-observed patterns of plant water refilling and growth response following pulses of soil moisture availability
    • SMAP Measurements Show Water Movement in the Soil-Plant Continuum as Pulses
    • Thirsty plants: Tracking their water uptake from space
    • Water limitation and vegetation response
    • Consequences of the Acceleration of Water Cycle on Surface Water Balance Components Using SMAP Observations
    • Decadal Distribution of ET and Drainage Based on SMAP Based Hydrologic Analogues and Historical Precipitation
    • Estimating Surface Soil Moisture from AMSR2 TB with Artificial Neural Network Method and SMAP Products
    • Impacts of Soil Moisture on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Exchanges
    • Land Surface Fluxes and Hydrologic Sensitivities in a Warmer Climate
    • Satellite-based assessment of land surface energy partitioning-soil moisture relationships and effects of confounding variables
    • Satellite-Based Assessment of Surface Energy Partitioning Soil Moisture Relationships
    • Seasonal Hydroclimatology of ET and Drainage from SMAP TB and Precipitation
    • Surface-Subsurface Linkages Derived From SMAP Time Series
    • The impact of higher-than-radiometer resolution landscape and weather features on SMAP product
    • Water availability controls on vegetated ecosystems
    • Estimating Surface Soil Moisture from AMSR2 TB with Machine Learning Methods and SMAP Products
    • Estimation of ecosystem-scale soil water losses from satellite observations of soil moisture
    • Hydrologic length scale of L-band radiometric soil moisture retrievals
    • Linkages between water, energy and carbon cycles revealed by SMAP
    • Partitioning evapotranspiration over the continental United States using SMAP observations and weather station data
    • Water Exchange Patterns in the Soil-Plant Continuum Based on SMAP Microwave Satellite Measurements
    • Water Exchange Patterns in the Soil-Plant Continuum Based on SMAP Microwave Satellite Measurements
    • Water Use Efficiency Dependence on Soil Moisture
    • Effects of water availability through the coupled land-atmosphere system
    • Estimation of ecosystem-scale soil water losses from satellite observations of soil moisture
    • Soil moisture (SMAP) and vapor pressure deficit controls on evaporation fraction over the Continental U.S.
    • Soil moisture controls on water/energy/carbon coupling
    • The Science Applications of SMAP
    • What determines transitions between energy- and moisture-limited evaporative regimes?
    • Soil Moisture Controls on Evaporative Fraction
    • The Potential Predictability of Precipitation over the Continental United States
    • California Drought, Weather Variability, and Climate Variability
    • Weather models for climate variability
    • Characterizing weather and climate variability for precipitation: A data-based stochastic modeling framework
    • Integrating satellite and tower phenology: a case-study in real-time ecological forecasting
    • Predicting phenology: A case-study in real-time ecological forecasting
    • Real weather, fake weather, and the California Drought
    • Stochastic analysis of California's recent precipitation drought in the context of the last one hundred years
    • Potential Predictability of Precipitation: Occurrence or Intensity?
    • Establishing Potential Predictability of U.S. Precipitation Using Rain Gauge Data
    • Historical expansion of the summertime monsoon over the southwestern United States: What can regional models tell us about its causes?
    • How predictable is rain?
    • Magnitude and significance of observed trends in precipitation frequency over the U.S.
    • Magnitude and significance of observed trends in precipitation frequency over the US
    • Stochastic and deterministic aspects of observed seasonal-mean precipitation variations and extreme event occurrences over the United States
    • Detection of historical precipitation variations and trends over the continental United States
    • Detection of historical summertime monsoon precipitation variations and trends over the southwestern United States
    • Stochastic and deterministic aspects of observed seasonal-mean precipitation variations and extreme event occurrences over the United States
    • Application of a Thermal-hydraulic Model to Analyze and Design a Circulating Water System in Alaska
    • Upgrades to a wastewater lagoon treatment system in a rural sub-Arctic community in Alaska
    • Wastewater treatment lagoon design in rural Alaska

Soil Moisture Impact on Convective Initiation

January 1, 2026·
Faisal AlNasser
,
Daniel J Short Gianotti
,
Dara Entekhabi
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Last updated on January 1, 2026
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