Development and Validation of Process Algorithms of Urbanization for Water Cycle, Data Assimilation and Climate studies

Start Date:

01/01/2005

End Date:

01/01/2008

Project Call:

Earth Observing System

Science Theme:

Water and Energy Cycle Impacts

Climate Variability and Change

Observations and Data

Regional Initiative:

GOFC-GOLD Regional Networks

Region:

Solicitation:

Team members:

Person Name	Person role on project	Affiliation
Lahouari Bounoua	Principal Investigator	NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States

Project Documents

Year	Authors	Type	Title
2012	Lahouari Bounoua Marc Imhoff	Poster Presentation	Irrigation Requirement Estimation Using MODIS Vegetation Indices and Inverse Biophysical Modeling
2010	Lahouari Bounoua	Publications	Imhoff M.L, P. Zhang, R. E. Wolfe and L. Bounoua 2010: Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA, RSE 114, 504–513.
2010	Lahouari Bounoua	Publications	Bounoua, L., F. G. Hall, P. J. Sellers, A. Kumar, G. J. Collatz, C. J. Tucker, and M. L. Imhoff (2010), Quantifying the negative feedback of vegetation to greenhouse warming: A modeling approach, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L23701, doi:10.1029/2010GL045338
2010	Lahouari Bounoua	Publications	Zhang P., M.L. Imhoff, R. E. Wolfe, and L. Bounoua, 2010: Characterizing Urban Heat Islands of Global Settlements Using MODIS and Nighttime Lights Products, accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing.
2009	Lahouari Bounoua	Publications	Bounoua L, A. Safia, J. Masek, C. Peters-Lidard, and M. L. Imhoff, 2009: Impact of urban growth on surface climate: A case study in Oran, Algeria. Journal of pplied Meteorology and Climatology, Volume 48, 217-231 DOI: 0.1175/2008JAMC2044.1
2009	Lahouari Bounoua Marc Imhoff Jeffrey Masek Changsheng Lidars	NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation	Large Scale Urbanization for Climate Studies
2007	Lahouari Bounoua	Publications	Gray Wave of the Great Transformation Marc L. Imhoff, Lahouari Bounoua, and Marshall Shepherd, 2007 In ‘Our changing Planet’, NASA - Cambridge niversity Press, M. King, Editor.
2006	Lahouari Bounoua	Publications	Imhoff ML, Bounoua L, 2006: Exploring global patterns of net primary oduction carbon supply and demand using satellite observations and tatistical data. J . Geoph. Res. – Atmospheres, 111, Article D22S12.
2006		NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation	Development of Process Algorithms and Datasets for Urbanization and Climate Studies
2006	Lahouari Bounoua	Publications	Bounoua L, J. Masek J and Y. M. Tourre, 2006: Sensitivity of surface climate to land surface parameters: A case study using the simple biosphere model SiB2. J.G.R – Atmospheres, 111, Article D22S09.