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1 CRAIG R. FERGUSON Research Associate Atmospheric Sciences Research Center University at Albany, SUNY 251 Fuller Road, CESTM L-122, Albany, NY, Voice: (518) PEER-REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS: 19. Thapa, K., T.Endreny, and C.R. Ferguson (2015), Atmospheric rivers carry cold season extreme precipitation into western Nepal, JGR-Atmospheres, in-preparation. 18. Ferguson, C.R. and M.-H. Lee (2015), The statistical inhomogeneity of surface air temperature in global atmospheric reanalyses, Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., in-revision. 17. Song, H.-J., C.R. Ferguson, and J.K. Roundy (2015), Land-atmosphere coupling at the Southern Great Plains Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) field site and its role in anomalous afternoon peak precipitation, J. Hydrometeor., doi: /jhm-d , in press. 16. He, X., Kim, H., Kirstetter, P.-E., Yoshimura, K., Chang, E.-C., Ferguson, C.R., Erlingis, J., Hong, Y., T. Oki (2014), The diurnal cycle of precipitation in regional spectral model simulations over West Africa: sensitivities to resolution and cumulus schemes, Wea.Forecasting, 30 (2), , doi: /WAF-D Ferguson, C.R. and G. Villarini (2014), An evaluation of the statistical homogeneity of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis, Clim Dyn, 42, , doi: /s Roundy, J.K., C.R. Ferguson, and E.F. Wood (2014), Impact of land-atmospheric coupling in CFSv2 on drought prediction, Clim Dyn, 43, , doi: /s Gentine, P., C.R. Ferguson, and A.A.M Holtslag (2013), Diagnosing evaporative fraction from boundary layer clouds, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, doi: /jgrd Roundy, J.K., C.R. Ferguson, and E.F. Wood (2013), Temporal variability of land-atmosphere coupling and its implications for drought over the southeast United States, J. Hydrometeor., 14, , doi: /jhm-d Ferguson, C.R. and G. Villarini (2012), Detecting inhomogeneities in the Twentieth Century Reanalysis over the central United States, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 117, D05123, doi: /2011jd Ferguson, C.R., E.F. Wood, and R.K. Vinukollu (2012), A global inter-comparison of modeled and observed landatmosphere coupling, J. Hydrometeor., JHM-D , 13(3), , doi: /jhm-d Ferguson, C.R. and E.F. Wood (2011), Observed land-atmosphere coupling from satellite remote sensing and reanalysis, J. Hydrometeor., 12(6), , doi: /2011JHM Ferguson, C. R. and E. F. Wood (2010), An evaluation of satellite remote-sensing data products for land surface hydrology: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), J. Hydrometeor., 11, , doi: /2010JHM Ferguson, C. R., J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, and H. Gao (2010), Quantifying uncertainty in a remote sensing-based estimate of evapotranspiration over the continental United States, Int. J. Rem. Sens., 31, pp , doi: / of 6

2 6. Gao, H., Q. Tang, C. R. Ferguson, E. F. Wood, and D. P. Lettenmaier (2010), Estimating the water budget of major U.S. river basins via remote sensing, Int. J. Rem. Sens., 31, pp Vinukollu, R. V., E. F. Wood, C. R. Ferguson, and J. B. Fisher (2010), Global Estimates of evapotranspiration for climate studies using multi-sensor remote sensing data: Evaluation of two process-based approaches, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115 (3), , doi: /j.rse Jones, L. A., C. R. Ferguson, J. S. Kimball, K. Zhang, S. K. Chan, K. C. McDonald, E. G. Njoku, and E. F. Wood (2010), Satellite microwave remote sensing of daily land surface air temperature minima and maxima from AMSR-E, IEEE JSTARS Special Issue on Microwave Remote Sensing for Land Hydrology Research and Applications, 3(1), doi: /JSTARS Ferguson, C. R. and E. F. Wood (2009), Observing land-atmosphere interaction globally with satellite remote sensing, In Proc. GEWEX Earth Observation and Water Cycle Science: Towards a Water Cycle Multi-mission Observation Strategy (Ed. H. Lacoste), ESA SP-674 (CD-ROM), ESA Publications Division, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 8pp. 2. Sheffield, J., C. R. Ferguson, T. J. Troy, E. F. Wood, and M. F. McCabe (2009), Closing the terrestrial water budget from satellite remote sensing, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L07403, doi: /2009gl Sahoo, A., P. Houser, C. R. Ferguson, E. F. Wood, P. Dirmeyer, and M. Kefatos (2008), Evaluation of AMSR-E soil moisture results using the in-situ data over the Little River Experimental Watershed, Georgia. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, , doi: /j.rse NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: 4. Bosilovich, M. and 25 co-authors (2012), Report of the 4th World Climate Research Programme International Conference on Reanalyses. Conference Report (available: 41 pp. 3. Santanello, J.A., C.R. Ferguson, M. Ek, P. Dirmeyer, O. Tuinenburg, C. Jacobs, C. van Heerwaarden, K. Findell, P. Gentine, and B. Lintner (2011), Local land-atmosphere coupling (LoCo) Research: Status and Results. GEWEX Newsletter, 21 (4), pp McCabe, M. E.F. Wood, H. Su, R.K. Vinukollu, C.R. Ferguson and Z. Su (2011), Multisensor Global Retrievals of Evapotranspiration for Climate Studies Using the Surface Energy Budget System. In Ramachandran, B. C. O. Justice, and M. J. Abrams (eds.) Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: NASA s Earth Observing System and the Science of ASTER and MODIS, Springer, NY, , ISBN: Wood, E.F., M. Pan, J. Sheffield, R.K. Vinukollu, C.R. Ferguson, H. Gao, Q. Tang, X. Shi, C. Zhu, T. Bohn, F. Su, D.P. Lettenmaier, A.K. Sahoo, G. De Lannoy, P.R. Houser, R.T. Pinker, Y. Ma, C. Li, and C. D. Kummerow (2009), Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for Terrestrial Water Cycle Data Records Version 1.0, in support of NASA MEaSUREs (Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments) Project. CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS: 44. Ferguson, C.R., H.-J Song, and J.K. Roundy (2015), Understanding land-atmosphere coupling and its predictability at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site, A31I-05, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December Ferguson, C.R. and M.-H. Lee (2015), The statistical inhomogeneity of surface air temperature in global atmospheric reanalyses, A11R-08, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December of 6

3 42. Roundy, J.K., J.A. Santanello, and C. R. Ferguson (2015), Impact of dynamical downscaling on model representation of land-atmosphere coupling strength, A11F-0104, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December Takeuchi, D., T.J. Yamada, C.R. Ferguson, and Y. Pokrel (2015), Analysis of the human activities influence on the water cycle, 12th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, APHW01-A010, Singapore, August Ferguson, C.R., H. Song, and J.K. Roundy (2015), What the diurnal cycle of precipitation tells us about landatmosphere coupling strength, EGU General Assembly, EGU , Vienna, Austria, April Song, H., C.R. Ferguson, and J.K. Roundy (2014), Diurnal cycle of precipitation frequency in land-atmosphere coupling regimes over the U.S. southern Great Plains, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December Thapa, K., T.E. Endreny, C.R. Ferguson, and H. Mao (2014), Understanding the role of water vapor transport in Nepal s extreme precipitation events, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December Song, H. and C.R. Ferguson (2014), Forecast uncertainty under different land-atmosphere coupling regimes, World Weather Open Science Conference, Montreal, Quebec, August Ferguson, C.R. and G. Villarini (2014), Artificial inhomogeneities in the Twentieth Century Reanalysis, World Weather Open Science Conference, Montreal, Quebec, August Ferguson, C.R. and M. Pan (2014), Validation of global land evapotranspiration in CMIP5 climate models, GEWEX 7 th International Scientific Conference on the Global Water and Energy Cycle, World Forum, The Hague, Netherlands, July Oki, T., H. Kim, C.R. Ferguson, P. Dirmeyer, and S.I. Seneviratne (2013), Global water balances reconstructed by multi-model offline simulations of land surface models under GSWP3, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec Ferguson, C.R. and G. Villarini (2013), Suitability of the twentieth century reanalysis for climate change assessment, EGU General Assembly, Session CL5.4 on Climate data bias-correction and homogenization and climate trends and variability assessment, Vienna, Austria, 12 April Roundy, J.K., C.R. Ferguson, and E.F. Wood (2013), Land-atmosphere coupling and seasonal forecast skill over the Great Plains and the Southeast United States, AMS 27th Conference on Hydrology, Session on Drought Prediction and Applications from a Hydrological Science Perspective, Austin, TX, 6-10 January Ferguson, C.R. and J.A. Santanello (2012), LoCo diagnostics and SGP testbed goals, 1 st Pan-GASS Workshop, NCAR, September Ferguson, C.R. and G. Villarini (2012), Detecting inhomogeneities in the twentieth century reanalysis over the central United States, WCRP 4th International Conference on Reanalyses, AT-13, Silver Spring, MD, 7-11 May Roundy, J.K., C.R. Ferguson, and E.F. Wood (2012), The temporal variability of land-atmosphere coupling regimes in the southeast United States, WCRP 4th International Conference on Reanalyses, UA-30, Silver Spring, MD, 7-11 May Ferguson, C.R., B. J. J. M. van den Hurk, R. Bintanja, and E. F. Wood (2012), Land-atmosphere coupling strength in EC-Earth recent past and future climate simulations, AMS 26th Conference on Hydrology and the 24 th 3 of 6

4 Conference on Climate Variability and Change, Session on land surface-atmosphere interactions, New Orleans, LA, January Ferguson, C.R. and E.F. Wood (2011), Local land-atmosphere coupling (LoCo): A global inter-comparison of modeled and observed land-atmosphere coupling, WCRP Open Science Conference, Session C31/W136A, Denver, CO, October Roundy, J., C.R. Ferguson, and E.F. Wood (2011), Local land-atmosphere coupling (LoCo): Forecast precipitation skill for different land-atmosphere coupling regimes in the Southeast United States, WCRP Open Science Conference, Session C31/W138A, Denver, CO, October Ferguson, C.R. and E.F. Wood (2011), Observed land-atmosphere coupling from satellite remote sensing and reanalysis, EGU General Assembly, Session on Land-Climate interactions from models and observations: Implications from past to future climate, Vienna, Austria, 5 April Wood, E.F., J. Sheffield, R.K. Vinukollu, C.R. Ferguson, K. Tao, and M. Pan (2011), Utility of remote sensing products for drought monitoring and retrospective analyses, WCRP Workshop on Drought Predictability and Prediction in a Changing Climate, Barcelona, Spain, 2-4 March Toll, D., B. Doorn, R. Lawford, M. Anderson, R. Allen, T. Martin, E.F. Wood, and C.R. Ferguson (2010), A summary of NASA-related contributions for the remote sensing of evapotranspiration in support of water management and agriculture, The USBR-Alliance University Applied Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration Conference, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV, August Ferguson, C. R. and E. F. Wood (2010), Classification of global land-atmosphere feedback regimes through satellite remote sensing, 2nd International Conference on Hydrology Delivers Earth System Science to Society (HESSS-2), Tokyo, Japan, June Ferguson, C. R. and E. F. Wood (2010), Quantifying land-atmosphere interaction with satellite remote sensing: Current capabilities, findings, and limits, AMS Joint Session between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 24th Conference on Hydrology, Session on Surface/Atmosphere Interactions, J13.4, Atlanta, GA, 21 January Vinukollu, R. K., J. Sheffield, C. R. Ferguson, M. Pan, E. F. Wood (2009), Developing evapotranspiration data records for the global terrestrial water cycle, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN43C Ferguson, C. R. and E. F. Wood (2009), Observing land-atmosphere interaction globally with satellite remote sensing, Poster Presentation at GEWEX Earth Observation and Water Cycle Science: Towards a Water Cycle Multimission Observation Strategy, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, November 18-20, Wood, E. F., R. Vinukollu, C. R. Ferguson, and J. Sheffield (2009), Development and evaluation of global, multisatellite terrestrial evapotranspiration products for climate studies, Oral Presentation at GEWEX Earth Observation and Water Cycle Science: Towards a Water Cycle Multi-mission Observation Strategy, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, November Wood, E. F., J. Sheffield, C. R. Ferguson, T. Troy, and M. Pan (2009), Observing global and continental terrestrial water and energy budgets using satellite remote sensing, Oral Presentation at GEWEX Earth Observation and Water Cycle Science: Towards a Water Cycle Multi-mission Observation Strategy, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, November Wood, E. F., J. Sheffield, C. R. Ferguson, R. Vinukollu, T. Troy, and H. Gao (2009), Continental and global-scale terrestrial water and energy budgets using remote sensing observations, Oral Presentation at the International Conference on Land Surface Radiation and Energy Budgets: Observations, Modeling and Analysis, Beijing, March of 6

5 15. Wood, E. F. and C. R. Ferguson (2008), Evaluating land-atmosphere coupling strength over CONUS using satellite-based remote sensing, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H13H-02 Invited. 14. Ferguson, C. R., Sheffield, J. S., and E. F. Wood (2008), Evapotranspiration estimates from satellite remote sensing: Are present-day products of sufficient accuracy?, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H43G Wood, E. F., Sheffield, J., Ferguson, C. R., Vinukollu, R., and T. Troy (2008), Continental and global-scale terrestrial water and energy budgets using remote sensing observations, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H31I-01 Invited. 12. Sheffield, J., Vinukollu, R., Ferguson, C. R., and E. F. Wood (2008), Towards estimating and validating evapotranspiration estimates at global scale, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H11A Gao, H., Lettenmaier, D., Ferguson, C. R., and E. F. Wood (2008), Estimating continental-scale water balances through remote sensing, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H31I Jones, L., Kimball, J., Zhang, K., Chan, S., Ferguson, C. R., and E. F. Wood (2008), Daily land surface air temperature and vapor pressure deficit derived from AMSR-E: comparison with AIRS and northern hemisphere meteorological stations, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H41B Ferguson, C. R. and E. F. Wood (2008), Mapping the remote sensing record of land-atmosphere coupling strength over CONUS. Poster Presentation at International Workshop on Microwave Remote Sensing for Land Hydrology Research and Applications, Oxnard, CA, October Ferguson, C. R. and E. F. Wood (2008), Assessing land-atmosphere interactions over the continental US from space. Oral Presentation at the GEWEX LoCo/Watch Workshop, The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Utrecht, Netherlands, June Ferguson, C. R., Vinukollu, R. V. and E. F. Wood (2008), Estimating global terrestrial evapotranspiration from space. Poster Presentation at the Princeton-IBM Workshop on Energy & Environment, Princeton University, NJ, 23 May Wood, E. F., Ferguson, C. R. and J.D. Albertson (2008), Multi-scale analysis of soil moisture estimation and its dynamical coupling to the lower atmosphere. Oral Presentation in the 2008 General Assembly Meeting of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April Sheffield, J., Ferguson, C. R. and E. F. Wood (2008), Potential of using soil moisture remote sensing for drought monitoring, Oral Presentation at the NIDIS Knowledge Assessment Workshop: Contributions of Satellite Remote Sensing to Drought Monitoring, David Skaggs Research Center, NOAA, Boulder, CO, 6-7 February Wood, E. F., Ferguson, C. R., Vinukollo, R., Pinker, R. T., Running, S. W., and H. Wang (2007), The NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) evapotranspiration product: the new MOD16, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H31l Ferguson, C. R., Sheffield, J., Wood, E. F., Vinukollo, R., and M. Pan (2007), Regional water budgets from multisensor, multi-satellite remote sensing, Oral Presentation in the GEWEX 2nd Space for Hydrology Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, November Pan, M., C. R. Ferguson, W. Crow, and E. F. Wood (2006), Using data assimilation techniques to calibrate soil moisture retrievals, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H21l of 6

6 1. Ferguson, C. R. and S. Shannon (2004), Estimating soil-water evaporation at varying depths in the presence of a fluctuating water table, Poster Presentation in the 2004 Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, Montreal, Canada, November of 6

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