Evapotranspiration of urban landscapes in Los Angeles, California at the municipal scale

Urban heat island-induced increases in evapotranspirative demand

(2017) Samuel C. Zipper et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A method for estimating transpiration of irrigated urban trees in California

(2017) Elizaveta Litvak et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

The complementary relationship between actual and potential evaporation for spatially heterogeneous surfaces

(2017) Milad Aminzadeh et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Seasonal variation in ecosystem water use efficiency in an urban-forest reserve affected by periodic drought

(2016) Jing Xie et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Cooling and energy saving potentials of shade trees and urban lawns in a desert city

(2016) Zhi-Hua Wang et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

Fragmented Flows: Water Supply in Los Angeles County

(2016) Stephanie Pincetl et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Empirical modeling and spatio-temporal patterns of urban evapotranspiration for the Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona

(2016) Chuyuan Wang et al.   GIScience & Remote Sensing

Climate tolerances and trait choices shape continental patterns of urban tree biodiversity

(2016) G. Darrel Jenerette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evapotranspiration of urban lawns in a semi-arid environment: An in situ evaluation of microclimatic conditions and watering recommendations

(2016) Elizaveta Litvak et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Increases in the climate change adaption effectiveness and availability of vegetation across a coastal to desert climate gradient in metropolitan Los Angeles, CA, USA

(2016) Amin Tayyebi et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The influence of increasing tree cover on mean radiant temperature across a mixed development suburb in Adelaide, Australia

(2016) Jasmine K. Thom et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Impact of land surface states within the flux footprint on daytime land-atmosphere coupling in two semiarid ecosystems of the Southwestern U.S.

(2016) Cody A. Anderson et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Comparing Three Approaches of Evapotranspiration Estimation in Mixed Urban Vegetation: Field-Based, Remote Sensing-Based and Observational-Based Methods

(2016) Hamideh Nouri et al.   Remote Sensing

Crop evapotranspiration estimation with FAO56: Past and future

(2015) Luis S. Pereira et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Optimizing urban irrigation schemes for the trade-off between energy and water consumption

(2015) Jiachuan Yang et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

The energy trade-offs of adapting to a water-scarce future: case study of Los Angeles

(2015) Kelly Twomey Sanders   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT

Convergence of microclimate in residential landscapes across diverse cities in the United States

(2015) Sharon J. Hall et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Water and climate: Recognize anthropogenic drought

(2015) Amir AghaKouchak et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California

(2015) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Are you watering your lawn?

(2015) T. S. Hogue et al.   SCIENCE

Urban irrigation effects on WRF-UCM summertime forecast skill over the Los Angeles metropolitan area

(2015) P. Vahmani et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Ecological homogenization of urban USA

(2014) Peter M Groffman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Seasonal dynamics of a suburban energy balance in Phoenix, Arizona

(2014) Winston T. L. Chow et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Incorporating an Urban Irrigation Module into the Noah Land Surface Model Coupled with an Urban Canopy Model

(2014) Pouya Vahmani et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Estimation of residential outdoor water use in Los Angeles, California

(2014) C. Mini et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Effects of urban parks on the local urban thermal environment

(2014) Chi-Ru Chang et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

A comparative study of the water budgets of lawns under three management scenarios

(2014) Neeta S. Bijoor et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Evaluating the impact of urban morphology configurations on the accuracy of urban canopy model temperature simulations with MODIS

(2014) Andrew J. Monaghan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Adding trees to irrigated turfgrass lawns may be a water-saving measure in semi-arid environments

(2013) Elizaveta Litvak et al.   Ecohydrology

Remote estimation of terrestrial evapotranspiration without using meteorological data

(2013) Yuting Yang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The luxury of vegetation and the legacy of tree biodiversity in Los Angeles, CA

(2013) Lorraine Weller Clarke et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Assessing the impact of end-member selection on the accuracy of satellite-based spatial variability models for actual evapotranspiration estimation

(2013) Di Long et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A trait-based ecology of the Los Angeles urban forest

(2013) D. E. Pataki et al.   Ecosphere

Assessing the Role of Parameter and Input Uncertainty in Ecohydrologic Modeling: Implications for a Semi-arid and Urbanizing Coastal California Catchment

(2012) Catherine A. Shields et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Improvement of the Noah land surface model for warm season processes: evaluation of water and energy flux simulation

(2012) Helin Wei et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Evapotranspiration along an elevation gradient in California's Sierra Nevada

(2012) M. L. Goulden et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Transpiration sensitivity of urban trees in a semi-arid climate is constrained by xylem vulnerability to cavitation

(2012) E. Litvak et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

A review of ET measurement techniques for estimating the water requirements of urban landscape vegetation

(2012) Hamideh Nouri et al.   Urban Water Journal

Revised eddy covariance flux calculation methodologies – effect on urban energy balance

(2012) Annika Nordbo et al.   TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY

Socio-ecohydrology and the urban water challenge

(2011) D. E. Pataki et al.   Ecohydrology

Ecosystem services and urban heat riskscape moderation: water, green spaces, and social inequality in Phoenix, USA

(2011) G. Darrel Jenerette et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Is everyone hot in the city? Spatial pattern of land surface temperatures, land cover and neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics in Baltimore, MD

(2011) Ganlin Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Seasonal contributions of vegetation types to suburban evapotranspiration

(2011) Emily B. Peters et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Water relations of coast redwood planted in the semi-arid climate of southern California

(2011) ELIZAVETA LITVAK et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Improvements to a MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration algorithm

(2011) Qiaozhen Mu et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Transpiration of urban forests in the Los Angeles metropolitan area

(2010) Diane E. Pataki et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The influence of trees and grass on outdoor thermal comfort in a hot-arid environment

(2010) Limor Shashua-Bar et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Million trees Los Angeles canopy cover and benefit assessment

(2010) E. Gregory McPherson et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Reclaiming freshwater sustainability in the Cadillac Desert

(2010) J. L. Sabo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water, climate change, and sustainability in the southwest

(2010) G. M. MacDonald   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A continuous satellite-derived global record of land surface evapotranspiration from 1983 to 2006

(2010) Ke Zhang et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Drivers of variability in water use of native and non-native urban trees in the greater Los Angeles area

(2010) Heather R. McCarthy et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

ECOWAT—A model for ecosystem evapotranspiration estimation

(2009) D. Spano et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Surface Energy Balance Measurements Above an Exurban Residential Neighbourhood of Kansas City, Missouri

(2009) Ahmed A. Balogun et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

Remote sensing based evapotranspiration and runoff modeling of agricultural, forest and urban flux sites in Denmark: From field to macro-scale

(2009) E. Boegh et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

The cooling efficiency of urban landscape strategies in a hot dry climate

(2009) Limor Shashua-Bar et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Comparative hydraulic and anatomic properties in palm trees (Washingtonia robusta) of varying heights: implications for hydraulic limitation to increased height growth

(2009) Heidi J. Renninger et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Daily reference evapotranspiration for California using satellite imagery and weather station measurement interpolation

(2008) Q. J. Hart et al.   CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS

The oasis effect in an extremely hot and arid climate: The case of southern Israel

(2008) O. Potchter et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States

(2008) T. P. Barnett et al.   SCIENCE

An efficient calibration method for continental-scale land surface modeling

(2008) Tara J. Troy et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH