Recent Publications

Alexandridis, K. B. C. Pijanowski , and Zhen L. 2007. Assessing Multi-Agent Parcelization Performance in the MABEL Simulation Model using Monte Carlo Replication Experiments. Environment and Planning B.  34(2): 223-244.

Alexandridis, K. and B. Pijanowski (2008). Developing Bayesian Information Entropy-based Techniques for Spatially Explicit Model Assessment. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, revised and in review.

Alfieri J., D. S. Niyogi, M. A. LeMone, F. Chen, and S. Fall (2007), A Simple Reclassification Method for Correcting Uncertainty in Land Use/Land Cover Datasets Used with Land Surface Models, Pure and Applied Geophysics (Invited), 164, 1789 - 1809. DOI 10.1007/a00024-007-0241-4.

Davis, A., B. Pijanowski, K. Robinson and B. Engel (2008a), Environmental and economic consequences of sprawling parking lots in the USA. Environmental Research Letters, in review.

Davis, A., B. Pijanowski, K. Robinson and P. Kidwell (2008b). Evaluating the areal coverage of parking lots for the Great Lakes Region: A methodology.  Land Use Policy, in review.

Fall S., D. Niyogi, R. A. Pielke Sr., A. Gluhovsky, E. Kalnay (2007), Impacts of Land Surface Properties on Temperature Trends Using North American Regional Reanalysis Over the USA, Int. J. of Climatology, in revision.

Fitzpatrick, M, D. Long and B. Pijanowski. 2007. Characterizing biogeochemical fingerprints of land use on surface water quality across a regional watershed in the Upper Midwest, USA. Applied Geochemistry.  22:1825-1840.

Houston, A., and D. Niyogi, 2006, The Sensitivity of Convective Initiation to the Lapse Rate of the Active Cloud-Bearing Layer, Mon. Wea. Rev., accepted.

Lang, R., G. Shao, B. Pijanowski and R. Farnsworth. 2008. An automated labeling approach for optimizing unsupervised classification of remotely sensed imagery. Computers and Geosciences.

Lei, M. D. Niyogi, C. Kishtawal, R. Pielke Sr., A. Beltrán-Przekurat, T. Nobis, and S. Vaidya (2008), Effect of explicit urban land surface representation on the simulation of the 26 July 2005 heavy rain event over Mumbai, India, Atmos. Chem. Phys., in review.

Mishra, V. K.A. Cherkauer, L.C. Bowling and B. Pijanowski (2008), Projected Land Cover Change Impact on Hydrologic Processes in Michigan, Journal of Hydrology, in preparation.

Mishra, V., K.A. Cherkauer, D. Niyogi and B. Pijanowski (2008), Land Cover/ Land Use Change (LCLUC) and Climate Change: Impact Assessment and Sensitivity to Hydrologic Processes in Wisconsin, Water Resources Research, in preparation.

Niyogi, D., Hsin-I Chang, Fei Chen, Lianhong Gu, Anil Kumar, Surabi Menon, Roger A. Pielke Sr. (2007), Potential Impacts of Aerosol-Land-Atmosphere Interaction on the Indian Monsoonal Rainfall Characteristics, Natural Hazards- Monsoon Special Issue, DOI - 10.1007/s11069-006-9085-y.

Niyogi, and T.E. Nobis (2007), An overview of regional land use and land cover impacts on rainfall. Tellus B, 59B, 587-601.

Pielke Sr., R.A., C. Davey, D. Niyogi, S. Fall, J. Steinweg-Woods, K. Hubbard, X. Lin, M. Cai, Y.-K. Lim, H. Li, J. Nielsen-Gammon, K. Gallo, R. Hale, J. Angel, R. Mahmood, S. Foster, R.T. McNider, and P. Blanken (2007), Unresolved issues with the assessment of multi-decadal global land surface temperature trends. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24S08, doi:10.1029/2006JD008229.

Pielke Sr., R.A., D. Stokowski, J.-W. Wang, T. Vukicevic, G. Leoncini, T. Matsui, C. Castro, D. Niyogi, C.M. Kishtawal, A. Biazar, K. Doty, R.T. McNider, U. Nair, and W.K. Tao (2007), Satellite-based model parameterization of diabatic heating. EOS, 88, 96 - 97 (20 February 2007).

Pielke, R.A. Sr., J. Adegoke, A. Beltran-Przekurat, C.A. Hiemstra, J. Lin, U.S. Nair, D. Niyogi, D., T. Holt, S. Zhong, P. C. Pyle, and J. Basara, 2006: Urban and land surface effects on the 30 July 2003 mesoscale convective system event observed in the Southern Great Plains, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D19107, doi:10.1029/2005JD006746.

Pielke Sr. R.A., and D. Niyogi (2008), The role of landscape processes within the climate system. In: Otto, J.C. and R. Dikaum, Eds., Landform - Structure, Evolution, Process Control: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Landforms organised by the Research Training Group 437. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, Springer, Vol. 115, in press.

Pijanowski, B., D. Ray, A. Kendall, J. Duckles and D. Hyndman. 2007. Using Backcast Land Use Change and Groundwater Travel-time Models to Generate Land Use Legacy Maps for Watershed Management. Ecology and Society 12(2):25 (online).

Pontius Jr, R G, W Boersma, J-C Castella, K Clarke, T de Nijs, C Dietzel, Z Duan, E Fotsing, N Goldstein, K Kok, E Koomen, C D Lippitt, W McConnell, A Mohd Sood, B Pijanowski, S Pithadia, S Sweeney, T N Trung, A T Veldkamp, and P H Verburg (2008), Comparing input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change. Annals of Regional Science, 42(1): 11-47.

Pontius, R.G.  Jr, J-C Castella, T de Nijs, Z Duan, E Fotsing, N Goldstein, K Kok, E Koomen, C D Lippitt, W McConnell, A Mohd Sood, B Pijanowski, A T Veldkamp, and P H Verburg. 2007. Lessons and challenges in land change modeling as revealed by map comparisons. Proceedings for conference on the science and education of land use: a transatlantic, multidisciplinary and comparative approach. Washington DC USA. September 24-26. 16p.

Pyle P., D. Niyogi, S. P. Arya, M. Shepherd, F. Chen, B. Wolfe (2007), An Observational and Modeling-based Storm Climatology Assessment for the Indianapolis, urban region, J. Appl. Meteorol. and Clim., in revision.

Ray, D. and B. Pijanowski (2009), Modeling Historical Land Use/Cover Changes Using GIS and Neural Networks: A Backcast Land Use Change Model. J. Land Use Science, revised and submitted.

Ray, D., B. Pijanowski, A. Kendall and D. Hyndman (2009), Estimating uncertainty in land use legacy maps using coupled land use and groundwater travel time models: Implications for land use management. Journal of Environmental Management, in review.

Yang, G., L.C. Bowling, K.A. Cherkauer, B. Pijanowski and D. Niyogi (2008), Hydroclimatic Response of Watersheds to Urban Intensity- An Observational and Modeling Based Analysis for the White River Basin, Indiana. Journal of Hydrometeorology, submitted.

Other Publications, Dissertations and Thesis

Pyle, Patrick, Urban Land-Surface Impacts on Convective Thunderstorm and Precipitation Characteristics, MS Thesis NC State University (D. Niyogi /Purdue - Chair, S. Pal Arya/NC State, Co-chair), 2006.