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Publications:
Trends and Spatial Distribution of Annual and Seasonal Rainfall in Ethiopia. International Journal of Climatology. Accepted, pending minor revision. W. Cheung, G.B. Senay and A. Singh, 2007.
Global daily reference evapotranspiration modeling and validation. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, in review. G.B. Senay, J.P. Verdin, R. Lietzow, and A.M. Melesse, 2007.
A coupled remote sensing and simplified energy balance approach to estimate actual evapotranspiration from irrigated fields. Special issue: Remote sensing of natural resources and the environment, SENSORS, in press. G.B. Senay, M. Budde, J.P. Verdin, and A.M. Melesse, 2007.
Adequacy of satellite derived rainfall data for stream flow modeling. Natural Hazards 10.1007/s11069-007-9121-6. G. Artan, H. Gadain, J.L. Smith, K. Asante, C. Bandaragoda, and J. Verdin, 2007.
Developing a flood monitoring system from remotely sensed data for the Limpopo Basin. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 45(6), 1709-1714. K.O. Asante, R.D. Macuacua, G.A. Artan, R.W. Lietzow, and J.P. Verdin, 2007.
Climate Science and Famine Early Warning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 360: 2155-2168. J. Verdin, C. Funk, G. Senay, and R. Choularton, 2005.
Evaluating MODIS Data to Estimate Irrigated Crop Production in Afghanistan Using a Thermal-based ET Fraction Approach. Proceedings of the Pecora Symposium, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. G.B. Senay, M. Budde, J.P. Verdin, and J. Rowland, 2005.
Developing Index Maps of Water Harvest Potential in Africa. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 20(6): 789-799. G. Senay and J. Verdin, 2004.
Drought Monitoring Techniques for Famine Early Warning Systems in Africa. Chapter 19 in Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Droughts: A Global Study, Eds. V.K. Boken, A.P. Cracknell, R.L. Heathcote, Oxford University Press, New York. J. Rowland, J. Verdin, A. Adoum and G. Senay, 2005.
The collaborative historical African rainfall model: description and evaluation. International Journal of Climatology, 23: 47-66. C. Funk, J. Michaelsen, J. Verdin, G. Artan, G. Husak, G. Senay, H. Gadain, and T. Magadzire, 2003.
Characterization of yield reduction in Ethiopia using a GIS-based crop water balance model. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 687-692. G. Senay, and J. Verdin, 2003.
Comparing satellite rainfall estimates and reanalysis precipitation fields with station data for western Kenya. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Crop Monitoring for Food Security in Africa, European Joint Research Centre/ UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Nairobi, Kenya, January 28-30. C. Funk, and J. Verdin, 2003.
Grid cell based crop water accounting for the Famine Early Warning System. Hydrological Processes,16: 1617-1630. J. Verdin and R. Klaver, 2002.
Data and applications for study of the water cycle in Africa. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, Cape Town, South Africa. J. Verdin, 2000.
A comparison of methods for estimating start-of-season from operational remote sensing products: first results. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Proceedings of the Pecora Symposium, Denver, Colorado. J. Verdin, R. Lietzow, J. Rowland, R. Klaver, B. Reed, V. French, F. Lee, 1999.
Exploring the correlation between Southern Africa NDVI and Pacific sea surface temperature: Results for the 1998 maize growing season. International Journal of Remote Sensing, v. 10, pp. 2117-2124. (Selected as Best Remote Sensing Letter of 1999 by the Remote Sensing Society, United Kingdom.) J. Verdin, C. Funk, R. Klaver, and D. Roberts, 1999.
Remote sensing of ephemeral water bodies in western Niger, International Journal of Remote Sensing, v. 17, no. 4, pp. 733-748. J. Verdin, 1996.
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