:: HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER : PUBLICATIONS : REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS ::

Published
Georgakakos, K.P. and N. Graham, 2008: “Potential Benefits of Seasonal Inflow Prediction Uncertainty for Reservoir Release Decisions,” J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, AMS, Vol. 47, Issue 5, 1297-1321, DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1671.1.
Kedar, S., M. Longuet-Higgins, F. Webb, N. Graham, R. Clayton, C. Jones, 2008: “The origin of deep ocean microseisms in the North Atlantic Ocean,” Proc. Roy. Soc. (A), 464, 777-793.
O’Hara, J. K., and K. P. Georgakakos, 2008: “Quantifying the Urban Water Supply Impacts of Climate Change,” Water Resources Management, doi:10.1007/s11269-008-9238-8 (on-line).
Taylor, S.V., D.R. Cayan, N.E. Graham, and K.P. Georgakakos, 2008: “Northerly surface winds over the eastern North Pacific Ocean in spring and summer,” J. Geophys. Res., 113, D02110, doi:10.1029/2006JD008053.
Georgakakos, K.P., N.E. Graham, A.P. Georgakakos, and H. Yao, 2007: “Demonstrating Integrated Forecast and Reservoir Management (INFORM) for Northern California in an Operational Environment.” IAHS Publication 313, 1-6.
Graham, N. E. and M. K. Hughes, 2007: “Reconstructing the Mediaeval low stands of Mono Lake, Sierra Nevada, California, USA,” The Holocene, 17, 8, 1197-1210.
Shamir, E., N. Graham, D. Meko, and K.P. Georgakakos, 2007: “Hydrologic model framework for water resources planning in Santa-Cruz River, Southern Arizona,” Journal of American Water Resources Association, 43(5) 1155-1170.
Shamir E., J. Wang, and K.P. Georgakakos, 2007: “Probabilistic streamflow generation model for data sparse arid watersheds,” Journal of American Water Resources Association, 43(5) 1142-1154.
Bae, D.H., K.P. Georgakakos, and S. Kim, 2007: “Screening the Utility of Climate Information for Watershed Applications in Korea,” J. Hydrology, 336(1), 38-47.
Bae, D.H., K.P. Georgakakos, and W.-T. Kwon, 2007: “Climatological Screening of Climate Output with Observations for Korean Water Resources Applications,” International Journal of Climatology, doi:10.1002/joc.1497.
Carpenter, T.M., J. Wang, S.V. Taylor, E. Shamir, J.A. Sperfslage, and K.P. Georgakakos, 2007: “Surveying Flash Flood Response in Mountain Streams," Eos Trans. AGU, 88(6), 69, doi:10.1029/2007EO060001.
Georgakakos, K.P., 2007: “Issues in the Forecast and Management of Natural Floods and Flash Floods,” La Houille Blanche, 03-2007, 1-6.
Graham, N.E., M.K. Hughes, C.M. Ammann, K.M. Cobb, M.P. Hoerling, D.J. Kennett, J.P. Kennett, B. Rein, L. Stott, P.E. Wigand, and T. Xu, 2007: “Tropical Pacific - Mid-latitude Teleconnections in Medieval Times,” Climatic Change, 83, 241-285 doi:10.1007/s10584-007-09239-2.
Koutsoyiannis, D., A. Efstratiadis, and K.P. Georgakakos, 2007: “Uncertainty assessment of future hydroclimatic predictions: A comparison of probabilistic and scenario based approaches,” Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8(3), 261-281.
Wang, J., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2007: “Estimation of Potential Evapotranspiration in the Mountainous Panama Canal Watershed,” Hydrological Processes, 24(14), 1901-1917.
Shamir, E., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2007: “Estimating Snow Depletion Curves for American River Basins using Distributed Snow Modeling,” Journal of Hydrology, 334, 162-173.

[ top of page ]

Carpenter, T.M., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2006: “Discretization Scale Dependencies of the Ensemble Flow Range versus Catchment Area Relationship in Distributed Hydrologic Modeling,” Journal of Hydrology, 328, 242-257.
Carpenter, T.M., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2006: “Intercomparison of Lumped versus Distributed Hydrologic Model Ensemble Simulations on Operational Forecast Scales,” Journal of Hydrology, 329, 174-185.
Georgakakos, K.P., 2006: “Analytical Results for Operational Flash Flood Guidance,” Journal of Hydrology, 317, 81-103.
Georgakakos, K.P., and T.M. Carpenter, 2006: “Potential Value of Operationally Available and Spatially Distributed Ensemble Soil Water Estimates for Agriculture,” Journal of Hydrology, 328, 177-191.
Graham, N.E., K.P. Georgakakos, C. Vargas, and M. Echevers, 2006: “Simulating the Value of El Niño Forecasts for the Panama Canal,” Advances in Water Resources 29(11), 1665-1677.
Ntelekos, A.A., K.P. Georgakakos, and W.F. Krajewski, 2006, “On the Uncertainties of Flash Flood Guidance: Towards Probabilistic Forecasting of Flash Floods,” Journal of Hydrometeorology., 7(5), 896-915.
Shamir, E. and K.P. Georgakakos, 2006: “Distributed snow accumulation and ablation modeling in the American River basin,” Advances in Water Resources 29(4), 558-570.
Shamir, E., T.M. Carpenter, P. Fickenscher, and K.P. Georgakakos, 2006: “Evaluation of the National Weather Service Operational Hydrologic Model for the American River Basin,” ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 11(5), 392-407.
Wang, J., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2005: “Effects of cold microphysical processes on the surface precipitation variability of nonsquall tropical oceanic convection,” Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D22203, doi:10.1029/2005JD005787.

[ top of page ]

Georgakakos, K.P., D.-H. Bae, and C.-S. Jeong, 2005: "Utility of Ten-Day Climate Model Ensemble Simulations for Water Resources Planning and Management of Korean Watersheds," Water Resource Management, 19(6), 849-872.
Georgakakos, K.P., Graham, N.E., Carpenter, T.M., Georgakakos, A.P., and H. Yao, 2005: “Integrating Climate-Hydrology Forecasts and Multi-Objective Reservoir Management for Northern California,” EOS, 86(12), 122-127.
Graham, N. E. and S. J. Mason, 2005: "A Method of Ensemble Expansion and Improve Forecast Distribution Definition from Climate Simulations, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 607, 939-963.
Jeong, C.S., J.-H. Heo, D.-H. Bae, and K.P. Georgakakos, 2005: Utility of High-Resolution Climate Model Simulations for Water Resources Management over the Korean Peninsula: A Sensitivity Study, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 50(1), 139-153.
Shamir, E., B. Imam, E. Morin, H.V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, 2005: “The Role of Hydrograph Indices in Parameter Estimation of Rainfall Runoff Models,” Hydrological Processes, 19(11), 2187-2202.
Shamir, E., B. Imam, H.V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, 2005: “Temporal Streamflow Descriptors in Downward Parameter Estimation Application,” Water Resources Research, 41(6) doi: 1029/2004WR003409.
Tsonis, A.A., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2005: "Observing Extreme Events in Incomplete State Spaces with Application to Rainfall Estimation from Satellite Images," Journal of Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics of the European Geophysical Union, Vol.12, 195-200.
Wang, J., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2005: "Validation and Sensitivities of Dynamic Precipitation Simulation of Winter Events over the Folsom Lake Watershed: 1964-1999," Monthly Weather Review, 133(1), 3-19.

[ top of page ]

Caires, S., and A. Sterl, J.-R. Bidlot, N. Graham, and V. Swail, 2004: Intercomparison of Different Wind Wave Reanalysis,Journal of Climate, 17(10), 1893-1913.
Carpenter, T.M., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2004: Continuous Streamflow Simulation with the HRCDHM Distributed Hydrologic Model,Journal of Hydrology, 298, 61-79.
Carpenter, T.M., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2004: Impacts of Parametric and Radar Rainfall Uncertainty on the Ensemble Streamflow Simulations of a Distributed Hydrologic Model,Journal of Hydrology, 298, 202-221.
Georgakakos, K.P., D.-J. Seo, H. Gupta, J. Schaake, and M.B. Butts, 2004: Towards the Characterization of Streamflow Simulation Uncertainty Through Multimodel Ensembles,Journal of Hydrology, 298, 222-241.
Graham, N. E., 2004: Late Holocene teleconnections between tropical Pacific climate variability and precipitation in the Western US: Evidence from the proxy record, Holocene, 14(3), 436-447.
Smith, M.B., K.P. Georgakakos, and X. Liang, 2004: The Distributed Model Intercomparison Project (DMIP), Editorial, Journal of Hydrology, 298, 1-3.

[top of page ]

Andrieu, H., French, M., Krajewski, W.F., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2003: "Stochastic-Dynamical Rainfall Simulation Based on Weather Radar Volume Scan Data," Advances in Water Resources, Vol. 26, 581-593.
Gaffen, D. J., B. D. Santer, J. S. Boyle, J. R. Christy, N. E. Graham, and R. J. Ross, 2003: "Multi-Decadal Changes in the Vertical Temperature Structure of the Tropical Troposphere," Science, 287, 1242-1245.
Georgakakos, K.P., 2003: "Probabilistic Climate-Model Diagnostics for Hydrologic and Water Resources Impact Studies," Journal of Hydrometeorology, 4(1), 92-105.
Wang, J., M.R. Hjelmfelt, W.J. Capehart, R.D. Farley, 2003: "Coupled Model Simulation of Snowfall Events over the Black Hills," Journal of Applied Meteorology, 42(6), 775-796.

[top of page ]

Georgakakos, K.P., 2002: "US Corporate Technology Transfer in Hydrometeorology," Journal of Hydroinformatics, 4(1), 3-13.
Mason, S. J. and N. E. Graham, 2002: "Areas Beneath the Relative Operating Characteristics (ROC) and Levels (ROL) Curves: Statistical Significance and Interpretation," Quarterly Journal Royal Meteorological Society, 128, 2145-2166.
Morin, E., Georgakakos, K.P., Shamir, U., Garti, R., and Y. Enzel, 2002: "Objective, Observations-based, Automatic Estimation of the Catchment Response Time Scale," Water Resources Research, Vol. 38(10), 1212, doi:10.1029/2001WR000808.
Tsintikidis, D., Georgakakos, K.P., Sperfslage, J.A., Smith, D.E., and T.M. Carpenter, 2002: "Precipitation Uncertainty and Raingauge Network Design within the Folsom Lake Watershed," ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 7(2), 175-184.

[top of page ]

Carpenter, T.M., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2001: "Assessment of Folsom Lake Response to Historical and Potential Future Climate Scenarios, 1. Forecasting," Journal of Hydrology, 249, 148-175, 2001.
Carpenter, T.M., K.P. Georgakakos, and J.A. Sperfslage, 2001: "On the Parametric and Nexrad-Radar Sensitivities of a Distributed Hydrologic Model Suitable for Operational Use," Journal of Hydrology, 253, 169-193.
Georgakakos, K.P., and D.E. Smith, 2001: "Soil Moisture Tendencies into the Next Century for the Conterminous United States," Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 106(D21), 27,367-27,382.
Georgakakos, K.P., and R. Krzysztofowicz, 2001: “Porbabalistic and ensemble forecasting.” Journal of Hydrology, 249, 1.
Graham, N.E., and H.F. Diaz, 2001: "Evidence for Intensification of North Pacific Winter Cyclones since 1948," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82(9), 1869-1893.
Yao, H., and K.P. Georgakakos, 2001: “Assessment of Folsom Lake response to historical and potential future climate scenarios, Part 2: Reservoir management.” Journal of Hydrology, 249, 176-196.

[top of page ]

Georgakakos, K.P., N.E. Graham and A.P. Georgakakos, 2000: "Can Forecasts Accrue Benefits for Reservoir Management?" The Climate Report, 1(4), 7-10.
Georgakakos, K.P., 2000: "Covariance propagation and updating in the context of real-time radar data assimilation by quantitative precipitation forecast models," Journal of Hydrology, 239, 115-129.
Pandey, G.R., D.R. Cayan, M.D. Dettinger, and K. Georgakakos, 2000: "A Hybrid Orographic plus Statistical Model for Downscaling Daily Precipitation in Northern California," J. of Hydrometeorology, 1, 491-506.
Schwartz, S.S., 2000: "Multiobjective Management of Potomac River Consumptive Use," Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 126(5), 277-287.

[top of page ]

Carpenter, T.M, J.A. Sperfslage, K.P. Georgakakos, T. Sweeney and D.L. Fread, 1999: "National Threshold Runoff Estimation Utilizing GIS in Support of Operational Flash Flood Warning Systems," Journal of Hydrology, 224, 21-44.
Pandey, G.R., D.R. Cayan, and K.P. Georgakakos, 1999: "Precipitation Structure in the Sierra Nevada of California," J. of Geophysical Research, 104(D10), 12019-12,030.
Tsintikidis, D., Georgakakos, K.P., Artan, G.A., and A.A. Tsonis, 1999: "A Feasibility Study on Mean Areal Rainfall Estimation and Hydrologic Response in the Blue Nile Region Using METEOSAT Images," Journal of Hydrology, 221, 97-116.
Tsintikidis, D. and K.P. Georgakakos, 1999: "Microphysical and Large-Scale Dependencies of Temporal Rainfall Variability over a Tropical Ocean," Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56(5), 724-748.

[top of page ]

Georgakakos, K.P., 1998: "Flooding Attributable to El Niño," World Meteorological Organization Bulletin, 47(4), 356-360. Apostolopoulos, T.K., and K.P. Georgakakos, 1997: "Parallel Computation for Streamflow Prediction with Distributed Hydrologic Models," J. of Hydrology, 197, 1-24.
Georgakakos, K.P., A.P. Georgakakos and N.E. Graham, 1998: "Assessment of Benefits of Climate Forecasts for Reservoir Management in the GCIP Region," GEWEX News, 8 (3), 5-7.
Georgakakos, A. P., M.G. Mullusky and K.P. Georgakakos, 1998: "Impacts of climate variability on the operational forecast and management of the upper Des Moines River basin," Water Resources Research, 34(4), 799-822.
Kim, J., N.L. Miller, A.K. Guetter, and K.P. Georgakakos, 1998: "River Flow Response to Precipitation and Snow Budget in California During the 1994-1995 Winter," Journal of Climate, 11(9), 2376-2386.
Tsintikidis, D. and G.J. Zhang, 1998: "A Numerical Study on the Coupling between Sea Surface Temperature and Surface Evaporation," Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 103(D24), 31763-31774.

[top of page ]

Apostolopoulos, T.K., and K.P. Georgakakos, 1997: "Parallel computation for streamflow prediction with distributed hydrologic models," Journal of Hydrology, 197, 1-24.
Tsintikidis, D., J.L. Haferman, E. Anagnostou, W.F. Krajewski, and T.F. Smith, 1997: "A Neural Network Approach to Estimating Rainfall from Spaceborne Microwave Data", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 35(5), 1079-1093.

[top of page ]

Bae, D-H., K.P. Georgakakos and R. Rajagopal, 1996: "Rainfall Estimation for Hydrologic Applications," Korean Journal of Hydrosciences, 7, 125-137.
Georgakakos, K.P., and W.F. Krajewski, 1996: "Statistical-Microphysical Causes of Rainfall Variability in the Tropics," J. Geophysical Research, 101(D21), 26,165-26,180.
Georgakakos, K.P., and O.W. Baumer, 1996: "Measurement and Analysis of On-site Soil Moisture Data," J. of Hydrology, 184, 131-152.
Guetter, A.K., and K.P. Georgakakos, and A.A. Tsonis, 1996: "Hydrologic Applications of Satellite Data: Part 2. Flow simulation and Soil Water Estimates", J. of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 101(D21), 26,527-26,538.
Guetter, A.K., and K.P. Georgakakos, 1996: "Large-Scale Properties of Soil-Water Variability", J. of Geophysical Research, 101(D3), 7175-7184.
Guetter, A.K. and K.P. Georgakakos, 1996: "Are the El Niño and La Niña Predictors of the Iowa River Seasonal Flow?" J. of Applied Meteorology, 35(5), 690-705.
Haferman, J.L., E. Anagnostou, D. Tsintikidis, W.F. Krajewski, and T.F. Smith, 1996: "Physically Based Satellite Retrieval of Precipitation using a 3D Passive Microwave Radiative Transfer Algorith", J. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 13(4), 832-850.
Huang, J., van den Dool, H.M., and K.P. Georgakakos, 1996: "Analysis of Model-Calculated Soil Moisture over the U.S. (1931-93) and Applications in Long-Range Temperature Forecasts," J. of Climate, 9(6), 1350-1362.
Lee, T.H., and K.P. Georgakakos, 1996: "Operational Rainfall Prediction on Meso-gamma Scales for Hydrologic Applications," Water Resources Research, 32(4), 987-1004.
Tsintikidis, D., D.A. Gurnett, W.S. Kurth, and L.J. Granroth, 1996: "Micron-Sized Particles Detected in the Vicinity of Jupiter by the Voyager Plasma Wave Instruments," Geophysical Research Letters, 23(9), 997-1000.
Tsonis, A.A., Triantafyllou, G.N., and K.P. Georgakakos, 1996: "Hydrological Applications of Satellite Data, 1, Rainfall Estimation," J. Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 101(D21), 26,517-26,526.

[top of page ]

Bae, D.H., Georgakakos, K.P., and Nanda, S.K., 1995: "Operational Forecasting with Real-Time Databases," in ASCE J. Hydraulics Division, 121(1), 49-60.
Cayan, D.R., and K.P. Georgakakos, 1995: "Hydroclimatology of Continental Watersheds, 2, Spatial Analyses," Water Resources Research, 31(3), 677-697.
Georgakakos, K.P., Bae, D.H., and D.R. Cayan, 1995: "Hydroclimatology of Continental Watersheds, 1, Temporal Analyses," Water Resources Research, 31(3), 655-675.
Georgakakos, K.P., 1995: "On the Establishment of a U.S. National Center for Hydrologic Research and Technology Transfer," Journal of Hydrology, 172, 15-21.

[top of page ]

Bae, D-H., K.P. Georgakakos, 1994: "Climatic Variability of Soil Water in the American Midwest: Part 1. Hydrologic Modeling," Journal of Hydrology, 162, 355-377.
Georgakakos, K.P. and D-H. Bae, 1994: "Climatic Variability of Soil Water in the American Midwest: Part 2. Spatio-Temporal Analysis," Journal of Hydrology, 162, 379-390.
Georgakakos, K.P., A.A. Carsteanu, P.L. Sturdevant and J.A. Cramer, 1994: "Observation and Analysis of Midwestern Rain Rates," Journal of Applied Meteorology, 33(12), 1434-1444.
Roads, J.O., S.-C. Chen, A.K. Guetter, and K.P. Georgakakos, 1994: "Large-Scale Aspects of the United States Hydrologic Cycle," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 75(9), 1589-1610.

[top of page ]

Guetter, A.K., and K.P. Georgakakos, 1993: "River outflow of the conterminous United States, 1939-1988," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 74(10), 1873-1891.
Tsonis, A.A., J.B. Elsner, and K.P. Georgakakos, 1993: "Estimating the dimension of weather and climate attractores: Important isses about the procedure and interpretation," Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 50(15), 2549-2555.

Publications

HRC Refereed Journal Papers