Resilience of river deltas in the Anthropocene

AJF Hoitink, JA Nittrouer, P Passalacqua… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
At a global scale, delta morphologies are subject to rapid change as a result of direct and
indirect effects of human activity. This jeopardizes the ecosystem services of deltas …

Dynamic process connectivity explains ecohydrologic responses to rainfall pulses and drought

AE Goodwell, P Kumar, AW Fellows… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Ecohydrologic fluxes within atmosphere, vegetation, and soil systems exhibit a joint
variability that arises from forcing and feedback interactions. These interactions cause …

Cold fronts control multiscale spatiotemporal hydroperiod patterns in a man-made subtropical coastal delta (Wax Lake Region, Louisiana USA)

W Huang, C Li, VH Rivera-Monroy - Ocean Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Atmospheric cold fronts quasi-periodically produce storm surges and generate significant
subtidal oscillations of water levels and water transport in coastal environments. Yet, it is …

Information flows: Characterizing precipitation‐streamflow dependencies in the Colorado headwaters with an information theory approach

SE Franzen, MA Farahani… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Watersheds aggregate precipitation signals of many intensities and from many locations into
a single observable streamflow at an outlet point. This dependency between precipitation …

Causal drivers of land‐atmosphere carbon fluxes from machine learning models and data

MA Farahani, AE Goodwell - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions among atmospheric, root‐soil, and vegetation processes drive carbon dioxide
fluxes (Fc) from land to atmosphere. Eddy covariance measurements are commonly used to …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating ecohydrological model sensitivity to input variability with an information-theory-based approach

MA Farahani, A Vahid, AE Goodwell - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ecohydrological models vary in their sensitivity to forcing data and use available information
to different extents. We focus on the impact of forcing precision on ecohydrological model …

Source relationships and model structures determine information flow paths in ecohydrologic models

AE Goodwell, M Bassiouni - Water Resources Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In a complex ecohydrologic system, vegetation and soil variables combine to dictate heat
fluxes, and these fluxes may vary depending on the extent to which drivers are linearly or …

[HTML][HTML] Development and application of a simplified biophysical model to study deltaic and coastal ecosystems

AM Khalifa, EA Meselhe, K Hu, D Reed… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many coastal regions around the globe experience land loss due to high relative sea level
rise rates, declining sediment supply, and a host of other anthropogenic factors. To evaluate …

Measuring desiccation using qualitative changes: a step toward determining regional decomposition sequences

M Connor, C Baigent, ES Hansen - Journal of forensic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The creation of a regional decomposition scoring system for western Colorado provides a
model for the creation of regional systems. The development of a scoring system requires:(1) …

[HTML][HTML] Sediment distribution, retention and morphodynamic analysis of a river-dominated deltaic system

E Meselhe, K Sadid, A Khadka - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
River deltas have received considerable attention due to coastal land loss issues caused by
subsidence, storms, and sea level rise. Improved understanding of deltaic processes and …