List of works - Gregory S. Okin

A Comparison of Methods to Predict Soil Surface Texture in an Alluvial Basin

A Mechanism of Land Degradation in Turf-Mantled Slopes of the Tibetan Plateau

scholarly article by Gregory S. Okin et al published 4 May 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

A new process-based and scale-aware desert dust emission scheme for global climate models – Part I: Description and evaluation against inverse modeling emissions

scientific article published in 2023

A simplified data assimilation method for reconstructing time-series MODIS NDVI data

article by Juan Gu et al published August 2009 in Advances in Space Research

A software framework for optimizing the design of spaceborne hyperspectral imager architectures

scientific article

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

article

AEOLIAN PROCESSES AND THE BIOSPHERE

article

Abiotic processes are insufficient for fertile island development: A 10-year artificial shrub experiment in a desert grassland

article

Appreciation of Peer Reviewers for 2017

scholarly article by Fabio Florindo et al published 27 October 2018 in Reviews of Geophysics

Appreciation of peer reviewers for 2015

article published in 2016

Asynchronous response of tropical forest leaf phenology to seasonal and el Niño-driven drought

scientific article

Atmospheric fluxes of organic N and P to the global ocean

article

Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation

scientific article published on 08 October 2021

Characterizing the Role of Wind and Dust in Traffic Accidents in California

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Combined Effects of Impervious Surface and Vegetation Cover on Air Temperature Variations in a Rapidly Expanding Desert City

Comparison of methods for estimation of absolute vegetation and soil fractional cover using MODIS normalized BRDF-adjusted reflectance data

scholarly article by Gregory S. Okin et al published March 2013 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Degradation of sandy arid shrubland environments: observations, process modelling, and management implications

article

Desertification in an Arid Shrubland in the Southwestern United States

article

Distribution of vegetation in wind-dominated landscapes: Implications for wind erosion modeling and landscape processes

article

Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification?

article

Dryland Ecosystems

scholarly article

Dust-rainfall feedback in West African Sahel

scholarly article by Kailiang Yu et al published 25 September 2015 in Geophysical Research Letters

Dust: Small-scale processes with global consequences

article published in 2011

Ecosystem-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotopes of soil nitrogen in African savannas

scientific article published in 2012

Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats

scientific article

Estimating total horizontal aeolian flux within shrub-invaded groundwater-dependent meadows using empirical and mechanistic models

article

Evaluating ecohydrological theories of woody root distribution in the Kalahari

scientific article

Evaluation of a new model of aeolian transport in the presence of vegetation

article

Fire-induced albedo change and surface radiative forcing in sub-Saharan Africa savanna ecosystems: Implications for the energy balance

article

Global distribution of atmospheric phosphorus sources, concentrations and deposition rates, and anthropogenic impacts

Guiding principles for using satellite-derived maps in rangeland management

Hydrologic and aeolian controls on vegetation patterns in arid landscapes

scholarly article

Impact of desert dust on the biogeochemistry of phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems

Impacts of anthropogenic SOx, NOxand NH3on acidification of coastal waters and shipping lanes

article

Impacts of atmospheric nutrient deposition on marine productivity: Roles of nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron

article

Impacts of biomass burning emissions and land use change on Amazonian atmospheric phosphorus cycling and deposition

article by Natalie M. Mahowald et al published December 2005 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Indices for estimating fractional snow cover in the western Tibetan Plateau

article

Laser-induced emission from NFCl radicals isolated in low-temperature argon matrixes

Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy as a Probe of Geometric and Electronic Structure of Cobalt(II)-Substituted Proteins: Ground-State Zero-Field Splitting as a Coordination Number Indicator

scholarly article by James A. Larrabee et al published May 1997 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Measurement and Monitoring of Barrier Island Forest Sensitivity to Ecohydrological Change Using LIDAR Remote Sensing

Modeling the short-term fire effects on vegetation dynamics and surface energy in southern Africa using the improved SSiB4/TRIFFID-Fire model

scientific article published on 20 December 2021

Modelling Wind Erosion and Dust Emission on Vegetated Surfaces

Observation- and Model-Based Estimates of Particulate Dry Nitrogen Deposition to the Oceans

scholarly article

On soil moisture-vegetation feedbacks and their possible effects on the dynamics of dryland ecosystems

scholarly article

On the effect of moisture bonding forces in air-dry soils on threshold friction velocity of wind erosion

article published in 2006

Post-Fire Resource Redistribution in Desert Grasslands: A Possible Negative Feedback on Land Degradation

article by Sujith Ravi et al published 18 February 2009 in Ecosystems

Potential dust emissions from the southern Kalahari's dunelands

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 118 no. 1, March 2013

Potential of grass invasions in desert shrublands to create novel ecosystem states under variable climate

scholarly article by Kailiang Yu published in May 2016

Predicting and understanding ecosystem responses to climate change at continental scales

article

Predicting leaf and canopy15N compositions from reflectance spectra

article

Quantitative effects of vegetation cover on wind erosion and soil nutrient loss in a desert grassland of southern New Mexico, USA

Remote Sensing of Nitrogen and Carbon Isotope Compositions in Terrestrial Ecosystems

article

Sandblasting promotes shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

scientific article published in 2023

Satellite prediction of soil δ13C distributions in a southern African savanna

Sediment deposition and soil nutrient heterogeneity in two desert grassland ecosystems, southern New Mexico

article

Soil–Litter Mixing Accelerates Decomposition in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland

Spatial heterogeneity and sources of soil carbon in southern African savannas

scholarly article

Thank You to Our 2018 Peer Reviewers

article by Fabio Florindo et al published March 2019 in Reviews of Geophysics

The Impact of Drought on Native Southern California Vegetation: Remote Sensing Analysis Using MODIS-Derived Time Series

scholarly article

The National Wind Erosion Research Network: Building a standardized long-term data resource for aeolian research, modeling and land management

article

The Southern Kalahari: a potential new dust source in the Southern Hemisphere?

article published in 2012

The ecology of dust

scientific article published in 2010

The impact of atmospheric conditions and instrument noise on atmospheric correction and spectral mixture analysis of multispectral imagery

scholarly article by Gregory S. Okin & Juan Gu published July 2015 in Remote Sensing of Environment

The interactive nutrient and water effects on vegetation biomass at two African savannah sites with different mean annual precipitation

scientific article published in 2012

The two faces of Janus: Processes can be both exogenous forcings and endogenous feedbacks with wind as a case study

scientific article published in 2023

Vegetation Responses to 2012–2016 Drought in Northern and Southern California

article

Why and How to Write a High-Impact Review Paper: Lessons From Eight Years of Editorial Board Service to Reviews of Geophysics

article

List of works by Gregory S. Okin

A Comparison of Methods to Predict Soil Surface Texture in an Alluvial Basin

A Mechanism of Land Degradation in Turf-Mantled Slopes of the Tibetan Plateau

A new process-based and scale-aware desert dust emission scheme for global climate models – Part I: Description and evaluation against inverse modeling emissions

A simplified data assimilation method for reconstructing time-series MODIS NDVI data

A software framework for optimizing the design of spaceborne hyperspectral imager architectures

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

AEOLIAN PROCESSES AND THE BIOSPHERE

Abiotic processes are insufficient for fertile island development: A 10-year artificial shrub experiment in a desert grassland

Appreciation of Peer Reviewers for 2017

Appreciation of peer reviewers for 2015

Asynchronous response of tropical forest leaf phenology to seasonal and el Niño-driven drought

Atmospheric fluxes of organic N and P to the global ocean

Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation

Characterizing the Role of Wind and Dust in Traffic Accidents in California

Combined Effects of Impervious Surface and Vegetation Cover on Air Temperature Variations in a Rapidly Expanding Desert City

Comparison of methods for estimation of absolute vegetation and soil fractional cover using MODIS normalized BRDF-adjusted reflectance data

Degradation of sandy arid shrubland environments: observations, process modelling, and management implications

Desertification in an Arid Shrubland in the Southwestern United States

Distribution of vegetation in wind-dominated landscapes: Implications for wind erosion modeling and landscape processes

Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification?

Dryland Ecosystems

Dust-rainfall feedback in West African Sahel

Dust: Small-scale processes with global consequences

Ecosystem-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotopes of soil nitrogen in African savannas

Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats

Estimating total horizontal aeolian flux within shrub-invaded groundwater-dependent meadows using empirical and mechanistic models

Evaluating ecohydrological theories of woody root distribution in the Kalahari

Evaluation of a new model of aeolian transport in the presence of vegetation

Fire-induced albedo change and surface radiative forcing in sub-Saharan Africa savanna ecosystems: Implications for the energy balance

Global distribution of atmospheric phosphorus sources, concentrations and deposition rates, and anthropogenic impacts

Guiding principles for using satellite-derived maps in rangeland management

Hydrologic and aeolian controls on vegetation patterns in arid landscapes

Impact of desert dust on the biogeochemistry of phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems

Impacts of anthropogenic SOx, NOxand NH3on acidification of coastal waters and shipping lanes

Impacts of atmospheric nutrient deposition on marine productivity: Roles of nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron

Impacts of biomass burning emissions and land use change on Amazonian atmospheric phosphorus cycling and deposition

Indices for estimating fractional snow cover in the western Tibetan Plateau

Laser-induced emission from NFCl radicals isolated in low-temperature argon matrixes

Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy as a Probe of Geometric and Electronic Structure of Cobalt(II)-Substituted Proteins: Ground-State Zero-Field Splitting as a Coordination Number Indicator

Measurement and Monitoring of Barrier Island Forest Sensitivity to Ecohydrological Change Using LIDAR Remote Sensing

Modeling the short-term fire effects on vegetation dynamics and surface energy in southern Africa using the improved SSiB4/TRIFFID-Fire model

Modelling Wind Erosion and Dust Emission on Vegetated Surfaces

Observation- and Model-Based Estimates of Particulate Dry Nitrogen Deposition to the Oceans

On soil moisture-vegetation feedbacks and their possible effects on the dynamics of dryland ecosystems

On the effect of moisture bonding forces in air-dry soils on threshold friction velocity of wind erosion

Post-Fire Resource Redistribution in Desert Grasslands: A Possible Negative Feedback on Land Degradation

Potential dust emissions from the southern Kalahari's dunelands

Potential of grass invasions in desert shrublands to create novel ecosystem states under variable climate

Predicting and understanding ecosystem responses to climate change at continental scales

Predicting leaf and canopy15N compositions from reflectance spectra

Quantitative effects of vegetation cover on wind erosion and soil nutrient loss in a desert grassland of southern New Mexico, USA

Remote Sensing of Nitrogen and Carbon Isotope Compositions in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Sandblasting promotes shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

Satellite prediction of soil δ13C distributions in a southern African savanna

Sediment deposition and soil nutrient heterogeneity in two desert grassland ecosystems, southern New Mexico

Soil–Litter Mixing Accelerates Decomposition in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland

Spatial heterogeneity and sources of soil carbon in southern African savannas

Thank You to Our 2018 Peer Reviewers

The Impact of Drought on Native Southern California Vegetation: Remote Sensing Analysis Using MODIS-Derived Time Series

The National Wind Erosion Research Network: Building a standardized long-term data resource for aeolian research, modeling and land management

The Southern Kalahari: a potential new dust source in the Southern Hemisphere?

The ecology of dust

The impact of atmospheric conditions and instrument noise on atmospheric correction and spectral mixture analysis of multispectral imagery

The interactive nutrient and water effects on vegetation biomass at two African savannah sites with different mean annual precipitation

The two faces of Janus: Processes can be both exogenous forcings and endogenous feedbacks with wind as a case study

Vegetation Responses to 2012–2016 Drought in Northern and Southern California

Why and How to Write a High-Impact Review Paper: Lessons From Eight Years of Editorial Board Service to Reviews of Geophysics