List of works by Alexandra G. Konings

A phenomenological model for the flow resistance over submerged vegetation

Achieving Breakthroughs in Global Hydrologic Science by Unlocking the Power of Multisensor, Multidisciplinary Earth Observations

scientific article published in 2021

Active microwave observations of diurnal and seasonal variations of canopy water content across the humid African tropical forests

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Atmospheric variability contributes to increasing wildfire weather but not as much as global warming

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Beyond soil water potential: An expanded view on isohydricity including land-atmosphere interactions and phenology

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Canopy height and climate dryness parsimoniously explain spatial variation of unstressed stomatal conductance

scientific article published on 19 July 2022

Carbon Flux Variability From a Relatively Simple Ecosystem Model With Assimilated Data Is Consistent With Terrestrial Biosphere Model Estimates

Characterization of vegetation and soil scattering mechanisms across different biomes using P-band SAR polarimetry

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Climate change-induced peatland drying in Southeast Asia

scientific article published in 2022

Comparative hydrology across AmeriFlux sites: The variable roles of climate, vegetation, and groundwater

scholarly article by S. E. Thompson et al published 15 July 2011 in Water Resources Research

Conditioning Stochastic Rainfall Replicates on Remote Sensing Data

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Confronting the water potential information gap

scientific article published on 11 March 2022

Data-driven estimates of evapotranspiration and its controls in the Congo Basin

Data-driven estimates of evapotranspiration and its drivers in the Congo Basin

Preprint

Detecting Forest Response to Droughts with Global Observations of Vegetation Water Content

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Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts

Drainage Canals in Southeast Asian Peatlands Increase Carbon Emissions

scientific article published in 2021

Drought sensitivity of patterned vegetation determined by rainfall-land surface feedbacks

scholarly article

Ecosystem Water‐Saving Timescale Varies Spatially With Typical Drydown Length

scientific article published on 29 March 2024

Effect of Radiative Transfer Uncertainty on L-Band Radiometric Soil Moisture Retrieval

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Empirical estimates of regional carbon budgets imply reduced global soil heterotrophic respiration

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Estimating Global Ecosystem Isohydry/Anisohydry Using Active and Passive Microwave Satellite Data

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Extended triple collocation: Estimating errors and correlation coefficients with respect to an unknown target

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Extreme wet events as important as extreme dry events in controlling spatial patterns of vegetation greenness anomalies

Global Coordination in Plant Physiological and Rooting Strategies in Response to Water Stress

Global carbon and water exchange during drought reflects adaptation of rooting depth to climate and topography

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Global distribution of the rooting zone water storage capacity reflects plant adaptation to the environment

Global ecosystem-scale plant hydraulic traits retrieved using model–data fusion

Global satellite-driven estimates of heterotrophic respiration

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Global variations in ecosystem-scale isohydricity

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Global-scale assessment and combination of SMAP with ASCAT (active) and AMSR2 (passive) soil moisture products

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Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products

scientific article published in 2021

How Many Parameters Can Be Maximally Estimated From a Set of Measurements?

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Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought

scientific article published in Nature

Interacting Effects of Leaf Water Potential and Biomass on Vegetation Optical Depth

scientific article published in November 2017

Interannual Variations of Vegetation Optical Depth are Due to Both Water Stress and Biomass Changes

scholarly article

Interannual variability of ecosystem iso/anisohydry is regulated by environmental dryness

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Intra‐Specific Variability in Plant Hydraulic Parameters Inferred From Model Inversion of Sap Flux Data

scientific article published in 2022

L-Band Radar Soil Moisture Retrieval Without Ancillary Information

L-band vegetation optical depth and effective scattering albedo estimation from SMAP

scholarly article by Alexandra G. Konings et al published September 2017 in Remote Sensing of Environment

L-band vegetation optical depth as an indicator of plant water potential in a temperate deciduous forest stand

scientific article published in 2021

L-band vegetation optical depth seasonal metrics for crop yield assessment

scholarly article by David Chaparro et al published June 2018 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Lagged effects dominate the inter-annual variability of the 2010–2015 tropical carbon balance

Lagged effects regulate the inter-annual variability of the tropical carbon balance

scientific article published in 2020

Leaf surface water, not plant water stress, drives diurnal variation in tropical forest canopy water content

scientific article published in 2021

Macro to micro: microwave remote sensing of plant water content for physiology and ecology

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Mean Velocity Profile in a Sheared and Thermally Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

Moisture pulse-reserve in the soil-plant continuum observed across biomes

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Opportunities, challenges and pitfalls in characterizing plant water‐use strategies

scientific article published in 2021

Optimal model complexity for terrestrial carbon cycle prediction

scientific article published in 2021

Optimal model complexity for terrestrial carbon cycle prediction

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

Optimal model complexity for terrestrial carbon cycle prediction using data assimilation

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Patterns of plant rehydration and growth following pulses of soil moisture availability

scientific article published in 2021

Physics-Based Modeling of Active and Passive Microwave Covariations Over Vegetated Surfaces

scientific article

Plant hydraulics accentuates the effect of atmospheric moisture stress on transpiration

Plant-water sensitivity regulates wildfire vulnerability

scientific article published on 07 February 2022

Quantifying the Global Power Needed for Sap Ascent in Plants

scientific article published in August 2022

Regionally strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere

scientific article published on 01 May 2017

Relationship Between Vegetation Microwave Optical Depth and Cross-Polarized Backscatter From Multiyear Aquarius Observations

SAR-enhanced mapping of live fuel moisture content

article by Krishna Rao et al published August 2020 in Remote Sensing of Environment

SMAP Detects Soil Moisture Under Temperate Forest Canopies

scholarly article

SMAP Multi-Temporal vegetation optical depth retrieval as an indicator of crop yield trends and crop composition

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SMAP Validation Experiment 2019–2021 (SMAPVEX19-21): Detection of Soil Moisture under Forest Canopy

Satellite Observations of the Tropical Terrestrial Carbon Balance and Interactions With the Water Cycle During the 21st Century

Satellite soil moisture observations predict burned area in Southeast Asian peatlands

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Satellite-based vegetation optical depth as an indicator of drought-driven tree mortality

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Simultaneous retrieval of global scale Vegetation Optical Depth, surface roughness, and soil moisture using X-band AMSR-E observations

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Smap-based retrieval of vegetation opacity and albedo

Supplementary material to "Data-driven estimates of evapotranspiration and its drivers in the Congo Basin"

scientific article published on 4 May 2020

Supplementary material to "Optimal model complexity for terrestrial carbon cycle prediction"

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

Tall Amazonian forests are less sensitive to precipitation variability

article by Francesco Giardina et al published 28 May 2018 in Nature Geoscience

The Effect of Variable Soil Moisture Profiles on P-Band Backscatter

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The global distribution and dynamics of surface soil moisture

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The rainfall-no rainfall transition in a coupled land-convective atmosphere system

scholarly article

Thermodynamics of an idealized hydrologic cycle

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Triple collocation for binary and categorical variables: Application to validating landscape freeze/thaw retrievals

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Unsteady overland flow on flat surfaces induced by spatial permeability contrasts

Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?

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Vegetation optical depth and scattering albedo retrieval using time series of dual-polarized L-band radiometer observations

scholarly article by Alexandra G. Konings et al published January 2016 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Water, Energy, and Carbon with Artificial Neural Networks (WECANN): A statistically-based estimate of global surface turbulent fluxes and gross primary productivity using solar-induced fluorescence.

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Water, Energy, and Carbon with Artificial Neural Networks (WECANN): A statistically-based estimate of global surface turbulent fluxes using solar-induced fluorescence

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