List of works by Benjamin F. Zaitchik

A Data‐Driven Framework to Characterize State‐Level Water Use in the United States

scholarly article

A GeoHealth Response to a Geoscience Community Climate Change Position Statement

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

A Grand Prediction: Communicating and Evaluating 2018 Summertime Upper Blue Nile Rainfall and Streamflow Forecasts in Preparation for Ethiopia's New Dam

scholarly article

A Review of Drought in the Middle East and Southwest Asia

article

A framework for research linking weather, climate and COVID-19

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

A meta-analysis of plant facilitation in coastal dune systems: responses, regions, and research gaps

scientific article

A nine-year study on the benefits and risks of soil and water conservation practices in the humid highlands of Ethiopia: The Debre Mawi watershed

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Abundance of water bodies is critical to guide mosquito larval control interventions and predict risk of mosquito-borne diseases

scientific article published on 18 June 2013

Agroecosystem specific climate vulnerability analysis: application of the livelihood vulnerability index to a tropical highland region

An integrated modeling system for estimating glacier and snow melt driven streamflow from remote sensing and earth system data products in the Himalayas

article

Analysis of the Spatial Variability of Soil Texture in a Tropical Highland: The Case of the Jema Watershed, Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia

scholarly article by Mintesinot Taye et al published 1 September 2018 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Andropogoneae Evolution and Generic Limits in Sorghum (Poaceae) Using ndhF Sequences

scientific article published in 1999

Architectural plasticity in a Mediterranean winter annual.

scientific article

Are the Central Andes Mountains a Warming Hot Spot?

scientific article published on 06 February 2017

Assimilating GRACE Into a Land Surface Model in the Presence of an Irrigation‐Induced Groundwater Trend

article by Wanshu Nie et al published December 2019 in Water Resources Research

Assimilation of GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Data into a Land Surface Model: Results for the Mississippi River Basin

article

Assimilation of GRACE terrestrial water storage into a land surface model: Evaluation and potential value for drought monitoring in western and central Europe

article

Assimilation of Gridded GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System

article

Associations Between Eight Earth Observation‐Derived Climate Variables and Enteropathogen Infection: An Independent Participant Data Meta‐Analysis of Surveillance Studies With Broad Spectrum Nucleic Acid Diagnostics

scientific article published in 2022

Associations between Household-Level Exposures and All-Cause Diarrhea and Pathogen-Specific Enteric Infections in Children Enrolled in Five Sentinel Surveillance Studies

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Building climate resilience in the Blue Nile/Abay Highlands: a framework for action

scientific article

Building climate resilience in the Blue Nile/Abay Highlands: a role for Earth system sciences.

scientific article

Carbon sequestration via wood harvest and storage: An assessment of its harvest potential

scholarly article by Ning Zeng et al published 13 November 2012 in Climatic Change

Characterizing Particulate Matter Exfiltration Estimates for Alternative Cookstoves in a Village-Like Household in Rural Nepal

scientific article published on 11 August 2017

Classifying rangeland vegetation type and coverage from NDVI time series using Fourier Filtered Cycle Similarity

Climate and Vegetation in the Middle East: Interannual Variability and Drought Feedbacks

Climate change, the environment, and rhinologic disease

scholarly article

Climate trends and variability at adaptation scale: Patterns and perceptions in an agricultural region of the Ethiopian Highlands

scientific article published in 2020

Comparison of prognostic and diagnostic surface flux modeling approaches over the Nile River basin

scientific article

Compound Effects of Climate Change on Future Transboundary Water Issues in the Middle East

scientific article published in 2022

Determining particulate matter and black carbon exfiltration estimates for traditional cookstove use in rural Nepalese village households

scientific article

Development of Male Flowers in Zizania aquatica (North American Wild-Rice; Gramineae).

scientific article published in May 2000

Drought indicators based on model-assimilated Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) terrestrial water storage observations

article

Earth observations of extreme heat events: leveraging current capabilities to enhance heat research and action

scientific article published in 2021

Effect of an Additional 30 Minutes Spent Outdoors during Summer on Daily Steps and Individually Experienced Heat Index

scientific article published on 17 October 2020

El Niño adversely affected childhood stature and lean mass in northern Peru

article

El Niño and the shifting geography of cholera in Africa.

scientific article

Erosion hotspot identification in the sub-humid Ethiopian highlands

scientific article

Erratum to: Chapter 3: The NASA Global Flood Mapping System

scholarly article

Estimating Occupational Heat Exposure From Personal Sampling of Public Works Employees in Birmingham, Alabama

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Estimating changes in emergency department visits associated with floods caused by Tropical Storm Imelda using satellite observations and syndromic surveillance

scientific article published in 2022

Estimating variability in downwelling surface shortwave radiation in a tropical highland environment

article

Evaluating meteorological data from weather stations, and from satellites and global models for a multi-site epidemiological study.

scientific article published on 20 April 2018

Evaluation of the Global Land Data Assimilation System using global river discharge data and a source-to-sink routing scheme

article by Benjamin F. Zaitchik et al published June 2010 in Water Resources Research

Examining the role of unusually warm Indo‐Pacific sea‐surface temperatures in recent African droughts

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

scientific article

Flash drought onset over the contiguous United States: sensitivity of inventories and trends to quantitative definitions

scientific article

Forward-Looking Assimilation of MODIS-Derived Snow-Covered Area into a Land Surface Model

article

GRACE improves seasonal groundwater forecast initialization over the U.S.

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Geospatial interpolation of MODIS-derived salinity and temperature in the Chesapeake Bay

scholarly article by Erin A. Urquhart et al published August 2013 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Global health impacts for economic models of climate change: a systematic review and meta-analysis

journal article published in 2022

Groundwater Withdrawals Under Drought: Reconciling GRACE and Land Surface Models in the United States High Plains Aquifer

article by Wanshu Nie et al published 11 August 2018 in Water Resources Research

Health‐Damaging Climate Events Highlight the Need for Interdisciplinary, Engaged Research

scientific article published in February 2024

Heat waves and fatal traffic crashes in the continental United States

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Heat waves and health outcomes in Alabama (USA): the importance of heat wave definition

scientific article

Heat waves in the United States: definitions, patterns and trends

scientific article published on June 2013

Identifying Key Water Resource Vulnerabilities in Data‐Scarce Transboundary River Basins

scholarly article published in August 2018

Impact of Irrigation Methods on Land Surface Model Spinup and Initialization of WRF Forecasts

article

Improving early warning of drought-driven food insecurity in southern Africa using operational hydrological monitoring and forecasting products

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Individual and community level factors with a significant role in determining child height-for-age Z score in East Gojjam Zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis

scientific article

Indoor heat exposure in Baltimore: does outdoor temperature matter?

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Influence of Precipitation Forcing Uncertainty on Hydrological Simulations with the NASA South Asia Land Data Assimilation System

Influence of the Boreal Summer Intra-Seasonal Oscillation on rainfall in the Blue Nile Basin

scientific article published in 2021

Influence of the spatial resolution of the exposure estimate in determining the association between heat waves and adverse health outcomes

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Integrated modeling of aerosol, cloud, precipitation and land processes at satellite-resolved scales

article

La Niña weather impacts dietary patterns and dietary diversity among children in the Peruvian Amazon

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Lake Chad Total Surface Water Area as Derived from Land Surface Temperature and Radar Remote Sensing Data

article

MODIS-Derived Boundary Conditions for a Mesoscale Climate Model: Application to Irrigated Agriculture in the Euphrates Basin

article

Machine learning methods for empirical streamflow simulation: a comparison of model accuracy, interpretability, and uncertainty in seasonal watersheds

article

Malaria Transmission and Spillover across the Peru-Ecuador Border: A Spatiotemporal Analysis

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Methods for Estimating Wet Bulb Globe Temperature From Remote and Low-Cost Data: A Comparative Study in Central Alabama

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Methods for estimating population density in data-limited areas: evaluating regression and tree-based models in Peru

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Modeling the impact of highland settlements on ecological disturbance of streams in Choke Mountain Catchment: Macroinvertebrate assemblages and water quality

scientific article published in 2017

Modeling the large-scale water balance impact of different irrigation systems

Modulation of East African Boreal Fall Rainfall: Combined Effects of the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) and El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

scientific article published in 2022

Monthly flooded area classification using low resolution SAR imagery in the Sudd wetland from 2007 to 2011

scientific article

NASA’s Remotely Sensed Precipitation: A Reservoir for Applications Users

Night and day: The influence and relative importance of urban characteristics on remotely sensed land surface temperature

scholarly article

Opportunities and Challenges for Personal Heat Exposure Research.

publication published in 2017

Out of the net: An agent-based model to study human movements influence on local-scale malaria transmission.

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Pathogen-Specific Impacts of the 2011-2012 La Niña-Associated Floods on Enteric Infections in the MAL-ED Peru Cohort: A Comparative Interrupted Time Series Analysis

scientific article published on 12 January 2020

Perspectives on CMIP5 model performance in the Nile River headwaters regions

scientific article

Policies, plans, practice, and prospects: irrigation in northeastern Syria

article

Potential for city parks to reduce exposure to BTEX in air

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Regional Atmospheric Circulation and Rainfall Variability in South Equatorial Africa

article

Regional Impact of an Elevated Heat Source: The Zagros Plateau of Iran

Regionalizing Africa: Patterns of Precipitation Variability in Observations and Global Climate Models

article

Remotely sensed estimates of surface salinity in the Chesapeake Bay: A statistical approach

article

Representation of Soil Moisture Feedbacks during Drought in NASA Unified WRF (NU-WRF)

Robust decision making in data scarce contexts: addressing data and model limitations for infrastructure planning under transient climate change

scientific article published on 04 November 2016

Shocks, seasonality, and disaggregation: Modelling food security through the integration of agricultural, transportation, and economic systems

Simulating Behavioral Influences on Community Flood Risk under Future Climate Scenarios

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

The NASA Global Flood Mapping System

The NASA hydrological forecast system for food and water security applications

The Sustainability of Community-Based Adaptation Projects in the Blue Nile Highlands of Ethiopia

scientific article published on 14 July 2014

The Value of Remotely Sensed Information: The Case of GRACE-Enhanced Drought Severity Index.

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

The role of local heating in the 2015 Indian Heat Wave.

scientific article published on 09 August 2017

The role of low-level terrain-induced jets in rainfall variability in Tigris-Euphrates Headwaters.

scientific article published in March 2017

Towards an integrated soil moisture drought monitor for East Africa

scientific article

Towards effective drought monitoring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: implications from assimilating leaf area index and soil moisture into the Noah-MP land surface model for Morocco

scientific article published on 06 May 2022

Uncertainty in model predictions of Vibrio vulnificus response to climate variability and change: a Chesapeake Bay case study

scientific article

Use of earth observation-derived hydrometeorological variables to model and predict rotavirus infection (MAL-ED): a multisite cohort study

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Using climate regionalization to understand Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) precipitation performance for the Conterminous United States (CONUS)

scholarly article

Using enhanced GRACE water storage data to improve drought detection by the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors

scholarly article published July 2010

Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Chesapeake Bay: Operational In Situ Prediction and Forecast Models Can Benefit from Inclusion of Lagged Water Quality Measurements

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Vulnerability of sorghum production to extreme, sub-seasonal weather under climate change

scientific article published in 2019

Water, Geography, and Aksumite Civilization: The Southern Red Sea Archaeological Histories (SRSAH) Project Survey (2009–2016) ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 February 2020

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