Remote Sensing of Water Cycle and Hydrometeorology (RSWatCH) Group
Recent NEWS
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Our team will contribute to a new $30M NASA selected mission (Snow4Flow): Studying Arctic snowfall and glaciers with airborne radar: NASA EVS project (May 2024)
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NASA selected our group to lead the next generation of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) for the next 5 years. (July 2023)
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We Received NASA’s Robert H. Goddard Team Awards for exceptional contributions to climate science by developing and releasing the new Version 3.2 Monthly and Daily Global Precipitation Climatology Project datasets (2022)
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Our U of Arizona Team Won the SWE forecast competition and received an award: Ranked 3rd out of 333 participants! The team.
Our research interests include:
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Multi-sensor multi-spectral remote sensing of precipitation
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High latitude/cold region/mountainous rain and snow retrievals and analysis
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Weather and climate extremes (extreme precipitation, drought, heatwaves) and societal impact
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Global water and energy budget analysis
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Hydrologic/watershed modeling and optimization
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Developing precipitation products for hydrological applications.
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Using advanced satellite and in-situ data to improve quantification of hydrologic variables
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Representation of precipitation in climate models
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Land-atmosphere interaction
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Using GRACE for hydrometeorology
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Ecohydrology and ecosystem response under water stress
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Precipitation and ground water recharge
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Machine Learning
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Applied sciences
Links
Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences (HAS)
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics
Water resources global ranking
WCRP weather and climate extremes
