Nair, Udaysankar: Earth System Science Center, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (Project Lead)
Project Funding:
2004 - 2007
NRA: 2003 NASA: Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science
Funded by NASA
Publications:
Lawton, R. O., Nair, U. S., Ray, D., Regmi, A., Pounds, J. A., Welch, R. M. 2011. Quantitative measures of immersion in cloud and the biogeography of cloud forests in: Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. Cambridge University Press, 217-227. DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511778384.024
Nair, U. S., Asefi, S., Welch, R. M., Ray, D. K., Lawton, R. O., Manoharan, V. S., Mulligan, M., Sever, T. L., Irwin, D., Pounds, J. A. 2008. Biogeography of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. Part II: Mapping of Orographic Cloud Immersion. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 47(8), 2183-2197. DOI: 10.1175/2007jamc1819.1
Pielke, R. A., Adegoke, J., BeltraaN-Przekurat, A., Hiemstra, C. A., Lin, J., Nair, U. S., Niyogi, D., Nobis, T. E. 2017. An overview of regional land-use and land-cover impacts on rainfall. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology. 59(3), 587-601. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2007.00251.x
Pielke, R., Stokowski, D., Wang, J., Vukicevic, T., Leoncini, G., Matsui, T., Castro, C. L., Niyogi, D., Kishtawal, C. M., Biazar, A., Doty, K., McNider, R. T., Nair, U., Tao, W. 2007. Satellite-based model parameterization of diabatic heating. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 88(8), 96-97. DOI: 10.1029/2007eo080003
RAY, D., WELCH, R., LAWTON, R., NAIR, U. 2006. Dry season clouds and rainfall in northern Central America: Implications for the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Global and Planetary Change. 54(1-2), 150-162. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.09.004
Welch, R. M., Asefi, S., Zeng, J., Nair, U. S., Han, Q., Lawton, R. O., Ray, D. K., Manoharan, V. S. 2008. Biogeography of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. Part I: Remote Sensing of Cloud-Base Heights. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 47(4), 960-975. DOI: 10.1175/2007jamc1668.1
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