Roni Avissar - Publications

Affiliations: 
Civil and Environmental Engineering Duke University, Durham, NC 
Area:
Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Sciences, Environmental Sciences

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2013 Medvigy D, Walko RL, Otte MJ, Avissar R. Simulated changes in Northwest U.S. Climate in response to Amazon deforestation Journal of Climate. 26: 9115-9136. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-12-00775.1  0.378
2013 Avissar R, Silva RRD, Werth D. Implications of tropical deforestation for regional and global hydroclimate Geophysical Monograph. 153: 73-83. DOI: 10.1029/153Gm07  0.478
2011 Medvigy D, Walko RL, Avissar R. Effects of Deforestation on Spatiotemporal Distributions of Precipitation in South America Journal of Climate. 24: 2147-2163. DOI: 10.1175/2010Jcli3882.1  0.377
2011 Patton EG, Horst TW, Sullivan PP, Lenschow DH, Oncley SP, Brown WOJ, Burns SPP, Guenther AB, Held A, Karl T, Mayor SD, Rizzo LV, Spuler SM, Sun J, Turnipseed AA, ... ... Avissar R, et al. The canopy horizontal array turbulence study Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 92: 593-611. DOI: 10.1175/2010Bams2614.1  0.446
2010 Medvigy D, Walko RL, Otte MJ, Avissar R. The ocean-land-atmosphere model: Optimization and evaluation of simulated radiative fluxes and precipitation Monthly Weather Review. 138: 1923-1939. DOI: 10.1175/2009Mwr3131.1  0.48
2009 Hasler N, Werth D, Avissar R. Effects of Tropical Deforestation on Global Hydroclimate: A Multimodel Ensemble Analysis Journal of Climate. 22: 1124-1141. DOI: 10.1175/2008Jcli2157.1  0.503
2009 Avissar R, Holder HE, Abehserra N, Bolch MA, Novick K, Canning P, Prince K, Magalhaes J, Matayoshi N, Katul G, Walko RL, Johnson KM. The Duke University helicopter observation platform Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 90: 939-954. DOI: 10.1175/2008Bams2628.1  0.346
2009 Muñoz-Arriola F, Avissar R, Zhu C, Lettenmaier DP. Sensitivity of the water resources of Rio Yaqui Basin, Mexico, to agriculture extensification under multiscale climate conditions Water Resources Research. 45. DOI: 10.1029/2007Wr006783  0.727
2009 Bohrer G, Katul GG, Walko RL, Avissar R. Exploring the Effects of Microscale Structural Heterogeneity of Forest Canopies Using Large-Eddy Simulations Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 132: 351-382. DOI: 10.1007/S10546-009-9404-4  0.674
2008 Walko RL, Avissar R. The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM). Part II: Formulation and Tests of the Nonhydrostatic Dynamic Core Monthly Weather Review. 136: 4045-4062. DOI: 10.1175/2008Mwr2523.1  0.37
2008 Walko RL, Avissar R. The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM). Part I: Shallow-Water Tests Monthly Weather Review. 136: 4033-4044. DOI: 10.1175/2008Mwr2522.1  0.447
2008 Guirguis KJ, Avissar R. An Analysis of Precipitation Variability, Persistence, and Observational Data Uncertainty in the Western United States Journal of Hydrometeorology. 9: 843-865. DOI: 10.1175/2008Jhm972.1  0.396
2008 Guirguis KJ, Avissar R. A Precipitation Climatology and Dataset Intercomparison for the Western United States Journal of Hydrometeorology. 9: 825-841. DOI: 10.1175/2008Jhm832.1  0.429
2008 da Silva RR, Werth D, Avissar R. Regional impacts of future land-cover changes on the Amazon basin wet-season climate Journal of Climate. 21: 1153-1170. DOI: 10.1175/2007Jcli1304.1  0.461
2008 Bohrer G, Katul GG, Nathan R, Walko RL, Avissar R. Effects of canopy heterogeneity, seed abscission and inertia on wind-driven dispersal kernels of tree seeds Journal of Ecology. 96: 569-580. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2745.2008.01368.X  0.644
2008 Jackson RB, Randerson JT, Canadell JG, Anderson RG, Avissar R, Baldocchi DD, Bonan GB, Caldeira K, Diffenbaugh NS, Field CB, Hungate BA, Jobbágy EG, Kueppers LM, Nosetto MD, Pataki DE. Protecting climate with forests Environmental Research Letters. 3. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/044006  0.438
2008 Medvigy D, Walko RL, Avissar R. Modeling interannual variability of the Amazon hydroclimate Geophysical Research Letters. 35. DOI: 10.1029/2008Gl034941  0.475
2007 Gullison RE, Frumhoff PC, Canadell JG, Field CB, Nepstad DC, Hayhoe K, Avissar R, Curran LM, Friedlingstein P, Jones CD, Nobre C. Environment. Tropical forests and climate policy. Science (New York, N.Y.). 316: 985-6. PMID 17495140 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1136163  0.368
2007 Hasler N, Avissar R. What Controls Evapotranspiration in the Amazon Basin Journal of Hydrometeorology. 8: 380-395. DOI: 10.1175/Jhm587.1  0.427
2007 Bohrer G, Wolosin M, Brady R, Avissar R. A virtual canopy generator (V-CaGe) for modelling complex heterogeneous forest canopies at high resolution Tellus B. 59: 566-576. DOI: 10.1111/J.1600-0889.2007.00253.X  0.645
2007 Hogrefe C, Werth D, Avissar R, Lynn B, Rosenzweig C, Goldberg R, Rosenthal J, Knowlton K, Kinney PL. Chapter 6.2 Analyzing the impacts of climate change on ozone and particulate matter with tracer species, process analysis, and multiple regional climate scenarios☆ Developments in Environmental Science. 6: 648-660. DOI: 10.1016/S1474-8177(07)06062-7  0.439
2006 Ramos da Silva R, Bohrer G, Werth D, Otte MJ, Avissar R. Sensitivity of ice storms in the southeastern United States to Atlantic SST - Insights from a case study of the December 2002 storm Monthly Weather Review. 134: 1454-1464. DOI: 10.1175/Mwr3127.1  0.617
2006 da Silva RR, Avissar R. The hydrometeorology of a deforested region of the amazon basin Journal of Hydrometeorology. 7: 1028-1042. DOI: 10.1175/Jhm537.1  0.506
2005 Jackson RB, Jobbágy EG, Avissar R, Roy SB, Barrett DJ, Cook CW, Farley KA, le Maitre DC, McCarl BA, Murray BC. Trading water for carbon with biological carbon sequestration. Science (New York, N.Y.). 310: 1944-7. PMID 16373572 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1119282  0.399
2005 Hasler N, Avissar R, Liston GE. Issues in Simulating the Annual Precipitation of a Semiarid Region in Central Spain Journal of Hydrometeorology. 6: 409-422. DOI: 10.1175/Jhm418.1  0.474
2005 Avissar R, Werth D. Global Hydroclimatological Teleconnections Resulting from Tropical Deforestation Journal of Hydrometeorology. 6: 134-145. DOI: 10.1175/Jhm406.1  0.46
2005 Nathan R, Sapir N, Trakhtenbrot A, Katul GG, Bohrer G, Otte M, Avissar R, Soons MB, Horn HS, Wikelski M, Levin SA. Long-distance biological transport processes through the air: Can nature's complexity be unfolded in silico? Diversity and Distributions. 11: 131-137. DOI: 10.1111/J.1366-9516.2005.00146.X  0.64
2005 Bohrer G, Mourad H, Laursen TA, Drewry D, Avissar R, Poggi D, Oren R, Katul GG. Finite element tree crown hydrodynamics model (FETCH) using porous media flow within branching elements: A new representation of tree hydrodynamics Water Resources Research. 41: 1-17. DOI: 10.1029/2005Wr004181  0.632
2005 Silva RRd, Avissar R. The impacts of the Luni‐Solar oscillation on the Arctic oscillation Geophysical Research Letters. 32. DOI: 10.1029/2005Gl023418  0.389
2005 Werth D, Avissar R. The local and global effects of Southeast Asian deforestation Geophysical Research Letters. 32. DOI: 10.1029/2005Gl022970  0.486
2005 Werth D, Avissar R. The local and global effects of African deforestation Geophysical Research Letters. 32. DOI: 10.1029/2005Gl022969  0.478
2005 Medvigy D, Moorcroft PR, Avissar R, Walko RL. Mass conservation and atmospheric dynamics in the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) 2 Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 5: 109-134. DOI: 10.1007/S10652-005-5275-5  0.364
2004 Werth D, Avissar R. The Regional Evapotranspiration of the Amazon Journal of Hydrometeorology. 5: 100-109. DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2004)005<0100:Treota>2.0.Co;2  0.405
2003 Georgescu M, Weaver CP, Avissar R, Walko RL, Miguez-Macho G. Sensitivity of model-simulated summertime precipitation over the Mississippi River Basin to the spatial distribution of initial soil moisture Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres. 108. DOI: 10.1029/2002Jd003107  0.399
2003 Roy SB, Weaver CP, Nolan DS, Avissar R. A preferred scale for landscape forced mesoscale circulations Journal of Geophysical Research. 108: 8854. DOI: 10.1029/2002Jd003097  0.464
2003 Marland G, Pielke RA, Apps M, Avissar R, Betts RA, Davis KJ, Frumhoff PC, Jackson ST, Joyce LA, Kauppi P, Katzenberger J, MacDicken KG, Neilson RP, Niles JO, Niyogi DdS, et al. The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy Climate Policy. 3: 149-157. DOI: 10.1016/S1469-3062(03)00028-7  0.425
2002 Nathan R, Katul GG, Horn HS, Thomas SM, Oren R, Avissar R, Pacala SW, Levin SA. Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind. Nature. 418: 409-13. PMID 12140556 DOI: 10.1038/Nature00844  0.414
2002 Pan H, Avissar R, Haidvogel DB. Summer Circulation and Temperature Structure of Lake Kinneret Journal of Physical Oceanography. 32: 295-313. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<0295:Scatso>2.0.Co;2  0.423
2002 Avissar R, Dias PLS, Dias MAFS, Nobre C. The Large‐Scale Biosphere‐Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA): Insights and future research needs Journal of Geophysical Research. 107: 8086. DOI: 10.1029/2002Jd002704  0.357
2002 Weaver CP, Roy SB, Avissar R. Sensitivity of simulated mesoscale atmospheric circulations resulting from landscape heterogeneity to aspects of model configuration Journal of Geophysical Research. 107: 8041. DOI: 10.1029/2001Jd000376  0.506
2002 Roy SB, Avissar R. Impact of land use/land cover change on regional hydrometeorology in Amazonia Journal of Geophysical Research. 107: 8037. DOI: 10.1029/2000Jd000266  0.544
2001 Weaver CP, Avissar R. Atmospheric Disturbances Caused by Human Modification of the Landscape Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 82: 269-281. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<0269:Adcbhm>2.3.Co;2  0.491
2000 Avissar R, Pan H. Simulations of the Summer Hydrometeorological Processes of Lake Kinneret Journal of Hydrometeorology. 1: 95-109. DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2000)001<0095:Sotshp>2.0.Co;2  0.429
2000 Gopalakrishnan SG, Avissar R. An LES Study of the Impacts of Land Surface Heterogeneity on Dispersion in the Convective Boundary Layer Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 57: 352-371. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<0352:Alsoti>2.0.Co;2  0.344
2000 Gopalakrishnan SG, Roy SB, Avissar R. An evaluation of the scale at which topographical features affect the convective boundary layer using large eddy simulations Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 57: 334-351. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<0334:Aeotsa>2.0.Co;2  0.433
2000 Roy SB, Avissar R. Scales of response of the convective boundary layer to land‐surface heterogeneity Geophysical Research Letters. 27: 533-536. DOI: 10.1029/1999Gl010971  0.393
1999 Rodríguez-Camino E, Avissar R. Effective parameters for surface heat fluxes in heterogeneous terrain Tellus A. 51: 387-399. DOI: 10.3402/Tellusa.V51I3.13460  0.402
1999 Liu Y, Avissar R. A Study of Persistence in the Land-Atmosphere System with a Fourth-Order Analytical Model Journal of Climate. 12: 2154-2168. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2154:Asopit>2.0.Co;2  0.455
1999 Liu Y, Avissar R. A Study of Persistence in the Land-Atmosphere System Using a General Circulation Model and Observations Journal of Climate. 12: 2139-2153. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2139:Asopit>2.0.Co;2  0.357
1999 Liu Y, Weaver CP, Avissar R. Toward a parameterization of mesoscale fluxes and moist convection induced by landscape heterogeneity Journal of Geophysical Research. 104: 19515-19533. DOI: 10.1029/1999Jd900361  0.519
1998 Rodríguez-Camino E, Avissar R. Comparison of three land‐surface schemes with the Fourier amplitude sensitivity test (FAST) Tellus A. 50: 313-332. DOI: 10.3402/Tellusa.V50I3.14529  0.406
1998 Avissar R, Schmidt T. An Evaluation of the Scale at which Ground-Surface Heat Flux Patchiness Affects the Convective Boundary Layer Using Large-Eddy Simulations Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 55: 2666-2689. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<2666:Aeotsa>2.0.Co;2  0.399
1998 Avissar R, Eloranta EW, Gürer K, Tripoli GJ. An Evaluation of the Large-Eddy Simulation Option of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System in Simulating a Convective Boundary Layer: A FIFE Case Study Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 55: 1109-1130. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<1109:Aeotle>2.0.Co;2  0.456
1998 Pielke RA, Avissar R, Raupach M, Dolman AJ, Zeng X, Denning AS. Interactions between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems: influence on weather and climate Global Change Biology. 4: 461-475. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-2486.1998.00176.X  0.455
1998 Hutjes RWA, Kabat P, Running SW, Shuttleworth WJ, Field C, Bass B, Da Silva Dias MAF, Avissar R, Becker A, Claussen M, Dolman AJ, Feddes RA, Fosberg M, Fukushima Y, Gash JHC, et al. Biospheric aspects of the hydrological cycle Journal of Hydrology. 212: 1-21. DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(98)00255-8  0.5
1998 Avissar R. Which type of soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer scheme is needed for general circulation models : a proposal for a higher-order scheme Journal of Hydrology. 212: 136-154. DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(98)00227-3  0.405
1997 Giorgi F, Avissar R. Representation of heterogeneity effects in Earth system modeling: Experience from land surface modeling Reviews of Geophysics. 35: 413-437. DOI: 10.1029/97Rg01754  0.478
1996 Liu Y, Avissar R, Giorgi F. Simulation with the regional climate model RegCM2 of extremely anomalous precipitation during the 1991 east Asian flood: An evaluation study Journal of Geophysical Research. 101: 26199-26215. DOI: 10.1029/96Jd01612  0.509
1996 Coughlan M, Avissar R. The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Continental-Scale International Project (GCIP): An overview Journal of Geophysical Research. 101: 7139-7147. DOI: 10.1029/96Jd00125  0.333
1996 Avissar R, Liu Y. Three-dimensional numerical study of shallow convective clouds and precipitation induced by land surface forcing Journal of Geophysical Research. 101: 7499-7518. DOI: 10.1029/95Jd03031  0.481
1996 Liu Y, Avissar R. Sensitivity of shallow convective precipitation induced by land surface heterogeneities to dynamical and cloud microphysical parameters Journal of Geophysical Research. 101: 7477-7497. DOI: 10.1029/95Jd02167  0.499
1996 Avissar R. Potential effects of vegetation on the urban thermal environment Atmospheric Environment. 30: 437-448. DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00013-5  0.411
1995 Lynn BH, Abramopoulos F, Avissar R. Using Similarity Theory to Parameterize Mesoscale Heat Fluxes Generated by Subgrid-Scale Landscape Discontinuities in GCMs Journal of Climate. 8: 932-951. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1995)008<0932:Usttpm>2.0.Co;2  0.443
1995 Lynn BH, Rind D, Avissar R. The Importance of Mesoscale Circulations Generated by Subgrid-Scale Landscape Heterogeneities in General Circulation Models Journal of Climate. 8: 191-205. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1995)008<0191:Tiomcg>2.0.Co;2  0.463
1995 Avissar R. Scaling of land-atmosphere interactions: An atmospheric modelling perspective Hydrological Processes. 9: 679-695. DOI: 10.1002/Hyp.3360090514  0.513
1994 Chen F, Avissar R. Impact of Land-Surface Moisture Variability on Local Shallow Convective Cumulus and Precipitation in Large-Scale Models Journal of Applied Meteorology. 33: 1382-1401. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1994)033<1382:Iolsmv>2.0.Co;2  0.531
1994 Chen F, Avissar R. The impact of land-surface wetness heterogeneity on mesoscale heat fluxes Journal of Applied Meteorology. 33: 1323-1340. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1994)033<1323:Tiolsw>2.0.Co;2  0.486
1994 Collins DC, Avissar R. An Evaluation with the Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test (FAST) of Which Land-Surface Parameters Are of Greatest Importance in Atmospheric Modeling Journal of Climate. 7: 681-703. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1994)007<0681:Aewtfa>2.0.Co;2  0.427
1994 Li B, Avissar R. The impact of spatial variability of land-surface characteristics on land-surface heat fluxes Journal of Climate. 7: 527-537. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1994)007<0527:Tiosvo>2.0.Co;2  0.464
1993 Avissar R, Chen F. Development and analysis of prognostic equations for mesoscale kinetic energy and mesoscale (subgrid scale) fluxes for large-scale atmospheric models Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 50: 3751-3774. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1993)050<3751:Daaope>2.0.Co;2  0.461
1993 Avissar R. Observations of leaf stomatal conductance at the canopy scale: An atmospheric modeling perspective Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 64: 127-148. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00705665  0.477
1992 Avissar R. Conceptual aspects of a statistical‐dynamical approach to represent landscape subgrid‐scale heterogeneities in atmospheric models Journal of Geophysical Research. 97: 2729-2742. DOI: 10.1029/91Jd01751  0.469
1991 Avissar R, Pielke RA. The impact of plant stomatal control on mesoscale atmospheric circulations Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 54: 353-372. DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(91)90013-G  0.505
1991 Avissar R. A Statistical-Dynamical Approach to Parameterize Subgrid-Scale Land-Surface Heterogeneity in Climate Models Surveys in Geophysics. 12: 155-178. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01903417  0.518
1990 Avissar R, Verstraete MM. The representation of continental surface processes in atmospheric models Reviews of Geophysics. 28: 35-52. DOI: 10.1029/Rg028I001P00035  0.416
1990 Pielke RA, Avissar R. Influence of landscape structure on local and regional climate Landscape Ecology. 4: 133-155. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00132857  0.498
1990 Avissar R, Moran MD, Wu G, Meroney RN, Pielke RA. Operating ranges of mesoscale numerical models and meteorological wind tunnels for the simulation of sea and land breezes Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 50: 227-275. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00120526  0.444
1989 Avissar R, Pielke RA. A parameterization of heterogeneous land surfaces for atmospheric numerical models and its impact on regional meteorology Monthly Weather Review. 117: 2113-2136. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1989)117<2113:Apohls>2.0.Co;2  0.471
1989 Avissar R, Pielke RA. A parameterization of heterogeneous land surfaces for atmospheric numerical models and its impact on regional meteorology Monthly Weather Review. 117: 2113-2136.  0.406
1988 Segal M, Avissar R, McCumber MC, Pielke RA. Evaluation of Vegetation Effects on the Generation and Modification of Mesoscale Circulations Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 45: 2268-2293. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1988)045<2268:Eoveot>2.0.Co;2  0.413
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