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Cabral, M.C., Garrote, L., Bras, R.L. and Entekhabi, D. 1999. Kinematic infiltration in vertically heterogeneous, anisotropic and sloped soils. Advances in Water Resources. 15: 311-324.

Garrote, L. and Bras, R. L. 1995. A Distributed Model for Real-time Flood Forecasting using Digital Elevation Models. Journal of Hydrology. 167: 279-306.

Tucker, G. E., Lancaster, S. T., Gasparini, N. M., Bras, R. L. and Rybarczyk. 2001. An Object-oriented Framework for Distributed Hydrologic and Geomorphic Modeling using Triangulated Irregular Networks. Computers and Geoscience. 27: 959-973.

Ivanov, V.Y., Vivoni, E.R., Bras, R.L. and Entekhabi, D. 2004. Preserving High-Resolution Surface and Rainfall Data in Operational-scale Basin Hydrology: A Fully-distributed Physically-based Approach. Journal of Hydrology. 298(1-4): 80-111.

Reed, S., Koren, V., Smith, M., Zhang, Z., Moreda, F., Seo, D.-J. and DMIP Participants. 2004. Overall Distributed Model Intercomparison Project Results. Journal of Hydrology. 298(1-4): 27-60.

Vivoni, E.R., Grimaldi, S., Nardi, F., Ivanov, V.Y., Castelli, F., Bras, R.L. and Ubertini, L. 2004. Assessing Hydrological Extreme Events with Geospatial Data and Models. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union. 85 (39): 371, 375.

Ivanov, V.Y., Vivoni, E.R., Bras, R. L. and Entekhabi, D. 2004. Catchment Hydrologic Response with a Fully-distributed Triangulated Irregular Network Model. Water Resources Research. 40(11): W11102, 10.1029/2004WR003218.

Vivoni, E.R., Ivanov, V.Y., Bras, R.L. and Entekhabi, D. 2004. Generation of Triangulated Irregular Networks based on Hydrological Similarity. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 9(4): 288-302.

Vivoni, E.R., Teles, V., Ivanov, V.Y., Bras, R.L. and Entekhabi, D. 2005. Embedding Landscape Processes into Triangulated Terrain Models. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 19(4): 429-457.

Vivoni, E.R., Ivanov, V.Y., Bras, R. L. and Entekhabi, D. 2005. On the Effects of Triangulated Terrain Resolution on Distributed Hydrologic Model Response. Hydrological Processes. 19(11): 2101-2122.

Vivoni, E.R., Entekhabi, D., Bras, R.L., Ivanov, V.Y., Van Horne, M.P., Grassotti, C. and Hoffman, R.N., 2006. Extending the Predictability of Hydrometeorological Flood Events using Radar Rainfall Nowcasting. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 7(4): 660-677.

Vivoni, E.R., Entekhabi, D., Bras, R.L. and Ivanov, V.Y. 2007. Controls on Runoff Generation and Scale-Dependence in a Distributed Hydrological Model. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11(5): 1683-1701.

Vivoni, E.R., Entekhabi, D. and Hoffman, R.N. 2007. Error Propagation of Radar Rainfall Nowcasting Fields through a Fully-Distributed Flood Forecasting Model. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 46(6): 932-940.

Noto, L.V., Ivanov, V.Y., Bras, R.L., and Vivoni, E.R. 2008. Effects of Initialization on Response of a Fully-Distributed Hydrologic Model. Journal of Hydrology. 352(1-2): 107-125.

Forman, B.A., Vivoni, E.R., and Margulis, S.A. 2008. Evaluation of Ensemble-based Distributed Hydrologic Model Response with Dissagregated Precipitation Products. Water Resources Research. 44: W12410, doi:10.1029/2008WR006983.

Mahmood, T. H. and Vivoni, E.R. 2008. Evaluation of Distributed Soil Moisture Simulations through Field Observations during the North American Monsoon in Redondo Creek, New Mexico. Ecohydrology. 1(3): 271-287.

Rinehart, A.J., Vivoni, E.R. and Brooks, P.D. 2008. Effects of Vegetation, Albedo and Solar Radiation Sheltering on the Distribution of Snow in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico. Ecohydrology. 1(3): 253-270.

Ivanov, V.Y., Bras, R.L. and Vivoni, E.R. 2008. Vegetation-Hydrology Dynamics in Complex Terrain of Semiarid Areas. I. A Mechanistic Approach to Modeling Dynamic Feedbacks. Water Resources Research. 44, W03429, doi:10.1029/2006WR005588.

Ivanov, V.Y., Bras, R.L. and Vivoni, E.R. 2008. Vegetation-Hydrology Dynamics in Complex Terrain of Semiarid Areas. II. Energy-Water Controls of Vegetation Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Topographic Niches of Favorability. Water Resources Research. 44, W03430, doi:10.1029/2006WR005595.

Vivoni, E.R., Di Benedetto, F., Grimaldi, S. and Eltahir, E.A.B. 2008. Hypsometric Control on Surface and Subsurface Runoff. Water Resources Research. 44, W12502, doi:10.1029/2008WR006931.

Vivoni, E.R., Tai, K. and Gochis, D.J. 2009. Effects of Initial Soil Moisture on Rainfall Generation and Subsequent Hydrologic Response during the North American Monsoon. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 10(3): 644-664.

Flores, A.N., Ivanov, V.Y., Entekhabi, D. and Bras, R.L. 2009. Impact of Hillslope-Scale Organization of Topography, Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature and Vegetation on Modeling Surfae Microwave Radiation Emission. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 47(8): 2557-2571.

Liuzzo, L., Noto, L.V., Vivoni, E.R. and La Loggia, G. 2010. Basin-scale Water Resources Assessment in Oklahoma under Synthetic Climate Change Scenarios using a Fully-Distributed Hydrological Model. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 15(2): 107-122.

Vivoni, E.R., Rodriguez, J.C. and Watts, C.J. 2010. On the Spatiotemporal Variability of Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration in a Mountainous Basin within the North American Monsoon Region. Water Resources Research. 46: W02509, doi:10.1029/2009WR008240.

Mascaro, G., Vivoni, E.R. and Deidda, R. 2010. Implications of  Ensemble Quantitative Precipitation Forecast Errors on Distributed Streamflow Forecasting. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 11(1): 69-86.

Flores, A.N., Entekhabi, D. and Bras, R.L. 2010. Reproducibility of Soil Moisture Ensembles when Representing Soil Parameter Uncertainty using  a Latin-Hypercube-based Approach with Correlation Control. Water Resources Research. 46, W04506, doi:10.1029/2009WR008155.

Mahmood, T.H. and Vivoni, E.R. 2011. A Climate-Induced Threshold in Hydrologic Response in a Semiarid Ponderosa Pine Hillslope. Water Resources Research. 47, W09529, doi:10.1029/2011WR010384.

Mahmood, T.H. and Vivoni, E.R. 2011. Breakdown of Hydrologic Patterns upon Model Coarsening at Hillslope Scales and Implications for Experimental Design. Journal of Hydrology. 411(3-4): 309-321.

Nikolopoulus, E.I., Anagnostou, E.N., Borga, M., Vivoni, E.R. and Papadopoulus, A. 2011. Sensitivity of a Mountain Basin Flash Flood to Initial Wetness Condition and Rainfall Variability. Journal of Hydrology. 402: 165-178.

Vivoni, E.R., Mascaro, G., Mniszewski, S., Fasel, P., Springer, E.P., Ivanov, V.Y. and Bras, R.L. 2011. Real-world Hydrologic Assessment of a Fully-Distributed Hydrological Model in a Parallel Computing Environment. Journal of Hydrology. 409: 483-496.

Mascaro, G. and Vivoni, E.R. 2012. Utility of Coarse and Downscaled Soil Moisture Products at L-band for Hydrologic Modeling at the Catchment Scale. Geophysical Research Letters. 39, L10403, doi:10.1029/2012GL051809.

Moreno, H.A., Vivoni, E.R. and Gochis, D.J. 2012. Utility of Quantitative Precipitation Estimates for High Resolution Hydrologic Forecasts in Mountain Watersheds of the Colorado Front Range. Journal of Hydrology. 438-439: 66-83.

Robles-Morua, A., Vivoni, E.R. and Mayer, A.S. 2012. Distributed Hydrologic Modeling in Northwest Mexico Reveals the Links between Runoff Mechanisms and Evapotranspiration. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 13: 785-807.

Vivoni, E.R. 2012. Diagnosing Seasonal Vegetation Impacts on Evapotranspiration and its Partitioning at the Catchment Scale during SMEX04-NAME. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 13: 1631-1638.

Moreno, H.A., Vivoni, E.R., and Gochis, D.J. 2013. Limits to Flood Forecasting in the Colorado Front Range for Two Summer Convection Periods using Radar Nowcasting and a Distributed Hydrologic Model. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 14(4): 1075-1097.

Mascaro, G., Piras, M., Deidda, R., and Vivoni, E.R. 2013. Distributed Hydrologic Modeling of a Sparsely-monitored Basin in Sardinia, Italy, through Hydrometeorological Downscaling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 17(10): 4143-4158

Moreno, H.A, Vivoni, E.R., and Gochis, D. J. 2014. Addressing Uncertainty in Reflectivity-Rainfall Relations in Mountain Watersheds during Summer Convection. Hydrological Processes. 28(3): 688-704.

Mendez-Barroso, L.A., Vivoni, E.R., Robles-Morua, A., Mascaro, G., Yepez, E.A., Rodriguez, J.C., Watts, C.J., Garatuza-Payan, J., and Saiz-Hernandez, J. 2014. A Modeling Approach Reveals Differences in Evapotranspiration and its Partitioning in Two Semiarid Ecosystems in Northwest Mexico. Water Resources Research. 50(4): 3229-3252.

Xiang, T., Vivoni, E.R. and Gochis, D.J. 2014. Seasonal Evolution of Ecohydrological Controls on Land Surface Temperature over Complex Terrain. Water Resources Research. 50(5): 3852-3874.

Mahmood, T.H. and Vivoni, E.R. 2014. Forest Ecohydrological Response to Bimodal Precipitation during Contrasting Winter to Summer Transitions. Ecohydrology. 7(3): 998-1013.

Vivoni, E.R., Rango, A., Anderson, C.A., Pierini, N.A., Schreiner-McGraw, A., Saripalli, S., and Laliberte, A.S. 2014. Ecohydrology with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Ecosphere. 5(10): art130.

Pierini, N.A., Vivoni, E.R., Robles-Morua, A., Scott, R.L, and Nearing, M.A. 2014. Using Observations and a Distributed Hydrologic Model to Explore Runoff Threshold Processes Linked with Mesquite Encroachment in the Sonoran Desert. Water Resources Research. 50(10): 8191-8215.

Piras, M., Mascaro, G., Deidda, R., and Vivoni, E.R. 2014. Quantification of Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change in a Mediterranean Basin in Sardinia, Italy, through High-resolution Simulations. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 18(12): 5201-5217.

Hawkins, G.A., Vivoni, E.R., Robles-Morua, A., Mascaro, G., Rivera, E., and Dominguez, F. 2015. A Climate Change Projection for Summer Hydrologic Conditions in a Semiarid Watershed of Central Arizona. Journal of Arid Environments. 118: 9-20.

Mascaro, G., Vivoni, E.R., and Mendez-Barroso, L.A. 2015. Hyperresolution Hydrologic Modeling in a Regional Watershed and its Interpretation using Empirical Orthogonal Functions. Advances in Water Resources. 83: 190-206.


Contact Enrique R. Vivoni (vivoni@asu.edu) for electronic versions of the tRIBS publications.