Selected Publications

 

  1. Natali & J.D. Watts; S. Potter, B. Rogers, S.M. Ludwig, A.-K. Selbmann, P. Sullivan, B.W. Abbott, K.A. Arndt, L. Birch, M.P. Bjorkman, A. Bloom, G. Celis, T.R. Christensen, C.T. Christiansen, R. Commane, E.J. Cooper, P. Crill, et al. (2019) Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across pan-Arctic permafrost region. Nature Climate Change. in press.
  2. Liu, J.S. Kimball, N. Parazoo, A.P. Ballantyne, W. Wang, N. Madani, C. Pan, J.D. Watts, R.H. Reichle (2019) Increased high-latitude photosynthetic carbon gain during an anomalously warm spring offset by respiration carbon loss during winter in high latitudes. Global Change Biology. in press.
  3. Ballantyne, Z. Liu, W. Anderegg, Z. Yu, P. Stoy, B. Poulter, J. Vanderwall, J.D. Watts, J. Neff (2019) Reconciling carbon cycle processes from ecosystem to global scales, Macrosystems in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. in press.
  4. N. Duncan, L.E. Ott, J.B. Abshire, L. Brucker, M.L. Carroll, J. Carton, J.C. Comiso, E.P. Dinnat, B.C. Forbes, A. Gonsamo, W.W. Gregg, D.K. Hall, I. Ialongo, R. Jandt, R.A. Kahn, A. Karpechko, S.R. Kawa, S. Kato, T. Kumpula, E. Kyrola, T. V. Loboda, K.C. McDonald, P.M. Montesano, R. Nassar, C.S.R. Neigh, Claire L. Parkinson, B. Poulter, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautainen, B.M. Rogers, C.S. Rousseaux, A.J. Soja, N. Steiner, J. Tamminen. P.C. Taylor, M.A. Tzortziu, H. Virta, J.S. Wang, J.D. Watts, D.M. Winker, D.L. Wu (2019) Space-based observations for understanding changes in the Arctic-Boreal Zone. CAB Reviews. in press.
  5. Du, J.D. Watts, L. Jiang, H. Lu, X. Cheng, C. Duguay, M. Farina, Y. Qiu, Y. Kim, J.S. Kimball, P. Tarolli (2019) Remote sensing of environmental changes in cold regions: methods, achievements and challenges. Remote Sensing, 11, 1952.
  6. Du, J.S. Kimball, I. Velicogna, M. Zhao, L.A. Jones, J.D. Watts, Y. Kim (2019) Multicomponent satellite assessment of drought severity in the contiguous United States from 2002 to 2017 using AMSR-E and AMSR2. Water Res. Research. DOI: 0.1002/wrcr.v9999.9999.
  7. Du, J.S. Kimball, J. Galantowicz, S.-B. Kim, S.K. Chan, R.R. Reichle, L.A. Jones, J.D. Watts (2018) Assessing global surface water inundation dynamics using combined satellite information from SMAP, AMSR2 and Landsat. Remote Sens. Envi., 213, 1-17.
  8. Du, J.S. Kimball, L.A. Jones, Y. Kim, J. Glassy, J.D. Watts (2017) A global satellite environmental data record derived from AMSR-E and AMSR2 microwave earth observations. Earth System Sci. Data, 9, 791.
  9. Hursh, A. Ballantyne, L. Cooper, M. Maneta, J.D. Watts (2017) The sensitivity of soil respiration to soil temperature, moisture and carbon supply at the global scale. Global Change Biol., 23, 2090-2109.
  10. Zona, B. Gioli, R. Commane, J. Lindaas, S.C. Wofsy, C.E. Miller, S.J. Dinardo, S. Dengel, C.  Sweeney, A. Karion, R.Y.-W. Chang, J.M. Henderson, P.C. Murphy, J.P. Goodrich, V. Moreaux, A. Liljedahl, J.D. Watts, J.S. Kimball, D.A. Lipson, W. Oechel (2016) Cold season emissions dominate the Arctic tundra methane budget. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 113, 40-45.
  11. J. Davidson, M.J. Santos, V.L. Sloan, J.D. Watts, G.K. Phoenix, W.C. Oechel, D. Zona. (2016)

Remote sensing of arctic tundra vegetation communities along a latitudinal gradient in North

Alaska, USA. Remote Sensing, 8, 1-14.

  1. Du, J.S. Kimball, L.A. Jones, J.D. Watts (2016) Implementation of satellite based fractional

water cover indices in the pan-Arctic region using AMSR-E and MODIS. Remote Sens. Environ., 184, 469-481.

  1. D. Watts, J.S. Kimball, A. Bartsch, K.C. McDonald (2014) Surface water inundation in the boreal-Arctic: impacts on regional methane emissions. Environ. Res. Lett., 9: 1-13.
  2. D. Watts, J.S. Kimball, F-J.W. Parmentier, T. Sachs, J. Rinne, D. Zona, W. Oechel, T. Tagesson, M. Jackowicz-Korczyński, A. Aurela, et al. (2014) A satellite data driven biophysical modeling approach for estimating northern peatland and tundra CO2 and CH4 fluxes. Biogeosciences, 11, 1961-1980.
  3. D. Watts, J.S. Kimball, L.A. Jones, R. Schroeder, K.C. McDonald (2012) Satellite microwave remote sensing of contrasting surface water inundation changes within the

Arctic-Boreal region. Remote Sens. Environ., 127, 223-236.

  1. D. Watts, R.L. Lawrence, P. Miller, C. Montange (2011) An analysis of cropland carbon sequestration estimates for North Central Montana. Climatic Change, 108, 301-331.
  2. D. Watts, S. Powell, R.L. Lawrence, T. Hilker (2011) Improved classification of conservation tillage adoption using high temporal and synthetic satellite imagery. Remote Sens. Environ. 115, 66-75.
  3. D. Watts, R.L. Lawrence, P. Miller, C. Montagne (2009) Monitoring of cropland practices for carbon sequestration purposes in north central Montana by Landsat remote sensing. Remote Sens. Environ., 113, 1843-1852.

Other Publications

  1. M. Miller, M.A. Taylor, J.D. Watts (2018) Understanding high-latitude methane in a warming climate, Earth & Space Science News, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO091947,

 

Published Measurement Datasets

  • Natali, S., D. Watts, S. Potter, B.M. Rogers, S. Ludwig, A. Selbmann, P. Sullivan, B. Abbott, K. Arndt, A.A. Bloom, G. Celis, T. Christensen, C. Christiansen, R. Commane, E. Cooper, P.M. Crill, C.I. Czimczik, S. Davydov, J. Du, J. Egan, B. Elberling, S.E. Euskirchen, T. Friborg, H. Genet, J. Goodrich, P. Grogan, M. Helbig, E. Jafarov, J. Jastrow, A. Kalhori, Y. Kim, J.S. Kimball, L. Kutzbach, M. Lara, K. Larsen, B. Lee, Z. Liu, M.M. Loranty, M. Lund, M. Lupascu, N. Madani, A. Malhotra, R. Matamala, J. McFarland, A. McGuire, A. Michelsen, C. Minions, W. Oechel, D. Olefeldt, F. Parmentier, N. Pirk, B. Poulter, W. Quinton, F. Rezanezhad, D. Risk, T. Sachs, K. Schaefer, N. Schmidt, E. Schuur, P. Semenchuk, G. Shaver, O. Sonnentag, G. Starr, C. Treat, M. Waldrop, Y. Wang, J. Welker, C. Wille, X. Xu, Z. Zhang, Q. Zhuang, and D. Zona. 2019. Synthesis of Winter In Situ Soil CO2 Flux in pan-Arctic and Boreal Regions, 1989-2017. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1692
  • Watts, J.D., Natali, S. Potter, and B.M. Rogers. 2019. Gridded Winter Soil CO2 Flux Estimates for pan-Arctic and Boreal Regions, 2003-2100. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1683
  • Natali, S., S. Ludwig, C. Minions, and D. Watts. 2018. ABoVE: Thaw Depth at Selected Unburned and Burned Sites Across Alaska, 2016-2017. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1579
  • Du, J., J.S. Kimball, and D. Watts. 2016. ABoVE: Fractional Open Water Cover for Pan-Arctic and ABoVE-Domain Regions, 2002-2015. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1362