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Enrique R. Vivoni is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

The topics covered in their work reflect a diverse range of interests related to environmental processes and their interactions. These topics include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Water Resources Management and Optimization

Key publications by Enrique R. Vivoni highlight various aspects of urban climate, hydrology, and ecosystem interactions. Notable papers include:

  • "Tree effects on urban microclimate: Diurnal, seasonal, and climatic temperature differences explained by separating radiation, evapotranspiration, and roughness effects" (2020), published in Urban forestry & urban greening
  • "An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)" (2020), published in Geoscientific model development
  • "Breaking Down the Computational Barriers to Real-Time Urban Flood Forecasting" (2021), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Woody Plant Encroachment has a Larger Impact than Climate Change on Dryland Water Budgets" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X" (2024), published in Biogeosciences

Enrique R. Vivoni frequently collaborates with several coauthors. Among the most frequent are Zhaocheng Wang, Eli R. Pérez-Ruiz, Giuseppe Mascaro, Adam P. Schreiner-McGraw, and Mercedes Kindler.

Their work has appeared in a range of scientific venues, notable for environmental and geological studies. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Ecosphere

The research outputs cover a variety of methodologies and scales, often addressing challenges related to urban microclimates, ecohydrological modeling, and the integration of vegetation effects in environmental assessments. This broad perspective positions Enrique R. Vivoni's work at the intersection of hydrology, climate science, and ecosystem dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Flow structure in depth-limited, vegetated flow

    H. M. Nepf;E. R. Vivoni

  • An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology

    Simone Fatichi;Enrique R. Vivoni;Fred L. Ogden;Valeriy Y. Ivanov

  • Ecohydrology of water-limited environments: A scientific vision

    Brent D. Newman;Bradford P. Wilcox;Steven R. Archer;David D. Breshears

  • Catchment hydrologic response with a fully distributed triangulated irregular network model

    Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Enrique R. Vivoni;Rafael L. Bras;Dara Entekhabi

  • Vegetation-hydrology dynamics in complex terrain of semiarid areas: 1. A mechanistic approach to modeling dynamic feedbacks

    Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Rafael L. Bras;Enrique R. Vivoni

  • Tree effects on urban microclimate: Diurnal, seasonal, and climatic temperature differences explained by separating radiation, evapotranspiration, and roughness effects

    Naika Meili;Gabriele Manoli;Paolo Burlando;Jan Carmeliet

  • Analysis and characterization of the vertical accuracy of digital elevation models from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

    Giacomo Falorni;Giacomo Falorni;Vanessa Teles;Enrique R. Vivoni;Enrique R. Vivoni;Rafael L. Bras

  • Preserving high-resolution surface and rainfall data in operational-scale basin hydrology: a fully-distributed physically-based approach

    Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Enrique R. Vivoni;Rafael L. Bras;Dara Entekhabi

  • Connectivity in dryland landscapes: shifting concepts of spatial interactions

    Gregory S. Okin;Mariano Moreno De Las Heras;Patricia M. Saco;Heather L. Throop

  • Investigating a floodplain scaling relation using a hydrogeomorphic delineation method

    Fernando Nardi;Enrique R. Vivoni;Salvatore Grimaldi;Salvatore Grimaldi

  • Generation of triangulated irregular networks based on hydrological similarity

    Enrique R. Vivoni;Valeri Y. Ivanov;Rafael L. Bras;Dara Entekhabi

  • Observed relation between evapotranspiration and soil moisture in the North American monsoon region

    Enrique R. Vivoni;Hernan A. Moreno;Giuseppe Mascaro;Julio C. Rodriguez

  • Opinion: Urban resilience efforts must consider social and political forces.

    Hallie Eakin;Luis A. Bojórquez-Tapia;Marco A. Janssen;Matei Georgescu

  • Controls on runoff generation and scale-dependence in a distributed hydrologic model

    E. R. Vivoni;D. Entekhabi;R. L. Bras;V. Y. Ivanov

  • An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)

    Naika Meili;Gabriele Manoli;Gabriele Manoli;Paolo Burlando;Elie Bou-Zeid

  • Seasonal and interannual relations between precipitation, surface soil moisture and vegetation dynamics in the North American monsoon region

    Luis A. Méndez-Barroso;Enrique R. Vivoni;Enrique R. Vivoni;Enrique R. Vivoni;Christopher J. Watts;Julio C. Rodríguez

  • GFPLAIN250m, a global high-resolution dataset of Earth’s floodplains

    F. Nardi;A. Annis;G. Di Baldassarre;G. Di Baldassarre;E. R. Vivoni

  • Vegetation‐hydrology dynamics in complex terrain of semiarid areas: 2. Energy‐water controls of vegetation spatiotemporal dynamics and topographic niches of favorability

    Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Rafael L. Bras;Enrique R. Vivoni

  • Precipitation Recycling Variability and Ecoclimatological Stability—A Study Using NARR Data. Part II: North American Monsoon Region

    Francina Dominguez;Praveen Kumar;Enrique R. Vivoni

  • Understanding earth surface processes from remotely sensed digital terrain models

    Paolo Tarolli;J Ramon Arrowsmith;Enrique R. Vivoni

  • Comparison of ground-based and remotely-sensed surface soil moisture estimates over complex terrain during SMEX04

    Enrique R. Vivoni;Mekonnen Gebremichael;Christopher J. Watts;Rajat Bindlish

Frequent Co-Authors

Valeriy Y. Ivanov
Valeriy Y. Ivanov University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christopher J. Watts
Christopher J. Watts Universidad de Sonora
Rafael L. Bras
Rafael L. Bras Georgia Institute of Technology
Erkan Istanbulluoglu
Erkan Istanbulluoglu University of Washington
David Gochis
David Gochis National Center for Atmospheric Research
Salvatore Grimaldi
Salvatore Grimaldi Tuscia University
Osvaldo E. Sala
Osvaldo E. Sala Arizona State University
Debra P. C. Peters
Debra P. C. Peters United States Department of Agriculture
Gregory S. Okin
Gregory S. Okin University of California, Los Angeles

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