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Overview

Eric E. Small is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research centers on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions in atmospheric science, water science and technology, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, and environmental engineering.

The primary topics of their work include cryospheric studies and observations, hydrology and watershed management studies, landslides and related hazards, soil moisture and remote sensing, precipitation measurement and analysis, climate change and permafrost, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The Cryosphere

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric E. Small include:

  • Description of the UCAR/CU Soil Moisture Product, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Estimating inundation extent using CYGNSS data: A conceptual modeling study, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Improving SWE Estimation With Data Assimilation: The Influence of Snow Depth Observation Timing and Uncertainty, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Flooding and inundation maps using interpolated CYGNSS reflectivity observations, 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Investigating the Role of Snow Water Equivalent on Streamflow Predictability during Drought, 2022, Journal of Hydrometeorology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Mark S. Raleigh
  • Clara Chew
  • Eric Smyth
  • Hannah M. Bonner
  • Ben Livneh

Best Publications

  • Assessing the Response of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Potential Changes in Precipitation

    Jake F. Weltzin;Michael E. Loik;Susanne Schwinning;David G. Williams

  • ECOHYDROLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT

    Travis E. Huxman;Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;Russell L. Scott

  • Simulation of regional‐scale water and energy budgets: Representation of subgrid cloud and precipitation processes within RegCM

    Jeremy S. Pal;Eric E. Small;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • State of the Art in Large‐Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring

    Tyson E. Ochsner;Michael Harold Cosh;Richard H. Cuenca;Wouter Dorigo

  • Use of GPS receivers as a soil moisture network for water cycle studies

    Kristine M. Larson;Eric E. Small;Ethan D. Gutmann;Andria L. Bilich

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • Using GPS multipath to measure soil moisture fluctuations: initial results

    Kristine M. Larson;Eric E. Small;Ethan Gutmann;Andria Bilich

  • Dynamics of evapotranspiration in semiarid grassland and shrubland ecosystems during the summer monsoon season, central New Mexico

    Shirley A. Kurc;Eric E. Small

  • Site‐level evaluation of satellite‐based global terrestrial gross primary production and net primary production monitoring

    David P. Turner;William D. Ritts;Warren B. Cohen;Thomas K. Maeirsperger

  • GPS Multipath and Its Relation to Near-Surface Soil Moisture Content

    K.M. Larson;J.J. Braun;E.E. Small;V.U. Zavorotny

  • Estimates of the rate of regolith production using and from an alpine hillslope

    Eric E. Small;Robert S. Anderson;Gregory S. Hancock

  • Soil Moisture Sensing Using Spaceborne GNSS Reflections: Comparison of CYGNSS Reflectivity to SMAP Soil Moisture

    Clara C. Chew;E. E. Small

  • The impact of soil reflectance on the quantification of the green vegetation fraction from NDVI

    L.M. Montandon;E.E. Small

  • Association between Plant Canopies and the Spatial Patterns of Infiltration in Shrubland and Grassland of the Chihuahuan Desert, New Mexico

    Eric W. Bhark;Eric E. Small

  • EROSION RATES OF ALPINE BEDROCK SUMMIT SURFACES DEDUCED FROM IN SITU 10BE AND 26AL

    Eric E. Small;Robert S. Anderson;James L. Repka;Robert Finkel

  • A Physical Model for GPS Multipath Caused by Land Reflections: Toward Bare Soil Moisture Retrievals

    V.U. Zavorotny;K.M. Larson;J.J. Braun;E.E. Small

  • Soil moisture variations and ecosystem-scale fluxes of water and carbon in semiarid grassland and shrubland

    Shirley A. Kurc;Eric E. Small

  • Pleistocene relief production in Laramide mountain ranges, western United States

    Eric E. Small;Robert S. Anderson

  • Measurement of the connectivity of runoff source areas as determined by vegetation pattern and topography: A tool for assessing potential water and soil losses in drylands

    Ángeles G. Mayor;Susana Bautista;Eric E. Small;Mike Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristine M. Larson
Kristine M. Larson University of Colorado Boulder
Ethan Gutmann
Ethan Gutmann National Center for Atmospheric Research
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Venkat Lakshmi
Venkat Lakshmi University of Virginia
Marek Zreda
Marek Zreda University of Arizona
Todd G. Caldwell
Todd G. Caldwell United States Geological Survey
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
John H. Prueger
John H. Prueger Agricultural Research Service
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center

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