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Overview

Jeffrey B. Basara is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with an emphasis on understanding climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and hydrological processes.

The main fields of study for Basara include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, Basara's work spans several subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Water Science and Technology

Their published research covers a range of topics, particularly:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Recent publications by Basara include the following papers:

  • Global distribution, trends, and drivers of flash drought occurrence, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Flash drought development and cascading impacts associated with the 2010 Russian heatwave, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Global projections of flash drought show increased risk in a warming climate, 2023, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Agricultural and food security impacts from the 2010 Russia flash drought, 2021, Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Development of a Flash Drought Intensity Index, 2021, Atmosphere

Basara frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors including:

  • Jordan I. Christian
  • Xiangming Xiao
  • Jason C. Furtado
  • Eric Hunt
  • Jason A. Otkin

Their scholarly contributions appear regularly in notable publication venues such as:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

  • Statewide Monitoring of the Mesoscale Environment: A Technical Update on the Oklahoma Mesonet

    Renee A. McPherson;Christopher A. Fiebrich;Kenneth C. Crawford;Ronald L. Elliott

  • Flash Droughts: A Review and Assessment of the Challenges Imposed by Rapid-Onset Droughts in the United States

    Jason A. Otkin;Mark Svoboda;Eric D. Hunt;Trent W. Ford

  • Global distribution, trends, and drivers of flash drought occurrence

    Jordan I. Christian;Jeffrey B. Basara;Eric D. Hunt;Jason A. Otkin

  • Evaluation of MODIS NDVI and NDWI for vegetation drought monitoring using Oklahoma Mesonet soil moisture data

    Yingxin Gu;Eric Hunt;Brian Wardlow;Jeffrey B. Basara

  • Description and Evaluation of the Characteristics of the NCAR High-Resolution Land Data Assimilation System

    Fei Chen;Kevin W. Manning;Margaret A. LeMone;Stanley B. Trier

  • Examining Rapid Onset Drought Development Using the Thermal Infrared–Based Evaporative Stress Index

    Jason A. Otkin;Martha C. Anderson;Christopher Hain;Iliana E. Mladenova

  • A Multiscale Remote Sensing Model for Disaggregating Regional Fluxes to Micrometeorological Scales

    Martha C. Anderson;J. M. Norman;John R. Mecikalski;Ryan D. Torn

  • Verification of a Mesoscale Data-Assimilation and Forecasting System for the Oklahoma City Area during the Joint Urban 2003 Field Project

    Yubao Liu;Fei Chen;Thomas Warner;Jeffrey Basara

  • Using ENVISAT ASAR Global Mode Data for Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval Over Oklahoma, USA

    C. Pathe;W. Wagner;D. Sabel;M. Doubkova

  • A Methodology for Flash Drought Identification: Application of Flash Drought Frequency across the United States

    Jordan I. Christian;Jeffrey B. Basara;Jason A. Otkin;Eric D. Hunt

  • The Impact of the Urban Heat Island during an Intense Heat Wave in Oklahoma City

    Jeffrey B. Basara;Heather G. Basara;Bradley G. Illston;Kenneth C. Crawford

  • Mesoscale Monitoring of Soil Moisture across a Statewide Network

    Bradley G. Illston;Jeffrey B. Basara;Daniel K. Fisher;Ronald Elliott

  • Estimating profile soil moisture and groundwater variations using GRACE and Oklahoma Mesonet soil moisture data

    Sean Swenson;James Famiglietti;Jeffrey Basara;John Wahr

  • The evolution, propagation, and spread of flash drought in the Central United States during 2012

    Jeffrey B Basara;Jordan I Christian;Ryann A Wakefield;Jason A Otkin

  • Global projections of flash drought show increased risk in a warming climate

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  • Flash drought development and cascading impacts associated with the 2010 Russian heatwave

    Jordan I Christian;Jeffrey B Basara;Eric D Hunt;Jason A Otkin

  • Evaluation of SMOS retrievals of soil moisture over the central United States with currently available in situ observations

    Thomas W. Collow;Alan Robock;Jeffrey B. Basara;Bradley G. Illston

  • On the discrepancy between eddy covariance and lysimetry-based surface flux measurements under strongly advective conditions ☆

    Joseph G. Alfieri;William P. Kustas;John H. Prueger;Lawrence E. Hipps

  • Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Downscaling Using Vegetation Index and Skin Surface Temperature

    Bin Fang;Venkat Lakshmi;Rajat Bindlish;Thomas J. Jackson

  • Drought and Associated Impacts in the Great Plains of the United States—A Review

    Jeffrey B. Basara;Joanna N. Maybourn;Casey M. Peirano;Jennifer E. Tate

  • SEASONAL TO INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS OF SOIL MOISTURE MEASURED IN OKLAHOMA

    Bradley G. Illston;Jeffrey B. Basara;Kenneth C. Crawford

  • Using Envisat ASAR Global Mode data for Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval over Oklahoma (USA) using a change detection approach

    C. Pathe;W. Wagner;D. Sabel;M. Doubkova

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiangming Xiao
Xiangming Xiao University of Oklahoma
Jason A. Otkin
Jason A. Otkin University of Wisconsin–Madison
Prasanna H. Gowda
Prasanna H. Gowda United States Department of Agriculture
Jean L. Steiner
Jean L. Steiner Agricultural Research Service
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Christopher Hain
Christopher Hain Marshall Space Flight Center
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Mark Svoboda
Mark Svoboda University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Tyson Ochsner
Tyson Ochsner Oklahoma State University
Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma

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