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39
Citations
5757
World Ranking
8377
National Ranking
2990

Overview

Mark A. Weltz is affiliated with the US Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable contributions in soil science, global and planetary change, ecology, management, monitoring, policy and law, and water science and technology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as soil erosion and sediment transport, hydrology and watershed management studies, aeolian processes and effects, rangeland and wildlife management, rangeland management and livestock ecology, climate variability and models, as well as landslides and related hazards.

Frequent coauthors include Sayjro K. Nouwakpo, Andrew T. Fullhart, M. A. Nearing, Chi-hua Huang, and Beth A. Newingham.

Publications by Mark A. Weltz have appeared repeatedly in key venues such as CATENA, the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, International Soil and Water Conservation Research, Earth System Science Data, and Soil Erosion Research Under a Changing Climate.

Several recent papers co-authored or authored by the scientist include:

  • Temporally downscaling a precipitation intensity factor for soil erosion modeling using the NOAA-ASOS weather station network, 2020, CATENA
  • Rangeland restoration in Jordan: Restoring vegetation cover by water harvesting measures, 2022, International Soil and Water Conservation Research
  • Climate benchmarks and input parameters representing locations in 68 countries for a stochastic weather generator, CLIGEN, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • A strategic plan for future USDA Agricultural Research Service erosion research and model development, 2020, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
  • Inferring Sediment Transport Capacity from Soil Microtopography Changes on a Laboratory Hillslope, 2021, Water

Best Publications

  • Remote Sensing for Grassland Management in the Arid Southwest

    Robert C. Marsett;Jiaguo Qi;Philip Heilman;Sharon H. Biedenbender

  • Leaf area index estimates using remotely sensed data and BRDF models in a semiarid region.

    J Qi;Y.H Kerr;M.S Moran;M Weltz

  • Combining the Penman-Monteith equation with measurements of surface temperature and reflectance to estimate evaporation rates of semiarid grassland

    M.S. Moran;A.F. Rahman;J.C. Washburne;D.C. Goodrich

  • The first five years of the Conservation Effects Assessment Project

    Lisa F. Duriancik;Dale Bucks;James P. Dobrowolski;Tom Drewes

  • First order surface roughness correction of active microwave observations for estimating soil moisture

    T. J. Jackson;H. Mcnairn;M. A. Weltz;B. Brisco

  • Interpretation of surface flux measurements in heterogeneous terrain during the Monsoon '90 experiment

    D.I. Stannard;J.H. Blanford;William P. Kustas;W.D. Nichols

  • A Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model

    M. A. Nearing;H. Wei;J. J. Stone;F. B. Pierson

  • RANGES improves satellite-based information and land cover assessments in southwest United States

    Jiaguo Qi;Robin Marsett;Philip Heilman;Sharon Bieden-bender

  • Comparison of laser and field measurements of vegetation height and canopy cover

    Mark A. Weltz;Jerry C. Ritchie;H. Dale Fox

  • An Interdisciplinary Field Study of the Energy and Water Fluxes in the Atmosphere–Biosphere System over Semiarid Rangelands: Description and Some Preliminary Results

    W. P. Kustas;T. J. Jackson;T. J. Schmugge;R. Parry

  • Hydraulic Roughness Coefficients for Native Rangelands

    Mark A. Weltz;Awadis B. Arslan;Leonard J. Lane

  • Assessing the performance of structure-from-motion photogrammetry and terrestrial LiDAR for reconstructing soil surface microtopography of naturally vegetated plots

    Sayjro Kossi Nouwakpo;Mark A. Weltz;Kenneth McGwire

  • Simulating Surface Energy Fluxes and Radiometric Surface Temperatures for Two Arid Vegetation Communities Using the SHAW Model

    G. N. Flerchinger;W. P. Kustas;M. A. Weltz

  • Rangeland experiments to parameterize the water erosion prediction project model: vegetation canopy cover effects

    J.R. Simanton;M.A. Weltz;H.D. Larsen

  • Variability of emissivity and surface temperature over a sparsely vegetated surface

    K. S. Humes;W. P. Kustas;M. S. Moran;W. D. Nichols

  • Influence of abiotic and biotic factors in measuring and modeling soil erosion on rangelands: state of knowledge.

    M.A. Weltz;M.R. Kidwell;H.D. Fox

  • Local energy flux estimates for unstable conditions using variance data in semiarid rangelands

    William P. Kustas;J.H. Blanford;D.I. Stannard;C.S.T. Daughtry

  • Evaluation of hydrologic parameters in a semiarid rangeland using remotely sensed spectral data

    M. S. Moran;T. R. Clarke;W. P. Kustas;M. Weltz

  • MEASURING CANOPY STRUCTURE WITH AN AIRBORNE LASER ALTIMETER

    J. C. Ritchie;D. L. Evans;D. Jacobs;J. H. Everitt

  • Relationships between Evaporative Fraction and Remotely Sensed Vegetation Index and Microwave Brightness Temperature for Semiarid Rangelands

    W. P. Kustas;T. J. Schmugge;K. S. Humes;T. J. Jackson

  • Concentrated flow erodibility for physically based erosion models: Temporal variability in disturbed and undisturbed rangelands

    Osama Z. Al-Hamdan;Osama Z. Al-Hamdan;Frederick B. Pierson;Mark A. Nearing;C. Jason Williams

  • Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model

    Mark Nearing;Fred Pierson;Mariano Hernandez;Osama Al-Hamdan

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick B. Pierson
Frederick B. Pierson Agricultural Research Service
Mark A. Nearing
Mark A. Nearing Agricultural Research Service
David C. Goodrich
David C. Goodrich US Department of Agriculture
Jan Boll
Jan Boll Washington State University
William P. Kustas
William P. Kustas Agricultural Research Service
M.S. Moran
M.S. Moran Agricultural Research Service
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Jiaguo Qi
Jiaguo Qi Michigan State University
Thomas J. Schmugge
Thomas J. Schmugge New Mexico State University
Jerry C. Ritchie
Jerry C. Ritchie Agricultural Research Service

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