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82
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450
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238

Overview

Matthew Rodell is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The main topics covered by their work include:

  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • GNSS Positioning and Interference

Rodell has contributed to several recent scholarly articles, including:

  • Changing intensity of hydroclimatic extreme events revealed by GRACE and GRACE-FO, 2023, published in Nature Water
  • Water cycle science enabled by the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite missions, 2023, published in Nature Water

Other notable papers often cited alongside Rodell's work relate to global land evapotranspiration trends, groundwater depletion during megadroughts, and wetting and drying trends under climate change.

Frequent co-authors with whom Rodell has collaborated include:

  • Bailing Li
  • J. T. Reager
  • Sujay V. Kumar
  • J. S. Famiglietti
  • Konstantinos M. Andreadis

Rodell publishes regularly in several scientific venues. Their most common publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Water
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • The Global Land Data Assimilation System

    Mathew Rodell;Paul Houser;U Jambor;J GottschalcK

  • Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India

    Matthew Rodell;Isabella Velicogna;Isabella Velicogna;Isabella Velicogna;James S. Famiglietti

  • Ground water and climate change

    Richard G. Taylor;Bridget R. Scanlon;Petra Döll;Matt Rodell

  • Emerging trends in global freshwater availability.

    M. Rodell;J. S. Famiglietti;J. S. Famiglietti;D. N. Wiese;J. T. Reager

  • Satellites measure recent rates of groundwater depletion in California's Central Valley

    J. S. Famiglietti;M. Lo;S. L. Ho;S. L. Ho;J. Bethune

  • Variability in surface moisture content along a hillslope transect: Rattlesnake Hill, Texas

    J.S. Famiglietti;J.W. Rudnicki;M. Rodell

  • Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change.

    Byron D. Tapley;Michael M. Watkins;Frank Flechtner;Christoph Reigber

  • Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE

    Alexandra S. Richey;Brian F. Thomas;Min‐Hui Lo;John T. Reager

  • Groundwater depletion in the Middle East from GRACE with implications for transboundary water management in the Tigris-Euphrates-Western Iran region

    Katalyn A. Voss;Katalyn A. Voss;James S. Famiglietti;MinHui Lo;MinHui Lo;Caroline de Linage

  • Impact of water withdrawals from groundwater and surface water on continental water storage variations

    P. Döll;H. Hoffmann-Dobrev;F. T. Portmann;S. Siebert

  • Estimating groundwater storage changes in the Mississippi River basin (USA) using GRACE

    Matthew Rodell;Jianli Chen;Hiroko Kato;James S. Famiglietti

  • Analysis of Terrestrial Water Storage Changes from GRACE and GLDAS

    Tajdarul H. Syed;James S. Famiglietti;Matthew Rodell;Jianli Chen

  • Field observations of soil moisture variability across scales

    James S. Famiglietti;Dongryeol Ryu;Aaron A. Berg;Matthew Rodell

  • Basin Scale Estimates of Evapotranspiration Using GRACE and other Observations

    Matthew Rodell;J. S. Famiglietti;Jianli Chen;S. I. Seneviratne

  • Assimilation of GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Data into a Land Surface Model: Results for the Mississippi River Basin

    Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Matthew Rodell;Rolf H. Reichle

  • Global GRACE data assimilation for groundwater and drought monitoring: Advances and challenges

    Bailing Li;Bailing Li;Matthew Rodell;Sujay Kumar;Hiroko Kato Beaudoing;Hiroko Kato Beaudoing

  • A GRACE‐based water storage deficit approach for hydrological drought characterization

    Alys C. Thomas;John T. Reager;James S. Famiglietti;Matthew Rodell

  • Ground‐based investigation of soil moisture variability within remote sensing footprints During the Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Experiment

    J. S. Famiglietti;J. A. Devereaux;C. A. Laymon;T. Tsegaye

  • Drought indicators based on model‐assimilated Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) terrestrial water storage observations

    Rasmus Houborg;Matthew Rodell;Bailing Li;Rolf Reichle

  • Implications of projected climate change for groundwater recharge in the western United States

    Thomas Meixner;Andrew H. Manning;David A. Stonestrom;Diana M. Allen

  • The Future of Earth Observation in Hydrology.

    Matthew F. McCabe;Matthew Rodell;Douglas E. Alsdorf;Diego G. Miralles

  • Reply to comment by H. Vereecken et al. on "Field observations of soil moisture variability across scales"

    James S. Famiglietti;Dongryeol Ryu;Aaron A. Berg;Matthew Rodell

Frequent Co-Authors

James S. Famiglietti
James S. Famiglietti University of Saskatchewan
Rolf H. Reichle
Rolf H. Reichle Goddard Space Flight Center
Benjamin F. Zaitchik
Benjamin F. Zaitchik Johns Hopkins University
Sujay V. Kumar
Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center
Jianli Chen
Jianli Chen Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University
David Mocko
David Mocko National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Sean Swenson
Sean Swenson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Clark R. Wilson
Clark R. Wilson The University of Texas at Austin
Christa D. Peters-Lidard
Christa D. Peters-Lidard Goddard Space Flight Center

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