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Overview

Sujay V. Kumar is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States and focuses research efforts primarily on environmental and Earth sciences. Their work spans a variety of topics related to hydrology, remote sensing, climate modeling, and cryospheric studies, with publications contributing to key scientific discussions in these areas.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Exploring Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 diversity for flood inundation mapping using deep learning, 2021, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Global scale error assessments of soil moisture estimates from microwave-based active and passive satellites and land surface models over forest and mixed irrigated/dryland agriculture regions, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Snow Ensemble Uncertainty Project (SEUP): quantification of snow water equivalent uncertainty across North America via ensemble land surface modeling, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • Coevolution of machine learning and process-based modelling to revolutionize Earth and environmental sciences: A perspective, 2022, Hydrological Processes
  • Assimilation of vegetation optical depth retrievals from passive microwave radiometry, 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Augusto Getirana
  • C. D. Peters-Lidard
  • David M. Mocko
  • Kristi R. Arsenault
  • Wanshu Nie

Key publication venues where this scientist has contributed multiple works span across journals focused on hydrology, remote sensing, and environmental sciences, including:

  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their research fields extend into:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of study encompass specialized areas within their broader fields, such as:

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

The main topics of their work reflect focused investigation on processes related to water, climate, and environmental dynamics:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Best Publications

  • Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling

    S. V. Kumar;C. D. Peters-Lidard;Y. Tian;P. R. Houser

  • A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications

    Amy McNally;Amy McNally;Kristi Arsenault;Kristi Arsenault;Sujay Kumar;Shraddhanand Shukla

  • 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

  • Advancing data assimilation in operational hydrologic forecasting: progresses, challenges, and emerging opportunities

    Yuqiong Liu;Yuqiong Liu;A. Weerts;M. Clark;H.-J Hendricks Franssen

  • Development and evaluation of a cloud-gap-filled MODIS daily snow-cover product

    Dorothy K. Hall;George A. Riggs;James L. Foster;Sujay V. Kumar

  • Multiscale assimilation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–EOS snow water equivalent and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer snow cover fraction observations in northern Colorado

    Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Rolf H. Reichle;Kristi R. Arsenault;Paul R. Houser

  • High-performance Earth system modeling with NASA/GSFC’s Land Information System

    Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Paul R. Houser;Yudong Tian;Sujay V. Kumar

  • Role of Subsurface Physics in the Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture Observations

    Sujay V. Kumar;Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

  • A land surface data assimilation framework using the land information system : Description and applications

    Sujay V. Kumar;Sujay V. Kumar;Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Randal D. Koster

  • Diagnosing the Sensitivity of Local Land–Atmosphere Coupling via the Soil Moisture–Boundary Layer Interaction

    Joseph A. Santanello;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Sujay V. Kumar

  • Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture and Snow Depth Retrievals for Drought Estimation

    Sujay V. Kumar;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;David Mocko;Rolf Reichle

  • A Modeling and Observational Framework for Diagnosing Local Land–Atmosphere Coupling on Diurnal Time Scales

    Joseph A. Santanello;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Sujay V. Kumar;Charles Alonge

  • Irrigation Signals Detected From SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals

    Patricia M. Lawston;Patricia M. Lawston;Joseph A. Santanello;Sujay V. Kumar

  • Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anna Agusti-Panareda;Clement Albergel;Gabriele Arduini

  • Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes

    S. V. Kumar;S. V. Kumar;C. D. Peters-Lidard;J. A. Santanello;R. H. Reichle

  • Assimilation of Gridded GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System

    Sujay V. Kumar;Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Matthew Rodell

  • Exploring Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 diversity for flood inundation mapping using deep learning

    Goutam Konapala;Goutam Konapala;Sujay V. Kumar;Shahryar Khalique Ahmad;Shahryar Khalique Ahmad

  • A comparison of methods for a priori bias correction in soil moisture data assimilation

    Sujay V. Kumar;Sujay V. Kumar;Rolf H. Reichle;Kenneth W. Harrison;Christa D. Peters-Lidard

  • Assimilation of Satellite-Derived Skin Temperature Observations into Land Surface Models

    Rolf H. Reichle;Sujay V. Kumar;Sarith P. P. Mahanama;Randal D. Koster

  • Rivers and Floodplains as Key Components of Global Terrestrial Water Storage Variability

    Augusto Getirana;Augusto Getirana;Sujay Kumar;Manuela Girotto;Manuela Girotto;Matthew Rodell

  • An integrated high-resolution hydrometeorological modeling testbed using LIS and WRF

    Sujay V. Kumar;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Joseph L. Eastman;Wei-Kuo Tao

  • Data Descriptor: A Land Data Assimilation System for Sub-Saharan Africa Food and Water Security Applications

    Amy McNally;Krist Arsenault;Sujay Kumar;Shraddhanand Shukla

Frequent Co-Authors

Christa D. Peters-Lidard
Christa D. Peters-Lidard Goddard Space Flight Center
David Mocko
David Mocko National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Joseph A. Santanello
Joseph A. Santanello Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University
Rolf H. Reichle
Rolf H. Reichle Goddard Space Flight Center
Matthew Rodell
Matthew Rodell Goddard Space Flight Center
Yudong Tian
Yudong Tian University of Maryland, College Park
Randal D. Koster
Randal D. Koster Goddard Space Flight Center
Michael Ek
Michael Ek National Center for Atmospheric Research
Benjamin F. Zaitchik
Benjamin F. Zaitchik Johns Hopkins University

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