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Overview

Tamlin M. Pavelsky is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, focusing particularly on hydrology and aquatic systems.

Their recent published papers provide insight into these areas of expertise. These include:

  • River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world, 2023, Nature
  • Research Trends in the Use of Remote Sensing for Inland Water Quality Science: Moving Towards Multidisciplinary Applications, 2020, Water
  • The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: A Breakthrough in Radar Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Land Surface Water, 2024, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The past and future of global river ice, 2020, Nature
  • The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission River Database (SWORD): A Global River Network for Satellite Data Products, 2021, Water Resources Research

Pavelsky's collaboration network includes several frequent co-authors such as Xiao Yang, Michael Durand, George H. Allen, Colin J. Gleason, and Wayana Dolan. These partnerships have contributed to a diverse and multidisciplinary research output.

Their work has been published in various notable venues with multiple publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Water Resources Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Environmental Research Letters

The primary fields of study for Pavelsky include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broader categories, more specialized subfields encompass:

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

Main topics of their research involve various aspects of hydrology and environmental processes, specifically:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost

Best Publications

  • MERIT Hydro: A High-Resolution Global Hydrography Map Based on Latest Topography Dataset

    Dai Yamazaki;Dai Yamazaki;Daiki Ikeshima;Jeison Sosa;Paul D. Bates

  • Global extent of rivers and streams

    George H. Allen;Tamlin M. Pavelsky

  • The SWOT Mission and Its Capabilities for Land Hydrology

    Sylvain Biancamaria;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Tamlin M. Pavelsky

  • River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world

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  • Global Reconstruction of Naturalized River Flows at 2.94 Million Reaches

    Peirong Lin;Ming Pan;Hylke E. Beck;Yuan Yang;Yuan Yang

  • Research Trends in the Use of Remote Sensing for Inland Water Quality Science: Moving Towards Multidisciplinary Applications

    Simon N. Topp;Tamlin M. Pavelsky;Daniel Jensen;Marc Simard

  • A simple global river bankfull width and depth database

    Konstantinos M. Andreadis;Guy J P Schumann;Tamlin Muir Pavelsky

  • Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

    Saleh Abdalla;Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi;Michaël Ablain;Susheel Adusumilli

  • Development of the Global Width Database for Large Rivers

    Dai Yamazaki;Fiachra O'Loughlin;Mark A. Trigg;Zachary F. Miller

  • Rising minimum daily flows in northern Eurasian rivers: A growing influence of groundwater in the high‐latitude hydrologic cycle

    Laurence C. Smith;Tamlin M. Pavelsky;Glen M. MacDonald;Alexander I. Shiklomanov

  • Estimation of river discharge, propagation speed, and hydraulic geometry from space: Lena River, Siberia

    Laurence C. Smith;Tamlin M. Pavelsky

  • RivWidth: A Software Tool for the Calculation of River Widths From Remotely Sensed Imagery

    T.M. Pavelsky;L.C. Smith

  • The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: A Breakthrough in Radar Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Land Surface Water

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  • An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope

    M. Durand;C. J. Gleason;P. A. Garambois;D. Bjerklie

  • Assessing the potential global extent of SWOT river discharge observations

    Tamlin M. Pavelsky;Michael T. Durand;Konstantinos M. Andreadis;R. Edward Beighley

  • The past and future of global river ice

    Xiao Yang;Tamlin M. Pavelsky;George H. Allen

  • Patterns of river width and surface area revealed by the satellite‐derived North American River Width data set

    George H. Allen;Tamlin Muir Pavelsky

  • The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission River Database (SWORD): A Global River Network for Satellite Data Products

    Elizabeth H. Altenau;Tamlin M. Pavelsky;Michael T. Durand;Xiao Yang

  • Remote sensing of suspended sediment concentration, flow velocity, and lake recharge in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada.

    Tamlin Muir Pavelsky;Laurence C. Smith

  • Global Relationships Between River Width, Slope, Catchment Area, Meander Wavelength, Sinuosity, and Discharge

    Renato Prata de Moraes Frasson;Tamlin M. Pavelsky;Mark A. Fonstad;Michael T. Durand

  • Remote sensing of suspended sediment concentration and hydrologic connectivity in a complex wetland environment.

    Colleen M. Long;Tamlin M. Pavelsky

  • AquaSat: A Data Set to Enable Remote Sensing of Water Quality for Inland Waters

    Matthew R. V. Ross;Simon N. Topp;Alison P. Appling;Xiao Yang

  • Temporal and spatial variations in maximum river discharge from a new Russian data set

    Alexander I. Shiklomanov;Richard B. Lammers;M. A. Rawlins;L. C. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Durand
Michael Durand The Ohio State University
Laurence C. Smith
Laurence C. Smith Brown University
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol
Guy Schumann
Guy Schumann University of Bristol
Faisal Hossain
Faisal Hossain University of Washington
C. K. Shum
C. K. Shum The Ohio State University
David Butman
David Butman University of Washington
Dai Yamazaki
Dai Yamazaki University of Tokyo
Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
Richard B. Lammers
Richard B. Lammers University of New Hampshire

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