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1250

Overview

Thomas W. Giambelluca is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science and related subfields.

Their recent publications highlight topics central to climate variability and meteorological phenomena. Some key papers include:

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity, 2023, Communications Biology
  • Optimizing Automated Kriging to Improve Spatial Interpolation of Monthly Rainfall over Complex Terrain, 2022, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Characterizing the Uncertainty and Assessing the Value of Gap-Filled Daily Rainfall Data in Hawaii, 2020, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Tree Canopies Reflect Mycorrhizal Composition, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent coauthors working alongside Thomas W. Giambelluca include:

  • Ryan J. Longman
  • Matthew P. Lucas
  • Abby G. Frazier
  • Jared Mclean
  • Sean B. Cleveland

The scientist has contributed multiple publications to several venues, reflecting the scope of their research dissemination. Notable publication venues are:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Sustainability
  • Scientific Data
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their work covers a range of topics associated with environmental and atmospheric science, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Subfields of particular interest include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering

Best Publications

  • Global risk of deadly heat

    Camilo Mora;Bénédicte Dousset;Iain R. Caldwell;Farrah E. Powell

  • Online Rainfall Atlas of Hawai‘i

    Thomas W. Giambelluca;Qi Chen;Abby G. Frazier;Jonathan P. Price

  • The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability

    Camilo Mora;Abby G. Frazier;Ryan J. Longman;Rachel S. Dacks

  • The hydrology of the humid tropics

    Ellen Wohl;Ana Barros;Nathaniel Brunsell;Nick A. Chappell

  • Importance of rural roads as source areas for runoff in mountainous areas of northern Thailand

    Alan D. Ziegler;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Environmental Consequences of the Demise in Swidden Cultivation in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia: Hydrology and Geomorphology

    Alan D. Ziegler;Thilde B. Bruun;Maite Guardiola-Claramonte;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Inversion Variability in the Hawaiian Trade Wind Regime

    Guangxia Cao;Thomas W. Giambelluca;Duane E. Stevens;Thomas A. Schroeder

  • Hydrological consequences of landscape fragmentation in mountainous northern Vietnam: evidence of accelerated overland flow generation

    Alan D Ziegler;Alan D Ziegler;Thomas W Giambelluca;Liem T Tran;Thomas T Vana

  • Vulnerability of island tropical montane cloud forests to climate change, with special reference to east Maui, Hawaii

    Lloyd L. Loope;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Faster returns on 'leaf economics' and different biogeochemical niche in invasive compared with native plant species.

    Josep Penuelas;Jordi Sardans;Joan Llusià;Susan M. Owen

  • Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in the Pacific

    Heather L. McMillen;Tamara Ticktin;Alan Friedlander;Stacy D. Jupiter

  • Runoff generation and sediment production on unpaved roads, footpaths and agricultural land surfaces in northern Thailand

    Alan D. Ziegler;Ross A. Sutherland;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Secular temperature changes in Hawai‘i

    Thomas W. Giambelluca;Henry F. Diaz;Mark S. A. Luke

  • Evapotranspiration and energy balance of Brazilian savannas with contrasting tree density

    Thomas W. Giambelluca;Fabian Gustavo Scholz;Sandra Janet Bucci;Frederick C. Meinzer

  • Hydrologic effects of the expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in a tropical catchment

    Maite Guardiola-Claramonte;Peter A. Troch;Alan D. Ziegler;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Hydrology of altered tropical forest

    Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Toward understanding the cumulative impacts of roads in upland agricultural watersheds of northern Thailand

    Alan D. Ziegler;Alan D. Ziegler;Thomas W. Giambelluca;Ross A. Sutherland;Mike A. Nullet

  • Simulating Land-Cover Change in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia

    Jefferson Fox;John B. Vogler;Omer L. Sen;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Statistical downscaling of rainfall changes in Hawai‘i based on the CMIP5 global model projections

    Oliver Elison Timm;Thomas W. Giambelluca;Henry F. Diaz

  • Controls on stand transpiration and soil water utilization along a tree density gradient in a Neotropical savanna

    Sandra Janet Bucci;Fabian Gustavo Scholz;Guillermo Hernan Goldstein;Guillermo Hernan Goldstein;William A. Hoffmann

  • Influence of the trade-wind inversion on the climate of a leeward mountain slope in Hawaii

    TW Giambelluca;D. Nullet

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan D. Ziegler
Alan D. Ziegler National University of Singapore
Ross A. Sutherland
Ross A. Sutherland University of Hawaii at Manoa
Henry F. Diaz
Henry F. Diaz University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jefferson Fox
Jefferson Fox East-West Center
Keith Loague
Keith Loague Stanford University
Guillermo Goldstein
Guillermo Goldstein University of Miami
Susan Cordell
Susan Cordell US Forest Service
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Tomo'omi Kumagai
Tomo'omi Kumagai University of Tokyo
Rebecca Ostertag
Rebecca Ostertag University of Hawaii at Hilo

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