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Richard G Allen Professor Emeritus

Positions

Professor, Soil and Water Systems , College of Agricultural & Life Sciences 2017 - 2022

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- Delivering global water security: Embedding water justice as a response to increased irrigation efficiency. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water. 2022
- Performance of the METRIC Model for Mapping Energy Balance Components and Actual Evapotranspiration Over a Superintensive Drip-irrigated Olive Orchard. Agricultural Water Management. 251:106861. 2021
- Conditioning Point and Gridded Weather Data Under Aridity Conditions for Calculation of Reference Evapotranspiration. Agricultural Water Management. 245:106531. 2021
- OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 2021
- An Evaluation of Gridded Weather Data Sets for the Purpose of Estimating Reference Evapotranspiration in the United States. Agricultural Water Management. 242:106376. 2020
- Prediction of Crop Coefficients from Fraction of Ground Cover and Height. Background and Validation using Ground and Remote Sensing Data. Agricultural Water Management. 241:106197. 2020
- METRIC-GIS: An Advanced Energy Balance Model for Computing Crop Evapotranspiration in a GIS Environment. Environmental Modelling and Software. 131:104770. 2020
- Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications. Remote Sensing of Environment. 225:127-147. 2019
- Impact of the spatial resolution on the energy balance components on an open-canopy olive orchard. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 74:88-102. 2019
- A comprehensive analysis of interseasonal and interannual energy and water balance dynamics in semiarid shrubland and forest ecosystems.. Science of the Total Environment. 651:381-398. 2019
- Corrigendum to "A comprehensive analysis of interseasonal and interannual energy and water balance dynamics in semiarid shrubland and forest ecosystems" [Sci. Total Environ. 651 (2019) 381-398]. Science of the Total Environment. 686:847. 2019
- The paradox of irrigation efficiency. Science (New York, N.Y). 136:748-750. 2018
- Intercomparison of surface energy fluxes, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration from eddy covariance, large-aperture scintillometer, and modeling across three ecosystems in a semiarid climate. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 248:22.0-47.0. 2018
- Calibration of METRIC Model to Estimate Energy Balance over a Drip-Irrigated Apple Orchard. Remote Sensing. 9:1-18. 2017
- Aerodynamic Roughness Length Estimation with Lidar and Imaging Spectroscopy in a Shrub-Dominated Dryland. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 83.0:415.0-427.0. 2017
- The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources. Water Resources Research. 53:2618-2626. 2017
- Evaluating the impact of adjusting surface temperature derived from Landsat 7 ETM+ in crop evapotranspiration assessment using high-resolution airborne data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 38.0:4177.0-4205.0. 2017
- Feasibility analysis of using inverse modeling for estimating field-scale evapotranspiration in maize and soybean fields from soil water content monitoring networks. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 21:1263-1277. 2017
- Remote sensing model to evaluate the spatial variability of vineyard water requirements. Acta Horticulturae. 235-242. 2017
- Estimation of water requirements for a drip-irrigated apple orchard using Landsat 7 satellite images. Acta Horticulturae. 181-188. 2017
- Assessing the role of climate and resource management on groundwater dependent ecosystem changes in arid environments with the Landsat archive. Remote Sensing of Environment. 185:186-197. 2016
- Sensitivity of evapotranspiration retrievals from the METRIC processing algorithm to improved radiometric resolution of Landsat 8 thermal data and to calibration bias in Landsat 7 and 8 surface temperature. Remote Sensing of Environment. 185:198-209. 2016
- Evapotranspiration between satellite overpasses: methodology and case study in agricultural dominant semi-arid areas. Meteorological Applications. 23:714-730. 2016
- Estimation of Energy Balance Components over a Drip-Irrigated Olive Orchard Using Thermal and Multispectral Cameras Placed on a Helicopter-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Remote Sensing. 8. 2016
- Development of the GCOM-C global ETindex estimation algorithm. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology. 72:85-94. 2016
- Improving iterative surface energy balance convergence for remote sensing based flux calculation. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 10. 2016
- Benchmarking Optical/Thermal Satellite Imagery For Estimating Evapotranspiration And Soil Moisture In Decision Support Tools. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 52:89-119. 2016
- Crop coefficient approaches based on fixed estimates of leaf resistance are not appropriate for estimating water use of citrus. Irrigation Science. 33:153-166. 2015
- Crop evapotranspiration estimation with FAO56: Past and future. Agricultural Water Management. 147:4-20. 2015
- Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research. Remote Sensing of Environment. 145:154-172. 2014
- Assessing Calibration Uncertainty and Automation for Estimating Evapotranspiration from Agricultural Areas Using METRIC. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 49:549-562. 2013
- Estimating Crop Water Use via Remote Sensing Techniques vs. Conventional Methods in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 49:498-517. 2013
- Sensitivity of Landsat-Scale Energy Balance to Aerodynamic Variability in Mountains and Complex Terrain. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 49:592-604. 2013
- Translating Wind-Speed Measurements over Alfalfa Having Varying Height for Use in the ASCE Standardized Reference ET Equation. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 139:463-475. 2013
- Using remote sensing energy balance and evapotranspiration to characterize montane landscape vegetation with focus on grass and pasture lands. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 21:159-172. 2013
- Automated Calibration of the METRIC-Landsat Evapotranspiration Process. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 49:563-576. 2013
- System Dynamics to Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Under Water Supply Uncertainty. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 48:1204-1220. 2012
- Crop coefficients and actual evapotranspiration of a drip-irrigated Merlot vineyard using multispectral satellite images. Irrigation Science. 30:485-497. 2012
- Use of Landsat thermal imagery in monitoring evapotranspiration and managing water resources. Remote Sensing of Environment. 122:50-65. 2012
- Aerodynamic Parameterization of the Satellite-Based Energy Balance (METRIC) Model for ET Estimation in Rainfed Olive Orchards of Andalusia, Spain. Water Resources Management. 26:3267-3283. 2012
- Implementing the dual crop coefficient approach in interactive software. 1. Background and computational strategy. Agricultural Water Management. 103:8-24. 2012
- Implementing the dual crop coefficient approach in interactive software: 2. Model testing. Agricultural Water Management. 103:62-77. 2012
- A common basis for analysis, evaluation and comparison of offstream water uses. Water International. 36:266-282. 2011
- Evapotranspiration information reporting: I. Factors governing measurement accuracy. Agricultural Water Management. 98:899-920. 2011
- Skin layer evaporation to account for small precipitation events-An enhancement to the FAO-56 evaporation model. Agricultural Water Management. 99:8-18. 2011
- Performance assessment of an irrigation scheme using indicators determined with remote sensing techniques. Irrigation Science. 28:461-477. 2010
- An evaluation of the net radiation sub-model in the ASCE standardized reference evapotranspiration equation: Implications for evapotranspiration prediction. Agricultural Water Management. 97:1026-1038. 2010
- Mapping Evapotranspiration: A Remote Sensing Innovation. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 76:6-10. 2010
- An intercomparison of three remote sensing-based surface energy balance algorithms over a corn and soybean production region (Iowa, US) during SMACEX. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 149:2082-2097. 2009
- Increasing productivity in irrigated agriculture: Agronomic constraints and hydrological realities. Agricultural Water Management. 96:1517-1524. 2009
- Estimating crop coefficients from fraction of ground cover and height. Irrigation Science. 28:17-34. 2009
- At-surface reflectance and albedo from satellite for operational calculation of land surface energy balance. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 13:51-63. 2008
- Integrating satellite-based evapotranspiration with simulation models for irrigation management at the scheme level. Irrigation Science. 26:277-288. 2008
- Technical concepts related to conservation of irrigation and rainwater in agricultural systems. Water Resources Research. 44. 2008
- Measuring versus estimating net radiation and soil heat flux: Impact on Penman-Monteith reference ET estimates in semiarid regions. Agricultural Water Management. 89:275-286. 2007
- Satellite-based ET mapping to assess variation in ET with timing of crop development. Agricultural Water Management. 88:54-62. 2007
- Satellite-based energy balance for mapping evapotranspiration with internalized calibration (METRIC) - Applications. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 133:395-406. 2007
- Satellite-based energy balance for mapping evapotranspiration with internalized calibration (METRIC) - Model. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 133:380-394. 2007
- Water use efficiency among dry bean landraces and cultivars in drought-stressed and non-stressed environments. Euphytica. 155:393-402. 2007
- A recommendation on standardized surface resistance for hourly calculation of reference ETO by the FAO56 Penman-Monteith method. Agricultural Water Management. 81:1-22. 2006
- Analytical integrated functions for daily solar radiation on slopes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 139:55-73. 2006
- Selection for drought resistance in dry bean landraces and cultivars. Crop Science. 46:2111-2120. 2006
- Standardized ASCE Penman-Monteith: Impact of sum-of-hourly vs. 24-hour timestep computations at reference weather station sites. Transactions of the ASABE. 48:1063-1077. 2005
- Regional Advection Perturbations in an Irrigated Desert (RAPID) experiment. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 80:143-152. 2005
- Comparison of measured and FAO-56 modeled evaporation from bare soil. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 131:59-72. 2005
- Prediction accuracy for projectwide evapotranspiration using crop coefficients and reference evapotranspiration. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 131:24-36. 2005
- SEBAL model with remotely sensed data to improve water-resources management under actual field conditions. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 131:85-93. 2005
- Estimating evaporation from bare soil and the crop coefficient for the initial period using common soils information. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 131:14-23. 2005
- FAO-56 dual crop coefficient method for estimating evaporation from soil and application extensions. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 131:2-13. 2005
- Satellite-based energy balance to assess with in-population variance of crop coefficient curves. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 131:94-109. 2005
- Daily grass and alfalfa-reference evapotranspiration estimates and alfalfa-to-grass evapotranspiration ratios in Florida. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 129:360-370. 2003
- Predicting daily net radiation using minimum climatological data. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 129:256-269. 2003
- Guidelines for validating Bowen ratio data. Transactions of the ASABE. 46:1051-1060. 2003
- History and evaluation of Hargreaves evapotranspiration equation. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 129:53-63. 2003
- Comparison of reference evapotranspiration calculations as part of the ASCE standardization effort. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 129:440-448. 2003
- Solar and net radiation-based equations to estimate reference evapotranspiration in humid climates. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 129:336-347. 2003
- Software for Missing Data Error Analysis of Penman-Monteith Reference Evapotranspiration. Irrigation Science. 21:57-67. 2002
- Using the FAO-56 dual crop coefficient method over an irrigated region as part of an evapotranspiration intercomparison study. Journal of Hydrology. 229:27-41. 2000
- Evapotranspiration: Concepts and future trends. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 125:45-51. 1999
- Concepts for Energy-Efficient Irrigation System-Design. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 110:99-106. 1984
- Weather Station Siting and Consumptive-Use Estimates. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management-ASCE. 109:134-146. 1983
chapter
- Operational Remote Sensing of ET and Challenges. Evapotranspiration - Remote Sensing and Modeling. Ed. Irmak, Ayse. Croatia: InTechOpen. 467-492. 2012

Research

principal investigator on

Producing and Integrating Time Series of Gridded Evapotranspiration for Irrigation Management, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Applications awarded by National Institute for Food and Agriculture 2011 - 2016
Improving Calculations for Water Consumption by Irrigated Agriculture awarded by National Institute for Food and Agriculture 2005 - 2011
Quantification Methods for Water Resources Management and Planning awarded by National Institute for Food and Agriculture 1999 - 2005

Teaching

is major professor for

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full name

Richard G Allen