Publications
2024
Price, A., Zimmer, M., Bergstrom, A., Burgin, A., Seybold, E., Krabbenhoft, C. Zipper, S., Busch, M., Dodds, W., Datry, T., Walters, A., Rogosch, J., Stubbington, R., Walker, R., Stegen, J., Kaiser, K., Messager, M., Olden, J., Godsey, S., Shanafield, M., Lytle, D., Allen, G.H., Mims, M., Tonkin, J., Bogan, M., Burrows, R., Hammond, J., Boersma, K., DelVecchia, A., Allen, D., Yu, S., Ward, A., (2024) Biogeochemical and community ecology responses to the wetting of non-perennial streams. Nature Water. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00298-3
Langhorst, T., Konstantinos, K., Allen, G.H., Global Cloud Biases in Optical Satellite Remote of Rivers. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110085
Collins, E.L., David, C.H., Riggs, R.M., Allen, G.H., Pavelsky, T.M., Lin, P., Pan, M.,Yamazaki, D., Meentemeyer, R.K., Sanchez, G.M., (2024) Residence time is a prominent driver of global river water storage. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01421-5
Gorr, J.B., Selva, D. Gao, H., Ellis, E.A., Morgan, J., Stroud, M., Allen, G.H., Li, Y., (2024) Design of a satellite constellation for monitoring inland water quality. Acta Astronautica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.03.062
Ziyun, Y., Lin, P., Riggs, R.M., Allen, G.H., Lei, X., Zheng, Z., Cai, S., (2024) A synthesis of Global Streamflow Characteristics, Hydrometeorology, and Catchment Attributes (GSHA) for large sample river-centric studies. Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1559-2024
Ellis, E.A., Allen, G.H., Riggs, R.M., Gao, H., Li, Y., Carey, C., (2024) Bridging the divide between inland water quantity and quality with satellite remote sensing: An interdisciplinary review. WIREs Water. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1725
Stroud, M., Allen, G.H., Simard, M., Jensen, D.J., Gorr, J.B., Selva, D., (2024) Optimizing satellite mission requirements to measure total suspended solids in rivers. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3337641
2023
Sikder, M.D., Wang, J., Allen, G.H., Sheng, Y., Yamazaki, D., Song, C., Ding, M., Crétaux, C-F, Pavelsky, T.M., (2023), Lake-TopoCat: A global lake drainage topology and catchment database. Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3483-2023
Czuba, J., Allen, G.H., (2023), When does a stream become a river?
River Research and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4185
Li, Y., Zhao, G., Allen, G.H., Gao, H., (2023), Diminishing Storage Returns of Reservoir Construction. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38843-5
Riggs, R.M., Allen, G.H., Wang, J., Pavelsky, T.M., Gleason, C.J., David, C.H., Durand, M., (2023), Extending global river gauge records using satellite observations. Environmental Research Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acd407
Riggs, R.M., Allen, G.H., Brinkerhoff, C.B., Sikder, S.M., Wang, J., (2023), Turning lakes into river gauges using the LakeFlow algorithm. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103924
Lauerwald, R., Allen, G.H., Deemer, B., Liu, S., Maavara, T., Raymond, P., Alcott, L., Bastviken, D., Hastie, A., Holgerson, M., Johnson, M., Lehner, B., Lin, P., Marzadri, A., Ran, L., Tian, H., Yang, X., Yao, Y., Regnier, P., (2023), Inland Water Greenhouse Gas Budgets for RECCAP2: 1. State-of-the-Art of Global Scale Assessments. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007657
Lauerwald, R., Allen, G.H., Deemer, B., Liu, S., Maavara, T., Raymond, P., Alcott, L., Bastviken, D., Hastie, A., Holgerson, M., Johnson, M., Lehner, B., Lin, P., Marzadri, A., Ran, L., Tian, H., Yang, X., Yao, Y., Regnier, P., (2023), Inland water greenhouse gas budgets for RECCAP2: 2. Regionalization and homogenization of estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007658
Durand M., Gleason, G., Pavelsky, T.M., Frasson, R.P.M., Turmon, M., David, C., Altenau, E., Tebaldi, N., Larnier, K., Monnier, J., Malaterre, P-O, Oubanas, H., Allen, G.H., Astifan, B., Brinkerhoff, C., Bates, P., Bjerklie, D., Coss, S., Dudley, R., Fenoglio, L., Garambois, Getirana, A., P-A, Lin, P., Margulis, S.A., Matte, P., Minear, J.T., Muhebwa, A., Pan, M., Peters, D., *Riggs, R., Sikder, M.S., Simmons, T., Stuurman, C., Taneja, J., Tarpanelli, A., Schulze, K., Tourian, M.J., Wang, J., (2023), A framework for estimating global river discharge from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission.
Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031614
Song, C., Wu, Q., Ke, L., Wang, J., Pavelsky, T., Allen, G.H., Sheng, Y., Duan, X., Zhu, Y., Wu, J., Wang, L., Liu, K., Chen, T., Zhang, W., Fan, C., (2023), Satellite-observed global river channel changes driven by anthropogenic and climate forcings. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37061-3
2022
Feng, D., Gleason, C.J., Yang, X., Allen, G.H., Pavelsky, T.M., (2022), How have global river widths changed over time? Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031712
Borges, A.V., Deirmendjian, L., Bouillon, S., Okello, W., Lambert, T., Roland, F., Razanamahandry, V.F., Voarintsoa, V., Darchambeau, F., Descy, J., Urrutia, R.P., Allen, G.H., Morana, C., (2022), Greenhouse gas emissions from African lakes are no longer a blind spot. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi8716
Krabbenhoft, C.A., Allen, G.H., Lin, P., Godsey, S.E., Allen, D.C., Burrows, R.M., DelVecchia, A.G., Fritz, K.M., Shanafield, M., Burgin, A.J., Zimmer, M., Datry, T., Dodds, W.K., Jones, C.N., Mims, M.C., Franklin, C., Hammond, J.C., Zipper, S.C., Ward, A.S., Costigan, K.H., Beck, H.E., Olden, J.D., (2022), Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00878-9
Wang, J., Walter, B.A., Yao, F., Song, C., Ding, M., Maroof, A.S., Zhu, J., Fan, C., Xin, A., McAlister, J.M., Sikder, S., Sheng, Y., Allen., G.H., Crétaux, J., Wada, Y., (2022), GeoDAR: Georeferenced global dam and reservoir database for bridging attributes and geolocations. Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1869-2022
Liu, S., Kuhn, C., Amatulli, G., Aho, K., Butman, D.E., Allen, G.H., Lin, P., Pan, M., Yamazaki, D., Brinkerhoff, C., Gleason, C., Raymond, P.A., (2022), The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2106322119
Riggs, R.M., Allen, G.H., David, C.H., Lin, P., Pan, M., Yang, X., Gleason, C., (2022), RODEO: An algorithm and Google Earth Engine application for river discharge retrieval from Landsat. Environmental Modeling & Software. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105254
2021
Stavert, A.R., Saunois, M., Canadell, J.G., Poulter, B., Jackson, R.B., Regnier, P., Lauerwald, R., Raymond, P.A., Allen, G.H., Patra, P.K., Bergamaschi, P., Bousquet, P., Chandra, N., Ciais, P., Gustafson, A., Ishizawa, M., Ito, A., Kleinen, T., Maksyutov, S., McNorton, J., Melton, J.R., Müller, J., Niwa, Y., Peng, S., Riley, W.J., Segers, A., Tian, H., Tsuruta, A., Yin, Y., Zhang, Z., Zheng, B., Zhuang, Q., (2021), Regional trends and drivers of the global methane budget. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15901
Zipper, S.C., Hammond, J.C., Shanafield, M., Zimmer, M., Datry, T., Allen, D.C., Jones, C.N., Kaiser, K.E., Godsey, S.E., Burrows, R.,M., Blaszczak, J.R., Busch, M.H., Price, A.N., Boersma, K.S., Ward, A.D., Costigano, K., Allen, G.H., Krabbenhoft, C.A., Dodds, W.K., Mims, M.C., Olden, J.D., Kampf, S.K., Burgin, A.J., Allen, D.C., (2021), Pervasive changes in stream intermittence across the United States. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac14ec
Rosentreter, J.A., Borges, P.A., Deemer, B.R., Holgerson, Liu, S., C.M., Song, M.A., Melack, J., Raymond, P.A., Duarte, C.M., Allen, G.H., Olefeldt, Poulter, B., D., Battin, T.I., Eyre, B.D., (2021), Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00715-2
Hosen, J.D., Allen, G.H., Amatuli, G., Breitmeyer, S., Cohen, M.J., Crump, B.C., Lu, Y., Payet, J.P., Poulin, B.A., Stubbins, A., Yoon, B., Raymond, P.A., (2021), River network travel time is broadly correlated to dissolved organic matter composition in United States Rivers. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14124
Marzadri, A., Amatulli, G., Tonina, D., Bellin, A., Shen, L.Q., Allen, G.H., Raymond, P.A., Global riverine nitrous oxide emissions: the role of small streams and large rivers. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145148
Lin, P., Pan , M., Wood, E., Yamazaki, D., Allen, G.H., (2021), A new vector-based global river network dataset accounting for variable drainage density. Scientific Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00819-9
Li, Y., Gao, H., Allen, G.H., Zhang, Z., (2021), Constructing Reservoir Area-Volume-Elevation Curve from TanDEM-X DEM Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3051103
Hammond J., Zimmer, M., Shanafield, M., Kaiser, K., Godsey, S., Mims, M., Zipper, S., Burrows, R., Kampf, S., Dodds, W., Jones, C.N., Krabbenhoft, C., Boersma, K., Datry, T., Olden, J., Allen, G.H., Price, A., Costigan, K., Hale, R., Ward, A., Allen, D., (2021), Spatial patterns and drivers of non-perennial flow regimes in the contiguous U.S.
Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090794
2020
Ishitsuka, Y., Gleason, C.J., Hagemann, M.W., Beighley, R.E., Allen, G.H., Feng, D., Lin, P., Andreadis, K., Pavelsky, T.M., (2020), Combining big-data remote sensing, global hydrologic modelling, and river routing improves daily discharge estimates across an entire large watershed. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027794
Legleiter, C.J., Pavelsky, T.M., Durand, M., Allen, G.H., Tarpanelli, A., Frasson, R.P.M., Guneralp, I., Woodget, A., (2020), Editorial for the Special Issue "Remote Sensing of Flow Velocity, Channel Bathymetry, and River Discharge". Remote Sensing. http://doi.org/10.3390/rs12142304
Busch, M.H., Costigan, K.H., Fritz, K.M., Datry, T., Krabbenhoft, C.A., Hammond, J.C., Zimmer, M., Olden, J.D., Burrows, R.M., Dodds, W.K., Boersma, K.S., Shanafield, M., Kampf, S.K., Mims, M.C., Bogan, M.T., Ward, A.S., Rocha, M.P., Godsey, S.E.,
Allen, G.H., Blaszczak, J.R., Jones, C.N., Allen, D.C., (2020), What’s in a name? Patterns and trends in the definition of
non-perennial rivers and streams. Water. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12071980
Allen, G.H., Yang, X., Gardner J., Holliman, J., David., C.H., Ross, M., (2020), Timing of Landsat overpasses effectively captures flow conditions of large rivers. Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12091510
Zimmer, M., Kaiser, K., Blaszczak, J., Zipperm S.C., Hammond, J., Fritz, K.M., Costigan, K.H., Hosen, J., Godsey, S.E., Allen, G.H., Kampf, S., Burrows, R.M., Krabbenhoft, C.A., Dodds, W., Hale, R., Olden, J.D., Shanafield, M., DelVecchia, A.G., Ward, A.S., Mims, M.C., Datry, T., Bogan, M.T., Boersma, K.S., Busch, M.H., Jones, C.N., Burgin, A., Allen, D.C., (2020), Zero or not? Causes and consequences of zero-flow stream gage readings. WIREs Water. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1436
Yang, X., Pavelsky, T.M., Allen, G.H., Donchyts, G., (2020), RivWidthCloud: Automated Google Earth Engine algorithm for river width extraction from remotely sensed imagery. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2920225
Lin, P., Pan, M., Allen, G.H., Frasson, R.P.M., Zeng Z., Yamazaki, D., Wood, E., (2020), Global estimates of reach-level bankfull river width leveraging big data geospatial analysis. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086405
Coss S., Durand M., Yi Y., Jia Y., Guo Q., Tuozzolo S., Shum C.K., Allen G.H., Calmant S., and Pavelsky, T.M., (2020), Global River Radar Altimetry Time Series (GRRATS): new river elevation earth science data records for the hydrologic community. Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-137-2020
Yang, X., Pavelsky, T.M., Allen, G.H., (2020), The past and future of global river ice.
Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1848-1
2019
Sikder, M.S., David, C.H., Allen, G.H., Qiao, X., Nelson E.J., Matin M.A., (2019), Evaluation of Available Global Runoff Datasets through a River Model in Support of Transboundary Water Management in South and Southeast Asia. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00171
Borges, A.B., Darchambeau, F., Lambert, T., Morana, C., Allen, G.H., Tambwe, E., Sembaito, A.T., Mambo T., Wabakhangazi J.N., Descy, J.P., Teodoru, C.R., Bouillon, S., (2019), Variations in dissolved greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) in the Congo River network overwhelmingly driven by fluvial-wetland connectivity. Biogeochemistry. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3801-2019
Barefoot, E.A., Pavelsky, T.M., Allen, G.H., Zimmer, M., McGlynn, B., (2019), Temporally Variable Stream Width and Surface Area Distributions in a Headwater Catchment. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023877
Lin, P., Pan, M., Beck, H., Yang, Y., Yamazaki, D., Frasson, R., David, C.H., Durand, M., Pavelsky, T.M., Allen, G.H., Gleason, C., Wood, E., (2019), Global reconstruction of naturalized river flows at 2.94 million reaches.
Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025287
Yamazaki D., Ikeshima, D., Sosa, J., Bates P.D., Allen, G.H., Pavelsky, T.M., (2019), MERIT Hydro: A high-resolution global hydrography map based on latest topography datasets. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024873
Frasson, R.P.M., Pavelsky, T.M., Fonstad, M., Durand, M.T., Allen, G.H., Schumann, G., Lion, C., Beighley, R.E., Yang, X., (2019), Global relationships between river width, slope, catchment area, meander wavelength, sinuosity, and discharge. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082027
Shen, X., Anagnostou, E.N., Allen, G.H., Brakenridge, R., Kettner, A. (2019), Near-Real-Time Non-obstructed Flood Inundation Mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar. Remote Sensing of the Environment.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.11.008
Pitcher, L.P., Pavelsky, T.M., Smith, L.C., Moller, D.K., Altenau, E.H., Allen, G.H., Lion, C., Butman, D., Cooley, S.W., Fayne, J., Bertram, M., (2019), AirSWOT InSAR mapping of surface water elevations and hydraulic gradients across the Yukon Flats Basin, Alaska. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023274
2018
Allen, G.H., Pavelsky, T.M. (2018) Global extent of rivers and streams. Science. (cover story).
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat0636
Allen, G.H., David, C.H., Andreadis, K.M., Hossain, F., Famiglietti, J.S. (2018) Global estimates of river flow wave travel times and implications for low-latency satellite data. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077914
Allen, G.H., Pavelsky, T.M., Barefoot, E.A., Lamb, M.P., Butman, D., Tashie, A., Gleason, C.J. (2018) Similarity of stream width distributions across headwater systems. Nature Communications.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02991-w
Before 2018
Altenau, E., Pavelsky, T.M., Moller, D., Lion, C., Pitcher, L., Allen, G.H., Bates, P., Calmant, S., Durand, M., Smith, L. (2017) AirSWOT measurements of river water surface elevation and slope: Tanana River, AK.
Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071577
Yoon, Y., Beighley, E., Lee, H., Pavelsky, T.M., Allen, G.H. (2015) Estimating Flood Discharges in Reservoir-Regulated River Basins by Integrating Synthetic SWOT Satellite Observations and Hydrologic Modeling.
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001320
Allen, G.H., Pavelsky, T.M. (2015) Patterns of river width and surface area revealed by the satellite-derived North American River Width (NARWidth) data set. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062764
Pavelsky, T.M., Durand, M.T., Andreadis, K.M., Beighley, R.E., Paiva, R.C.D., Allen, G.H., Miller, Z.F. (2014) Assessing the Potential Global Impact of SWOT River Observations. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.08.044
Miller, Z.F., Pavelsky, T.M., and Allen G.H. (2014) Quantifying river form variations in the Mississippi Basin using remotely sensed imagery. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4883-2014
Pavelsky, T.M., Allen, G.H., Miller, Z.F. (2014) Spatial Patterns of River Width in the Yukon River Basin. Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle. Geophysical Monograph Series. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118872086.ch8
Allen, G.H., Barnes, J.B., Pavelsky, T.M., Kirby, E. (2013) Lithologic and tectonic controls on bedrock channel form at the northwest Himalayan front. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrf.20113
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