Funding
2020 Principal Investigator: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Developing National Soil Moisture Products to Improve Drought Monitoring, Phase 2 (08/01/20-08/31/21; $91,132) (GRT00060185).
2017 Co-Principal Investigator: NOAA MAPP, Improving the Drought Monitoring Capabilities of Land Surface Models by Integrating Bias-Corrected, Gridded Precipitation Estimates, with D. B. McRoberts (PI), J. Nielsen-Gammon, B. Zavadosky, J. Case, C. Peters-Liddard, and D. Mocko (09/01/2017-08/31/2020, $510,000).
2015 Principal Investigator: USDA, Developing gridded soil moisture maps using NRCS SSURGO (9/1/2015-9/30/2017; $145,544).
2015 Co-Principal Investigator: South Central Climate Science Center, Soil Moisture-Based Drought Monitoring for the South Central region (10/1/2015-9/31/2017; $232,437; T. Ochsner (Oklahoma State University)).
2014 Co-Principal Investigator: National Integrated Drought Information System, Development of a pilot national soil moisture network (12/01/14-06/30/15; $105,000 (TAMU = $45,956) with J. Lucido (USGS)).
Selected Publications
Zhang, N., Quiring, S. M., and T. W. Ford (2021) Blending SMAP, Noah and In Situ Soil Moisture Using Multiple Error Estimation Methods. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22(7): 1835–1854. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0119.1
Cosh, M., Caldwell, T., Baker, B., Bolton, J., Edwards, N., Goble, P., Hofman, H., Ochsner, T., Quiring, S., Schalk, C., Skumanich, M., Svoboda, M., and M. Woloszyn (2021) A Strategy for the National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network. Vadose Zone Journal, 20: e20139. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20139
Yuan, S., Quiring, S. M. and Z. Leasor (2021) Historical changes in soil moisture over the contiguous United States: an assessment of CMIP6. Geophysical Research Letters, 48: e2020GL089991. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089991
Ford, T. W., Quiring, S. M., Zhao, C., Leasor, Z. T., and C. Landry (2020) Statistical Evaluation of In Situ Soil Moisture Observations from 1,200+ Stations as part of the U.S. National Soil Moisture Network. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21 (11): 2537–2549. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0108.1
Yuan, S., Quiring, S. M. and C. Zhao (2020) Evaluation of Drought Indices as Soil Moisture Proxies in the Southern U.S. Great Plains. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21 (9): 2157–2175. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0022.1.
Zhao, C., Quiring, S. M., Yuan, S., McRoberts, D. B., Zhang, N. and Z. Leasor (2020) Developing and Evaluating National Soil Moisture Percentile Maps. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 84: 443-460. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20045
Tavakol, A., Rahmani, V., Quiring, S. M. and S. V. Kumar (2019) Validation analysis of NASA SMAP and SPoRT-LIS soil moisture data in the United States. Remote Sensing of Environment: 229: 234-246.
Ford, T. W. and S. M. Quiring (2019) Comparison of contemporary in situ, model, and satellite remote sensing soil moisture with a focus on drought monitoring. Water Resources Research, 55: 1565-1582. DOI: 10.1029/2018WR024039
Krueger, E. S., Ochsner, T. E., and S. M. Quiring (2019) Development and evaluation of soil moisture-based indices for agricultural drought monitoring. Agronomy Journal: 111: 1-15. doi: 10.2134/agronj2018.09.0558
Krueger, E. S., Ochsner, T. E., Quiring, S. M., Engle, D. M., Carlson, J.D., Twidwell, D. and S. D. Fuhlendorf (2017) Measured soil moisture is a better predictor of large growing-season wildfires than Keetch-Byram Drought Index. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 81: 490–502. doi:10.2136/sssaj2017.01.0003
Yuan, S. and S. M. Quiring (2017) Evaluation of soil moisture in CMIP5 simulations over contiguous United States using in situ and satellite observations. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 21: 2203–2218. doi:10.5194/hess-21-2203-2017
Zhang, N., Quiring, S. M., Ochsner, T. and T. W. Ford (2017) Comparison of Three Methods for Vertical Extrapolation of Soil Moisture in Oklahoma. Vadose Zone, 16(10): doi:10.2136/vzj2017.04.0085
Ford, T. W., Wang, Q. and S. M. Quiring (2016) The observation record length necessary to generate robust soil moisture percentiles. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 55: 2131-2149. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0143.1
Yuan, S. and S. M. Quiring (2017) Comparison of three methods of interpolating soil moisture in Oklahoma. International Journal of Climatology, 37: 987-997. DOI: 10.1002/joc.4754
Quiring S. M., Ford T. W., Wang J. K., Khong A., Harris E., Lindgren T., Goldberg D. W., Li Z. (2016) North American Soil Moisture Database: Development and Applications. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97: 1441-1459,
doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00263.1
Selected Conference Presentations
Quiring, S. M. and S. Yuan (2021) Assessing the accuracy of CMIP6 soil moisture simulations in the contiguous United States. Contributed paper presented at the National Soil Moisture Workshop (online), August 2021.
Leasor, Z., Zhao, C., Liu, L. and S. M. Quiring (2021) Exploring the Benefits of Downscaled Remote Sensing Soil Moisture for Drought Monitoring. Contributed paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 2021.
Quiring, S. M., and T. W. Ford (2021) Developing National Soil Moisture Products Using In Situ, Satellite and Model-derived Data. Contributed presentation given at the 35th Conference on Hydrology, Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 2021.
Leasor, Z. and S. M. Quiring (2021) Quantifying the Added Value of Multi-Source Soil Moisture Data in Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Forecast Models. Contributed presentation given at the 35th Conference on Hydrology, Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 2021.
Quiring, S. M., T. W. Ford and R. Viger (2020) Developing National Soil Moisture Products Using In Situ, Satellite and Model-derived Data. Contributed presentation given at the National Soil Moisture Workshop (online), August 2020.
Quiring, S. M. and T. W. Ford (2020) Developing Improved Forest Soil Moisture Products from In Situ, Satellite and Land-Surface Models. Contributed presentation given at the USFS – NASA Joint Applications Workshop: “Earth Observations in Support of Forest and Rangeland Response to Changing Environmental Conditions”, June 2020.
Zhang, N., Quiring, S. M. and T. W. Ford (2019) Soil moisture mapping in south central United States by blending in-situ and modeled data. Contributed poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2019.
Cosh, M. and others (including S. M. Quiring) (2019) The National Soil Moisture Network: Building a strategy from the ground up. Contributed poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2019.
Quiring, S. M. and T. W. Ford (2019) Integrating In Situ, Satellite and Modeled Data for the National Soil Moisture Map. Contributed paper presented at the National Soil Moisture Network Meeting, Kansas State University, May 2019.
Cosh, M., Berg, A., Bindlish, R., Caldwell, T., Colliander, J., Jackson, T., Ochsner, T., Qu, J. and S. M. Quiring (2018) Toward the development of protocols for soil moisture monitoring and measurement. Invited presentation given at the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Austin, January 2018.
Ford, T. W. and S. M. Quiring (2018) Developing Integrative Soil Moisture Products to Improve Drought Monitoring and Forecasting in the United States. Invited presentation given at the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Austin, January 2018.
Zhang, N., Quiring, S. M. and T. E. Ochsner (2017) Comparison of Three Soil Moisture Sensor Types Under Field Conditions Based on the Marena, Oklahoma, In Situ Sensor Testbed (MOISST). Contributed poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, December 2017.
Quiring, S. M., Zhang, N., Ochsner, T. and T. W. Ford (2017) Towards a Harmonized Soil Moisture Database for the South Central United States: Evaluating Methods for Depth Standardization and Quality Control. Contributed paper presented at the 2017 MOISST Workshop, Stillwater, OK, May 2017.
Zhang, N., Quiring, S. M., and T. Ochsner (2017) Improvement on Quality Control of In Situ Soil Moisture using POLARIS soil properties data. Contributed poster presented at the 2017 MOISST Workshop, Stillwater, OK, May 2017.
Zhao, C. and S. M. Quiring (2017) Sensitivity analysis of the soil moisture interpolation methods in U.S. Contributed poster presented at the 2017 MOISST Workshop, Stillwater, OK, May 2017.
Zhang, N. and S. M. Quiring (2017) Study on Vertical Interpolation of Soil Moisture. Contributed paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, April 2017.
Zhao, C., Quiring, S. M. and S. Yuan (2017) Sensitivity study of the factors affecting soil moisture interpolation performance. Contributed paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, April 2017.
Zhang, N. and S. M. Quiring (2016) Comparison of three methods for vertical interpolation of soil moisture. Contributed poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2016.
Zhao, C. and S. M. Quiring (2016) Comparison of soil moisture interpolation methods at regional scale - Case study in Oklahoma. Contributed poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2016.
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