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1. Ray, D. K. , U. S. Nair, R. M. Welch, Q. Han, J. Zeng, W. Su , T. Kikuchi, and T. J. Lyons, 2003, Effects of land use in Southwest Australia : 1. Observations of cumulus cloudiness and energy fluxes, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D14), 4414, doi:10.1029/2002JD002654. (pdf)


2. Ray, D. K., R. M. Welch, R. O. Lawton, and U. S. Nair, 2006, Dry Season Clouds and Rainfall in Northern Central America: Implications for the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.09.004 (Global and Planetary Change special issue: R. A. Pielke Sr. and R. Mahmood eds.).  (
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3. Ray, D. K., U. S. Nair, R. O. Lawton, R. M. Welch, and R. A. Pielke Sr., 2006, Impact of land use on Costa Rican tropical montane cloud forests: Sensitivity of orographic cloud formation to deforestation in the plains, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D02108, doi:10.1029/2005JD006096.  (
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4. Nair, U. S., D. K. Ray, J. Wang, S. A. Christopher, T. J. Lyons, R. M. Welch, and R. A. Pielke Sr., 2007, Observational estimates of radiative forcing due to land use change in southwest Australia, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D09117, doi:10.1029/2006JD007505. (pdf) 

5. Pijanowski, B. C., D. K. Ray, A. J. Kendall, J. M. Duckles, D. W. Hyndman, 2007, Using Backcast Land Change and Groundwater Travel-time Models to Generate Land Use Legacy Maps for Watershed Management, (Ecology and Society, Vol 12, 2), (pdf)  (Link to American Museum of Natural History's visualization of the results of this paper)

6. Welch, R. M., S. Asefi, J. Zeng, U. S. Nair, Q. Han, R. O. Lawton, D. K. Ray, and V. S. Manoharan, 2008, Biogeography of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests, 1: Remote Sensing of Cloud Base Heights (Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1668.1 ). (pdf)  

7. Nair, U.S., S. Asefi, R.M. Welch, D.K. Ray, R.O. Lawton, V.S. Manoharan, M. Mulligan, T.L. Sever, D. Irwin, A. Rounds, 2008, Biogeography of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests, 2: Mapping of Orographic Cloud Immersion, (Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1819.1). (pdf)

8. Nair, U. S., D. K. Ray, R. O. Lawton, R. M. Welch and R. Pielke, The impact of deforestation on orographic cloud formation in a complex tropical environment, In: Mountains in the Mist, Science for conserving and managing Tropical Montane Cloud Forest, L. A. Bruijnzeel, J. Juvik, F. N. Scatena, L. S. Hamilton and P. Bubb (eds.), University of Hawaii Press, (in press) (pdf).  


9. Lawton, R. O., U. S. Nair, D. K. Ray, A. Regmi, A. Pounds, and R. M. Welch, Quantitative measures of immersion in cloud and the biogeography of cloud forest, In: Mountains in the Mist, Science for conserving and managing Tropical Montane Cloud Forest. L. A. Bruijnzeel, J. Juvik, F. N. Scatena, L. S. Hamilton and P. Bubb (eds.), University of Hawaii Press , (in press).    

 

10. Ray, D. K., and B. C. Pijanowski, 2009, A Backcast Land Use Change Model to Generate Past Land Use Maps for the Muskegon River Watershed of Michigan, USA, Journal of Land Use Science, doi: 10.1080/17474230903150799

 

11. Ray, D. K., R. A. Pielke, Sr., U. S. Nair, R. M. Welch, and R. O. Lawton, 2009, Importance of land use versus atmospheric information verified from cloud simulations from a frontier region in Costa Rica, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2007JD009565 (pdf)

 

12. Ray, D. K., B. C. Pijanowski, A. J. Kendall and Dave Hyndman, Coupling of Backast Land Use Change and Groundwater Flow Models to Generate the Land Use Legacy Maps: Using Coupled Model Ensembles to Estimate Uncertainty and its Implications to Land Use Management (in revision Journal of Environmental Management)

 

13. Mishra, V., K. A. Cherkauer, D. Niyogi, L. Ming, B. C. Pijanowski, D. K. Ray, and L. C. Bowling, A Regional Scale Assessment of Land use/land cover and Climate Changes on Surface Hydrologic Processes (in review International Journal of Climate). (pdf)

 

14. Long, D. T., M.J. Parsons, B.C. Pijanowski, D.K. Ray, C.H. Yansa, S.S. Yohn, C.E. McLean, R.G. Vannier, Assessing Ecosystem Response to Land-Use Change Using Sediment-Chemical Chronologies and a Backcast Model: A Pilot Study (submitted to: CEST2009)

15. Ray, D. K., J. M. Duckles and B. C. Pijanowski, Are Plausible Land Use Futures Better or Worse Present or the Past? (in revision Environmental Management)

16. Ray, D. K., R.A. Pielke Sr., U.S. Nair, and D. Niyogi, 2009: The roles of atmospheric and land surface data in dynamic regional downscaling, J. Geophys. Res., in revision (pdf)

17. Regmi, A., D. K. Ray, et al., The Importance of including space in determining fertility rates in Kenya, (in review Population and Development Review)

18. Ray, D. K., V. S. Manoharan, R. M. Welch, R. O. Lawton and U. S. Nair, Cloud Climatic Stability of the Western Ghats Tropical Wet Forests of South West India (to be submitted to: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology)
 

 

 

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