Peer-reviewed publications:
Amthor, J. S., J. Chen, J. Clein, S. Frolking, M. Goulden, R. Grant, J. Kimball, A. King, A. McGuire, N. Nikolov, C. Potter, S. Wang, and S. Wofsy, 2001. Boreal forest CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration predicted by nine ecosystem process models: Inter-model comparisons and relationships to field measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research 106(D24), 33,623-33,648.
Entekhabi, D., E. Njoku, P. Houser, M. Spencer, T. Doiron, J. Smith, R. Girard, S. Belair, W. Crow, T. Jackson, Y. Kerr, J. Kimball, R. Koster, K. McDonald, P. O’Neill, T. Pultz, S. Running, J.C. Shi, E. Wood, and J. Van Zyl, 2004. The Hydrosphere State (HYDROS) mission concept: An Earth System Pathfinder for global mapping of soil moisture and land freeze/thaw. Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing 42, 10, 2184-2195.
Euskirchen, E.S., A.D. McGuire, D.W. Kicklighter, Q. Zhuang, J.S. Clein, R.J. Dargaville, D.G. Dye, J.S. Kimball , K.C. McDonald, J.M. Melillo, V.E. Romanovsky, and N.V. Smith, 2006. Importance of recent shifts in soil thermal dynamics on growing season length, productivity, and carbon sequestration in terrestrial high-latitude ecosystems. Global Change Biology 12, 731-750.
Frolking S., M. Fahnestock, T. Milliman, K. McDonald, and J.S. Kimball , 2005. Interannual variability in North American grassland biomass/productivity detected by SeaWinds scatterometer backscatter. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(21), L21409, 10.1029/2005GL024230.
Frolking S., K. McDonald, J. Kimball, R. Zimmermann, J.B. Way and S.W. Running, 1999. Using the space-borne NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) to determine the frozen and thawed seasons of a boreal landscape. Journal of Geophysical Research 104(D22), 27,895-27,907.
Frolking, S., T. Milliman, K. McDonald, J. Kimball, M. Zhao, and M. Fahnestock, 2006. Evaluation of the SeaWinds scatterometer for regional monitoring of vegetation phenology. Journal of Geophysical Research (In press).
Gamon, J.A., K.F. Huemmrich, J. Chen, D. Fuentes, F.G. Hall, J.S. Kimball , S. Goetz, J. Gu, K.C. McDonald, J.R. Miller, M. Moghaddam, D.R. Peddle, A.F. Rahman, J.-L. Roujean, E.A. Smith, C.L. Walthall, and P. Zarco-Tejada, 2004. Remote sensing in BOREAS: Lessons learned. Remote Sensing of Environment 89(2), 139-162.
Hanson, P.J., J.S. Amthor, S.D. Wullschleger, K.B. Wilson, R.F. Grant, A. Hartley, D. Hui, E.R. Hunt JR., D.W. Johnson, J.S. Kimball , A.W. King, Y. Luo, S.G. McNulty, G. Sun, P.E. Thornton, S.S. Wang, M. Williams, and R.M. Cushman, 2004. Carbon and water cycle simulations for an upland oak forest using 13 stand-level models: Intermodel comparisons and evaluations against independent measurements. Ecological Monographs 74(3), 443-489.
Heinsch, F.A., M. Zhao, S.W. Running, J.S. Kimball , R.R. Nemani, et al., 2006. Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations. IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing (In press).
Hope, A.S., J.S. Kimball and D.A. Stow, 1993. The relationship between tussock tundra spectral reflectance properties and biomass and vegetation composition. International Journal of Remote Sensing 14(10), 1861-1874.
Kang, S., S. Doh, D. Lee, D. Lee, V.L. Jin, and J.S. Kimball , 2003. Topographic and climatic controls on soil respiration in six temperate mixed-hardwood forest slopes, Korea. Global Change Biology 9, 1427-1437.
Kang, S., J.S. Kimball , and S.W. Running, 2006. Simulating effects of fire disturbance and climate change on boreal forest productivity and evapotranspiration. Science of the Total Environment (In press).
Kang, S., D. Lee, and J.S. Kimball , 2004. The effects of spatial aggregation of complex topography on hydro-ecological process simulations within a rugged forest landscape: Development and application of a satellite-based topoclimatic model. Canadian Journal of Forestry 34, 519-530.
Kang, S., S.W. Running, M. Zhao, J.S. Kimball , and J. Glassy, 2005. Improving continuity of MODIS terrestrial photosynthesis products using an interpolation scheme for cloudy pixels. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26(6), 1659-1676.
Keyser, A.R., J.S. Kimball , R.R. Nemani and S.W. Running, 2000. Simulating the effects of climate change on the carbon balance of North American high latitude forests. Global Change Biology 6(1): 185-195.
Kimball, J.S., A.R. Keyser, S.W. Running and S.S. Saatchi, 2000. Regional assessment of boreal forest productivity using an ecological process model and remote sensing parameter maps. Tree Physiology 20, 761-775.
Kimball, J.S., K.C. McDonald, S. Frolking and S.W. Running. 2004. Radar remote sensing of the spring thaw transition across a boreal landscape. Remote Sensing of Environment 89(2), 163-175.
Kimball, J.S., K. McDonald, A.R. Keyser, S. Frolking and S.W. Running, 2001. Application of the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) for determining the daily frozen and non-frozen landscape of Alaska. Remote Sensing of Environment 75: 113-126.
Kimball, J.S., K.C. McDonald, S.W. Running, and S. Frolking, 2004. Satellite radar remote sensing of seasonal growing seasons for boreal and subalpine evergreen forests. Remote Sensing of Environment 90, 243-258.
Kimball, J.S., K.C. McDonald, and M. Zhao, 2006. Spring thaw and its effect on terrestrial vegetation productivity in the western Arctic observed from satellite microwave and optical remote sensing. Earth Interactions (In press).
Kimball, J.S., S.W. Running and R.R. Nemani, 1997. An improved method for estimating surface humidity from daily minimum temperature. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 85, 87-98.
Kimball, J.S., S.W. Running and S.S. Saatchi, 1999. Sensitivity of boreal forest regional water flux and net primary production simulations to sub-grid scale landcover complexity. Journal of Geophysical Research 104(D22), 27,789-27,801.
Kimball, J.S., P.E. Thornton, M.A. White and S.W. Running, 1997. Simulating forest productivity and surface-atmosphere carbon exchange in the BOREAS study region. Tree Physiology 17, 589-599.
Kimball, J.S., M.A. White and S.W. Running, 1997. BIOME-BGC simulations of BOREAS stand hydrologic processes. Journal of Geophysical Research 102(D24), 29,043-29,051.
Kimball, J.S., M. Zhao, K.C. McDonald, F.A. Heinsch, and S. Running, 2004. Satellite observations of annual variability in terrestrial carbon cycles and seasonal growing seasons at high northern latitudes. In Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment IV, G. Skofronick Jackson and S. Uratsuka (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 5654, 244-254.
Kimball, J.S., M. Zhao, K.C. McDonald, and S.W. Running, 2006. Satellite remote sensing of terrestrial net primary production for the pan-Arctic basin and Alaska. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change DOI: 10.1007/s11027-005-9014-5.
Lorang, M.S., D.C. Whited, F.R. Hauer, J.S. Kimball , and J.A. Stanford, 2005. Using airborne multispectral imagery to evaluate geomorphic work across floodplains of gravel-bed rivers. Ecological Applications 15(4), 1209-1222.
Marks, D., J.S. Kimball , D. Tingey, T. Link, 1998. The sensitivity of snowmelt processes to climate conditions and forest cover during rain-on-snow: a study of the 1996 Pacific Northwest flood. Hydrological Processes 12, 1569-1587.
McDonald, K.C., J.S. Kimball , E. Njoku, R. Zimmermann, and M. Zhao, 2004. Variability in springtime thaw in the terrestrial high latitudes: Monitoring a major control on the biospheric assimilation of atmospheric CO2 with spaceborne microwave remote sensing. Earth Interactions 8(20), 1-23.
McDonald, K.C., J.S. Kimball , M. Zhao, E. Njoku, R. Zimmermann, and S.W. Running, 2004. Spaceborne microwave remote sensing of seasonal freeze-thaw processes in the terrestrial high latitudes: Relationships with land-atmosphere CO2 exchange. In Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment IV, G. Skofronick Jackson and S. Uratsuka (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 5654, 167-178.
McDonald, K. C., R. Zimmermann, and J.S. Kimball , 2002. Diurnal and spatial variation of xylem dielectric constant as related to microclimate, xylem sap flow, and xylem chemistry in Norway Spruce. IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing 40(9), 2063-2082.
Potter, C.S., J.S. Amthor, J.M. Chen, J.S. Clein, S.E. Frolking, R.F. Grant, J.S. Kimball , A.W. King, A.D. McGuire, N.T. Nikolov, and S. Wang, 2001. Comparison of boreal ecosystem model sensitivity to variability in climate and forest site parameters, J. Geophys. Res. 106(D24), 33,671-33,688.
Rawlins, M.A., K.C. McDonald, S. Frolking, R.B. Lammers, M. Fahnestock, J.S. Kimball , and C.J. Vorosmarty, 2005. Remote sensing of snow at the pan-Arctic scale using the SeaWinds scatterometer. Journal of Hydrology, 312, 294-311.
Rodell, M., B.F. Chao, A.Y. Au, J.S. Kimball , and K.C. McDonald, 2005. Global biomass variation and its geodynamic effects, 1982-1998. Earth Interactions, 9(2), 1-19.
Running, S.W., J.B. Way, K. McDonald, J.S. Kimball , A.R. Keyser, S. Frolking and R. Zimmermann, 1999. Recent advances in the use of satellite radar data to monitor freeze/thaw transitions in boreal regions. Eos 80(19), 213-221.
Running, S.W., J.B. Way, K. McDonald, J.S. Kimball , S. Frolking, and A.R. Keyser, 2000. Radar remote sensing proposed for monitoring freeze-thaw transitions in boreal regions. Earth in Space 12(5), 5-9.
Sitch, S., A.D. McGuire, J.S. Kimball, N. Gedney, J. Gamon, R. Engstrom, A. Wolf, Q. Zhuang, and J.S. Clein, 2006. Assessing the circumpolar carbon balance of arctic tundra with remote sensing and process-based modeling approaches. Ecological applications (In press).
Turner, D.P., S.V. Ollinger, and J.S. Kimball, 2004. Integrating remote sensing and ecosystem process models for landscape- to regional-scale analysis of the carbon cycle. Bioscience 54(6), 573-584.
Whited, D.C., M.S. Lorang, M.J. Harner, J.A. Stanford, F.R. Hauer and J.S. Kimball, 2006. Hydrologic disturbance and succession: Drivers of floodplain pattern. Ecology (In press).
Whited, D.C, J.A. Stanford, and J.S. Kimball. 2001. Application of airborne multi-spectral digital imagery to characterize riverine habitat. Proceedings of the 28th Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology 28:1373-1380.
Whited, D.C., J. A. Stanford and J.S. Kimball. 2002. Application of airborne multi-spectral digital imagery to characterize riverine habitat under variable hydrologic flows. Regulated Rivers Research & Management 18, 583-594.
Book Chapters:
McDonald, K.C, and J.S. Kimball , 2005. Hydrological application of remote sensing: Freeze-thaw states using both active and passive microwave sensors. Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences. Vol. 5., M.G. Anderson and J.J. McDonnell (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
McDonald, K.C., and J.S. Kimball , 2006. Boreal Forests: A lengthening growing season. In: King, M. D., C. L. Parkinson, K. C. Partington, and R. G. Williams (eds): Our Changing Planet: The View from Space, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK., pp. 86-88 (In press).
McDonald, K.C., B. Chapman, J.S. Kimball , and R. Zimmermann, 2006. The tropical rain forest: Threatened powerhouse of the biosphere. In: King, M. D., C. L. Parkinson, K. C. Partington, and R. G. Williams (eds): Our Changing Planet: The View from Space, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, UK., pp. 162-166 (In press).
McGuire, A.D., M. Apps, F.S. Chapin III, R. Dargaville, M.D. Flannigan, E.S. Kasischke, D. Kicklighter, J. Kimball, W. Kurz, D.J. McCrae, K. McDonald, J. Melillo, R. Myneni, B.J. Stocks, D.L. Verbyla, and Q. Zhuang, 2004. Land cover disturbances and feedbacks to the climate system in Canada and Alaska. Chapter 9 in Land Change Science. G. Gutman, et al., (eds), Springer, 139-161.
Running, S.W., and J.S. Kimball , 2005. Satellite-based analysis of ecological controls for land-surface evaporation resistance. Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences. Vol. 5., M.G. Anderson and J.J. McDonnell (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
