Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Soni 'Nmi Yatheendradas

(RESEARCH ASSOCIATE)

Soni 'Nmi Yatheendradas's Contact Card & Information.
Email: soni.yatheendradas-1@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.286.9135
Org Code: 619
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 617
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: UNIV OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK

Education


 2003-2007, Ph. D. in Hydrology with a Minor in Systems Engineering, The University of Arizona, Dissertation: Flash flood forecasting for the semi-arid southwestern United States
2000-2003, M. S. in Hydrology, The University of Arizona, Thesis: Calibration of a distributed land surface model for a semi-arid basin using remotely sensed data
1996-2000, B. Tech. in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India

Professional Societies


American Geophysical Union

2001 - Present


American Meteorological Society

2001 - Present


International Association of Hydrological Sciences

2008 - Present

Publications


Refereed

2021. "A novel Machine Learning-based gap-filling of fine-resolution remotely sensed snow cover fraction data by combining downscaling and regression." Journal of Hydrometeorology [10.1175/jhm-d-20-0111.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Bayesian analysis of the impact of rainfall data product on simulated slope failure for North Carolina locations." Computational Geosciences [10.1007/s10596-018-9804-y] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "The Efficiency of Data Assimilation." Water Resources Research [10.1029/2017WR020991] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Parameter Sensitivity of the Noah-MP Land Surface Model with Dynamic Vegetation." Journal of Hydrometeorology JHM-D-17-0205.1 [10.1175/jhm-d-17-0205.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Satellite Precipitation Characterization, Error Modeling, and Error Correction Using Censored Shifted Gamma Distributions." Journal of Hydrometeorology 18 (10): JHM-D-17-0060.1 [10.1175/jhm-d-17-0060.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Nonparametric triple collocation." Water Resources Research 53 (7): 5516-5530 [10.1002/2017wr020359] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Modeling Landslide Susceptibility over Large Regions with Fuzzy Overlay." Landslides 13 485-496 [Full Text] [10.1007/s10346-015-0577-2] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Calculating Crop Water Requirement Satisfaction in the West Africa Sahel with Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture." Journal of Hydrometerology 16 295-305 [10.1175/JHM-D-14-0049.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Comment on ‘Shang S. 2012. Calculating actual crop evapotranspiration under soil water stress conditions with appropriate numerical methods and time step. Hydrological Processes 26: 3338-3343. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8405’." Hydrological Processes 28 (11): 3833-3840 [10.1002/hyp.10138] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Distributed assimilation of satellite-based snow extent for improving simulated streamflow in mountainous, dense forests: An example over the DMIP2 western basins." Water Resour. Res. 48 (9): W09557 [10.1029/2011WR011347] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "KINEROS2/AGWA: Model Use, Calibration, and Validation." Transactions of the ASABE 55 (4): 1561-1574 [10.13031/2013.42264] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "A comparison of methods for a priori bias correction in soil moisture data assimilation." Water Resour. Res. 48 (3): W03515 [10.1029/2010WR010261] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Quantifying parameter sensitivity, interaction, and transferability in hydrologically enhanced versions of the Noah land surface model over transition zones during the warm season." J Geophys Res 115 (D3): D03106 [10.1029/2009JD012035] [Journal Article/Letter]

2008. "Understanding uncertainty in distributed flash flood forecasting for semiarid regions." Water Resour. Res. 44 (5): W05S19 [10.1029/2007WR005940] [Journal Article/Letter]