Professor Bras' Publications


Recent journal articles (view a full list here)

Arnone, E., L.V. Noto, C. Lepore, and R.L. Bras. Physically-based and distributed approach to analyze rainfall-triggered landslides at watershed scale, Geomorphology, submitted Feb. 2011.

Knox, R., G. Bisht, J. Wang, and R.L. Bras (2011), Precipitation variability over the forest to non-forest transition in southwestern Amazonia, Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/2010JCL13815.1.

Lepore, C., S.A. Kamal, P. Shanahan, and R.L. Bras (2011), Rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility zonation of Puerto Rico, Environmental Earth Sciences, doi:10.1007/s12665-011-0976-1.

Wang, J.F. and R.L. Bras (2011), A model of evapotranspiration based on the theory of maximum entropy production, Water Resources Research, 47, W03521, doi:10.1029/2010WR009392.

Wang, J. and R.L. Bras (2009), A model of surface heat fluxes based on the theory of maximum entropy production, Water Resources Research, 45, W11422, doi:10.1029/2009WR007900.

Nieves, V., J. Wang, R.L. Bras, and E. Wood (2010), Maximum entropy distributions of scale-invariant processes, Physical Review Letters, 105, 118701, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.118701.

Bisht, G. and R.L. Bras (2010), Estimation of net radiation from the MODIS data under all sky conditions - Southern Great Plains case study, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114(7), doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.02.007.

Flores, A.N., V.Y. Ivanov, D. Entekhabi, and R.L. Bras (2009), Impact of hillslope-scale organization of topography, soil moisture, soil temperature, and vegetation on modeling surface microwave radiation emission, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47(8), doi:10.1109/TGRS.2009.2014743.

Wang, J., F.J.F Chagnon, E.R. Williams, A.K. Betts, N.O. Renno, L.A.T. Machado, G. Bisht, R. Knox, and R.L. Bras (2009), Impact of deforestation in the Amazon basin on cloud climatology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(10), doi:10.1073/pnas.0810156106.

Istanbulluoglu, E., O. Yetemen, E.R. Vivoni, H.A. Gutierrez-Jurado, and R.L. Bras (2008), Eco-geomorphic implications of hillslope aspect: Inferences from analysis of landscape morphology in central New Mexico, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L14403, doi:10.1029/2008GL034477

Collins, D.B.G. and R.L. Bras (2007), Plant rooting strategies in water-limited ecosystems, Water Resources Research, 43, W06407, doi:10.1029/2006WR005541



Textbooks

Bras, R.L. and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe. Random Functions and Hydrology, Addison Wesley, 1985; new printing, Dover Publications, New York, 1994.

Bras, R.L. Hydrology: An Introduction to Hydrologic Science, Addison Wesley, 1990.