| Gaspar, L., Franz, T.E., Catala, A., Lizaga, I., Ramos, M.C., Navas, A. 2023. Combining cosmic-ray neutron sensor and fallout 137Cs to explore the connection of soil water content with soil redistribution in an agroforestry hillslope. Environmental Research 233 (2023) 116451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116451 | Online |
| Nasta, P., Franz, T.E., Gibson, J.P., Romano, N. 2023. Revisiting the definition of field capacity as a functional parameter in a layered agronomic soil profile beneath irrigated maize. Agricultural Water Management 284 (2023) 108368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108368 | Online |
| Abimbola, O., Franz, T., Rudnick, D., Heeren, D., Lo, T., Wolf, A., Katimbo, A., Nakabuye, H. N., Amori, A. (2022). Improving crop modeling to better simulate maize yield variability under different irrigation managements. Agricultural Water Management.
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| Becker, S.M., Franz, T.E., Abimbola, O., Steele, D.D., Flores, J.P., Jia, X., Scherer, T.F., Rudnick, D., Neale, C.M.U. 2022. Feasibility assessment on use of proximal geophysical sensors to support precision management. Vadose Zone J. 2022;e20228. DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20228 | Online |
| Bhatti, S., Heeren, D., Evett, S., O’Shaughnessy, S., Rudnick, D., Franz, T., Ge, Y., Neale, C. (2022). Crop response to thermal stress without yield loss in irrigated maize and soybean in Nebraska. Agricultural Water Management.
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| Johansen, K., Ziliani, M.G., Houborg, R., Franz, T.E. McCabe, M.F. 2022. CubeSat constellations provide enhanced crop phenology and digital agricultural insights using daily leaf area index retrievals. Scientific Reports | (2022) 12:5244 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09376-6 | Online |
| Katimbo, A., Rudnick, D., DeJonge, K., Lo, T., Lo, T., Franz, T., Nakabuye, H. N., Duan, J. (2022). Crop water stress index computation approaches and their sensitivity to soil water dynamics. Agricultural Water Management | Online |
| Nakabuye, H. N., Rudnick, D., DeJonge, K., Lo, T., Heeren, D., Qiao, X., Franz, T., Katimbo, A., Duan, J. (2022). Real-time irrigation scheduling of maize using Degrees Above Non-Stressed (DANS) index in semi-arid environment. Agricultural Water Management | Online |
| Ziliani, M., Altaf, M., Aragon, B., Houborg, R., Franz, T., Lu, Y., Sheffield, J., Hoteit, I., McCabe, M. (2022). Early season prediction of within-field crop yield variability by assimilating CubeSat data into a crop model. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 313:15 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108736 | Online |
| Abimbola, O., Meyer, G. E., Mittelstet, A., Rudnick, D., Franz, T. (2021). Knowledge‐guided machine learning for improving daily soil temperature prediction across the United States. Vadose Zone Journal. 20(5) https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20151 | Online |
| Aragon, B., Ziliani, M.G., Houborg, R., Franz, T.E., McCabe, M.F. 2021. CubeSats Deliver New Insights into Agricultural Water Use at Daily and 3 m Resolutions. Scientific Reports. 11:12131. | Online |
| Franz, T., Larios, A., Victor, C. (2021). The Bleeps, the Sweeps, and the Creeps: Convergence Rates for Dynamic Observer Patterns via Data Assimilation for the 2D Navier-Stokes Equations. ArXiv Preprint. | Online |
| Yang, Y., Guan, K., Peng, B., Pan, M., Jiang, C., Franz, T. (2021). High-resolution spatially explicit land surface model calibration using field-scale satellite-based daily evapotranspiration product. Journal of Hydrology. 596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125730 | Online |
| Zhang, J., Guan, K., Peng, B., Pan, M., Zhou, W., Grant, R., Franz, T., Rudnick, D., Heeren, D., Suyker, A. (2021). Assessing Different Plant‐Centric Water Stress Metrics for Irrigation Efficacy Using Soil‐Plant‐Atmosphere‐Continuum Simulation. Water Resources Research. 57:9 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030211 | Online |
| Zhang, J., Guan, K., Peng, B., Pan, M., Zhou, W., Jiang, C., Kimm, H., Franz, T., Grant, R., Yang, Y. (2021). Sustainable irrigation based on co-regulation of soil water supply and atmospheric evaporative demand. Nature Communications. 12:5549 | Online |
| Zhang, J., K. Guan, B. Peng, C. Jiang, W. Zhou, Y. Yang, M. Pan, T. E. Franz, D. M. Heeren, D. R. Rudnick, O. Abimbola, H. Kimm, K. Caylor, S. Good, M. Khanna, J. Gates, and Y. Cai. 2021. Challenges and opportunities in precision irrigation decision-support systems for center pivots. Environmental Research Letters 16: 053003, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abe436. | Online |
| Franz, T., Ammar, W., Zhang, J., Vreugdenhil, M., Heng, L., Dercon, G., Strauss, P., Brocca, L., Wagner, W. (2020). Practical Data Products From Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing for Hydrological Applications. Frontiers in Water. 2(9). https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2020.00009 | Online |
| Franz, T., Pokal, S., Gibson, J., Zhou, Y., Gholizadeh, H., Tenorio, F. A., Rudnick, D., Heeren, D., McCabe, M. F., Ziliani, M. G., Jin, Z., Guan, K. Y., Pan, M., Gates, J., Wardlow, B. (2020). The role of topography, soil, and remotely sensed vegetation condition towards predicting subfield-scale crop yield. Field Crops Research. 252:107788 DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107788 | Online |
| Lally, D., Franz, T., Forbes, C. (2020). Undergraduate education about water and climate change: Students’ use of a water balance model. Journal of Sustainability Education. | Online |
| Li, Y., Guan, K., Peng, B., Franz, T., Wardlow, B., Pan, M. (2020). Quantifying irrigation cooling benefits to maize yield in the US Midwest. Global Change Biology, 26(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15002 | Online |
| Lo, T. H., Rudnick, D., DeJonge, K. C., Bai, G., Nakabuye, H. N., Ge, Y., Franz, T., Qiao, X., Heeren, D. (2020). Differences in soil water changes and canopy temperature under varying water × nitrogen sufficiency for maize. Irrigation Science 38:519–534. doi:10.1007/s00271-020-00683-2 | Online |
| Miao, G., Guan, K. Y., Suyker, A., Yang, X., Arkebauer, T., Walter-Shea, E., Hmimina, G. Y., Gamon, J., Franz, T., Frankenberg, C., Berry, J. A., Wu, G. (2020). Varying contributions of drivers to the relationship between canopy photosynthesis and far-red sun-induced fluorescence for two maize sites at different temporal scales. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. 125(2) https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005051 | Online |
| Scheiffele, L.M., Baroni, G., Franz, T.E., Jakobi, J., Oswald, S.E. 2020. A Profile Shape Correction to Reduce the Vertical Sensitivity of Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing of Soil Moisture. Vadose Zone Journal. pp.1-25. | Online |
| Szilagyi, J., Franz, T. (2020). Anthropogenic hydrometeorological changes at a regional scale: observed irrigation-precipitation feedback (1979-2015) in Nebraska, USA. Sustainable Water Resources management, 6(1), 1-10. | Online |
| Vather, T., Everson, C.S., Franz, T. 2020. The Applicability of the Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor to Simultaneously Monitor Soil Water Content and Biomass in an Acacia Mearnsii Forest. Hydrology. 7,48. | Online |
| Zhou, W., Guan, K., Peng, B., Shi, J., Jiang, C., Wardlow, B., Pan, M., Kimball, J., Franz, T., Gentine, P. (2020). Connections between the hydrological cycle and crop yield in the rainfed US Corn Belt. Journal of Hydrology 590:125398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125398 | Online |
| Vather, T., Everson, C., Franz, T. 2019. Calibration and Validation of the Cosmic Ray Neutron Rover for Soil Water Mapping within Two South African Land Classes. Hydrology 6(3), 65. | Online |
| Babaeian, E., Sadeghi, M., Franz, T., Jones, S., Tueller, M. (2018). Mapping soil moisture with the OPtical TRApezoid Model (OPTRAM) based on long-term MODIS observations. Remote Sensing of the Environment, 211. | |
| Forbes, C., Brozovic, N., Franz, T., Lally, D., Petitt, D. (2018). Water in Society: An interdisciplinary course to support undergraduate students’ water literacy. Journal of College Science Teaching(1), 36-42. | |
| Franz, T. (2018). Soil Moisture Mapping with a Portable Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor. International Atomic Energency Agency (IAEA)TECDOC SERIES No. 1809. Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing: Use, Calibration and Validation for Soil Moisture Estimation (vol. 1845, pp | |
| Gamon, J., Hmimina, G. Y., Miao, G., Guan, K., Springer, K., Wang, R., Yu, R., Gholizadeh, H., Moore, R., Walter-Shea, E., Arkebauer, T., Suyker, A., Franz, T., Wardlow, B., Wedin, D. A. (2018). Imaging spectrometry and fluorometry in support of FLEX: wha | |
| Gibson, J., Franz, T. (2018). Spatial prediction of near surface soil water retention functions using hydrogeophysics and empirical orthogonal functions. Journal of Hydrology, 561. | |
| Smyth, A., Loecke, T., Franz, T., Burgin, A. (2018). Using high-frequency soil oxygen sensors to predict greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 128: 182-192. | Online |
| Vather, T., Everson, C., Mengistu, M., Franz, T. (2018). Cosmic ray neutrons provide an innovative technique for estimating intermediate scale soil moisture. South African Journal of Science, 114sou. | |
| Wieder, Shoop, Barna, Franz, T., Finkenbiner (2018). Comparison of Soil Strength Measurements of Agricultural Soils in Nebraska. Terramechanics | |
| Adams, H., Zeppel, M., Anderegg, W., Hartmann, H., Landhausser, S., Huxman, T. E., Hudson, P., Franz, T., Allen, C. D., Anderegg, L., Barron-Gafford, G., Beerling, D., Breshears, D. D., Brodribb, T., Bugmann, H., Cobb, R., Collins, A., Dickman, L., Duan, | Online |
| Andreasen, Jensen, Desilets, Franz, T., Zreda, Bogena, Looms (2017). Status and perspectives of the cosmic-ray neutron method for soil moisture estimation and other environmental science applications. Vadose Zone Journal. | |
| Barker, J., Franz, T., Heeren, D., Neale, C., Luck, J. (2017). Soil Water Content Monitoring for Irrigation Management: A Geostatistical Analysis. Agricultural water management. 188, 36-49. | Online |
| Foolad, F., Franz, T. E., Wang, T., Gibson, J., Kilic, A., Allen, R. A., Suyker, A. (2017). Feasibility analysis of using inverse modeling for estimating field-scale evapotranspiration in maize and soybean fields from soil water content monitoring network | Online |
| Franz, T. (2017). Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing: Use, Calibration and Validation for Soil Moisture Estimation. International Atomic Energency Agency (IAEA)TECDOC SERIES No. 1809. Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing: Use, Calibration and Validation for Soil Moisture | Online |
| Gibson, J., Franz, T., Wang, T., Gates, J., Grassini, P., Yang, H., Eisenhauer, D. E. (2017). A case study of field-scale maize irrigation patterns in Western Nebraska: Implications to water managers and recommendations for hyper-resolution land surface m | Online |
| Gibson, K., Yang, H., Franz, T., Hanford, K., Eisenhauer, D. E., Gates, J., Nasta, P., Farmaha, B., Grassini, P. (2017). Assessing explanatory factors for variation in irrigation amounts across farmer fields. Agricultural Water Management, 197, 34-40. | Online |
| Lawston, Santanello, Franz, T., Rodell (2017). Assessment of Irrigation Physics in a Land Surface Modeling Framework Using Non-traditional and Human-Practice Datasets. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS), 21(6), 2953-2966. | Online |
| McCabe, Rodell, Rodell, Alsdorf, Miralles, Uijlenhoet, Wagner, Lucieer, Houborg, Verhoest, Franz, T., Shi, Gao, Wood (2017). The Future of Earth Observation in Hydrology. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS), 21(7), 3879-3914. | Online |
| Peters-Lidard, C., Clark, Samaniego, Verhoest, van Emmerik, Uijlenhoet, Achieng, Franz, T., Woods (2017). Scaling, Similarity, and the Fourth Paradigm for Hydrology. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) Discussions, 21(7), 3701-3713. | Online |
| Shulski, M., Wang, T., Franz, T., You, J., Shulski, M., Ray, C. (2017). Evaluating Controls of Soil Properties and Climatic Conditions on the Use of an Exponential Filter for Converting Near Surface to Root Zone Soil Moisture Contents. Journal of Hydrolog | Online |
| Wang, Liu, Franz, T., Li, Lang (2017). Spatial patterns of soil moisture from two regional monitoring networks in the United States. Journal of Hydrology, 552, 578-585. | Online |
| Wang, T., Franz, T., Li, M., Shulski, M., Ray, C. (2017). Evaluating climate and soil effects on regional soil moisture spatial variability using EOFs. Water Resources Research, 53(5), 4022-4035. | Online |
| Avery, W., Finkenbiner, C., Franz, T., Wang, T., Nguy-Robertson, A., Munoz-Arriola, F., Suyker, A., Arkebauer, T. 2016. Incorporation of globally available datasets into the cosmic-ray neutron probe method for estimating field scale soil water content. Hy | Online |
| Franz, T., Wahbi, A., Vreugdenhil, M., Weltin, G., Heng, L., Oismueller, M., Straub, P., Dercon, G., Desilets, D. 2016. Using Cosmic-ray Neutron Probes to Monitor Landscape Scale Soil Water Content in Mixed Land Use Agricultural Systems. Applied and Envir | Online |
| King, E. G., Franz, T. 2016. Combining ecohydrologic and transition probability-based modeling to simulate hillslope-scale vegetation dynamics in a semi-arid rangeland. Ecological Modeling. 329: 41-63. | Online |
| Schreiner-McGraw, A. P., Vivoni, E. R., Mascaro, G., Franz, T. 2016. Closing the Water Balance with Cosmic-ray Soil Moisture Measurements and Assessing Their Spatial Variability within Two Semiarid Watersheds. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 329-345. | Online |
| Wang, T., Franz, T., Yue, W., Szilagyi, J., Zlotnik, V., You, J., Shulski, M., Young, A. 2016. Feasibility analysis of using inverse modeling for estimating natural groundwater recharge from a large-scale soil moisture monitoring network. Journal of Hydro | Online |
| Wonkka, C., Twidwell Jr, D., Franz, T., Taylor Jr., C. A., Rogers, W. E. 2016. Persistence of a Severe Drought Increases Desertification but not Woody Dieback in Semiarid Savanna. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 69: 491-498. | Online |
| Woodbury, B., Eigenberg, R., Franz, T. (2016). Development of non-collinear arrays for use near wastewater holding ponds. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. 21: 231-236. | |
| Yue, W., Wang, T., Franz, T., Chen, X.-H. 2016. Spatiotemporal patterns of watertable fluctuations and evapotranspiration induced by riparian vegetation in a semi-arid area. Water Resource Research. 52: 1948-1960. | Online |
| Franz, T. E., T. Wang, W. Avery, C. Finkenbiner, and L. Brocca (2015), Combined analysis of soil moisture measurements from roving and fixed cosmic ray neutron probes for multiscale real-time monitoring, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 3389-3396. | Online |
| Wang, T., Franz, T. (2015). Field Observations of Regional Controls of Soil Hydraulic Properties on Soil Moisture Spatial Variability in Different Climate Zones | Online |
| Wang, T., Franz, T., Zlotnik, V. (2015). Controls of soil hydraulic characteristics on modeling groundwater recharge under different climatic conditions. Journal of Hydrology. 521: 470-481. | Online |
| Wang, T., Franz, T., Zlotnik, V., You, J., Shulski, M. (2015). Investigating soil controls on soil moisture spatial variability: numerical simulations and field observations. Journal of Hydrology. 524: 576-586. | Online |
| Wang, T., Wedin, D. A., Franz, T., Hiller, J. (2015). Effect of vegetation on the temporal stability of soil moisture in grass-stabilized semi-arid sand dunes. Journal of Hydrology. 521: 447-459. | Online |
| Woodbury, B., Eigenberg, R., Franz, T. (2015). Resistivity Arrays as an Early-Warning System for Monitoring Runoff Holding Ponds. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. 20(4). | |
| Almeida, A., Dutta, R., Franz, T., Terhorst, A., Smethurst, P., Baillie, C., Worledge, D. (2014). Combining Cosmic-Ray Neutron and Capacitance Sensors and Fuzzy Inference to Spatially Quantify Soil Moisture Distribution. IEEE Sensors Journal. 14: 3465-347 | Online |
| Ling, L. V., Franz, T., Robinson, D., Jones, S. (2014). Measured and Modeled Soil Moisture Compared with Cosmic-Ray Neutron Probe Estimates in a Mixed Forest. Vadose Zone Journal. | |
| McJannet, D., Franz, T., Hawdon, A., Boadle, D., Baker, B., Almeida, A., Silberstein, R., Lambert, T., Desilets, D. (2014). Field testing of the universal calibration function for determination of soil moisture with cosmic-ray neutrons. Water Resources Re | Online |
| Rafael, R., Hoar, T., Arellano, A., Anderson, J. L., Shuttleworth, W., Zeng, X., Franz, T. (2014). Translating aboveground cosmic-ray neutron intensity to high-frequency soil moisture profiles at sub-kilometer scale. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 1 | Online |
| Stillman, S., Ninneman, J., Zeng, X., Franz, T., Scott, R., Shuttleworth, W., Cummins, K. (2014). Summer Soil Moisture Spatiotemporal Variability in Southeastern Arizona. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 15: 1473-1484. | Online |
| Franz, T. E., M. Zreda, R. Rosolem, and P. A. Ferre (2013), A universal calibration function for determination of soil moisture with cosmic-ray neutrons, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17, 453-460 | Online |
| Franz, T. E., M. Zreda, R. Rosolem, B. Hornbuckle, S. Irvin, H. Adams, T. Kolb, C. Zweck, and W. J. Shuttleworth (2013), Ecosystem scale measurements of biomass water using cosmic-ray neutrons, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 3929-3933. | Online |
| Franz, T., Zreda, M., Ferre, P. T., Rosolem, R. (2013). An assessment of the effect of horizontal soil moisture heterogeneity on the area-average measurement of cosmic-ray neutrons. Water Resources Research, 49: 6450-6458. | Online |
| Rosolem, R., W. J. Shuttleworth, M. Zreda, T. E. Franz, X. Zeng, and S. A. Kurc (2013), The Effect of Atmospheric Water Vapor on the Cosmic-ray Soil Moisture Signal, J. Hydrometeorol. | Online |
| Shuttleworth, W. J., R. Rosolem, M. Zreda, and T. E. Franz (2013), The COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Interaction Code (COSMIC) for use in data assimilation, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17, 3205-3217. | Online |
| Franz, T. E., K. K. Caylor, E. G. King, J. M. Nordbotten, M. A. Celia, and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe (2012), An ecohydrological approach to predicting hillslope-scale vegetation patterns in dryland ecosystems, Water Resources Research, 48. | Online |
| Franz, T. E., M. Zreda, P. A. Ferre, R. Rosolem, C. Zweck, S. Stillman, X. Zeng, and W. J. Shuttleworth (2012), Measurement depth of the cosmic-ray soil moisture probe affected by hydrogen from various sources, Water Resources Research, 48 | Online |
| Franz, T. E., M. Zreda, R. Rosolem, and P. A. Ferre (2012), Field validation of cosmic-ray soil moisture sensor using a distributed sensor network, Vadose Zone Journal, 11(4). | Online |
| King, E. G., T. E. Franz, and K. K. Caylor (2012), Ecohydrological interactions in a degraded two-phase mosaic dryland: implications for regime shifts, resilience, and restoration. Ecohydrology, 5(6), 733-745. | Online |
| Miller, G. R., J. M. Cable, A. K. McDonald, B. Bond, T. E. Franz, L. X. Wang, S. Gou, A. P. Tyler, C. B. Zou, and R. L. Scott (2012), Understanding ecohydrological connectivity in savannas: a system dynamics modelling approach, Ecohydrology, 5(2), 200-220 | Online |
| Wang, L. X., C. Zou, F. O'Donnell, S. Good, T. E. Franz, G. R. Miller, K. K. Caylor, J. M. Cable, and B. Bond (2012), Characterizing ecohydrological and biogeochemical connectivity across multiple scales: a new conceptual framework, Ecohydrology, 5(2), 22 | Online |
| Zreda, M., W. J. Shuttleworth, X. Xeng, C. Zweck, D. Desilets, T. E. Franz, and R. Rosolem (2012), COSMOS: The COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16, 4079-4099. | Online |
| Franz, T. E., E. G. King, K. K. Caylor, and D. A. Robinson (2011), Coupling vegetation organization patterns to soil resource heterogeneity in a central Kenyan dryland using geophysical imagery, Water Resources Research, 47. | Online |
| Franz, T. E., J. Nolan, J. M. Nordbotten, K. K. Caylor, and L. D. Slater (2011), Quantifying Lateral Subsurface Transient Soil Moisture Dynamics Using Multi-Point Direct-Current Resistivity in Homogeneous Sand, Vadose Zone Journal, 10(1), 286-298. | |
| Franz, T. E., K. K. Caylor, J. M. Nordbotten, R. I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, and M. A. Celia (2010), An ecohydrological approach to predicting regional woody species distribution patterns in dryland ecosystems, Adv. Water Resour., 33(2), 215-230. | Online |