John Volk

Dr. John Volk

Associate Research Scientist, Hydrology

E-Mail

John.Volk@www-dev.dri.edu

Division

Hydrologic Sciences

Publications

2024

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F. S., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J. B., Kilic, A., Ruhoff, A., Senay, G. B., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ott, T., Johnson, L., Comini de Andrade, B., Carrara, W., Doherty, C. T., Dunkerly, C. W., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Kang, Y., Knipper, K., Laipelt, L., Ortega-Salazar, S., Pearson, C., Parrish, G. E., Purdy, A., ReVelle, P., Wang, T., & Yang, Y. (2024). Assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications. Nature Water, 13 p. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00181-7

Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Volk, J. M., Dunkerly, C. W., Jensen, E., ReVelle, P., Kilic, A., Allen, R., & Huntington, J. L. (2024). Historical Evapotranspiration and Consumptive Use of Irrigated Areas of the Upper Colorado River Basin. Desert Research Institute: Las Vegas, NV, DRI Report No. 41304. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31069.63206

Knipper, K., Anderson, M., Bambach, N., Melton, F., Ellis, Z., Yang, Y., Volk, J. M., McElrone, A., Kustas, W., Roby, M., Carrara, W., Castro, S., Kilic, A., Fisher, J., Ruhoff, A., Senay, G., Morton, C. G., Saa, S., & Allen, R. (2024). A comparative analysis of OpenET for evaluating evapotranspiration in California almond orchards. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 355, 110146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110146

2023

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J., Kilic, A., Senay, G., Halverson, G., Knipper, K., Minor, B. A., Pearson, C., Wang, T., Yang, Y., Evett, S., French, A. N., Jasoni, R. L., & Kustas, W. (2023). Development of a benchmark Eddy flux evapotranspiration dataset for evaluation of satellite-driven evapotranspiration models over the CONUS. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 331, 109307. Elsevier

2022

Holman, K., Pearson, C., Jasoni, R. L., Huntington, J. L., & Volk, J. M. (2022). Evaporation from Lake Powell: In-situ Monitoring between 2018 and 2021. USBR, Technical Memorandum No. ENV-2023-007. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.19477.19684

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., Melton, F. S., & Allen, R. (2022). Appendix G: Upper Colorado River Basin OpenET Intercomparison Summary, Technical Report prepared for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Grimm, R., Hall, M., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Fisher, J., Kilic, A., Senay, G., Volk, J. M., Johnson, J., Ruhoff, A., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., & Daudert, B. (2022). OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management. Western U.S. Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Bambach, N., Kustas, W., Alfieri, J., Prueger, J., Hipps, L., McKee, L., Castro, S., Volk, J. M., Alsina, M., & McElrone, A. (2022). Evapotranspiration uncertainty at micrometeorological scales: The impact of the eddy covariance energy imbalance and correction methods. Irrigation Science, 40(4-5), 445-461. Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg

Doherty, C., Johnson, L., Volk, J. M., Mauter, M., Bambach, N., McElrone, A., Alfieri, J., Hipps, L., Prueger, J., & Castro, S. (2022). Effects of meteorological and land surface modeling uncertainty on errors in winegrape ET calculated with SIMS. Irrigation Science, 40(4-5), 515-530. Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg

Costa Jr, O. & Volk, J. M. (2022). The influence of land-use and seasons on SOM distribution in headwaters of a central Ohio watershed. Authorea Preprints. Authorea

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., Melton, F., & Allen, R. (2022). Appendix G: Upper Colorado River Basin OpenET Intercomparison Summary

2021

Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Hall, M., Rollison, D., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J., Kilic, A., Senay, G., Volk, J. M., Hain, C., Johnson, L., Ruhoff, A., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Kang, Y., Ketchum, D., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Ozdogan, M., ReVelle, P., Schull, M., Wang, C., Yang, Y., & Anderson, R. (2021). OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12956

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Volk, J. M., & Dunkerly, C. W. (2021). Agricultural Evapotranspiration and Net Irrigation Water Requirements for the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2020 ET Demands Model Summary. Report summitted to United States Bureau of Reclamation.

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., Melton, F., & Allen, R. (2021). Appendix G: Upper Colorado River Basin OpenET Intercomparison Summary. . Report submitted to United States Bureau of Reclamation

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Allen, R., Melton, F., Anderson, M., & Kilic, A. (2021). flux-data-qaqc: A Python Package for Energy Balance Closure and Post-Processing of Eddy Flux Data. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(66), 3418

2020

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Volk, J. M., & Dunkerly, C. W. (2020). Agricultural Evapotranspiration and Net Irrigation Water Requirements for the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2019 ET Demands Model Summary

Pearson, C., Volk, J. M., Lyles, B. F., Bromley, M., & Huntington, J. L. (2020). Evaporation Monitoring at Lahontan Reservoir, Nevada: 2014-2020 Data Collection Summary

2019

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., & Dunkerly, C. W. (2019). Agricultural Evapotranspiration and Net Irrigation Water Requirements for the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2018 Model Result Summary

Volk, J. M. & Turner, M. (2019). PRMS-Python: A Python framework for programmatic PRMS modeling and access to its data structures. Environmental Modelling & Software, 114, 152-165. Elsevier

Fan, Y., Clark, M., Lawrence, D., Swenson, S., Band, L., Brantley, S., Brooks, P., Dietrich, W., Flores, A., Grant, G., Kirchner, J. W., Mackay, D., McDonnell, J. J., Milly, P. C., Sullivan, P., Tague, C., Ajami, H., Chaney, N., Hartmann, A., Hazenberg, P., McNamara, J., Pelletier, J., Perket, J., RouholahnejadâFreund, E., Wagener, T., Zeng, X., Beighley, E., Buzan, J., Huang, M., Livneh, B., Mohanty, B., Nijssen, B., Safeeq, M., Shen, C., van Verseveld, W., Volk, J. M., & Yamazaki, D. (2019). Hillslope hydrology in global change research and earth system modeling. Water Resources Research, 55(2), 1737-1772. Wiley Online Library

2014

Volk, J. M. (2014). Potential effects of a warming climate on water resources within the Lehman and Baker Creek drainages, Great Basin National Park, Nevada. University of Nevada, Reno

2010

Volk, J. M. (2010). Spatial and Temporal Variations of Water Quality in a Recently Urbanized Watershed in Central Ohio

Volk, J. M. & Costa, O. (2010). The influence of land-use and seasons on SOM distribution in headwaters of a central Ohio watershed. Journal of Natural and Environmental Sciences, 1(2), 19-27. Academy Publications Inc.

Conference Proceedings

2024

Melton, F., Grimm, R., Volk, J. M., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Hall, M., Harding, J., Herring, J., Huntington, J. L., Johnson, L., Kilic, A., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., O’Connor, R., Amidi-Abraham, G., Parrish, G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Purdy, A., Ruhoff, A., ReVelle, P., Senay, G., Solymar, R., Yang, Y., & Biedebach, M. (2024). OpenET: Applications of Evapotranspiration Data for Water Resources Management in the Western United States, 2023, H13D-07
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AGUFM.H13D..07M

2023

Volk, J. M. (2023). Lessons Learned from Harnessing Eddy Covariance Networks to Evaluate OpenET Remote Sensing Models. FLUXNET-ECN Seminar, October 23, 2023

2022

Bromley, M., Melton, F., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Huntington, J. L., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Erickson, T., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Hall, M., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., Kilic, A., Morton, C. G., Malloy, M., McCullum, A., Minor, B. A., Patel, M., O’Connor, R., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., ReVelle, P., Ruhoff, A., Senay, G., Volk, J. M., & Yang, Y. (2022). OpenET: Cloud-based Evapotranspiration Data for Water Management . AGU – Frontiers in Hydrology Meeting: San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 20, 2022-June 24, 2022
https://agu.confex.com/agu/hydrology22/meetingapp.cgi

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Hain, C., & Halverson, G. (2022). OpenET Satellite-based ET Intercomparisons with Ground-based Measurements: Phase II Results . Authorea

Tajfar, E., Volk, J. M., Reba, M., Fong, B., Novick, K., White, P., Bhattacharjee, J., Anapalli, S., & Runkle, B. (2022). Bias-corrected Crop Coefficients for Different Land Cover Types in the US Mid-South derived from Eddy Covariance Measurements and the gridMET Dataset, H55A-02. AGU Fall Meeting

2021

Reitz, M., Huntington, J. L., Volk, J. M., Ott, T., Melton, F., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., & Carrara, W. (2021). A machine learning approach to weighting the remotely sensed ET ensemble members of OpenET. AGU Fall Meeting: New Orleans, LA

2020

Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Hall, M., Rollison, D., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Harding, J., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., Kilic, A., Mallory, M., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Revelle, P., Ruhoff, A., Schull, M., Senay, G. B., Volk, J. M., Wang, T., & Yang, Y. (2020). OpenET: Filling a Critical Gap in Water Data for the Western US. AGU: Virtual, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020

Rollison, D., Grimm, R., Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Herring, J., Hall, M., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., Kilic, A., Malloy, M., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Revelle, P., Ruhoff, A., Schull, M. A., Senay, G. B., Volk, J. M., Wang, T., & Yang, Y. (2020). OpenET: Enabling Science-Based Water Management through Open Data Services and User-Driven Design. AGU: Virtual, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020

2017

Wu, R., Painumkal, J., Volk, J. M., Liu, S., Louis, S., Tyler, S., Dascalu, S., & Harris, F. C. (2017). Parameter estimation of nonlinear nitrate prediction model using genetic algorithm, 1893-1899. IEEE

2016

Volk, J. M., Turner, M., Huntington, J. L., Gardner, M. A., Tyler, S., & Sheneman, L. (2016). Parameter Optimization of a Hydrologic Model in a Snow-Dominated Basin Using a Modular Python Framework. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016

Wu, R., Chen, C., Ahmad, S., Volk, J. M., Luca, C., Harris, F. C., & Dascalu, S. (2016). A real-time web-based wildfire simulation system, 4964-4969. IEEE

Volk, J. M., Turner, M., Huntington, J. L., Gardner, M. A., Tyler, S., & Sheneman, L. (2016). Parameter optimization of a hydrologic model in a snow-dominated basin using a modular Python framework, H41B-1325. AGU Fall Meeting

2015

Volk, J. M., Clark, M., Swenson, S., Lawrence, D., & Tyler, S. (2015). Improving subsurface hydrology in Earth System Models, GC23G-1202. AGU Fall Meeting

Gaffney, R., Tyler, S., Harpold, A., & Volk, J. M. (2015). Informing Hydrological Drought Response in Headwater Catchments Using Water Storage Estimated From GRACE: Storage-Flow Dynamics, H41F-1391. AGU Fall Meeting

2013

Volk, J. M., Prudick, D., Rajagopal, S., Huntington, J. L., & Niswonger, R. (2013). Climate Change Impacts on the Lehman-Baker Creek Drainage in the Great Basin National Park. AGU, December 10, 2013

2009

Volk, J. M. (2009). SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN SEDIMENT ORGANIC MATTER (SOM) FROM A STREAM DRAINING MIXED-USE LANDSCAPES. Geological Society of America North-Central Section – 43rd Annual Meeting, April 2, 2009-April 3, 2009