Thomas Ott

Assistant Research Scientist Hydrology

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

Ott, T., Majumdar, S., Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., ReVelle, P., Morton, C. G., Sueki, S., Beamer, J. P., & Jasoni, R. L. (2024). Toward field-scale groundwater pumping and improved groundwater management using remote sensing and climate data. Agricultural Water Management, 302, Article No. 109000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109000

Zhao, B., Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Zhao, G., Ott, T., Zhu, J., Weinberg, A., Holman, K. D., Zhang, S., Anderson, R., Strickler, M., Cotter, J., Fernando, N., Nowak, K., & Gao, H. (2024). Developing a general Daily Lake Evaporation Model and demonstrating its application in the state of Texas. Water Resources Research, 60(3), Article No. e2023WR036181. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036181

2023

Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., Pearson, C., Beamer, J., Dunkerly, C. W., Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., & Hoskinson, M. (2023). Evapotranspiration, Net Irrigation Water Requirements, and Reservoir Evaporation Estimates for Oregon

Pearson, C., Ott, T., Daudert, B., Sueki, S., Zhao, B., & Gao, H. (2023). Monitoring daily reservoir evaporation losses for the State of Texas. Report submitted to the Texas Water Development Board and United States Army Crop of Engineers

2022

Albano, C. M., Abatzoglou, J. T., McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Dettinger, M. D., & Ott, T. (2022). A multi-dataset assessment of climatic drivers and uncertainties of recent trends in evaporative demand across the continental US. Journal of Hydrometeorology. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-21-0163.1

McEvoy, D. J., Roj, S., Dunkerly, C. W., McGraw, D. S., Huntington, J. L., Hobbins, M., & Ott, T. (2022). Validation and Bias Correction of Forecast Reference Evapotranspiration for Agricultural Applications in Nevada, USA. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(11). American Society for Civil Engineers, August 29, 2022-August 29, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001595

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Bromley, M., Ott, T., & Allen, R. (2022). Upper Colorado River Basin Demand Management Investigation: Phase I Interim Report

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., Bromley, M., Ott, T., & Allen, R. (2021). UCRB Demand Management Investigation: Phase 1 Interim Report, Draft report submitted to United States Bureau of Reclamation

Conference Proceedings

2024

Majumdar, S., Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., Smith, R. G., Pearson, C., Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., ReVelle, P., Hasan, M. F., Beamer, J. P., & Conway, B. D. (2024). Tracking groundwater pumping, consumptive use, and irrigation efficiencies in the Western U.S. through OpenET. AGU WaterSciCon24: St. Paul, MN, Oral presentation.

Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., Bromley, M., Morton, C. G., Sueki, S., & Majumdar, S. (2024). Estimating field-scale groundwater pumping using Landsat evapotranspiration and climate data: Insights into Diamond Valley, Nevada. NWRA Annual Conference: Las Vegas, NV

Majumdar, S., Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Sueki, S., Beamer, J. P., & Jasoni, R. L. (2024). Assessing statistical and machine learning approaches to estimate field-scale groundwater pumping using Landsat-based evapotranspiration, irrigation, and climate data. AGU Chapman Conference: Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle: Honolulu, HI

Rasouli, K., McEvoy, D. J., Albano, C. M., Ammatelli, J., Ott, T., Heggli, A. E., & Hausner, M. B. (2024). Assessing Snow-Soil Relationships and Their Impact on Soil Strength Across Diverse Snow Climates. American Geophysical Union: Washington DC, December 9, 2024-December 13, 2024

Pearson, C., Holman, K., Ott, T., Zhao, B., Yadav, A., de Andrade, B. C., Allen, G. H., Gao, H., & Huntington, J. L. (2024). Leveraging In-situ, Modeling, and Remote Sensing Data for Improved Estimation of Open Water Evaporation. AGU, Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle: Honolulu, HI, February 13, 2024-February 16, 2024

Pearson, C., Ott, T., Daudert, B., Dunkerly, C. W., Huntington, J. L., Holman, K., Gao, H., Zhao, B., Yadav, A., Allen, G., & Abatzoglou, J. T. (2024). Developing reservoir evaporation forecasts for improved operations and management. TWDB and LCRA Workshop on Surface Water Evaporation Monitoring and Estimation: New Developments and Implications for Reservoir Operations and Water Planning: Austin, TX, Oral presentation.

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

Pearson, C., Holman, K., Ott, T., Zhao, B., Yadav, A., de Andrade, B., Allen, G., Gao, H., & Huntington, J. L. (2024). Leveraging In-situ, Modeling, and Remote Sensing Data for Improved Estimation of Open Water Evaporation. AGU

Ansari, S., Huntington, J. L., Shaw, M., Satalino, K., Fain, J., Daudert, B., Hansen, J., Morton, C. G., Ott, T., & Hegewisch, K. (2024). Standardized Drought Indices on Drought. Gov, Produced with Climate Engine and Google Earth Engine, from Multiple Foundational Precipitation and Temperature Datasets. AMS

2023

Chambers, J. M., Landis, A., Walker, T. J., Ott, T., Morton, C. G., McEvoy, D. J., Brown, T. J., & Huntington, J. L. (2023). A Distributed Approach toward Developing Interactive and Scalable Maps for Climate Data-Driven Web Applications at the Western Regional Climate Center. AMS Annual Meeting: Denver, CO, January 8, 2023-January 12, 2023

Majumdar, S., Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., Smith, R., Fang, B., & Lakshmi, V. (2023). Toward Field Scale Groundwater Withdrawals in the Western U.S. using Remote Sensing and Climate Data. American Geophysical Union, AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2023-December 15, 2023. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35583.18085
https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.170688858.81127989/v1

Albano, C. M., Abatzoglou, J. T., McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Ott, T., & Dettinger, M. D. (2023). Trends of Increasing Evaporative Demand Across the Continental US Over the Past 40 Years. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA

O’Shea, K., Jensen, E., Huntington, J. L., Daudert, B., Hansen, J., Ott, T., & Hegewisch, K. (2023). Climate Engine API Provides an Accessible Solution to Connect Users with Climate and Remote Sensing Datasets for Visualization and Analyses. AGU Annual Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2023-December 15, 2023

Majumdar, S., Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., Smith, R., Fang, B., & Lakshmi, V. (2023). Toward field scale groundwater withdrawals in the Western U.S. using remote sensing and climate data. AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.170688858.81127989/v1

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

Zhao, B., Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Allen, G., Holman, K., Nowak, K., Ott, T., Zhao, G., Huang, C., Zhang, S., & Gao, H. (2022). Monitoring and Forecasting Reservoir Evaporation for the Western US. AGU Fall Meeting: Chicago, Illinois, December 12, 2022-December 16, 2022

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

Smith, S., Culpepper, J. A., McKinnon, T., Shrestha, P., Ott, T., Henson, J., & Hausner, M. B. (2020). Virtual field experiences with active learning to supplement hands-on activities. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Online, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020, ED-009-04

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