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Nathaniel Chaney

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
CIEMAS 2463, Durham, NC 27708

Featured Works


Harnessing big data to rethink land heterogeneity in Earth system models

Journal article Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · June 14, 2018 Featured Publication The continual growth in the availability, detail, and wealth of environmental data provides an invaluable asset to improve the characterization of land heterogeneity in Earth system models-a persistent challenge in macroscale models. However, due to the na ... Full text Cite

HydroBlocks: a field-scale resolving land surface model for application over continental extents

Journal article Hydrological Processes · September 30, 2016 Featured Publication Land surface spatial heterogeneity plays a significant role in the water, energy, and carbon cycles over a range of temporal and spatial scales. Until now, the representation of this spatial heterogeneity in land surface models has been limited to over sim ... Full text Cite

POLARIS: A 30-meter probabilistic soil series map of the contiguous United States

Journal article Geoderma · July 15, 2016 Featured Publication A new complete map of soil series probabilities has been produced for the contiguous United States at a 30 m spatial resolution. This innovative database, named POLARIS, is constructed using available high-resolution geospatial environmental data and a sta ... Full text Cite

Flood and drought hydrologic monitoring: The role of model parameter uncertainty

Journal article Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · July 24, 2015 Featured Publication Land surface modeling, in conjunction with numerical weather forecasting and satellite remote sensing, is playing an increasing role in global monitoring and prediction of extreme hydrologic events (i.e., floods and droughts). However, uncertainties in the ... Full text Cite