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Ana Barros

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

6

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314

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Scholarly Papers (6)

Estimating Probable Maximum Precipitation for the Continental United States

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 04 Nov 2025
Mochi Liao and Ana Barros
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 31 (1,371,100)

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Probable Maximum Precipitation, Multifractals, Return Period

Estimating Probable Maximum Precipitation for the Continental United States

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Nov 2025
Mochi Liao and Ana Barros
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 27 (1,430,393)

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Probable Maximum Precipitation, Multifractals, Return Period

Estimating Probable Maximum Precipitation for the Continental United States

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 14 Nov 2025
Mochi Liao and Ana Barros
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 25 (1,459,262)

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Probable Maximum Precipitation, Multifractals, Return Period

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Physically Informed Bayesian Retrieval of SWE and Snow Depth in Forested Areas from Airborne X And Ku-Band SAR Measurements

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 Nov 2025
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Snow Water Equivalent, Bayesian retrieval, X- and Ku-band SAR, Water Cloud Model, Canopy closure, Snow hydrology modeling, SnowEx Grand Mesa

Toward Optimal Rainfall - Advancing Hydrologic Rainfall Estimation by Improving Soil Moisture Initialization to Close the Water Budget within Observational Uncertainty in Headwater Basins

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 16 Apr 2025
Ana Barros and Mochi Liao
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 25 (1,445,011)

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Initial soil moisture uncertainty, orographic precipitation errors, flash floods, headwater basins

Toward Optimal Rainfall - Advancing Hydrologic Rainfall Estimation by Improving Soil Moisture Initialization to Close the Water Budget within Observational Uncertainty in Headwater Basins

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 16 Apr 2025
Ana Barros and Mochi Liao
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 19 (1,525,626)

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Initial soil moisture uncertainty, orographic precipitation errors, flash floods, headwater basins

Toward Optimal Rainfall - Advancing Hydrologic Rainfall Estimation by Improving Soil Moisture Initialization to Close the Water Budget within Observational Uncertainty in Headwater Basins

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 11 Apr 2025
Ana Barros and Mochi Liao
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 18 (1,525,626)

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Initial soil moisture uncertainty, orographic precipitation errors, flash floods, headwater basins

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Leveraging Multiscale Nir Reflectance to Improve Snow Grain Size Estimation

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 17 Oct 2024
Siddharth Singh and Ana Barros
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 43 (1,157,785)

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snowpack, subgrid-scale variability, Landsat, MODIS, VIIRS, surface reflectance, wet snow, canopy reflectance

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Toward Optimal Rainfall – Hydrologic Qpe Correction in Headwater Basins –– Closing the Water Budget within Observational Uncertainty Through Correcting Initial Soil Moisture Conditions

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 17 Oct 2024
Mochi Liao and Ana Barros
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 32 (1,318,317)

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Initial soil moisture uncertainty, orographic precipitation errors, flash floods, headwater basins

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Impact of Entrainment and Cloud Circulations in the Heterogeneity of the Vertical Microstructure of Clouds in the Development Phase

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Jul 2023
Steven Paul Chavez and Ana Barros
Duke University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 27 (1,372,601)

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accommodation coefficient, entrainment, aerosol, cloud droplet size distribution, bin microphysics.