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Jason A. Otkin

University of Wisconsin–Madison · US
Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Atmospheric Science
Research interest
Research interests include Climate variability and models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.
h-index
47
citations
9,752
works
208
NIH funding
primary concept
Environmental science
email

Recent publications

Prioritization of Research on Drought Assessment in a Changing Climate
Earth s Future 2025cited by 9position: middledoi
Prioritization of Research on Drought Assessment in a Changing Climate
Earth's Future 2025cited by 9position: contributordoi
Near Real-Time Estimation of Daytime and Nighttime Evapotranspiration Using GOES-R Observations and Machine Learning Models
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Unraveling phenological and stomatal responses to flash drought and implications for water and carbon budgets
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 2024cited by 23position: contributordoi
Combined Drought Index Using High-Resolution Hydrological Models and Explainable Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Türkiye
Remote Sensing 2024cited by 17position: contributordoi
Multivariate Evaluation of Flash Drought Across the United States
Water Resources Research 2024cited by 10position: contributordoi
A global transition to flash droughts under climate change.
2023cited by 139position: contributordoi
Global projections of flash drought show increased risk in a warming climate
Communications Earth & Environment 2023cited by 119position: contributordoi
Meteorological modeling sensitivity to parameterizations and satellite-derived surface datasets during the 2017 Lake Michigan Ozone Study
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2023cited by 2position: contributordoi
High-resolution air quality simulations of ozone exceedance events during the Lake Michigan Ozone Study
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2023cited by 1position: contributordoi
Meteorological modeling sensitivity to parameterizations and satellite-derived surface datasets during the 2017 Lake Michigan Ozone Study
2023cited by 1position: contributordoi
High resolution CMAQ simulations of ozone exceedance events during the Lake Michigan Ozone Study
2023cited by 1position: contributordoi
Unraveling phenological responses to extreme drought and implications for water and carbon budgets
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Global Projections of Flash Drought in a Warming Climate
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
The Diurnal Dynamics of Gross Primary Productivity Using Observations From the Advanced Baseline Imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite‐R Series at an Oak Savanna Ecosystem
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 2022cited by 35position: contributordoi
Flash Drought Onset and Development Mechanisms Captured With Soil Moisture and Vegetation Data Assimilation
Water Resources Research 2022cited by 34position: contributordoi
Climate warming outweighs vegetation greening in intensifying flash droughts over China
Environmental Research Letters 2022cited by 34position: contributordoi
Online Nonlinear Bias Correction in Ensemble Kalman Filter to Assimilate GOES‐R All‐Sky Radiances for the Analysis and Prediction of Rapidly Developing Supercells
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 2022cited by 16position: contributordoi
Wet season rainfall onset and flash drought: The case of the northern Australian wet season
International Journal of Climatology 2022cited by 7position: contributordoi
Examining the Role of the Land Surface on Convection Using High‐Resolution Model Forecasts Over the Southeastern United States
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2022cited by 6position: contributordoi
Evaluating the Impact of Planetary Boundary Layer, Land Surface Model, and Microphysics Parameterization Schemes on Simulated GOES-16 Water Vapor Brightness Temperatures
Atmosphere 2022cited by 4position: contributordoi
A Polarimetric Radar Operator and Application for Convective Storm Simulation
Atmosphere 2022cited by 3position: contributordoi
Toward real-time GPP estimation using geostationary satellites
2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
Global distribution, trends, and drivers of flash drought occurrence
Nature Communications 2021cited by 401position: middledoi
Flash drought onset over the contiguous United States: sensitivity of inventories and trends to quantitative definitions
Hydrology and earth system sciences 2021cited by 128position: middledoi
Flash drought onset over the contiguous United States: sensitivity of inventories and trends to quantitative definitions
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 2021cited by 85position: contributordoi
Global distribution, trends, and drivers of flash drought occurrence.
2021cited by 64position: contributordoi
Development of a Flash Drought Intensity Index
Atmosphere 2021cited by 49position: contributordoi
Reviews and syntheses: Ongoing and emerging opportunities to improve environmental science using observations from the Advanced Baseline Imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites
Biogeosciences 2021cited by 34position: contributordoi
Development of a flash drought intensity index
2021cited by 11position: contributordoi

Grants

Collaborative Research: Uncovering the Role of Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks on Flash Drought Intensification, Severity, and Expansion
NSF2303458$262,8982023–2027PIRePORTER
PREEVENTS Track 2: Collaborative Research: Flash droughts: process, prediction, and the central role of vegetation in their evolution.
NSF1854931$466,5712019–2024PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Increasing Understanding of 30-60 Sec Resolution Satellite Observations with Respect to Convective Initiation and Improving Microphysical Parameterizations
NSF1746475$278,7962018–2023PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 37 papers (2019–2025)Jeffrey Basara · American Geophysical Union7 papers (2021–2023)Paul C. Stoy · Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis7 papers (2021–2025)Jordan I. Christian · American Geophysical Union7 papers (2020–2023)Anam Munir Khan · Aga Khan University Hospital5 papers (2021–2022)Martha B. Anderson · MARK Resources (United States)5 papers (2020–2021)Martha C. Anderson · Agricultural Research Service4 papers (2016–2021)Lauren E. L. Lowman · Wake Forest University4 papers (2023–2024) · 3 papers (2017–2021)Christopher Hain · University of Idaho3 papers (2016–2017)Xing Yuan · Hezhou University3 papers (2020–2023)Vimal Mishra · SpringerNature3 papers (2021–2023)Tsegaye Tadesse · International Space University3 papers (2020–2021) · 3 papers (2020–2021) · 2 papers (2016–2021)Jonghun Kam · Princeton University2 papers (2020–2020)Xiangming Xiao · University of Oklahoma2 papers (2017–2021)Min Chen · Shaanxi University of Science and Technology2 papers (2021–2022)Jason C. Furtado · Atmospheric and Environmental Research2 papers (2023–2023) · 2 papers (2022–2023)