JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Moore, N., Pijanowski, B., Lofgren, B., Alagarswamy, G. (2008). Landscape feedbacks,
Climate Change, and Food Production Risk in East Africa, Eos Trans. AGU,
89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC53B-0727.
Moore, N., Pijanowski, B., Lofgren, B., Alagarswamy, G., Andresen, J., Olson, J. (2008).
Modeling Future Land Use, Regional Climate, and Maize Yields in East Africa,
EOS Trans AGU, 88(52) Fall Meet. Supp., B43H-07, San Francisco, CA, 2007.
Alagarswamy, G., Moore, N., Lofgren, B., Pijanowski, B., Thornton, P., Olson, J. M., Andresen,
J., Yanda, P. Z., Qi, J., (2008). Food Production Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use
Change in East Africa, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC53B-0730.
Thornton, P.K., Jones, P.G., Alagarswamy, G., & Andresen, J. (2008). Spatial variation of crop
yield response to climate change in East Africa. Global Environmental Change. Available
at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.08.005
Thornton, P., Jones, P., Farrow, A., Alagarswamy, G., & Andresen, J. (2008, October). Crop
Yield Response to Climate Change in East Africa: Comparing High Lands and Lowlands.
Magazine of the International Human Dimensions Program (IHDP) on Global
Environmental Change. 2, pp. 23-26. Available at:
http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/file/IHDP+Updates/IHDP+Update+2008+2?menu=60
Alexandridis, K., Pijanowski, B. C., & Zhen, Lei. (2007). Assessing Multi-Agent Parcelization
Performance in the MABEL Simulation Model using Monte Carlo Replication
Experiments. Environment and Planning B, 34, pp.223-244.
Conway, D., Hanson, C. E., Doherty, R., & Persechinon, A. (2007). GCM simulations of the Indian
Ocean dipole influence on East African rainfall: Present and future. Geophysical Research
Letters, 34, L03705. doi:10.1029/2006GL027597
Olson, J., Alagarswamy, G., Andresen, J., Campbell, D., Davis, A., Ge, J., Huebner, M.,
Lofgren, B., Lusch, D., Moore, N., Pijanowski, B., Qi, J., Thornton, P., Torbick, N., &
Wang, J. (2007). Integrating Diverse Methods to Understand Climate-Land Interactions in
East Africa. GeoForum. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.03.011
Smucker, T., Campbell, D., Olson, J., & Wangui, E. (2007). Contemporary challenges of
participatory field research for land use change analyses: Examples from Kenya. Field
Methods. 19(4), 384-406. doi: 10.1177/1525822X07302137
Ge, J., Qi, J., Lofgren, B., Moore, N., Torbick, N., & Olson, J., (2006). Impacts of land use/cover
classification accuracy on regional climate simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research,
112, D05107, doi:10.1029/2006JD007404.
Torbick, N., Qi, J., Lusch, D., Olson, J., Moore, N., & Ge, J. (2006, October 10). Developing
land use/land cover and parameterization for climate and land modeling in East Africa.
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(19), 4227-4244.
Xue, L., & Yang, L. (2006). Additive coefficient modeling via polynomial spline. Statistica
Sinica 16(4), 1423-1446.
Xue, L. & Yang, L. (2006). Estimation of semiparametric additive coefficient model. Journal of
Statistical Planning and Inference, 136(8), 2506-2534.
Yang, L., Park, B. U., Xue, L., & Härdle, W. (2006). Estimation and testing for varying
coefficients in additive models with marginal integration. Journal of the American
Statistical Association, 101(475), 1212-1227.
Campbell, D., Lusch, D., Smucker, T., & Wangui, E. (2005, December). Multiple Methods in
the Analysis of Driving Forces of Land Use and Land Cover Change: A Case Study from
SE Kajiado District Kenya. Human Ecology, 33(6), 763-794. doi: 10.1007/s10745-0058210-y
Lei, Z., Pijanowski, B., & Alexandridis, K. (2005). Distributed Modeling Architecture of a Multi
Agent-based Behavioral Economic Landscape (MABEL) Model. Simulation and Modeling
International, 81(7), 503-515.
Zhen Lei, Pijanowski, B., & Olson, J. (2005). Distributed Modeling Architecture of a MultiAgent-Based Behavioral Economic Landscape (MABEL) Model. Simulation, 81(7), 503515.
PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS AND SYMPOSIA
Moore, N., Lofgren, B., Andresen, J., Olson, J., Ray, D., Pijanowski, B., Torbick, N. (2008).
Simulations of Climate Variability Resulting from Projected Land Cover Change in East
Africa. AAG Ann. Meeting, Chicago IL, 7-11 March 2006.
Hession, S. L., Shortridge, A. M., & Torbick, N. M. (2006). Categorical models for spatial data
uncertainty. In Mário Caetano and Marco Painho (Eds.), Proceedings of Accuracy 2006
(pp. 386-395). Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto Geográfico Português. (ISBN 972-8867-27-1).
Ge, J., Qi, J., & Torbick, N. (2005, July 25-29). Biophysical Evaluation of Five Land Covers.
Proceedings at the 25th International Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Symposium, IEEE,
Seoul, Korea.
Lofgren, B. M., Moore, N., Andresen, J., Olson, J., Campbell, D., & Pijanowski, B. (2005,
January 12). CLIP: Investigating Human-Climate Interactions in East Africa. 85th annual
Meeting, American Meteorological Society, 16th Conference on Climate Variability and
Change, San Diego, Calif.
Moore, N., Lofgren, B., & Andresen, J. (2005, January 12). CLIP: Modeling Land Use Change
and Precipitation in Eastern Africa. American Meteorological Society, 19th Conf. on
Hydrology, San Diego, Calif.
Qi, J., Ge, J., Torbick, N., & Moore, N. (2005, July 25-29). Land Cover Impacts on Climate
Simulations. Proceedings at the 25th International Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Symposium, IEEE, Seoul, Korea.
Torbick, N., Lusch, D., Olson, J., Ge, J., & Qi, J. (2005, July 25-29). Evaluation of land use land
cover for climate – land modeling using videography. Proceedings at the 25th International
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE, Seoul, Korea.
Wang, J., & Yang, L. (2005, June). Spline condence bands and testing the trend of the leaf area
index in East Africa. The International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics
Symposium, Washington, D.C.
Moore, N., Lofgren, B., & Andresen, J. (2004, September 27-29). Modeling Land Use Change
and Precipitation in East Africa. The CLIP Project. NASA ESSN Symposium, Water and
Energy Session, College Park, Maryland.
Xue, L., & Yang, L. (2004, July). Additive cofficient modelling of
autoregressive time series. The Sixth International Chinese Statistical Association
International Conference, Singapore.
CONFERENCE PAPER AND POSTER SESSIONS
CLIP panel session “Climate-Land Interaction in East Africa: The Effects of Land Use and
Global Climate Change on Climate and Farming Systems,” Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, March 2008.
Olson, J., Alagarswamy, G., Thornton, P., & Andresen, J. (2008, March). The Impact of Climate
Change on Agricultural Productivity and Rural Communities in East Africa. Paper
presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston.
Olson, J.M. (2008, January 17). Climate Change Adaptation for the Developing World:
Expanding Africa’s Climate Change Resilience. National Council for Science and the
Environment’s 8th national conference “Climate Change: Science and Solutions,”
Washington, D.C.
Pijanowski, B., Washington-Ottombre, C., Campbell, D., Olson, J., Moore, N., & Alexandridis,
K (2007, December). Pluralistic Modeling Approaches to Simulating Climate-Land Change
Interactions in East Africa. Paper presented at MODSIM 2007 International Congress on
Modelling and Simulation, Christchurch, Australia.
Hession, S. L., Shortridge, A. M., & Torbick., N. M. (2006, July 5-7). Categorical models for
spatial uncertainty. Paper presented at the Seventh International Symposium on Spatial
Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal.
http://2006.spatial-accuracy.org/
Hession, S. L., Torbick, N. M., & Shortridge, A. M. (2006, October 26-28). Spatiotemporal
Analysis of Precipitation in East Africa. Poster session presented at the Multivariate
Methods in Environmetrics Conference, Chicago, IL.
Ottombre-Washington, C., Pijanowski, B., Alexandridis, K., Campbell, D., & Olson, J. (2006,
November 4-8). Using participatory Bayesian Belief Networks, Role Playing Simulation
and Agent-Based Models to Understand Land Use. Poster presented at Beijing, China.
Wang, J., & Yang, L. (2005, October). Derivation of Phenological Information for Improved
Regional Climate Modeling. Poster presented at the NISS/SAMSI Workshop on
Collaborations in the Mathematical Geosciences, Research Triangle Park, NC.
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Pijanowski, B. (2006, May 6-9). Land use change patterns around the world’s Great Lakes.
Keynote presented at the International Association of Great Lakes Researchers.
Andresen, J. A. (2005, February 25). “Integrated Analysis of Regional Land Climate
Interactions in East Africa”. Invited seminar presented for Northern Illinois University
Dept. of Geography.
Wang, J. (2005, October 6-7). Derivation Of Phenological Information For Improved Regional
Climate Modeling. NISS/SAMSI Workshop on Collaborations in the Mathematical
Geosciences.
Wang, J., & Yang, L. (2005, August). Spline Confidence Bands for Leaf Area Index. The Joint
Statistical Meeting Minneapolis, MN.
Xue, L., & Yang, L. (2005, August). Additive coefficient modeling via polynomial spline. The
Joint Statistical Meeting Minneapolis, MN.
UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
Wang, J., & Yang, L. (2008). Efficient and fast spline-backfitted kernel smoothing of additive
regression model. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. (forthcoming).
Wang, J., & Yang, L. (2008). Polynomial spline confidence bands for regression curves.
Statistica Sinica. (forthcoming).
Pijanowski, B., & Davis, A. (2007). Error Propagation in Coupled Regional Land-Climate
Models. International Journal of Geographic Information Science. (in review).
Pijanowski, B. C., Olson, J. M., Washington-Ottombre, C., Campbell, D. J., Davis, A.Y., &
Alexandridis, K. (2007). Pluralistic modeling approaches to simulating climate-land change
interactions. MODSIM (peer reviewed). (in press).
Torbick, N., Ge., J., & Qi, J. (2006). Climate dynamics at Mt. Kilimanjaro indicated from
multiscale imagery, Climate Dynamics, (under review).
Ge, J., Qi, J., Lofgren, B., et al. Assessment of newly developed remote sensing land surface
products in simulating regional climate in East Africa. (manuscript in preparation).
Ge, J., Qi, J., Torbick, N., Olson, J., & Lusch, D. (2005). Biophysical evaluation of five land
covers for land-climate interaction modeling in East Africa. International Journal of
Remote Sensing. (manuscript under review).
Hession, S., & Moore, N. (2008). Spatial Regression Analysis of Monthly Rainfall in East
Africa, International Journal of Climatology. (in review)
Hanson , C. E., & Conway, D. “A cross-scales analysis of rainfall variability in East Africa;
from decadal scale to daily scale and from regional scale to station scale.” (manuscript
submitted).
Hanson, C., & Conway, D. Simulating East African Rainfall using a Stochastic Weather
Generator and Coupled Global Climate Models. Part 1: Model Calibration and Validation.
Climate Research. (manuscript under revision).
Moore, N., Lofgren, B., Olson, J., Alagarswamy, G., Andresen, J., Torbick, N., Pijanowski, B.,
& Yanda, P. (2008). Climate Change and Food Security Risk in East Africa, 3rd draft.
Moore, N. & Lofgren, B. The Future Hydroclimatology of East Africa, First draft.
Moore, N., Lofgren, B., Pijanowski, B., Alagarswamy, G., Olson, J., Andresen, J., & Yanda, P.
Relative impacts of land cover/use change versus greenhouse gas concentrations on the
climate of East Africa. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). (manuscript
in preparation).
Moore, N., Torbick, N., Lofgren, B., Wang, J., Kim, D., & Andresen, J. Adapting MODISderived LAI and fractional cover into the RAMS model for East Africa. International
Journal of Climatology special issue.
Pontius, R. G. Jr., Boersma, W., Castella, J.-C., Clarke, K., Nijs, T. d., Dietzel, C., Duan, Z.,
Fotsing, E., Goldstein, N., Kok, K., Koomen, E., Lippitt, C. D., McConnell, W.,
Pijanowski, B., Pithadia, S., Sood, A. M., Sweeney, S., Trung, T. N., & Verburg P. H. State
of the art of dynamic land-change modeling as measured by quantitative validation. Annals
of Regional Science. (in press).
Torbick, N., Qi, J., Ge, J., Olson, J., & Lusch, D. An Assessment of Africover and GLC2000
using general agreement and videography techniques. International Journal of Remote
Sensing. (accepted pending revision).
Washington-Ottombre, C., Campbell, D., Pijanowski, B., Olson, J., Napoletano, B. & the Kenya
Players. Role-Playing Games as Models to Support Land Change Research. Journal of
Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. (manuscript in preparation).
Ph.D. DISSERTATIONS
Ge, J. (2007). Improving Regional Climate Modeling in East Africa Using Remote Sensing
Products. Doctoral Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
Wang, J. (2006). The application of B-Spline Smoothing: Confidence Bands and Additive
Modelling. Doctoral Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
PROJECT WEBSITE
http://clip.msu.edu
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