Feifei Pan - Publications

Journal Articles:

2025

McKane R.B., Halama J.J., Barnhart B.L., Brookes A.F., Djang K.S., Chokshi S., Pettus P.P., Groskinsky B., Grier G., Hawkins A., Watson D., Prentice J., Blair J.M., Goodin D.G., Johnson L.C., Skibbe A.M., Stieglitz M., Pan F., and Abdelnour A. Estimation of flint hills tallgrass prairie productivity and fuel loads: a model-based synthesis and extrapolation of experimental data. Landscape Ecology, DOI:10.1007/s10980-024-02034-4, 2025. (Link)

2024

Chen X., Wang J., Pan F., Huang B., Bi P., Huang N., Gao R., Men J., Zhang F., Huang Z., Long B., Liang J., and Pan Z. Summer atmospheric drying could contribute more to soil moisture change than spring vegetation greening. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, DOI: 10.1038/s41612-024-00844-6, 2024. (Link)

Chen X., Wang J., Pan F., Song Y., Liang J., Huang N., Jiang K., Gao R.,Men J., Bi P., Zhang F., Huang Z., Huang B., and Pan Z., Land-atmosphere feedback exacerbated the mega heatwave and drought over the Yangtze River Basin of China during summer 2022. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 361, 110321, 2025. (Link)

Pan F., Accuracy Assessment of Estimated River Water Surface Elevations from Landsat 8 and 9 Imagery among Twenty Water Indices. Remote Sensing, DOI:10.3390/rs16163054, 2024.(Link)

Zhang L., Ren S., Pan F., Zhou J., Jiang J., Pan X., Wang J., Sun B., and Hu Q., Optimizing Ridge–Furrow Rainwater-Harvesting Strategies for Potato Cultivation in the Drylands of Northwestern China: A Regional Approach. Agronomy, DOI:10.3390/agronomy/14081759, 2024. (Link)

Zhao J., Zhou H., and Pan F., A dual attention KPConv network combined with attention gates for semantic segmentation of ALS point clouds. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2024.3422829, 2024.(Link)

2023

He H., Hu Q., Pan F., and Pan X., Evaluating nitrogen management practices for greenhouse gas emission reduction in a maize farmland in the North China Plain: Adapting to climate change. Plants, 10.3390/plants12213749, 2023. (Link)

Wang J., Pan F., An P., Han G., Jiang K., Song Y., Huang N., Zhang Z., Ma S., Chen X., and Pan Z., Atmospheric water vapor transport between ocean and land under climate warming. Journal of Climate, 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0106.1, 2023. (Link)

Jiang K., Pan Z., Pan F., Teuling A.J., Han G., An P., Chen X., Wang J., Song Y., Cheng L., Zhang Z., Huang N., Ma S., Gao R., Zhang X., Men J., Lv X., and Dong Z., Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric humidity on land surface temperature under different climatic background. iScience, 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106837, 2023. (Link)

Liang L., Guo H., Liang S., Li X., Moore J.C., Li X., Cheng X., Wu W., Liu Y., Rinke A., Jia G., Pan F., and Cong C., Delayed Antarctic melt season reduces albedo feedback. National Science Review, 10.1093/nsr/nwad157, 2023. (Link)

2022

Wang J., Pan F., and et al., Impacts of El Nino-Southern Oscillation on tropical precipitation via triggering anomaly water vapour transport from ocean to land. International Journal of Climatology, 10.1002/joc.7948, 2022. (Link)

Omotere O., Pan F., and Wang L., Using solar radiation data in soil moisture diagnostic equation for estimating root-zone soil moisture. PeerJ, 10.7717/peerj.14561, 2022. (Link)

Qian S., Pan F., Wu M., and Sun Y., Appropriate protection time and region for Qinghai-Tibet Plateau grassland. Open Geosciences, 14, 706-716, 2022. (Link)

Jiang K., Pan Z., Pan F., Wang J., Han G., Song Y., Zhang Z., Huang N., Ma S., Chen X., Zhang Z., and Men J., The global spatiotemporal heterogeneity of land surface-air temperature difference and its influencing factors. Science of The Total Environment, 838, 156214, 2022. (Link)

Jiang K., Pan Z., Pan F., Wang J., Han G., Song Y., Zhang Z., Huang N., Ma S., and Chen X., Influence patterns of soil moisture change on surface-air temperature difference under different climatic background. Science of The Total Environment, 822, 153607, 2022. (Link)

2021

Pan F., Nagaoka L., Wolverton S., Atkinson S.F., Kohler T.A., and O'Neill M., A constrained stochastic weather generator for daily mean air temperature and precipitation. Atmosphere, 12(2), 135, 2021. (Link)

Wang Y., Yan W., Han X., Pan F., Cheng L., and Liu W., Changes of deep soil water content in the process of large-scale apple tree planting on the loess tableland of China. Forests, 12(2), 123, 2021. (Link)

2020

Pan F., Xi X., and Wang C., A comparative study of water indices and image classification algorithms for mapping inland surface water bodies using Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing, 12(10), 1611, 2020. (Link)

Lao J., Wang C., Wang J., Pan F., Xi X., and Liang L., Land use simulation of Guangzhou based on nighttime light data and planning policies. Remote Sensing, 12, 1675, 2020. (Link)

Zhang Z., Pan Z., Pan F., Zhang J., Han G., Huang N., Wang J., Pan Y., Wang Z., and Peng R., The change characteristics and interactions of soil moisture and temperature in the farmland in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, China. Atmosphere, 11(5), 503, 2020 (Link)

Dong W., Li C., Hu Q., Pan F., Bhandari J., and Sun Z., Potential evapotranspiration reduction and its influence on crop yield in the North China Plain in 1961-2014. Advances in Meteorology, 2020, 3691421, 2020. (Link)

Zhu X., Wang C., Nie S., Pan F., Xi X., and Hu Z., Mapping forest height using photon-counting LiDAR data and Landsat 8 OLI data: A case study in Virginia and North Carolina, USA. Ecological Indicators,114, 106287, 2020. (Link)

Wang J., Pan Z., Pan F., He D., Pan Y., Han G., Huang N., Zhang Z., Yin W., Zhang J., Peng R., and Wang Z.,The regional water-conserving and yield-increasing characteristics and suitability of soil tillage practices in Northern China. Agricultural Water Management, 228, 105883, 2020. (Link)

Zhao H., Xi X., Wang C., and Pan F., Ground surface recognition at voxel scale from mobile laser scanning data in urban environment. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2019.2919297, 17(2), 317-321, 2020. (Link)

2019

Pan F., Xi X., and Wang C., A Matlab-based digital elevation model (DEM) data processing toolbox (MDEM). Environmental Modelling and Software, 122, 104566, 2019 (Journal Link and Pre-proof PDF ). The MDEM can be downloaded at this link (MDEM).

Chen S., Wang C., Dai H., Zhang H., Pan F., Xi X., Yan Y., Wang P., Yang X., Zhu X., and Aben A., Power pylon reconstruction based on abstract template structures using airborne LiDAR data. Remote Sensing, 11,1579,doi:10.3390/rs1131579, 2019. (Link)

Hu Q., Ma X., He H. Pan F., He Q., Huang B., and Pan X., Warming and Dimming: interactive impacts on potential summer maize yield in North China Plain. Sustainability, 11 (9), 2588, doi:10.3390/su11092588, 2019. (Link)

Ling F. and Pan F., Quantifying impacts of mean annual lake bottom temperature on talik development and permafrost degradation below expanding thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Water, 11, 706, doi:10.3390/w11040706, 2019. (Link)

Yang X., Wang C., Pan F., Nie S., Xi X., and Luo S., Retrieving leaf area index in discontinuous forest using ICESat/GLAS full-waveform data based on gap fraction model. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 148, 54-62, 2019. (Link)

2018

Pan F., Xie J., Lin J., Zhao T., Ji Y., Hu Q., Pan X., Wang C., and Xi X., Evaluation of climate change impacts on wetland vegetation in Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in northwest China using Landsat derived NDVI. Remote Sensing, 10(5), 735, doi:10.3390 /rs10050735, 2018. (Link)

Hu Q., Pan F., Pan X., Hu L., Wang X., Yang P., Wei P., and Pan Z., Dry-wet variations and cause analysis in Northeast China at multi-time scales. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 133, 775-786, 2018. (Link)

2017

Qin H., Wang C., Pan F., Lin Y., Xi X., and Luo S., Estimation of FPAR and FPAR profile for maize canopies using airborne LiDAR. Ecological Indicators, 83, 53-61, 2017. (Link)

Hu Q., Yang N., Pan F., Pan X., Wang X., and Yang P., Adjusting sowing dates improved potato adaptation to climate change in semiarid region, China. Sustainability, 9(4), 615, doi:10.3390/su9040615, 2017. (Link)

Luo S., Wang C., Xi X., Pan F., Qian M., Peng D., Nie S., Qin H., and Lin Y., Retrieving aboveground biomass of wetland Phragmites australis (common reed) using a combination of airborne discrete-return LiDAR and hyperspectral data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 58, 107-117. 2017. (Link)

Luo S., Wang C., Xi X., Pan F., Peng D., Zou J., Nie S., and Qin H., Fusion of airborne LiDAR data and hyperspectral imagery for aboveground and belowground forest biomass estimation. Ecological Indicators , 73, 378-387, 2017. (Link)

2016

Pan F. and Nieswiadomy M., Estimating daily root-zone soil moisture in snow-dominated regions using an empirical soil moisture diagnostic equation. Journal of Hydrology, 542, 938-952, 2016. (Link) (PDF)

Pan F., Wang C., and Xi X., Constructing river stage-discharge rating curves using remotely sensed river cross-sectional inundation areas and river bathymetry. Journal of Hydrology, 540, 670-687, 2016. (Link)

Hu Q., Pan F., Pan X., Li Q., Shao C., Pan Z., and Wei Y., Trends in agricultural heat and solar radiation resources in Northeast China: A multistage spatio-temporal analysis. International Journal of Climatology, 36(6), 2461-2468, 2016. (Link)

Xi X., Han T., Wang C., Luo S., Xia S., and Pan F., Forest above ground biomass inversion by fusing GLAS with optical remote sensing data. International Journal of Geo-Information, 5(4), 45, doi:10.3390/ijgi5040045, 2016. (Link)

2015

Xia S., Wang C., Pan F., Xi X., Zeng H., and Liu H., Detecting stems in dense and homogeneous forest using single-scan TLS. Forests, 6(11), 3923-3945, 2015. (Link)

Pan F., Nieswiadomy M., and Qian S., Application of a soil moisture diagnostic equation for estimating root-zone soil moisture in arid and semi-arid regions. Journal of Hydrology, 524, 296-310, 2015. (Link) (PDF)

Hu Q., Pan F., Pan X., Zhang D., Yang N., Pan Z., and Wei Y., Spatial analysis of climate change in Inner Mongolia during 1961-2012, China. Applied Geography, 60, 254-260, 2015. (Link) .

2014

Luo S., Wang C., Pan F., Xi X., Li G., Nie S., and Xia S., Estimation of wetland vegetation height and leaf area index using airborne laser scanning data. Ecological Indicators, 48, 550-559, 2014 (link) .

Nie S., Wang C., Li G., Pan F., Xi X., and Luo S., Signal to noise ratio (SNR)-based quality assessment method for ICESat/GLAS waveform data. Optical Engineering, 53, 103104, 2014 (link).

Hu Q., Pan F., Pan X., Zhang D., Yang N., Pan Z., Zhao P., and Tuo D., Effects of a ridge-furrow micro-field rainwater-harvesting system on potato yield in a semi-arid region. Field Crops Research, 166, 92-101, 2014. (link)

Luo S., Wang C., Xi X., and Pan F., Estimating FPAR of maize canopy using airborne discrete-return LiDAR data. Optics Express, 22, DOI:10.1364/OE.22.005106, 5106-5117, 2014. (Link)

McClelland J., Townsend-Small A., Holmes R., Pan F., Stieglitz M., Khosh M., and Peterson B., Nutrient and Organic Matter Export from the North Slope of Alaska to the Beaufort Sea. Water Resources Research, 50, doi:10.1002/2013WR014722, 2014. (Link)

2013

Pan F., Remote sensing of river stage and discharge. SPIE Newsroom, DOI: 10.1117/2.1201212.04611, 2013, Invited Paper. (Link)

Pan F., Liao J., Li X., and Guo H., Application of the inundation area-lake level rating curves constructed from the SRTM DEM to retrieving lake levels from satellite measured inundation areas. Computers and Geosciences, 52, 168-176, 2013. (Link)

Pan F. and Nichols J., Remote sensing of river stage using the cross sectional inundation area - river stage relationship (IARSR) constructed from digital elevation model data. Hydrological Processes, 27, 3596-3606, 2013. (Link)

Abdelnour A., McKane R., Stieglitz M., Pan F., and Cheng Y., Effects of harvest on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a Pacific Northwest forest catchment. Water Resources Research, 49, doi: 10.1029/2012WR012994, 2013. (Link)

2012

Pan F., Stieglitz M., and McKane R., An algorithm for treating flat areas and depressions in digital elevation models using linear interpolation. Water Resources Research, 48(2), W00L10, doi:10.1029/2011WR010735, 2012. (Link) (PDEM link)

Pan F., Estimating daily surface soil moisture using a daily diagnostic soil moisture equation. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 138(7), 625-631, 2012. (Link) (PDF)

Pan F., McKane R., and Stieglitz M., Identification of optimal soil hydraulic functions and parameters for predicting soil moisture. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 57(4), 723-737, 2012 (Link)

Pan F. and King A.W., Downscaling 1-km topographic index distributions to a finer resolution for the TOPMODEL-based GCM hydrological modeling. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 17(2), 243-251, 2012. (Link)

2011

Abdelnour A., Stieglitz M., Pan F., and McKane R.B., Catchment hydrological responses to forest harvest amount and spatial pattern. Water Resources Research, 47, doi.10.1029/2010WR010165, 2011. (Link)

2010

Pan F., Peters-Lidard C.D., and King A.W., Inverse method for estimating the spatial variability of soil particle size distribution from observed soil moisture. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 15(11), 931-938, 2010. (Link)

Cheng Y., Stieglitz M., and Pan F., A simple method to evolve daily ground temperatures from surface air temperatures in snow dominated regions. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 11(6), 1395-1404, 2010. (Link)

Qian S., Fu Y., and Pan F., Climate change tendency and grassland vegetation response during the growth season in Three-River Source Region. Science China Earth Sciences, 53(10), 1506-1512, 2010, (Link).

Publications Prior to 2010

Pan F. and Peters-Lidard C.D., On the relationship between mean and variance of soil moisture fields. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 44(1), 235-242,2008. (Link)

McClelland J.W., Stieglitz M., Pan F., Holmes R.M., and Peterson B.J., Recent changes in nitrate and dissolved organic carbon export from the Upper Kuparuk River, North Slope, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research--Biogeosciences, 112(G4), G04S60, 10.1029/2006JG000371, 2007. (Link)

Miller N.L., King A.W., Miller M.A., Springer E.P., Wesely M.L., Bashford K.E., Conrad M.E., Costigan K., Foster P.N., Gibbs H.K., Jin J., Klazura J., Lesht B.M., Machavaram M.V., Pan F., Song J., Troyan D., and Washington-Allen R.A., The DOE Water Cycle Pilot Study. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86(3), 359-374, 2005. (Link)

Pan F., Peters-Lidard C.D., Sale M.J., and King A.W., A comparison of geographical information systems-based algorithms for computing the TOPMODEL topographic index. Water Resources Research, 40(6), Art. No. W06303, 2004. (Link)

Pan F., Peters-Lidard C.D., and Sale M.J., An analytical method for predicting surface soil moisture from rainfall observations. Water Resources Research, 39(11), Art. No. 1314, 2003. (Link) (PDF)

Peters-Lidard C.D., Pan F., and Wood E.F., A re-examination of modeled and measured soil moisture spatial variability and its implications for land surface modeling. Advances in Water Resources, 24(9-10), 1069-1083, 2001. (Link)

Pan F. and Smith R.B., Gap winds and wakes: SAR observations and numerical simulations. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences , 56(7), 905-923,1999. (Link)

Book Chapters

Cherry J.E., Dery S.J., Cheng Y., Stieglitz M., Jacobs A., and Pan F., 2014: Climate and Hydrometeorology of Toolik Lake Region and the Kuparuk River Basin: Past, Present, and Future. In Alaska's Changing Arctic: Ecological Consequences for Tundra, Streams, and Lakes (The Long-term Ecological Research Network Series), Edited by Hobbie J.E. and Kling G.W. Oxford University Press. (Link) .

Thesis

Pan F., Spatial and Temporal Structures of Soil Moisture Fields. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002 (Advisor: Dr.Christa Peters-Lidard). (Link)

Pan F., Gap winds near Unimak Island, Alaska Peninsula: numerical simulations and SAR observations. Yale University, 1997 (Advisor: Dr. Ron Smith). (Link)

Conferences:

Pan F., 2018: Remote sensing of river stage and discharge. The 21st China Remote Sensing Conference, Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China, August 21-24.

Pan F., 2017: Constructing river stage discharge rating curves using remotely sensed river cross sectional inundation areas and river bathymetry. JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting, Makuhari Messe, Japan, May 20-25.

Pan F., 2016: Application of the water balance method in estimating daily lake evaporation in an arid region of northwest China. 2016 SWAAG annual meeting, Denton TX, October 20-22.

Pan F., 2016: Application of remotely sensed imagery and LiDAR data in measuring river discharge. 6th Digital Earth Summit, Beijing, China, July 7-8.

Pan F., 2015: Estimating root-zone soil moisture in snow dominated regions using a soil moisture diagnostic equation. 2015 SWAAG-AGC Joint Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 5-6.

Pan F., 2014: A spatial distributed hydrological modeling and simulation framework. 2014 SWAAG-GPRG Joint Region Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 23-25.

Pan F., M. Nieswiadomy, and S. Qian, 2014: Application of soil moisture diagnostic equation for estimating root-zone soil moisture in arid and semi-arid regions. The 37th Applied Geography Conference, October 15-17, 2014, Atlanta, GA.

Pan F., 2014: An innovative and robust approach to measure river discharge from space using Landsat imagery. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL. Apr.8-12, 2014.

J Pan, M Stieglitz, Y Cheng, F Pan, 2013: Predicting Real-Time Soil Carbon Fluxes in Alaska at High Spatial Resolution. American Geophysical Union Fall 2013 Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Dec.9-13, 2013.

Pan F., Guo H., Li X., Liao J., and Wang C, 2012: The impact of climate change on lake level variation in the Tibetan lakes: Landsat observations and numerical simulations. Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG). Oct. 25-27, 2012, Las Cruces, NM.

McKane R., Abdelnour A., Brookes A., Djang K., Jordan T.E., Kwiatkowski B., Pan F., Peterjohn W.T., Stieglitz M., Skibbe A., and Weller D.E., 2011: Riparian forest effects on nitrogen export to an agricultural stream inferred from experimental data and a model. American Geophysical Union Fall 2011 Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Dec.5-9, 2011.

Pan F., Li Y., and Liao J, 2011: The Effects of Climate Change on Water Level Variations in the Tibetan Lakes. The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2011 Annual Conference, May 1-5, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Osborne-Gowey J., Bachelet D., Hamlet A., Garcia E., Tague C., McKane R., Abdelnour A., Stieglitz M., and Pan F., 2011: Assessing the Skill of Hydrology Models at Simulating the Water Cycle in the HJ Andrews LTER: Assumptions, Strengths and Weaknesses. American Fisheries Society 141st Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, Sept. 4-8, 2011.

Pan F., 2010: The effect of the uncertainties in soil hydraulic functions and parameters on soil moisture predictions. The 33rd Applied Geography Conference, Oct. 20-23, 2010, Forth Worth, Texas.

Pan F., Stieglitz M., and McKane R.B., 2006: A simple hydrologic model for watershed characterization. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract H52C-06.

Pan F., Smerdon J.E., Stieglitz M., and Webster P., 2005: A wavelet approach to reconstructing near-surface temperature time series from observations of subsurface temperatures at several meters depth. Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP52A-0657.

Pan F., and Peters-Lidard C.D., 2002: An analytical method for predicting soil moisture from rainfall observations. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, Abstract #H71E-05.

Peters-Lidard C.D., Pan F., Hsu A., and O'Neill P. 2001: ESTAR - and Model -Derived Multiscaling Characteristics of Soil Moisture during SGP97, Washita'92, and Washita'94. Proc. of IGARSS'01,Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, 2001.

Pan F. and Peters-Lidard C.D.,2001: Downscaling and assimilating remotely sensed soil moisture data for the TOPLATS model. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, May 29-June 2, 2001, Boston, MA.

Peters-Lidard C.D., Pan F., O'Neill P., Hsu A., and Houser P.R.,2001: Quantifying the relationship between remotely-sensed and modeled soil moisture. GEWEX/BAHC Intl.Workshop on soil moisture monitoring, analysis, and prediction for hydrometeorological and hydroclimatological applications. Norman, OK, May 16-18, 2000.

Peters-Lidard, C.D., Davis L.H., McHenry J. N., and Pan F, 2000: Observed and modeled properties of the atmospheric boundary layer during SGP97. 15th Conference on Hyrdology, American Meteorological Society, January 9-14, 2000, Long Beach, CA.

Pan F., and Peters-Lidard C.D., 1999: The effects of flow direction and slope algorithms on TOPMODEL topographic index distribution and runoff prediction. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 13-17, 1999,San Francisco , CA.

Peters-Lidard C.D., Coats C.J., McHenry J. N., Trayanov A., Pan F., 1999: Land surface hydrologic modeling for coupling with atmospheric models: Requirements for energy, moisture and momentum exchange. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 13-17, 1999,San Francisco , CA.

Peters-Lidard C.D., Coats C.J., McHenry J. N., Trayanov A., Pan F., 1999: Quasi-physically based land surface hydrologic modeling for coupling with atmospheric models: Requirements for energy, moisture and momentum exchange. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, June 1-4, 1999, Boston, Mass.

Peters-Lidard, C.D., McHenry, J.N., Coats, C.J., Trayanov, A., Fine,S., Alapaty, K., and Pan F., 1999: Re-thinking the atmospheric LSP problem from a hydrological perspective, 6B.2, 14th Conference on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, Dallas, Texas.

McHenry, J. N., Peters-Lidard, C.D., Coats, C.J., Fine, S., Alapaty, K., Trayanov, A., and Pan F., 1999: Preliminary results of coupling a 1-D column version of the PSU/NCAR MM5 with a data-assimilating version of the TOPLATS land-surface hydrology model, J9.5, 14th Conference on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, Dallas, Texas.

Smith R.B., and Pan F., 1998: A new theory of gap winds. 8th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 1998.

Smith R.B., and Pan F., 1997: Statistical SAR studies of windfields near Unimak Island. The 4th Internationl Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments. Orlando, FL, March 17-19, 1997.