Publications

  • Steadman, C. L. & Higgins, C. W. (2022). Agrivoltaic systems have the potential to meet energy demands of electric vehicles in rural Oregon, US. Sci Rep 12, 4647. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08673-4
  • AL-agele, H. A., Jashami, H. & Higgins, C. W. (2022). Evaluation of novel ultrasonic sensor actuated nozzle in center pivot irrigation systems. Agricultural Water Management 262, 107436, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107436
  • Andrew, A. C., Higgins, C. W., Smallman, M. A., Graham, M. & Ates, S. (2021). Herbage Yield, Lamb Growth and Foraging Behavior in Agrivoltaic Production System. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.659175
  • Graham, M., Ates, S., Melathopoulos, A.P., Moldenke, A.R., DeBano, S.J., Best, L.R., Higgins, C.H. (2021). Partial shading by solar panels delays bloom, increases floral abundance during the late‐season for pollinators in a dryland, agrivoltaic ecosystem. Scientific Reports, 11, 7452. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86756-4
  • AL-agele, H.A., Proctor, K., Murthy, G., Higgins, C. (2021). A Case Study of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon var. Legend) Production and Water Productivity in Agrivoltaic Systems. Sustainability, 13, 2850. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052850
  • Proctor, K.W., Murthy, G.S., Higgins, C.W. (2021). Agrivoltaics Align with Green New Deal Goals While Supporting Investment in the US’ Rural Economy. Sustainability, 13(1), 137. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010137
  • AL-agele, H. A., Mahapatra, D. M., Prestwich, C., & Higgins, C. W. (2020). Dynamic Adjustment of Center Pivot Nozzle Height: An Evaluation of Center Pivot Water Application Pattern and the Coefficient of Uniformity. Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 36(5), 647-656. https://doi.org/10.13031/aea.13190
  • Bassiouni, M. Good, S.P., Still, C.J., Higgins, C.W. (2020). Plant Water Uptake Thresholds Inferred From Satellite Soil Moisture. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087077
  • Higgins, C. W., Drake, S., Kelley, J. R., Oldroyd, H. J., Jensen, D., & Wharton, S. (2019). Rapid Resolution of the Atmospheric response to the 2017 total solar eclipse. Frontiers in Earth Science, In press. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00198
  • Bassiouni, M, Higgins CW, Still CJ, and Good SP. “Probabilistic inference of ecohydrological parameters using observations from point to satellite scales.” Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 22, no. 6 (2018): 3229-3243.
  • Kelley, JA, and Higgins CW. “Computational efficiency for the surface renewal method.” Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 11, no. 4 (2018): 2151-2158.
  • Higgins CW,  Liu Z, Wing MG, Kelley J, Sayde C, Burnett J, Predosa R, Holmes HA.“A High Resolution Measurement of the Morning ABL Transition Using Distributed Temperature Sensing and an Unmanned Aircraft System.” Journal of environmental fluid mechanics (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-017-9569-1.
  • Drake, SA, Selker, JS, and Higgins, CW (2017). “Wind enhances differential air advection in surface snow at sub-meter scales.” Cryosphere11(5).
  • Powers CW, Predosa R, Higgins CW, Schmale DG III. “Mobile Distributed Sensing of the Air/Water Interface of an Aquatic Environment With Unmanned Surface Vehicle.” Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1139/juvs-2016-0036 2017.
  • Drake S and Higgins CW. “A trace gas method of evaluating interstitial air advection and diffusion in snow.” The Cryosphere, 2017-9.
  • Kelley, J, Higgins, CW, Pahlow, M., & Noller, J. (2017). “Mapping soil texture by electromagnetic induction: a case for regional data coordination.” Soil Science Society of America Journal81(4), 923-931.
  • Drake S, Selker JS, Higgins CW“A low-cost acoustic permeameter.” Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 2017, MS No.: gi-2016-13.
  • Higgins CW, Kelley J, Barr C, and Hillyer C. “Determining the minimum management scale of a commercial variable rate irrigation system.” Transactions ASABE 59(5), (in press).
  • Liu Z, Higgins CW. Does temperature affect the accuracy of vented pressure transducer in fine-scale water level measurement? Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst. Discuss., 4, 533-561, 2014. doi:10.5194/gid-4-533-2014.
  • Stewart RD, Liu Z, Rupp DE, Higgins CW, and Selker JS. A New Instrument to Measure Plot-Scale Runoff.  Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst. in press
  • Fernando HJS, Pardyjak ER, Di Sabatino S, Chow F, DeWekker S, Hoc SW, Hacker J, Pace J, Pratt T, Pu Z, Steenburgh J, Whiteman CD, Wang Y, Zajic D, Balsley B, Dimitrova R, Emmitt D, Higgins CW, Hunt JCR, Knievel J, Lawrence D, Nadeau D, Kit E, Blomquist B, Conry P, Coppersmith RS, Creegan E, Felton M, Grachev A, Gunawardena N, Hang C, Hocut C, Huynh G, Jeglum ME, Jensen D, Kulandaivelu V, Lehner M, Leo LS, , Liberzon D, Massey J, McEnerney K, Pal S, Sghiatti M, Silver Z, Thomson M, Zhang H,  Zsedrovits T. “The MATERHORN – Unraveling the Intracacies of Mountain Weather.” Bulletin of the Amerian Meteorological Society, 2014, under review.
  • Higgins CW, Vache K, Calaf M, Hassanpour E, and Parlange MB. “Wind Turbines and Water in Irrigated Areas.” Agricultural Water Management (2015): 299-300.
  • Higgins CW, Huwald H, Bahr A, Martinoli A, Barrenetxea G, Vetterli M, and Parlange MB.  “Sensible heat flux from wireless environmental sensor networks.” Journal of Atmosperic and Oceanic Technology, 2014, accepted.
  • Calaf M, Higgins CW, and Parlange MB.  “Large Wind Farms and the Scalar flux over a heterogeneous land surface.”  Boundary-Layer. Meteorol., 2014 DOI: 10.1007/s10546-014-9959-6.
  • Assouline S, Tyler S, Selker JS, Lunati I, Higgins CW, Parlange MB. “Evaporation from a shallow water table: diurnal dynamics of measured and simulated water and heat regime at the vicinity of a drying sand surface.” Water Resources Research, 2013, DOI:10.1002/wrcr.20293.
  • Higgins CW, Pardyjak E, Froidevaux M, Simeonov, V, and Parlange MB. “Measured and Estimated Water Vapor Advection in the Atmospheric Surface Layer.” J. Hydrometeorology 2013, DOI:10.1175/JHM-D-12-0166.1.
  • Diebold M, Higgins CW, Fang J, Bechmann A, and Parlange MB. “Flow over hills: A Large Eddy Simulation of the Bolund Case.” Boundary-Layer. Meteorol., 2013,  July 148(1),177-194.
  • Higgins CW, Katul GG, Froidevaux M, Simeonov V, and Parlange MB. “Are atmospheric surface layer flows ergodic?”  Geophysical Research Letters, 2013, 40, 1-5, doi:10.1002.grl.50642.
  • Nadeau DF, Pardyjak ER, Higgins CW, and Parlange MB. “Similarity scaling over a steep alpine slope.” Boundary-Layer. Meteorol., 2013, 147(3), 401-419 doi:10.1007/s10546-012-9787-5.
  • Froidevaux M, Higgins CW, Simeonov V, Ristori P, Pardyjak E, Serikov I,  Calhoun R, Van den Bergh H, Parlange MB. “A Raman Lidar to Measure Water Vapor in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer.”  Advances in Water Resources, 201351, 345-356 DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.04.008.
  • Higgins CW. “A-Posteriori Analysis of Surface Energy Budget Closure to Determine Missed Energy Pathways.”  Geophysical Research Letters, 2012, 39:L19403, doi:10.1029/2012GL052918.
  • Oldroyd HJ, Higgins CW, Huwald H, Selker JS*, Parlange MB. “Thermal Diffusivity of Seasonal Snow Determined From Temperature Profiles.” Advances in Water Resources, 2012, DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.06.011.
  • Katul GG, Oren R. Manzoni S, Higgins CW, and Parlange MB. “Evapotranspiration: a Process Driving Mass Transport and Energy Exchange in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-Climate System.” Review of Geophysics, 50(3), 2012,DOI:10.1029/2011RG000366.
  • Nadeau DF, Pardyjak E, Higgins CW, Huwald H, Parlange MB. “Flow During the Evening Transition Over Steep Alpine Slopes.” QJRMS, 2012DOI:/10.1002/qj.1985.
  • Higgins CW, Foidevaux M, Simeonov, V, Vercauteren N, Barry C, and Parlange, MB. “The Effect of Scale on the Applicability of Taylor’s Frozen Turbulence Hypothesis in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer.” Boundary-Layer. Meteorol., 143(2) 379-391, 2012. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-012-9701-1.
  • Fang, J., Diebold, M., Higgins, CW., Parlange, MB. “Towards Oscillation-Free Implementation of the Immersed Boundary Method with Spectral-Like Methods.” Journal of Computational Physics, 230(22), 8179-8191, 2011.
  • Nadeau DF, Pardyjak E, Higgins CW, Fernando HJS and Parlange MB. “A simple model for the afternoon and early-evening decay of convective turbulence over different land surfaces.”. Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 141(2), 301-324, 2011.
  • Bou-Zeid E, Higgins CW, Huwald H, Meneveau C, and Parlange, MB. “Field Study of the Dynamics and Modelling of Subgrid-Scale Turbulence in a Stable Atmospheric Surface Layer over a Glacier.” J. of Fluid Mechanics, 665, 480-515, 2010.
  • Huwald H, Higgins CW, Boldi MO, Bou-Zeid E, Lehning M, and Parlange MB. “Albedo Effect on Radiative Errors in Air Temperature Measurements.” Water Resources Research, 45, w88431, 1-13, 2009.
  • Huwald H, Higgins CW, Boldi MO, Bou-Zeid E, Lehning M, and Parlange MB. “Albedo Effect on Radiative Errors in Air Temperature Measurements.” Water Resources Research, 45, w88431, 1-13, 2009.
  • Higgins CW, Meneveau C, Parlange MB. “Geometric Alignments of the Subgrid-Scale Force in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer.” Bound-Layer Meteorology, 132(1), 1-9, 2009.
  • Higgins CW, Meneveau C, Parlange MB. “The Effect of Filter Dimension on the Components of the Subgrid-Scale Stress, Heat Flux, and Tensor Alignments in the Atmospheric Surface Layer.” J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 24(3): 360-375, 2007.
  • Higgins CW, Parlange MB, Meneveau C. “The Heat Flux and the Temperature Gradient in the Lower Atmosphere.” Geophysical  Research Letters, 31 (22): Art. No. L22105, 2004.
  • Higgins CW, Parlange MB, Meneveau C. “Alignment Trends of Velocity Gradients and Subgrid-Scale Fluxes in the Turbulent Atmospheric Boundary Layer.” Bound-Layer Meteorology, 109 (1), 59-83, 2003.