Rafael L. Bras
Provost & Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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ScD, Water Resources and Hydrology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975
Phone/Address
404 385 2700Georgia Institute of Technology Office of the Provost Carnegie 325 Atlanta, GA 30332
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CZO Publications
Papers/Books
2018
The role of vegetation on gully erosion stabilization at a severely degraded landscape: A case study from Calhoun Experimental Critical Zone Observatory. Bastola, S., Y. G. Dialynas, R. L. Bras, L. V. Noto, and E. Istanbulluoglu (2018): Geomorphology 308: 25-39
2017
Hydro-geomorphic perturbations on the soil-atmosphere CO2 exchange: How (un)certain are our balances?. Dialynas, Y. G., R. L. Bras, and D. deB. Richter (2017): Water Resources Research 53(2): 1664-1682
2017
Integration of fuzzy logic and image analysis for the detection of gullies in the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory using airborne LiDAR data. Noto, L. V., S. Bastola, Y. G. Dialynas, E. Arnone, and R. L. Bras (2017): ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 126: 209-224
2016
Accounting for Soils Parameter Uncertainty in a Physically-Based and Distributed Approach for Rainfall-Triggered Landslides. Arnone, E., Y. G. Dialynas, L. V. Noto, and R. L. Bras (2016): Hydrological Processes 30(6): 927-944
2016
Topographic variability and the influence of soil erosion on the carbon cycle. Dialynas, Y. G., S. Bastola., R. L. Bras, S. A. Billings, D. Markewitz, and D. deB. Richter (2016): Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30(5): 644-660
2016
Impact of hydrologically driven hillslope erosion and landslide occurrence on soil organic carbon dynamics in tropical watersheds. Dialynas,Y.G., Bastola, S., Bras, R.L., Marin-Spiotta, E., Silver, W.L., Arnone, E., and Noto, L.V. (2016): Water Resources Research 52(11): 8895-8919 Cross-CZO
2014
Parameter Uncertainty in Shallow Rainfall-Triggered Landslide Modeling at Basin Scale: a Probabilistic Approach. Arnone, E., Y. G. Dialynas, L. V. Noto, and R. L. Bras (2014): Procedia Earth and Planetary Science 9: 101-111
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Other CZO Publications
2019
Observations of Water, Energy and CO2 Fluxes at Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Zhu, Modi, Yao Tang, Jingfeng Wang, Daniel Markewitz, Rafael L Bras, Weiqiang Jing (2019): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2019
2017
Parameterization of nitrogen limitation for a dynamic ecohydrological Model: A case study from the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory. Bastola, Satish, and Rafael L Bras (2017): American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December 2017
2017
A dynamic hydrology-critical zone framework for rainfall-triggered landslide hazard prediction. Dialynas, Yannis G, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, William E Dietrich, Rafael L Bras (2017): American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December 2017 Cross-CZO
2017
Hydrologic drivers of soil organic carbon erosion and burial: Insights from a spatially-explicit model of a degraded landscape at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Dialynas, Yannis G., Rafael L. Bras, Daniel deB. Richter (2017): American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December 2017
2017
Calhoun CZO as an ancient geobiologic and land-use altered time machine. Richter, D. deB., J. Wang, R. Bras, D. Markewitz, D. Nelson, J. Austin, P. Schroeder, S.A. Billings, K. O’Neill, J. Giesen, W.S. Holbrook, and B. Carr (2017): Critical Zone Science: Current Advances and Future Opportunities, workshop in Arlington, VA, 4-6 June, 2017
2017
Historical data digitization and micrometeorological measurements at Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory (CCZO). Tang, Yao, Sabina Shahnaz, Yawen Shen, Jinge Huo, Minjae Kim, Shih-Yu Huang, Husayn El Sharif, Cheng Yao, Satish Bastola, Rafael Bras, Jingfeng Wang (2017): Calhoun CZO 2017 Summer Science Meeting, Union, SC, 17-18 May 2017
2016
Vegetation control on gully erosion. Bastola, S., Y.G. Dialynas, R.L. Bras, and L.V. Noto (2016): Calhoun CZO 2016 Summer Science Meeting
2016
The role of vegetation on gully stabilization at a severely degraded landscape: a case study from Calhoun experimental critical zone observatory. Bastola, S., Y.G. Dialynas, R.L. Bras, L.V. Noto, and E. Istanbulluoglu (2016): American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
2016
Influence of erosion and deposition on soil organic carbon dynamics. Dialynas, Y.G., Bras, R.L., and Richter, D.deB. (2016): Calhoun CZO 2016 Summer Science Meeting
2016
On the coupled effect of topography, vegetation cover, and soil properties on the partition of water and energy fluxes of seasonally water-stressed ecosystems. Gutierrez-Jurado, H. A.; Guan, H.; Wang, J.; Wang, H.; Simmons, C. T.; Bras, R. L. (2016): American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
2015
The dependence on topography of the influence of soil erosion and deposition on the carbon cycle at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Bras, R.; Dialynas, Y.; Billings, S.; Richter, D.; Markewitz, D. (2015): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2015, San Francisco, CA
2015
A Coupled Spatially Explicit Modelling Approach to Assess the Influence of Soil Erosion and Deposition on the Redistribution of Soil Organic Carbon at the Watershed Scale. Dialynas, Y. G., Bastola, S., Bras, R. L., Billings, S. A., Richter, D. deB., and Markewitz, D. (2015): 2nd Annual Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium, Atlanta, GA, Mar. 28-29, 2015
2015
Topographic variability in the influence of soil erosion on the carbon cycle. Dialynas, Y. G., Bastola, S., Bras, R. L., Billings, S. A., Richter, D. deB., and Markewitz, D. (2015): Calhoun CZO 2015 Summer Science Meeting
2015
Maximum Entropy Production modeling of evapotranspiration partitioning on heterogeneous terrain and canopy cover: advantages and limitations. Gutierrez-Jurado, H.A., H. Guan, J. Wang, H. Wang, R.L. Bras, and C.T. Simmons (2015): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2015
2015
Integration of fuzzy logic and image analysis for the detection of gullies in the Calhoun forest using airborne LiDAR data. Noto, L. V., Dialynas, Y., Bastola, S., and Bras, R. L. (2015): Calhoun CZO 2015 Summer Science Meeting
2015
Integration of fuzzy logic and image analysis for the detection of gullies in the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory using airborne LiDAR data. Noto, L.; Bastola, S.; Dialynas, Y.; Bras, R. (2015): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2015, San Francisco, CA
2014
Assessing the impact of landscape evolution on carbon dynamics: a coupled physically-based modelling approach. Dialynas, Y. G.; Bastola, S.; Billings, S. A.; Bras, R. L. (2014): American Geophysical Union annual meeting, San Francisco, California, December, 2014
2013
Coupled dynamics of soil formation and erosion in natural and agricultural ecosystems. Pelak, N. F.; Manzoni, S.; Wang, J.; Bras, R. L.; Porporato, A. M. (2013): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2013, San Francisco, CA
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Models
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Triangulated Irregular Network-based Real-time Integrated Basin Simulator-Erosion and C Oxidatition
Spatially- and depth-explicit physically-based model of hydro-geomorphic processes and of soil organic carbon dynamics.
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The CHILD model is widely used for the simulation of landscape evolution.
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