Dannenberg, M. P., McCabe, G. J., Wise, E. K., Johnston, M. R., Huntzinger, D. N., & Williams, A. P. (2025). Recent Increases in Missouri River Streamflow Driven by Combined Effects of Climate Variability, Land-Use Change, and Elevated CO₂. AGU Advances, 6(2), e2024AV001432. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024AV001432 

Dannenberg, M. P., Wise, E. K. (2025). How the Atlantic jet stream has changed in 600 years — and what it means for weather. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00871-0 

Johnston, M. R., Barnes, M. L., Preisler, Y., Smith, W. K., Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Williams, A. P., & Dannenberg, M. P. (2025). Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130(1), e2024JG008146. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008146

Kannenberg, S. A., Babst, F., Barnes, M. L., Cabon, A., Dannenberg, M. P., Johnston, M. R., & Anderegg, W. R. L. (2025). Stand density and local climate drive allocation of GPP to aboveground woody biomass. New Phytologist, 246(2), 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20414

Pierrat, Z. A., Magney, T. S., Richardson, W. P., Runkle, B. R. K., Diehl, J. L., Yang, X., Woodgate, W., Smith, W. K., Johnston, M. R., Ginting, Y. R. S., Koren, G., Albert, L. P., Kibler, C. L., Morgan, B. E., Barnes, M., Uscanga, A., Devine, C., Javadian, M., Meza, K., Julitta, T., Tagliabue, G., Dannenberg, M. P., Antala, M., Wong, C. Y. S., Santos, A. L. D., Hufkens, K., Marrs, J. K., Stovall, A. E. L., Liu, Y., Fisher, J. B., Gamon, J. A., & Cawse‐Nicholson, K. (2025). Proximal remote sensing: An essential tool for bridging the gap between high‐resolution ecosystem monitoring and global ecology. New Phytologist, 246(2), 419-436. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20405

Runkle, B. R. K., Barnes, M., Dannenberg, M., Gamon, J. A., Magney, T., Pierrat, Z., Southwick, C. D., Still, C., & Woodgate, W. (2025). Near-surface remote sensing applications for a robust, climate-smart measurement, monitoring, and information system (MMIS). Carbon Management, 16(1), 2465361. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2025.2465361

Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Dannenberg, M. P., Guo, Q., Atkins, J. W., Li, W., & Sun, G. (2025). Eco-hydrological recovery following large vegetation disturbances from a mega earthquake on the eastern Tibetan plateau. Journal of Hydrology, 651, 132595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132595

Biederman, J. A., Zhang, F., Dannenberg, M. P., Yan, D., Reed, S. C., & Smith, W. K. (2024). Reply to Comment on “Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States.” Geophysical Research Letters, 51(1), e2023GL105124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105124

Ho, J. H., Johnston, M. R., Dannenberg, M. P., Cabon, A., & Moorcroft, P. R. (2024). Sensitivity of sub-annual grey pine (Pinus sabiniana) stem growth to water supply and demand in central California. Dendrochronologia, 87, 126253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2024.126253 

Javadian, M., Scott, R. L., Woodgate, W., Richardson, A. D., Dannenberg, M. P., & Smith, W. K. (2024). Canopy temperature dynamics are closely aligned with ecosystem water availability across a water- to energy-limited gradient. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 357, 110206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110206

Kannenberg, S. A., Anderegg, W. R. L., Barnes, M. L., Dannenberg, M. P., & Knapp, A. K. (2024). Dominant role of soil moisture in mediating carbon and water fluxes in dryland ecosystems. Nature Geoscience, 17(1), 38–43. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01351-8

Maxwell, J. T., Au, T. F., Kannenberg, S. A., Harley, G. L., Dannenberg, M. P., Ficklin, D. L., Robeson, S. M., Ferriz, M., Lockwood, B. R., Novick, K. A., Phillips, R. P., Rochner, M. L., & Pederson, N. (2024). Asymmetric effects of hydroclimate extremes on eastern US tree growth: Implications on current demographic shifts and climate variability. Global Change Biology, 30(8), e17474. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17474 

Novick, K. A., Ficklin, D. L., Grossiord, C., Konings, A. G., Martínez, J., Sadok, W., Trugman, A. T., Williams, A. P., Wright, A. J., Abatzoglou, J. T., Dannenberg, M. P., Gentine, P., Guan, K., Johnston, M. R., Lowman, L. E. L., Moore, D. J. P., & McDowell, N. G. (2024). The impacts of rising vapour pressure deficit in natural and managed ecosystems. Plant Cell and Environment, 47(9), 3561–3589. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14846

Wise, E. K., Dannenberg, M. P., & McCabe, G. J. (2024). The Role of the Great Plains Low‐Level Jet in Moisture Transport, Streamflow, and Flooding in the Missouri River Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(24), e2024JD041066. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041066

Atkins, J. W., Costanza, J., Dahlin, K. M., Dannenberg, M. P., Elmore, A. J., Fitzpatrick, M. C., Hakkenberg, C. R., Hardiman, B. S., Kamoske, A., LaRue, E. A., Silva, C. A., Stovall, A. E. L., & Tielens, E. K. (2023). Scale dependency of lidar‐derived forest structural diversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), 708–723. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14040

Dannenberg, M. P., Barnes, M. L., Smith, W. K., Johnston, M. R., Meerdink, S. K., Wang, X., Scott, R. L., & Biederman, J. A. (2023). Upscaling dryland carbon and water fluxes with artificial neural networks of optical, thermal, and microwave satellite remote sensing. Biogeosciences, 20(2), 383–404. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-383-2023

Dannenberg, M. P., & Johnston, M. R. (2023). Effects of eastern vs. Central Pacific El Niño on Northern Hemisphere photosynthetic seasonality. Environmental Research: Climate, 2(3), 031002. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/accb02

Lee, C. C., & Dannenberg, M. P. (2023). Frequencies of multivariate air masses drive tree growth. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128(3), e2022JG007064. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007064

Scott, R. L., Johnston, M. R., Knowles, J. F., MacBean, N., Mahmud, K., Roby, M. C., & Dannenberg, M. P. (2023). Interannual variability of spring and summer monsoon growing season carbon exchange at a semiarid savanna over nearly two decades. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 339, 109584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109584

Dannenberg, M. P. (2021). Modeling tree radial growth in a warming climate: Where, when, and how much do potential evapotranspiration models matter? Environmental Research Letters, 16(8), 084017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1292

Dannenberg, M. P., Smith, W. K., Zhang, Y., Song, C., Huntzinger, D. N., & Moore, D. J. P. (2021). Large-scale reductions in terrestrial carbon uptake following central Pacific El Niño. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(7), e2020GL092367. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092367

Norton, C. L., Dannenberg, M. P., Yan, D., Wallace, C. S. A., Rodriguez, J. R., Munson, S. M., Van Leeuwen, W. J. D., & Smith, W. K. (2021). Climate and Socioeconomic Factors Drive Irrigated Agriculture Dynamics in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Remote Sensing, 13(9), 1659. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091659

Zhang, F., Biederman, J. A., Dannenberg, M. P., Yan, D., Reed, S. C., & Smith, W. K. (2021). Five decades of observed daily precipitation reveal longer and more variable drought events across much of the western United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(7), e2020GL092293. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092293

Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Sun, G., Song, C., Dannenberg, M. P., Li, J., Liu, N., Zhang, K., Zhang, Q., & Hao, L. (2021). Vegetation greening weakened the capacity of water supply to China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(10), 5623–5640. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5623-2021

Zhang, Y., Song, C., Hwang, T., Novick, K., Coulston, J. W., Vose, J., Dannenberg, M. P., Hakkenberg, C. R., Mao, J., & Woodcock, C. E. (2021). Land cover change-induced decline in terrestrial gross primary production over the conterminous United States from 2001 to 2016. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 308–309, 108609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108609

Dannenberg, M. P., Song, C., Wise, E. K., Pederson, N., & Bishop, D. A. (2020). Delineating environmental stresses to primary production of U.S. forests from tree rings: Effects of climate seasonality, soil, and topography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125(2), e2019JG005499. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005499

Dannenberg, M., Wang, X., Yan, D., & Smith, W. (2020). Phenological characteristics of global ecosystems based on optical, fluorescence, and microwave remote sensing. Remote Sensing, 12(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12040671

Hakkenberg, C. R., Dannenberg, M. P., Song, C., & Vinci, G. (2020). Automated Continuous Fields Prediction from Landsat Time Series: Application to Fractional Impervious Cover. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 17(1), 132–136. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2915320

Wang, X., Dannenberg, M. P., Yan, D., Jones, M. O., Kimball, J. S., Moore, D. J. P., Leeuwen, W. J. D., Didan, K., & Smith, W. K. (2020). Globally Consistent Patterns of Asynchrony in Vegetation Phenology Derived From Optical, Microwave, and Fluorescence Satellite Data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005732

Dannenberg, M. P., Wise, E. K., & Smith, W. K. (2019). Reduced tree growth in the semiarid United States due to asymmetric responses to intensifying precipitation extremes. Science Advances, 5(10), eaaw0667. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw0667

Hakkenberg, C. R., Dannenberg, M. P., Song, C., & Ensor, K. B. (2019). Characterizing multi-decadal, annual land cover change dynamics in Houston, TX based on automated classification of Landsat imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40(2), 693–718. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1516318

Smith, W. K., Dannenberg, M. P., Yan, D., Herrmann, S., Barnes, M. L., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Biederman, J. A., Ferrenberg, S., Fox, A. M., Hudson, A. R., Knowles, J. F., MacBean, N., Moore, D. J. P., Nagler, P. L., Reed, S. C., Rutherford, W. A., Scott, R. L., Wang, X., & Yang, J. (2019). Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities. Remote Sensing of Environment, 233, 111401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111401

Wise, E. K., & Dannenberg, M. P. (2019). Climate Factors Leading to Asymmetric Extreme Capture in the Tree-Ring Record. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(6), 3408–3416. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082295

Zhang, Y., Dannenberg, M. P., Hwang, T., & Song, C. (2019). El Niño–Southern Oscillation-induced variability of terrestrial gross primary production during the satellite era. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(8), 2419–2431. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005117

Dannenberg, M. P., Song, C., & Hakkenberg, C. R. (2018). A long-term, consistent land cover history of the southeastern United States. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 84(9), 35–44.

Dannenberg, M. P., Wise, E. K., Janko, M., Hwang, T., & Smith, W. K. (2018). Atmospheric teleconnection influence on North American land surface phenology. Environmental Research Letters, 13(3), 034029. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa85a

Tucker, C., Yan, D., Dannenberg, M., Reed, S. C., & Smith, W. (2018). Science at the frontier: Multimethod research to evaluate ecosystem change across multiple scales. New Phytologist, 218(4), 1318–1320. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15195

Dannenberg, M. P., & Wise, E. K. (2017). Shifting Pacific storm tracks as stressors to ecosystems of western North America. Global Change Biology, 23(11), 4896–4906. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13748

Wise, E. K., & Dannenberg, M. P. (2017). Reconstructed storm tracks reveal three centuries of changing moisture delivery to North America. Science Advances, 3(6), e1602263. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602263

Dannenberg, M. P., Hakkenberg, C. R., & Song, C. (2016). Consistent classification of landsat time series with an improved automatic adaptive signature generalization algorithm. Remote Sensing, 8(8), 691. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8080691

Dannenberg, M. P., & Wise, E. K. (2016). Seasonal climate signals from multiple tree-ring metrics: A case study of Pinus ponderosa in the upper Columbia River basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 121, 1178–1189. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JG003155

Dannenberg, M. P., Song, C., Hwang, T., & Wise, E. K. (2015). Empirical evidence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation influence on land surface phenology and productivity in the western United States. Remote Sensing of Environment, 159, 167–180.

Wise, E. K., Wrzesien, M. L., Dannenberg, M. P., & McGinnis, D. L. (2015). Cool-season precipitation patterns associated with teleconnection interactions in the United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 54(2), 494–505. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0040.1

Wise, E. K., & Dannenberg, M. P. (2014). Persistence of pressure patterns over North America and the North Pacific since AD 1500. Nature Communications, 5, 4912.

Dannenberg, M. P., & Wise, E. K. (2013). Performance of climate field reconstruction methods over multiple seasons and climate variables. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118(17), 9595–9610. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50765

Song, C., Dannenberg, M. P., & Hwang, T. (2013). Optical remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystem primary productivity. Progress in Physical Geography, 37(6), 834–854. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133313507944