Professor Robert Gurney

Room No:
183 ESSC
PhoneNo:
8741
Email:
r.j.gurney@reading.ac.uk
Job Title:
Professor and Academic Lead for Space/Earth Observation Research in the University
Responsibilities:
Theme leader for Space and Earth Observation
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Personal
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Recent Publications:
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Number of items: 24.

2012

Davenport, I., Sandells, M. and Gurney, R. (2012) The effects of variation in snow properties on passive microwave snow mass estimation. Remote Sensing of the Environment, 118 (1). pp. 161-175. ISSN 0034-4257 doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.11.014

2010

Sandells, M., Flerchinger, G., Gurney, R. and Marks, D. (2010) Physics-based modelling for remote sensing of snow. In: British Hydrological Society Third International Symposium: Role of Hydrology in Managing Consequences of a Changing Global Environment, 19-23 July 2010, Newcastle University, UK.

Froude, E. S. R. and Gurney, R. J. (2010) Storm prediction research and its application to the oil/gas industry. In: Management of Weather and Climate Risk in the Energy Industry. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, pp. 241-252. ISBN 9789048136902 doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-3692-6_16

Davenport, I. J., Sandells, M. J. and Gurney, R. J. (2010) The effects of variation in snow properties on snow mass estimation using the Chang algorithm. In: British Hydrological Society Third International Symposium, 2010, 19th July 2010 to 23rd July 2010, Newcastle, UK.

2009

Clifford, D., Gurney, R. J. and Haines, K. (2009) Effect of ENSO phase on large-scale snow water equivalent distribution in a GCM. Journal of Climate, 22 (23). pp. 6153-6167. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: 10.1175/2009JCLI2993.1

Winstral, A., Marks, D. and Gurney, R. (2009) An efficient method for distributing wind speeds over heterogeneous terrain. Hydrological Processes, 23 (17). pp. 2526-2535. ISSN 0885-6087 doi: 10.1002/hyp.7141

Putt, D., Haines, K., Gurney, R. J. and Liu, C. L. (2009) Land surface anomaly simulations and predictions with a climate model: an El Nino Southern Oscillation case study. Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367 (1890). pp. 799-1056. ISSN 1364-503X doi: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0182

Marks, D., Hock, R., Lehning, M., Hayashi, M. and Gurney, R., eds. (2009) Hydrology in mountain regions: observations, processes and dynamics. IAHS proceedings and reports (326). IAHS Press. ISBN 9781901502893

2008

Sandells, M. J., Davenport, I. J. and Gurney, R. J. (2008) Passive L-band microwave soil moisture retrieval error arising from topography in otherwise uniform scenes. Advances in Water Resources, 31 (11). pp. 1433-1443. ISSN 0309-1708 doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.01.012

Davenport, I. J., Sandells, M. J. and Gurney, R. J. (2008) The effects of scene heterogeneity on soil moisture retrieval from passive microwave data. Advances in Water Resources, 31 (11). pp. 1494-1502. ISSN 0309-1708 doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.06.002

2007

Wigneron, J. -P., Kerr, Y., Waldteufel, P., Saleh, K., Richaume, P., Ferrazzoli, P., Escorihuela, M. -J., Grant, J. P., Hornbuckle, B., de Rosnay, P., Calvet, J. -C., Pellarin, T., Gurney, R. J. and Mätzler, C. (2007) L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields. Remote Sensing of Environment, 107 (4). pp. 639-655. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.10.014

2006

Wigneron, J.-P., Kerr, Y., Waldteufel, P., Ferrazzoli, P., Richaume, P., Saleh, K., Calvet, J.-C., Chanzy, A., Demontoux, F., de Rosnay, P., Escorihuela, M.-J., Fenollar, J., Grant, J.P., Gurney, R.J., Hornbuckle, B., Kruszewski, A., Lopez-Baeza, E., Mätzler, C., Pellarin, T., Ruffie, G., Schwank, M., Van de Griend, A., Mahmoodi, A. and Delwart, S. (2006) Recent advances in modelling the land surface emission at L-band - Application to L-MEB in the operational SMOS algorithm. In: International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing, Valencia, 6pp.

Gurney, R.J. and Sapiano, M.R.P. (2006) S10: State-of-Science Review: Earth observation. In: UK Government's Foresight project: Infectious diseases: preparing for the future. UNSPECIFIED, London.

Tribbeck, M. J., Gurney, R. J. and Morris, E. M. (2006) The radiative effect of a fir canopy on a snowpack. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7 (5). pp. 880-895. ISSN 1525-755X

2005

Houldcroft, C. J., Campbell, C. L., Davenport, I. J., Gurney, R. J. and Holden, N. (2005) Measurement of canopy geometry characteristics using LiDAR laser altimetry: A feasibility study. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 43 (10). pp. 2270-2282.

Davenport, I. J., Fernandez-Galvez, J. and Gurney, R. J. (2005) A sensitivity analysis of soil moisture retrieval from the Tau-Omega microwave emission model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 43 (6). pp. 1304-1316.

2004

Davenport, I.J., Holden, N. and Gurney, R.J. (2004) Characterising errors in airborne laser altimetry data to extract soil roughness. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 42 (10). pp. 2130-2141.

Gurney, R.J. and Haines, K. (2004) Grid technology for marine science from ESSC. In: Knowledge Transfer and Public Sector Research Establishments (PSREs). DTI, London, pp. 20-21.

Gurney, R. J. (2004) Hydrology: Science and practice for the 21st century. In: British Hydrological Society International Conference, Imperial College, London.

Fernandez-Galvez, J., Davenport, I.J., Gurney, R. J. and Simmonds, L.P. (2004) Limits on soil moisture retrieval from microwaveradiometry imposed by the Tau-Omega model and available supporting information. In: Fourth International Conference on Land Degradation., Cartagena, Murcia, Spain.

Fernandez-Galvez, J., Simmonds, L.P., Davenport, I.J. and Gurney, R. J. (2004) Relief effects on soil moisture retrievals from passive microwave emission. In: Fourth International Conference on Land Degradation., Cartagena, Murcia, Spain.

Tribbeck, M. J., Gurney, R. J., Morris, E. M. and Pearson, D. W. C. (2004) A new Snow-SVAT to simulate the accumulation and ablation of seasonal snow cover beneath a forest canopy. Journal of glaciology, 50 (169). pp. 171-182. ISSN 0022-1430 doi: 10.3189/172756504781830187

Davenport, I.J., Fernandez-Galvez, J. and Gurney, R. J. (2004) A sensitivity analysis of soil moisture retrieval from the t-w microwave emission model. In: IGARSS 2004.

2003

Bengtsson, L., Robinson, G. , Anthes, R., Aonashi, K., Bingley, R., Cannon, P., Dodson, A., Elgered, G., Gendt, G., Gurney, R., Jitai, M., Latham, N., Marquardt, C., Mitchell, C., Mlaki, M., Nash, J., Offiler, D., Rhodin, A., Silvestrin, P., Ware, R., Watson, R. and Wergen, W. (2003) Workshop on the use of GPS measurements for water vapour determination. Bulletin of the AMS, 84. pp. 1249-1258.

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