Last updated:
2013-05-21
Peer Reviewed Papers
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Ninari N. and Berliner P.R. 2002. The role of dew in the water and
heat balance of bare Loess soil in the Negev
Desert: Quantifying the actual dew deposition on
the soil surface. Atmospheric Research,
64, 325-336. |
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Agam (Ninari) N. and
Berliner P.R. 2004. Diurnal water content
changes in the bare soil of a coastal desert.
Journal of Hydrometeorology,
5,
922-933. |
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Agam (Ninari) N.,
Berliner P.R., Zangvil A. and Ben-Dor E.
2004.
Soil water evaporation during the dry season in
an arid zone. Journal of Geophysical
Research – Atmosphere, 109, D16103,
doi:10.1029/2004JD004802. |
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[4] |
Ben-Ze’ev E.,
Karnieli A., Agam N., Kaufman Y. and Holben B.
2006. Assessing vegetation condition in the presence
of biomass burning smoke by applying the
Aerosol-Free Vegetation Index (AFRI) on MODIS
images.
International Journal of Remote Sensing,
27, 3203–3221. |
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Agam N. and Berliner P.R. 2006. Dew formation and water-vapor adsorption in
semi-arid environments - A review.
Journal of Arid Environments,
65,
572-590. |
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[6] |
Karnieli
A., Bayasgalan M., Bayarjargal Yu., Agam N.,
Khudulmur S. and Tucker C.J.
2006. Comments on the
use of the Vegetation Health Index over
Mongolia. International Journal of Remote
Sensing,
27, 2017-2024. |
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Agam N., Kustas W.P., Anderson M.C., Li F. and Neale C.M.U.
2007. A vegetation index based technique
for spatial sharpening of thermal imagery. Remote
Sensing of Environment,
107, 545-558. |
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[8] |
Agam N., Kustas W.P., Anderson M.C., Li F. and
Colaizzi P.D. 2007. Utility of thermal
sharpening over Texas High Plains irrigated
agricultural field.
Journal of Geophysical
Research – Atmosphere,
112, D19110, doi:10.1029/2007JD008407. |
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[9] |
Katata G., Haruyasu N., Ueda H., Agam N. and
Berliner P.R. 2007.
Development of a land surface model including
evaporation and adsorption processes in the soil
for the land-air exchange at arid regions. Journal
of Hydrometeorology,
8,
1307–1324. |
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[10] |
Agam N., Kustas W.P., Anderson M.C., Li F. and
Colaizzi P.D. 2008.
Utility of thermal image sharpening for
monitoring field-scale evapotranspiration over
rainfed and irrigated agricultural regions.
Geophysical Research Letters,
35, L02402,
doi:10.1029/2007GL032195. |
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[11] |
Anderson M.C., Norman J.M., Kustas W.P., Houborg
R., Starks P.J., and Agam N.,
2008. Mapping
coupled carbon and water fluxes at the land
surface using thermal remote sensing data.
Remote Sensing of
Environment, 112, 4227–4241. |
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[12] |
Ben-Gal A., Agam N., Alchanatis V.,
Cohen Y., Yermiyahu U., Zipori I., Presnov E.,
Sprintsin M. and Dag A.
2009.
Evaluating water stress in irrigated olives:
correlation of soil water status, tree water
status, and thermal imagery.
Irrigation Science,
27, 367-376. |
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[13] |
Karnieli A., Agam N., Pinker R.T.,
Anderson M.C., Imhoff M.L., Gutman G.G., Panov N.
and Goldberg A. 2010.
Use of NDVI and land surface temperature for
drought assessment: Merits and limitations.
Journal of Climate,
23, 618-633. |
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Agam N., Kustas W.P., Anderson M.C.,
Norman J.M., Colaizzi P.D., Howell T.A., Prueger
J.H., Meyers T. and Wilson T.
2010. Application
of the Priestley-Taylor Approach in a Two-Source
Surface Energy Balance Model. Journal
of Hydrometeorology, 11, 185-198. |
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[15] |
Ben-Gal A., Kool D., Agam N., van Halsema
G.E., Yermiyahu U., Yafe A., Presnov E., Erel
R., Majdop A., Zipori I., Segal E., Rüger S.,
Zimmermann U., Cohen Y., Alchanatis V., Dag A.
2010. Whole-tree
water balance and indicators for short-term
drought stress in non-bearing ‘Barnea’ olives.
Agricultural Water
Management, 98, 124-133. |
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Evett S.R., Agam N., Kustas W.P.,
Colaizzi P.D., Schwartz R.C.
2012. Soil
profile method for soil thermal diffusivity,
conductivity and heat flux: Comparison to soil
heat flux plates.
Advances in Water Resources, 50,
41-54. |
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Colaizzi P.D., Kustas W.P., Anderson M.C., Agam
N., Tolk J.A., Evett S.R., Howell T.A., Gowda
P.H., O’Shaughnessy S.A. 2012.
Two-source energy balance model estimates of
evapotranspiration using component and composite
surface temperatures.
Advances in Water Resources, 50,
134-151. |
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Alfieri J.G., Kustas W.P., Prueger J.H., Hipps
L.E., Evett S.R., Basara J.F., Neale C.M.U.,
French A.N., Collaizzi P.D., Agam N.,
Chavez J.L., Howell T.A.
2012. On the discrepancy between eddy
covariance and lysimetry-based surface flux
measurements under strongly advective
conditions. Advances in
Water Resources, 50, 62-78. |
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Agam N., Evett S.R., Tolk J.A., Kustas W.P.,
Colaizzi P.D., Alfieri J.G., McKee L.G.,
Copeland K.S., Howell T.A., Chávez J.L.
2012.
Evaporative loss from irrigated interrows in a
highly advective semi-arid agricultural area.
Advances in Water
Resources, 50, 20-30. |
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Agam N., Kustas W.P.,
Evett S.R., Colaizzi P.D., Cosh M., McKee
L.G.
2012. Soil heat flux variability
influenced by row direction in irrigated cotton.
Advances in Water
Resources, 50, 31-40. |
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Prueger J.H., Alfieri J.G., Hipps L.E., Kustas
W.P., Chavez J.L., Evett S.R., Anderson M.C.,
French A.N., Neale C.M.U., McKee L.G., Hatfield
J.L., Howell T.A., Agam N.
2012. Patch scale
turbulence over dryland and irrigated surfaces
in a semi-arid landscape during BEAREX08.
Advances in Water
Resources, 50, 106-119. |
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Agam N., Cohen Y., Berni J.A.J.,
Alchanatis V., Kool D., Dag A., Yermiyahu U.,
Ben-Gal A. 2013. An
Insight to the Performance of Crop Water Stress
Index for Olive Trees.
Agricultural Water Management, 118,
79-86. |
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Agam N., Cohen Y., Alchanatis V., Ben-Gal
A. 2013. How
sensitive is the CWSI to changes in solar
radiation?
International Journal of Remote Sensing,
in press. |
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Holland S., Heitman J.L., Howard A., Sauer T.J.,
Giese W., Ben-Gal A., Agam N., Kool D.,
and Havlin J. 2013.
Micro-Bowen Ratio System for Measuring
Evapotranspiration in a Vineyard Interrow.
Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, in press. |
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Book Chapters
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[1] |
Kustas W.P., Agam N. Soil Evaporation. In: Wang
Y.Q. (Ed.).
Encyclopedia of Natural Resources.
Taylor & Francis, New-York. In press. |
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My PhD Thesis
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The
contribution of dew to the water and heat
balance of bare soil in a desert area. |
Seminars I presented
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2012 - French Associates Institute for
Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob
Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research,
Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev, Sede-Boker campus, Israel. |
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2011 – Department of Soil and Water Sciences,
The Hebrew University,
Rehovot, Israel |
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2008 – Invited
seminar, Gilat research center,
The Agricultural Research
Organization of Israel, Gilat, Israel |
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2006 -
Department of Soil and Water
Sciences, The Hebrew
University, Rehovot, Israel. |
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2006 -
Department of
Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva,
Israel.
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2006 -
Institute of Agricultural Engineering,
The Agricultural Research
Organization of Israel, Bet-Dagan, Israel |
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2006 -
Invited seminar,
Geological Survey
of Israel,
Jerusalem, Israel.
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2006 -
Joint seminar of the Department of Environmental
Hydrology & Microbiology, Wyler Department of
Dryland Agriculture, and the Albert Katz
Department of Dryland Biotechnologies, Jacob Blaustein
Institutes for Desert Research,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede-Boker
campus, Israel. |
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2006 -
Invited seminar of the
College of Agriculture,
New Mexico State
University, Las Cruces, New-Mexico, USA.
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2004 -
Department of Environmental Sciences & Energy
Research, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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2004 -
Department of Geography and Environmental
Development, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva,
Israel. |
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2004 - Joint
seminar of the Department of Ecology and the
Department of Solar Energy and Environmental
Physics, Jacob Blaustein
Institutes for Desert Research,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede-Boker
campus, Israel. |
Conferences and Workshops
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Agam N., Kool D., Lazarovitch N., Heitman J.L.,
Sauer T.J., Ben-Gal A. (2012). Soil
evaporation in a drip-irrigated vineyard in a
desert area. The International Conference on
Drylands, Deserts and Desertification.
Sede-Boker campus, Israel.
Oral presentation
Agam N., Cohen
Y., Alchanatis V., Kool D., Ben-Gal A. (2011).
Diurnal dynamics of crop water stress index of
olive trees - what does it really tell us?
Dahlia Greidinger International Symposium –
AgriSensing 2011. Haifa, Israel.
Oral presentation.
Agam N., Evett
S.R., Tolk J.A., Kustas W.P. (2010).
Contribution of soil evaporation to total
evapotranspiration in irrigated fields in a
semi-arid region. The 51st Annual Meeting of
the Israeli Geography Association. Jerusalem,
Israel. Oral presentation.
Agam N., Evett
S.R., Tolk L.A., Kustas W.P., Ben-Gal A., Kool
D. (2010). Effect of Row Orientation on
Energy Balance Components in Irrigated Crops in
a Semi-Arid Environment. The 3rd International
Conference on Drylands, Deserts and
Desertification: The Route to Restoration.
Sede-Boker, Israel. Oral
presentation.
Agam N.,
Ben-Gal A., Cohen Y., Alchanatis V., Dag A.
(2009). Water status monitoring of olive
orchards by thermal remote sensing.
International Symposium on Olive Irrigation and
Oil Quality. Nazareth, Israel.
Oral presentation.
Agam N., Evett
S.R., Tolk J.A., and W.P. Kustas. (2009).
Evaporative Loss From the Interrow of Irrigated
Crops in a Semi-Arid Agricultural Area.
International Annual Meeting of the
ASA-CSSA-SSSA: Footprints in the Landscape:
Sustainability Through Plant and Soil Science.
Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Oral
presentation.
Agam N.,
Ben-Gal A., Cohen Y., and Alchanatis V. (2009).
Optimal Time-of-Day for Thermal Remote Sensing
of Water Stress in Olive Orchards.
International Annual Meeting of the
ASA-CSSA-SSSA: Footprints in the Landscape:
Sustainability Through Plant and Soil Science.
Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Oral
presentation.
Agam N.,
Ben-Gal A., Kustas W.P., Cohen Y., Anderson M.C.,
and Alchanatis V. (2009). Thermal remote
sensing of crop water status: pros and cons of
two different approaches. The Dhalia Greidinger
International Symposium: Crop Production in the
21st Century: Global Climate Change,
Environmental Risks and Water Scarcity. Haifa,
Israel. Invited lecture.
Agam N.,
Ben-Gal A., Cohen Y., Alchanatis V., Yermiyahu
U. and Dag A. (2008). Diurnal dynamics in the
detection of water stress in olive trees by
thermal remote sensing. Annual joint meeting of
the Israeli Soil Science Society and the Israeli
Agricultural Engeeniring Society. Haifa,
Israel. Oral
presentation, plenary session.
Agam N., Kustas
W.P., Anderson M.C., and Li F. (2008).
Enhancing the monitoring of field-scale
evapotranspiration by application of a technique
for spatial sharpening of thermal imagery.
Annual joint meeting of the Israeli Soil Science
Society and the Israeli Agricultural Engeeniring
Society. Haifa, Israel.
Oral presentation.
Agam N.,
Ben-Gal A., Cohen Y., Alchanatis V., Yermiyahu
U. and Dag A. (2008). Evaluation of optimal
time-of-day for detecting water stress in olive
trees by thermal remote sensing. The second
conference on Deserts, Drylands and
Desertification. Sede-Boker, Israel. Oral
presentation.
Karnieli A. And
Agam N. (2008). Merits and Limitations in
Assessing Droughts by Remote Sensing. The
second conference on Deserts, Drylands and
Desertification. Sede-Boker, Israel.
Oral presentation.
Agam N.,
Ben-Gal A., Alchanatis V., Cohen Y., Yermiyahu
U., Zippori Y., Presnov E., Sprintsin M., and
Dag A. (2008). Thermal remote sensing for
evaluating water stress in irrigated olives.
Irrigation Water Management in the Middle East:
A workshop for Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli
cooperative research, Antalya, Turkey.
Oral presentation.
Kustas W.P.,
Agam N., Anderson M.C., Li F.Q. and Colaizzi P.D.
(2007). Potential errors in the application of
thermal-based energy balance models with coarse
resolution data - art. no. 674208. Remote
Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and
Hydrology Ix 6742. 74208-74208.
Agam N., Kustas W.P., Anderson M.C. and Li F.
(2007). . The
18th Annual BARC Poster Day,
Beltsville, Maryland.
Agam N., Kustas W.P., Li F. and Anderson M.C.
(2006). Aggregation and disaggregation
techniques applied on remotely sensed data to
obtain optimum resolution for surface energy
fluxes estimation. EOS Transactions AGU,
87(36), Joint Assembly Suppl., Abstract H31A-04,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Oral presentation
Agam N., Kustas W.P., Anderson M.C. and Li F.
(2006). Utility and extention of land surface
temperature sharpening technique (TsHARP). The
17th Annual BARC Poster Day,
Beltsville, Maryland.
Agam N., Raz-Yaseef N., Rotenberg E. and Yakir
D. (2006). The relative contribution of the
uppermost soil layer to the total soil heat flux
at different timescales. 1st iLEAPS Science
Conference, Boulder, Colorado.
Agam N., Yakir D., Rotenberg E. & Raz-Yaseef N.
(2005). Soil heat flux and its role in the
energy balance of the Yatir forest. Living with
Global Change: Challenges in Environmental
Sciences, International Conference of the Israel
Society of Ecology and Environmental Quality
Sciences, Rehovot, Israel.
Agam N., & Berliner P.R. (2004). Soil Water
Adsorption and Evaporation During the Dry Season
in an Arid Zone. EOS Transactions AGU, 85(47),
Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract H13D-0455.
Agam (Ninari) N., Berliner P.R. & Zangvil A.
(2003). The role of diurnal soil water content
changes in the energy balance of a Loess soil in
a desert area. The Annual Meeting of the
Israeli Geography Association, Bar-Ilan,
Israel. Awarded for the best poster in contest
of students' posters.
Agam (Ninari) N., & Berliner P.R. (2003).
Diurnal changes in the water content of a bare
Loess soil during the dry season. The Annual
Meeting of the Israeli Geography Association,
Bar-Ilan, Israel. (In Hebrew).
Oral
presentation
Agam (Ninari) N., Berliner P.R. & Zangvil A.
(2003). Water absorption by a bare Loess soil
in a coastal desert. GLOWA – Jordan River
Annual Conference, Kefar-Giladi, Israel.
Agam (Ninari) N., Berliner P.R. & Zangvil A.
(2003). The effect of diurnal changes in soil
water content on the energy balance. GLOWA –
Jordan River Annual Conference, Kefar-Giladi,
Israel.
Ninari N. & Berliner P.R. (2003). Nighttime
water absorption by a bare Loess soil in a
coastal desert. Geophysical Research Abstracts,
5, #06249.
Ninari N. & Berliner P.R. (2002). The use of a
micro-lysimeter for measuring dew deposition on
the soil surface. The Annual meeting of the
Israeli Geography Association, Beer-Sheva,
Israel. 100. (In Hebrew).
Oral
presentation
Ninari N. & Berliner P.R. (2002). Nighttime
vertical fluxes of latent heat in arid regions.
The Annual meeting of the Israeli Geography
Association, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Ninari N. & Berliner P.R. (2001). The role of
dew in the water and heat balance of bare-soil
in the Negev desert. Second International
Conference on Fog and Fog Collection, St.
John’s, Canada. 321-324.
Oral presentation
Ninari N. & Berliner P.R. (2001). The
contribution of dew to the water and heat
balance of bare soil in a desert area. Workshop
on The Role of Dew in the Hydrological Cycle and
Ecological Systems of the Negev, Sede-Boqer,
Israel.
Oral presentation
Ninari N., Zangvil A. & Berliner P.R. (1998).
The contribution of dew to the water balance of
bare soil in a desert area. First International
Conference on Fog and Fog Collection, Vancouver,
Canada. 265-268.
Oral presentation |
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