Helen Greatrix

Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing and Geo-statistics

211 Walker
University Park, PA
hlg5155@psu.edu
814-865-1625

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Insect Biodiversity Center

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Rainfall Climate Weather Insurance Africa Monitoring Index Risk Management Drought Agriculture Mitigation India Disaster Pandemics Calibration Temperature Natural Disaster Coronavirus Equity Cause Livelihood Rain Satellite Data Need Forecast

Most Recent Publications

Recommendations for improved tropical cyclone formation and position probabilistic Forecast products

Jason P. Dunion, Chris Davis, Helen Titley, Helen Greatrex, Munehiko Yamaguchi, John Methven, Raghavendra Ashrit, Zhuo Wang, Hui Yu, Anne Claire Fontan, Alan Brammer, Matthew Kucas, Matthew Ford, Philippe Papin, Fernando Prates, Carla Mooney, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Paromita Chakraborty, Andrew Burton, Mark DeMaria, Ryan Torn, Jonathan L. Vigh, 2023, Tropical Cyclone Research and Review on p. 241-258

Causes, impacts, and mitigation strategies of urban pluvial floods in India: A systematic review

Harman Singh, Miriam Nielsen, Helen Greatrex, 2023, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Verification of operational numerical weather prediction model forecasts of precipitation using satellite rainfall estimates over Africa

Yan Wang, Moussa Gueye, Steven J. Greybush, Helen Greatrex, Andrew J. Whalen, Paddy Ssentongo, Fuqing Zhang, Gregory S. Jenkins, Steven J. Schiff, 2023, Meteorological Applications

An Information-Theoretic Approach to Reconciling Historical Climate Observations and Impacts on Agriculture

Max Mauerman, Emily Black, Victoria L. Boult, Rahel Diro, Dan Osgood, Helen Greatrex, Thabbie Chillongo, 2022, Weather, Climate, and Society on p. 1321-1337

Causal Chains Linking Weather Hazards to Disasters in Somalia

Tatiana Gumucio, Helen Greatrex, Erin Lentz, 2022, Weather, Climate, and Society on p. 849-860

Flood Risk and Monitoring Data for Preparedness and Response: From Availability to Use

Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Mélody Braun, Shanna McClain, Helen Greatrex, Lace Padilla, Laura Hoffman-Hernandez, 2021, on p. 289-306

Pan-African evolution of within- And between-country COVID-19 dynamics

P Ssentongo, C Fronterre, Andrew Geronimo, Steven J. Greybush, P Mbabazi, J Muvawala, S Nahalamba, P Omadi, B Opar, S Sinnar, Y Wang, A Whalen, L Held, C Jewell, Abraham J.B. Muwanguzi, Muwanguzi AJB, Helen Greatrex, M Norton, P Diggle, S Schiff, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

The spatial correlation structure of rainfall at the local scale over southern Ghana

Jennifer Israelsson, Emily Black, Cláudia Neves, Francis Feehi Torgbor, Helen Greatrex, Michael Tanu, Patrick Nii Lante Lamptey, 2020, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies on p. 100720

TAMSAT

Ross Maidment, Emily Black, Helen Greatrex, Matthew Young, 2020, on p. 393-407

TAMSAT

Ross Maidment, Emily Black, Helen Greatrex, Matthew Young, 2020, on p. 393-407

Most-Cited Papers

A new, long-term daily satellite-based rainfall dataset for operational monitoring in Africa

Ross I. Maidment, David Grimes, Emily Black, Elena Tarnavsky, Matthew Young, Helen Greatrex, Richard P. Allan, Thorwald Stein, Edson Nkonde, Samuel Senkunda, Edgar Misael Uribe Alcántara, 2017, Scientific data

Impact of progressive global warming on the global-scale yield of maize and soybean

Gillian Rose, Tom Osborne, Helen Greatrex, Tim Wheeler, 2016, Climatic Change on p. 417-428

Index insurance and climate risk management: Addressing social equity

Eleanor Fisher, Jon Hellin, Helen Greatrex, Nathaniel Jensen, 2019, ODI Review on p. 581-602

The use of remotely sensed rainfall for managing drought risk: A case study of weather index insurance in Zambia

Emily Black, Elena Tarnavsky, Ross Maidment, Helen Greatrex, Agrotosh Mookerjee, Tristan Quaife, Matthew Brown, 2016, Remote Sensing on p. 342

Pan-African evolution of within- And between-country COVID-19 dynamics

Incorporating satellite data into weather index insurance

Emily Black, Helen Greatrex, Matthew Young, Ross Maidment, 2016, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society on p. ES203-ES206

Hydrological modelling using ensemble satellite rainfall estimates in a sparsely gauged river basin: The need for whole-ensemble calibration

J. Christopher Skinner, J. Timothy Bellerby, Helen Greatrex, David F.D. Grimes, 2015, Journal of Hydrology on p. 110-122