Witold F. Krajewski

Joined the College of Engineering: 1987 

Education: Ph.D., Water Resources Systems, Warsaw University of Technology, 1980
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, 1976

Special Fields of Knowledge: Hydrology and hydrometeorology; radar and satellite remote sensing; water resources systems. 

Present Research Interests: Remote sensing of hydrologic processes; radar and satellite estimation of rainfall; statistical error structure of radar rainfall measurements; space-born radar systems; statistical modeling of rainfall fields; real-time hydrometeorological forecasting; uncertainty analysis in hydrology; distributed parameters hydrologic models; geographic information systems in hydrology; filtering theory applications in hydrology; atmospheric radiative transfer modeling. 

Selected Publications: 

• Krajewski, W.F., M.C. Anderson, W.E. Eichinger, D. Entekhabi, B.K. Hornbuckle, P.R. Houser, G.G. Katul, W. Kustas, J.M. Norman, C. Peters-Lidard, E.F. Wood, A Remote Sensing Observatory for hydrologic sciences: A genesis for scaling to continental hydrology, Water Resources Research, 42, W07301, doi:10.1029/2005WR004435, 2006.
• Gebremichael, M., W.F. Krajewski, M.L. Morrissey, G.J. Huffman, and R.F. Adler, A detailed evaluation of GPCP One-degree daily rainfall estimates over the Mississippi River Basin, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 44(5), 665–681, 2005.
• Anagnostou, E.N., M.N. Anagnostou, A. Kruger, W.F. Krajewski, and B. Miriovsky, High-resolution rainfall estimation from X-band polarimetric radar measurements, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 43(1), 106-118, 2004.
• Krajewski, W.F., G.J. Ciach, and E. Habib, An analysis of small-scale rainfall variability in different climatological regimes, Hydrologic Sciences Journal, 48(2), 151-162, 2003.
• Krajewski, W.F. and J.A. Smith, Radar hydrology: Rainfall estimation, Advances in Water Resources, 25, 1387–1394, 2002.

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: American Geophysical Union (Fellow), American Meteorological Society (Fellow); Editor for Advances in Water Resources; Board of Directors, Hydrologic Research Center; The University of Iowa Representative to the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science; Science Team Member of the Global Precipitation Measurement satellite mission.