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Publications Citing Land Surface Data
List of peer-reviewed publications that cite using Land Surface data.
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| Enhanced peak growth of global vegetation and its key mechanisms | Huang, Kun, Xia, Jianyang, Wang, Yingping, Ahlstrom, Anders, Chen, Jiquan, Cook, Robert B., Cui, Erqian, Fang, Yuanyuan, Fisher, Joshua B., Huntzinger, Deborah Nicole, Li, Zhao, Michalak, Anna M., Qiao, Yang, Schaefer, Kevin, Schwalm, Christopher, Wang, Jing, Wei, Yaxing, Xu, Xiaoni, Yan, Liming, Bian, Chenyu, Luo, Yiqi | Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen Compounds, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Precipitation Amount, Agricultural Lands, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Soil Chemistry, Soil Classification, Nitrogen Oxides, Forest Yields, Land Resources, Land Use Classes, Discharge, Soil Depth, Biomass, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Albedo, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Carbon, Respiration Rate, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Runoff | ||
| Estimating mangrove aboveground biomass from airborne LiDAR data: a case study from the Zambezi River delta | Fatoyinbo, Temilola, Feliciano, Emanuelle A, Lagomasino, David, Lee, Seung Kuk, Trettin, Carl | Coastal, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Mangroves, Canopy Characteristics, Terrain Elevation, Lidar, Biomass | ||
| Estimating river accommodation capacity for organic pollutants in data-scarce areas | Zhao, C.S., Yang, S.T., Sun, Y., Zhang, H.T., Sun, C.L., Xu, T.R., Lim, R.P., Mitrovic, S.M. | Land Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| Estimating Soil Evaporation Using Drying Rates Determined from | Small, Eric E., Badger, Andrew M., Abolafia-Rosenzweig, Ronnie, Livneh, Ben | Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Surface Pressure, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Convection, Surface Winds, Rain, Land Surface Temperature, Brightness Temperature |
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| Estimating live fuel moisture from MODIS satellite data for wildfire danger assessment in Southern California USA | Myoung, Boksoon, Kim, Seung, Nghiem, Son, Jia, Shenyue, Whitney, Kristen, Kafatos, Menas | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Reflectance |
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| Estimation of black carbon emissions from Siberian fires using satellite observations of absorption and extinction optical depths | Konovalov, Igor B., Lvova, Daria A., Beekmann, Matthias, Jethva, Hiren, Mikhailov, Eugene F., Paris, Jean-Daniel, Belan, Boris D., Kozlov, Valerii S., Ciais, Philippe, Andreae, Meinrat O. | Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance |
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| Estimation of land surface temperature from three thermal infrared channels of MODIS data for dust aerosol skies | Fan, Xiwei, Nie, Gaozhong, Wu, Hua, Tang, Bo-Hui | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| Estimation of landscape soil water losses from satellite observations of soil moisture | Akbar, Ruzbeh, Short Gianotti, Daniel J., McColl, Kaighin A., Haghighi, Erfan, Salvucci, Guido D., Entekhabi, Dara | Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff | ||
| Environmental predictors of forest changeAn analysis of natural predisposition to deforestation in the tropical Andes region, Peru | Bax, Vincent, Francesconi, Wendy | Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Deforestation, Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Global prediction of photovoltaic field performance differences using open-source satellite data | Peters, Ian Marius, Liu, Haohui, Reindl, Thomas, Buonassisi, Tonio | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Global relationships among traditional reflectance vegetation indices (NDVI and NDII), evapotranspiration (ET), and soil moisture variability on weekly timescales | Joiner, Joanna, Yoshida, Yasuko, Anderson, Martha, Holmes, Thomas, Hain, Christopher, Reichle, Rolf, Koster, Randal, Middleton, Elizabeth, Zeng, Fan-Wei | Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance |
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| Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools | Seebens, Hanno, Blackburn, Tim M., Dyer, Ellie E., Genovesi, Piero, Hulme, Philip E., Jeschke, Jonathan M., Pagad, Shyama, Pysek, Petr, van Kleunen, Mark, Winter, Marten, Ansong, Michael, Arianoutsou, Margarita, Bacher, Sven, Blasius, Bernd, Brockerhoff, Eckehard G., Brundu, Giuseppe, Capinha, Cesar, Causton, Charlotte E., Celesti-Grapow, Laura, Dawson, Wayne, Dullinger, Stefan, Economo, Evan P., Fuentes, Nicol, Guenard, Benoit, Jager, Heinke, Kartesz, John, Kenis, Marc, Kuhn, Ingolf, Lenzner, Bernd, Liebhold, Andrew M., Mosena, Alexander, Moser, Dietmar, Nentwig, Wolfgang, Nishino, Misako, Pearman, David, Pergl, Jan, Rabitsch, Wolfgang, Rojas-Sandoval, Julissa, Roques, Alain, Rorke, Stephanie, Rossinelli, Silvia, Roy, Helen E., Scalera, Riccardo, Schindler, Stefan, Stajerova, Katerina, Tokarska-Guzik, Barbara, Walker, Kevin, Ward, Darren F., Yamanaka, Takehiko, Essl, Franz | Forest Yields, Land Resources, Land Use Classes | ||
| Global validation of MODIS nearsurface air and dew point temperatures | Famiglietti, Caroline A., Fisher, Joshua B., Halverson, Gregory, Borbas, Eva E. | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Albedo, Reflectance, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Atmospheric Pressure Measurements, Surface Pressure, Atmospheric Stability, Surface Temperature, Air Temperature, Boundary Layer Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Maximum/Minimum Temperature, Skin Temperature, Vertical Profiles, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Condensation, Water Vapor Profiles, Rain Storms, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Greenland ice sheet surface melt and its relation to daily atmospheric conditions | Cullather, Richard I., Nowicki, Sophie M. J. | Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Atmospheric Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties, Albedo, Emissivity, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Heat Flux, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Profiles, Relative Humidity, Ozone Profiles, Snow Melt, Snow Melt |
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| Greenhouse Gas Production and Transport in Desert Soils of the Southwestern United States | Oerter, Erik, Mills, Jennifer V., Maurer, Gregory E., Lammers, Laura Nielsen, Amundson, Ronald | Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Air Temperature, Soil Respiration, Precipitation Amount | ||
| Agricultural fire impacts on ozone photochemistry over the Yangtze River Delta region, East China | Li, Mengmeng, Wang, Tijian, Xie, Min, Li, Shu, Zhuang, Bingliang, Chen, Pulong, Huang, Xin, Han, Yong | Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES | ||
| Accelerated Nutrient Cycling and Increased Light Competition Will Lead to 21st Century Shrub Expansion in North American Arctic Tundra | Mekonnen, Zelalem A., Riley, William J., Grant, Robert F. | Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen Compounds, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Precipitation Amount, Agricultural Lands, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Soil Chemistry, Soil Classification, Nitrogen Oxides | ||
| Aerosol optical depth retrieval from Landsat 8 OLI images over urban areas supported by MODIS BRDF/Albedo data | Tian, Xinpeng, Liu, Qiang, Song, Zhenwei, Dou, Baocheng, Li, Xiuhong | Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy | ||
| Air quality and human health impacts of grasslands and shrublands in the United States | Gopalakrishnan, Varsha, Hirabayashi, Satoshi, Ziv, Guy, Bakshi, Bhavik R. | Leaf Characteristics, Radiative Forcing, Land Use Classes | ||
| Analysis and modelling of surface Urban Heat Island in 20 Canadian cities under climate and land-cover change | Gaur, Abhishek, Eichenbaum, Markus Kalev, Simonovic, Slobodan P. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| An open-boundary locally weighted dynamic time warping method for cropland mapping | Guan, Xudong, Liu, Gaohuan, Huang, Chong, Meng, Xuelian, Liu, Qingsheng, Wu, Chunsheng, Ablat, Xarapat, Chen, Zhuoran, Wang, Qiang | Reflectance | ||
| An operational land surface temperature product for Landsat thermal dataMethodology and validation | Malakar, Nabin K., Hulley, Glynn C., Hook, Simon J., Laraby, Kelly, Cook, Monica, Schott, John R. | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| Analysis of Hydrochemical Characteristics and Three-Dimensional Fluorescence Spectra in the Semi-Arid Ebinur Lake Watershed, Xinjiang, China | Zhang, Haiwei, Zhang, Fei, Song, Jia | Leaf Characteristics, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Soil Bulk Density, Soil Chemistry, Soil Temperature | ||
| Analysis of multiple images for edge detection of Sobradinho Reservoir, in Bahia, Brazil | Tavares Junior, Joao Rodrigues, Santos, Jhonathan Gomes dos, Candeias, Ana Lucia Bezerra | Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps | ||
| Analysis of optimal thresholds for identification of open water using MODIS-derived spectral indices for two coastal wetland systems in Mexico | Colditz, Rene R., Troche Souza, Carlos, Vazquez, Berenice, Wickel, Albertus J., Ressl, Rainer | Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Reflectance, Anisotropy |