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Amen Al-Yaari

Amen Al-Yaari

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2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
33
Citations
5137
World Ranking
922
National Ranking
8

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
36
Citations
6009
World Ranking
9099
National Ranking
417

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  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Amen Al-Yaari is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has a research focus intersecting Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their academic contributions span across several core subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering.

The primary topics covered by their work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate variability and models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Their recent scientific publications highlight areas of satellite soil moisture retrieval, vegetation optical depth monitoring, and the assessment of soil moisture over permafrost regions. Notable papers include:

  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors? (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Global Monitoring of the Vegetation Dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A Review (2020) published in Remote Sensing
  • Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • A first assessment of satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture over the permafrost region of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (2021) published in Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Amen Al-Yaari include Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Xiaojun Li, Frédéric Frappart, Lei Fan, and Xiangzhuo Liu. These partnerships reflect a network focused on remote sensing and environmental research.

The venues where they frequently publish indicate a specialized focus on remote sensing and environmental sciences, including Remote Sensing of Environment, Earth's Future, Remote Sensing, Global Change Biology, and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

Best Publications

  • Modelling the Passive Microwave Signature from Land Surfaces: A Review of Recent Results and Application to the L-Band SMOS SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

    J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: what are (the) errors?

    A. Gruber;G. de Lannoy;C. Albergel;A. Al-Yaari

  • Overview of SMOS performance in terms of global soil moisture monitoring after six years in operation

    Yann H. Kerr;A. Al-Yaari;N. Rodriguez-Fernandez;M. Parrens

  • SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives

    Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Xiaojun Li;Frédéric Frappart;Lei Fan

  • Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture datasets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to Land Data Assimilation System estimates

    A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;A. Ducharne;Y. Kerr

  • The global SMOS Level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness temperature maps

    Ahmad Al Bitar;Arnaud Mialon;Yann H. Kerr;Yann H. Kerr;François Cabot;François Cabot

  • SMOS-IC: An Alternative SMOS Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth Product

    Roberto Fernandez-Moran;Amen Al-Yaari;Arnaud Mialon;Ali Mahmoodi

  • Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics

    Lei Fan;Lei Fan;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Ciais;Jérôme Chave

  • Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands.

    Martin Brandt;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Jérôme Chave;Torbern Tagesson

  • Satellite-observed Major Greening and Biomass Increase in South China Karst During Recent Decade

    Martin Brandt;Yuemin Yue;Jean Pierre Wigneron;Xiaowei Tong

  • Assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite soil moisture products using ISMN ground-based measurements

    A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;W. Dorigo;A. Colliander

  • Global-Scale Comparison of Passive (SMOS) and Active (ASCAT) Satellite Based Microwave Soil Moisture Retrievals with Soil Moisture Simulations (MERRA-Land)

    A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;A. Ducharne;Y.H. Kerr

  • Global Monitoring of the Vegetation Dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A Review

    Frédéric Frappart;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Xiaojun Li;Xiangzhuo Liu

  • Coupling of ecosystem-scale plant water storage and leaf phenology observed by satellite

    Feng Tian;Feng Tian;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Ciais;Jérôme Chave

  • An evaluation of SMOS L-band vegetation optical depth (L-VOD) data sets: high sensitivity of L-VOD to above-ground biomass in Africa

    Nemesio J. Rodríguez-Fernández;Arnaud Mialon;Stephane Mermoz;Alexandre Bouvet

  • Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products

    Xiaojun Li;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Frédéric Frappart;Lei Fan

  • A first assessment of satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture over the permafrost region of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Zanpin Xing;Lei Fan;Lei Fan;Lin Zhao;Lin Zhao;Gabrielle De Lannoy

  • Evaluating soil moisture retrievals from ESA's SMOS and NASA's SMAP brightness temperature datasets.

    A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;Y. Kerr;N. Rodriguez-Fernandez

  • Evaluation of microwave remote sensing for monitoring live fuel moisture content in the Mediterranean region.

    Lei Fan;Lei Fan;J.-P. Wigneron;Qing Xiao;A. Al-Yaari

  • The merging of radiative transfer based surface soil moisture data from SMOS and AMSR-E

    R. van der Schalie;R.A.M. de Jeu;Y.H. Kerr;J.P. Wigneron

  • SMOS-IC: An alternative SMOS soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product

    Roberto Fernandez-Moran;Roberto Fernandez-Moran;Amen Al-Yaari;Arnaud Mialon;Ali Mahmoodi

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Arnaud Mialon
Arnaud Mialon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ahmad Al Bitar
Ahmad Al Bitar Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Philippe Richaume
Philippe Richaume Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Agnès Ducharne
Agnès Ducharne Sorbonne University
Martin Brandt
Martin Brandt University of Copenhagen
Rasmus Fensholt
Rasmus Fensholt University of Copenhagen
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University

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