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Christa D. Peters-Lidard

Christa D. Peters-Lidard

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
70
Citations
16700
World Ranking
1691
National Ranking
710

Christa D. Peters-Lidard publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christa D. Peters-Lidard sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 348 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Christa D. Peters-Lidard D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christa D. Peters-Lidard sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Christa D. Peters-Lidard is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions across multiple related subfields.

Their primary research areas include atmospheric science, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, water science and technology, and oceanography. The main topics explored in their publications cover precipitation measurement and analysis, soil moisture and remote sensing, meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, hydrology and drought analysis, cryospheric studies and observations, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

Christa D. Peters-Lidard has frequently published in several key scientific venues. These include:

  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Journal of Hydrology

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, including Sujay V. Kumar, David M. Mocko, Kristi R. Arsenault, Abheera Hazra, and Augusto Getirana.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Assimilation of vegetation optical depth retrievals from passive microwave radiometry, 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Drought Variability over the Conterminous United States for the Past Century, 2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • The 2019-2020 Australian Drought and Bushfires Altered the Partitioning of Hydrological Fluxes, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Towards a soil moisture drought monitoring system for South Korea, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • The NASA Hydrological Forecast System for Food and Water Security Applications, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Christa D. Peters-Lidard was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water

    Eric F. Wood;Joshua K. Roundy;Tara J. Troy;L. P. H. van Beek

  • Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling

    S. V. Kumar;C. D. Peters-Lidard;Y. Tian;P. R. Houser

  • A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications

    Amy McNally;Amy McNally;Kristi Arsenault;Kristi Arsenault;Sujay Kumar;Shraddhanand Shukla

  • The Effect of Soil Thermal Conductivity Parameterization on Surface Energy Fluxes and Temperatures

    C. D. Peters-Lidard;E. Blackburn;X. Liang;E. F. Wood

  • Component analysis of errors in satellite-based precipitation estimates

    Yudong Tian;Yudong Tian;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;John B. Eylander;Robert J. Joyce

  • Estimating soil moisture at the watershed scale with satellite-based radar and land surface models

    M. Susan Moran;Christa D Peters-Lidard;Joseph M Watts;Stephen McElroy

  • Multitemporal Analysis of TRMM-Based Satellite Precipitation Products for Land Data Assimilation Applications

    Yudong Tian;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Bhaskar J. Choudhury;Matthew Garcia

  • The evolution of process-based hydrologic models: historical challenges and the collective quest for physical realism

    Martyn P. Clark;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Luis Samaniego;Ross A. Woods

  • A global map of uncertainties in satellite-based precipitation measurements

    Yudong Tian;Yudong Tian;Christa D. Peters-Lidard

  • The Plumbing of Land Surface Models: Benchmarking Model Performance

    M.J. Best;G. Abramowitz;H.R. Johnson;A.J. Pitman

  • High-performance Earth system modeling with NASA/GSFC’s Land Information System

    Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Paul R. Houser;Yudong Tian;Sujay V. Kumar

  • Role of Subsurface Physics in the Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture Observations

    Sujay V. Kumar;Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

  • A land surface data assimilation framework using the land information system : Description and applications

    Sujay V. Kumar;Sujay V. Kumar;Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Randal D. Koster

  • Diagnosing the Sensitivity of Local Land–Atmosphere Coupling via the Soil Moisture–Boundary Layer Interaction

    Joseph A. Santanello;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Sujay V. Kumar

  • Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture and Snow Depth Retrievals for Drought Estimation

    Sujay V. Kumar;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;David Mocko;Rolf Reichle

  • A Modeling and Observational Framework for Diagnosing Local Land–Atmosphere Coupling on Diurnal Time Scales

    Joseph A. Santanello;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Sujay V. Kumar;Charles Alonge

  • A soil‐vegetation‐atmosphere transfer scheme for modeling spatially variable water and energy balance processes

    C. D. Peters-Lidard;C. D. Peters-Lidard;M. S. Zion;Eric F. Wood

  • Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes

    S. V. Kumar;S. V. Kumar;C. D. Peters-Lidard;J. A. Santanello;R. H. Reichle

  • An evaluation of NEXRAD precipitation estimates in complex terrain

    C. Bryan Young;Brian R. Nelson;A. Allen Bradley;James A. Smith

  • Assimilation of Gridded GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System

    Sujay V. Kumar;Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Matthew Rodell

  • Data Descriptor: A Land Data Assimilation System for Sub-Saharan Africa Food and Water Security Applications

    Amy McNally;Krist Arsenault;Sujay Kumar;Shraddhanand Shukla

Frequent Co-Authors

Sujay V. Kumar
Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center
David Mocko
David Mocko National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Joseph A. Santanello
Joseph A. Santanello Goddard Space Flight Center
Yudong Tian
Yudong Tian University of Maryland, College Park
Toshihisa Matsui
Toshihisa Matsui Goddard Space Flight Center
Chris Funk
Chris Funk University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University
Andrew W. Wood
Andrew W. Wood National Center for Atmospheric Research
Wei-Kuo Tao
Wei-Kuo Tao Goddard Space Flight Center
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan

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