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Christopher Hain 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 Christopher Hain sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 306 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher Hain 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 Christopher Hain sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christopher Hain is affiliated with the Marshall Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science with a strong focus on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, water science and technology, and ecology.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil moisture and remote sensing, climate variability and models, hydrology and watershed management studies, remote sensing in agriculture, hydrology and drought analysis, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Christopher Hain has contributed to numerous publications, many of which appear in core journals such as the Journal of Hydrometeorology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Water Resources Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist include Martha C. Anderson, Yun Yang, Kyle Knipper, Feng Gao, and Jason A. Otkin.

Among recent papers, Christopher Hain has co-authored:

  • OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States, 2021, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • Comparative assessment of environmental variables and machine learning algorithms for maize yield prediction in the US Midwest, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Global patterns of water storage in the rooting zones of vegetation, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications, 2024, Nature Water
  • Agricultural and food security impacts from the 2010 Russia flash drought, 2021, Weather and Climate Extremes

Best Publications

  • Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

    A. AghaKouchak;A. Farahmand;F. S. Melton;J. Teixeira

  • The future of evapotranspiration: global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources.

    Joshua B. Fisher;Forrest S. Melton;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Christopher Hain;Christopher Hain

  • Flash Droughts: A Review and Assessment of the Challenges Imposed by Rapid-Onset Droughts in the United States

    Jason A. Otkin;Mark Svoboda;Eric D. Hunt;Trent W. Ford

  • Mapping daily evapotranspiration at field to continental scales using geostationary and polar orbiting satellite imagery

    M. C. Anderson;W. P. Kustas;J. M. Norman;C. R. Hain

  • Evaluation of Drought Indices Based on Thermal Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration over the Continental United States

    Martha C. Anderson;Christopher R. Hain;Brian Wardlow;Agustin Pimstein

  • Assessing the evolution of soil moisture and vegetation conditions during the 2012 United States flash drought

    Jason A. Otkin;Martha C. Anderson;Christopher R Hain;Mark D. Svoboda

  • The Evaporative Stress Index as an indicator of agricultural drought in Brazil: An assessment based on crop yield impacts

    Martha C. Anderson;Cornelio A. Zolin;Paulo C. Sentelhas;Christopher R. Hain

  • The Evaporative Demand Drought Index. Part I: Linking Drought Evolution to Variations in Evaporative Demand

    Michael T. Hobbins;Michael T. Hobbins;Andrew Wood;Daniel J. McEvoy;Justin L. Huntington

  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

    Joshua B. Fisher;Brian Lee;Adam J. Purdy;Gregory H. Halverson

  • An Intercomparison of Drought Indicators Based on Thermal Remote Sensing and NLDAS-2 Simulations with U.S. Drought Monitor Classifications

    Martha C. Anderson;Christopher Hain;Jason Otkin;Xiwu Zhan

  • Examining Rapid Onset Drought Development Using the Thermal Infrared–Based Evaporative Stress Index

    Jason A. Otkin;Martha C. Anderson;Christopher Hain;Iliana E. Mladenova

  • Monitoring daily evapotranspiration over two California vineyards using Landsat 8 in a multi-sensor data fusion approach

    Kathryn A. Semmens;Martha C. Anderson;William P. Kustas;Feng Gao

  • OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States

    Forrest S. Melton;Forrest S. Melton;Justin Huntington;Robyn Grimm;Jamie Herring

  • Mapping daily evapotranspiration at field scales over rainfed and irrigated agricultural areas using remote sensing data fusion

    C. Cammalleri;M.C. Anderson;F. Gao;C.R. Hain

  • The shared and unique values of optical, fluorescence, thermal and microwave satellite data for estimating large-scale crop yields.

    Kaiyu Guan;Jin Wu;John S. Kimball;Martha C. Anderson

  • Comparative assessment of environmental variables and machine learning algorithms for maize yield prediction in the US Midwest

    Yanghui Kang;Mutlu Ozdogan;Xiaojin Zhu;Zhiwei Ye

  • A data fusion approach for mapping daily evapotranspiration at field scale

    C. Cammalleri;M. C. Anderson;F. Gao;C. R. Hain

  • Global patterns of water storage in the rooting zones of vegetation

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  • The Evaporative Demand Drought Index. Part II: CONUS-Wide Assessment against Common Drought Indicators

    Daniel J. McEvoy;Justin L. Huntington;Michael T. Hobbins;Michael T. Hobbins;Andrew Wood

  • 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

  • An intercomparison of available soil moisture estimates from thermal infrared and passive microwave remote sensing and land surface modeling

    Christopher R. Hain;Wade T. Crow;John R. Mecikalski;Martha C. Anderson

  • Towards an integrated soil moisture drought monitor for East Africa

    Weston B. Anderson;B. F. Zaitchik;C. R. Hain;M. C. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Jason A. Otkin
Jason A. Otkin University of Wisconsin–Madison
William P. Kustas
William P. Kustas Agricultural Research Service
Wade T. Crow
Wade T. Crow Agricultural Research Service
Mark Svoboda
Mark Svoboda University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Brian D. Wardlow
Brian D. Wardlow University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Thomas R. H. Holmes
Thomas R. H. Holmes Goddard Space Flight Center
Joseph G. Alfieri
Joseph G. Alfieri Agricultural Research Service
Benjamin F. Zaitchik
Benjamin F. Zaitchik Johns Hopkins University
John H. Prueger
John H. Prueger Agricultural Research Service

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