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D-Index
45
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6274
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Christopher S. Ruf 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 S. Ruf sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 372 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher S. Ruf 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 S. Ruf sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christopher S. Ruf is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work covers several main topics, including Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, GNSS positioning and interference, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques.

Christopher S. Ruf has published numerous papers in prominent venues, with notable recent works such as:

  • Toward the Detection and Imaging of Ocean Microplastics With a Spaceborne Radar (2021, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing)
  • GNSS reflectometry global ocean wind speed using deep learning: Development and assessment of CyGNSSnet (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Characterization of rain impact on L-Band GNSS-R ocean surface measurements (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Statistical Derivation of Wind Speeds From CYGNSS Data (2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing)
  • Retrieving Freeze/Thaw Surface State From CYGNSS Measurements (2021, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing)

The most frequent publication venues where Christopher publishes include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (13 publications)
  • Remote Sensing (9 publications)
  • IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (5 publications)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment (4 publications)
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (4 publications)

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent coauthors:

  • Scott Gleason (14 joint publications)
  • Anthony Russel (13 joint publications)
  • Hugo Carreño-Luengo (9 joint publications)
  • April Warnock (9 joint publications)
  • Darren McKague (8 joint publications)

Christopher S. Ruf is also an author of the book CYGNSS Handbook 2022, published by Michigan Publishing in 2022, which has accrued citations indicating engagement within the research community.

Best Publications

  • Microwave Radar and Radiometric Remote Sensing

    Fawwaz T. Ulaby;David G. Long;William J. Blackwell;Charles Elachi

  • Interferometric synthetic aperture microwave radiometry for the remote sensing of the Earth

    C.S. Ruf;C.T. Swift;A.B. Tanner;D.M. Le Vine

  • The Aquarius/SAC-D mission: Designed to meet the salinity remote-sensing challenge

    Gary Lagerloef;F. Raul Colomb;Davide Le Vine;Frank Wentz

  • New Ocean Winds Satellite Mission to Probe Hurricanes and Tropical Convection

    Christopher S. Ruf;Robert Atlas;Paul S. Chang;Maria Paola Clarizia

  • A New Paradigm in Earth Environmental Monitoring with the CYGNSS Small Satellite Constellation.

    Christopher S. Ruf;Clara Chew;Timothy Lang;Mary G. Morris

  • Wind Speed Retrieval Algorithm for the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Mission

    Maria Paola Clarizia;Christopher S. Ruf

  • Spaceborne GNSS-R Minimum Variance Wind Speed Estimator

    Maria Paola Clarizia;Christopher S. Ruf;Philip Jales;Christine Gommenginger

  • CYGNSS: Enabling the Future of Hurricane Prediction [Remote Sensing Satellites]

    C. Ruf;A. Lyons;M. Unwin;J. Dickinson

  • The CYGNSS nanosatellite constellation hurricane mission

    Christopher S. Ruf;Scott Gleason;Zorana Jelenak;Stephen Katzberg

  • RFI detection and mitigation for microwave radiometry with an agile digital detector

    C.S. Ruf;S.M. Gross;S. Misra

  • Radio-Frequency Interference Mitigation for the Soil Moisture Active Passive Microwave Radiometer

    Jeffrey R. Piepmeier;Joel T. Johnson;Priscilla N. Mohammed;Damon Bradley

  • Numerical annealing of low-redundancy linear arrays

    C.S. Ruf

  • Initial Results of the Geostationary Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer (GeoSTAR) Demonstrator Instrument

    A.B. Tanner;W.J. Wilson;B.H. Lambrigsten;S.J. Dinardo

  • Microwave Radiometer Radio-Frequency Interference Detection Algorithms: A Comparative Study

    Sidharth Misra;Priscilla N. Mohammed;Bariş Güner;Christopher S. Ruf

  • Sensitivity of the Kurtosis Statistic as a Detector of Pulsed Sinusoidal RFI

    R.D. De Roo;S.. Misra;C.S. Ruf

  • First Spaceborne Observation of Sea Surface Height Using GPS‐Reflectometry

    Maria Paola Clarizia;Christopher Ruf;Paolo Cipollini;Cinzia Zuffada

  • TOPEX/Poseidon microwave radiometer (TMR). III. Wet troposphere range correction algorithm and pre-launch error budget

    S.J. Keihm;M.A. Janssen;C.S. Ruf

  • Development of the CYGNSS Geophysical Model Function for Wind Speed

    Christopher S. Ruf;Rajeswari Balasubramaniam

  • Detection of calibration drifts in spaceborne microwave radiometers using a vicarious cold reference

    C.S. Ruf

  • Assessment of CYGNSS Wind Speed Retrieval Uncertainty

    Christopher S. Ruf;Scott Gleason;Darren S. McKague

  • Determination of cloud liquid water content using the SSM/I

    J.C. Alishouse;J.B. Snider;E.R. Westwater;C.T. Swift

  • TOPEX/Poseidon Microwave Radiometer (TMR). I. Instrument description and antenna temperature calibration

    C.S. Ruf;S.J. Keihm;M.A. Janssen

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron J. Ridley
Aaron J. Ridley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert Atlas
Robert Atlas Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Joel T. Johnson
Joel T. Johnson The Ohio State University
Mahta Moghaddam
Mahta Moghaddam University of Southern California
Christian D. Kummerow
Christian D. Kummerow Colorado State University
Tristan L'Ecuyer
Tristan L'Ecuyer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Nilton O. Renno
Nilton O. Renno University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jens Wickert
Jens Wickert Technical University of Berlin

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