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Diego G. Miralles

Diego G. Miralles

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
73
Citations
31299
World Ranking
1383
National Ranking
19

Overview

Diego G. Miralles is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

Miralles has contributed extensively to various topics within these fields. Key research areas include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Their scholarly output includes publications in prominent venues, with the majority appearing in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other frequent publication outlets include Geophysical Research Letters, Water Resources Research, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.

Notable recent papers by Miralles and their collaborators are:

  • "ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications" (2021), Earth system science data
  • "High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901-2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections" (2023), Scientific Data
  • "Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth" (2023), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors" (2021), Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • "Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes" (2020), Nature Climate Change

Miralles frequently collaborates with a group of researchers whose partnership has resulted in multiple publications. These coauthors include Akash Koppa, Jessica Keune, Markus Reichstein, Dominik L. Schumacher, and Petra Hulsman.

Best Publications

  • ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

    Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater;Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra;Anna Agustí-Panareda;Clément Albergel;Clément Albergel

  • GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture

    Brecht Martens;Diego G. Miralles;Diego G. Miralles;Hans Lievens;Hans Lievens;Robin van der Schalie

  • Global land-surface evaporation estimated from satellite-based observations

    D.G. Miralles;T.R.H. Holmes;T.R.H. Holmes;R.A.M. de Jeu;J.H.C. Gash

  • ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding : State-of-the art and future directions

    Wouter Dorigo;Wolfgang Wagner;Clement Albergel;Franziska Albrecht

  • MSWEP V2 Global 3-Hourly 0.1° Precipitation: Methodology and Quantitative Assessment

    Hylke E. Beck;Eric F. Wood;Ming Pan;Colby K. Fisher

  • Mega-heatwave temperatures due to combined soil desiccation and atmospheric heat accumulation

    Diego G. Miralles;Diego G. Miralles;Adriaan J. Teuling;Chiel C. van Heerwaarden;Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano

  • MSWEP: 3-hourly 0.25° global gridded precipitation (1979–2015) by merging gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data

    Hylke E. Beck;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Vincenzo Levizzani;Jaap Schellekens

  • Land–atmospheric feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves: state of the science and current challenges

    Diego G. Miralles;Pierre Gentine;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Adriaan J. Teuling

  • 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

  • Multi-decadal trends in global terrestrial evapotranspiration and its components

    Yongqiang Zhang;Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Francis H. S. Chiew

  • Magnitude and variability of land evaporation and its components at the global scale

    D.G. Miralles;R.A.M. de Jeu;J.H.C. Gash;T.R.H. Holmes;T.R.H. Holmes

  • Revisiting the contribution of transpiration to global terrestrial evapotranspiration

    Zhongwang Wei;Kei Yoshimura;Lixin Wang;Diego G. Miralles;Diego G. Miralles

  • Global-scale regionalization of hydrologic model parameters

    Hylke E. Beck;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Ad de Roo;Diego G. Miralles

  • The Future of Earth Observation in Hydrology.

    Matthew F. McCabe;Matthew Rodell;Douglas E. Alsdorf;Diego G. Miralles

  • Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-data set synthesis

    Brigitte Mueller;Martin Hirschi;Carlos Jimenez;Philippe Ciais

  • Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth

    Giovanni Forzieri;Ramdane Alkama;Diego G. Miralles;Alessandro Cescatti

  • The WACMOS-ET project – Part 2: Evaluation of global terrestrial evaporation data sets

    Diego Miralles;Diego Miralles;C Jiménez;M Jung;D Michel

  • Soil moisture-temperature coupling: A multiscale observational analysis

    Diego G Miralles;M. van den Berg;A.J. Teuling;R.A.M. De Jeu

  • El Niño-La Niña cycle and recent trends in continental evaporation

    Diego G. Miralles;Martinus J. van den Berg;John H. Gash;Robert M. Parinussa

  • Reconciling spatial and temporal soil moisture effects on afternoon rainfall.

    Benoit P. Guillod;Boris Orlowsky;Diego G. Miralles;Adriaan J. Teuling

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

Frequent Co-Authors

Niko E. C. Verhoest
Niko E. C. Verhoest Ghent University
Adriaan J. Teuling
Adriaan J. Teuling Wageningen University & Research
Matthew F. McCabe
Matthew F. McCabe King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
A. J. Dolman
A. J. Dolman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Martin Jung
Martin Jung International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Tim R. McVicar
Tim R. McVicar Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine Columbia University
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University

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