2026 Dorothy K. Hall: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	70	1654	1573	698	642	275	21999

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Dorothy K. Hall is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology, and Ecology.

The scientific topics that Hall has explored include:

Cryospheric studies and observations
Climate change and permafrost
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Climate variability and models
Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Hall's publication record includes papers in a number of venues, with frequent contributions to:

Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing of Environment
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Geophysical Research Letters
Earth and Space Science

Representative recent papers include:

"Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land products" (2024), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
"Continuity of MODIS and VIIRS Snow Cover Extent Data Products for Development of an Earth Science Data Record" (2020), published in Remote Sensing
"Anomalous Circulation in July 2019 Resulting in Mass Loss on the Greenland Ice Sheet" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
"The role of declining snow cover in the desiccation of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, using MODIS data" (2020), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
"Intensified Warming and Aridity Accelerate Terminal Lake Desiccation in the Great Basin of the Western United States" (2023), published in Earth and Space Science

Frequent co-authors include:

Nicolo E. DiGirolamo
George A. Riggs
Carrie Vuyovich
Donal O'Leary
Angela Erb

Hall was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2018.

Best Publications

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research

C.O. Justice;E. Vermote;J.R.G. Townshend;R. Defries

2056
Citations
MODIS snow-cover products

Dorothy K Hall;George A Riggs;Vincent V Salomonson;Nicolo E DiGirolamo

1835
Citations
Development of methods for mapping global snow cover using moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer data

Dorothy K. Hall;George A. Riggs;Vincent V. Salomonson

1407
Citations
Nimbus-7 SMMR Derived Global Snow Cover Parameters

A.T.C. Chang;J.L. Foster;D.K. Hall

897
Citations
Accuracy assessment of the MODIS snow products

Dorothy K. Hall;George A. Riggs

842
Citations
Terrestrial remote sensing science and algorithms planned for EOS/MODIS

Steven W Running;C. O. Justice;V. Salomonson;D. Hall

614
Citations
The extreme melt across the Greenland ice sheet in 2012

S. V. Nghiem;D. K. Hall;T. L. Mote;M. Tedesco

600
Citations
NASA's Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product Suite

Miguel O. Román;Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang;Qingsong Sun;Qingsong Sun;Virginia Kalb

535
Citations
Greenland ice sheet albedo feedback: thermodynamics and atmospheric drivers

J. E. Box;X. Fettweis;J. C. Stroeve;Marco Tedesco

506
Citations
Improving snow cover mapping in forests through the use of a canopy reflectance model

Andrew G. Klein;Dorothy K. Hall;George A. Riggs

472
Citations
Consideration of the errors inherent in mapping historical glacier positions in Austria from the ground and space (1893-2001)

Dorothy K. Hall;Klaus J. Bayr;Wolfgang Schöner;Robert A. Bindschadler

443
Citations
The aerosol at Barrow, Alaska: long-term trends and source locations

A.V. Polissar;A.V. Polissar;P.K. Hopke;P. Paatero;Y.J. Kaufmann

398
Citations
A review of global satellite-derived snow products

Allan Frei;Marco Tedesco;Shihyan Lee;James Foster

366
Citations
Comparison of snow mass estimates from a prototype passive microwave snow algorithm, a revised algorithm and a snow depth climatology

J.L. Foster;A.T.C. Chang;D.K. Hall

330
Citations
Climate trends in the Arctic as observed from space

Josefino C. Comiso;Dorothy K. Hall

329
Citations
Development and evaluation of a cloud-gap-filled MODIS daily snow-cover product

Dorothy K. Hall;George A. Riggs;James L. Foster;Sujay V. Kumar

320
Citations
Remote Sensing of Ice and Snow

Dorothy K. Hall;Jaroslav Martinec

306
Citations
Sea ice surface temperature product from MODIS

D.K. Hall;J.R. Key;K.A. Casey;G.A. Riggs

242
Citations
Land and cryosphere products from Suomi NPP VIIRS: Overview and status

Christopher O. Justice;Miguel O. Román;Ivan Csiszar;Eric F. Vermote

232
Citations
Assessment of Snow-Cover Mapping Accuracy in a Variety of Vegetation-Cover Densities in Central Alaska

D.K. Hall;J.L. Foster;D.L. Verbyla;A.G. Klein

224
Citations
Snow water equivalent estimation by microwave radiometry

A.T.C. Chang;J.L. Foster;D.K. Hall;A. Rango

223
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James L. Foster Goddard Space Flight Center

Alfred T. C. Chang Goddard Space Flight Center

Vincent V. Salomonson University of Utah

David A. Robinson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Albert Rango United States Department of Agriculture

Son V. Nghiem California Institute of Technology

Christopher A. Shuman University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Gregory A. Neumann Goddard Space Flight Center

Crystal B. Schaaf University of Massachusetts Boston

Thomas L. Mote University of Georgia

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