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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
152
Citations
95123
World Ranking
24
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For development of land surface models and use of remote sensing for hydrologic modeling and prediction.
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1993 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Eric F. Wood was affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research contributions spanned environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, water science and technology, and aerospace engineering.

Wood's work covered multiple main topics, including:

  • Soil moisture and remote sensing
  • Precipitation measurement and analysis
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Flood risk assessment and management
  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics

The scientist published in various venues, frequent ones being:

  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Scientific Data
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Some of Wood's recent published papers include:

  • Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century, 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • A Global Drought and Flood Catalogue from 1950 to 2016, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Global Fully Distributed Parameter Regionalization Based on Observed Streamflow From 4,229 Headwater Catchments, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Combining hyper-resolution land surface modeling with SMAP brightness temperatures to obtain 30-m soil moisture estimates, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent coauthors working with Wood included Ming Pan, Hylke E. Beck, Justin Sheffield, Noemi Vergopolan, and Peirong Lin.

The scientist received several awards, such as:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2015, for development of land surface models and use of remote sensing for hydrologic modeling and prediction
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2013, Academy of Science
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1993

Best Publications

  • Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution

    Hylke E. Beck;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Noemi Vergopolan

  • A simple hydrologically based model of land surface water and energy fluxes for general circulation models

    Xu Liang;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Eric F. Wood;Stephen J. Burges

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Little change in global drought over the past 60 years

    Justin Sheffield;Eric F. Wood;Michael L. Roderick

  • Development of a 50-Year High-Resolution Global Dataset of Meteorological Forcings for Land Surface Modeling

    Justin Sheffield;Gopi Goteti;Eric F. Wood

  • Estimation of the generalized extreme-value distribution by the method of probability-weighted moments

    J. R. M. Hosking;J. R. Wallis;E. F. Wood

  • The multi-institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Utilizing multiple GCIP products and partners in a continental distributed hydrological modeling system

    Kenneth E. Mitchell;Dag Lohmann;Paul R. Houser;Eric F. Wood

  • Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products

    Youlong Xia;Kenneth Mitchell;Michael Ek;Justin Sheffield

  • Projected changes in drought occurrence under future global warming from multi-model, multi-scenario, IPCC AR4 simulations

    Justin Sheffield;Eric F. Wood

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

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

  • Surface soil moisture parameterization of the VIC-2L model: Evaluation and modification

    Xu Liang;Eric F. Wood;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the US Northeast

    Katharine Hayhoe;Cameron P Wake;Thomas G Huntington;Lifeng Luo

  • The North American multimodel ensemble: Phase-1 seasonal-to-interannual prediction; phase-2 toward developing intraseasonal prediction

    Ben P. Kirtman;Dughong Min;Johnna M. Infanti;James L. Kinter

  • Effects of spatial variability and scale with implications to hydrologic modeling

    Eric F. Wood;M. Sivapalan;Keith Beven;Larry Band

  • Bias correction of monthly precipitation and temperature fields from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR4 models using equidistant quantile matching

    Haibin Li;Justin Sheffield;Eric F. Wood

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • Hydro-Climatological Trends in the Continental United States, 1948-88

    Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Eric F. Wood;James R. Wallis

  • 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

  • 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

  • Global-scale evaluation of 22 precipitation datasets using gauge observations and hydrological modeling

    Hylke E. Beck;Noemi Vergopolan;Ming Pan;Vincenzo Levizzani

  • Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

    T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

  • Publisher Correction: Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution.

    Hylke E. Beck;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Noemi Vergopolan

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Lifeng Luo
Lifeng Luo Michigan State University
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University
Matthew F. McCabe
Matthew F. McCabe King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Niko Wanders
Niko Wanders Utrecht University
Kenneth E. Mitchell
Kenneth E. Mitchell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency
James S. Famiglietti
James S. Famiglietti University of Saskatchewan

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