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Jennifer M. Jacobs 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 Jennifer M. Jacobs sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 186 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jennifer M. Jacobs 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 Jennifer M. Jacobs sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jennifer M. Jacobs is affiliated with the University of New Hampshire in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with extensive work in atmospheric science and global and planetary change. Their subfields of study also include environmental engineering, management, monitoring, policy and law, and civil and structural engineering.

The main topics of their research encompass cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, climate variability and models, soil moisture and remote sensing, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, landslides and related hazards, and winter sports injuries and performance.

Notable recent publications by Jacobs include:

  • Snow depth mapping with unpiloted aerial system lidar observations: a case study in Durham, New Hampshire, United States (2021), published in The Cryosphere
  • Future Changes in Snowpack, Snowmelt, and Runoff Potential Extremes Over North America (2021), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Mere Nuisance or Growing Threat? The Physical and Economic Impact of High Tide Flooding on US Road Networks (2021), published in Journal of Infrastructure Systems
  • Extreme Value Snow Water Equivalent and Snowmelt for Infrastructure Design Over the Contiguous United States (2020), published in Water Resources Research
  • Maximum entropy modeling to identify physical drivers of shallow snowpack heterogeneity using unpiloted aerial system (UAS) lidar (2021), published in Journal of Hydrology

These papers reflect a strong engagement with remote sensing techniques, hydrological processes, and climate-related infrastructure impacts.

Jennifer M. Jacobs frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Eunsang Cho
  • Katharine Hayhoe
  • Rao Kotamarthi
  • Jennifer Jurado
  • Adam G. Hunsaker

Jacobs has contributed publications to several key scientific venues, notably:

  • Remote Sensing
  • The Cryosphere
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Among their contributions to book publications is a title published by Cambridge University Press: Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections (2021).

Best Publications

  • Utility of Penman–Monteith, Priestley–Taylor, reference evapotranspiration, and pan evaporation methods to estimate pasture evapotranspiration

    David M. Sumner;Jennifer M. Jacobs

  • SMEX02: Field scale variability, time stability and similarity of soil moisture

    Jennifer M. Jacobs;Binayak P. Mohanty;En Ching Hsu;Douglas Miller

  • Soil moisture variability of root zone profiles within SMEX02 remote sensing footprints

    Minha Choi;Jennifer M. Jacobs

  • A comparison of models for estimating potential evapotranspiration for Florida land cover types

    Ellen M. Douglas;Jennifer M. Jacobs;David M. Sumner;Ram L. Ray

  • Evaluation of drought indices via remotely sensed data with hydrological variables

    Minha Choi;Jennifer M. Jacobs;Martha C. Anderson;David D. Bosch

  • Relationships among remotely sensed soil moisture, precipitation and landslide events

    Ram L. Ray;Jennifer M. Jacobs

  • Measurements and modeling of throughfall variability for five forest communities in the southeastern US

    Malcolm L. Bryant;Shirish Bhat;Jennifer M. Jacobs

  • Large scale measurements of soil moisture for validation of remotely sensed data: Georgia soil moisture experiment of 2003☆

    David D. Bosch;V. Lakshmi;T. J. Jackson;Minha Choi

  • EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FROM A WET PRAIRIE WETLAND UNDER DROUGHT CONDITIONS: PAYNES PRAIRIE PRESERVE, FLORIDA, USA

    Jennifer M. Jacobs;Shannon L. Mergelsberg;Andres F. Lopera;David A. Myers

  • Landslide susceptibility mapping using downscaled AMSR-E soil moisture: A case study from Cleveland Corral, California, US

    Ram L. Ray;Jennifer M. Jacobs;Michael H. Cosh

  • Energy dynamics and modeled evapotranspiration from a wet tropical forest in Costa Rica

    Henry W. Loescher;H. L. Gholz;H. L. Gholz;Jennifer M. Jacobs;S. F. Oberbauer;S. F. Oberbauer

  • GOES surface insolation to estimate wetlands evapotranspiration

    Jennifer M Jacobs;David A Myers;Martha C Anderson;George R Diak

  • Predicting Daily Net Radiation Using Minimum Climatological Data

    Suat Irmak;A. Irmak;J. W. Jones;T. A. Howell

  • Separation of river network–scale nitrogen removal among the main channel and two transient storage compartments

    Robert J. Stewart;Wilfred M. Wollheim;Michael N. Gooseff;Martin A. Briggs

  • Bahiagrass crop coefficients from eddy correlation measurements in central Florida

    Xinhua Jia;Michael D. Dukes;Jennifer M. Jacobs

  • Impacts of unsaturated zone soil moisture and groundwater table on slope instability.

    Ram L. Ray;Jennifer M. Jacobs;Pedro de Alba

  • Scaled spatial variability of soil moisture fields

    Minha Choi;Jennifer M. Jacobs;Michael H. Cosh

  • Comparison of passive microwave and modeled estimates of total watershed SWE in the continental United States

    Carrie M. Vuyovich;Jennifer M. Jacobs;Steven F. Daly

  • Improved rainfall-runoff estimates using remotely sensed soil moisture

    Jennifer M. Jacobs;David A. Myers;Brent M. Whitfield

  • Spatiotemporal analyses of soil moisture from point to footprint scale in two different hydroclimatic regions

    Champa Joshi;Binayak P. Mohanty;Jennifer M. Jacobs;Amor Valeriano M. Ines;Amor Valeriano M. Ines

  • Ecohydrology: Darwinian Expression of Vegetation Form and Function

    Jennifer M. Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe Texas Tech University
Michael D. Dukes
Michael D. Dukes University of Florida
Paul Kirshen
Paul Kirshen University of Massachusetts Boston
Rajib B. Mallick
Rajib B. Mallick Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Minha Choi
Minha Choi Sungkyunkwan University
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Suat Irmak
Suat Irmak Pennsylvania State University
Donald J. Wuebbles
Donald J. Wuebbles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Linda O. Mearns
Linda O. Mearns National Center for Atmospheric Research
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service

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