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Joaquin Munoz-Sabater 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 Joaquin Munoz-Sabater sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 83 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Joaquin Munoz-Sabater 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 Joaquin Munoz-Sabater sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Joaquin Munoz-Sabater is affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and related subfields such as Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their work covers several key topics, including Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Joaquin Munoz-Sabater has contributed to multiple publications in prominent venues. Frequent journals include:

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • CentAUR (University of Reading)

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on reanalysis datasets and land-surface processes. Notable works include:

  • "ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications," 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • "The ERA5 global reanalysis," 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "The ERA5 global reanalysis: Preliminary extension to 1950," 2021, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?", 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Evaluating the land-surface energy partitioning in ERA5," 2020, Geoscientific Model Development

Collaboratively, Munoz-Sabater frequently works with several colleagues, including:

  • Gianpaolo Balsamo
  • Patricia de Rosnay
  • Jean-Noël Thépaut
  • Julien P. Nicolas
  • Emanuel Dutra

The scientist's publication record addresses key aspects of land-atmosphere interactions, reanalysis datasets, and environmental data validation, reflecting their involvement in studies that integrate satellite data and model development for diverse environmental applications.

Best Publications

  • The ERA5 global reanalysis

    Hans Hersbach;Bill Bell;Paul Berrisford;Shoji Hirahara

  • 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

  • ERA-Interim/Land: a global land surface reanalysis data set

    G. Balsamo;C. Albergel;A. Beljaars;S. Boussetta

  • The ERA5 global reanalysis: Preliminary extension to 1950

    Bill Bell;Hans Hersbach;Adrian Simmons;Paul Berrisford

  • Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

    Clement Albergel;Patricia de Rosnay;Claire Gruhier;Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater

  • Modelling the Passive Microwave Signature from Land Surfaces: A Review of Recent Results and Application to the L-Band SMOS SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

    J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

  • ERA-5 and ERA-Interim driven ISBA land surface model simulations: which one performs better?

    Clement Albergel;Emanuel Dutra;Simon Munier;Jean Christophe Calvet

  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: what are (the) errors?

    A. Gruber;G. de Lannoy;C. Albergel;A. Al-Yaari

  • Skill and Global Trend Analysis of Soil Moisture from Reanalyses and Microwave Remote Sensing

    C. Albergel;W. Dorigo;R. H. Reichle;G. Balsamo

  • Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture datasets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to Land Data Assimilation System estimates

    A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;A. Ducharne;Y. Kerr

  • Initialisation of Land Surface Variables for Numerical Weather Prediction

    Patricia de Rosnay;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Clément Albergel;Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater

  • Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anna Agusti-Panareda;Clement Albergel;Gabriele Arduini

  • The ERA5 global reanalysis from 1940 to 2022

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  • Soil Moisture Analyses at ECMWF: Evaluation Using Global Ground-Based In Situ Observations

    C. Albergel;P. de Rosnay;G. Balsamo;L. Isaksen

  • Evaluating the land-surface energy partitioning in ERA5

    Brecht Martens;Dominik L. Schumacher;Hendrik Wouters;Hendrik Wouters;Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater

  • ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission: from science to operational applications.

    S Mecklenburg;M Drusch;L Kaleschke;N Rodriguez-Fernandez

  • ECLand: The ECMWF Land Surface Modelling System

    Souhail Boussetta;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Gabriele Arduini;Emanuel Dutra

  • Monitoring multi-decadal satellite earth observation of soil moisture products through land surface reanalyses

    C. Albergel;W. Dorigo;G. Balsamo;J. Muñoz-Sabater

  • Modelling CO 2 weather – why horizontal resolution matters

    Anna Agustí-Panareda;Michail Diamantakis;Sébastien Massart;Frédéric Chevallier

  • A bare ground evaporation revision in the ECMWF land-surface scheme: evaluation of its impact using ground soil moisture and satellite microwave data

    C. Albergel;G. Balsamo;P. de Rosnay;J. Muñoz-Sabater

  • Assimilation of SMOS brightness temperatures in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System

    J. Muñoz‐sabater;H. Lawrence;C. Albergel;P. Rosnay

  • Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

    C. Albergel;P. de Rosnay;C. Gruhier;J. Munoz-Sabater

Frequent Co-Authors

Clément Albergel
Clément Albergel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Emanuel Dutra
Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Lars Isaksen
Lars Isaksen European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
P. de Rosnay
P. de Rosnay European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Hannah Cloke
Hannah Cloke University of Reading
Florian Pappenberger
Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Anton Beljaars
Anton Beljaars European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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