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  • 1987 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John S. Kimball is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within environmental and earth sciences, with a focus on areas such as atmospheric science, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, ecology, and water science and technology.

Their main fields of study cover Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering. The primary topics addressed in their work include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Climate variability and models

Kimball has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Remote Sensing

Recent papers authored by or involving Kimball include:

  • "Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors" (2021) in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems" (2023) in Nature Climate Change
  • "Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission" (2021) in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought" (2022) in Global Change Biology
  • "Recent Amplified Global Gross Primary Productivity Due to Temperature Increase Is Offset by Reduced Productivity Due to Water Constraints" (2020) in AGU Advances

Kimball has collaborated frequently with several researchers, with notable co-authors including Jennifer D. Watts, Jinyang Du, Rolf H. Reichle, Andreas Colliander, and K. Arthur Endsley.

They were awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1987.

Best Publications

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

    Dara Entekhabi;Eni G Njoku;Peggy E O'Neill;Kent H Kellogg

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

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

  • Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982-2006

    Michael A. White;Kirsten M. de Beurs;Kamel Didan;David W. Inouye

  • Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations

    F.A. Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao;S.W. Running;J.S. Kimball

  • A review of remote sensing based actual evapotranspiration estimation

    Ke Zhang;John S. Kimball;Steven W. Running

  • A continuous satellite-derived global record of land surface evapotranspiration from 1983 to 2006

    Ke Zhang;John S. Kimball;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Steven W. Running

  • Surface water inundation in the boreal-Arctic: potential impacts on regional methane emissions

    Jennifer D Watts;John S Kimball;Annett Bartsch;Kyle C McDonald

  • A Remotely Sensed Global Terrestrial Drought Severity Index

    Qiaozhen Mu;Maosheng Zhao;John S. Kimball;Nathan G. McDowell

  • The sensitivity of snowmelt processes to climate conditions and forest cover during rain‐on‐snow: a case study of the 1996 Pacific Northwest flood

    Danny Marks;John Kimball;Dave Tingey;Tim Link

  • Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

    Kaiyu Guan;Kaiyu Guan;Ming Pan;Haibin Li;Adam Wolf

  • Vegetation Greening and Climate Change Promote Multidecadal Rises of Global Land Evapotranspiration.

    Ke Zhang;John S. Kimball;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Steven W. Running

  • An improved method for estimating surface humidity from daily minimum temperature

    John S. Kimball;Steven W Running;Ramakrishna R. Nemani

  • An assessment of the carbon balance of Arctic tundra: comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions

    A. D. McGuire;Torben Christensen;D. Hayes;Arnaud Heroult

  • Cold season emissions dominate the Arctic tundra methane budget

    Donatella Zona;Donatella Zona;Beniamino Gioli;Róisín Commane;Jakob Lindaas

  • Analysis of the Arctic System for Freshwater Cycle Intensification: Observations and Expectations

    Michael A. Rawlins;Michael Steele;Marika M. Holland;Jennifer C. Adam

  • Importance of recent shifts in soil thermal dynamics on growing season length, productivity, and carbon sequestration in terrestrial high-latitude ecosystems

    E. Euskirchen;A. D. McGuire;David W. Kicklighter;Q. Zhuang

  • Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

  • Satellite passive microwave remote sensing for monitoring global land surface phenology

    Matthew O. Jones;Lucas A. Jones;John S. Kimball;Kyle C. McDonald

  • Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture product using in situ measurements

    Rolf H. Reichle;Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy;Qing Liu;Joseph V. Ardizzone

  • RESTORING SALMON HABITAT FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE

    T. Beechie;H. Imaki;J. Greene;A. Wade

  • OAK FOREST CARBON AND WATER SIMULATIONS: MODEL INTERCOMPARISONS AND EVALUATIONS AGAINST INDEPENDENT DATA

    P. J. Hanson;J. S. Amthor;S. D. Wullschleger;K. B. Wilson

  • Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors

    Hylke E. Beck;Ming Pan;Diego G. Miralles;Rolf H. Reichle

  • An assessment of the carbon balance of Arctic tundra: Comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions

    A. D. McGuire;T. R. Christensen;D. J. Hayes;A. Heroult

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf H. Reichle
Rolf H. Reichle Goddard Space Flight Center
Kyle C. McDonald
Kyle C. McDonald City College of New York
Steven W. Running
Steven W. Running University of Montana
Andreas Colliander
Andreas Colliander California Institute of Technology
Ke Zhang
Ke Zhang Hohai University
Eni G. Njoku
Eni G. Njoku Jet Propulsion Lab
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Randal D. Koster
Randal D. Koster Goddard Space Flight Center
Maosheng Zhao
Maosheng Zhao Science Systems and Applications (United States)
Marco P. Maneta
Marco P. Maneta University of Montana

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