2026 Jouni Pulliainen: 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	60	2921	2792	44	44	374	13251

Overview

Jouni Pulliainen is affiliated with the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Finland, focusing on research related to Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work covers extensive topics within Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions to Aerospace Engineering and General Health Professions.

The scientist's main research areas concentrate on cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, soil moisture and remote sensing, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and techniques, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and climate variability and models.

Frequent coauthors with whom Pulliainen has collaborated include Juha Lemmetyinen, Kari Luojus, Matias Takala, Juval Cohen, and Anna Kontu.

Publication venues where the scientist's work most often appears include:

Remote Sensing of Environment
Nature
The Cryosphere
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Jouni Pulliainen include:

Patterns and trends of Northern Hemisphere snow mass from 1980 to 2018, 2020, Nature
GlobSnow v3.0 Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent dataset, 2021, Scientific Data
Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission, 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Benchmarking algorithm changes to the Snow CCI+ snow water equivalent product, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
Investigation of Environmental Effects on Coherence Loss in SAR Interferometry for Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

Estimating northern hemisphere snow water equivalent for climate research through assimilation of space-borne radiometer data and ground-based measurements

Matias Takala;Kari Luojus;Jouni Pulliainen;Chris Derksen

762
Citations
Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

730
Citations
HUT snow emission model and its applicability to snow water equivalent retrieval

J.T. Pulliainen;J. Grandell;M.T. Hallikainen

486
Citations
Patterns and trends of Northern Hemisphere snow mass from 1980 to 2018.

Jouni Pulliainen;Kari Luojus;Chris Derksen;Lawrence Mudryk

448
Citations
Mapping of snow water equivalent and snow depth in boreal and sub-arctic zones by assimilating space-borne microwave radiometer data and ground-based observations

Jouni Pulliainen

443
Citations
2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM (IGARSS)

Helmut Rott;Donald W. Cline;Claude Duguay;Richard Essery

322
Citations
Retrieval of water quality from airborne imaging spectrometry of various lake types in different seasons.

K. Kallio;T. Kutser;T. Hannonen;S. Koponen

299
Citations
Application of an empirical neural network to surface water quality estimation in the Gulf of Finland using combined optical data and microwave data

Yuanzhi Zhang;Jouni Pulliainen;Sampsa Koponen;Martti Hallikainen

290
Citations
Cold Regions Hydrology High-Resolution Observatory for Snow and Cold Land Processes

Helmut Rott;Simon H Yueh;Donald W Cline;Claude Duguay

280
Citations
Retrieval of Regional Snow Water Equivalent from Space-Borne Passive Microwave Observations

J Pulliainen

269
Citations
Artificial neural network-based techniques for the retrieval of SWE and snow depth from SSM/I data

M Tedesco;J Pulliainen;M Takala;M Hallikainen

220
Citations
The use of ERS-1 SAR data in snow melt monitoring

J.T. Koskinen;J.T. Pulliainen;M.T. Hallikainen

205
Citations
Retrieval of biomass in boreal forests from multitemporal ERS-1 and JERS-1 SAR images

L. Kurvonen;J. Pulliainen;M. Hallikainen

201
Citations
A semi-operative approach to lake water quality retrieval from remote sensing data

Jouni Pulliainen;Kari Kallio;Karri Eloheimo;Sampsa Koponen

200
Citations
Backscattering properties of boreal forests at the C- and X-bands

J.T. Pulliainen;K. Heiska;J. Hyyppa;M.T. Hallikainen

196
Citations
SMOS prototype algorithm for detecting autumn soil freezing

Kimmo Rautiainen;Tiina Parkkinen;Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank

195
Citations
GlobSnow v3.0 Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent dataset.

Kari Luojus;Jouni Pulliainen;Matias Takala;Juha Lemmetyinen

190
Citations
Multitemporal behavior of L- and C-band SAR observations of boreal forests

J.T. Pulliainen;L. Kurvonen;M.T. Hallikainen

174
Citations
Detection of soil freezing from L-band passive microwave observations

Kimmo Rautiainen;Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank;Anna Kontu

172
Citations
Water quality retrievals from combined Landsat TM data and ERS-2 SAR data in the Gulf of Finland

Yuanzhi Zhang;J.T. Pulliainen;S.S. Koponen;M.T. Hallikainen

152
Citations
Early snowmelt significantly enhances boreal springtime carbon uptake

Jouni Pulliainen;Mika Aurela;Tuomas Laurila;Tuula Aalto

149
Citations
Radar-based forest biomass estimation

Yrjö Rauste;Tuomas Häme;Jouni Pulliainen;Kaarina Heiska

143
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martti Hallikainen Aalto University

Juha Lemmetyinen Finnish Meteorological Institute

Anna Kontu Finnish Meteorological Institute

Chris Derksen Environment and Climate Change Canada

Helmut Rott University of Innsbruck

Andreas Wiesmann University of Bern

Giovanni Macelloni National Research Council (CNR)

Juha Hyyppä Finnish Geospatial Research Institute

Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab

Claude R. Duguay University of Waterloo

External Links

Personal website of Jouni Pulliainen

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