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Jouni Pulliainen 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 Jouni Pulliainen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 374 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Jouni Pulliainen 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 Jouni Pulliainen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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

  • Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

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

  • HUT snow emission model and its applicability to snow water equivalent retrieval

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

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

    Jouni Pulliainen;Kari Luojus;Chris Derksen;Lawrence Mudryk

  • 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

  • 2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM (IGARSS)

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

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

    J Pulliainen

  • 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

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

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

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

    L. Kurvonen;J. Pulliainen;M. Hallikainen

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

    Jouni Pulliainen;Kari Kallio;Karri Eloheimo;Sampsa Koponen

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

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

  • SMOS prototype algorithm for detecting autumn soil freezing

    Kimmo Rautiainen;Tiina Parkkinen;Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank

  • GlobSnow v3.0 Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent dataset.

    Kari Luojus;Jouni Pulliainen;Matias Takala;Juha Lemmetyinen

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

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

  • Detection of soil freezing from L-band passive microwave observations

    Kimmo Rautiainen;Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank;Anna Kontu

  • 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

  • Early snowmelt significantly enhances boreal springtime carbon uptake

    Jouni Pulliainen;Mika Aurela;Tuomas Laurila;Tuula Aalto

  • Radar-based forest biomass estimation

    Yrjö Rauste;Tuomas Häme;Jouni Pulliainen;Kaarina Heiska

Frequent Co-Authors

Martti Hallikainen
Martti Hallikainen Aalto University
Juha Lemmetyinen
Juha Lemmetyinen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Anna Kontu
Anna Kontu Finnish Meteorological Institute
Chris Derksen
Chris Derksen Environment and Climate Change Canada
Helmut Rott
Helmut Rott University of Innsbruck
Andreas Wiesmann
Andreas Wiesmann University of Bern
Giovanni Macelloni
Giovanni Macelloni National Research Council (CNR)
Juha Hyyppä
Juha Hyyppä Finnish Geospatial Research Institute
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Claude R. Duguay
Claude R. Duguay University of Waterloo

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