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Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz

Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
13589
World Ranking
6245
National Ranking
174

Overview

Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz is affiliated with the University of Valencia in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work encompasses various key topics:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Geography and Environmental Studies

Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz has published in several prominent venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Scientific Reports
  • Weather and Climate Extremes
  • American Journal of Climate Change
  • Biogeosciences

Notable recent papers include:

  • "The new record of drought and warmth in the Amazon in 2023 related to regional and global climatic features," 2024, Scientific Reports
  • "The new historical flood of 2021 in the Amazon River compared to major floods of the 21st century: Atmospheric features in the context of the intensification of floods," 2021, Weather and Climate Extremes
  • "The Drought of Amazonia in 2023-2024," 2024, American Journal of Climate Change
  • "OCO-2 Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Variability across Ecoregions of the Amazon Basin and the Extreme Drought Effects of El Niño (2015-2016)," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Assessing Near Real-Time Satellite Precipitation Products for Flood Simulations at Sub-Daily Scales in a Sparsely Gauged Watershed in Peruvian Andes," 2021, Remote Sensing

Frequent collaborators include the following researchers:

  • Jhan Carlo Espinoza
  • Vitor Miranda
  • José A. Sobrino
  • José A. Marengo
  • Jochen Schöngart

Best Publications

  • Land surface temperature retrieval from LANDSAT TM 5

    José A. Sobrino;Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz;Leonardo Paolini

  • A generalized single‐channel method for retrieving land surface temperature from remote sensing data

    Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz;José A. Sobrino

  • Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Methods From Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor Data

    Juan C. Jimenez-Munoz;Jose A. Sobrino;Drazen Skokovic;Cristian Mattar

  • Land Surface Emissivity Retrieval From Different VNIR and TIR Sensors

    J.A. Sobrino;J.C. Jimenez-Muoz;G. Soria;M. Romaguera

  • Revision of the Single-Channel Algorithm for Land Surface Temperature Retrieval From Landsat Thermal-Infrared Data

    J.C. Jimenez-Munoz;J. Cristobal;J.A. Sobrino;G. Soria

  • Record-breaking warming and extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest during the course of El Niño 2015–2016

    Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz;Cristian Mattar;Jonathan Barichivich;Andrés Santamaría-Artigas

  • Assessing canopy PRI for water stress detection with diurnal airborne imagery

    L. Suárez;P.J. Zarco-Tejada;G. Sepulcre-Cantó;O. Pérez-Priego

  • Detection of water stress in an olive orchard with thermal remote sensing imagery

    G. Sepulcre-Cantó;Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;J. C. Jiménez-Muñoz;J. A. Sobrino

  • Improved land surface emissivities over agricultural areas using ASTER NDVI

    Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz;José A. Sobrino;Alan Gillespie;Donald Sabol

  • Comparison Between Fractional Vegetation Cover Retrievals from Vegetation Indices and Spectral Mixture Analysis: Case Study of PROBA/CHRIS Data Over an Agricultural Area.

    Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz;José A. Sobrino;Antonio Plaza;Luis Guanter

  • Application of a simple algorithm to estimate daily evapotranspiration from NOAA–AVHRR images for the Iberian Peninsula

    J.A. Sobrino;M. Gómez;J.C. Jiménez-Muñoz;A. Olioso

  • Improvements in land surface temperature retrieval from the Landsat series thermal band using water vapor and air temperature

    J. Cristóbal;J. C. Jiménez-Muñoz;J. A. Sobrino;M. Ninyerola

  • Split-Window Coefficients for Land Surface Temperature Retrieval From Low-Resolution Thermal Infrared Sensors

    J.-C. Jimenez-Munoz;J.A. Sobrino

  • An Improved Single-Channel Method to Retrieve Land Surface Temperature from the Landsat-8 Thermal Band

    Jordi Cristóbal;Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz;Anupma Prakash;Cristian Mattar

  • A Single-Channel Algorithm for Land-Surface Temperature Retrieval From ASTER Data

    J.C. Jimenez-Munoz;J.A. Sobrino

  • Error sources on the land surface temperature retrieved from thermal infrared single channel remote sensing data

    J. C. Jiménez‐Muñoz;J. A. Sobrino

  • Land surface temperature derived from airborne hyperspectral scanner thermal infrared data

    José A. Sobrino;Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz;Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;Guadalupe Sepulcre-Cantó

  • Review of Thermal Infrared Applications and Requirements for Future High-Resolution Sensors

    José A. Sobrino;Fabio Del Frate;Matthias Drusch;Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz

  • Evaluation of the surface urban heat island effect in the city of Madrid by thermal remote sensing

    JoséA. Sobrino;Rosa Oltra-Carrió;Guillem Sòria;Juan Carlos Jiménez-Muñoz

  • A simple algorithm to estimate evapotranspiration from DAIS data: Application to the DAISEX campaigns

    J.A. Sobrino;M. Gomez;J.C. Jimenez-Munoz;A. Olioso

  • Temporal analysis of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and land surface temperature (LST) parameters to detect changes in the Iberian land cover between 1981 and 2001

    Yves Julien;Jose A. Sobrino;Cristian Mattar;Ana B. Ruescas

Frequent Co-Authors

José A. Sobrino
José A. Sobrino University of Valencia
Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada
Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada Spanish National Research Council
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Alan R. Gillespie
Alan R. Gillespie University of Washington
Jose Moreno
Jose Moreno University of Valencia
Xavier Pons
Xavier Pons Autonomous University of Barcelona
Albert Olioso
Albert Olioso INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Luis Guanter
Luis Guanter Universitat Politècnica de València
Francisco J. Villalobos
Francisco J. Villalobos University of Córdoba
Elias Fereres
Elias Fereres University of Córdoba

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