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Overview

Kevin P. Gallo is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with specific work in environmental engineering, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The core topics of their research include urban heat island mitigation, remote sensing and land use, land use and ecosystem services, urban green space and health, climate change and permafrost, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Significant recent publications authored or co-authored by Kevin P. Gallo cover several aspects of urban thermal environments and remote sensing technology. These include:

  • Urban Heat Island and Its Regional Impacts Using Remotely Sensed Thermal Data-A Review of Recent Developments and Methodology, 2021, published in Land
  • The effects of urban land cover dynamics on urban heat Island intensity and temporal trends, 2021, published in GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Monitoring and characterizing multi-decadal variations of urban thermal condition using time-series thermal remote sensing and dynamic land cover data, 2021, published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Evaluation of the Bias in the Use of Clear-Sky Compared with All-Sky Observations of Monthly and Annual Daytime Land Surface Temperature, 2022, published in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Kevin P. Gallo has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Hua Shi, George Xian, Roger F. Auch, Qiang Zhou, and Zhuoting Wu. These collaborations indicate a focus on interdisciplinary approaches combining remote sensing, environmental monitoring, and climatic analysis.

Their research has appeared across a range of journals with repeated contributions in venues such as Land, GIScience & Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, and the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Best Publications

  • A new perspective on recent global warming: asymmetric trends of daily maximum and minimum temperature

    Thomas R. Karl;Philip D. Jones;Richard W. Knight;George Kukla

  • Asymmetric Trends of Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature

    Thomas R Karl;Philip D Jones;Richard W Knight;George Kukla

  • Spectral estimates of absorbed radiation and phytomass production in corn and soybean canopies

    C.S.T. Daughtry;K.P. Gallo;S.N. Goward;S.D. Prince

  • The use of NOAA AVHRR data for assessment of the urban heat island effect

    K.P. Gallo;A. L. McNab;Thomas R. Karl;Jesslyn F. Brown

  • The influence of land use/land cover on climatological values of the diurnal temperature range

    Kevin P. Gallo;David R. Easterling;Thomas C. Peterson

  • Satellite-Based Adjustments for the Urban Heat Island Temperature Bias

    Kevin P. Gallo;Timothy W. Owen

  • Spectral estimates of solar radiation intercepted by corn canopies

    C. S. T. Daughtry;K. P. Gallo;M. E. Bauer

  • The use of a vegetation index for assessment of the urban heat island effect

    K.P. Gallo;A. L. McNab;Thomas R. Karl;Jesslyn F. Brown

  • Unresolved issues with the assessment of multidecadal global land surface temperature trends

    Roger A. Pielke;Christopher A. Davey;Dev Niyogi;Souleymane Fall

  • Evaluation of the Relationship between Air and Land Surface Temperature under Clear- and Cloudy-Sky Conditions

    Kevin Gallo;Robert Hale;Dan Tarpley;Yunyue Yu

  • Techniques for Measuring Intercepted and Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation in Corn Canopies1

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  • Methodology and Results of Calculating Central California Surface Temperature Trends: Evidence of Human-Induced Climate Change?

    John R. Christy;William B. Norris;Kelly Redmond;Kevin P. Gallo

  • Temperature Trends of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network Based on Satellite-Designated Land Use/Land Cover

    Kevin P. Gallo;Timothy W. Owen;David R. Easterling;Paul F. Jamason

  • Assessment of urban heat islands: a satellite perspective

    K.P. Gallo;J.D. Tarpley;A.L. McNab;T.R. Karl

  • Multi-platform comparisons of MODIS and AVHRR normalized difference vegetation index data

    Kevin P. Gallo;Lei Ji;Bradley C. Reed;Jeffery C. Eidenshink

  • An Agreement Coefficient for Image Comparison

    Lei Ji;Kevin Gallo

  • Global rural temperature trends

    Thomas C. Peterson;Kevin P. Gallo;Jay Lawrimore;Timothy W. Owen

  • Observed climate variability and change of relevance to the biosphere

    David R. Easterling;Thomas R. Karl;Kevin P. Gallo;Kevin P. Gallo;David A. Robinson

  • GCIP water and energy budget synthesis (WEBS)

    J. Roads;R. Lawford;E. Bainto;E. Berbery

  • Documentation of uncertainties and biases associated with surface temperature measurement sites for climate change assessment

    Roger Pielke;John Nielsen-Gammon;Christopher Davey;James Randal Angel

  • Asymmetric trends of daily maximum and minimum temperature: Empirical evidence and possible causes

    TR Karl;PD Jones;RW Knight;G Kukla

  • Reply to comment by David E. Parker et al. on: Unresolved issues with the assessment of multidecadal global land surface temperature trends

    Roger A. Pielke;Christopher A. Davey;Dev Niyogi;Souleymane Fall

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas R. Karl
Thomas R. Karl National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas C. Peterson
Thomas C. Peterson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas R. Loveland
Thomas R. Loveland United States Geological Survey
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
David R. Easterling
David R. Easterling National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Kenneth G. Hubbard
Kenneth G. Hubbard University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Craig S. T. Daughtry
Craig S. T. Daughtry Agricultural Research Service
Ming Cai
Ming Cai Florida State University

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