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D-Index
65
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28941
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2150
National Ranking
872

Paul R. Houser 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 Paul R. Houser sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 338 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Paul R. Houser 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 Paul R. Houser sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Paul R. Houser is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Ecology.

Their published work covers a range of topics including Cryospheric studies and observations, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Climate change and permafrost.

Among frequent co-authors are Viviana Maggioni, Sujay V. Kumar, Yiwen Mei, Yuan Xue, and Mekuanent Muluneh Finsa.

Paul R. Houser has published multiple papers in several venues, with recurring contributions to Water, Remote Sensing, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Spatiotemporal impacts of COVID-19 on air pollution in California, USA (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Snow Ensemble Uncertainty Project (SEUP): quantification of snow water equivalent uncertainty across North America via ensemble land surface modeling (2021), The Cryosphere
  • A Nonparametric Statistical Technique for Spatial Downscaling of Precipitation Over High Mountain Asia (2020), Water Resources Research
  • The Joint Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Leaf Area Index and Surface Soil Moisture into a Land Surface Model (2022), Remote Sensing
  • Development of a "nature run" for observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) for snow mission development (2022), Journal of Hydrometeorology

Best Publications

  • The Global Land Data Assimilation System

    Mathew Rodell;Paul Houser;U Jambor;J GottschalcK

  • Correcting eddy-covariance flux underestimates over a grassland

    Tracy E Twine;W. P. Kustas;J. M. Norman;D. R. Cook

  • The Common Land Model

    Yongjiu Dai;Xubin Zeng;Robert E. Dickinson;Ian Baker

  • The multi-institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Utilizing multiple GCIP products and partners in a continental distributed hydrological modeling system

    Kenneth E. Mitchell;Dag Lohmann;Paul R. Houser;Eric F. Wood

  • Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;Yongjiu Dai;B. Bonan;Mike Bosilovichm

  • Dual state-parameter estimation of hydrological models using ensemble Kalman filter

    Hamid Moradkhani;Soroosh Sorooshian;Hoshin Vijai Gupta;Paul R. Houser

  • Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water

    Eric F. Wood;Joshua K. Roundy;Tara J. Troy;L. P. H. van Beek

  • Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling

    S. V. Kumar;C. D. Peters-Lidard;Y. Tian;P. R. Houser

  • Real‐time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project

    Brian A. Cosgrove;Brian A. Cosgrove;Dag Lohmann;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Paul R. Houser

  • Integration of soil moisture remote sensing and hydrologic modeling using data assimilation

    Paul R. Houser;Paul R. Houser;W. James Shuttleworth;James S. Famiglietti;Hoshin V. Gupta

  • Ground‐based investigation of soil moisture variability within remote sensing footprints During the Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Experiment

    J. S. Famiglietti;J. A. Devereaux;C. A. Laymon;T. Tsegaye

  • Extended versus Ensemble Kalman Filtering for Land Data Assimilation

    Rolf H. Reichle;Jeffrey P. Walker;Randal D. Koster;Paul R. Houser

  • Hyper-resolution global hydrological modelling: what is next?

    Marc F. P. Bierkens;Victoria A. Bell;Peter Burek;Nathaniel Chaney

  • The Observed State of the Water Cycle in the Early Twenty-First Century

    M. Rodell;H. K. Beaudoing;H. K. Beaudoing;T. S. L'Ecuyer;W. S. Olson;W. S. Olson

  • Multiscale assimilation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–EOS snow water equivalent and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer snow cover fraction observations in northern Colorado

    Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Rolf H. Reichle;Kristi R. Arsenault;Paul R. Houser

  • High-performance Earth system modeling with NASA/GSFC’s Land Information System

    Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Paul R. Houser;Yudong Tian;Sujay V. Kumar

  • Surface radiation budgets in support of the GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project (GCIP) and the GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP), including the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project

    Rachel T. Pinker;J. Dan Tarpley;Istvan Laszlo;Kenneth E. Mitchell

  • The hydrosphere State (hydros) Satellite mission: an Earth system pathfinder for global mapping of soil moisture and land freeze/thaw

    D. Entekhabi;E.G. Njoku;P. Houser;M. Spencer

  • A methodology for initializing soil moisture in a global climate model: Assimilation of near‐surface soil moisture observations

    Jeffrey P. Walker;Paul R. Houser

  • A land surface data assimilation framework using the land information system : Description and applications

    Sujay V. Kumar;Sujay V. Kumar;Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Randal D. Koster

  • Updating a Land Surface Model with MODIS-Derived Snow Cover

    M. Rodell;P. R. Houser

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Sujay V. Kumar
Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center
Kenneth E. Mitchell
Kenneth E. Mitchell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Niko E. C. Verhoest
Niko E. C. Verhoest Ghent University
Rachel T. Pinker
Rachel T. Pinker University of Maryland, College Park
Lifeng Luo
Lifeng Luo Michigan State University
Valentijn R. N. Pauwels
Valentijn R. N. Pauwels Monash University
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton

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