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D-Index
71
Citations
38833
World Ranking
1536
National Ranking
650

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Piers J. Sellers was affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their professional focus was in scientific research, though no specific fields of study or subfields are directly listed in the available data.

There are no records of recent papers authored by Sellers nor any frequent co-authors or publication venues documented. Additionally, no information on book publications attributed to Sellers is present in the data provided.

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1996. This fellowship is awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions to the Earth and space sciences.

Best Publications

  • A Simple Biosphere Model (SIB) for Use within General Circulation Models

    P. J. Sellers;Y. Mintz;Y. C. Sud;A. Dalcher

  • Canopy reflectance, photosynthesis and transpiration

    P. J. Sellers

  • A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part I: Model Formulation

    P.J. Sellers;D.A. Randall;G.J. Collatz;J.A. Berry

  • Modeling the Exchanges of Energy, Water, and Carbon Between Continents and the Atmosphere

    P. J. Sellers;R. E. Dickinson;D. A. Randall;A. K. Betts

  • Satellite remote sensing of primary production

    C. J. Tucker;P. J. Sellers

  • The interpretation of spectral vegetation indexes

    Ranga B. Myneni;Forrest G. Hall;Piers J. Sellers;Alexander L. Marshak

  • Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change

    J. Shukla;C. Nobre;P. Sellers

  • Amazonian Deforestation and Regional Climate Change

    Carlos A. Nobre;Piers J. Sellers;Jagadish Shukla

  • A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part II: The Generation of Global Fields of Terrestrial Biophysical Parameters from Satellite Data

    Piers J. Sellers;Compton J. Tucker;G. James Collatz;Sietse O. Los

  • Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument description and experiment overview

    D.J. Diner;J.C. Beckert;T.H. Reilly;C.J. Bruegge

  • Canopy reflectance, photosynthesis, and transpiration. III : A reanalysis using improved leaf models and a new canopy integration scheme

    P.J. Sellers;J.A. Berry;G.J. Collatz;C.B. Field

  • A Simplified Biosphere Model for Global Climate Studies

    Y. Xue;P. J. Sellers;J. L. Kinter;J. Shukla

  • A Global Climatology of Albedo, Roughness Length and Stomatal Resistance for Atmospheric General Circulation Models as Represented by the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB)

    J. L. Dorman;P. J. Sellers

  • Canopy reflectance, photosynthesis, and transpiration. II. the role of biophysics in the linearity of their interdependence

    P. J. Sellers

  • A global 1° by 1° NDVI data set for climate studies. Part 2: The generation of global fields of terrestrial biophysical parameters from the NDVI

    P. J. Sellers;C. J. Tucker;G. J. Collatz;S. O. Los

  • The Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) : an overview and early results from the 1994 field year

    Piers Sellers;Forrest Hall;K. Jon Ranson;Hank Margolis

  • Comparison of radiative and physiological effects of doubled atmospheric CO2 on climate

    P. J. Sellers;L. Bounoua;G. J. Collatz;D. A. Randall

  • The First ISLSCP Field Experiment (FIFE)

    P. J. Sellers;F. G. Hall;G. Asrar;D. E. Strebel

  • BOREAS in 1997: Experiment overview, scientific results, and future directions

    Piers J. Sellers;Forrest G. Hall;Robert D. Kelly;Andrew Black

  • Satellite remote sensing of surface energy balance : success, failures, and unresolved issues in FIFE

    Forrest G. Hall;Karl F. Huemmrich;Scott J. Goetz;Piers J. Sellers

  • An overview of the First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Field Experiment (FIFE)

    P. J. Sellers;F. G. Hall;G. Asrar;D. E. Strebel

Frequent Co-Authors

Compton J. Tucker
Compton J. Tucker Goddard Space Flight Center
David A. Randall
David A. Randall Colorado State University
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Christopher B. Field
Christopher B. Field Stanford University
Yujie Wang
Yujie Wang University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Thomas Hilker
Thomas Hilker Oregon State University
G. James Collatz
G. James Collatz Goddard Space Flight Center
Sietse O. Los
Sietse O. Los Swansea University
Alexei Lyapustin
Alexei Lyapustin Goddard Space Flight Center
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University

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