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D-Index
61
Citations
24064
World Ranking
2699
National Ranking
73

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Climate change
  • Meteorology
  • Ecosystem

R.A.M. de Jeu mainly focuses on Remote sensing, Meteorology, Water content, Soil water and Scatterometer. His Microwave radiometer, Radiometer and Radiometry study are his primary interests in Remote sensing. His study explores the link between Microwave radiometer and topics such as Brightness temperature that cross with problems in Polarization.

Meteorology is frequently linked to Vegetation in his study. His study with Soil water involves better knowledge in Soil science. His Scatterometer study frequently involves adjacent topics like Water cycle.

His most cited work include:

  • Global land-surface evaporation estimated from satellite-based observations (556 citations)
  • A methodology for surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth retrieval using the microwave polarization difference index (542 citations)
  • Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals (490 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Water content, Remote sensing, Meteorology, Radiometer and Atmospheric sciences are his primary areas of study. His study in Water content is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Soil science, Soil water, Precipitation, Vegetation and Moisture. His Remote sensing research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Scatterometer and Brightness temperature.

His studies in Brightness temperature integrate themes in fields like Microwave radiometer, Radiative transfer and Numerical weather prediction. His research integrates issues of Brightness and Water cycle in his study of Meteorology. In the field of Radiometer, his study on WINDSAT overlaps with subjects such as Communication channel.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Water content (57.80%)
  • Remote sensing (46.79%)
  • Meteorology (20.18%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2018)?

  • Water content (57.80%)
  • Remote sensing (46.79%)
  • Meteorology (20.18%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary scientific interests are in Water content, Remote sensing, Meteorology, Radiometer and Vegetation. His Water content study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Scatterometer, Single-scattering albedo, Atmospheric sciences and Soil science. His work deals with themes such as Soil water, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Brightness temperature, which intersect with Remote sensing.

His research in the fields of Evaporation overlaps with other disciplines such as Biogeosciences, Range and Product. His work carried out in the field of Radiometer brings together such families of science as Satellite imagery and Precipitation. His Vegetation study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Sensible heat, Ancillary data and Carbon cycle.

Between 2014 and 2018, his most popular works were:

  • Evaluation of the ESA CCI soil moisture product using ground-based observations (322 citations)
  • Comparison of SMOS and AMSR-E vegetation optical depth to four MODIS-based vegetation indices (46 citations)
  • Comparison of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture data sets across Australia (44 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Climate change
  • Meteorology
  • Ecosystem

R.A.M. de Jeu mostly deals with Water content, Remote sensing, Single-scattering albedo, Soil water and Meteorology. His biological study deals with issues like Scatterometer, which deal with fields such as Water cycle. His Remote sensing study incorporates themes from Northern Hemisphere and Normalized difference water index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index.

His research in Single-scattering albedo intersects with topics in Vegetation, Numerical weather prediction and Brightness temperature. His studies deal with areas such as Biosphere, Satellite imagery and Radiometer as well as Soil water. The various areas that R.A.M. de Jeu examines in his Meteorology study include Common spatial pattern and Atmospheric sciences.

Best Publications

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture

    Brecht Martens;Diego G. Miralles;Diego G. Miralles;Hans Lievens;Hans Lievens;Robin van der Schalie

  • Global land-surface evaporation estimated from satellite-based observations

    D.G. Miralles;T.R.H. Holmes;T.R.H. Holmes;R.A.M. de Jeu;J.H.C. Gash

  • Multisensor historical climatology of satellite-derived global land surface moisture

    Manfred Owe;Richard de Jeu;Thomas Holmes

  • A methodology for surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth retrieval using the microwave polarization difference index

    M. Owe;R. de Jeu;J. Walker

  • Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals

    Y. Y. Liu;W. A. Dorigo;R. M. Parinussa;R. A. M. de Jeu

  • Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals

    Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;R. M. Parinussa;W. A. Dorigo;R. A. M. De Jeu

  • Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

    M.K. van der Molen;A.J. Dolman;P. Ciais;T. Eglin

  • Evaluation of the ESA CCI soil moisture product using ground-based observations

    W.A. Dorigo;A. Gruber;R.A.M. De Jeu;W. Wagner

  • Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass

    Yi Y. Liu;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Richard A. M. de Jeu;Josep G. Canadell

  • Magnitude and variability of land evaporation and its components at the global scale

    D.G. Miralles;R.A.M. de Jeu;J.H.C. Gash;T.R.H. Holmes;T.R.H. Holmes

  • An evaluation of AMSR–E derived soil moisture over Australia

    Clara S. Draper;Clara S. Draper;Jeffrey P. Walker;Peter J. Steinle;Richard A.M. de Jeu

  • Error characterisation of global active and passive microwave soil moisture datasets.

    W. A. Dorigo;K. Scipal;R. M. Parinussa;Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu

  • Evaluating global trends (1988–2010) in harmonized multi‐satellite surface soil moisture

    Wouter Dorigo;Richard de Jeu;Daniel Chung;Robert Parinussa

  • Land surface temperature from Ka band (37 GHz) passive microwave observations

    T. R. H. Holmes;R. A. M. De Jeu;M. Owe;A. J. Dolman

  • Using satellite based soil moisture to quantify the water driven variability in NDVI: A case study over mainland Australia

    T. Chen;T. Chen;R.A.M. de Jeu;Y.Y. Liu;Y.Y. Liu;G.R. van der Werf

  • Soil moisture-temperature coupling: A multiscale observational analysis

    Diego G Miralles;M. van den Berg;A.J. Teuling;R.A.M. De Jeu

  • El Niño-La Niña cycle and recent trends in continental evaporation

    Diego G. Miralles;Martinus J. van den Berg;John H. Gash;Robert M. Parinussa

  • Fusion of active and passive microwave observations to create an Essential Climate Variable data record on soil moisture

    W. Wagner;W. Dorigo;R.A.M. de Jeu;D. Fernandez

  • Soil moisture from Operational Meteorological Satellites

    Wolfgang Wagner;Vahid Naeimi;Klaus Scipal;Richard de Jeu

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas R. H. Holmes
Thomas R. H. Holmes Goddard Space Flight Center
A. J. Dolman
A. J. Dolman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Robert Parinussa
Robert Parinussa University of New South Wales
Diego G. Miralles
Diego G. Miralles Ghent University
Yi Y. Liu
Yi Y. Liu Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
P. de Rosnay
P. de Rosnay European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Amen Al-Yaari
Amen Al-Yaari Sorbonne University

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