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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
151
Citations
120518
World Ranking
25
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Steven W. Running is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States and conducts research primarily within Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Ecological Modeling.

They have published extensively on topics related to remote sensing and ecological processes. The main topics of their research include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Science Advances
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Earth's Future

Among their recent papers are:

  • "A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling," 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Multispectral high resolution sensor fusion for smoothing and gap-filling in the cloud," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Soil-related developments of the Biome-BGCMuSo v6.2 terrestrial ecosystem model," 2022, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Quantifying uncertainty in high resolution biophysical variable retrieval with machine learning," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

Steven W. Running has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Gustau Camps-Valls, Álvaro Moreno-Martínez, Jordi Muñoz-Marí, Nicholas Clinton, and John S. Kimball.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2002.

Best Publications

  • A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

    Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Haroun Chenchouni;Dominique Bachelet

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

  • Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999

    Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Charles D. Keeling;Hirofumi Hashimoto;Hirofumi Hashimoto;William M. Jolly

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Improvements to a MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration algorithm

    Qiaozhen Mu;Maosheng Zhao;Steven W. Running

  • Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

    Maosheng Zhao;Steven W. Running

  • A Continuous Satellite-Derived Measure of Global Terrestrial Primary Production

    Steven W Running;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Faith Ann Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao

  • Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Josep G. Canadell;Gregg Marland

  • Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data

    Ranga B. Myneni;S. Hoffman;Yuri Knyazikhin;J. Privette

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

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

  • A general model of forest ecosystem processes for regional applications I. Hydrologic balance, canopy gas exchange and primary production processes

    Steven W. Running;Joseph C. Coughlan

  • The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research

    C.O. Justice;E. Vermote;J.R.G. Townshend;R. Defries

  • Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    W. Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;G. Flanner

  • Development of a global evapotranspiration algorithm based on MODIS and global meteorology data

    Qiaozhen Mu;Faith Ann Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao;Steven W. Running

  • Improvements of the MODIS terrestrial gross and net primary production global data set

    Maosheng Zhao;Faith Ann Heinsch;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Steven W. Running

  • Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain

    Peter Edmond Thornton;Steven W Running;Michael A. White

  • A continental phenology model for monitoring vegetation responses to interannual climatic variability

    Michael A. White;Peter Edmond Thornton;Steven W Running

  • Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

    Benjamin Poulter;David Frank;Philippe Ciais;Ranga B. Myneni

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • Water in a changing world

    Robert B. Jackson;Stephen R. Carpenter;Clifford N. Dahm;Diane M. McKnight

  • Estimation of global leaf area index and absorbed par using radiative transfer models

    R.B. Myneni;R. Ramakrishna;R. Nemani;S.W. Running

Frequent Co-Authors

Maosheng Zhao
Maosheng Zhao Science Systems and Applications (United States)
John S. Kimball
John S. Kimball University of Montana
Ramakrishna R. Nemani
Ramakrishna R. Nemani Ames Research Center
Qiaozhen Mu
Qiaozhen Mu Science Systems & Applications, Inc.
Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Richard H. Waring
Richard H. Waring Oregon State University
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Michael R. H. White
Michael R. H. White University of Manchester

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