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6860
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3328

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Thomas J. Holmes is affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Aerospace Engineering, and Oceanography.

Their work covers a range of main topics including Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Calibration and Measurement Techniques, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Cryospheric Studies and Observations.

Holmes has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Recent papers include:

  • NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Assimilation of vegetation optical depth retrievals from passive microwave radiometry, 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Soil Evaporation Stress Determines Soil Moisture-Evapotranspiration Coupling Strength in Land Surface Modeling, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The 2019-2020 Australian Drought and Bushfires Altered the Partitioning of Hydrological Fluxes, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Soil Moisture-Evapotranspiration Overcoupling and L-Band Brightness Temperature Assimilation: Sources and Forecast Implications, 2020, Journal of Hydrometeorology

Frequent coauthors associated with Holmes' publications include Christopher Hain, Sujay V. Kumar, Martha C. Anderson, Augusto Getirana, and Wade T. Crow.

Holmes' contributions appear regularly in journals such as the Journal of Hydrometeorology, Remote Sensing of Environment, Geophysical Research Letters, Water Resources Research, and Remote Sensing.

Among awards, Holmes is noted to have been named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2011.

Best Publications

  • The Effect of State Policies on the Location of Manufacturing: Evidence from State Borders

    Thomas J. Holmes

  • The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density

    Thomas J. Holmes

  • The Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination in Oligopoly

    Thomas J Holmes

  • Localization of Industry and Vertical Disintegration

    Thomas J. Holmes

  • A Theory of Entrepreneurship and Its Application to the Study of Business Transfers

    Thomas J. Holmes;James A. Schmitz

  • GEOGRAPHIC CONCENTRATION AND ESTABLISHMENT SCALE

    Thomas J. Holmes;John J. Stevens

  • Advance-Purchase Discounts and Monopoly Allocation of Capacity

    Ian L. Gale;Thomas J. Holmes

  • Competition and productivity: a review of evidence

    Thomas Holmes;James Schmitz

  • A gain from trade: From unproductive to productive entrepreneurship

    Thomas J Holmes;James A.Schmitz

  • Chapter 63 Spatial distribution of economic activities in North America

    Thomas J. Holmes;John J. Stevens

  • The efficiency of advance-purchase discounts in the presence of aggregate demand uncertainty

    Ian L. Gale;Thomas J. Holmes

  • Quid Pro Quo: Technology Capital Transfers for Market Access in China

    Thomas J. Holmes;Ellen R. McGrattan;Edward C. Prescott

  • Bar codes lead to frequent deliveries and superstores

    Thomas J. Holmes

  • Monopoly and the incentive to innovate when adoption involves switchover disruptions

    Thomas J. Holmes;David K. Levine;James A. Schmitz

  • On the Turnover of Business Firms and Business Managers

    Thomas J. Holmes;James A. Schmitz

  • An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution, with Geography and Intra- and International Trade

    Thomas J. Holmes;John J. Stevens

  • Allocative efficiency, mark-ups, and the welfare gains from trade

    Thomas J Holmes;Wen Tai Hsu;Sanghoon Lee

  • Resistance to New Technology and Trade between Areas

    Thomas J Holmes;James A Schmitz

  • Mergers and the evolution of industry concentration: results from the dominant- firm model

    Gautam Gowrisankaran;Thomas J. Holmes

  • The effects of state policies on the location of industry: evidence from state borders

    Thomas J. Holmes

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