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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
36291
World Ranking
733
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Tim R. McVicar is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily centers on Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

Their work covers a range of topics related to climate and environmental dynamics, such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Frequent co-authors in McVicar's research include Yuting Yang, Hylke E. Beck, César Azorín-Molina, Thomas G. Van Niel, and Diego G. Miralles. Their collaborative efforts can be seen across multiple publications.

McVicar has published extensively in several key journals, including:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment (13 publications)
  • Environmental Research Letters (5 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (5 publications)
  • Water Resources Research (4 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (4 publications)

Recent papers by or involving Tim R. McVicar include:

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901-2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections, 2023, Scientific Data
  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation, 2020, Science Advances
  • Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution

    Hylke E. Beck;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Noemi Vergopolan

  • Estimating Land Surface Evaporation: A Review of Methods Using Remotely Sensed Surface Temperature Data

    Jetse D. Kalma;Tim R. McVicar;Matthew F. McCabe

  • Global review and synthesis of trends in observed terrestrial near-surface wind speeds; implications for evaporation

    Tim R. McVicar;Michael L. Roderick;Randall J. Donohue;Ling Tao Li

  • MSWEP V2 Global 3-Hourly 0.1° Precipitation: Methodology and Quantitative Assessment

    Hylke E. Beck;Eric F. Wood;Ming Pan;Colby K. Fisher

  • Coupled estimation of 500 m and 8-day resolution global evapotranspiration and gross primary production in 2002-2017

    Yongqiang Zhang;Yongqiang Zhang;Dongdong Kong;Rong Gan;Rong Gan;Francis H.S. Chiew

  • Multi-decadal trends in global terrestrial evapotranspiration and its components

    Yongqiang Zhang;Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Francis H. S. Chiew

  • Estimating actual, potential, reference crop and pan evaporation using standard meteorological data: a pragmatic synthesis

    T. A. McMahon;M. C. Peel;L. Lowe;R. Srikanthan

  • Preprocessing EO-1 Hyperion hyperspectral data to support the application of agricultural indexes

    B. Datt;T.R. McVicar;T.G. Van Niel;D.L.B. Jupp

  • On the importance of including vegetation dynamics in Budyko's hydrological model

    Randall Donohue;Randall Donohue;Michael Roderick;Tim R McVicar

  • Impact of CO2 fertilization on maximum foliage cover across the globe's warm, arid environments

    Randall J. Donohue;Michael L. Roderick;Michael L. Roderick;Tim R. McVicar;Graham D. Farquhar

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901–2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections

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  • Roots, storms and soil pores: Incorporating key ecohydrological processes into Budyko’s hydrological model

    Randall J. Donohue;Michael L. Roderick;Tim R. McVicar

  • Assessing the ability of potential evaporation formulations to capture the dynamics in evaporative demand within a changing climate

    Randall J. Donohue;Randall J. Donohue;Tim R. McVicar;Michael L. Roderick

  • Wind speed climatology and trends for Australia, 1975-2006: Capturing the stilling phenomenon and comparison with near-surface reanalysis output

    Tim R. McVicar;Thomas G. Van Niel;Ling Tao Li;Michael L. Roderick

  • Global-scale regionalization of hydrologic model parameters

    Hylke E. Beck;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Ad de Roo;Diego G. Miralles

  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation.

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Yue Li

  • Hydrologic implications of vegetation response to elevated CO2 in climate projections

    Yuting Yang;Yuting Yang;Yuting Yang;Michael L. Roderick;Michael L. Roderick;Shulei Zhang;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar

  • Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

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  • Spatially distributing monthly reference evapotranspiration and pan evaporation considering topographic influences

    Tim R. McVicar;Thomas G. Van Niel;LingTao Li;Michael F. Hutchinson

  • Global evaluation of four AVHRR–NDVI data sets: Intercomparison and assessment against Landsat imagery

    Hylke E. Beck;Tim R. McVicar;Albert I.J.M. van Dijk;Jaap Schellekens

  • Publisher Correction: Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution.

    Hylke E. Beck;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Noemi Vergopolan

  • Estimating land surface evaporation: a review of methods using remotely sensed surface temperature data | NOVA. The University of Newcastle's Digital Repository

    Jetse D. Kalma;Tim R. McVicar;Matthew F. McCabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael L. Roderick
Michael L. Roderick Australian National University
Yuting Yang
Yuting Yang Tsinghua University
Cesar Azorin-Molina
Cesar Azorin-Molina Spanish National Research Council
Albert van Dijk
Albert van Dijk Australian National University
Hylke E. Beck
Hylke E. Beck King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Deliang Chen
Deliang Chen University of Gothenburg
Yongqiang Zhang
Yongqiang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Diego G. Miralles
Diego G. Miralles Ghent University
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Spanish National Research Council
Francis H. S. Chiew
Francis H. S. Chiew Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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