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D-Index
76
Citations
23471
World Ranking
1187
National Ranking
517

Wade T. Crow publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wade T. Crow sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 341 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Wade T. Crow D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wade T. Crow sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 76 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Wade T. Crow is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans numerous subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on topics related to Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Climate Change and Permafrost, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, and Cryospheric Studies and Observations.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wade T. Crow include:

  • Jianzhi Dong
  • Rolf H. Reichle
  • Jianhong Zhou
  • Luca Brocca
  • Fangni Lei

Their publications appear predominantly in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Wade T. Crow include:

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors? (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission (2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing)
  • Comparison of microwave remote sensing and land surface modeling for surface soil moisture climatology estimation (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Quasi-global machine learning-based soil moisture estimates at high spatio-temporal scales using CYGNSS and SMAP observations (2022, Remote Sensing of Environment)

Best Publications

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

    Dara Entekhabi;Eni G Njoku;Peggy E O'Neill;Kent H Kellogg

  • Upscaling sparse ground‐based soil moisture observations for the validation of coarse‐resolution satellite soil moisture products

    Wade T. Crow;Aaron A. Berg;Michael H. Cosh;Alexander Loew

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • Performance Metrics for Soil Moisture Retrievals and Application Requirements

    Dara Entekhabi;Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

  • The assimilation of remotely sensed soil brightness temperature imagery into a land surface model using Ensemble Kalman filtering: a case study based on ESTAR measurements during SGP97

    Wade T Crow;Eric F Wood

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • Evaluating the Utility of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Retrievals for Operational Agricultural Drought Monitoring

    J.D. Bolten;W.T. Crow;Xiwu Zhan;T.J. Jackson

  • Triple Collocation-Based Merging of Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals

    Alexander Gruber;Wouter Arnoud Dorigo;Wade Crow;Wolfgang Wagner

  • Recent advances in (soil moisture) triple collocation analysis

    Alexander Gruber;Chun-Hsu Su;Simon Zwieback;Wade T. Crow

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications ─ confronting product characteristics with user requirements

    Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

  • Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture product using in situ measurements

    Rolf H. Reichle;Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy;Qing Liu;Joseph V. Ardizzone

  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: what are (the) errors?

    A. Gruber;G. de Lannoy;C. Albergel;A. Al-Yaari

  • The SMAP and Copernicus Sentinel 1A/B microwave active-passive high resolution surface soil moisture product

    Narendra N. Das;Dara Entekhabi;R. Scott Dunbar;Mario J. Chaubell

  • The hydrosphere State (hydros) Satellite mission: an Earth system pathfinder for global mapping of soil moisture and land freeze/thaw

    D. Entekhabi;E.G. Njoku;P. Houser;M. Spencer

  • An adaptive ensemble Kalman filter for soil moisture data assimilation

    Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;Wade T. Crow;Christian L. Keppenne;Christian L. Keppenne

  • Role of Subsurface Physics in the Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture Observations

    Sujay V. Kumar;Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

  • A land surface data assimilation framework using the land information system : Description and applications

    Sujay V. Kumar;Sujay V. Kumar;Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Randal D. Koster

  • Global-scale Evaluation of SMAP, SMOS and ASCAT Soil Moisture Products using Triple Collocation.

    Fan Chen;Wade T. Crow;Rajat Bindlish;Andreas Colliander

  • A new data assimilation approach for improving runoff prediction using remotely-sensed soil moisture retrievals

    W. T. Crow;D. Ryu

  • Version 4 of the SMAP Level-4 Soil Moisture algorithm and data product

    Rolf H. Reichle;Qing Liu;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

  • Estimating Spatial Sampling Errors in Coarse-Scale Soil Moisture Estimates Derived from Point-Scale Observations

    Diego G. Miralles;Wade T. Crow;Michael H. Cosh

  • SMAP Handbook–Soil Moisture Active Passive: Mapping Soil Moisture and Freeze/Thaw from Space

    Dara Entekhabi;Simon Yueh;Peggy E O’Neill;Kent H Kellogg

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf H. Reichle
Rolf H. Reichle Goddard Space Flight Center
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Randal D. Koster
Randal D. Koster Goddard Space Flight Center
Christopher Hain
Christopher Hain Marshall Space Flight Center
Andreas Colliander
Andreas Colliander California Institute of Technology
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center
Thomas R. H. Holmes
Thomas R. H. Holmes Goddard Space Flight Center

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