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Wouter Dorigo

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Environmental Sciences
Austria
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
83
Citations
27935
World Ranking
830
National Ranking
7

Wouter Dorigo 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 Wouter Dorigo 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.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Wouter Dorigo 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 Wouter Dorigo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Wouter Dorigo is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria and has a research focus largely within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work encompasses a variety of subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum related to soil moisture and remote sensing, precipitation measurement and analysis, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, climate variability and models, cryospheric studies and observations, and climate change and permafrost.

Among recent publications by Wouter Dorigo are:

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade (2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences)
  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors (2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences)
  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors? (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Irrigation in the Earth system (2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)

Frequent coauthors of Wouter Dorigo include:

  • Alexander Gruber
  • Robin van der Schalie
  • Richard de Jeu
  • Tracy Scanlon
  • Wolfgang Preimesberger

The scientist has contributed extensively to several publication venues with the highest number of publications in:

  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Remote Sensing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Best Publications

  • 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

  • ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding : State-of-the art and future directions

    Wouter Dorigo;Wolfgang Wagner;Clement Albergel;Franziska Albrecht

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: a data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements

    W. A. Dorigo;W. Wagner;R. Hohensinn;S. Hahn

  • 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

  • A review on reflective remote sensing and data assimilation techniques for enhanced agroecosystem modeling

    W A Dorigo;W A Dorigo;R Zurita-Milla;A J W de Wit;J Brazile

  • Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

    A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

  • 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

  • Soil moisture estimation through ASCAT and AMSR-E sensors: An intercomparison and validation study across Europe

    L. Brocca;S. Hasenauer;T. Lacava;F. Melone

  • Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils

    Christopher M. Taylor;Richard A. M. de Jeu;Françoise Guichard;Phil P. Harris

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

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

  • Global Automated Quality Control of In Situ Soil Moisture Data from the International Soil Moisture Network

    W.A. Dorigo;A. Xaver;M. Vreugdenhil;A. Gruber

  • Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology

    Alexander Gruber;Alexander Gruber;Tracy Scanlon;Robin van der Schalie;Wolfgang Wagner

  • State of the Art in Large‐Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring

    Tyson E. Ochsner;Michael Harold Cosh;Richard H. Cuenca;Wouter Dorigo

  • 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

  • Soil as a natural rain gauge: Estimating global rainfall from satellite soil moisture data

    Luca Brocca;Luca Ciabatta;Christian Massari;Tommaso Moramarco

  • Triple Collocation-Based Merging of Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals

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

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

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

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

  • Recent advances in (soil moisture) triple collocation analysis

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

  • 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

  • Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils

    C. Taylor;R. A. De Jeu;F. Guichard;P. Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Diego G. Miralles
Diego G. Miralles Ghent University
Robert Parinussa
Robert Parinussa University of New South Wales
R.A.M. de Jeu
R.A.M. de Jeu Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Niko E. C. Verhoest
Niko E. C. Verhoest Ghent University
Luca Brocca
Luca Brocca National Research Council (CNR)
Yi Y. Liu
Yi Y. Liu Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Clément Albergel
Clément Albergel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Klaus Scipal
Klaus Scipal European Space Agency
Rolf H. Reichle
Rolf H. Reichle Goddard Space Flight Center

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