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Zhongbo Su publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zhongbo Su sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 473 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Zhongbo Su D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zhongbo Su sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 90th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Zhongbo Su is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing strongly on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's primary research topics include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Climate Change and Permafrost, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Climate Variability and Models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Frequent collaborators in Zhongbo Su's work include:

  • Yijian Zeng
  • Yaoming Ma
  • Jun Wen
  • R. van der Velde
  • Lianyu Yu

Zhongbo Su has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhongbo Su and colleagues include:

  • "The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade," 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission," 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • "An Integrative Information Aqueduct to Close the Gaps between Satellite Observation of Water Cycle and Local Sustainable Management of Water Resources," 2020, Water
  • "Quantifying the evaporation amounts of 75 high-elevation large dimictic lakes on the Tibetan Plateau," 2020, Science Advances

Best Publications

  • The Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) for estimation of turbulent heat fluxes

    Zhongbo Su

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • S-SEBI: A simple remote sensing algorithm to estimate the surface energy balance

    G.J. Roerink;Zhongbo Su;M. Menenti

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

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

  • On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring

    Salvatore Manfreda;Matthew F. McCabe;Pauline E. Miller;Richard Lucas

  • An integrated model of soil-canopy spectral radiances, photosynthesis, fluorescence, temperature and energy balance

    C. van der Tol;W. Verhoef;J. Timmermans;A. Verhoef

  • Unified Optical-Thermal Four-Stream Radiative Transfer Theory for Homogeneous Vegetation Canopies

    W. Verhoef;Li Jia;Qing Xiao;Z. Su

  • The Tibetan plateau observatory of plateau scale soil moisture and soil temperature, Tibet - Obs, for quantifying uncertainties in coarse resolution satellite and model products

    Z. Su;J. Wen;L. Dente;R. van der Velde

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

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • An Evaluation of Two Models for Estimation of the Roughness Height for Heat Transfer between the Land Surface and the Atmosphere

    Zhongbo Su;T. Schmugge;W.P. Kustas;W.J. Massman

  • 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

  • Assessment of vegetation dynamics and their response to variations in precipitation and temperature in the Tibetan Plateau

    Lei Zhong;Lei Zhong;Lei Zhong;Yaoming Ma;Yaoming Ma;Mhd. Suhyb Salama;Zhongbo Su

  • Assessment of climate impact on vegetation dynamics by using remote sensing

    G.J. Roerink;M. Menenti;W. Soepboer;Zhongbo Su

  • Surface energy fluxes with the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer (ASTER) at the Iowa 2002 SMACEX site (USA)

    A.N. French;F. Jacob;M.C. Anderson;W.P. Kustas

  • Modeling Evapotranspiration during SMACEX: Comparing Two Approaches for Local- and Regional-Scale Prediction

    H. Su;M.F. McCabe;E.F. Wood;Zhongbo Su

  • Estimation of sensible heat flux using the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) and ATSR measurements

    Li Jia;Li Jia;Zhongbo Su;Bart van den Hurk;Massimo Menenti

  • Assessing relative soil moisture with remote sensing data: theory, experimental validation, and application to drought monitoring over the North China Plain

    Zhongbo Su;Abreham Yacob;Jun Wen;Gerbert Roerink

  • Validation of SMOS soil moisture products over the Maqu and Twente regions.

    Laura Dente;Zhongbo Su;Jun Wen

  • An Assessment of Satellite-Derived Rainfall Products Relative to Ground Observations over East Africa

    M.W. Kimani;Johannes Cornelis Bernardus Hoedjes;Z. Su

  • Evaluation of ECMWF's soil moisture analyses using observations on the Tibetan Plateau

    Zhongbo Su;P. de Rosnay;J. Wen;Lichun Wang

  • Evaluation of the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) applied to ASTER imagery with flux-measurements at the SPARC 2004 site (Barrax, Spain)

    J. van der Kwast;J. van der Kwast;W. Timmermans;A. Gieske;Z. Su

  • On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring

    Salvatore Manfreda;Matthew McCabe;Pauline Miller;Richard Lucas

  • Two models for estimation of the roughness height for heat transfer between the land surface and the atmosphere

    Z. Su;T. Schmugge;W.P. Kustas;W.J. Massman

Frequent Co-Authors

Yijian Zeng
Yijian Zeng University of Twente
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Massimo Menenti
Massimo Menenti Delft University of Technology
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center
José A. Sobrino
José A. Sobrino University of Valencia
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
Peggy E. O'Neill
Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra University of Twente
José Martínez-Fernández
José Martínez-Fernández University of Salamanca

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