John Kochendorfer

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

John Kochendorfer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John Kochendorfer has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 28 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in John Kochendorfer's work include Climate variability and models (18 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (15 papers). John Kochendorfer is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (18 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (15 papers). John Kochendorfer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Spain. John Kochendorfer's co-authors include Tilden P. Meyers, Mark E. Hall, Roy Rasmussen, Craig D. Smith, Bruce L. Baker, Scott Landolt, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Ronald D. Leeper, Rodica Nitu and Julie M. Thériault and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Atmospheric chemistry and physics and Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

In The Last Decade

John Kochendorfer

49 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

How Well Are We Measuring Snow: The NOAA/FAA/NCAR Winter Precipitation Test Bed

2011 536 citations Roy Rasmussen, Bruce L. Baker et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Kochendorfer United States	20	1.4k	976	500	288	148	50	1.9k
Zeyong Hu China	23	1.0k 0.8×	946 1.0×	320 0.6×	194 0.7×	103 0.7×	108	1.6k
Cécile B. Ménard Finland	14	1.3k 1.0×	991 1.0×	398 0.8×	379 1.3×	73 0.5×	17	1.9k
Jianxiu Qiu China	22	759 0.6×	736 0.8×	909 1.8×	381 1.3×	147 1.0×	58	1.6k
Enrique Rosero United States	11	1.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.8×	653 1.3×	800 2.8×	204 1.4×	13	2.5k
G. G. Rooney United Kingdom	18	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.6×	592 1.2×	376 1.3×	96 0.6×	40	2.4k
Weiqiang Ma China	25	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	362 0.7×	377 1.3×	49 0.3×	112	1.9k
Zhiyong Wu China	26	675 0.5×	1.4k 1.4×	484 1.0×	805 2.8×	101 0.7×	102	2.1k
Bradley G. Illston United States	15	649 0.5×	589 0.6×	776 1.6×	117 0.4×	178 1.2×	32	1.3k
Dominique Carrer France	23	830 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	593 1.2×	159 0.6×	95 0.6×	52	1.5k
L. Franchistéguy France	13	619 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	394 0.8×	745 2.6×	67 0.5×	19	1.8k

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Meyers, Tilden P., P. Krishnan, Mark Heuer, John Kochendorfer, & Howard J. Diamond. (2025). The impact of wildfire on the land surface parameters of a semi-arid grassland in the southwestern U.S.. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 363. 110390–110390.

Kochendorfer, John, Howard J. Diamond, Tilden P. Meyers, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of soil water content and bulk electrical conductivity across the U.S. Climate Reference Network using two electromagnetic sensors. Vadose Zone Journal. 23(4). 4 indexed citations

Kochendorfer, John, Howard J. Diamond, Tilden P. Meyers, et al.. (2023). A field evaluation of the SoilVUE10 soil moisture sensor. Vadose Zone Journal. 22(2). 9 indexed citations

Buisán, Samuel, et al.. (2022). Adjustment of Solid Precipitation during the Filomena Extreme Snowfall Event in Spain: From Observations to “True Precipitation”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 103(11). E2570–E2578. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Craig D., John Kochendorfer, Michael E. Earle, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of the WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment (SPICE) transfer functions for adjusting the wind bias in solid precipitation measurements. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(8). 4025–4043. 34 indexed citations

Smith, Craig D., John Kochendorfer, Michael E. Earle, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of the WMO-SPICE transfer functions for adjustingthe wind bias in solid precipitation measurements. 2 indexed citations

Kochendorfer, John, Rodica Nitu, Mareile Wolff, et al.. (2018). Testing and development of transfer functions for weighing precipitation gauges in WMO-SPICE. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(2). 1437–1452. 58 indexed citations

Sayres, D. S., R. Dobosy, Edward J. Dumas, et al.. (2017). Arctic regional methane fluxes by ecotope as derived using eddy covariance from a low-flying aircraft. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(13). 8619–8633. 19 indexed citations

Buisán, Samuel, Michael E. Earle, John Kochendorfer, et al.. (2017). Assessment of snowfall accumulation underestimation by tipping bucket gauges in the Spanish operational network. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(3). 1079–1091. 42 indexed citations

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Kochendorfer, John, Roy Rasmussen, Mareile Wolff, et al.. (2017). The quantification and correction of wind-induced precipitation measurement errors. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(4). 1973–1989. 128 indexed citations

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Dobosy, R., D. S. Sayres, Edward J. Dumas, et al.. (2017). Estimating Random Uncertainty in Airborne Flux Measurements over Alaskan Tundra: Update on the Flux Fragment Method. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 34(8). 1807–1822. 9 indexed citations

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Buisán, Samuel, Michael E. Earle, John Kochendorfer, et al.. (2016). Assessment of the underestimation of snowfall accumulation by tipping bucket gauges used operationally by the Spanish national weather service. Arcimis (State Meteorological Agency). 3 indexed citations

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Leeper, Ronald D. & John Kochendorfer. (2015). Evaporation from weighing precipitation gauges: impacts on automated gauge measurements and quality assurance methods. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 8(6). 2291–2300. 9 indexed citations

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Bell, Jesse E., Michael A. Palecki, C. Bruce Baker, et al.. (2013). U.S. Climate Reference Network Soil Moisture and Temperature Observations. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 14(3). 977–988. 277 indexed citations

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Ikawa, Hiroki, I. C. Faloona, John Kochendorfer, Kyaw Tha Paw U, & Walter C. Oechel. (2013). Air–sea exchange of CO ₂ at a Northern California coastal site along the California Current upwelling system. Biogeosciences. 10(7). 4419–4432. 21 indexed citations

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Kochendorfer, John, Tilden P. Meyers, J. M. Frank, W. J. Massman, & Mark Heuer. (2012). Reply to the Comment by Mauder on “How Well Can We Measure the Vertical Wind Speed? Implications for Fluxes of Energy and Mass”. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 147(2). 337–345. 12 indexed citations

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Kochendorfer, John & Jorge A. Ramírez. (2010). Ecohydrologic controls on vegetation density and evapotranspiration partitioning across the climatic gradients of the central United States. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 14(10). 2121–2139. 14 indexed citations

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Kochendorfer, John & Jorge A. Ramírez. (2010). Modeling the monthly mean soil-water balance with a statistical-dynamical ecohydrology model as coupled to a two-component canopy model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 14(10). 2099–2120. 10 indexed citations

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Wharton, Sonia, et al.. (2004). EVAPOTRANSPIRATION: MEASURING AND MODELING. Acta Horticulturae. 537–554. 3 indexed citations

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Kochendorfer, John & Jorge A. Ramírez. (1996). Integrated Hydrological/Ecological/Economic Modeling for Examining the Vulnerability of Water Resources to Climate Change. 2157–2162. 2 indexed citations

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