John S. Kimball

31.8k citations

309 papers · 16.0k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 69

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Atmospheric Science top 0.1%
- Climate change and permafrost
- Cryospheric studies and observations

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 185
- Climate change and permafrost 123
- Cryospheric studies and observations 121
Environmental Engineering 102
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing 85

Co-authors: Steven W. Running Ke Zhang L. A. Jones Youngwook Kim Jennifer D. Watts Kyle C. McDonald Ramakrishna Nemani Jinyang Du
Journals: Remote Sensing of Environment (27 papers)Remote Sensing (17 papers)Environmental Research Letters (17 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (13 papers)IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (12 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Canada

In The Last Decade

John S. Kimball

297 papers receiving 15.4k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems 2023 · 124 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature Climate Change
2021 Hydrology and earth system sciences
2016 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
2015 Scientific Reports
2014 Environmental Research Letters
2010 Water Resources Research

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1	A satellite-based ice fraction record for small water bodies of the Arctic Coastal Plain Hong Lin, Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Xiao Cheng, John Donnelly, Jennifer D. Watts, Annett Bartsch	2025	0
2	Going, going, gone: Landscape drying reduces wetland function across the American West Ecological Indicators ·John Donnelly, Johnnie N. Moore, John S. Kimball, Kelsey Jencso, Mark J. Petrie, David E. Naugle	2025	1
3	Multi-source machine learning and spaceborne remote sensing data accurately predict three-dimensional soil moisture in an in-service uranium disposal cell Journal of Environmental Management ·Christopher J. Jarchow, Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Alison Kuhlman, Deb Steckley	2024	0
4	Machine‐Learning Based Multi‐Layer Soil Moisture Forecasts—An Application Case Study of the Montana 2017 Flash Drought Water Resources Research ·Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Kelsey Jencso, Zachary Hoylman, Colin Brust, David Ketchum, Y. Xu, Hui Lü, Justin Sheffield	2024	6
5	Intensified Warming and Aridity Accelerate Terminal Lake Desiccation in the Great Basin of the Western United States Earth and Space Science ·Dorothy K. Hall, John S. Kimball, Ron Larson, Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, Kimberly A. Casey, Glynn Hulley	2023	13
6	Continuity of Global MODIS Terrestrial Primary Productivity Estimates in the VIIRS Era Using Model‐Data Fusion Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·K. Arthur Endsley, Maosheng Zhao, John S. Kimball, Sadashiva Devadiga	2023	13
7	Global estimates of daily evapotranspiration using SMAP surface and root-zone soil moisture Remote Sensing of Environment ·Youngwook Kim, Hotaek Park, John S. Kimball, Andreas Colliander, Matthew F. McCabe	2023	21
8	Soil Respiration Phenology Improves Modeled Phase of Terrestrial net Ecosystem Exchange in Northern Hemisphere Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·K. Arthur Endsley, John S. Kimball, Rolf H. Reichle	2022	8
9	Timing and Order of Extreme Drought and Wetness Determine Bioclimatic Sensitivity of Tree Growth Earth s Future ·Xiuchen Wu, Hongyan Liu, Henrik Hartmann, Philippe Ciais, John S. Kimball, Christopher R. Schwalm, J. Julio Camarero, Anping Chen, Pierre Gentine, Yuting Yang, Shulei Zhang, Xiaoyan Li, Chongyang Xu, Wen Zhang, Zongshan Li, Deliang Chen	2022	25
10	Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought Global Change Biology ·Matthew P. Dannenberg, Dong Yan, Mallory L. Barnes, William K. Smith, Miriam R. Johnston, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, John F. Knowles, Xian Wang, Tomer Duman, M. E. Litvak, John S. Kimball, Park Williams, Yao Zhang	2022	91
11	A Novel Approach to Map the Intensity of Surface Melting on the Antarctica Ice Sheet Using SMAP L-Band Microwave Radiometry IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ·Mohammad Mousavi, Andreas Colliander, Julie Z. Miller, John S. Kimball	2022	15
12	Ice Sheet Surface and Subsurface Melt Water Discrimination Using Multi‐Frequency Microwave Radiometry Geophysical Research Letters ·Andreas Colliander, Mohammad Mousavi, Shawn J. Marshall, Samira Samimi, John S. Kimball, Julie Z. Miller, Joel T. Johnson, Mariko Burgin	2022	16
13	Potential Satellite Monitoring of Surface Organic Soil Properties in Arctic Tundra From SMAP Water Resources Research ·Yonghong Yi, Richard H. Chen, John S. Kimball, Mahta Moghaddam, Xiaolan Xu, E. S. Euskirchen, Narendra N. Das, Charles E. Miller	2022	9
14	Synergistic Satellite Assessment of Global Vegetation Health in Relation to ENSO‐Induced Droughts and Pluvials Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Justin Sheffield, I. Velicogna, Meng Zhao, Ming Pan, Colby K. Fisher, Hylke E. Beck, Jennifer D. Watts, G. A, Eric F. Wood	2021	6
15	Evaluation of Surface Melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet Using SMAP L-Band Microwave Radiometry IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ·Mohammad Mousavi, Andreas Colliander, Julie Z. Miller, Dara Entekhabi, Joel T. Johnson, Christopher A. Shuman, John S. Kimball, Z. Courville	2021	15
16	Seasonality of biological and physical systems as indicators of climatic variation and change Climatic Change ·Jake F. Weltzin, Julio L. Betancourt, Benjamin I. Cook, Theresa M. Crimmins, Carolyn A. F. Enquist, Michael D. Gerst, John Gross, Geoffrey M. Henebry, Rebecca A. Hufft, Melissa A. Kenney, John S. Kimball, Bradley C. Reed, Steven W. Running	2020	13
17	Sensitivity of active-layer freezing process to snow cover in Arctic Alaska The cryosphere ·Yonghong Yi, John S. Kimball, Richard H. Chen, Mahta Moghaddam, Charles E. Miller	2019	35
18	Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America Geophysical Research Letters ·William K. Smith, Joel A. Biederman, Russell L. Scott, D. J. Moore, Mingzhu He, John S. Kimball, Dong Yan, Amy Hudson, Mallory L. Barnes, Natasha MacBean, A. M. Fox, M. E. Litvak	2018	121
19	The shared and unique value of optical, flourescence, thermal and microwave satellite data for estimating large-scale crop yields AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Kaiyu Guan, Jian Wu, John S. Kimball, Martha C. Anderson, Steve Frolking, B. Li, David B. Lobell	2016	1
20	A continuous satellite‐derived global record of land surface evapotranspiration from 1983 to 2006 Water Resources Research ·Ke Zhang, John S. Kimball, Ramakrishna Nemani, Steven W. Running Hit paper breakdown →	2010	498

About John S. Kimball

John S. Kimball is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Ecology, having authored 309 papers that have together received 16.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate change and permafrost (123 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (121 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (85 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (76 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (52 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (36 papers), Climate variability and models (34 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (27 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (8.6k citations), Atmospheric Science (7.0k citations), Environmental Engineering (4.1k citations), Water Science and Technology (2.8k citations) and Ecology (4.2k citations). John S. Kimball has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Steven W. Running, Ke Zhang, L. A. Jones, Youngwook Kim, Jennifer D. Watts, Kyle C. McDonald, Ramakrishna Nemani, Jinyang Du, Maosheng Zhao and Matthew Jones. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing, Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

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