Mike Hobbins

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
45 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Mike Hobbins is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Hobbins has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Mike Hobbins's work include Climate variability and models (28 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (26 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (22 papers). Mike Hobbins is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (28 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (26 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (22 papers). Mike Hobbins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Mike Hobbins's co-authors include Michael L. Roderick, Graham D. Farquhar, Thomas C. Brown, Leon Rotstayn, Jorge A. Ramírez, Jorge A. Ramı́rez, Andrew W. Wood, Daniel J. McEvoy, Justin Huntington and Martha C. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Mike Hobbins

44 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

On the attribution of changing pan evaporation

2007 558 citations Mike Hobbins et al. profile →
Flash drought: A state of the science review

2024 55 citations Jordan I. Christian, Mike Hobbins et al. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mike Hobbins United States	27	2.6k	1.2k	743	279	176	45	3.0k
Deepak Jhajharia India	21	2.3k 0.9×	976 0.8×	722 1.0×	494 1.8×	159 0.9×	41	2.8k
Sandra Gomes Portugal	3	1.6k 0.6×	980 0.8×	868 1.2×	235 0.8×	133 0.8×	3	2.2k
Wanqiu Xing China	28	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	516 0.7×	308 1.1×	121 0.7×	52	2.1k
Gopi Goteti United States	6	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	876 1.2×	506 1.8×	161 0.9×	11	2.5k
Daniel G. Kingston New Zealand	25	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	637 0.9×	235 0.8×	170 1.0×	55	2.2k
Axel Thomas Germany	14	1.7k 0.6×	759 0.6×	750 1.0×	242 0.9×	156 0.9×	22	2.2k
Mingzhong Xiao China	29	2.0k 0.8×	939 0.8×	737 1.0×	327 1.2×	183 1.0×	64	2.3k
Fei Yuan China	31	2.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	543 1.9×	118 0.7×	81	3.0k
Shanlei Sun China	27	1.7k 0.6×	688 0.6×	696 0.9×	293 1.1×	229 1.3×	95	2.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kukal, Meetpal S. & Mike Hobbins. (2025). Thirstwaves: Prolonged Periods of Agricultural Exposure to Extreme Atmospheric Evaporative Demand for Water. Earth s Future. 13(3).

Hughes, Mimi, Darren L. Jackson, D. M. Unruh, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of Retrospective National Water Model Soil Moisture and Streamflow for Drought‐Monitoring Applications. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(6). 10 indexed citations

Christian, Jordan I., Mike Hobbins, Andrew Hoell, et al.. (2024). Flash drought: A state of the science review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 11(3). 55 indexed citations breakdown →

Hobbins, Mike, Alex C. Ruane, Roger S. Pulwarty, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Global Food Security: Opportunities for the American Meteorological Society. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(4). E760–E777. 8 indexed citations

Hobbins, Mike, D. P. Sarmiento, Amy McNally, et al.. (2023). A global long-term daily reanalysis of reference evapotranspiration for drought and food-security monitoring. Scientific Data. 10(1). 746–746. 11 indexed citations

McEvoy, Daniel J., et al.. (2022). Validation and Bias Correction of Forecast Reference Evapotranspiration for Agricultural Applications in Nevada. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 148(11). 2 indexed citations

Gwon, Yeongjin, et al.. (2022). Drought and all-cause mortality in Nebraska from 1980 to 2014: Time-series analyses by age, sex, race, urbanicity and drought severity. The Science of The Total Environment. 840. 156660–156660. 17 indexed citations

Otkin, Jason A., Molly Woloszyn, Hailan Wang, et al.. (2022). Getting ahead of Flash Drought: From Early Warning to Early Action. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 103(10). E2188–E2202. 50 indexed citations

Kew, Sarah, Sjoukje Philip, Mathias Hauser, et al.. (2021). Impact of precipitation and increasing temperatures on drought trends in eastern Africa. Earth System Dynamics. 12(1). 17–35. 50 indexed citations

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Hobbins, Mike, L. Harrison, G. J. Husak, et al.. (2019). Drought in Africa: Understanding and Exploiting the Demand Perspective Using a New Evaporative Demand Reanalysis. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Baoqing, Youlong Xia, Biao Long, et al.. (2019). Evaluation and comparison of multiple evapotranspiration data models over the contiguous United States: Implications for the next phase of NLDAS (NLDAS-Testbed) development. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 280. 107810–107810. 58 indexed citations

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Husak, G. J., Shraddhanand Shukla, Christopher Funk, & Mike Hobbins. (2018). Investigating the Inputs to SPEI and Their Importance in Identifying Agroclimatic Hazards. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Rangwala, Imtiaz, et al.. (2017). Drought risk assessment under climate change is sensitive to methodological choices for the estimation of evaporative demand. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0174045–e0174045. 58 indexed citations

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Hobbins, Mike, et al.. (2016). Using FRET for Drought Mitigation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 2 indexed citations

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Hobbins, Mike, Sandeep Kumar Shukla, G. J. Husak, et al.. (2016). What role does evaporative demand play in driving drought in Africa. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Xia, Youlong, Mike Hobbins, Qiaozhen Mu, & Michael Ek. (2014). Evaluation of NLDAS‐2 evapotranspiration against tower flux site observations. Hydrological Processes. 29(7). 1757–1771. 55 indexed citations

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Melton, Forrest, et al.. (2013). National Weather Service Forecast Reference Evapotranspiration. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Hobbins, Mike, et al.. (2013). NOAA Introduces its First-Generation Reference Evapotranspiration Product. AGUFM. 2013. 2 indexed citations

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Hobbins, Mike, et al.. (2012). What Drives the Variability of Evaporative Demand across the Conterminous United States?. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 13(4). 1195–1214. 62 indexed citations

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Hobbins, Mike, et al.. (2004). Developing a long-term, high-resolution, continental-scale, spatially distributed time-series of topographically corrected solar radiation. Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University). 1 indexed citations

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