S. O. Los

10.7k citations

94 papers · 8.5k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 48

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.1%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Ecology top 0.2%
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 70
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 42
- Climate variability and models 27
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 21
Atmospheric Science 35
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 12
- Tree-ring climate responses 11
- Cryospheric studies and observations 7

Co-authors: Compton J. Tucker G. J. Collatz P. J. Sellers D. A. Dazlich David A. Randall Peter North D. A. Slayback Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón
Journals: International Journal of Remote Sensing (7 papers)The Holocene (7 papers)Journal of Climate (6 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (6 papers)Global Change Biology (6 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Canada

In The Last Decade

S. O. Los

92 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Higher northern latitude normalized difference vegetation index and growing season trends from 1982 to 1999 2001 · 616 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.

2001 International Journal of Biometeorology
1996 Journal of Climate

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside S. O. Los, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	An open source, remote sensing‐based methodology for wetland habitat condition assessments to aid conservation decision‐making Journal of Applied Ecology ·Juan Rodríguez M, Andrew J. Bamford, Anne Harrison, Kevin A. Wood, S. O. Los, A MALONE, Samuel T. Turvey, Michael A. Hudson, James P. Hansford, Clare Duncan	2025	0
2	Spatio‐Temporal Variations in Carbon Isotope Discrimination Predicted by the JULES Land Surface Model Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Rivan Dwiutomo, Iain Robertson, Aliénor Lavergne, Deborah Hemming, Neil J. Loader, Giles Young, D. E. Davies, Katja T. Rinne‐Garmston, S. O. Los, COLLIN D WICK	2022	3
3	Carbon dioxide emissions from periglacial patterned ground under changing permafrost conditions and shrub encroachment in an alpine landscape, Jotunheimen, Norway Permafrost and Periglacial Processes ·Zhaohui Huo, John F. Hiemstra, S. O. Los, John A. Matthews, Cynthia A. Froyd	2020	2
4	Holocene alluvial fan evolution, Schmidt‐hammer exposure‐age dating and paraglacial debris floods in theSEJostedalsbreen region, southern Norway Boreas ·John A. Matthews, Lindsey McEwen, Geraint Owen, S. O. Los	2020	7
5	Testing gridded land precipitation data and precipitation and runoff reanalyses (1982–2010) between 45° S and 45° N with normalised difference vegetation index data Hydrology and earth system sciences ·S. O. Los	2015	11
6	Modelling spatial and temporal vegetation variability with the Climate Constrained Vegetation Index: evidence of CO<sub>2</sub> fertilisation and of water stress in continental interiors S. O. Los	2015	1
7	Response of vegetation to the 2003 European drought was mitigated by height Biogeosciences ·Suzanne Bevan, S. O. Los, Peter North	2014	18
8	Slope Estimation from ICESat/GLAS Remote Sensing ·Craig Mahoney, Natascha Kljun, S. O. Los, L. Chasmer, Jörg Hacker, Christopher Hopkinson, Peter North, J. Rosette, Eva van Gorsel	2014	26
9	A 1200-year multiproxy record of tree growth and summer temperature at the northern pine forest limit of Europe The Holocene ·Danny McCarroll, Neil J. Loader, Risto Jalkanen, Mary Gagen, Håkan Grudd, Björn E. Gunnarson, Andreas J. Kirchhefer, Michael Friedrich, Hans W. Linderholm, Markus Lindholm, Tatjana Boettger, S. O. Los, Sabine Remmele, Yuri Kononov, Y. H. Yamazaki, Giles Young, Eduardo Zorita	2013	104
10	improved vegetation phenology in the JULES land-surface model AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·S. O. Los	2013	1
11	Vegetation height and cover fraction between 60° S and 60° N from ICESat GLAS data Geoscientific model development ·S. O. Los, J. Rosette, Natascha Kljun, Peter North, L. Chasmer, Juan Carlos Pinilla Suárez, Chris Hopkinson, Ross A. Hill, Eva van Gorsel, Craig Mahoney, José A. Jiménez-Berni	2012	88
12	A comprehensive set of benchmark tests for a land surface model of simultaneous fluxes of water and carbon at both the global and seasonal scale Geoscientific model development ·Eleanor Blyth, Douglas B. Clark, Rich Ellis, Chris Huntingford, S. O. Los, Milton Pryor, Martin Best, Stephen Sitch	2011	89
13	A global dataset of atmospheric aerosol optical depth and surface reflectance from AATSR Remote Sensing of Environment ·Suzanne Bevan, Peter North, S. O. Los, W. Grey	2011	49
14	Investigation of Ecological and Environmental Determinants for the Presence of Questing <I>Ixodes ricinus</I> (Acari: Ixodidae) on Gower, South Wales Journal of Medical Entomology ·Jolyon M. Medlock, Maaike E. Pietzsch, Nathan Rice, Linda D. Jones, Yang Chun-jiao, Thais Araujo Infante Vieira, S. O. Los, Norman A. Ratcliffe, Stephen Leach, Tariq M. Butt	2008	49
15	Computationally efficient method for retrieving aerosol optical depth from ATSR-2 and AATSR data Applied Optics ·W. Grey, Peter North, S. O. Los	2006	30
16	Postfire response of North American boreal forest net primary productivity analyzed with satellite observations Global Change Biology ·Jeffrey A. Hicke, Gregory P. Asner, Eric S. Kasischke, Nancy H. F. French, James T. Randerson, G. J. Collatz, B. J. Stocks, Compton J. Tucker, S. O. Los, Christopher B. Field	2003	161
17	Sensitivity of Climate to Changes in NDVI Journal of Climate ·Lahouari Bounoua, G. J. Collatz, S. O. Los, P. J. Sellers, D. A. Dazlich, Compton J. Tucker, David A. Randall	2000	200
18	Implications of land-cover misclassification for parameter estimates in global land-surface models: An example from the simple biosphere model (SiB2) Cronfa (Swansea University) ·S. O. Los	1999	45
19	Interactions between Vegetation and Climate: Radiative and Physiological Effects of Doubled Atmospheric CO₂ Journal of Climate ·Lahouari Bounoua, G. J. Collatz, P. J. Sellers, David A. Randall, D. A. Dazlich, S. O. Los, Joseph A. Berry, Inez Fung, Compton J. Tucker, Christopher B. Field, Tommy G. Jensen	1999	76
20	Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere‐biosphere models: Toward continuous distributions of vegetation's functional properties Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Ruth DeFries, Christopher B. Field, Inez Fung, Christopher O. Justice, S. O. Los, Pamela A. Matson, Elaine Matthews, Harold A. Mooney, Christopher Potter, Katharine C. Prentice, P. J. Sellers, John Townshend, Compton J. Tucker, Susan L. Ustin, Peter M. Vitousek	1995	158

About S. O. Los

S. O. Los is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 94 papers that have together received 8.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (46 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (42 papers), Climate variability and models (27 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (21 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (11 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (10 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (6.2k citations), Ecology (4.0k citations), Atmospheric Science (2.7k citations), Ecological Modeling (628 citations) and Environmental Engineering (1.8k citations). S. O. Los has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Compton J. Tucker, G. J. Collatz, P. J. Sellers, D. A. Dazlich, David A. Randall, Peter North, D. A. Slayback, Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón, Christopher B. Field and Lahouari Bounoua. Their work appears in journals such as International Journal of Remote Sensing, The Holocene, Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Global Change Biology.

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