Thomas Holmes

9.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Holmes is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Holmes has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Environmental Engineering, 57 papers in Atmospheric Science and 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Thomas Holmes's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (57 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (36 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (22 papers). Thomas Holmes is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (57 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (36 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (22 papers). Thomas Holmes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Australia. Thomas Holmes's co-authors include Richard de Jeu, A. J. Dolman, Manfred Owe, Diego G. Miralles, J. H. C. Gash, A. G. C. A. Meesters, Robert Parinussa, Wolfgang Wagner, Wade T. Crow and Christopher Hain and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Holmes

87 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

Global land-surface evaporation estimated from satellite-based observations

2011 1.3k citations Diego G. Miralles, Thomas Holmes et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
Multisensor historical climatology of satellite‐derived global land surface moisture

2008 803 citations Manfred Owe, Richard de Jeu et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Holmes United States	35	4.1k	4.0k	3.0k	1.7k	769	90	6.8k
Patricia de Rosnay United Kingdom	46	5.0k 1.2×	5.6k 1.4×	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	123	7.9k
Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater United Kingdom	27	2.4k 0.6×	3.6k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	459 0.6×	61	6.0k
Jean‐Christophe Calvet France	48	5.5k 1.4×	5.2k 1.3×	2.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	177	7.9k
Martin Hirschi Switzerland	29	2.9k 0.7×	4.3k 1.1×	5.9k 2.0×	1.9k 1.1×	789 1.0×	55	8.4k
Boris Orlowsky Switzerland	16	2.3k 0.6×	3.5k 0.9×	4.7k 1.6×	1.4k 0.8×	621 0.8×	26	6.7k
J. Noilhan France	39	2.4k 0.6×	3.6k 0.9×	5.0k 1.6×	2.2k 1.3×	765 1.0×	95	6.9k
Alexandra G. Konings United States	42	2.5k 0.6×	2.9k 0.7×	3.9k 1.3×	938 0.6×	507 0.7×	116	6.4k
Michael Barlage United States	42	2.0k 0.5×	4.5k 1.1×	4.9k 1.6×	1.7k 1.0×	284 0.4×	106	7.2k
Irene Lehner Switzerland	10	2.1k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	3.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	728 0.9×	19	5.3k
Hans Lievens Belgium	23	2.0k 0.5×	2.1k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	326 0.4×	68	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Holmes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Holmes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Holmes

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lahmers, Timothy M., Sujay V. Kumar, S. Ahmad, et al.. (2025). An Observation‐Driven Framework for Modeling Post‐Fire Hydrologic Response: Evaluation for Two Central California Case Studies. Water Resources Research. 61(2).

Groot, C., J. A. Pedelty, Aaron Gerace, et al.. (2025). Toward a near-lossless image compression strategy for the NASA/USGS Landsat Next mission. Remote Sensing of Environment. 329. 114929–114929. 1 indexed citations

Heinemeyer, Andreas, et al.. (2025). Ecological implications of changes in vegetation elemental composition under different heather (Calluna vulgaris) managements on British blanket bog. Journal of Environmental Management. 392. 126720–126720.

Nie, Wanshu, Sujay V. Kumar, Augusto Getirana, et al.. (2024). Nonstationarity in the global terrestrial water cycle and its interlinkages in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(45). e2403707121–e2403707121. 7 indexed citations

Feldman, Andrew F., Randal D. Koster, Kerry Cawse‐Nicholson, et al.. (2024). Soil Moisture Profiles of Ecosystem Water Use Revealed With ECOSTRESS. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(8). 5 indexed citations

Sagi, Venkata, Francis Murgatroyd, Lucas V.A. Boersma, et al.. (2024). Comprehensive analysis of substernal lead removal: experience from EV ICD Pilot, Pivotal, and Continued Access Studies. EP Europace. 26(9). 8 indexed citations

Ahmad, S., Thomas Holmes, Sujay V. Kumar, et al.. (2024). Droughts impede water balance recovery from fires in the Western United States. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(2). 229–238. 10 indexed citations

Wu, Dong L., Donald E. Jennings, K. K. Choi, et al.. (2021). Compact Thermal Imager (CTI) for Atmospheric Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing. 13(22). 4578–4578. 2 indexed citations

Dong, Jianzhi, Paul A. Dirmeyer, Fangni Lei, et al.. (2020). Soil Evaporation Stress Determines Soil Moisture‐Evapotranspiration Coupling Strength in Land Surface Modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(21). 45 indexed citations

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Uz, Stephanie Schollaert, Alex C. Ruane, B. N. Duncan, et al.. (2019). Earth Observations and Integrative Models in Support of Food and Water Security. Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences. 2(1). 18–38. 13 indexed citations

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Lei, Fangni, Wade T. Crow, Thomas Holmes, Christopher Hain, & Martha C. Anderson. (2018). Global Investigation of Soil Moisture and Latent Heat Flux Coupling Strength. Water Resources Research. 54(10). 8196–8215. 47 indexed citations

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Holmes, Thomas, Christopher Hain, Wade T. Crow, Martha C. Anderson, & William P. Kustas. (2018). Microwave implementation of two-source energy balance approach for estimating evapotranspiration. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(2). 1351–1369. 40 indexed citations

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Holmes, Thomas, Christopher Hain, Martha C. Anderson, & Wade T. Crow. (2016). Cloud tolerance of remote-sensing technologies to measure land surfacetemperature. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(8). 3263–3275. 22 indexed citations

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Holmes, Thomas, Wade T. Crow, & Christopher Hain. (2013). Spatial patterns in timing of the diurnal temperature cycle. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(10). 3695–3706. 29 indexed citations

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Miralles, Diego G., Richard de Jeu, J. H. C. Gash, Thomas Holmes, & A. J. Dolman. (2011). Magnitude and variability of land evaporation and its components at the global scale. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 15(3). 967–981. 344 indexed citations

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Holmes, Thomas, T. J. Jackson, Rolf H. Reichle, & Jeffrey B. Basara. (2009). Validation of soil temperature dataset against ground measurements in Oklahoma. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 2 indexed citations

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Jeu, Richard de, Thomas Holmes, Rocco Panciera, & Jeffrey P. Walker. (2009). Parameterization of the Land Parameter Retrieval Model for L-band Observations using the Nafe’05 Dataset. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 6. 630–634. 1 indexed citations

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Gruhier, Claire, Patricia de Rosnay, S. Hasenauer, et al.. (2009). Soil moisture active and passive microwave products: intercomparison and evaluation over a Sahelian site. VU Research Portal. 157 indexed citations

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Owe, Manfred, Richard de Jeu, & Thomas Holmes. (2008). Multisensor historical climatology of satellite‐derived global land surface moisture. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 113(F1). 803 indexed citations breakdown →

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Draper, Clara, Jeffrey P. Walker, Peter Steinle, Richard de Jeu, & Thomas Holmes. (2007). Remotely sensed soil moisture over Australia from AMSR-E. Congress on Modelling and Simulation. 11 indexed citations

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