William P. Kustas

32.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
388 papers, 24.7k citations indexed

About

William P. Kustas is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William P. Kustas has authored 388 papers receiving a total of 24.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 327 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 167 papers in Environmental Engineering and 101 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in William P. Kustas's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (312 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (97 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (92 papers). William P. Kustas is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (312 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (97 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (92 papers). William P. Kustas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Israel. William P. Kustas's co-authors include John M. Norman, Martha C. Anderson, K. S. Humes, John H. Prueger, Feng Gao, Andrew N. French, Craig S. T. Daughtry, Christopher Hain, Fuqin Li and Joseph G. Alfieri and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

William P. Kustas

374 papers receiving 23.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Correcting eddy-covariance flux underestimates over a grassland

2000 1.5k citations William P. Kustas, John M. Norman et al. profile →
Source approach for estimating soil and vegetation energy fluxes in observations of directional radiometric surface temperature

1995 1.3k citations John M. Norman, William P. Kustas et al. profile →
A climatological study of evapotranspiration and moisture stress across the continental United States based on thermal remote sensing: 1. Model formulation

2007 623 citations Martha C. Anderson, John M. Norman et al. profile →
Evaluation of soil and vegetation heat flux predictions using a simple two-source model with radiometric temperatures for partial canopy cover

1999 579 citations William P. Kustas, John M. Norman profile →
A verification of the 'triangle' method for obtaining surface soil water content and energy fluxes from remote measurements of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and surface e

1997 573 citations William P. Kustas et al. profile →
Use of Landsat thermal imagery in monitoring evapotranspiration and managing water resources

2012 541 citations Martha C. Anderson, William P. Kustas et al. profile →
Toward mapping crop progress at field scales through fusion of Landsat and MODIS imagery

2016 387 citations Feng Gao, Martha C. Anderson et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories 2025 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Paolo Nasta, Günter Blöschl, Heye Bogena, Steffen Zacharias, Roland Baatz, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Karsten H. Jensen, Salvatore Manfreda, Laurent Pfister, Ana M. Tarquís, Ilja van Meerveld, Marc Voltz, Yijian Zeng, William P. Kustas, Xin Li, Harry Vereecken, Nunzio Romano	2
2	A fully remote sensing-based implementation of the two-source energy balance model: an application over Mediterranean crops 2024 ·Agricultural Water Management ·Carmelo Cammalleri, Martha C. Anderson, Nicolás Bambach, Andrew J. McElrone, Kyle Knipper, M. Roby, Giuseppe Ciraolo, (unknown), (unknown), Chiara Corbari, Alessandro Ceppi, Marco Mancini, William P. Kustas	1
3	Numerical Investigation of Observational Flux Partitioning Methods for Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide 2024 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·(unknown), Khaled Ghannam, Marcelo Chamecki, A.F. Moene, William P. Kustas, Stephen P. Good, Elie Bou‐Zeid	1
4	Cross-cutting concepts to transform agricultural research 2023 ·Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems ·(unknown), Yaguang Luo, William P. Kustas, Naomi K. Fukagawa, Autar K. Mattoo, Wade T. Crow, Yakov Pachepsky, Moon S. Kim, Hyun S. Lillehoj, Curtis P. Van Tassell, Howard Zhang, Le Ann Blomberg, J. P. Dubey, Joan K. Lunney	3
5	Applications of a Thermal-Based Two-Source Energy Balance Model Coupling the Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Data 2023 ·IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ·Lisheng Song, (unknown), William P. Kustas, (unknown), Xinjie Liu, Liangyun Liu, Shaomin Liu, Mingguo Ma, Yan Bai, Ziwei Xu	2
6	Warming temperatures exacerbate groundwater depletion rates in India 2023 ·Science Advances ·Nishan Bhattarai, David B. Lobell, Balwinder Singh, Ram Fishman, William P. Kustas, Yadu Pokhrel, Meha Jain	36
7	Vine water status mapping with multispectral UAV imagery and machine learning 2022 ·Irrigation Science ·(unknown), Yufang Jin, María Mar Alsina, Andrew J. McElrone, Nicolás Bambach, William P. Kustas	32
8	Evaluation of Partitioned Evaporation and Transpiration Estimates within the DisALEXI Modeling Framework over Irrigated Crops in California 2022 ·Remote Sensing ·Kyle Knipper, Martha C. Anderson, Nicolás Bambach, William P. Kustas, Feng Gao, (unknown), Christopher Hain, Andrew J. McElrone, Oscar Rosario Belfiore, (unknown), María Mar Alsina, (unknown)	13
9	Insights Into the Aerodynamic Versus Radiometric Surface Temperature Debate in Thermal‐Based Evaporation Modeling 2022 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Kaniska Mallick, Dennis Baldocchi, Andrew Jarvis, Tian Hu, Ivonne Trebs, Mauro Sulis, Nishan Bhattarai, (unknown), (unknown), James Cleverly, Jason Beringer, William Woodgate, Richard Silberstein, Nina Hinko‐Najera, Wayne S. Meyer, Darren Ghent, Zoltan Szantoi, Gilles Boulet, William P. Kustas	20
10	Effects of meteorological and land surface modeling uncertainty on errors in winegrape ET calculated with SIMS 2022 ·Irrigation Science ·Conor T. Doherty, Lee Johnson, John Volk, Meagan S. Mauter, Nicolás Bambach, Andrew J. McElrone, Joseph G. Alfieri, Lawrence E. Hipps, John H. Prueger, (unknown), María Mar Alsina, William P. Kustas, Forrest Melton	7
11	Achieving Breakthroughs in Global Hydrologic Science by Unlocking the Power of Multisensor, Multidisciplinary Earth Observations 2021 ·AGU Advances ·Michael Durand, Ana P. Barros, Jeff Dozier, Robert F. Adler, Sarah Cooley, Dara Entekhabi, Barton A. Forman, Alexandra G. Konings, William P. Kustas, Jessica D. Lundquist, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Matthew Rodell, Susan Steele‐Dunne	19
12	Determining Evapotranspiration by Using Combination Equation Models with Sentinel-2 Data and Comparison with Thermal-Based Energy Balance in a California Irrigated Vineyard 2021 ·Remote Sensing ·Guido D’Urso, Salvatore Falanga Bolognesi, William P. Kustas, Kyle Knipper, Martha C. Anderson, María Mar Alsina, Christopher Hain, Joseph G. Alfieri, John H. Prueger, Feng Gao, L. McKee, Carlo De Michele, Andrew J. McElrone, Nicolás Bambach, Luis Sánchez, Oscar Rosario Belfiore	18
13	Daily Landsat-scale evapotranspiration estimation over a forested landscape in North Carolina, USA, using multi-satellite data fusion 2017 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Yun Yang, Martha C. Anderson, Feng Gao, Christopher Hain, Kathryn Semmens, William P. Kustas, Asko Noormets, Randolph H. Wynne, Valerie A. Thomas, Ge Sun	81
14	Evaluation of different shadow detection and restoration methods and their impact on vegetation indices using UAV high-resolution imageries over vineyards 2017 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Mahyar Aboutalebi, Alfonso F. Torres‐Rua, Martin McKee, William P. Kustas, Héctor Nieto	2
15	Mapping evapotranspiration with high-resolution aircraft imagery over vineyards using one- and two-source modeling schemes 2016 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Ting Xia, William P. Kustas, Martha C. Anderson, Joseph G. Alfieri, Feng Gao, L. McKee, John H. Prueger, Hatim M. E. Geli, Christopher M. U. Neale, Luis Sánchez, María Mar Alsina, Zhongjing Wang	79
16	A Multi-scale Remote Sensing Model for Disaggregating Regional Fluxes to Micrometeorological Scales 2003 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Martha C. Anderson, William P. Kustas, John M. Norman	22
17	Feasibility of évapotranspiration monitoring of riparian vegetation with remote sensing 2001 ·IAHS-AISH publication ·John H. Prueger, Lawrence E. Hipps, William P. Kustas, Christopher M. U. Neale, Jerry L. Hatfield, (unknown), William E. Eichinger, D. I. Cooper	3
18	Spatial mapping of evapotranspiration and energy balance components over riparian vegetation using airborne remote sensing 2001 ·IAHS-AISH publication ·Christopher M. U. Neale, Lawrence E. Hipps, John H. Prueger, William P. Kustas, D. I. Cooper, William E. Eichinger	10
19	Heat flux distributions over SGP97 sites 2001 ·IAHS-AISH publication ·Andrew N. French, Thomas J. Schmugge, William P. Kustas	2
20	Issues in monitoring evapotranspiration with radiometric temperature observations 2001 ·IAHS-AISH publication ·William P. Kustas, J. D. Albertson, Todd M. Scanlon, A. T. Cahill	3

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