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Publications Citing VIIRS Data
Browse a list of academic papers that cite data provided by NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).
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| deadtrees.earth An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics | Mosig, Clemens, Vajna-Jehle, Janusch, Mahecha, Miguel D., Cheng, Yan, Hartmann, Henrik, Montero, David, Junttila, Samuli, Horion, Stephanie, Schwenke, Mirela Beloiu, Koontz, Michael J., Maulud, Khairul Nizam Abdul, Adu-Bredu, Stephen, Al-Halbouni, Djamil, Ali, Muhammad, Allen, Matthew, Altman, Jan, Amoros, Lot, Angiolini, Claudia, Astrup, Rasmus, Awada, Hassan, Barrasso, Caterina, Bartholomeus, Harm, Beck, Pieter S.A., Bozzini, Aurora, Braun-Wimmer, Joshua, Brede, Benjamin, Breunig, Fabio Marcelo, Brugnaro, Stefano, Buras, Allan, Burchard-Levine, Vicente, Camarero, Jesus Julio, Candotti, Anna, Capuder, Luka, Carrieri, Erik, Centritto, Mauro, Chirici, Gherardo, Cloutier, Myriam, Conciani, Dhemerson, Cushman, KC, Dalling, James W., Dao, Phuong D., Dempewolf, Jan, Denter, Martin, Dogotari, Marcel, Diaz-Delgado, Ricardo, Ecke, Simon, Eichel, Jana, Eltner, Anette, Fabbri, Andre, Fabi, Maximilian, Fassnacht, Fabian, Ferreira, Matheus Pinheiro, Fischer, Fabian Jorg, Frey, Julian, Frick, Annett, Fuentes, Jose, Ganz, Selina, Garbarino, Matteo, Garcia, Milton, Gassilloud, Matthias, Gazol, Antonio, Gea-Izquierdo, Guillermo, Gerberding, Kilian, Ghasemi, Marziye, Giannetti, Francesca, Gillan, Jeffrey, Gonzalez, Roy, Gosper, Carl, Greene, Terry, Greinwald, Konrad, Grieve, Stuart, Groe-Stoltenberg, Andre, Gutierrez, Jesus Aguirre, Goritz, Anna, Hajek, Peter, Hedding, David, Hempel, Jan, Heremans, Stien, Hernandez, Melvin, Heurich, Marco, Honkavaara, Eija, Hofle, Bernhard, Jackisch, Robert, Jucker, Tommaso, Kalwij, Jesse M., Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian, Khatri-Chhetri, Pratima, Kleinebecker, Till, Klemmt, Hans-Joachim, Kloucek, Tomas, Koivumaki, Niko, Kolagani, Nagesh, Komarek, Jan, Korznikov, Kirill, Kraszewski, Bartomiej, Kruse, Stefan, Kruger, Robert, Kuechly, Helga, Kwong, Ivan H.Y., Laliberte, Etienne, Langan, Liam, Latifi, Hooman, Leal-Medina, Claudia, Lehmann, Jan R.K., Li, Linyuan, Lines, Emily, Lisiewicz, Maciej, Lopatin, Javier, Lucieer, Arko, Ludwig, Antonia, Ludwig, Marvin, Lyytikainen-Saarenmaa, Paivi, Ma, Qin, Mansuy, Nicolas, Pena, Jose Manuel, Marino, Giovanni, Maroschek, Michael, Martin, M.Pilar, Martin-Benito, Dario, Matham, Pavan, Mazzoni, Sabrina, Meloni, Fabio, Menzel, Annette, Meyer, Hanna, Miraki, Mojdeh, Moreno, Gerardo, Moreno-Fernandez, Daniel, Muller-Landau, Helene C., Malicke, Mirko, Mohring, Jakobus, Mullerova, Jana, Naidu, Setti Sridhara, Nardi, Davide, Neumeier, Paul, Nita, Mihai Daniel, Nasi, Roope, Oppgenoorth, Lars, Orunbaev, Sagynbek, Palmer, Melanie, Paul, Thomas, Pfenning, Mattis, Potts, Alastair, Prasanna, Gudala Laxmi, Prober, Suzanne, Puliti, Stefano, Perez-Luque, Antonio J., Perez-Priego, Oscar, Reudenbach, Chris, Revuelto, Jesus, Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo, Roberge, Philippe, Roggero, Pier Paolo, Rossi, Christian, Ruehr, Nadine Katrin, Ruiz-Benito, Paloma, Runge, Christian Mestre, Satta, Gabriele Giuseppe Antonio, Scanu, Bruno, Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael, Schiefer, Felix, Schiller, Christopher, Schladebach, Jacob, Schmehl, Marie-Therese, Schmid, Jonathan, Schmidt, Tristan Alexander, Schwarz, Selina, Seidl, Rupert, Seifert, Thomas, Barba, Ana Seifert, Shafeian, Elham, Shapiro, Aurelie, de Simone, Leopoldo, Sohrabi, Hormoz, Soltani, Salim, Sotomayor, Laura, Sparrow, Ben, Steer, Benjamin S.C., Stenson, Matt, Stockigt, Benjamin, Su, Yanjun, Suomalainen, Juha, Tamudo, Elisa, Barbieri, Mauro J. Tognetti, Tomelleri, Enrico, Torresani, Michele, Trepekli, Katerina, Ullah, Saif, Ullah, Sami, Umlauft, Josefine, Vargas-Ramirez, Nicolas, Vatandaslar, Can, Visacki, Vladimir, Volpi, Michele, Vasquez, Vicente, Wallis, Christine, Weinstein, Ben, Weiser, Hannah, Wich, Serge, Ximena, Tagle Casapia, Zarco-Tejada, Pablo J., Zdunic, Katherine, Zielewska-Buttner, Katarzyna, de Oliveira, Raquel Alves, van Wagtendonk, Liz, von Dosky, Vincent, Kattenborn, Teja | Reflectance, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Constraining a data-driven CO2 flux model by ecosystem and | Upton, Samuel, Reichstein, Markus, Peters, Wouter, Botia, Santiago, Nelson, Jacob A., Walther, Sophia, Jung, Martin, Gans, Fabian, Haszpra, Laszlo, Bastos, Ana | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy |
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| Conservation of an endangered amazonian primate: priority areas for the | Albernaz, Ana Luisa, Thales, Marcelo Cordeiro, Gordo, Marcelo, Lagroteria, Diogo, Sobroza, Tainara V., Magnusson, William E., Fearnside, Philip M., Jerusalinsky, Leandro, de Azevedo, Renata Bocorny, Castro, Rodrigo Baia, Campista, Dayse, Spironello, Wilson Roberto, Noronha, Mauricio | Electricity, Energy Production/Use, Human Settlements, Population Distribution, Sustainable Development, Wetlands, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Inundation | ||
| Evaluating the role of low-cost sensors in machine learning based | Shetty, Shobitha, Hassani, Amirhossein, Hamer, Paul D., Stebel, Kerstin, Salamalikis, Vasileios, Berntsen, Terje Koren, Castell, Nuria, Schneider, Philipp | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Evolving global oceanic nitrogen deposition under future emission pathways and responses to nitrogen emission reductions | Deng, Jialin, Guo, Yixin, Lu, Ni, Ye, Xingpei, Zhao, Yuanhong, Xu, Jiayu, Liu, Lei, Zhang, Lin | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds | ||
| Human contributions to evapotranspiration mitigate swings in dry-to-wet year transitions | Pierrat, Zoe Amie, Gustine, Rebecca N., Boser, Anna, Ruehr, Sophie, Lee, Christine M., Reager, J. T., Cawse-Nicholson, Kerry | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Vegetation Index, Geopotential Height, Surface Pressure, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Convection, Surface Winds, Rain, Land Surface Temperature | ||
| Improvement of the consistency among long-term global land surface | Ye, Yongchang, Zhang, Xiaoyang, Shen, Yu, Tran, Khuong H., Gao, Shuai, Liu, Yuxia, An, Shuai | Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance |
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| High-Resolution Thermal Remote Sensing in Marine and Freshwater Environments: State of Knowledge, Instrumentation Needs, and Implications for Future Studies | Wethey, David S., Woodin, Sarah A., Vazquez-Cuervo, Jorge | Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Foundation Temperature |
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| 2025 California Wildfire Observations Using Single FieldofView Sounder Atmospheric Products (SiFSAP) | Lei, Liqiao, Liu, Xu, Wu, Wan, Xiong, Xiaozhen, Yang, Qiguang, Larar, Allen M. | Carbon Monoxide, Tropospheric Ozone, Geopotential Height, Tropopause, Atmospheric Ozone, Surface Pressure, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Cloud Types, Precipitation Rate, Emissivity, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Brightness Temperature, Infrared Radiance, Clouds, Cloud Frequency, REFLECTED INFRARED, Visible Radiance, Cloud Properties, Cloud Top Height, Cloud Emissivity, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Methane, Sulfur Dioxide |
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| Development of the global chemistry-climate coupled model BCC-GEOS-Chem v2. 0: improved atmospheric chemistry performance and new capability of chemistry ... | Sun, Ruize, Lu, Xiao, Lin, Haipeng, Wu, Tongwen, Ye, Xingpei, Shen, Lu, Wang, Xuan, Wang, Haolin, Li, Jingyu, Lu, Ni, Su, Jiayin, Zhang, Jie, Zhang, Fang, Xin, Xiaoge, Liu, Xiong, Yang, Xiao, Zhang, Lin | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds | ||
| Climate-Induced Vegetation Stress Detected Through Remote Sensing of | Bayazit, Esra, Kartal, Veysi, Sammen, Saad Sh., Scholz, Miklas | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Phenology |
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| Cities as evolutionary incubators for the global spread of the spotted | Meng, Fang, Snead, Anthony A., Zhang, Aria Yang, Munshi-South, Jason, Winchell, Kristin M. | Electricity, Energy Production/Use, Human Settlements, Population Distribution, Sustainable Development | ||
| Carbon sink conservation: Cost-effective spatial priorities and feasible management policies for China | Liu, Jingyi, Zhang, Menghan, Xia, Yu, Wu, Longfeng, Chen, Chongxian | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds | ||
| Characterizing chlorophyll-a concentration distribution in shallow, tidal, summer cold-water nearshore areas | Hwang, Do-Hyun, Jung, Hahn Chul, Choi, Jong-Kuk, Ahn, Jae-Hyun, Park, Myung-Sook, Son, Young Baek, Ryu, Joo-Hyung | Sea Surface Subskin Temperature | ||
| Multidisciplinary analysis of the park fire: advancing mega-fire management | Hardy, Karim | Fire Dynamics, Surface Radiative Properties, Land Surface Temperature | ||
| Navigating multi-predator dynamic risk landscapes in anthropogenic | Gehr, Benedikt, Smith, Adam. F., Ciuti, Simone, Muff, Stefanie, Bonnot, Nadege C., Ossi, Federico, Morellet, Nicolas, Berger, Anne, Borowik, Tomasz, De Groeve, Johannes, Heurich, Marco, Keller, Lukas, Kjellander, Petter, Kroeschel, Max, Nicoloso, Sandro, Ranc, Nathan, Sunde, Peter, Torres, Rita T., Gaillard, Jean-Michel, Cagnacci, Francesca | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Phenology | ||
| Methane fluxes from Arctic & boreal North America: comparisons between process-based estimates and atmospheric observations | Liu, Hanyu, Ishizawa, Misa, Vogel, Felix R., Zhang, Zhen, Poulter, Benjamin, Feng, Leyang, Chen, Ao, Gagne-Landmann, Anna L., Huntzinger, Deborah N., Melton, Joe R., Yadav, Vineet, Gaeta, Dylan C., Huang, Ziting, Worthy, Douglas E. J., Chan, Douglas, Miller, Scot M. | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds | ||
| Model sensitivity across scales: a case study of simulating an offshore low-level jet | Hawbecker, Patrick, Lassman, William, Juliano, Timothy W., Kosovic, Branko, Haupt, Sue Ellen | Sea Surface Temperature, Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Sea Surface Topography, Vertical Profiles, Ozone Profiles, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Heat Flux, Heat Flux, Heat Flux, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Water Vapor Tendency, Water Vapor Flux, Cloud Dynamics, Cloud Microphysics, Ice Fraction, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Skin Temperature |
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| Internal solitary waves refraction and diffraction from interaction with eddies off the Amazon Shelf from SWOT | Goret, Chloe, Koch-Larrouy, Ariane, Kouogang, Fabius, de Macedo, Carina Regina, M'Hamdi, Amine, Magalhaes, Jorge M., da Silva, Jose Carlos Bastos, Tchilibou, Michel, Artana, Camila, Dadou, Isabelle, Delepoulle, Antoine, Barbot, Simon, Ballarotta, Maxime, Carrere, Loren, Costa da Silva, Alex | Infrared Radiance, REFLECTED INFRARED, Visible Radiance | ||
| Operational closed-loop system for multi-scale chlorophyll-a monitoring | Halvorsen, Daniel rnes, Chiatante, Corrado, Penne, Cameron Louis, Singh, Asmita, Bakken, Sivert, Fragoso, Glaucia Moreira, Birkeland, Roger, Dallolio, Alberto, Garrett, Joseph Landon, Johansen, Tor Arne, Ellingsen, Ingrid Helene, Alver, Morten Omholt | Chlorophyll Concentration, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll Concentrations, Phytoplankton, Chlorophyll Concentration, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll Concentrations, Phytoplankton | ||
| Optimizing global forest burned area simulations: Multi-earth system model assessment, Bayesian model averaging synthesis, and climate drivers | Wang, Xueyan, Di, Zhenhua | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds | ||
| An inter-comparison of inverse models for estimating European CH4 emissions | Ioannidis, Eleftherios, Meesters, Antoon, Steiner, Michael, Brunner, Dominik, Reum, Friedemann, Pison, Isabelle, Berchet, Antoine, Thompson, Rona, Sollum, Espen, Koch, Frank-Thomas, Gerbig, Christoph, Wang, Fenjuan, Maksyutov, Shamil, Tsuruta, Aki, Tenkanen, Maria, Aalto, Tuula, Monteil, Guillaume, Lin, Hong, Ren, Ge, Scholze, Marko, Houweling, Sander | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds | ||
| A review of forward modelling and retrieval approaches for forest soil | Colliander, Andreas, Schwank, Mike, Zhou, Yiwen, Kurum, Mehmet, Vittucci, Cristina, Tsang, Leung, Roy, Alex, Berg, Aaron | Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Heterotrophic Respiration (rh), NET ECOSYSTEM CO2 EXCHANGE (NEE), Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) |
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| Global atmospheric hydrogen chemistry and source-sink budget equilibrium simulation with the EMAC v2. 55 model | Surawski, Nic, Steil, Benedikt, Bruhl, Christoph, Gromov, Sergey, Klingmuller, Klaus, Martin, Anna, Pozzer, Andrea, Lelieveld, Jos | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds | ||
| From column to surface: connecting the performance in simulating aerosol optical properties and PM2.5 concentrations in the NASA GEOSCCM | Mogno, Caterina, Colarco, Peter R., Collow, Allison B., Das, Sampa, Strode, Sarah A., Valenti, Vanessa, Manyin, Michael E., Liang, Qing, Oman, Luke, Steenrod, Stephen D., Knowland, K. Emma | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance |
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