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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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| Mapping 24 woody plant species phenology and ground forest phenology over China from 1951 to 2020 | Zhu, Mengyao, Dai, Junhu, Wang, Huanjiong, Alatalo, Juha M., Liu, Wei, Hao, Yulong, Ge, Quansheng | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Plant Phenology, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Phenological Changes, Reflectance, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) |
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| Light-absorbing black carbon and brown carbon components of smoke | Choi, Myungje, Lyapustin, Alexei, Schuster, Gregory L., Go, Sujung, Wang, Yujie, Korkin, Sergey, Kahn, Ralph, Reid, Jeffrey S., Hyer, Edward J., Eck, Thomas F., Chin, Mian, Diner, David J., Kalashnikova, Olga, Dubovik, Oleg, Kim, Jhoon, Moosmuller, Hans | Reflectance, Fire Occurrence, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Land Surface Temperature | ||
| X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an | Nelson, Jacob A., Walther, Sophia, Gans, Fabian, Kraft, Basil, Weber, Ulrich, Novick, Kimberly, Buchmann, Nina, Migliavacca, Mirco, Wohlfahrt, Georg, Sigut, Ladislav, Ibrom, Andreas, Papale, Dario, Gockede, Mathias, Duveiller, Gregory, Knohl, Alexander, Hortnagl, Lukas, Scott, Russell L., Dusek, Jiri, Zhang, Weijie, Hamdi, Zayd Mahmoud, Reichstein, Markus, Aranda-Barranco, Sergio, Ardo, Jonas, Op de Beeck, Maarten, Billesbach, Dave, Bowling, David, Bracho, Rosvel, Brummer, Christian, Camps-Valls, Gustau, Chen, Shiping, Cleverly, Jamie Rose, Desai, Ankur, Dong, Gang, El-Madany, Tarek S., Euskirchen, Eugenie Susanne, Feigenwinter, Iris, Galvagno, Marta, Gerosa, Giacomo A., Gielen, Bert, Goded, Ignacio, Goslee, Sarah, Gough, Christopher Michael, Heinesch, Bernard, Ichii, Kazuhito, Jackowicz-Korczynski, Marcin Antoni, Klosterhalfen, Anne, Knox, Sara, Kobayashi, Hideki, Kohonen, Kukka-Maaria, Korkiakoski, Mika, Mammarella, Ivan, Gharun, Mana, Marzuoli, Riccardo, Matamala, Roser, Metzger, Stefan, Montagnani, Leonardo, Nicolini, Giacomo, O'Halloran, Thomas, Ourcival, Jean-Marc, Peichl, Matthias, Pendall, Elise, Ruiz Reverter, Borja, Roland, Marilyn, Sabbatini, Simone, Sachs, Torsten, Schmidt, Marius, Schwalm, Christopher R., Shekhar, Ankit, Silberstein, Richard, Silveira, Maria Lucia, Spano, Donatella, Tagesson, Torbern, Tramontana, Gianluca, Trotta, Carlo, Turco, Fabio, Vesala, Timo, Vincke, Caroline, Vitale, Domenico, Vivoni, Enrique R., Wang, Yi, Woodgate, William, Yepez, Enrico A., Zhang, Junhui, Zona, Donatella, Jung, Martin | 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, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Reflectance, Anisotropy, Albedo, Land Use/Land Cover Classification |
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| Climate Change, Landscape Fires, and Human Health: A Global Perspective | Johnston, Fay H., Williamson, Grant, Borchers-Arriagada, Nicolas, Henderson, Sarah B., Bowman, David M.J.S. | 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 fire and fire atmospheric states from space using collocated hyperspectral infrared sounding and narrow-band imagery | Zhou, Xuyang, Yue, Qing, Li, King-Fai, Fishbein, Evan, Chen, Xiuhong, Tan, Lin, Newman, Sally, Fetzer, Eric, Yung, Yuk L. | Tropospheric Ozone, Tropopause, Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Methane, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Atmospheric Temperature, Surface Temperature, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Vertical Profiles, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Layered Precipitable Water, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Top Temperature, Precipitation, Skin Temperature, Ocean Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Clouds, Brightness Temperature, Infrared Radiance, Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES |
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| Coastal Flooding in Asian Megadeltas: Recent Advances, Persistent | Becker, M., Seeger, K., Paszkowski, A., Marcos, M., Papa, F., Almar, R., Bates, P., FranceLanord, C., Hossain, Md S., Khan, Md J. U., Karegar, M. A., Karpytchev, M., Long, N., Minderhoud, P. S. J., Neal, J., Nicholls, R. J., Syvitski, J. | Electricity, Energy Production/Use, Human Settlements, Population Distribution, Sustainable Development | ||
| Why Do Oceanic Nonlinearities Contribute Only Weakly to Extreme El Nino Events? | Liu, Fangyu, Vialard, Jerome, Fedorov, Alexey V., Ethe, Christian, Person, Renaud, Zhang, Wenjun, Lengaigne, Matthieu | Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF WILD-FIRES INCIDENTS IN SERBIA BASED ON VIIRS 375 M DATA FOR THE PERIOD 2013-2023 | Vranic, Petar, Misic, Nikola | Fire Dynamics, Surface Radiative Properties, Land Surface Temperature | ||
| Sensorweb Systems for Global High-Resolution Monitoring of Environmental Phenomena | Kangaslahti, Akseli, Mason, James, Swope, Jason, Holzmann, Tessa, Davies, Ashley Gerard, Chien, Steve, Harrison, Tanya, Walter, Joseph J. | Fire Dynamics, Surface Radiative Properties, Land Surface Temperature, Floods, Floods | ||
| Review of agricultural biomass burning and its impact on air quality in the continental United States of America | Pinakana, Sai Deepak, Raysoni, Amit U., Sayeed, Alqamah, Gonzalez, Juan L., Temby, Owen, Wladyka, Dawid, Sepielak, Katarzyna, Gupta, Pawan | 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, Forest Fire Danger Index, Fire Models, Wildfires, Forest Fire Science | ||
| Quantification and isotopic characterization of benzene polycarboxylic acids (BPCA)-derived black carbon in deep oceanic sediments: Towards assessing pyrogenic inputs from marine sources | Penalva-Arias, N., Teruel, O., Raja, M., Rosell-Mele, A., Villanueva, J. | 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 | ||
| Retrieving the Vertical Profile of Greenhouse Gas Using Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) - Part I: Carbon Dioxide (CO<inf>2</inf>) | Kim, Man-Hae, Oh, Young-Suk, Ahn, Myoung-Hwan, Kang, Mina, Shi, Hoyeon, Park, Rokjin, Kim, Mina, Joo, Sangwon, Kim, Sang-Woo | 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 | ||
| Retrieving the Vertical Profile of Greenhouse Gas Using Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) - Part II: Methane (CH<inf>4</inf>) | Kim, Man-Hae, Oh, Young-Suk, Ahn, Myoung-Hwan, Kang, Mina, Shi, Hoyeon, Park, Rokjin, Oh, Sangik, Joo, Sangwon, Kim, Sang-Woo | 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 | ||
| Revisiting Winter Southern Ocean CO<sub>2</sub> Uptake Based on CALIPSO | Huang, Hao, Zhang, Ke, Zhang, Zhaoru, Smith, Walker, He, Jianfeng, Liu, Na, Le, Chengfeng | Sea Surface Foundation Temperature | ||
| Quantifying the effects of the microphysical properties of black carbon on the determination of brown carbon using measurements at multiple wavelengths | Luo, Jie, Li, Dan, Wang, Yuanyuan, Sun, Dandan, Hou, Weizhen, Ren, Jinghe, Wu, Hailing, Zhou, Peng, Qiu, Jibing | 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 | ||
| Quantifying Methane Emissions Using Satellite Data: Application of the Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI) Model to Assess Danish Emissions | Vara-Vela, Angel Liduvino, Rojas Benavente, Noelia, Nielsen, Ole-Kenneth, Nascimento, Janaina Pinto, Alves, Rafaela, Gavidia-Calderon, Mario, Karoff, Christoffer | 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 | ||
| Record High Sea Surface Temperatures in 2023 | Huang, Boyin, Yin, Xungang, Carton, James A., Chen, Ligang, Graham, Garrett, Hogan, Patrick, Smith, Thomas, Zhang, HuaiMin | Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| Tropospheric ozone pollution increases the sensitivity of plant production to vapor pressure deficit across diverse ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere | Gao, Lun, Guan, Kaiyu, He, Liyin, Jiang, Chongya, Wu, Xiaocui, Lu, Xiaoman, Ainsworth, Elizabeth A. | Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance | ||
| Urban methane emission monitoring across North America using TROPOMI data: an analytical inversion approach | Hemati, Mohammadali, Mahdianpari, Masoud, Nassar, Ray, Shiri, Hodjat, Mohammadimanesh, Fariba | 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 | ||
| Transitioning from MODIS to VIIRS Global Water Reservoir Product | Shah, Deep, Zhang, Shuai, Sarkar, Sudipta, Davidson, Carol, Zhang, Rui, Zhao, Maosheng, Devadiga, Sadashiva, Noojipady, Praveen, Roman, Miguel O., Gao, Huilin | Lakes/Reservoirs, WATER SURFACE HEIGHT, Total Surface Water, Bed Elevation, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Reflectance |
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| The impact of aerosol-cloud interaction on mesoscale numerical weather prediction when low-cloud and haze coexist in winter over major polluted regions of China | Zhang, Wenjie, Wang, Hong, Zhang, Xiaoye, Peng, Yue, Liu, Zhaodong, Zhong, Junting, Li, Siting, Che, Huizheng | Clouds, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Frequency, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Height, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Emissivity, Infrared Radiance, REFLECTED INFRARED, Visible Radiance | ||
| The Canadian Fire Spread Dataset | Barber, Quinn E., Jain, Piyush, Whitman, Ellen, Thompson, Dan K., Guindon, Luc, Parks, Sean A., Wang, Xianli, Hethcoat, Matthew G., Parisien, Marc-Andre | Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Vegetation Index, Landscape Patterns, Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence, Surface Radiative Properties, Land Surface Temperature |
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| The African Regional Greenhouse Gases Budget (20102019) | Ernst, Yolandi, Archibald, Sally, Balzter, Heiko, Chevallier, Frederic, Ciais, Philippe, Fischer, Carlos Gonzalez, Gaubert, Benjamin, Higginbottom, Thomas, Higgins, Steven, Lawal, Shakirudeen, Lacroix, Fabrice, Lauerwald, Ronny, Lourenco, Mauro, Martens, Carola, Mengistu, Anteneh G., Merbold, Lutz, Mitchard, Edward, Moyo, Mthokozisi, Nguyen, Hannah, OSullivan, Michael, RodriguezVeiga, Pedro, Rosan, Thais, Rosentreter, Judith, Ryan, Casey, Scheiter, Simon, Sitch, Stephen, Stevens, Nicola, Tagesson, Torbern, Tian, Hanqin, Wang, Mengjia, Woon, Joel S., Zheng, Bo, Zhou, Yong, Scholes, Robert J. | 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 | ||
| The Angular Correction Algorithm for the Intercalibration of Satellite Instruments using CLARREO Pathfinder as a Reference | Wu, Wan, Liu, Xu, Yang, Qiguang, Currey, Jon Chris, Bartle, Aron D., Thurston, Adam, Smith, Natividad M., Shea, Yolanda L., Bhatt, Rajendra | Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent |
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| Synergic sensing of light and heat emitted by offshore oil and gas platforms in the South China Sea | Qiu, Yujia, Li, Xiao-Ming, Yan, Lin, Chen, Zhongzhong | Clouds, Cloud Frequency, Cloud Height, Fire Dynamics, Surface Radiative Properties, Land Surface Temperature |
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