Rachel Pinker

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Rachel Pinker is affiliated with the following schools: University of Maryland, College Park, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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According to Wikipedia, Rachel T. Pinker is a professor of meteorology at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she has worked since 1976. Education Pinker received her M.S. degree from Hebrew University in 1965 and her PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1976.

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An emerging ground-based aerosol climatology: Aerosol optical depth from AERONET (2001) (1895)
The multi‐institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Utilizing multiple GCIP products and partners in a continental distributed hydrological modeling system (2004) (1188)
Baseline surface radiation network (BSRN/WCRP) New precision radiometry for climate research (1998) (872)
Modeling Surface Solar Irradiance for Satellite Applications on a Global Scale (1992) (657)
Use of NDVI and Land Surface Temperature for Drought Assessment: Merits and Limitations (2010) (614)
Real‐time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project (2003) (572)
Do Satellites Detect Trends in Surface Solar Radiation? (2004) (441)
Optical Properties of Fine/Coarse Mode Aerosol Mixtures (2010) (334)
Aerosol radiative forcing during dust events over New Delhi, India (2008) (251)
A review of satellite methods to derive surface shortwave irradiance (1995) (249)
Surface radiation budgets in support of the GEWEX Continental‐Scale International Project (GCIP) and the GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP), including the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project (2003) (230)
Estimating Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) at the earth's surface from satellite observations (1993) (205)
Diurnal variability of aerosol optical depth observed at AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) sites (2002) (203)
Evaluation of the North American Land Data Assimilation System over the southern Great Plains during the warm season (2003) (195)
Estimation of land surface temperature from a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES‐8) (2003) (195)
Snow process modeling in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): 1. Evaluation of model‐simulated snow cover extent (2003) (176)
First global WCRP shortwave surface radiation budget dataset (1995) (164)
Streamflow and water balance intercomparisons of four land surface models in the North American Land Data Assimilation System Project (2004) (162)
Validation of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) retrospective forcing over the southern Great Plains : GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project, Part 3 (GCIP3) (2003) (161)
Land surface model spin‐up behavior in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) (2003) (150)
Snow process modeling in the north american Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): 2. Evaluation of model simulated snow water equivalent : GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project, Part 3 (GCIP3) (2003) (139)
Global distribution of photosynthetically active radiation as observed from satellites (1992) (138)
Modeling Surface Solar Radiation: Model Formulation and Validation (1985) (137)
High-Latitude Ocean and Sea Ice Surface Fluxes: Challenges for Climate Research (2013) (132)
An Interdisciplinary Field Study of the Energy and Water Fluxes in the Atmosphere–Biosphere System over Semiarid Rangelands: Description and Some Preliminary Results (1991) (114)
An intercomparison of soil moisture fields in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) (2003) (107)
GCIP water and energy budget synthesis (WEBS) (2002) (106)
The albedo of a tropical evergreen forest (1980) (101)
Evaluation of AERONET precipitable water vapor versus microwave radiometry, GPS, and radiosondes at ARM sites (2014) (100)
Intercomparison of shortwave radiative transfer schemes in global aerosol modeling: results from the AeroCom Radiative Transfer Experiment (2012) (96)
Shortwave radiative fluxes from MODIS: Model development and implementation (2009) (90)
Air-Sea Fluxes With a Focus on Heat and Momentum (2019) (85)
Diurnal temperature range over the United States: A satellite view (2006) (82)
Aerosol radiative forcing over a tropical urban site in India (2004) (79)
A Climate Data Record (CDR) for the global terrestrial water budget: 1984–2010 (2017) (72)
Full-coverage mapping and spatiotemporal variations of ground-level ozone (O3) pollution from 2013 to 2020 across China (2021) (69)
Modeling shortwave radiative fluxes from satellites (2012) (68)
Evaluation of satellite estimates of downward shortwave radiation over the Tibetan Plateau (2008) (64)
Review and assessment of latent and sensible heat flux accuracy over the global oceans (2017) (64)
A global view of aerosols from merged transport models, satellite, and ground observations : Global aerosol system (2005) (61)
A dust outbreak episode in sub‐Sahel West Africa (2001) (56)
Land Surface Temperature Estimation from the Next Generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: GOES M¿Q (2004) (54)
Case study of soil moisture effect on land surface temperature retrieval (2004) (50)
Evaluation of Satellite Estimates of Land Surface Temperature from GOES over the United States (2009) (50)
Intraseasonal Latent Heat Flux Based on Satellite Observations (2009) (49)
Seasonal asymmetry in diurnal variation of aerosol optical characteristics over Pune, western India (2007) (48)
Comparison of spectral surface albedos and their impact on the general circulation model simulated surface climate (2002) (47)
Himawari-8-derived diurnal variations in ground-level PM2.5 pollution across China using the fast space-time Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) (2021) (43)
Solar radiation and evapotranspiration in northern Mexico estimated from remotely sensed measurements of cloudiness (2001) (43)
Characteristic spectral reflectance of a semi-arid environment (1995) (43)
How good are ocean buoy observations of radiative fluxes? (2009) (38)
The Energy Balance of a Tropical Evergreen Forest (1980) (36)
Toward improved satellite estimates of short‐wave radiative fluxes—Focus on cloud detection over snow: 1. Methodology (2007) (35)
Geostationary satellite parameters for surface energy balance (2002) (34)
The microclimate of a dry tropical forest (1980) (34)
Determination of surface albedo from satellites (1985) (34)
Radiative effects of aerosols in sub‐Sahel Africa: Dust and biomass burning (2010) (34)
Characteristic aerosol optical depths during the Harmattan Season on sub‐Sahara Africa (1994) (33)
Cloud Variability over the Indian Monsoon Region as Observed from Satellites (2009) (33)
Implementation of GOES‐based land surface temperature diurnal cycle to AVHRR (2005) (33)
Shortwave cloud-radiative forcing at the top of the atmosphere at the surface and of the atmospheric column as determined from ISCCP C1 data (1993) (32)
Investigation of the "elevated heat pump" hypothesis of the Asian monsoon using satellite observations (2013) (30)
Basin-scale solar irradiance estimates in semiarid regions using GOES 7 (1994) (30)
Remote sensing of aerosol optical characteristics in sub-Sahel, (2001) (29)
Wind and temperature profile characteristics in a tropical evergreen forest in Thailand (1975) (29)
Satellites and our understanding of the surface energy balance (1990) (27)
Seasonal Variations in Diurnal Temperature Range From Satellites and Surface Observations (2006) (27)
Daytime net radiation estimated for a semiarid rangeland basin from remotely sensed data (1994) (27)
Estimates of net heat fluxes over the Atlantic Ocean (2014) (26)
Satellite estimates of surface radiative fluxes for the extended San Pedro Basin: sensitivity to aerosols (2000) (26)
Estimating surface longwave radiative fluxes from satellites utilizing artificial neural networks (2012) (25)
Effects of spatial sampling of satellite data on derived surface solar irradiance (1991) (25)
Radiative flux opens new window on climate research (1995) (25)
Surface Radiation Budget from Satellites (1984) (24)
Radiative fluxes at high latitudes (2010) (23)
Effect of surface properites on the narrow to broadband spectral relationship in clear sky satellite observations (1986) (23)
Synthesis of information on aerosol optical properties (2008) (22)
WCRP surface radiation budget shortwave data product description, version 1.1 (1993) (22)
Impact of Ingesting Satellite-Derived Cloud Cover into the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (2002) (22)
The Relationship between the Planetary and Surface Net Radiation (1985) (21)
SHORTWAVE RADIATIVE CLOUD FORCING IN THE TROPICAL PACIFIC INCLUDING THE 1982–1983 AND 1987 EL NIÑOs (1996) (21)
High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: requirements and challenges for climate research (2012) (21)
Ground-Level NO2 Surveillance from Space Across China for High Resolution Using Interpretable Spatiotemporally Weighted Artificial Intelligence (2022) (21)
Detection of a gas flaring signature in the AERONET optical properties of aerosols at a tropical station in West Africa (2016) (20)
Aerosol optical depths in a semiarid region (1997) (20)
Diurnal and seasonal variability of rainfall in the sub‐Sahel as seen from observations, satellites and a numerical model (2006) (20)
An intensified seasonal transition in the Central U.S. that enhances summer drought (2015) (19)
Surface Radiative Fluxes in Sub-Sahel Africa. (1997) (19)
Observed Variability of Cloud Frequency and Cloud-Base Height within 3600 m above the Surface over the Contiguous United States (2017) (18)
Impact of satellite based PAR on estimates of terrestrial net primary productivity (2010) (18)
Radiative fluxes from satellites: Focus on aerosols (2008) (18)
Turbulence structure of a tropical forest (1988) (18)
The Role of Daily Surface Forcing in the Upper Ocean over the Tropical Pacific: A Numerical Study (2003) (18)
Spatial and Temporal Scaling Behavior of Surface Shortwave Downward Radiation Based on MODIS and In Situ Measurements (2008) (17)
The Relationship between the Planetary and Surface Net Radiation: An Update (1988) (16)
Improved prospects for estimating insolation for calculating regional evapotranspiration from remotely sensed data (1990) (16)
Differences between two estimates of air-sea turbulent heat fluxes over the Atlantic Ocean (2011) (15)
The role of shortwave radiation in the 2007 Arctic sea ice anomaly (2012) (15)
ENSO impact on surface radiative fluxes as observed from space (2017) (14)
Automated Underway Oceanic and Atmospheric Measurements from Ships (2010) (14)
Towards a Unified and Coherent Land Surface Temperature Earth System Data Record from Geostationary Satellites (2018) (14)
Aerosol effects in the UV‐B spectral region over Pune, an urban site in India (2009) (14)
Seasonal characteristics of spectral aerosol optical properties at a sub-Saharan site (2007) (14)
Aerosol and Cloud Validation System Based on SKYNET Observations : Estimation of Shortwave Radiation Budget Using ADEOS-II/GLI Data (2009) (14)
Solar heating of the Arctic Ocean in the context of ice‐albedo feedback (2014) (14)
Overview of the north American land data assimilation system (NLDAS) (2013) (13)
Diurnal cycle of land surface temperature in a desert encroachment zone as observed from satellites (2007) (13)
Modelling planetary bidirectional reflectance over land (1990) (13)
Estimating surface long‐wave radiative fluxes at global scale (2012) (12)
Remote Sensing of Spectral Aerosol Properties: A Classroom Experience (2007) (12)
A satellite approach for estimating regional land surface energy budget for GCIP/GAPP : GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project, Part 3 (GCIP3) (2003) (11)
Estimates of surface ultraviolet radiation over north America using Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites observations (2008) (11)
Revisiting satellite radiative flux computations at the top of the atmosphere (2012) (11)
Radiative Fluxes at Barrow, Alaska: A Satellite View (2011) (10)
Evaluating Surface Radiation Fluxes Observed From Satellites in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean (2018) (10)
An Empirical Orthogonal Function Iteration Approach for Obtaining Homogeneous Radiative Fluxes from Satellite Observations (2007) (10)
Aerosol radiative properties in the semiarid Western United States (2004) (9)
High-resolution daytime cloud observations for Northwestern Mexico from GOES-7 satellite observations (2001) (9)
Interannual variability of solar irradiance over the Amazon Basin including the 1982-83 El Nino Year (1992) (9)
The radiative environment of the Tibetan Plateau (2014) (9)
Simulations of the GOES visible sensor to changing surface and atmospheric conditions (1987) (9)
Evaluation of radiative fluxes over the north Indian Ocean (2018) (9)
Season, not lockdown, improved air quality during COVID-19 State of Emergency in Nigeria (2021) (9)
An improved methodology for deriving high‐resolution surface shortwave radiative fluxes from MODIS in the Arctic region (2015) (8)
On the canopy flow index of a tropical forest (1982) (8)
Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of AERONET - an international collaborative effort (2020) (8)
Evaluation of cloud base height in the North American Regional Reanalysis using ceilometer observations (2019) (8)
Precipitable water vapor over oceans from the Maritime Aerosol Network: Evaluation of global models and satellite products under clear sky conditions (2019) (8)
Observations of positive sea surface temperature trends in the steadily shrinking Dead Sea (2018) (8)
Evaluation of Surface Shortwave Flux Estimates from GOES: Sensitivity to Sensor Calibration (2006) (7)
Factors Contributing to the Spatial Variability of Satellite Estimates of Diurnal Temperature Range in the United States (2014) (7)
Analysis of Radiative Properties and Direct Radiative Forcing Estimates of Dominant Aerosol Clusters over an Urban-Desert Region in West Africa (2019) (7)
Estimating Monthly Mean Water and Energy Budgets over the Central U.S. Great Plains. Part I: Evapoclimatonomy Model Formulation (1987) (7)
The Impacts of Daily Surface Forcing in the Upper Ocean over Tropical Pacific: A Numerical Study (2001) (6)
The net energy budget at the ocean‐atmosphere interface of the “Cold Tongue” region (2017) (6)
Estimating the solar zenith dependence of the clear‐sky planetary albedo for land surfaces from the GOES satellite (1983) (6)
Estimation of land surface temperature diurnal cycle from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-8) and application to the polar orbiting imager NOAA/AVHRR (2003) (6)
Relationship between downwelling surface shortwave radiative fluxes and sea surface temperature over the tropical Pacific : AMIP II models versus satellite estimates (2008) (6)
Diurnal variation of planetary radiation budget parameters from geostationary satellites (1986) (5)
Shortwave radiation budget of the Earth: Absorption and cloud radiative effects (2001) (5)
Satellite measurements of solar radiation in the Yaqui Valley, northern Mexico (2001) (5)
Shortwave Radiation from ABI on the GOES-R Series (2020) (5)
An Error Analysis of the Thornthwaite-Holzman Equations for Estimating Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes over Crop and Forest Canopies (1981) (5)
Shortwave Radiative Fluxes on Slopes (2016) (5)
Comments on 'Narrow- and broadband satellite measurements of shortwave radiation - Conversion simulations with a general circulation model' (1988) (5)
The canopy coupling index of a tropical forest (1983) (5)
Could the 2012 Drought in Central U.S. Have Been Anticipated? A Review of NASA Working Group Research (2014) (5)
Full-coverage mapping and spatiotemporal variations of ground-level ozone (O 3 ) pollution from 2013 to 2020 across China Remote (2022) (4)
Estimating Monthly Mean Water and Energy Budgets over the Central U.S. Great Plains. Part II: Evapoclimatonomy Experiments (1987) (4)
Experiments with Cloud Properties: Impact on Surface Radiative Fluxes (2008) (4)
Changes of tropical cyclone activity in a warming world are sensitive to sea surface temperature environment (2019) (4)
Solar warming of the south-central Pacific (2014) (4)
Dispersion Parameters over Forested Terrain (1988) (3)
The impacts of land cover/land use change on satellite-derived diurnal temperature range (2005) (3)
Multi-technique analysis of precipitable water vapor estimates in the sub-Sahel West Africa (2018) (3)
Correction to “Characteristic aerosol optical depths during the Harmattan season in sub‐Sahara Africa” (1994) (3)
Remotely sensed estimates of evaporation for irrigated crops in northern Mexico (2001) (3)
Fine-Mode Aerosol Loading Over a Sub-Sahel Location and Its Relation with the West African Monsoon (2018) (3)
Global Aerosol Optical Depth Estimates From Satellites (1990) (2)
Developing Consistent Earth System Data Records for the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle.Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) for Terrestrial Water Cycle Data Records version 1.0 (Grant NNX08AN40A), GMU, UW, UMD, CSU, (2009) (2)
Land Surface Temperature from GOES-East and GOES-West (2021) (2)
Spatial Non-Uniformity of Surface Temperature of the Dead Sea and Adjacent Land Areas (2019) (2)
Small scale variability in the global solar radiation in the Washington, D.C. area (1981) (2)
On the precipitation-vegetation-ozone connection in the Washington, D.C. area (1983) (2)
Photosynthetic climate in selected regions during the northern hemisphere growing season (1994) (2)
Estimation of Surface Insolation (2006) (2)
Sensitivity of Surface Solar Fluxes to Cloud Parameterization (1988) (2)
Surface Radiative Fluxes (2014) (2)
Simulations of the meteosat visible sensor response to changing boundary conditions (1987) (2)
The Asymmetry of Global Solar Radiation Around Solar Noon (1988) (1)
AERONET: New aerosol products, data access and reanalysis of field data for mixtures of fine and coarse mode aerosols (2003) (1)
Evaluation of Satellite Based Estimates of Surface Albedo with Ground and Aircraft Observations in a Semi-Arid Region (2002) (1)
An Enhanced Seasonal Transition that Intensified Summer Drought in the Central U.S. (2015) (1)
Global Distribution Of Par As Observed From Satellites (1990) (1)
On the variability of surface insolation in the equatorial Pacific (1990) (1)
An EOF Iteration Approach for Obtaining Homogeneous Radiative Fluxes from Satellites Observations (2007) (1)
Developing Consistent Earth System Data Records for the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle: Focus on Shortwave and Longwave Radiative Fluxes (2011) (1)
Investigation of the "Elevated Heat Pump" Effect on the Asian Summer Monsoon Using Cloud Observations From METEOSAT-5 (2006) (1)
Top of the Atmosphere Reflected Shortwave Radiative Fluxes from GOES-R (2021) (1)
Himawari-8-derived diurnal variations of ground-level PM2.5 pollution across China using a fast space-time Light Gradient Boosting Machine (2021) (1)
Radiation Budget Estimates from MODIS (2005) (1)
Annual and seasonal variability of net heat flux in the Northern Indian Ocean (2020) (1)
Radiative Fluxes at High Latitudes: Implications for Climate Research (2012) (1)
Seasonal, Diurnal, and Inter-annual Variability of Cloud Frequency and Cloud Base Height over the Contiguous United States from Ceilometer Measurements (2016) (0)
The Relationship Between Spectral and Total Clear Sky Planetary Albedo (1987) (0)
Participants in the ICRCCM Shortwave Study Accessible Model Participant Climate Model Type Affiliation (1991) (0)
The Microclimate of a Tropical Evergreen Forest. (1980) (0)
Characterization of the Radiation Regimes of the Tibetan Plateau (2009) (0)
Reply on RC1 (2021) (0)
Characteristic temperature spectra in a tropical dry evergreen forest area (1976) (0)
Estimation of SW radiation budget using geostationary satellites and quasi-real-time monitoring of PV power generation (2012) (0)
A Multi-Satellite Approach for Estimating Radiative Fluxes (2010) (0)
Surface Radiation Budget Variability at Climatic Time Scales (2014) (0)
Observations of surface solar radiation variability from space and ground (2005) (0)
Trends in Surface Radiation Budgets at Climatic Time Scales (2015) (0)
An Overview on the Project to Develop Consistent Earth System Data Records for the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle (2008) (0)
Evaluation of the GCIP/GAPP Short-Wave Surface Radiative fluxes against independent satellite observations (2004) (0)
Development of Corrections for Biomass Burning Effects in Version 2 of GEWEX/SRB Algorithm (1999) (0)
Surface Shortwave Radiative Fluxes derived from the US Air Force Cloud Depiction Forecast System World-Wide Merged Cloud Analysis (2022) (0)
Estimating monthly mean water and energy budgets over the central U.S. great plains. I - Evapoclimatonomy model formulation. II - Evapoclimatonomy experiments (1987) (0)
Supplementary material to "Himawari-8-derived diurnal variations of ground-level PM2.5 pollution across China using a fast space-time Light Gradient Boosting Machine" (2021) (0)
Large Scale Surface Radiation Budget from Satellite Observation (1995) (0)
Intercomparison of shortwave radiative transfer schemes in globalaerosol modeling (2015) (0)
Aerosols over the Indo-Gangetic Basin from 2000 - 2012 (2014) (0)
The NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Evapotranspiration Product: the New MOD16 (2007) (0)
Multidecadal variations of solar radiation reaching the surface and the role of aerosol direct radiative effects (2017) (0)
Subtropical Low Cloud Responses to Central and Eastern Pacific El Nino Events (2014) (0)
NET AIR-SEA FLUX ESTIMATES FOR THE TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN BASED ON SATELLITE DATA (2006) (0)
Annual and Seasonal Variability of Net Heat Budget in the Northern Indian Ocean (2017) (0)
Exploratory Estimates Of Effective Surface Roughness And Solar Zenith Angle Dependent Reflectances From Goes Measurements (1990) (0)
Climatology of Aerosol Optical Depth over the United States (2002) (0)
Reply on RC2 (2021) (0)
Asymmetry in surface temperature between the east and west sides of the Dead Sea under uniform solar radiation (2020) (0)
Diurnal Variability of Surface Temperature over Lakes: Case Study for Lake Huron (2021) (0)
Radiation Climate and Turbulence Structure of a Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest. (1985) (0)
Comment on amt-2021-289 Anonymous Referee (2022) (0)
Reply on RC3 (2021) (0)
The Net Energy Budget at the Surface Interface of the "Cold Tongue" Region (2016) (0)
Real-time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project : GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project, Part 3 (GCIP3) (2003) (0)
Satellite Estimates of Surface Short-Wave Fluxes: Issues of Implementation (2013) (0)
Maritime Aerosol Network precipitable water vapor measurement: satellite and global reanalysis evaluations under clear sky conditions. (2018) (0)
A Unified and Coherent Land Surface Emissivity Earth System Data Record (2014) (0)
Satellite Estimates of Surface Shortwave Fluxes: Sensitivity to Sensor Calibration (2004) (0)
ChinaHighO3: Big Data Full-coverage Ground-level MDA8 O3 L2 Daily 0.1 Deg Product (2020) (0)
Environmental Conditions in a Tropical Forest Region in Thailand. (1974) (0)
ChinaHighPM2.5: Himawari-8 Ground-level PM2.5 L2 Hourly 0.05 Deg product (2021) (0)
Characterization of haze aerosols at a tropical urban station in India using sky-radiometric observations (2003) (0)
Radiation Budgets in Support of LBA Hydrological Modeling (2004) (0)
Comment on amt-2021-289 Anonymous (2021) (0)
ANALYSIS OF WATER BALANCE SIMULATION OF LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM (2002) (0)
A Multi-Satellite Approach to Estimate Radiative Fluxes over the Oceans (2002) (0)

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