| Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991 RB Myneni, CD Keeling, CJ Tucker, G Asrar, RR Nemani Nature 386 (6626), 698-702, 1997 | 4652 | 1997 |
| Climate-driven increases in global terrestrial net primary production from 1982 to 1999 RR Nemani, CD Keeling, H Hashimoto, WM Jolly, SC Piper, CJ Tucker, ... science 300 (5625), 1560-1563, 2003 | 4170 | 2003 |
| A continuous satellite-derived measure of global terrestrial primary production SW Running, RR Nemani, FA Heinsch, M Zhao, M Reeves, H Hashimoto Bioscience 54 (6), 547-560, 2004 | 2496 | 2004 |
| China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management C Chen, T Park, X Wang, S Piao, B Xu, RK Chaturvedi, R Fuchs, ... Nature sustainability 2 (2), 122-129, 2019 | 2368 | 2019 |
| Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data RB Myneni, S Hoffman, Y Knyazikhin, JL Privette, J Glassy, Y Tian, ... Remote sensing of environment 83 (1-2), 214-231, 2002 | 2287 | 2002 |
| The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): Land remote sensing for global change research CO Justice, E Vermote, JRG Townshend, R Defries, DP Roy, DK Hall, ... IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 36 (4), 1228-1249, 1998 | 1994 | 1998 |
| Improvements of the MODIS terrestrial gross and net primary production global data set M Zhao, FA Heinsch, RR Nemani, SW Running Remote sensing of Environment 95 (2), 164-176, 2005 | 1768 | 2005 |
| Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening S Piao, X Wang, T Park, C Chen, XU Lian, Y He, JW Bjerke, A Chen, ... Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 1 (1), 14-27, 2020 | 1437 | 2020 |
| Estimation of global leaf area index and absorbed PAR using radiative transfer models RB Myneni, R Ramakrishna, R Nemani, SW Running IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and remote sensing 35 (6), 1380-1393, 1997 | 1297 | 1997 |
| Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982–2006 MA White, KM de Beurs, K Didan, DW Inouye, AD Richardson, OP Jensen, ... Global change biology 15 (10), 2335-2359, 2009 | 1198 | 2009 |
| Free access to Landsat imagery. CE Woodcock, R Allen, M Anderson, A Belward, R Bindschadler, ... SCIENCE VOL 320: 1011, 2008 | 1097 | 2008 |
| Parameterization and sensitivity analysis of the BIOME–BGC terrestrial ecosystem model: Net primary production controls MA White, PE Thornton, SW Running, RR Nemani Earth interactions 4 (3), 1-85, 2000 | 1014 | 2000 |
| Amazon rainforests green‐up with sunlight in dry season AR Huete, K Didan, YE Shimabukuro, P Ratana, SR Saleska, LR Hutyra, ... Geophysical research letters 33 (6), 2006 | 1003 | 2006 |
| Global data sets of vegetation leaf area index (LAI) 3g and fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) 3g derived from global inventory modeling and mapping studies … Z Zhu, J Bi, Y Pan, S Ganguly, A Anav, L Xu, A Samanta, S Piao, ... Remote sensing 5 (2), 927-948, 2013 | 954 | 2013 |
| Mapping and modeling the biogeochemical cycling of turf grasses in the United States C Milesi, SW Running, CD Elvidge, JB Dietz, BT Tuttle, RR Nemani Environmental management 36, 426-438, 2005 | 921 | 2005 |
| Global terrestrial gross and net primary productivity from the earth observing system SW Running, PE Thornton, R Nemani, JM Glassy Methods in ecosystem science, 44-57, 2000 | 896 | 2000 |
| Estimation of regional surface resistance to evapotranspiration from NDVI and thermal-IR AVHRR data RR Nemani, SW Running Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 28 (4), 276-284, 1989 | 855 | 1989 |
| Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations FA Heinsch, M Zhao, SW Running, JS Kimball, RR Nemani, KJ Davis, ... IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 44 (7), 1908-1925, 2006 | 779 | 2006 |
| The 2007 eastern US spring freeze: increased cold damage in a warming world? L Gu, PJ Hanson, WM Post, DP Kaiser, B Yang, R Nemani, SG Pallardy, ... BioScience 58 (3), 253-262, 2008 | 755 | 2008 |
| Extrapolation of synoptic meteorological data in mountainous terrain and its use for simulating forest evapotranspiration and photosynthesis SW Running, RR Nemani, RD Hungerford Canadian Journal of Forest Research 17 (6), 472-483, 1987 | 748 | 1987 |
Steven RunningRegents Professor of Ecology, University of MontanaVerified email at ntsg.umt.edu