Thomas G. Van Niel

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation — Australia

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

30h-index6.2kcitations85works2.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies(26), Remote Sensing in Agriculture(25), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(17), Climate variability and models(15), Urban Heat Island Mitigation(12)

Publications85 total

Water or Energy Supply Driven Change in Moisture Availability Switches the Slope Direction Between Shallow Soil Moisture and Actual Evapotranspiration: Interpretation Within the Context of the Complementary Relationship
Water Resources Research·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Using sub-diurnal surface-air temperature difference anomaly derived from Himawari-8 geostationary satellite and meteorological grids for early detection of vegetation drought stress: Application to Australia's 2017–2019 Tinderbox Drought
Remote Sensing of Environment·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Overcoming Key Challenges of Satellite-based Monitoring of Ecosystem Condition: A Continental-scale Example From Australia
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Correction: Continental scale spatial temporal interpolation of near-surface air temperature: do 1 km hourly grids for Australia outperform regional and global reanalysis outputs?
Climate Dynamics·2024Open Access
Continental scale spatial temporal interpolation of near-surface air temperature: do 1 km hourly grids for Australia outperform regional and global reanalysis outputs?
Climate Dynamics·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Himawari-ANU: A recalibrated geostationary land surface temperature dataset based on MODIS spatiotemporal characteristics
2024Open Access
Solar zenith angle-based calibration of Himawari-8 land surface temperature for correcting diurnal retrieval error characteristics
Remote Sensing of Environment·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Himawari-ANU: A recalibrated geostationary land surface temperature dataset based on MODIS spatiotemporal characteristics
2024Open Access
Solar zenith angle-based calibration of Himawari-8 land surface temperature based on MODIS spatiotemporal characteristics
2023Open Access
Reconstructing cloud-contaminated NDVI images with SAR-Optical fusion using spatio-temporal partitioning and multiple linear regression
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing·2023· 28 cited
Bridge to the future: Important lessons from 20 years of ecosystem observations made by the OzFlux network
Global Change Biology·2022· 62 citedOpen Access
Nitrate Uptake from an Aquifer by Two Plantation Forests: Plausibility Strengthened by Process-Based Modelling
Forests·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Uncertainty of Gridded Precipitation at Local and Continent Scales: A Direct Comparison of Rainfall from SILO and AWAP in Australia
Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences·2022· 12 cited
Estimating actual evapotranspiration at field-to-continent scales by calibrating the CMRSET algorithm with MODIS, VIIRS, Landsat and Sentinel-2 data
Journal of Hydrology·2021· 68 cited
On the interchangeability of Landsat and MODIS data in the CMRSET actual evapotranspiration model – Comment on “Monitoring irrigation using Landsat observations and climate data over regional scales in the Murray-Darling Basin” by David Bretreger, In-Young Yeo, Greg Hancock and Garry Willgoose
Journal of Hydrology·2021· 2 cited
Using TERN products to predict habitat condition nationally
2021
Attributing variations of temporal and spatial groundwater recharge: A statistical analysis of climatic and non-climatic factors
Journal of Hydrology·2018· 128 citedOpen Access
Earth observation remote sensing
CSIRO·2018· 3 citedOpen Access
Measurements of evaporation from a mine void lake and testing of modelling approaches
Journal of Hydrology·2017· 34 cited
Mapping surface urban heat in Canberra
CSIRO·2017· 4 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Tim R. McVicar(38), Lingtao Li(10), Randall J. Donohue(7), Michael L. Roderick(6), Albert I. J. M. van Dijk(6), Ling Tao Li(5), Qinke Yang(5), B. Datt(4), Irina Emelyanova(4), Richard Silberstein(4), Guobin Fu(4), Olga Barron(4), Stephen P. Charles(4), Geoff Hodgson(4), Jin Teng(4), Francis H. S. Chiew(4), David L.B. Jupp(3), Jay Pearlman(3), Juan Pablo Guerschman(3), Luigi J. Renzullo(3)