Akash Koppa

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 636 citations indexed

About

Akash Koppa is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Akash Koppa has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 636 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Akash Koppa's work include Climate variability and models (14 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (13 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers). Akash Koppa is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (14 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (13 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers). Akash Koppa collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Switzerland. Akash Koppa's co-authors include Diego G. Miralles, Mekonnen Gebremichael, Petra Hulsman, Rafael Poyatos, Dominik Rains, Brianna R. Pagán, Mu Xiao, Shengan Zhan, Dennis P. Lettenmaier and William W‐G. Yeh and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Akash Koppa

25 papers receiving 629 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

GLEAM4: global land evaporation and soil moisture dataset at 0.1° resolution from 1980 to near present

2025 39 citations Diego G. Miralles, Akash Koppa et al. Scientific Data profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Akash Koppa Belgium	14	445	284	173	119	71	27	636
Si Hong China	13	450 1.0×	261 0.9×	169 1.0×	129 1.1×	29 0.4×	20	620
Suli Pan China	14	331 0.7×	289 1.0×	130 0.8×	91 0.8×	82 1.2×	29	510
Thanh‐Nhan‐Duc Tran United States	16	477 1.1×	456 1.6×	240 1.4×	189 1.6×	39 0.5×	23	792
Majid Rahimzadegan Iran	13	330 0.7×	164 0.6×	128 0.7×	168 1.4×	69 1.0×	47	543
Harsh L. Shah India	14	671 1.5×	457 1.6×	204 1.2×	144 1.2×	49 0.7×	14	855
Aijing Zhang China	9	317 0.7×	391 1.4×	140 0.8×	144 1.2×	28 0.4×	9	540
Qian Cao United States	12	261 0.6×	193 0.7×	158 0.9×	69 0.6×	64 0.9×	19	468
Jianhui Wei Germany	22	734 1.6×	408 1.4×	449 2.6×	138 1.2×	65 0.9×	51	908
Yuna Mao China	12	322 0.7×	244 0.9×	123 0.7×	92 0.8×	61 0.9×	31	478
Wanshu Nie United States	11	245 0.6×	150 0.5×	86 0.5×	164 1.4×	82 1.2×	23	431

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akash Koppa

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Miralles, Diego G., Akash Koppa, Oscar M. Baez‐Villanueva, et al.. (2025). GLEAM4: global land evaporation and soil moisture dataset at 0.1° resolution from 1980 to near present. Scientific Data. 12(1). 416–416. 39 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhong, Feng, S. S. Jiang, Akash Koppa, et al.. (2024). Multi‐Decadal Dynamics of Global Rainfall Interception and Their Drivers. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(19). 4 indexed citations

Dutta, Riya, et al.. (2024). East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India. Environmental Research Letters. 19(12). 124089–124089.

Xu, Shiqin, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Tim R. McVicar, et al.. (2024). Increasing atmospheric evaporative demand across the Tibetan plateau and implications for surface water resources. iScience. 28(2). 111623–111623.

Koppa, Akash, Jessica Keune, Dominik L. Schumacher, et al.. (2024). Dryland self-expansion enabled by land–atmosphere feedbacks. Science. 385(6712). 967–972. 27 indexed citations

Hulsman, Petra, Jessica Keune, Akash Koppa, Jaap Schellekens, & Diego G. Miralles. (2023). Incorporating Plant Access to Groundwater in Existing Global, Satellite‐Based Evaporation Estimates. Water Resources Research. 59(8). 8 indexed citations

Koppa, Akash, Jessica Keune, David MacLeod, et al.. (2023). A Lagrangian Analysis of the Sources of Rainfall Over the Horn of Africa Drylands. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(12). 4 indexed citations

Hari, Vittal, Oldřich Rakovec, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2023). On the role of the Atlantic Meridional Mode in eastern European temperature variability. Atmospheric Research. 297. 107082–107082. 1 indexed citations

Li, Hao, Liu Liu, Lei Wang, et al.. (2022). Significant regime shifts in historical water yield in the Upper Brahmaputra River basin. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(24). 6399–6412. 7 indexed citations

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Koppa, Akash, Dominik Rains, Petra Hulsman, Rafael Poyatos, & Diego G. Miralles. (2022). A deep learning-based hybrid model of global terrestrial evaporation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1912–1912. 94 indexed citations

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Müller, Jean‐François, Trissevgeni Stavrakou, Diego G. Miralles, et al.. (2022). Impact of Drought on Isoprene Fluxes Assessed Using Field Data, Satellite-Based GLEAM Soil Moisture and HCHO Observations from OMI. Remote Sensing. 14(9). 2021–2021. 10 indexed citations

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Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Diego G. Miralles, Nate G. McDowell, et al.. (2022). The uncertain role of rising atmospheric CO2 on global plant transpiration. Earth-Science Reviews. 230. 104055–104055. 54 indexed citations

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Miralles, Diego G., et al.. (2022). Ten Years of GLEAM: A Review of Scientific Advances and Applications. Studies in computational intelligence. 525–540. 4 indexed citations

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Hari, Vittal, et al.. (2021). Climate hazards are threatening vulnerable migrants in Indian megacities. Nature Climate Change. 11(8). 636–638. 22 indexed citations

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Koppa, Akash, et al.. (2021). A Scalable Earth Observations‐Based Decision Support System for Hydropower Planning in Africa. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 57(5). 711–736. 1 indexed citations

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Hari, Vittal, Amey Pathak, & Akash Koppa. (2020). Dual response of Arabian Sea cyclones and strength of Indian monsoon to Southern Atlantic Ocean. Climate Dynamics. 56(7-8). 2149–2161. 16 indexed citations

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Koppa, Akash & Mekonnen Gebremichael. (2020). Improving the Applicability of Hydrologic Models for Food–Energy–Water Nexus Studies Using Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sensing. 12(4). 599–599. 7 indexed citations

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Koppa, Akash, et al.. (2019). Spatially distributed model calibration of a highly managed hydrological system using remote sensing-derived ET data. Journal of Hydrology. 577. 123944–123944. 66 indexed citations

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Koppa, Akash, Mekonnen Gebremichael, & William W‐G. Yeh. (2019). Multivariate calibration of large scale hydrologic models: The necessity and value of a Pareto optimal approach. Advances in Water Resources. 130. 129–146. 24 indexed citations

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Wanders, Niko, Xiaogang He, Huilin Huang, et al.. (2016). Forecasting the Hydroclimatic Signature of the 2015/16 El Niño Event on the Western United States. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 18(1). 177–186. 28 indexed citations

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