Alireza Farahmand

3.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
21 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Alireza Farahmand is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alireza Farahmand has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alireza Farahmand's work include Climate variability and models (11 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (10 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (5 papers). Alireza Farahmand is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (11 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (10 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (5 papers). Alireza Farahmand collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and Canada. Alireza Farahmand's co-authors include Amir AghaKouchak, Omid Mazdiyasni, Linyin Cheng, João Teixeira, Forrest Melton, Brian Wardlow, Christopher Hain, Martha C. Anderson, Navid Nakhjiri and Zengchao Hao and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Geophysical Research Letters and Reviews of Geophysics.

In The Last Decade

Alireza Farahmand

21 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

2015 698 citations Amir AghaKouchak, Alireza Farahmand et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
Global warming and changes in risk of concurrent climate extremes: Insights from the 2014 California drought

2014 572 citations Amir AghaKouchak, Linyin Cheng et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
A generalized framework for deriving nonparametric standardized drought indicators

2015 364 citations Alireza Farahmand, Amir AghaKouchak Advances in Water Resources profile →
Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system

2014 354 citations Zengchao Hao, Amir AghaKouchak et al. Scientific Data profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alireza Farahmand United States	12	2.2k	684	565	431	292	21	2.7k
Shengzhi Huang China	32	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.9×	493 0.9×	368 0.9×	272 0.9×	68	3.4k
Deepak Jhajharia India	21	2.3k 1.0×	976 1.4×	722 1.3×	244 0.6×	494 1.7×	41	2.8k
Patrick Laux Germany	33	2.0k 0.9×	772 1.1×	1.0k 1.8×	559 1.3×	346 1.2×	106	2.8k
Miquel Tomàs‐Burguera Spain	29	2.1k 1.0×	660 1.0×	703 1.2×	304 0.7×	212 0.7×	55	2.6k
Tommaso Caloiero Italy	33	2.5k 1.1×	719 1.1×	1.2k 2.1×	300 0.7×	454 1.6×	122	3.2k
Marco Gemmer China	23	2.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	862 1.5×	269 0.6×	288 1.0×	34	2.6k
Dunxian She China	33	2.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	707 1.3×	251 0.6×	529 1.8×	119	2.8k
Mike Hobbins United States	27	2.6k 1.2×	1.2k 1.7×	743 1.3×	175 0.4×	279 1.0×	45	3.0k
Mingzhong Xiao China	29	2.0k 0.9×	939 1.4×	737 1.3×	242 0.6×	327 1.1×	64	2.3k
James H. Stagge United States	16	1.9k 0.9×	758 1.1×	443 0.8×	406 0.9×	345 1.2×	50	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alireza Farahmand

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Li, Jingjing, et al.. (2025). Post-Fire Vegetation Recovery Response: A Case Study of the 2020 Bobcat Fire in Los Angeles, California. Remote Sensing. 17(24). 4023–4023. 1 indexed citations

Li, Jingjing, et al.. (2024). Assessing the influence of El Niño on the California precipitation regime during the satellite precipitation era. Hydrological Processes. 38(5). 1 indexed citations

Farahmand, Alireza, et al.. (2024). Developing a Multivariate Agro‐Meteorological Index to Improve Capturing Onset and Persistence of Droughts Utilizing Vapor Pressure Deficit and Soil Moisture. Earth and Space Science. 11(6). 2 indexed citations

Farahmand, Alireza, et al.. (2022). A Workshop on Using NASA AIRS Data to Monitor Drought for the U.S. Drought Monitor. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 104(1). E22–E30. 3 indexed citations

Farahmand, Alireza, J. T. Reager, & Nima Madani. (2021). Drought Cascade in the Terrestrial Water Cycle: Evidence From Remote Sensing. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(14). 22 indexed citations

Farahmand, Alireza, E. Natasha Stavros, J. T. Reager, et al.. (2020). Satellite hydrology observations as operational indicators of forecasted fire danger across the contiguous United States. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(4). 1097–1106. 13 indexed citations

Farahmand, Alireza, E. Natasha Stavros, J. T. Reager, & Ali Behrangi. (2020). Introducing Spatially Distributed Fire Danger from Earth Observations (FDEO) Using Satellite-Based Data in the Contiguous United States. Remote Sensing. 12(8). 1252–1252. 11 indexed citations

Li, Jingjing, et al.. (2020). Wildfire Trend Analysis over the Contiguous United States Using Remote Sensing Observations. Remote Sensing. 12(16). 2565–2565. 13 indexed citations

Anjileli, Hassan, Hamed Moftakhari, Omid Mazdiyasni, et al.. (2019). Analyzing High‐Frequency Soil Respiration Using a Probabilistic Model in a Semiarid, Mediterranean Climate. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(3). 509–520. 6 indexed citations

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Ashraf, Samaneh, Amir AghaKouchak, Ali Nazemi, et al.. (2018). Compounding effects of human activities and climatic changes on surface water availability in Iran. Climatic Change. 152(3-4). 379–391. 99 indexed citations

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Farahmand, Alireza, J. T. Reager, Ali Behrangi, E. Natasha Stavros, & J. T. Randerson. (2017). Using NASA Satellite Observations to Map Wildfire Risk in the United States for Allocation of Fire Management Resources. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 3 indexed citations

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Madadgar, Shahrbanou, Amir AghaKouchak, Alireza Farahmand, & Steven J. Davis. (2017). Probabilistic estimates of drought impacts on agricultural production. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(15). 7799–7807. 185 indexed citations

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Farahmand, Alireza, Amir AghaKouchak, & João Teixeira. (2015). A Vantage from Space Can Detect Earlier Drought Onset: An Approach Using Relative Humidity. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8553–8553. 38 indexed citations

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AghaKouchak, Amir, Alireza Farahmand, Forrest Melton, et al.. (2015). Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities. Reviews of Geophysics. 53(2). 452–480. 698 indexed citations breakdown →

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Farahmand, Alireza & Amir AghaKouchak. (2015). A generalized framework for deriving nonparametric standardized drought indicators. Advances in Water Resources. 76. 140–145. 364 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hao, Zengchao, Amir AghaKouchak, Navid Nakhjiri, & Alireza Farahmand. (2014). Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system. Scientific Data. 1(1). 140001–140001. 354 indexed citations breakdown →

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AghaKouchak, Amir, H. Norouzi, Kaveh Madani, et al.. (2014). Aral Sea syndrome desiccates Lake Urmia: Call for action. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 41(1). 307–311. 273 indexed citations

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AghaKouchak, Amir, Linyin Cheng, Omid Mazdiyasni, & Alireza Farahmand. (2014). Global warming and changes in risk of concurrent climate extremes: Insights from the 2014 California drought. Geophysical Research Letters. 41(24). 8847–8852. 572 indexed citations breakdown →

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Norouzi, H., Amir AghaKouchak, Kaveh Madani, et al.. (2013). Monitoring Changes in Water Resources Systems Using High Resolution Satellite Observations: Application to Lake Urmia. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Farahmand, Alireza & Amir AghaKouchak. (2013). A satellite-based global landslide model. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 13(5). 1259–1267. 45 indexed citations

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