B. Imam

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

B. Imam is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Imam has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in B. Imam's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (12 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers). B. Imam is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (12 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers). B. Imam collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. B. Imam's co-authors include Soroosh Sorooshian, Kuolin Hsu, Xiaogang Gao, Hoshin V. Gupta, Dan Braithwaite, Robert J. Kuligowski, Ali Behrangi, Phillip A. Arkin, Behnaz Khakbaz and Amir AghaKouchak and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

B. Imam

25 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Evaluation of PERSIANN System Satellite–Based Estimates of Tropical Rainfall

2000 1.0k citations Soroosh Sorooshian, Kuolin Hsu et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. Imam United States	16	1.8k	1.6k	641	620	76	25	2.3k
Youcun Qi China	21	1.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	353 0.6×	571 0.9×	51 0.7×	56	2.0k
Daniel Vila Brazil	20	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	323 0.5×	275 0.4×	58 0.8×	44	1.6k
Yang Hong United States	25	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	786 1.2×	565 0.9×	99 1.3×	38	2.4k
Juerg Schmidli Germany	20	2.3k 1.3×	2.4k 1.6×	267 0.4×	387 0.6×	78 1.0×	47	2.8k
Xianwu Xue United States	18	967 0.5×	928 0.6×	443 0.7×	304 0.5×	80 1.1×	33	1.4k
Shinta Seto Japan	18	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	287 0.4×	581 0.9×	90 1.2×	64	2.1k
Victor Venema Germany	11	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	441 0.7×	153 0.2×	60 0.8×	24	1.6k
Eduardo García‐Ortega Spain	28	1.9k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	210 0.3×	355 0.6×	57 0.8×	70	2.3k
J.‐F. Mahfouf France	15	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	240 0.4×	585 0.9×	146 1.9×	17	1.7k
Dong‐Jun Seo United States	20	972 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 2.0×	752 1.2×	33 0.4×	73	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B. Imam

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Sorooshian, Soroosh, Amir AghaKouchak, Phillip A. Arkin, et al.. (2011). Advancing the Remote Sensing of Precipitation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 92(10). 1271–1272. 49 indexed citations

Khakbaz, Behnaz, B. Imam, Soroosh Sorooshian, et al.. (2011). Modification of the National Weather Service Distributed Hydrologic Model for subsurface water exchanges between grids. Water Resources Research. 47(6). 5 indexed citations

Behrangi, Ali, et al.. (2010). REFAME: Rain Estimation Using Forward-Adjusted Advection of Microwave Estimates. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 11(6). 1305–1321. 37 indexed citations

AghaKouchak, Amir, Nasrin Nasrollahi, Jingjing Li, B. Imam, & Soroosh Sorooshian. (2010). Geometrical Characterization of Precipitation Patterns. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 12(2). 274–285. 47 indexed citations

Behrangi, Ali, Kuolin Hsu, B. Imam, & Soroosh Sorooshian. (2009). Daytime Precipitation Estimation Using Bispectral Cloud Classification System. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 49(5). 1015–1031. 35 indexed citations

Behrangi, Ali, Kuolin Hsu, B. Imam, Soroosh Sorooshian, & Robert J. Kuligowski. (2009). Evaluating the Utility of Multispectral Information in Delineating the Areal Extent of Precipitation. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 10(3). 684–700. 42 indexed citations

Khakbaz, Behnaz, B. Imam, Kuolin Hsu, & Soroosh Sorooshian. (2009). From lumped to distributed via semi-distributed: Calibration strategies for semi-distributed hydrologic models. Journal of Hydrology. 418-419. 61–77. 129 indexed citations

Behrangi, Ali, Kuolin Hsu, B. Imam, et al.. (2009). PERSIANN-MSA: A Precipitation Estimation Method from Satellite-Based Multispectral Analysis. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 10(6). 1414–1429. 102 indexed citations

Hsu, Kuolin, et al.. (2008). Bias Adjustment of PERSIANN Rainfall for Hydrologic Applications. AGUSM. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Bales, Roger C., K. A. Dressler, B. Imam, Steven R. Fassnacht, & D. J. Lampkin. (2008). Fractional snow cover in the Colorado and Rio Grande basins, 1995–2002. Water Resources Research. 44(1). 19 indexed citations

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Sorooshian, Soroosh, et al.. (2008). Influence of Spatial Resolution on Diurnal Variability during the North American Monsoon. Journal of Climate. 21(16). 3967–3988. 12 indexed citations

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Shamir, Eylon, B. Imam, Efrat Morin, Hoshin V. Gupta, & Soroosh Sorooshian. (2005). The role of hydrograph indices in parameter estimation of rainfall-runoff models. Hydrological Processes. 19(11). 2187–2207. 43 indexed citations

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Shamir, Eylon, B. Imam, Hoshin V. Gupta, & Soroosh Sorooshian. (2005). Application of temporal streamflow descriptors in hydrologic model parameter estimation. Water Resources Research. 41(6). 57 indexed citations

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Bales, Roger C., et al.. (2003). Seasonal and Interannual Variability in Colorado River and Rio Grande Snowcover Patterns: 1995-2002. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 1 indexed citations

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Hsu, Kuolin, Hoshin V. Gupta, Xiaogang Gao, Soroosh Sorooshian, & B. Imam. (2002). Self‐organizing linear output map (SOLO): An artificial neural network suitable for hydrologic modeling and analysis. Water Resources Research. 38(12). 210 indexed citations

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Karamouz, ‪Mohammad, et al.. (2001). Improved Statistical Streamflow Forecasting by Snow Budget Calculation. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2001. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Liming, Xiaogang Gao, Soroosh Sorooshian, & B. Imam. (2000). Parameter estimation of GOES precipitation index at different calibration timescales. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 105(D15). 20131–20143. 3 indexed citations

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Gao, Xiaogang, et al.. (2000). Estimating cloud top height and spatial displacement from scan‐synchronous GOES images using simplified IR‐based stereoscopic analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 105(D12). 15597–15608. 10 indexed citations

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Sorooshian, Soroosh, Kuolin Hsu, Xiaogang Gao, et al.. (2000). Evaluation of PERSIANN System Satellite–Based Estimates of Tropical Rainfall. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 81(9). 2035–2046. 1031 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Liming, Xiaogang Gao, Soroosh Sorooshian, Phillip A. Arkin, & B. Imam. (1999). A Microwave Infrared Threshold Technique to Improve the GOES Precipitation Index. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 38(5). 569–579. 88 indexed citations

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