Clara Draper

13.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Clara Draper is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Clara Draper has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Atmospheric Science, 30 papers in Environmental Engineering and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Clara Draper's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (28 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers) and Climate variability and models (19 papers). Clara Draper is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (28 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers) and Climate variability and models (19 papers). Clara Draper collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Clara Draper's co-authors include Rolf H. Reichle, Qing Liu, Randal D. Koster, Jeffrey P. Walker, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Richard de Jeu, Sarith Mahanama, J.‐F. Mahfouf, Thomas Holmes and Peter Steinle and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Clara Draper

44 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

State of the Art in Large-Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring

2013 380 citations Clara Draper et al. profile →
Land Surface Precipitation in MERRA-2

2016 300 citations Rolf H. Reichle, Qing Liu et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Clara Draper

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Fields of papers citing papers by Clara Draper

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clara Draper

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Clara Draper. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Clara Draper based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Clara Draper. Clara Draper is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Improving NOAA’s global NWP snow data assimilation by updating to an Ensemble Kalman Filter 2025 ·Journal of Hydrology ·(unknown), Clara Draper, Michael Barlage	0
2	Local Volume Solvers for Earth System Data Assimilation: Implementation in the Framework for Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integration 2024 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Sergey Frolov, (unknown), Wei Huang, (unknown), Clara Draper, (unknown), Cory Martin, (unknown), (unknown), Jeffrey S. Whitaker	1
3	An Agenda for Land Data Assimilation Priorities: Realizing the Promise of Terrestrial Water, Energy, and Vegetation Observations From Space 2022 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Sujay V. Kumar, Jana Kolassa, Rolf H. Reichle, Wade T. Crow, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Patricia de Rosnay, Natasha MacBean, Manuela Girotto, (unknown), Tristan Quaife, Clara Draper, Barton A. Forman, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Susan Steele‐Dunne, Clément Albergel, Bertrand Bonan, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, Jianzhi Dong, Hannah M. Liddy, (unknown)	30
4	An Optimal Interpolation–Based Snow Data Assimilation for NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (UFS) 2022 ·Weather and Forecasting ·(unknown), Clara Draper	6
5	Assimilation of SMAP Brightness Temperature Observations in the GEOS Land–Atmosphere Data Assimilation System 2021 ·IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ·Rolf H. Reichle, Sara Q. Zhang, Qing Liu, Clara Draper, Jana Kolassa, Ricardo Todling	11
6	Data assimilation for continuous global assessment of severe conditions over terrestrial surfaces 2020 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Clément Albergel, Yongjun Zheng, Bertrand Bonan, Emanuel Dutra, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Simon Munier, Clara Draper, Patricia de Rosnay, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, Gianpaolo Balsamo, David Fairbairn, Catherine Meurey, Jean‐Christophe Calvet	27
7	Six Priorities for Investment in Snow Research and Product Development 2020 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·M. M. Hurwitz, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Clara Draper, (unknown), (unknown), Jordan Gerth, Sarah Kapnick, (unknown), Mark A. Olsen, (unknown), (unknown), Robert S. Webb, (unknown)	2
8	Observation Error Specification for Near-Surface Soil Moisture Assimilation: Does It Matter? 2018 ·NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ·Clara Draper, Rolf H. Reichle	2
9	Coupled Data Assimilation for Integrated Earth System Analysis and Prediction: Goals, Challenges, and Recommendations 2017 ·Stephen G. Penny, Santha Akella, Mark Buehner, Matthieu Chevallier, François Counillon, Clara Draper, Sergey Frolov, Yosuke Fujii, Alicia Karspeck, Arun Kumar	31
10	Land Surface Precipitation in MERRA-2 breakdown → 2016 ·Journal of Climate ·Rolf H. Reichle, Qing Liu, Randal D. Koster, Clara Draper, Sarith Mahanama, Gary Partyka	300
11	Precipitation and global land surface hydrology in the MERRA-2 and MERRA-Land reanalysis datasets 2015 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Rolf H. Reichle, Clara Draper, (unknown), Sarith Mahanama, Manuela Girotto, Randal D. Koster, Gabriëlle De Lannoy	2
12	Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes 2015 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Sujay V. Kumar, C. D. Peters‐Lidard, Joseph A. Santanello, Rolf H. Reichle, Clara Draper, Randal D. Koster, Grey Nearing, Michael F. Jasinski	149
13	The impact of near-surface soil moisture assimilation at subseasonal, seasonal, and inter-annual timescales 2015 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Clara Draper, Rolf H. Reichle	27
14	Assimilation of Geostationary Satellite Land Surface Skin Temperature Observations into the GEOS-5 Global Atmospheric Modeling and Assimilation System 2013 ·AGUFM ·Clara Draper, Rolf H. Reichle, Benjamin Scarino, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, (unknown)	2
15	Assimilation of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals 2012 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Clara Draper, Rolf H. Reichle, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Qing Liu	201
16	Assimilation of ASCAT near-surface soil moisture into the SIM hydrological model over France 2011 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Clara Draper, Jean‐François Mahfouf, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, Éric Martin, Wolfgang Wagner	105
17	Assimilation of ASCAT near-surface soil moisture into the French SIM hydrological model 2011 ·Clara Draper, Jean‐François Mahfouf, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, Éric Martin, Wolfgang Wagner	5
18	Assimilation of SMOS surface soil moisture retrievals into the Catchment land surface model 2011 ·Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Rolf H. Reichle, Clara Draper, (unknown), Valentijn Pauwels	1
19	Remotely sensed soil moisture over Australia from AMSR-E 2007 ·Congress on Modelling and Simulation ·Clara Draper, Jeffrey P. Walker, Peter Steinle, Richard de Jeu, Thomas Holmes	11
20	<title>X-ray backscatter tomography for nondestructive evaluation at the Naval Research Laboratory</title> 1995 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Clara Draper, James C. L. Chow, (unknown)	3

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