Ghassem Asrar

19.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
152 papers, 13.9k citations indexed

About

Ghassem Asrar is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ghassem Asrar has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 13.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 54 papers in Ecology and 48 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ghassem Asrar's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (51 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (31 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (28 papers). Ghassem Asrar is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (51 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (31 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (28 papers). Ghassem Asrar collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Ghassem Asrar's co-authors include Ranga B. Myneni, Charles D. Keeling, Compton J. Tucker, E. T. Kanemasu, Ramakrishna Nemani, Filippo Giorgi, Colin Jones, Jerry L. Hatfield, Yuyu Zhou and M. Fuchs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Ghassem Asrar

151 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes fro... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1997 2009 1984 2012 2022 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991
    1997 2.8k citations Ghassem Asrar et al. profile →
  2. Addressing climate information needs at the regional level: the CORDEX framework
    2009 1.4k citations Ghassem Asrar et al. profile →
  3. Estimating Absorbed Photosynthetic Radiation and Leaf Area Index from Spectral Reflectance in Wheat1
    1984 1.0k citations Ghassem Asrar et al. profile →
  4. Precipitation Climatology in an Ensemble of CORDEX-Africa Regional Climate Simulations
    2012 545 citations Ghassem Asrar et al. profile →
  5. Optical vegetation indices for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems globally
    2022 487 citations Yelu Zeng, Dalei Hao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ghassem Asrar United States 51 9.2k 5.9k 4.6k 4.0k 1.7k 152 13.9k
Berrien Moore United States 56 11.3k 1.2× 7.5k 1.3× 4.4k 0.9× 2.9k 0.7× 2.1k 1.2× 132 17.5k
Russell G. Congalton United States 39 9.0k 1.0× 10.5k 1.8× 3.3k 0.7× 5.4k 1.3× 1.0k 0.6× 131 18.3k
Jinwei Dong China 65 8.2k 0.9× 7.5k 1.3× 3.0k 0.6× 3.4k 0.8× 1.6k 0.9× 275 13.6k
Steve Frolking United States 71 8.0k 0.9× 9.8k 1.7× 5.8k 1.2× 3.7k 0.9× 2.7k 1.6× 217 19.9k
Alessandro Cescatti Italy 63 10.5k 1.1× 5.0k 0.9× 3.4k 0.7× 2.7k 0.7× 2.2k 1.3× 172 14.5k
Arnon Karnieli Israel 55 5.3k 0.6× 4.1k 0.7× 3.7k 0.8× 4.4k 1.1× 1.6k 0.9× 263 12.0k
Jingfeng Xiao United States 63 9.1k 1.0× 5.3k 0.9× 3.0k 0.6× 3.1k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 246 12.9k
Noel Gorelick United States 34 9.1k 1.0× 7.2k 1.2× 3.4k 0.7× 4.2k 1.0× 758 0.4× 56 16.7k
Jiaguo Qi United States 60 5.6k 0.6× 6.1k 1.0× 1.8k 0.4× 3.7k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 234 12.5k
Dar A. Roberts United States 73 10.3k 1.1× 10.7k 1.8× 3.7k 0.8× 6.6k 1.6× 1.4k 0.8× 306 20.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ghassem Asrar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Wei, Yuyu Zhou, Ulrike Passe, et al.. (2024). Improving estimation of diurnal land surface temperatures by integrating weather modeling with satellite observations. Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114393–114393. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Xuecao, Xuecao Li, Ghassem Asrar, et al.. (2022). Detection and attribution of long-term and fine-scale changes in spring phenology over urban areas: A case study in New York State. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 110. 102815–102815. 17 indexed citations
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Zhang, Tao, Yuyu Zhou, Zhengyuan Zhu, Xiaoma Li, & Ghassem Asrar. (2022). A global seamless 1 km resolution daily land surface temperature dataset (2003–2020). Earth system science data. 14(2). 651–664. 118 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhiqiang, Ning Zeng, Yun Liu, et al.. (2022). Improving the joint estimation of CO 2 and surface carbon fluxes using a constrained ensemble Kalman filter in COLA (v1.0). Geoscientific model development. 15(14). 5511–5528. 14 indexed citations
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Prasad, A. K., et al.. (2022). Snow cover variability and trend over the Hindu Kush Himalayan region using MODIS and SRTM data. Annales Geophysicae. 40(1). 67–82. 21 indexed citations
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Li, Xuecao, Yuyu Zhou, Lin Meng, et al.. (2019). A dataset of 30 m annual vegetation phenology indicators (1985–2015) in urban areas of the conterminous United States. Earth system science data. 11(2). 881–894. 70 indexed citations
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Garvin, J. B., D. A. Slayback, V. L. Ferrini, et al.. (2018). Monitoring and Modeling the Rapid Evolution of Earth's Newest Volcanic Island: Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai (Tonga) Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(8). 3445–3452. 48 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaoma, Yuyu Zhou, Ghassem Asrar, Marc L. Imhoff, & Xuecao Li. (2017). The surface urban heat island response to urban expansion: A panel analysis for the conterminous United States. The Science of The Total Environment. 605-606. 426–435. 292 indexed citations
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Wolf, Julie, Ghassem Asrar, & Tristram O. West. (2017). Revised methane emissions factors and spatially distributed annual carbon fluxes for global livestock. Carbon Balance and Management. 12(1). 16–16. 106 indexed citations
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Page, Yannick Le, Douglas C. Morton, Corinne Hartin, et al.. (2017). Synergy between land use and climate change increases future fire risk in Amazon forests. Earth System Dynamics. 8(4). 1237–1246. 85 indexed citations
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Rafique, Rashid, Jianyang Xia, Oleksandra Hararuk, et al.. (2016). Divergent predictions of carbon storage between two global land models:attribution of the causes through traceability analysis. Earth System Dynamics. 7(3). 649–658. 10 indexed citations
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Asrar, Ghassem & James W. Hurrell. (2013). Climate science for serving society : research, modeling and prediction priorities. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 47 indexed citations
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Asrar, Ghassem. (2003). NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program. EAEJA. 13938. 1 indexed citations
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Entekhabi, Dara, Ghassem Asrar, Alan K. Betts, et al.. (1999). An Agenda for Land Surface Hydrology Research and a Call for the Second International Hydrological Decade. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 80(10). 2043–2058. 172 indexed citations
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Asrar, Ghassem & H. K. Ramapriyan. (1995). Data and information system for mission to planet earth. Remote Sensing Reviews. 13(1-2). 1–25. 12 indexed citations

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