Mark Omara

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Mark Omara is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Omara has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Mark Omara's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (27 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (9 papers) and Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues (8 papers). Mark Omara is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (27 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (9 papers) and Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues (8 papers). Mark Omara collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and China. Mark Omara's co-authors include Daniel Zavala‐Araiza, David Lyon, Melissa R. Sullivan, Allen L. Robinson, R. Subramanian, Ritesh Gautam, Albert A. Presto, Steven P. Hamburg, Daniel J. Jacob and Alba Lorente and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Mark Omara

28 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space

2020 225 citations Yuzhong Zhang, Ritesh Gautam et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Omara United States	16	1.1k	478	321	246	235	31	1.2k
Matthew Harrison United States	15	954 0.9×	345 0.7×	253 0.8×	270 1.1×	315 1.3×	29	1.2k
Timothy Vaughn United States	18	1.0k 1.0×	497 1.0×	246 0.8×	168 0.7×	419 1.8×	31	1.3k
Sudhanshu Pandey Netherlands	21	1.4k 1.3×	841 1.8×	326 1.0×	139 0.6×	161 0.7×	43	1.5k
Ramón A. Alvarez United States	15	1.3k 1.3×	619 1.3×	340 1.1×	367 1.5×	548 2.3×	24	1.8k
Tia R. Scarpelli United States	19	1.1k 1.0×	733 1.5×	309 1.0×	114 0.5×	84 0.4×	30	1.2k
Mary Kang Canada	20	782 0.7×	108 0.2×	386 1.2×	155 0.6×	424 1.8×	46	1.2k
David Lyon United States	25	2.1k 2.0×	934 2.0×	561 1.7×	378 1.5×	655 2.8×	43	2.4k
Alba Lorente Netherlands	23	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 2.5×	284 0.9×	114 0.5×	294 1.3×	43	1.8k
James Thomas United Kingdom	5	409 0.4×	160 0.3×	263 0.8×	120 0.5×	97 0.4×	11	666
Maria Obiminda Cambaliza United States	21	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 2.2×	155 0.5×	128 0.5×	468 2.0×	47	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Omara

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Benmergui, Joshua, et al.. (2026). Assessment of methane emissions from US onshore oil and gas production using MethaneAIR measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 26(2). 1179–1192.

Benmergui, Joshua, James P. Williams, Mark Omara, et al.. (2025). Supplementary material to "Assessment of methane emissions from US onshore oil and gas production using MethaneAIR measurements".

Williams, James P., Mark Omara, Daniel Zavala‐Araiza, et al.. (2025). Small emission sources in aggregate disproportionately account for a large majority of total methane emissions from the US oil and gas sector. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(3). 1513–1532. 8 indexed citations

Sargent, Maryann, James P. Williams, Mark Omara, et al.. (2025). Sectoral contributions of high-emitting methane point sources from major US onshore oil and gas producing basins using airborne measurements from MethaneAIR. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(18). 10661–10675. 1 indexed citations

Omara, Mark, James P. Williams, Joshua Benmergui, et al.. (2024). Constructing a measurement-based spatially explicit inventory of US oil and gas methane emissions (2021). Earth system science data. 16(9). 3973–3991. 7 indexed citations

Maasakkers, Joannes D., Ritesh Gautam, Mark Omara, et al.. (2024). Assessing methane emissions from collapsing Venezuelan oil production using TROPOMI. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(11). 6845–6863. 2 indexed citations

Irvin, Jeremy, et al.. (2024). Deep learning for detecting and characterizing oil and gas well pads in satellite imagery. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2 indexed citations

Chen, Zichong, Daniel J. Jacob, Ritesh Gautam, et al.. (2023). Satellite quantification of methane emissions and oil–gas methane intensities from individual countries in the Middle East and North Africa: implications for climate action. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(10). 5945–5967. 17 indexed citations

Shen, Lu, Daniel J. Jacob, Ritesh Gautam, et al.. (2023). National quantifications of methane emissions from fuel exploitation using high resolution inversions of satellite observations. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4948–4948. 55 indexed citations

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Shen, Lu, Ritesh Gautam, Mark Omara, et al.. (2022). Satellite quantification of oil and natural gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(17). 11203–11215. 52 indexed citations

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Rutherford, Jeff, Evan David Sherwin, Arvind Ravikumar, et al.. (2021). Closing the methane gap in US oil and natural gas production emissions inventories. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4715–4715. 124 indexed citations

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Maasakkers, Joannes D., Mark Omara, Ritesh Gautam, et al.. (2021). Reconstructing and quantifying methane emissions from the full duration of a 38-day natural gas well blowout using space-based observations. Remote Sensing of Environment. 270. 112755–112755. 14 indexed citations

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Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2020). Multisatellite Imaging of a Gas Well Blowout Enables Quantification of Total Methane Emissions. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(2). 53 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuzhong, Ritesh Gautam, Sudhanshu Pandey, et al.. (2020). Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space. Science Advances. 6(17). eaaz5120–eaaz5120. 225 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2020). Multi-satellite imaging of a gas well blowout provides new insights for methane monitoring. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2020. 1 indexed citations

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Gautam, Rahul, Pankaj Sadavarte, Mark Omara, et al.. (2019). Quantifying Methane Emissions from the Largest Oil producing basin in the US from Space. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 2 indexed citations

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Omara, Mark, Naomi Zimmerman, Melissa R. Sullivan, et al.. (2018). Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Production Sites in the United States: Data Synthesis and National Estimate. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(21). 12915–12925. 86 indexed citations

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Omara, Mark, Bernard S. Crimmins, Richard C. Back, et al.. (2015). Mercury biomagnification and contemporary food web dynamics in lakes Superior and Huron. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 41(2). 473–483. 16 indexed citations

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Omara, Mark, Thomas M. Holsen, Xiaoyan Xia, et al.. (2014). Comparison of PoraPak Rxn RP and XAD-2 adsorbents for monitoring dissolved hydrophobic organic contaminants. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 186(11). 7565–7577. 5 indexed citations

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Omara, Mark, et al.. (1971). Combustion Products from Vinyl Chloride Monomer. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal. 32(3). 153–156. 10 indexed citations

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