Mohammed Ombadi

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Mohammed Ombadi is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mohammed Ombadi has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Mohammed Ombadi's work include Climate variability and models (11 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (9 papers). Mohammed Ombadi is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (11 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (9 papers). Mohammed Ombadi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Vietnam and Taiwan. Mohammed Ombadi's co-authors include Phu Nguyen, Soroosh Sorooshian, Kuolin Hsu, Charuleka Varadharajan, Dan Braithwaite, Mark D. Risser, Alan M. Rhoades, E. J. Shearer, Hoang Tran and Hamed Ashouri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Water Research and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Mohammed Ombadi

20 papers receiving 991 citations

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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.

A warming-induced reduction in snow fraction amplifies rainfall extremes

2023 142 citations Mohammed Ombadi, Mark D. Risser et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mohammed Ombadi United States	11	670	654	266	215	42	20	1.0k
Frédéric Satgé France	17	651 1.0×	573 0.9×	296 1.1×	225 1.0×	78 1.9×	33	957
Tirthankar Roy United States	14	532 0.8×	766 1.2×	542 2.0×	250 1.2×	32 0.8×	49	1.1k
Joshua K. Roundy United States	16	797 1.2×	863 1.3×	404 1.5×	528 2.5×	43 1.0×	28	1.3k
Margaret A. Hendry United Kingdom	3	607 0.9×	798 1.2×	236 0.9×	222 1.0×	80 1.9×	3	1.1k
Michael Anderson United States	17	708 1.1×	877 1.3×	394 1.5×	97 0.5×	68 1.6×	44	1.1k
Daisuke Nohara Japan	13	437 0.7×	617 0.9×	323 1.2×	121 0.6×	84 2.0×	61	941
Nathan Forsythe United Kingdom	15	492 0.7×	452 0.7×	338 1.3×	84 0.4×	39 0.9×	29	865
Eiichi NAKAKITA Japan	15	530 0.8×	559 0.9×	227 0.9×	161 0.7×	48 1.1×	135	799
Xianwu Xue United States	18	967 1.4×	928 1.4×	443 1.7×	304 1.4×	80 1.9×	33	1.4k
Peng Jiang China	22	474 0.7×	759 1.2×	416 1.6×	286 1.3×	47 1.1×	71	1.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Risser, Mark D., Mohammed Ombadi, & Michael Wehner. (2025). Granger causal inference for climate change attribution. Environmental Research Climate. 4(2). 22001–22001. 3 indexed citations

Rhoades, Alan M., Colin M. Zarzycki, Benjamin J. Hatchett, et al.. (2024). Anticipating how rain-on-snow events will change through the 21st century: lessons from the 1997 new year’s flood event. Climate Dynamics. 62(9). 8615–8637. 6 indexed citations

Rhoades, Alan M., Colin M. Zarzycki, Mohammed Ombadi, et al.. (2023). Recreating the California New Year's Flood Event of 1997 in a Regionally Refined Earth System Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(10). 8 indexed citations

Ombadi, Mohammed, Mark D. Risser, Alan M. Rhoades, & Charuleka Varadharajan. (2023). A warming-induced reduction in snow fraction amplifies rainfall extremes. Nature. 619(7969). 305–310. 142 indexed citations breakdown →

Varadharajan, Charuleka, Alison Appling, Bhavna Arora, et al.. (2022). Can machine learning accelerate process understanding and decision‐relevant predictions of river water quality?. Hydrological Processes. 36(4). 56 indexed citations

Ombadi, Mohammed & Charuleka Varadharajan. (2022). Urbanization and aridity mediate distinct salinity response to floods in rivers and streams across the contiguous United States. Water Research. 220. 118664–118664. 7 indexed citations

Ombadi, Mohammed & Mark D. Risser. (2022). What's the temperature tomorrow? Increasing trends in extreme volatility of daily maximum temperature in Central and Eastern United States (1950–2019). Weather and Climate Extremes. 38. 100515–100515. 4 indexed citations

Ombadi, Mohammed, Phu Nguyen, Soroosh Sorooshian, & Kuolin Hsu. (2021). How much information on precipitation is contained in satellite infrared imagery?. Atmospheric Research. 256. 105578–105578. 10 indexed citations

Ombadi, Mohammed, Phu Nguyen, Soroosh Sorooshian, & Kuolin Hsu. (2021). Complexity of hydrologic basins: A chaotic dynamics perspective. Journal of Hydrology. 597. 126222–126222. 10 indexed citations

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Ombadi, Mohammed, Phu Nguyen, Soroosh Sorooshian, & Kuolin Hsu. (2020). Retrospective Analysis and Bayesian Model Averaging of CMIP6 Precipitation in the Nile River Basin. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 22(1). 217–229. 22 indexed citations

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Ombadi, Mohammed, Phu Nguyen, Soroosh Sorooshian, & Kuolin Hsu. (2020). Evaluation of Methods for Causal Discovery in Hydrometeorological Systems. Water Resources Research. 56(7). 57 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Phu, Mohammed Ombadi, Vesta Afzali Gorooh, et al.. (2020). PERSIANN Dynamic Infrared–Rain Rate (PDIR-Now): A Near-Real-Time, Quasi-Global Satellite Precipitation Dataset. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 21(12). 2893–2906. 92 indexed citations

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Tran, Hoang, et al.. (2019). A cloud-free MODIS snow cover dataset for the contiguous United States from 2000 to 2017. Scientific Data. 6(1). 180300–180300. 39 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Phu, E. J. Shearer, Hoang Tran, et al.. (2019). The CHRS Data Portal, an easily accessible public repository for PERSIANN global satellite precipitation data. Scientific Data. 6(1). 180296–180296. 232 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Phu, E. J. Shearer, Mohammed Ombadi, et al.. (2019). PERSIANN Dynamic Infrared–Rain Rate Model (PDIR) for High-Resolution, Real-Time Satellite Precipitation Estimation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(3). E286–E302. 43 indexed citations

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Tran, Hoang, Phu Nguyen, Mohammed Ombadi, et al.. (2019). Improving Hydrologic Modeling Using Cloud-Free MODIS Flood Maps. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 20(11). 2203–2214. 10 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Phu, E. J. Shearer, Hien Tran, et al.. (2018). The CHRS Data Portal for Distributing PERSIANN Family Global Satellite Precipitation Data. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Phu, Mohammed Ombadi, Soroosh Sorooshian, et al.. (2018). The PERSIANN Family of Global Satellite Precipitation Data: AReview and Evaluation of Products. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 6 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Phu, Mohammed Ombadi, Soroosh Sorooshian, et al.. (2018). The PERSIANN family of global satellite precipitation data: a review and evaluation of products. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(11). 5801–5816. 185 indexed citations

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Ombadi, Mohammed, Phu Nguyen, Soroosh Sorooshian, & Kuolin Hsu. (2018). Developing Intensity‐Duration‐Frequency (IDF) Curves From Satellite‐Based Precipitation: Methodology and Evaluation. Water Resources Research. 54(10). 7752–7766. 85 indexed citations

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