Sarith Mahanama

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Sarith Mahanama is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarith Mahanama has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Atmospheric Science and 21 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sarith Mahanama's work include Climate variability and models (25 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (21 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (19 papers). Sarith Mahanama is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (25 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (21 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (19 papers). Sarith Mahanama collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium. Sarith Mahanama's co-authors include Randal D. Koster, Rolf H. Reichle, Qing Liu, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Clara Draper, Ben Livneh, Barton A. Forman, Ally M. Toure and Sujay V. Kumar and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sarith Mahanama

54 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Land Surface Precipitation in MERRA-2

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

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarith Mahanama United States	28	1.9k	1.9k	1.4k	958	303	54	3.3k
David M. Mocko United States	27	1.7k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	232 0.8×	81	3.6k
Robin van der Schalie Austria	17	1.3k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	941 1.0×	197 0.7×	38	3.1k
Helin Wei United States	20	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	735 0.5×	951 1.0×	178 0.6×	27	2.6k
Joseph A. Santanello United States	28	2.1k 1.1×	2.4k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	494 0.5×	272 0.9×	78	3.3k
Clara Draper United States	24	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.8k 1.3×	551 0.6×	413 1.4×	46	2.9k
Eric B. Jaeger Switzerland	9	2.7k 1.4×	3.0k 1.6×	1.9k 1.3×	716 0.7×	563 1.9×	10	4.6k
Enrique Rosero United States	11	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	653 0.5×	800 0.8×	204 0.7×	13	2.5k
Aaron Boone France	37	2.8k 1.5×	3.0k 1.6×	951 0.7×	1.6k 1.6×	270 0.9×	122	4.7k
Angelica Tarpanelli Italy	29	878 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	224 0.7×	68	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarith Mahanama

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarith Mahanama

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarith Mahanama. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarith Mahanama 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 Sarith Mahanama. Sarith Mahanama is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Nie, Wanshu, Sujay V. Kumar, Kristi R. Arsenault, et al.. (2022). Towards effective drought monitoring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: implications from assimilating leaf area index and soil moisture into the Noah-MP land surface model for Morocco. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(9). 2365–2386. 24 indexed citations

Kumar, Sujay V., Augusto Getirana, Renata Libonati, et al.. (2022). Changes in land use enhance the sensitivity of tropical ecosystems to fire-climate extremes. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 964–964. 44 indexed citations

Nie, Wanshu, Sujay V. Kumar, Kristi R. Arsenault, et al.. (2021). Towards Effective Drought Monitoring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Implications from Assimilating Leaf Area Index and Soil Moisture into the Noah-MP Land Surface Model for Morocco. 3 indexed citations

Lannoy, Gabriëlle De, et al.. (2021). Land surface modeling over the Dry Chaco: the impact of model structures, and soil, vegetation and land cover parameters. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(7). 4099–4125. 15 indexed citations

Bian, Huisheng, Eunjee Lee, Randal D. Koster, et al.. (2021). The response of the Amazon ecosystem to the photosynthetically active radiation fields: integrating impacts of biomass burning aerosol and clouds in the NASA GEOS Earth system model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(18). 14177–14197. 4 indexed citations

Kumar, Sujay V., Thomas Holmes, Niels Andela, et al.. (2020). The 2019–2020 Australian Drought and Bushfires Altered the Partitioning of Hydrological Fluxes. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(1). 36 indexed citations

Kolassa, Jana, Rolf H. Reichle, Randal D. Koster, et al.. (2020). An Observation‐Driven Approach to Improve Vegetation Phenology in a Global Land Surface Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(9). 10 indexed citations

Reichle, Rolf H., Qing Liu, Randal D. Koster, et al.. (2019). Version 4 of the SMAP Level‐4 Soil Moisture Algorithm and Data Product. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(10). 3106–3130. 140 indexed citations

Koster, Randal D., Wade T. Crow, Rolf H. Reichle, & Sarith Mahanama. (2018). Estimating Basin‐Scale Water Budgets With SMAP Soil Moisture Data. Water Resources Research. 54(7). 4228–4244. 31 indexed citations

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Duong, Trang Minh, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Marcus Thatcher, et al.. (2017). Assessing climate change impacts on the stability of small tidal inlets: Part 2 - Data rich environments. Marine Geology. 395. 65–81. 30 indexed citations

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Reichle, Rolf H., Qing Liu, Randal D. Koster, et al.. (2016). Land Surface Precipitation in MERRA-2. Journal of Climate. 30(5). 1643–1664. 300 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reichle, Rolf H., Clara Draper, Sarith Mahanama, et al.. (2015). Precipitation and global land surface hydrology in the MERRA-2 and MERRA-Land reanalysis datasets. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1838. 2 indexed citations

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Yasunari, Teppei J., Peter R. Colarco, William K. M. Lau, et al.. (2015). Total dust deposition flux during precipitation in Toyama, Japan, in the spring of 2009: A sensitivity analysis with the NASA GEOS-5 Model. Atmospheric Research. 167. 298–313. 4 indexed citations

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Yasunari, Teppei J., K.-M. Lau, Sarith Mahanama, et al.. (2014). The GOddard SnoW Impurity Module (GOSWIM) for the NASA GEOS-5 Earth System Model: Preliminary Comparisons with Observations in Sapporo, Japan. SOLA. 10(0). 50–56. 13 indexed citations

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Herath, Srikantha, et al.. (2012). Flood Inundation Mapping along the Lower Reach of Kelani River Basin under the Impact of Climate Change. UNU Collections (United Nations University). 1 indexed citations

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Koster, Randal D. & Sarith Mahanama. (2012). Land Surface Controls on Hydroclimatic Means and Variability. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 13(5). 1604–1620. 66 indexed citations

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Reichle, Rolf H., Randal D. Koster, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, et al.. (2011). Assessment and Enhancement of MERRA Land Surface Hydrology Estimates. Journal of Climate. 24(24). 6322–6338. 382 indexed citations

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Reichle, Rolf H., Wade T. Crow, Randal D. Koster, Hatim O. Sharif, & Sarith Mahanama. (2007). The contribution of soil moisture retrievals to land data assimilation products. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Reichle, Rolf H., Randal D. Koster, Ping Liu, et al.. (2007). Comparison and assimilation of global soil moisture retrievals from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR‐E) and the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR). Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 112(D9). 306 indexed citations

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Mahanama, Sarith & Randal D. Koster. (2002). Intercomparison of Soil Moisture Memory in Two Land Surface Models. AGUSM. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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