U. S. Nair

6.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
76 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

U. S. Nair is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, U. S. Nair has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 40 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in U. S. Nair's work include Climate variability and models (30 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (20 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (20 papers). U. S. Nair is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (30 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (20 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (20 papers). U. S. Nair collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. U. S. Nair's co-authors include Roger A. Pielke, Ronald M. Welch, Robert O. Lawton, Dev Niyogi, Rezaul Mahmood, Souleymane Fall, Clive McAlpine, Adriana Beltrán‐Przekurat, Sundar A. Christopher and Aaron Kaulfus and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

U. S. Nair

67 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Climatic Impact of Tropical Lowland Deforestation on Nearby Montane Cloud Forests

2001 924 citations Robert O. Lawton, U. S. Nair et al. profile →
Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence

2011 664 citations Roger A. Pielke, Dev Niyogi et al. profile →
Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate

2013 552 citations Rezaul Mahmood, Roger A. Pielke et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
U. S. Nair United States	25	2.6k	1.5k	742	515	406	76	4.1k
Xiaofeng Wang China	37	1.3k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	293 0.4×	635 1.2×	167 0.4×	204	5.9k
Ronald M. Welch United States	33	2.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	355 0.5×	433 0.8×	408 1.0×	128	4.1k
Dieter Wolf‐Gladrow Germany	48	1.6k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	524 0.7×	2.2k 4.3×	365 0.9×	135	8.8k
M. Sato Japan	28	5.1k 1.9×	4.6k 3.0×	588 0.8×	788 1.5×	352 0.9×	98	7.8k
Fang Li China	33	2.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	245 0.3×	667 1.3×	97 0.2×	163	4.3k
S. R. Arnold United Kingdom	40	3.0k 1.1×	3.2k 2.1×	599 0.8×	365 0.7×	72 0.2×	139	5.4k
Lin Liu China	40	953 0.4×	2.9k 1.9×	499 0.7×	345 0.7×	493 1.2×	228	5.3k
David Jones United Kingdom	48	4.1k 1.6×	2.2k 1.4×	476 0.6×	2.1k 4.0×	240 0.6×	246	7.7k
David J. Lary United States	31	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 1.3×	676 0.9×	347 0.7×	111 0.3×	127	3.7k
Wolfgang Knorr Germany	39	5.1k 1.9×	3.0k 2.0×	573 0.8×	1.6k 3.0×	153 0.4×	87	7.2k

Countries citing papers authored by U. S. Nair

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of U. S. Nair

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nair, U. S., et al.. (2025). An investigation of the impact of Canadian wildfires on US air quality using model, satellite, and ground measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(11). 5497–5517.

Pielke, Roger A., et al.. (2025). Land use land cover change, irrigation and their impacts on Bi-hourly evolution of convective environments during GRAINEX. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 62. 102884–102884.

Mahmood, Rezaul, et al.. (2025). Impacts of Irrigated and Nonirrigated Land Uses on Convective Environments and Related Diagnostic Variables during GRAINEX in Nebraska, United States. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 26(5). 501–519. 1 indexed citations

Nair, U. S., et al.. (2023). Impact of growth of a medium-sized Indian coastal city on urban climate: A case study using data fusion and analytics. Urban Climate. 49. 101525–101525. 4 indexed citations

Nair, U. S., et al.. (2020). Analogy-based Assessment of Domain-specific Word Embeddings. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 1–6. 3 indexed citations

Miller, Jeffrey J., U. S. Nair, Rahul Ramachandran, & Manil Maskey. (2018). Detection of transverse cirrus bands in satellite imagery using deep learning. Computers & Geosciences. 118. 79–85. 21 indexed citations

Gong, Xi, Aaron Kaulfus, U. S. Nair, & Daniel A. Jaffe. (2017). Quantifying O₃ Impacts in Urban Areas Due to Wildfires Using a Generalized Additive Model. Environmental Science & Technology. 51(22). 13216–13223. 78 indexed citations

Nair, U. S., Yuling Wu, Christopher D. Holmes, et al.. (2013). Cloud-resolving simulations of mercury scavenging and deposition in thunderstorms. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(19). 10143–10157. 17 indexed citations

Ramachandran, Rahul, Xiang Li, Sara Graves, et al.. (2013). Data Prospecting–A Step Towards Data Intensive Science. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 6(3). 1233–1241.

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McNider, Richard T., Gert‐Jan Steeneveld, Roger A. Pielke, et al.. (2012). Response and Sensitivity of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Over Land to Added Longwave Radiative Forcing. AGUFM. 2012. 2 indexed citations

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Lyons, T.J., et al.. (2008). Clearing enhances dust devil formation. Journal of Arid Environments. 72(10). 1918–1928. 19 indexed citations

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Kala, Jatin, et al.. (2008). Validation of a Simple Steady-State Forecast of Minimum Nocturnal Temperatures. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 48(3). 624–633. 8 indexed citations

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Pielke, Roger A., Adriana Beltrán‐Przekurat, C. A. Hiemstra, et al.. (2006). Impacts of regional land use and land cover on rainfall : an overview. IAHS-AISH publication. 325–331. 10 indexed citations

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Asefi, S., et al.. (2005). An integrated hydrological and atmospheric model to predict malaria epidemics. 1591–1596. 1 indexed citations

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Christopher, S. A., et al.. (2004). The Effect of Central American Smoke Aerosols on the Air Quality and Climate over the Southeastern United States: First Results from RAMS-AROMA. AGUFM. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Nair, U. S., Robert O. Lawton, Ronald M. Welch, & Roger A. Pielke. (2003). Impact of land use on Costa Rican tropical montane cloud forests: Sensitivity of cumulus cloud field characteristics to lowland deforestation. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 108(D7). 102 indexed citations

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Nair, U. S., et al.. (2002). Climatic impact of lowland deforestation on tropical montane cloud forests in Costa Rica. Open MIND. 1 indexed citations

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Nair, U. S.. (2001). Impact of land surface heterogeneity on the spatial organization of cumulus clouds. 3 indexed citations

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Berendes, Todd, et al.. (2001). Interactive Visualizer and Image Classifier for Satellites (IVICS). AGUSM. 2001. 3 indexed citations

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Nair, U. S.. (2000). The CAPE climatology for continental United States: Sensitivity to perturbations in temperature and dewpoint.

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