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Overview

Benjamin F. Zaitchik is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has a primary focus on environmental science. Their research spans multiple subfields including global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, and water science and technology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change and health impacts
  • Urban heat island mitigation
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations

Benjamin F. Zaitchik has contributed articles to several publication venues with the highest frequency of publications in:

  • GeoHealth
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Benjamin F. Zaitchik include:

  • "Night and day: The influence and relative importance of urban characteristics on remotely sensed land surface temperature," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Flash drought onset over the contiguous United States: sensitivity of inventories and trends to quantitative definitions," 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Toward park design optimization to mitigate the urban heat Island: Assessment of the cooling effect in five U.S. cities," 2022, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • "Wetting and drying trends under climate change," 2023, Nature Water
  • "The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture Production in Ethiopia: Application of a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model," 2021, American Journal of Climate Change

Frequent collaborators include Hamada S. Badr, Margaret Kosek, Josh M. Colston, Mahmoud Osman, and Martha C. Anderson, with multiple co-authorships highlighting ongoing scientific partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Assimilation of GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Data into a Land Surface Model: Results for the Mississippi River Basin

    Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Matthew Rodell;Rolf H. Reichle

  • Global GRACE data assimilation for groundwater and drought monitoring: Advances and challenges

    Bailing Li;Bailing Li;Matthew Rodell;Sujay Kumar;Hiroko Kato Beaudoing;Hiroko Kato Beaudoing

  • Drought indicators based on model‐assimilated Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) terrestrial water storage observations

    Rasmus Houborg;Matthew Rodell;Bailing Li;Rolf Reichle

  • Heat waves in the United States: definitions, patterns and trends

    Tiffany T. Smith;Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Julia M. Gohlke

  • Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

    Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Rob W. Brooker;Bradley J. Butterfield;Bradley J. Cook

  • Machine learning methods for empirical streamflow simulation: a comparison of model accuracy, interpretability, and uncertainty in seasonal watersheds

    Julie E. Shortridge;Seth D. Guikema;Benjamin F. Zaitchik

  • A Review of Drought in the Middle East and Southwest Asia

    Mathew Barlow;Benjamin Zaitchik;Shlomit Paz;Emily Black

  • Europe's 2003 heat wave: a satellite view of impacts and land–atmosphere feedbacks

    Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Alison K. Macalady;Laurent R. Bonneau;Ronald B. Smith

  • Estimating the Impact of Drought on Agriculture Using the U.S. Drought Monitor

    Yusuke Kuwayama;Alexandra Thompson;Richard Bernknopf;Benjamin Zaitchik

  • Agroecosystem specific climate vulnerability analysis: application of the livelihood vulnerability index to a tropical highland region

    Belay Simane;Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Jeremy D. Foltz

  • Assimilation of GRACE terrestrial water storage into a land surface model: Evaluation and potential value for drought monitoring in western and central Europe

    Bailing Li;Bailing Li;Matthew Rodell;Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Rolf H. Reichle

  • Heat Waves and Health Outcomes in Alabama (USA): The Importance of Heat Wave Definition

    Shia T. Kent;Leslie A. McClure;Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Tiffany T. Smith

  • Night and day: The influence and relative importance of urban characteristics on remotely sensed land surface temperature

    T.M. Logan;B. Zaitchik;S. Guikema;A. Nisbet

  • Opportunities and challenges for personal heat exposure research

    Evan R. Kuras;Molly B. Richardson;Miriam M. Calkins;Kristie L. Ebi

  • Classifying rangeland vegetation type and coverage from NDVI time series using Fourier Filtered Cycle Similarity

    R. Geerken;B. Zaitchik;J. P. Evans

  • Assimilation of Gridded GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System

    Sujay V. Kumar;Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Matthew Rodell

  • Towards an integrated soil moisture drought monitor for East Africa

    Weston B. Anderson;B. F. Zaitchik;C. R. Hain;M. C. Anderson

  • Evaluation of the Global Land Data Assimilation System using global river discharge data and a source-to-sink routing scheme

    Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Matthew Rodell;Francisco Olivera

  • Toward Park Design optimization to Mitigate the Urban Heat Island: Assessment of the Cooling Effect in five U.S. cities

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  • Integrated modeling of aerosol, cloud, precipitation and land processes at satellite-resolved scales

    Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Eric M. Kemp;Toshihisa Matsui;Joseph A. Santanello

  • Forward-Looking Assimilation of MODIS-Derived Snow-Covered Area into a Land Surface Model

    Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Matthew Rodell

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Rodell
Matthew Rodell Goddard Space Flight Center
Rolf H. Reichle
Rolf H. Reichle Goddard Space Flight Center
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Seth D. Guikema
Seth D. Guikema University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sujay V. Kumar
Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center
Mutlu Ozdogan
Mutlu Ozdogan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Christopher Hain
Christopher Hain Marshall Space Flight Center
Chris Funk
Chris Funk University of California, Santa Barbara
Christa D. Peters-Lidard
Christa D. Peters-Lidard Goddard Space Flight Center
Anand Gnanadesikan
Anand Gnanadesikan Johns Hopkins University

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