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Dara Entekhabi

Dara Entekhabi

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
97
Citations
37144
World Ranking
437
National Ranking
199

Dara Entekhabi publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dara Entekhabi sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 560 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Dara Entekhabi D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dara Entekhabi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For leadership in the hydrologic sciences including the scientific underpinnings for satellite observation of the Earth's water cycle.
  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to microwave remote sensing of soil moisture
  • 1996 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1996 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Dara Entekhabi is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, contributing significantly to the study of atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and global and planetary change. Additional areas of specialization include aerospace engineering and civil and structural engineering.

The scientist's work explores several interconnected topics in the environmental and earth sciences domains. These main topics include soil moisture and remote sensing, precipitation measurement and analysis, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and techniques, cryospheric studies and observations, and climate change and permafrost.

Dara Entekhabi's publication record features multiple papers in leading journals. Some recent notable papers include:

  • Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission, 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Frequent collaborators include Andrew F. Feldman, Daniel J. Short Gianotti, Andreas Colliander, Simon Yueh, and Alexandra G. Konings.

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Dara Entekhabi has been recognized with several awards, including the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1996, the status of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union the same year, IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions to microwave remote sensing of soil moisture, and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for leadership in hydrologic sciences, notably in satellite observation of Earth's water cycle.

Best Publications

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

    Dara Entekhabi;Eni G Njoku;Peggy E O'Neill;Kent H Kellogg

  • Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather

    Judah Cohen;James A. Screen;Jason C. Furtado;Mathew Barlow

  • Hydrologic Data Assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter

    Rolf H. Reichle;Dennis B. McLaughlin;Dara Entekhabi

  • Passive microwave remote sensing of soil moisture

    Eni G. Njoku;Dara Entekhabi

  • Estimation of Continental Precipitation Recycling.

    Kaye L. Brubaker;Dara Entekhabi;P. S. Eagleson

  • Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

    A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • Land Surface Hydrology Parameterization for Atmospheric General Circulation models Including Subgrid Scale Spatial Variability

    D. Entekhabi;P. S. Eagleson

  • Performance Metrics for Soil Moisture Retrievals and Application Requirements

    Dara Entekhabi;Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

  • The global distribution and dynamics of surface soil moisture

    Kaighin A. McColl;Kaighin A. McColl;Seyed Hamed Alemohammad;Ruzbeh Akbar;Alexandra G. Konings;Alexandra G. Konings

  • Mutual interaction of soil moisture state and atmospheric processes

    Dara Entekhabi;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe;Fabio Castelli

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • Solving the inverse problem for soil moisture and temperature profiles by sequential assimilation of multifrequency remotely sensed observations

    D. Entekhabi;H. Nakamura;E.G. Njoku

  • Eurasian snow cover variability and northern hemisphere climate predictability

    Judah Cohen;Dara Entekhabi

  • Extended triple collocation: Estimating errors and correlation coefficients with respect to an unknown target

    Kaighin A. McColl;Jur Vogelzang;Alexandra G. Konings;Dara Entekhabi

  • Catchment hydrologic response with a fully distributed triangulated irregular network model

    Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Enrique R. Vivoni;Rafael L. Bras;Dara Entekhabi

  • An Algorithm for Merging SMAP Radiometer and Radar Data for High-Resolution Soil-Moisture Retrieval

    N N Das;D Entekhabi;E G Njoku

  • Analysis of evaporative fraction diurnal behaviour

    Pierre Gentine;Dara Entekhabi;Abdelghani Chehbouni;Gilles Boulet

  • An Agenda for Land-Surface Hydrology Research and a Call for the Second International Hydrological Decade

    Dara Entekhabi;Ghassem R. Asrar;Alan K. Betts;Keith J. Beven

  • Land data assimilation and estimation of soil moisture using measurements from the Southern Great Plains 1997 Field Experiment

    Steven A. Margulis;Steven A. Margulis;Dennis McLaughlin;Dara Entekhabi;Susan Dunne

Frequent Co-Authors

Peggy E. O'Neill
Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center
Eni G. Njoku
Eni G. Njoku Jet Propulsion Lab
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Andreas Colliander
Andreas Colliander California Institute of Technology
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Guido D. Salvucci
Guido D. Salvucci Boston University
Mahta Moghaddam
Mahta Moghaddam University of Southern California
Rafael L. Bras
Rafael L. Bras Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service

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