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Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
16562
World Ranking
1975
National Ranking
819

Elfatih A. B. Eltahir 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 Elfatih A. B. Eltahir sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 215 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Elfatih A. B. Eltahir 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 Elfatih A. B. Eltahir sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Elfatih A. B. Eltahir is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and oceanography.

The scientist has published extensively on topics that include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate change impacts on agriculture, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, climate change and health impacts, and hydrology and drought analysis.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Eltahir are:

  • Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot? (2020), Journal of Climate
  • Prediction and projection of heatwaves (2022), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Past and future trends of Egypt's water consumption and its sources (2021), Nature Communications
  • Assessment of global sorghum production, tolerance, and climate risk (2023), Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Modeling Over the Maritime Continent: A Review (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eltahir include:

  • Yeon-Woo Choi
  • Alexandre Tuel
  • Muhammad Khalifa
  • Deborah J. Campbell
  • Suchul Kang

Eltahir has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2008.

Best Publications

  • Simulation of regional‐scale water and energy budgets: Representation of subgrid cloud and precipitation processes within RegCM

    Jeremy S. Pal;Eric E. Small;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • A Soil Moisture–Rainfall Feedback Mechanism: 1. Theory and observations

    Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability

    Jeremy S. Pal;Jeremy S. Pal;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • Deadly Heat Waves Projected in The Densely-populated Agricultural Regions of South Asia

    Eun Soon Im;Jeremy S. Pal;Elfatih A.B. Eltahir

  • Precipitation recycling in the Amazon basin

    E. A. B. Eltahir;R. L. Bras

  • Atmospheric Controls on Soil Moisture–Boundary Layer Interactions. Part I: Framework Development

    Kirsten L. Findell;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • North China Plain threatened by deadly heatwaves due to climate change and irrigation

    Suchul Kang;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • Prediction and projection of heatwaves

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  • Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot

    A. Tuel;E. A. B. Eltahir

  • On the asymmetric response of aquifer water level to floods and droughts in Illinois

    Elfatih A. B. Eltahir;Pat J.-F. Yeh

  • Atmospheric Controls on Soil Moisture-Boundary Layer Interactions. Part II: Feedbacks within the Continental United States

    Kirsten L. Findell;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • An analysis of the soil moisture-rainfall feedback, based on direct observations from Illinois

    Kirsten L. Findell;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • Pathways Relating Soil Moisture Conditions to Future Summer Rainfall within a Model of the Land-Atmosphere System

    Jeremy S. Pal;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • El Niño and the Natural Variability in the Flow of the Nile River

    Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • Dynamics of Wet and Dry Years in West Africa

    Elfatih A. B. Eltahir;Cuiling Gong

  • ENSO and the natural variability in the flow of tropical rivers

    Kishan N. Amarasekera;Robert F. Lee;Earle R. Williams;Elfatih A.B. Eltahir

  • On the sensitivity of drainage density to climate change

    Glenn E. Moglen;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir;Rafael L. Bras

  • Representation of Water Table Dynamics in a Land Surface Scheme. Part I: Model Development

    Pat J. F. Yeh;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • The Role of Vegetation in the Dynamics of West African Monsoons

    Xinyu Zheng;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • Ecosystem dynamics and the Sahel Drought

    Guiling Wang;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • Role of vegetation dynamics in enhancing the low-frequency variability of the Sahel rainfall

    Guiling Wang;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

Frequent Co-Authors

Rafael L. Bras
Rafael L. Bras Georgia Institute of Technology
Jeremy S. Pal
Jeremy S. Pal Loyola Marymount University
Guiling Wang
Guiling Wang University of Connecticut
Kirsten L. Findell
Kirsten L. Findell Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Shafiqul Islam
Shafiqul Islam Tufts University
Lee Ching Ng
Lee Ching Ng National Environment Agency
Pierre Druilhe
Pierre Druilhe Institut Pasteur
Taha B. M. J. Ouarda
Taha B. M. J. Ouarda Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique

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