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Overview

Harihar Rajaram is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, addressing fundamental and applied questions in these broad domains.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, they focus on several subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Geophysics

The scientist's research topics encompass diverse areas, including:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards

Harihar Rajaram has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Water Resources Research
  • Eos
  • Reviews of Geophysics

Their recent papers include:

  • "From Fluid Flow to Coupled Processes in Fractured Rock: Recent Advances and New Frontiers" (2022, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • "Topographic Correction of Geothermal Heat Flux in Greenland and Antarctica" (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface)
  • "Public data from three US states provide new insights into well integrity" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Numerical Study of Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Beach Aquifers Subjected to Tides" (2020, Water Resources Research)
  • "Thank You to Our 2019 Peer Reviewers" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

Frequent co-authors with whom Harihar Rajaram has collaborated include:

  • Mathieu Morlighem
  • Suzana J. Camargo
  • Kathleen Donohue
  • Alessandra Giannini
  • A. J. Dombard

Best Publications

  • Importance and vulnerability of the world's water towers

    W W Immerzeel;A F Lutz;M Andrade;M Andrade;A Bahl

  • From Fluid Flow to Coupled Processes in Fractured Rock: Recent Advances and New Frontiers

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  • Glacier crevasses: Observations, models, and mass balance implications

    William Colgan;William Colgan;Harihar Rajaram;Waleed Abdalati;Cheryl McCutchan

  • Saturated flow in a single fracture: evaluation of the Reynolds Equation in measured aperture fields

    M. J. Nicholl;H. Rajaram;Robert J. Glass Jr.;R. Detwiler

  • Solute transport in variable-aperture fractures: An investigation of the relative importance of Taylor dispersion and macrodispersion

    Russell L. Detwiler;Harihar Rajaram;Robert J. Glass

  • Cryo‐hydrologic warming: A potential mechanism for rapid thermal response of ice sheets

    Thomas Phillips;Harihar Rajaram;Konrad Steffen

  • Influence of aperture variability on dissolutional growth of fissures in karst formations

    R. Blair Hanna;Harihar Rajaram

  • Hydraulic fracturing fluid migration in the subsurface: A review and expanded modeling results

    Daniel T. Birdsell;Harihar Rajaram;David Dempsey;David Dempsey;Hari S. Viswanathan

  • Stochastic fractal-based models of heterogeneity in subsurface hydrology: Origins, applications, limitations, and future research questions

    Fred J. Molz;Harihar Rajaram;Silong Lu

  • Predicting dissolution patterns in variable aperture fractures: Evaluation of an enhanced depth-averaged computational model

    Russell L. Detwiler;Harihar Rajaram

  • Three-dimensional spatial moments analysis of the Borden Tracer Test

    Harihar Rajaram;Lynn W. Gelhar

  • Modeling hyporheic zone processes

    Robert L Runkel;Diane M McKnight;Harihar Rajaram

  • Prediction of relative permeabilities for unconsolidated soils using pore‐scale network models

    Harihar Rajaram;Lin A. Ferrand;Michael A. Celia

  • Plume scale‐dependent dispersion in heterogeneous aquifers: 2. Eulerian analysis and three‐dimensional aquifers

    Harihar Rajaram;Lynn W. Gelhar

  • Dissolution of limestone fractures by cooling waters: Early development of hypogene karst systems

    Benjamin J. Andre;Harihar Rajaram

  • An increase in crevasse extent, West Greenland: Hydrologic implications

    William Colgan;Konrad Steffen;W. Scott McLamb;Waleed Abdalati

  • Plume scale-dependent dispersion in heterogeneous aquifers: 1. Lagrangian analysis in a stratified aquifer

    Harihar Rajaram;Lynn W. Gelhar

  • Plume‐Scale Dependent Dispersion in Aquifers with a Wide Range of Scales of Heterogeneity

    Harihar Rajaram;Lynn W. Gelhar

  • Differences in the scale-dependence of dispersivity estimated from temporal and spatial moments in chemically and physically heterogeneous porous media

    Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia;Tissa H. Illangasekare;Harihar Rajaram

  • Imbibition of hydraulic fracturing fluids into partially saturated shale

    Daniel T. Birdsell;Harihar Rajaram;Greg Lackey

  • Predictive modeling of flow and transport in a two‐dimensional intermediate‐scale, heterogeneous porous medium

    Gilbert R. Barth;Mary C. Hill;Tissa H. Illangasekare;Harihar Rajaram

Frequent Co-Authors

William Colgan
William Colgan Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Waleed Abdalati
Waleed Abdalati University of Colorado Boulder
Konrad Steffen
Konrad Steffen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Robert J. Glass
Robert J. Glass Sandia National Laboratories
Tissa H. Illangasekare
Tissa H. Illangasekare Colorado School of Mines
Hari S. Viswanathan
Hari S. Viswanathan Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ximing Cai
Ximing Cai University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alberto Montanari
Alberto Montanari University of Bologna
Anna M. Michalak
Anna M. Michalak Stanford University

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