2026 Harindra J. S. Fernando: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	53	3385	3240	999	912	334	11151
Environmental Sciences	64	2331	2225	935	866	443	14302

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2009 - Member of Academia Europaea
2004 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributing greatly to fundamental and applied environmental fluid mechanics, including notable discoveries for how turbulence interacts with stably stratified inversion layers via waves, instabilities and mixing events
2002 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Harindra J. S. Fernando is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including:

Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Climate Variability and Models
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Wind and Air Flow Studies
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

Boundary-Layer Meteorology
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research:

"Green roofs and green walls layouts for improved urban air quality by mitigating particulate matter," 2021, Building and Environment
"C-FOG: Life of Coastal Fog," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"A Review of Coastal Fog Microphysics During C-FOG," 2021, Boundary-Layer Meteorology
"Analysis of Random Forest Modeling Strategies for Multi-Step Wind Speed Forecasting," 2020, Energies
"Decreasing wind speed extrapolation error via domain-specific feature extraction and selection," 2020, Wind Energy Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this scientist include:

Ismail Gültepe
Raghavendra Krishnamurthy
Qing Wang
Clive E. Dorman
Stef L. Bardoel

Recognition for their contributions includes several fellowships and memberships:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
Member of Academia Europaea, 2009
Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2004, noted for contributions to environmental fluid mechanics, including studies on turbulence interacting with stably stratified inversion layers through waves, instabilities, and mixing events
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2002

Best Publications

TURBULENT MIXING IN STRATIFIED FLUIDS

Harindra J. S. Fernando

689
Citations
Entrainment and mixing in stratified shear flows

E. J. Strang;H. J. S. Fernando

352
Citations
Observations by the International Tsunami Survey Team in Sri Lanka

Philip L.-F. Liu;Patrick Lynett;Harindra Fernando;Bruce E. Jaffe

348
Citations
Fluid Dynamics of Urban Atmospheres in Complex Terrain

H.J.S. Fernando

292
Citations
Observations of Flow and Turbulence in the Nocturnal Boundary Layer over a Slope

P. Monti;H. J. S. Fernando;M. Princevac;W. C. Chan

291
Citations
Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area: evaluation with a regional climate model

A. Sharma;P. Conry;H. J.S. Fernando;Alan F. Hamlet

286
Citations
Urban heat islands in humid and arid climates: role of urban form and thermal properties in Colombo, Sri Lanka and Phoenix, USA

Rohinton Emmanuel;Harindra J.S. Fernando

258
Citations
Urban fluid mechanics : Air circulation and contaminant dispersion in cities

H.J.S. Fernando;S.M. Lee;J. Anderson;M. Princevac

255
Citations
Oscillating grids as a source of nearly isotropic turbulence

I. P. D. De Silva;H. J. S. Fernando

251
Citations
The diffusive regime of double-diffusive convection

D.E. Kelley;H.J.S. Fernando;A.E. Gargett;J. Tanny

232
Citations
Effects of rotation on convective turbulence

Harindra J. S. Fernando;Rui-Rong Chen;Don L. Boyer

213
Citations
Flow, turbulence, and pollutant dispersion in urban atmospheresa)

H. J. S. Fernando;D. Zajic;S. Di Sabatino;R. Dimitrova

210
Citations
The MATERHORN: Unraveling the Intricacies of Mountain Weather

H. J. S. Fernando;E. R. Pardyjak;S. Di Sabatino;F. K. Chow

209
Citations
Stratified flow past a sphere

Q. Lin;W. R. Lindberg;D. L. Boyer;H. J. S. Fernando

205
Citations
The Nature, Theory, and Modeling of Atmospheric Planetary Boundary Layers

Alexander A. Baklanov;Branko Grisogono;Robert Bornstein;Larry Mahrt

195
Citations
Turbulence structure near a sharp density interface

Imad A. Hannoun;Harindra J. S. Fernando;E. John List

192
Citations
The Perdigão: Peering into Microscale Details of Mountain Winds

H. J. S. Fernando;J. Mann;J. M. L. M. Palma;Julie K. Lundquist

177
Citations
Forecasting PM10 in metropolitan areas: Efficacy of neural networks.

H.J.S. Fernando;M.C. Mammarella;G. Grandoni;P. Fedele

176
Citations
Vertical Mixing and Transports through a Stratified Shear Layer

E. J. Strang;H. J. S. Fernando

175
Citations
Sri Lanka Field Survey after the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

James Goff;Philip L.-F. Liu;Bretwood Higman;Robert Morton;Robert Morton

172
Citations
A CFD Model for Simulating Urban Flow and Dispersion

Jong-Jin Baik;Jae-Jin Kim;Harindra J. S. Fernando

163
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrey A. Grachev Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Ashish Sharma University of New South Wales

Silvana Di Sabatino University of Bologna

Alan F. Hamlet University of Notre Dame

Christopher W. Fairall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Byron Blomquist University of Colorado Boulder

Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research

Rex Britter MIT

Sergej Zilitinkevich Finnish Meteorological Institute

Dara Entekhabi MIT

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