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Sarith Mahanama is affiliated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Environmental Science, with a notable focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The research contributions of Sarith Mahanama cover a diverse range of topics, such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Recent published papers by Sarith Mahanama demonstrate engagement with a variety of environmental and climatological issues. Notable works include:

  • Changes in land use enhance the sensitivity of tropical ecosystems to fire-climate extremes, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • The 2019-2020 Australian Drought and Bushfires Altered the Partitioning of Hydrological Fluxes, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Warming, increase in precipitation, and irrigation enhance greening in High Mountain Asia, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Mechanisms Associated with Daytime and Nighttime Heat Waves over the Contiguous United States, 2020, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Towards effective drought monitoring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: implications from assimilating leaf area index and soil moisture into the Noah-MP land surface model for Morocco, 2022, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

The venues in which Sarith Mahanama frequently publishes indicate a concentration in high-impact environmental science journals and interdisciplinary earth system publications. These include:

  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, illustrating a networked approach to their scientific work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sujay V. Kumar
  • Randal D. Koster
  • Sebastian Apers
  • Gabriëlle De Lannoy
  • Kristi R. Arsenault

Best Publications

  • Assessment and Enhancement of MERRA Land Surface Hydrology Estimates

    Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster;Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Barton A. Forman

  • Contribution of land surface initialization to subseasonal forecast skill: first results from a multi-model experiment.

    R. D. Koster;S. P.P. Mahanama;S. P.P. Mahanama;T.J. Yamada;T.J. Yamada;T.J. Yamada;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • Comparison and assimilation of global soil moisture retrievals from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR‐E) and the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR)

    Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster;Ping Liu;Ping Liu;Sarith P. P. Mahanama;Sarith P. P. Mahanama

  • The Second Phase of the Global Land–Atmosphere Coupling Experiment: Soil Moisture Contributions to Subseasonal Forecast Skill

    R. D. Koster;S. P. P. Mahanama;S. P. P. Mahanama;S. P. P. Mahanama;T. J. Yamada;T. J. Yamada;T. J. Yamada;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • Assessment of MERRA-2 Land Surface Hydrology Estimates

    Rolf H. Reichle;Clara S. Draper;Clara S. Draper;Q. Liu;Manuela Girotto;Manuela Girotto

  • Land Surface Precipitation in MERRA-2

    Rolf H. Reichle;Q. Liu;Randal D. Koster;Clara S. Draper

  • Skill in streamflow forecasts derived from large-scale estimates of soil moisture and snow

    Randal D. Koster;Sarith P. P. Mahanama;Sarith P. P. Mahanama;Ben Livneh;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture product using in situ measurements

    Rolf H. Reichle;Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy;Qing Liu;Joseph V. Ardizzone

  • The Rhône-Aggregation Land Surface Scheme Intercomparison Project: An Overview

    Aaron A. Boone;F. Habets;J. Noilhan;D. Clark

  • Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e) - 1: Experiment description and summary intercomparisons

    Laura C. Bowling;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Bart Nijssen;Bart Nijssen;L. Phil Graham

  • Version 4 of the SMAP Level-4 Soil Moisture algorithm and data product

    Rolf H. Reichle;Qing Liu;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

  • Radiative forcing and temperature response to changes in urban albedos and associated CO 2 offsets

    Surabi Menon;Hashem Akbari;Hashem Akbari;Sarith Mahanama;Igor Sednev

  • Multimodel Ensemble Reconstruction of Drought over the Continental United States

    Aihui Wang;Theodore J. Bohn;Sarith P. Mahanama;Randal D. Koster

  • Assimilation of Satellite-Derived Skin Temperature Observations into Land Surface Models

    Rolf H. Reichle;Sujay V. Kumar;Sarith P. P. Mahanama;Randal D. Koster

  • Simulation of high latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin : PILPS phase 2(e) - 2: Comparison of model results with observations

    Bart Nijssen;Bart Nijssen;Laura C. Bowling;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Douglas B. Clark

  • An updated treatment of soil texture and associated hydraulic properties in a global land modeling system

    Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Randal D. Koster;Rolf H. Reichle;Sarith P. P. Mahanama

  • Soil Moisture, Snow, and Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts in the United States

    Sarith Mahanama;Ben Livneh;Randal Koster;Dennis Lettenmaier

  • Verification of land-atmosphere coupling in forecast models, reanalyses and land surface models using flux site observations.

    Paul A. Dirmeyer;Liang Chen;Jiexia Wu;Chul Su Shin

  • Contribution of soil moisture retrievals to land data assimilation products

    Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;W. T. Crow;R. D. Koster;H. O. Sharif

  • Flash Drought as Captured by Reanalysis Data: Disentangling the Contributions of Precipitation Deficit and Excess Evapotranspiration

    R. D. Koster;S. D. Schubert;H. Wang;S. P. Mahanama

  • Land Surface Controls on Hydroclimatic Means and Variability

    Randal D. Koster;Sarith P. P. Mahanama

Frequent Co-Authors

Randal D. Koster
Randal D. Koster Goddard Space Flight Center
Rolf H. Reichle
Rolf H. Reichle Goddard Space Flight Center
Wade T. Crow
Wade T. Crow Agricultural Research Service
Peter R. Colarco
Peter R. Colarco Goddard Space Flight Center
Sujay V. Kumar
Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Siegfried D. Schubert
Siegfried D. Schubert Goddard Space Flight Center
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Michael G. Bosilovich
Michael G. Bosilovich Goddard Space Flight Center

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