Rafael L. Bras

Rafael L. Bras

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

H-index: 91

North America-United States

About Rafael L. Bras

Rafael L. Bras, With an exceptional h-index of 91 and a recent h-index of 43 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializes in the field of Hydrology.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Quantifying and valuing irrigation in energy and water limited agroecosystems

Dataset on the global distribution of shallow groundwater

Modeling Landslides in Puerto Rico with a Distributed Eco-hydrological Model

Conditional Probability Distribution of Soil Moisture Using Global Satellite-based Precipitation Measurements

Modeling shallow landslides with a distributed eco-hydrological model. Case studies in Puerto Rico

The impact of hurricane disturbances on a tropical forest: implementing a palm plant functional type and hurricane disturbance module in ED2-HuDi V1. 0

Forest structure and composition are critical to hurricane mortality

Estimating Irrigation Amounts using SMAP Observations: Irrigation Impact on Crop Productivity in Energy and Water Limited Systems

Rafael L. Bras Information

University

Position

Professor Professor Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus

Citations(all)

29219

Citations(since 2020)

6167

Cited By

26304

hIndex(all)

91

hIndex(since 2020)

43

i10Index(all)

244

i10Index(since 2020)

142

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Rafael L. Bras Skills & Research Interests

Hydrology

Top articles of Rafael L. Bras

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Quantifying and valuing irrigation in energy and water limited agroecosystems

Journal of Hydrology X

Mehmet Evren Soylu

Rafael L Bras

2024/1/1

Dataset on the global distribution of shallow groundwater

Data in Brief

Mehmet Evren Soylu

Rafael L Bras

2023/4/1

Modeling Landslides in Puerto Rico with a Distributed Eco-hydrological Model

Elisa Arnone

Leonardo V Noto

Rafael L Bras

2023

Conditional Probability Distribution of Soil Moisture Using Global Satellite-based Precipitation Measurements

Frontiers in Hydrology 2022

Navid Jadidoleslam

Mehmet Evren Soylu

Rafael L Bras

2022/6

Modeling shallow landslides with a distributed eco-hydrological model. Case studies in Puerto Rico

Frontiers in Hydrology 2022

Elisa Arnone

Leonardo Valerio Noto

Rafael L Bras

2022/6

The impact of hurricane disturbances on a tropical forest: implementing a palm plant functional type and hurricane disturbance module in ED2-HuDi V1. 0

Geoscientific Model Development

Jiaying Zhang

Rafael L Bras

Marcos Longo

Tamara Heartsill Scalley

2022/7/5

Forest structure and composition are critical to hurricane mortality

Forests

Jiaying Zhang

Tamara Heartsill-Scalley

Rafael L Bras

2022/1/28

Estimating Irrigation Amounts using SMAP Observations: Irrigation Impact on Crop Productivity in Energy and Water Limited Systems

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts

Mehmet Evren Soylu

Rafael L Bras

2022/12

Interfacing Signatures of Geomorphic and Hydrologic Processes Unveil Riparian Corridors: from Charles River to Puerto Rico Floodplains

Frontiers in Hydrology 2022

Fernando Nardi

Antonio Annis

Salvatore Grimaldi

Erkan Istanbulluoglu

Valeriy Yu Ivanov

...

2022/6

Capturing Irrigation Quantities from Satellite-based Soil Moisture and Precipitation Observations

Frontiers in Hydrology 2022

Navid Jadidoleslam

Mehmet Evren Soylu

Rafael L Bras

2022/6

Tree censuses at Bisley Experimental Watersheds before and after Hurricane Hugo

Jiaying Zhang

Tamara Heartsill Scalley

Rafael L Bras

2022

Future hurricanes will increase palm abundance and decrease aboveground biomass in a tropical forest

Geophysical Research Letters

Jiaying Zhang

Rafael L Bras

Marcos Longo

Tamara Heartsill Scalley

2022/10/16

Parsing Long-Term Tree Recruitment, Growth, and Mortality to Identify Hurricane Effects on Structural and Compositional Change in a Tropical Forest

Forests

Jiaying Zhang

Tamara Heartsill-Scalley

Rafael L Bras

2022/5/19

Enhancing the Spatial Resolution of SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals using a Robust Multivariate Empirical Orthogonal Function Method

Frontiers in Hydrology 2022

Kevin Daniel Beale

Justin K Romberg

Rafael L Bras

2022/6

A Robust Empirical Orthogonal Function Method for Enhancing the Spatial Resolution of SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts

Kevin Beale

Justin Romberg

Rafael Bras

2021/12

Implications of terrain resolution on modeling rainfall-triggered landslides using a TIN-based model

Environmental Modelling & Software

Elisa Arnone

Antonio Francipane

Yannis G Dialynas

Leonardo V Noto

Rafael L Bras

2021/7/1

Global shallow groundwater patterns from soil moisture satellite retrievals

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Mehmet Evren Soylu

Rafael L Bras

2021/11/4

Detecting shallow groundwater from spaceborne soil moisture observations

Water Resources Research

Mehmet E Soylu

Rafael L Bras

2021/2

Impact of Hurricane Disturbances and Climate Change on the Species Composition and Aboveground Biomass of a Tropical Rainforest in Puerto Rico

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts

Jiaying Zhang

Rafael Bras

Marcos Longo

Tamara Heartsill Scalley

2021/12

Quantifying Net Irrigation from SMAP Retrievals

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts

Mehmet Soylu

Navid Jadidoleslam

Rafael Bras

2021/12

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Co-Authors

H-index: 107
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

Princeton University

H-index: 103
Andrea Rinaldo

Andrea Rinaldo

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

H-index: 60
Enrique R. Vivoni

Enrique R. Vivoni

Arizona State University

H-index: 60
Elfatih A B Eltahir

Elfatih A B Eltahir

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

H-index: 46
Shafiqul Islam

Shafiqul Islam

Tufts University

H-index: 45
Dennis McLaughlin

Dennis McLaughlin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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