ResearchGate, Google Scholar

Peer reviewed Publications

*Student, ** Undergraduate student

Under Review/Revisions/Submissions

1. Jiang, Q. Xu, Z, Bhattarai, N. and 15 coauthors including Liu, J., Metacoupling for Sustainable Development Worldwide (revised version under review).

2. Bhattarai N, Kustas WP, D’Urso G, Gao F, and 11 coauthors, Evaluating the synergy of Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 spectral bands for monitoring crop water status in California vineyards. 

3. Xu, Z, Chen X., Jiang, Q., Wu, X. Bhattarai, N., Mullen J., 11 other coauthors. Performance, Imbalance, and Coordination of Global Sustainable Development. 

4. Bhattarai, N., Shayeghi, A.*, Jain, M., 2024. Spatiotemporal distribution and recent trends in crop water use across India. NASA LUCC Remote Sensing of Land Use/Cover Changes in South/Southeast Asian Countries (CRC Press). - BOOK CHAPTER (Forthcoming Summer 2024).

5. Wagle P, Shayeghi A*, Bhattarai, N, Northup BK, Baral R, Moffet C, Gunter SA, & Baral R. Assessing Evapotranspiration in Rainfed and Irrigated Alfalfa in the US Southern Great Plains using Eddy Covariance Measurements and OpenET Products. 

Published

2024

38. He L, Bhattarai N, Pokhrel Y, Jia N, Ye G, Song C, Xu Z, Wu S, Li Z. 2024. Dynamics of land cover changes and carbon emissions driven by large dams in China. iScience 27:109516 [Link]. 

2023

37. Bhattarai, N, Lobell DB, Singh B, Fishman R, Kustas WP, Pokhrel Y, and Jain M. 2023. Warming temperatures exacerbate groundwater depletion rates in India. Science Advances, 35, 9, eadi1401. [Link].

* Media: NYTimes, The Hindu, The Times of India, The Economic Times, The Weather Channel

36. Hu, T, Mallick, K, Hitzelberger P, Didry Y, Boulet, G, Szantoi Z, Koetz B, Alonso, I, Pascolini-Campbell, M, Halverson, G, Cawse-Nicholson K, Hulley G, Hook, S, Bhattarai, N., Olioso A, Roujean JL, Gamet P, Su, B, 2023. Evaluating European ECOSTRESS Hub Evapotranspiration Products Retrieved from Three Structurally Contrasting SEB Models over Europe. Water Resources Research, 59, e2022WR034132 [Link].

35.  Zhou Y, Wang H, Liu, Z, Bhattarai N, Paudel J, & Qiu, H. 2023. Can solar photovoltaic plants reduce carbon emissions & increase income in China? Environmental Science & Technology, 57, 49, 20583–20594 [Link]

34. Javed T, Bhattarai N, Acharya BS, Zhang J, 2023. Monitoring agricultural drought in Peshawar Valley, Pakistan using long-term satellite & meteorological data. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. [Link]

33.  Dhal, S, Wyatt, B, Mahanta, M, Bhattarai, N, Sharma, S, Rout, T, Saud, P, Acharya, BS 2023. Internet of Things (IoT) in Digital Agriculture: An Overview. Agronomy Journal (Link).

2022

32. Mallick, K., Baldocchi, D., Jarvis, A., Hu, T., Trebs, I., Sulis, M., Bhattarai, N., Bossung, C., Eid, Y., Cleverly, J., Beringer, J., Woodgate, W., Silberstein, R., Hinko-Najera, N., Meyer, W.S., Ghent, D., Szantoi, Z., Boulet, G., Kustas, W.P., 2022. Insights into the Aerodynamic versus Radiometric Surface Temperature Debate in Thermal-based Evaporation Modeling. Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2021GL097568 [Link] .

31. Bai, Y., Bhattarai, N., Mallick K., Zhang, S., & Zhang, J. 2022. Thermally derived evapotranspiration from the Surface Temperature Initiated Closure (STIC) model improves cropland GPP estimates under dry conditions. Remote Sensing of Environment 271: 112901 [Link].

30. Bhattarai N., Guido D’Urso, W. P. Kustas, N. Bambach-Ortiz, Kyle R. Knipper, M. Anderson, F. Gao, M.M. Alsina, M. Aboutalebi, L. Mckee, J. G. Alfieri, A. J. McElrone, J. H. Prueger, & Oscar R. Belfiore. 2022. Influence of modeling domain and meteorological forcing data on daily evapotranspiration estimates from a Shuttleworth-Wallace model using Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data. Irrigation Science 40, 497-513  [Link].

29. Jiang, Q., Bhattarai, N., Pahlow, M., & Xu., Z., 2022. Environmental Sustainability and Footprints of Global Aquaculture. Resources Conservation & Recycling 180: 106183  [Link].

28. Xu, G., Dong H., Xu. Z., & Bhattarai, N. 2022. China can reach carbon neutrality before 2050 by improving economic development quality. Energy 243:12083.

27. Singh, K.K., Bhattarai, N., & Vukomanovic, J., 2022. Landscape-scale hydrologic response of plant invasion relative to native vegetation in urban forests. Science of the Total Environment, 802:149903 [Link].

2021

26. Bhattarai, N.*, Pollack, A.**+, Lobell, D., Fishman, R., Singh, B., Dar, A., & Jain, M. 2021. The impact of groundwater depletion on agricultural production in India. Environmental Research Letters 16:085003. [Link].

Media: Mentioned in BBC News

25. Jain M., Fishman, R., Mondal, P., Galford, G.L., Bhattarai, N., Naeem, S., Lall, U., Singh, B., & DeFries, R.S. 2021. Groundwater depletion will reduce cropping intensity in India. Science Advances 7: eabd2849 [Link]. 

Media: CNN, AAAS, NPR, Earther.

24. Trebs, I, Mallick, K., Bhattarai, N., Sulis, M., Cleverly J, Woodgate W, Silberstein, R., Najera, Hinko-Najera, N., Beringer J, Su Z., & Boulet G. 2021. The role of aerodynamic resistance in thermal remote sensing-based evapotranspiration models. Remote Sensing of Environment 264: 112602 [Link].

23. Bai, Y., Zhang, S., Bhattarai, N., Mallick, K., Qi, L, Tang, L., Im, J., Guo, L., & Zhang, J. 2021. On the use of machine learning algorithms to improve cropland evapotranspiration across a wide environmental gradient. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 288-289: 208308 [Link].

22. Javed, T., Zhang, J., Bhattarai, N., Zhang, S., Rashid, S., Yun, B., Ahmad, S., Henchiri, M., Kamran, M. 2021. Drought characterization across agricultural regions of China using standardized precipitation and vegetation water supply indices. Journal of Cleaner Production, 313: 127866 [Link].

21. Rao, P., Zhou, W., Bhattarai, N., Srivastava A., Singh, B., Poonia, S., Lobell, D., and Jain, M. 2021. Using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Planet Imagery to Map Crop Type of Smallholder Farms. Remote Sensing, 13: 870 [Link].

20. Khand, K., Bhattarai, N., Taghvaeian, S., Wagle, P., Gowda, P., & Alderman, P. 2021. Modeling evapotranspiration of winter wheat using contextual and pixel-based surface energy balance models. Transactions of ASABE [Link].

2020

19. Xu, Z., Chen, X., Liu, J., Zhang, Y., Chau, S., Bhattarai, N., Wang, Y., Li, Y., Li, Y., & Connor, T. 2020. Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food–energy water–CO2 nexus across metacoupled systems. Nature Communications 11, 5837. [Link]

18. Niraula, R., Saleh, A., Bhattarai, N., Bajgain, R., Kannan, N., Osie, E., Gowda, P., Neel, J., Xiao, X., & Basara, J. 2020. Understanding the effects of pasture type and stocking rate on the hydrology of Southern Great Plains. Science of the Total Environment, 708: 134873. [Link]

2019

17. Bhattarai, N., Mallick, K., Stuart, J.**, Vishwakarma, B.D., Niraula, R., Sen, S., & Jain, M. 2019. An automated multi-model evapotranspiration mapping framework using remotely sensed and reanalysis data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 229: 69-92. [Link]

16. Cohn, A., Bhattarai, N., Campolo, J., Crompton, O., Dralle, D., Duncan, J., & Thompson, S., 2019. Forest loss in Brazil increases maximum temperatures within 50km. Environmental Research Letters, 14: 084047. [Link] 

Media: phys.org, Scientific American, Newsroom

15. Kafley, H., Lamichane, B.R., Maharjan, R., Khadka, M., Bhattarai, N., & Gompper, M.E., 2019. Tiger and leopard co-occurrence: intraguild interactions in response to human and livestock disturbance, Basic and Applied Ecology.[Link]

14. Bhattarai, N. & Liu, T. 2019. LandMOD ET Mapper: a new Matlab-based graphical user interface (GUI) for automated implementation of SEBAL and METRIC models in thermal imagery. Environmental Modelling and Software, 118: 76-82. [Link]

13. Kafley, H., Lamichane, B.R., Maharjan, R., Thapaliya, B., Bhattarai, N., Khadka, M., & Gompper, M.E. 2019. Estimating Prey Abundance and Distribution from camera Trap data using bionomical mixture models. European Journal of Wildlife Research 65: 77. [Link]

2018

12. Mallick, K., Wandera, L., Bhattarai, N., Hostache, R., Chormanski J., & Kleniewska, M. 2018. A critical evaluation on the role of aerodynamic and canopy-surface conductance parameterization in SEB and SVAT models for simulating evapotranspiration: a case study in the Upper Biebrza National Park wetland. Water, 10 (12): 1753. [Link]

11. Bhattarai, N., Mallick, K., Brunsell, N. A., Sun, G., & Jain, M. 2018. Regional evapotranspiration from an image-based implementation of the Surface Temperature Initiated Closure (STIC1.2) model and its validation across an aridity gradient in the conterminous United States, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22: 2311-2341. [Link]

2017

10. Niraula, R., Meixner, T., Dominguez, F., Bhattarai, N., Rodell, M., Ajami, H., Gochis, D., & Castro, C. 2017. How might recharge change under projected climate change in the western US? Geophysical Research Letters, 44: 10407-10418.[Link] 

   Media: UA News, Science Daily, phys.org, AAAS and Eurekalert, technology.org, futurity.org

9. Bhattarai, N., Wagle, P., Gowda, P., & Kakani, V. 2017. Utility of remote sensing-based surface energy balance models to track water stress in rain-fed switchgrass under dry and wet conditions. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 133:128-141. [Link]

8. Richards, P., Cohn, A., Arima, E., VanWey, L., & Bhattarai, N. 2017. Enforcement evasion highlights need for independent satellite monitoring for forest governance. Conservation Letters, 10:497-498. [Link]

7. Bhattarai, N., Quackenbush, L.J., Im, Jungho, & Shaw, S.B., 2017. A new optimized algorithm for automating endmember pixel selection in the SEBAL and METRIC models. Remote Sensing of Environment,196:178-192. [Link]

6. Wagle, P., Bhattarai, N.+, Gowda, P., & Kakani, V. 2017. Performance of five surface energy balance models for estimating daily evapotranspiration in high biomass sorghum. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 128:192-203. [Link]

5. Richards, P. Arima, E., VanWey, L, Cohn, A., & Bhattarai, N. 2017. Are Brazil’s Deforesters Avoiding Detection? Conservation Letters, 10:470-476. [Link]

Media: Nature Climate Change; Mongabay, phys.org, eurekalert, Brown University, Nature World News,Technology.org

2016 and before

4. Bhattarai, N., Shaw, S. B., Quackenbush, L. J., Im, J., & Niraula, R. 2016. Evaluating five remote sensing-based single-source surface energy balance models for estimating daily evapotranspiration rates in a humid subtropical climate. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 49:75-86 [Link]

3. Bhattarai, N., Quackenbush, LJ., Dougherty, M., & Marzen, L. 2015. A simple Landsat–MODIS fusion approach for monitoring seasonal evapotranspiration at 30 m spatial resolution. International Journal of Remote Sensing 36:115-143. [Link]

2. Shaw, Stephen B., Marrs, J.**, Bhattarai, N., & Quackenbush, LJ. 2014. Longitudinal Study of the Impacts of Land Cover Change on Hydrologic Response in Four Mesoscale Watersheds in New York State, USA. Journal of Hydrology, 519:12-22. [Link]

1. Bhattarai, N., Dougherty, M., Marzen, L., & Kalin, L. 2012.Validation of evaporation estimates from a modified surface energy balance algorithm for land model in the south-eastern US. Remote sensing letters, 3:511-519. [Link]

+indicates shared first authorships

Selected Conference Papers/Editorial

1.   Mallick K Baldocchi, et al. with Bhattarai N 2023. Consort of Conductances: The Missing Biophysical Link in Thermal Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Evaporation and Inclusion for the Future LST Missions. European Space Agency- ESRIN, Italy (submitted).

2.   Reddy PK, Bhattarai N, & Sen S, 2023. Understanding Evapotranspiration Variability between the Eastern and Western Himalayas. EGU General Assembly 2023 [Link]

3.   Belfiore OR, Kustas WP, et al. with Bhattarai N 2023. Estimating evapotranspiration by using canopy conductance models with Sentinel-2 data in irrigated crops in California and Australia.  A European vision for hydrological observations and experimentation, Naples, Italy, 12–15 Jun 2023, GC8-Hydro-58 [Link].

4.   Bhattarai N, Kustas WP, et al. 2021. Synergistic use of spectral information from Landsat and Sentinel-2 data for modeling near real-time crop water status across California vineyards. AGU Fall meetings 2021 [Link]

5.   Mallick K, Hu T, Yun B, Bhattarai N, et al. 2021 Thermal and shortwave infrared remote sensing of ecosystem processes: Opportunities, synergies, and challenges. IEEE InGARSS 2021 (Peer-reviewed) [Link]

6.   Bhattarai N & Wagle P, Recent advances in remote sensing of evapotranspiration. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(21):4260. [link]

7.   Kustas WP, Bhattarai N, et al. Daily evapotranspiration estimates from application of Shuttleworth-Wallace model with Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data over California vineyards. AGU Fall meetings 2021 [Link]

8.   Bhattarai N, Mallick K, & Jain M, 2019. Sensitivity of four contextual remote sensing-based SEB models to spatial domain, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-3/W6, 3-7 (Peer-reviewed).