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List of works by Amir AghaKouchak

A Diagnostic Framework for Understanding Climatology of Tails of Hourly Precipitation Extremes in the United States

A Framework for Global Multicategory and Multiscalar Drought Characterization Accounting for Snow Processes

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

A Multi-Model Nonstationary Rainfall-Runoff Modeling Framework: Analysis and Toolbox

scholarly article in Water Resources Management, vol. 33 no. 9, June 2019

A Multivariate Conditional Probability Ratio Framework for the Detection and Attribution of Compound Climate Extremes

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A century of observations reveals increasing likelihood of continental-scale compound dry-hot extremes

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

A dataset on human perception of and response to wildfire smoke

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

A framework for mechanistic flood inundation forecasting at the metropolitan scale

scientific article published in 2022

A generalized framework for process-informed nonstationary extreme value analysis

A high resolution coupled hydrologic–hydraulic model (HiResFlood-UCI) for flash flood modeling

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A hybrid statistical-dynamical framework for meteorological drought prediction: Application to the southwestern United States

scholarly article by Shahrbanou Madadgar et al published July 2016 in Water Resources Research

A large-scale methane model by incorporating the surface water transport

A near real-time satellite-based global drought climate data record

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A new interhemispheric teleconnection increases predictability of winter precipitation in southwestern US.

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

A new normal for streamflow in California in a warming climate: Wetter wet seasons and drier dry seasons

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A typology of compound weather and climate events

A vantage from space can detect earlier drought onset: an approach using relative humidity

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A water-energy balance approach for multi-category drought assessment across globally diverse hydrological basins

scholarly article by Baoqing Zhang et al published January 2019 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Addressing Pluvial Flash Flooding through Community-Based Collaborative Research in Tijuana, Mexico

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Advanced Concepts on Remote Sensing of Precipitation at Multiple Scales

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Advancing the Remote Sensing of Precipitation

Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

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Amplified warming of droughts in southern United States in observations and model simulations

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Analyzing High‐Frequency Soil Respiration Using a Probabilistic Model in a Semiarid, Mediterranean Climate

Anthropogenic Drought: Definition, Challenges, and Opportunities

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Anthropogenic climate change impacts exacerbate summer forest fires in California

scientific article published in 2023

Anthropogenic drought dominates groundwater depletion in Iran

scientific article published on 28 April 2021

Approaching 80 years of snow water equivalent information by merging different data streams

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Are we ready for more dam removals in the United States?

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Assessing the Impacts of Different WRF Precipitation Physics in Hurricane Simulations

Australia's drought: lessons for California

scientific article published in March 2014

Author Correction: Flexibility and intensity of global water use

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Author Correction: Future climate risk from compound events

scholarly article published in Nature Climate Change

Biases Beyond the Mean in CMIP6 Extreme Precipitation: A Global Investigation

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Broad Consistency Between Satellite and Vegetation Model Estimates of Net Primary Productivity Across Global and Regional Scales

COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Changes in precipitation extremes in the Beijing metropolitan area during 1960–2012

Changes in the exposure of California’s levee-protected critical infrastructure to flooding hazard in a warming climate

Chapter 3 : Water. Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: The Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II

scholarly article published 2018

Classification of mechanisms, Climatic Context, Areal Scaling, and Synchronization of floods: the hydroclimatology of floods in the Upper Paraná River Basin, Brazil

Classification of mechanisms, climatic context, areal scaling, and synchronization of floods: the hydroclimatology of floods in the Upper Paraná River basin, Brazil

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Climate Extremes and Compound Hazards in a Warming World

Climate-informed environmental inflows to revive a drying lake facing meteorological and anthropogenic droughts

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Climate‐Induced Changes in the Risk of Hydrological Failure of Major Dams in California

scientific article published in 2019

Climatic or regionally induced by humans? Tracing hydro-climatic and land-use changes to better understand the Lake Urmia tragedy

Collaborative Modeling With Fine‐Resolution Data Enhances Flood Awareness, Minimizes Differences in Flood Perception, and Produces Actionable Flood Maps

Compound hazards yield Louisiana flood

scientific article published in September 2016

Compounding Impacts of Human-Induced Water Stress and Climate Change on Water Availability

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Compounding effects of human activities and climatic changes on surface water availability in Iran

Compounding effects of sea level rise and fluvial flooding

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Cumulative hazard: The case of nuisance flooding

Data and analysis toolbox for modeling the nexus of food, energy, and water

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Determination of water required to recover from hydrological drought: Perspective from drought propagation and non-standardized indices

Domino effect of climate change over two millennia in ancient China’s Hexi Corridor

Drought threatens California's levees

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Droughts in Amazonia: Spatiotemporal Variability, Teleconnections, and Seasonal Predictions

scientific article published in December 2017

Enabling incremental adaptation in disadvantaged communities: polycentric governance with a focus on non-financial capital

Evaluating options for balancing the water-electricity nexus in California: Part 2--greenhouse gas and renewable energy utilization impacts

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Evaluating options for balancing the water-electricity nexus in California: part 1--securing water availability

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Evidence of anthropogenic impacts on global drought frequency, duration, and intensity

Exploring Trends through “RainSphere”: Research data transformed into public knowledge

Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

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Flexibility and intensity of global water use

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Flood Forecasting and Inundation Mapping Using HiResFlood-UCI and Near-Real-Time Satellite Precipitation Data: The 2008 Iowa Flood

From Rain Tanks to Catchments: Use of Low-Impact Development To Address Hydrologic Symptoms of the Urban Stream Syndrome

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

Future Population Exposure to Daytime and Nighttime Heat Waves in South Asia

Future climate risk from compound events

GHWR, a multi-method global heatwave and warm-spell record and toolbox

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Geometrical Characterization of Precipitation Patterns

Geoscientists, Who Have Documented the Rapid and Accelerating Climate Crisis for Decades, Are Now Pleading for Immediate Collective Action

scientific article published in 2021

Global Observations and CMIP6 Simulations of Compound Extremes of Monthly Temperature and Precipitation

Global Precipitation Trends across Spatial Scales Using Satellite Observations

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system

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Global snow drought hot spots and characteristics

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Global warming and changes in risk of concurrent climate extremes: Insights from the 2014 California drought

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Global, Regional, and Megacity Trends in the Highest Temperature of the Year: Diagnostics and Evidence for Accelerating Trends.

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Heat wave Intensity Duration Frequency Curve: A Multivariate Approach for Hazard and Attribution Analysis

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

How Has Human-Induced Climate Change Affected California Drought Risk?

scholarly article by Linyin Cheng et al published January 2016 in Journal of Climate

How do natural hazards cascade to cause disasters?

scientific article published in Nature

How well do CMIP5 climate simulations replicate historical trends and patterns of meteorological droughts?

Hydrologic evaluation of satellite precipitation products over a mid-size basin

Impacts of Future Weather and Climate Extremes on United States Infrastructure

Impacts of ozone and climate change on yields of perennial crops in California

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Implications of hydropower variability from climate change for a future, highly-renewable electric grid in California

Improving Precipitation Estimation Using Convolutional Neural Network

scholarly article by Baoxiang Pan et al published 22 March 2019 in Water Resources Research

Increased nuisance flooding along the coasts of the United States due to sea level rise: Past and future

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Increasing exposure of energy infrastructure to compound hazards: cascading wildfires and extreme rainfall

Increasing heat waves and warm spells in India, observed from a multiaspect framework

scientific article published on 25 March 2017

Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves.

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Influence of irrigation on land hydrological processes over California

article published in 2014

Integrated data could augment resilience

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Intensified Likelihood of Concurrent Warm and Dry Months Attributed to Anthropogenic Climate Change

scientific article published in 2022

Latitudinal heterogeneity and hotspots of uncertainty in projected extreme precipitation

Lessons from the Oroville dam.

scientific article published on 16 March 2017

Linking statistical and hydrodynamic modeling for compound flood hazard assessment in tidal channels and estuaries

Making SDGs Work for Climate Change Hotspots

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Mountain snowpack response to different levels of warming

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Multihazard Scenarios for Analysis of Compound Extreme Events

scholarly article by Mojtaba Sadegh et al published 5 June 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Multivariate Copula Analysis Toolbox (MvCAT): Describing dependence and underlying uncertainty using a Bayesian framework

article by Mojtaba Sadegh et al published June 2017 in Water Resources Research

Natural Disasters Are Prejudiced Against Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Populations: The Lack of Publicly Available Health-Related Data Hinders Research at the Cusp of the Global Climate Crisis

Non-stationary extreme value analysis in a changing climate

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Nonstationary precipitation Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves for infrastructure design in a changing climate

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Northern Hemisphere drought risk in a warming climate

Object-Based Assessment of Satellite Precipitation Products

On the key role of droughts in the dynamics of summer fires in Mediterranean Europe.

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Open Science: Open Data, Open Models, …and Open Publications?

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Precipitation Prediction Skill for the West Coast United States: From Short to Extended Range

Precise Temporal Disaggregation Preserving Marginals and Correlations (DiPMaC) for Stationary and Nonstationary Processes

Preparing for proactive dam removal decisions

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Probabilistic Assessment of Extreme Heat Stress on Indian Wheat Yields Under Climate Change

scientific article published in 2021

Probabilistic estimates of drought impacts on agricultural production

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Probabilistic hazard assessment of contaminated sediment in rivers

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Probabilistic modeling of crop-yield loss risk under drought: a spatial showcase for sub-Saharan Africa

Projecting nuisance flooding in a warming climate using generalized linear models and Gaussian processes

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Quantifying Anthropogenic Stress on Groundwater Resources

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Quantifying Changes in Future Intensity‐Duration‐Frequency Curves Using Multimodel Ensemble Simulations

scientific article published in March 2018

Quantifying climate change impacts on hydropower generation and implications on electric grid greenhouse gas emissions and operation

scientific article published on 09 June 2016

Quantifying increased fire risk in California in response to different levels of warming and drying

Rapid urbanization and changes in spatiotemporal characteristics of precipitation in Beijing metropolitan area

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Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

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Reply to: A critical examination of a newly proposed interhemispheric teleconnection to Southwestern US winter precipitation

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Review of snow cover variation over the Tibetan Plateau and its influence on the broad climate system

Satellite-based remote sensing estimation of precipitation for early warning systems

Semi-parametric and Parametric Inference of Extreme Value Models for Rainfall Data

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Skilful forecasting of global fire activity using seasonal climate predictions.

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Stochastic modeling of suspended sediment load in alluvial rivers

Substantial increase in concurrent droughts and heatwaves in the United States

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Temperature impacts on the water year 2014 drought in California

article by Shraddhanand Shukla et al published 2 June 2015 in Geophysical Research Letters

Thank You Earth's Future Reviewers in 2019

Thank you to Earth's Future Reviewers in 2018

The adaptive benefits of agricultural water markets in California

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The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

scientific article published in 2022

The hydrogeochemistry of shallow groundwater from Lut Desert, Iran: The hottest place on Earth

The rise of compound warm-season droughts in Europe

Translating Uncertain Sea Level Projections Into Infrastructure Impacts Using a Bayesian Framework

scholarly article by Hamed Moftakhari et al published 11 December 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Understanding and managing connected extreme events

Unraveling the Role of Temperature and Rainfall on Active Fires in the Brazilian Amazon Using a Nonlinear Poisson Model

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Unravelling Diurnal Asymmetry of Surface Temperature in Different Climate Zones

scientific article published on 4 August 2017

Using GRACE Satellite Gravimetry for Assessing Large-Scale Hydrologic Extremes

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Using GRACE satellite observations for separating meteorological variability from anthropogenic impacts on water availability

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Water and climate: Recognize anthropogenic drought

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Water shortages worsened by reservoir effects

What Is Nuisance Flooding? Defining and Monitoring an Emerging Challenge