Publications & Presentations

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Journal Papers

  • The role of hydrological initial conditions on atmospheric river floods in the Russian River basin, Qian Cao, Ali Mehran, F Martin Ralph, Dennis P Lettenmaier, Journal of Hydrometeorology , DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-19-0030.1 
  • Compounding effects of human activities and climatic changes on surface water availability in Iran, Samaneh Ashraf, Amir AghaKouchak, Ali Nazemi, Ali Mirchi, Mojtaba Sadegh, Hamed R Moftakhari, Elmira Hassanzadeh, Chi-Yuan Miao, Kaveh Madani, Mohammad Mousavi Baygi, Hassan Anjileli, Davood Reza Arab, Hamid Norouzi, Omid Mazdiyasni, Marzi Azarderakhsh, Aneseh Alborzi, Mohammad J Tourian, Ali Mehran, Alireza Farahmand, Iman Mallakpour, Climatic Change 152, 379–391 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2336-6
  • Climate-informed environmental inflows to revive a drying lake facing meteorological and anthropogenic droughts, Aneseh Alborzi, Ali Mirchi, Hamed Moftakhari, Iman Mallakpour, Sara Alian, Ali Nazemi, Elmira Hassanzadeh, Omid Mazdiyasni, Samaneh Ashraf, Kaveh Madani, Hamid Norouzi, Marzi Azarderakhsh, Ali Mehran, Mojtaba Sadegh, Andrea Castelletti, Amir AghaKouchak, Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (2018) 084010, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad246
  • Tracking an atmospheric river in a warmer climate: From water vapor to economic impacts,  Francina Dominguez, Sandy Dall'erba, Shuyi Huang, Andre Avelino, Ali Mehran, Huancui Hu, Arthur Schmidt, Lawrence Schick, and Dennis Lettenmaier, Earth Syst. Dynam., 9, 249–266, 2018 https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-249-2018
  • Spatial variability of wet troposphere delays over inland water bodies, Ali Mehran, Elizabeth A Clark, Dennis P Lettenmaier, Journal of Geophysical Research:Atmospheres,122, 11,329–11,346.  https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026525
  • Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves, Omid Mazdiyasni, Amir AghaKouchak, Steven J Davis, Shahrbanou Madadgar, Ali Mehran, Elisa Ragno, Mojtaba Sadegh, Ashmita Sengupta, Subimal Ghosh, CT Dhanya, Mohsen Niknejad, Science Advances • 7 Jun 2017 • Vol 3, Issue 6 • DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700066
  • A hybrid framework for assessing socioeconomic drought: Linking climate variability, local resilience, and demand, Ali Mehran, Omid Mazdiyasni, Amir AghaKouchak, J. Geophys.Res. Atmos.,120, 7520–7533, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD023147
  • Aral Sea syndrome desiccates Lake Urmia: call for action, Amir AghaKouchak, Hamid Norouzi, Kaveh Madani, Ali Mirchi, Marzi Azarderakhsh, Ali Nazemi, Nasrin Nasrollahi, Alireza Farahmand, Ali Mehran, Elmira Hasanzadeh, J. Great Lakes Res. (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2014.12.007
  • Seasonal and regional biases in CMIP5 precipitation simulations, Zhu Liu, Ali Mehran, Thomas J Phillips, Amir AghaKouchak, Climate Research, Vol. 60: 35–50, 2014, doi: 10.3354/cr01221
  • Evaluation of CMIP5 continental precipitation simulations relative to satellite‐based gauge‐adjusted observations, Ali Mehran, Amir AghaKouchak, Thomas J Phillips, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 1695–1707, doi:10.1002/2013JD021152
  • Capabilities of satellite precipitation datasets to estimate heavy precipitation rates at different temporal accumulations, Ali Mehran, Amir AghaKouchak, Hydrol. Process. 28, 2262–2270 (2014), DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9779
  • Extended contingency table: Performance metrics for satellite observations and climate model simulations, A AghaKouchak, A Mehran, Water Resour. Res., 49, 7144–7149, doi:10.1002/wrcr.20498.
  • Systematic and random error components in satellite precipitation data sets, Amir AghaKouchak, Ali Mehran, Hamidreza Norouzi, Ali Behrangi, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39,L09406, doi:10.1029/2012GL051592

Book Chapters

  • Multi-sensor remote sensing of drought from space, Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 V. Lakshmi (ed.), Remote Sensing of Hydrological Extremes, Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43744-6_11
     

Invited Talks and Conference Presentations

  • Assessing the potential of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission for Reservoir Bathymetry Estimation, Ali Mehran, Dongyue Li, Dennis P Lettenmaier, AGU Fall 2020
  • The role of hydrological initial conditions on Atmospheric River floods along the US West Coast in a warming climate., Qian Cao, Alexander Gershunov, Marty Ralph, Dennis Lettenmaier, AGU Fall 2019