Research Interests
- Regional and global drivers of climate variability and change.
- Climatic drivers of bird migration.
- Climate change impacts on water security and conflicts.
- Impacts of aerosols on precipitation processes.
- Atmospheric rivers.
- Spatio-temporal variability of past and future climate.
- Analysis of satellite precipitation products.
Modeling the Hydrological Cycle
Johns Hopkins University, Co-taught with Ben Zaitchik, Spring 2015.
Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, 2011
Florida State University
M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2003
Amirkabir University of Technology
B.S., Agricultural-Water Engineering, 2000
Urmia University
- NASA Robert H. Goddard Honor Award for Science, 2022
- Scientific Achievement Award, NASA Global Modeling & Assimilation Office, 2021
Refereed
Razavi, S., D. M. Hannah, A. Elshorbagy, et al. 2022. "Coevolution of Machine Learning and Process‐based Modelling to Revolutionize Earth and Environmental Sciences: A Perspective."
Hydrological Processes,
[10.1002/hyp.14596]
Dezfuli, A., S. Razavi, and B. F. Zaitchik. 2022. "Compound Effects of Climate Change on Future Transboundary Water Issues in the Middle East."
Earth's Future,
10
(4):
[10.1029/2022ef002683]
Dezfuli, A., K. G. Horton, B. Zuckerberg, S. D. Schubert, and M. G. Bosilovich. 2022. "Continental Patterns of Bird Migration Linked to Climate Variability."
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,
103
(2):
E536-E547
[10.1175/bams-d-21-0220.1]
Dezfuli, A., M. G. Bosilovich, and D. Barahona. 2021. "A Dusty Atmospheric River Brings Floods to the Middle East."
Geophysical Research Letters,
48
(23):
[10.1029/2021gl095441]
Thomas, N. P., M. G. Bosilovich, A. B. Marquardt Collow, et al. 2020. "Mechanisms Associated with Daytime and Nighttime Heat Waves over the Contiguous United States."
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology,
59
(11):
1865-1882
[10.1175/jamc-d-20-0053.1]
Orbe, C., L. Van Roekel, Á. F. Adames, et al. 2020. "Representation of Modes of Variability in Six U.S. Climate Models."
Journal of Climate,
33
(17):
7591-7617
[10.1175/jcli-d-19-0956.1]
Dezfuli, A. 2019. "Rare atmospheric river caused record floods across the Middle East."
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,
101
(4):
BAMS-D-19-0247.1
[10.1175/bams-d-19-0247.1]
Rougé, C., A. Tilmant, B. Zaitchik, A. Dezfuli, and M. Salman. 2018. "Identifying Key Water Resource Vulnerabilities in Data‐Scarce Transboundary River Basins."
Water Resources Research,
54
(8):
5264-5281
[10.1029/2017wr021489]
Nicholson, S. E., D. Klotter, A. K. Dezfuli, and L. Zhou. 2018. "New Rainfall Datasets for the Congo Basin and Surrounding Regions."
Journal of Hydrometeorology,
19
(8):
1379-1396
[10.1175/jhm-d-18-0015.1]
Dezfuli, A. K., C. M. Ichoku, G. J. Huffman, et al. 2017. "Validation of IMERG precipitation in Africa."
Journal of Hydrometeorology,
18
(2017):
2817-2825
[10.1175/JHM-D-17-0139.1]
Dezfuli, A. K., C. M. Ichoku, K. I. Mohr, and G. J. Huffman. 2017. "Precipitation characteristics in West and East Africa from satellite and in situ observations."
Journal of Hydrometeorology,
18
(6):
1799-1805
[10.1175/jhm-d-17-0068.1]
Dezfuli, A. 2017. "Climate of Western and Central Equatorial Africa."
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science,
[10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.511]
Dezfuli, A. K., B. F. Zaitchik, H. S. Badr, J. Evans, and C. D. Peters-Lidard. 2017. "The Role of Low-Level, Terrain-Induced Jets in Rainfall Variability in Tigris–Euphrates Headwaters."
Journal of Hydrometeorology,
18
(3):
819-835
[10.1175/jhm-d-16-0165.1]
Badr, H. S., A. K. Dezfuli, B. F. Zaitchik, and C. D. Peters-Lidard. 2016. "Regionalizing Africa: Patterns of Precipitation Variability in Observations and Global Climate Models."
Journal of Climate,
29
(24):
9027-9043
[10.1175/jcli-d-16-0182.1]
Rivero-Calle, S., C. E. Del Castillo, A. Gnanadesikan, et al. 2016. "Interdecadal Trichodesmium variability in cold North Atlantic waters."
Global Biogeochemical Cycles,
[10.1002/2015gb005361]
Ichoku, C., L. T. Ellison, K. E. Willmot, et al. 2016. "Biomass burning, land-cover change, and the hydrological cycle in Northern sub-Saharan Africa."
Environmental Research Letters,
11
(9):
095005
[10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/095005]
Badr, H. S., B. F. Zaitchik, and A. K. Dezfuli. 2015. "A tool for hierarchical climate regionalization."
Earth Science Informatics,
8
(4):
949--958.
Dezfuli, A. K., B. F. Zaitchik, and A. Gnanadesikan. 2015. "Regional atmospheric circulation and rainfall variability in south equatorial Africa."
Journal of Climate,
28
(2):
809--818.
Badr, H., B. Zaitchik, and A. Dezfuli. 2014. "HiClimR: Hierarchical climate regionalization."
Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).[Available online at http://cran. r-project. org/package5HiClimR.],
Berhane, F., B. Zaitchik, and A. Dezfuli. 2014. "Subseasonal analysis of precipitation variability in the Blue Nile River Basin."
Journal of climate,
27
(1):
325--344.
Nicholson, S. E., and A. K. Dezfuli. 2013. "The relationship of rainfall variability in western equatorial Africa to the tropical oceans and atmospheric circulation. Part I: The boreal spring."
Journal of climate,
26
(1):
45--65.
Dezfuli, A. K., and S. E. Nicholson. 2013. "The relationship of rainfall variability in western equatorial Africa to the tropical oceans and atmospheric circulation. Part II: The boreal autumn."
Journal of Climate,
26
(1):
66--84.
Nicholson, S. E., A. K. Dezfuli, and D. Klotter. 2012. "A Two-Century Precipitation Dataset for the Continent of Africa."
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,
93
(8):
1219-1231
[10.1175/bams-d-11-00212.1]
Nicholson, S. E., D. Klotter, and A. K. Dezfuli. 2012. "Spatial reconstruction of semi-quantitative precipitation fields over Africa during the nineteenth century from documentary evidence and gauge data."
Quaternary Research,
78
(1):
13--23.
Dezfuli, A. K., and S. E. Nicholson. 2011. "A note on long-term variations of the African easterly jet."
International Journal of Climatology,
31
(13):
2049--2054.
Dezfuli, A. K. 2011. "Spatio-temporal variability of seasonal rainfall in western equatorial Africa."
Theoretical and applied climatology,
104
(1-2):
57--69.
Razavi Toosi, S., J. M. Samani, and A. Koorehpazan Dezfuli. 2010. "Ranking water transfer projects using fuzzy methods."
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Water Management,
163
(4):
189--197.
Dezfuli, A. K., M. Karamouz, and S. Araghinejad. 2010. "On the relationship of regional meteorological drought with SOI and NAO over southwest Iran."
Theoretical and applied climatology,
100
(1-2):
57--66.
Non-Refereed
Dezfuli, A. 2022. "Congo Basin, a neglected world heritage."
Nature Africa
[Full Text (Link)]
[10.1038/d44148-022-00100-0]
Dezfuli, A. 2022. "Studying the Middle East’s sky rivers."
Nature Middle East
[10.1038/nmiddleeast.2022.8]
Koorehpazan Dezfuli, A. 2005. "Principles of Fuzzy Set Theory and its Applications in the Modeling of Water Engineering Problems (In Persian, reprinted in 2007; 2015)."
Tehran, Iran: Jahad-Daneshgahi of Amirkabir University of Technology Publisher,
ISBN: 964-8737-11-8.
Invited
Continental patterns of bird migration linked to climate variability
6
/
2022
NASA / GSFC, Science & Exploration Directorate (SED) Seminar
Climate Change Risks and Scenarios: What is at stake in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin?
5
/
2022
Virtual Panel Discussion at UCLA
Climate change and extreme events in the Middle East: mechanisms and impacts
12
/
2021
World Bank
Continental patterns of bird migration linked to climate variability
11
/
2021
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Health Community of Practice
Atmospheric rivers bring floods and dust to the Middle East
9
/
2021
SSAI Live Lecture Lab
Atmospheric rivers bring floods and dust to the Middle East
4
/
2021
UMBC
Global and local aspects of climate variability in equatorial Africa.
4
/
2017
The Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), UMD, College Park.
Global and local aspects of climate variability in equatorial Africa.
2
/
2017
Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine.
Driving factors of rainfall variability in equatorial Africa.
5
/
2016
Climate & Radiation Laboratory Seminar Series, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt.
Regional atmospheric circulation and rainfall variability in equatorial Africa.
7
/
2013
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University.
Atmospheric circulation in equatorial Africa.
5
/
2013
The Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Tutorial workshop on Applications of Fuzzy Sets Theory in Hydrology.
12
/
2005
Water Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
NASA Panelist at Awesome Con event, discussing “Bridging Climate and Art”
6
/
2022
-
6
/
2022
Washington DC
Refereed
Razavi, S., D. M. Hannah, A. Elshorbagy, et al. 2022. "Coevolution of Machine Learning and Process‐based Modelling to Revolutionize Earth and Environmental Sciences: A Perspective."
Hydrological Processes
[10.1002/hyp.14596]
Dezfuli, A., S. Razavi, and B. F. Zaitchik. 2022. "Compound Effects of Climate Change on Future Transboundary Water Issues in the Middle East."
Earth's Future
10
(4):
[10.1029/2022ef002683]
Dezfuli, A., K. G. Horton, B. Zuckerberg, S. D. Schubert, and M. G. Bosilovich. 2022. "Continental Patterns of Bird Migration Linked to Climate Variability."
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
103
(2):
E536-E547
[10.1175/bams-d-21-0220.1]
Dezfuli, A., M. G. Bosilovich, and D. Barahona. 2021. "A Dusty Atmospheric River Brings Floods to the Middle East."
Geophysical Research Letters
48
(23):
[10.1029/2021gl095441]
Thomas, N. P., M. G. Bosilovich, A. B. Marquardt Collow, et al. 2020. "Mechanisms Associated with Daytime and Nighttime Heat Waves over the Contiguous United States."
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
59
(11):
1865-1882
[10.1175/jamc-d-20-0053.1]
Orbe, C., L. Van Roekel, Á. F. Adames, et al. 2020. "Representation of Modes of Variability in Six U.S. Climate Models."
Journal of Climate
33
(17):
7591-7617
[10.1175/jcli-d-19-0956.1]
Dezfuli, A. 2019. "Rare atmospheric river caused record floods across the Middle East."
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
101
(4):
BAMS-D-19-0247.1
[10.1175/bams-d-19-0247.1]
Rougé, C., A. Tilmant, B. Zaitchik, A. Dezfuli, and M. Salman. 2018. "Identifying Key Water Resource Vulnerabilities in Data‐Scarce Transboundary River Basins."
Water Resources Research
54
(8):
5264-5281
[10.1029/2017wr021489]
Nicholson, S. E., D. Klotter, A. K. Dezfuli, and L. Zhou. 2018. "New Rainfall Datasets for the Congo Basin and Surrounding Regions."
Journal of Hydrometeorology
19
(8):
1379-1396
[10.1175/jhm-d-18-0015.1]
Dezfuli, A. K., C. M. Ichoku, G. J. Huffman, et al. 2017. "Validation of IMERG precipitation in Africa."
Journal of Hydrometeorology
18
(2017):
2817-2825
[10.1175/JHM-D-17-0139.1]
Dezfuli, A. K., C. M. Ichoku, K. I. Mohr, and G. J. Huffman. 2017. "Precipitation characteristics in West and East Africa from satellite and in situ observations."
Journal of Hydrometeorology
18
(6):
1799-1805
[10.1175/jhm-d-17-0068.1]
Dezfuli, A. 2017. "Climate of Western and Central Equatorial Africa."
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
[10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.511]
Dezfuli, A. K., B. F. Zaitchik, H. S. Badr, J. Evans, and C. D. Peters-Lidard. 2017. "The Role of Low-Level, Terrain-Induced Jets in Rainfall Variability in Tigris–Euphrates Headwaters."
Journal of Hydrometeorology
18
(3):
819-835
[10.1175/jhm-d-16-0165.1]
Badr, H. S., A. K. Dezfuli, B. F. Zaitchik, and C. D. Peters-Lidard. 2016. "Regionalizing Africa: Patterns of Precipitation Variability in Observations and Global Climate Models."
Journal of Climate
29
(24):
9027-9043
[10.1175/jcli-d-16-0182.1]
Rivero-Calle, S., C. E. Del Castillo, A. Gnanadesikan, et al. 2016. "Interdecadal Trichodesmium variability in cold North Atlantic waters."
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
[10.1002/2015gb005361]
Ichoku, C., L. T. Ellison, K. E. Willmot, et al. 2016. "Biomass burning, land-cover change, and the hydrological cycle in Northern sub-Saharan Africa."
Environmental Research Letters
11
(9):
095005
[10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/095005]
Badr, H. S., B. F. Zaitchik, and A. K. Dezfuli. 2015. "A tool for hierarchical climate regionalization."
Earth Science Informatics
8
(4):
949--958
Dezfuli, A. K., B. F. Zaitchik, and A. Gnanadesikan. 2015. "Regional atmospheric circulation and rainfall variability in south equatorial Africa."
Journal of Climate
28
(2):
809--818
Badr, H., B. Zaitchik, and A. Dezfuli. 2014. "HiClimR: Hierarchical climate regionalization."
Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).[Available online at http://cran. r-project. org/package5HiClimR.]
Berhane, F., B. Zaitchik, and A. Dezfuli. 2014. "Subseasonal analysis of precipitation variability in the Blue Nile River Basin."
Journal of climate
27
(1):
325--344
Nicholson, S. E., and A. K. Dezfuli. 2013. "The relationship of rainfall variability in western equatorial Africa to the tropical oceans and atmospheric circulation. Part I: The boreal spring."
Journal of climate
26
(1):
45--65
Dezfuli, A. K., and S. E. Nicholson. 2013. "The relationship of rainfall variability in western equatorial Africa to the tropical oceans and atmospheric circulation. Part II: The boreal autumn."
Journal of Climate
26
(1):
66--84
Nicholson, S. E., A. K. Dezfuli, and D. Klotter. 2012. "A Two-Century Precipitation Dataset for the Continent of Africa."
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
93
(8):
1219-1231
[10.1175/bams-d-11-00212.1]
Nicholson, S. E., D. Klotter, and A. K. Dezfuli. 2012. "Spatial reconstruction of semi-quantitative precipitation fields over Africa during the nineteenth century from documentary evidence and gauge data."
Quaternary Research
78
(1):
13--23
Dezfuli, A. K., and S. E. Nicholson. 2011. "A note on long-term variations of the African easterly jet."
International Journal of Climatology
31
(13):
2049--2054
Dezfuli, A. K. 2011. "Spatio-temporal variability of seasonal rainfall in western equatorial Africa."
Theoretical and applied climatology
104
(1-2):
57--69
Razavi Toosi, S., J. M. Samani, and A. Koorehpazan Dezfuli. 2010. "Ranking water transfer projects using fuzzy methods."
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Water Management
163
(4):
189--197
Dezfuli, A. K., M. Karamouz, and S. Araghinejad. 2010. "On the relationship of regional meteorological drought with SOI and NAO over southwest Iran."
Theoretical and applied climatology
100
(1-2):
57--66
Non-Refereed
Dezfuli, A. 2022. "Congo Basin, a neglected world heritage."
Nature Africa
[Full Text (Link)]
[10.1038/d44148-022-00100-0]
Dezfuli, A. 2022. "Studying the Middle East’s sky rivers."
Nature Middle East
[10.1038/nmiddleeast.2022.8]
Koorehpazan Dezfuli, A. 2005. "Principles of Fuzzy Set Theory and its Applications in the Modeling of Water Engineering Problems (In Persian, reprinted in 2007; 2015)."
