Hamid Moradkhani Alton N. Scott Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · Director, Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research · The University of Alabama

Publications

Scholarly work by Dr. Hamid Moradkhani and members of the research group, spanning hydrologic modeling, drought monitoring and forecasting, climate variability, and extreme events and flood modeling.

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A complete author listing is maintained on the researcher’s Google Scholar profile and is linked below. The entries on this page are grouped by topic to reflect the main directions of work published by the group.

This publications page collects scholarly work from Dr. Hamid Moradkhani and the members of his research group at the University of Alabama, where he serves as Alton N. Scott Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research. The entries are organized by subject area rather than presented as a single chronological bibliography, making it easier to see how individual papers contribute to each of the group's main directions in hydrology and water resources research.

The first major theme is drought, covering probabilistic drought monitoring and forecasting, with work published in outlets such as the Journal of Hydrometeorology. These studies reflect a central aim of the group: turning observational and modeled data into quantitative assessments of water availability over time, including the use of ensemble and multi-model approaches to express uncertainty in predictions and to translate forecast probabilities into information that is useful for water management decisions.

A second theme addresses climate variability and extreme events, including flood modeling and the characterization of events whose consequences for human populations depend on factors such as exposure, vulnerability, and risk. This line of work connects hydrologic and meteorological analysis with the computational methods the group emphasizes, such as model downscaling, data assimilation, Bayesian inference, and post-processing techniques that improve the reliability of simulated extremes.

The page also points readers toward the researcher's Google Scholar profile for a complete author listing, while the grouped entries here serve as a curated view of representative work. Taken together, the publications illustrate a group that sets computational methods alongside physical understanding, aiming to advance prediction of complex hydrologic behavior and to support sustainable management of water resources under conditions of uncertainty.

Selected Publications by Topic

Drought Modeling and Monitoring

  • Probabilistic drought monitoring and forecasting

    Journal of HydrometeorologyDrought modeling and forecasting

    Tags: drought modeling, probabilistic forecasting, uncertainty analysis

  • Interactive drought type maps and drought recovery with water use efficiency

    Water Resources ResearchDrought characterization

    Tags: drought recovery, water use efficiency, interactive maps

  • Multivariate-based integrated drought monitoring: the USDM and IDI approach

    Journal of HydrometeorologyIntegrated drought indices

    Tags: USDM, IDI, multivariate monitoring

  • Drought vulnerability, risk and mortality analysis

    Environmental Research LettersImpact assessment

    Tags: vulnerability, risk, mortality

Hydrologic Modeling, Climate and Extreme Events

  • Data assimilation and remote sensing for hydrologic prediction

    Remote Sensing of EnvironmentData assimilation

    Tags: data assimilation, remote sensing, machine learning

  • Downscaled soil moisture active passive (SMAP) product at 1-km resolution using machine learning

    Remote Sensing of EnvironmentSoil moisture

    Tags: SMAP, machine learning, data analytics

  • Bayesian multimodeling and meteorological and hydrological postprocessing

    Water Resources ResearchUncertainty analysis

    Tags: Bayesian multimodeling, postprocessing, uncertainty

  • Extreme events and flood modeling under climate variability and change

    Journal of HydrologyFlood modeling

    Tags: flood modeling, extreme events, climate variability

  • High-performance computing for water resources system analysis

    Computational GeosciencesHigh-performance computing

    Tags: high-performance computing, water resources systems

Complete Author Listing

For the full set of journal articles, conference papers and book chapters published by Dr. Moradkhani and his students and collaborators, see the researcher’s Google Scholar profile:

Google Scholar — Hamid Moradkhani

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