In Review / Preparation

  • Ali Sarhadi, Raphaël Rousseau-Rizzi, and Kerry Emanuel, "Physics-based Risk Assessment of Compound Flooding from Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones in a Warming Climate", Earth's Future, under review.

  • Ali Sarhadi, and Reza Modarres, “Increasing Volatility of Extreme Daily Precipitation Across the Contiguous United States”, Geophysical Research Letter, under review

  • Ali Sarhadi, and Kerry Emanuel, “Climate Change Amplifies Hurricane-Induced Economic Risks in New York City”, under prep.

Peer-Reviewed 


  • Ali Sarhadi, Raphaël Rousseau-Rizzi, Kyle Mandli, Jeffrey Neal, Michael Wiper, Monika Feldmann, and Kerry Emanuel, (2023) “Climate change contributions to increasing compound flooding risk in New York City”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(2), E337–E356. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Reza Modarres, Sergio Vicente Serrano, (2023), “Dynamic compound droughts in the contiguous United States”, Journal of Hydrology, 626, 130129. Read Article

  • Zia Mehrabi, …, Ali Sarhadi, ..., (2022), “Research priorities for global food security under extreme events”, One Earth, 5, 756-766. Read Article

  • Michael Goss, Daniel L Swain, Ali Sarhadi, Crystal A Kolden, John T Abatzoglou, A. Park Williams, Noah Diffenbaugh, (2020), “Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California”, Environmental Research Letter, 15, 094016. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, María C. Ausín, Michael Wiper, Danielle Touma, Noah Diffenbaugh, (2018), “Multi-dimensional risk in a non-stationary climate: joint probability of increasingly severe warm and dry conditions”, Science Advances, 4(11), eaau3487. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Eric D. Soulis, (2017), “Time-varying extreme rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves in a changing climate”, Geophysical Research Letter, 44(5), 2454-2463. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Donald H. Burn, Ge Yang, Ali Ghodsi, (2017), “Advances in projection of climate change impacts using supervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques”, Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-016-3145-0. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Concepcion Ausin, Michael Wiper, (2016), “A new time-varying concept of risk in a changing climate”, Scientific Reports, 6:35755 | DOI: 10.1038/srep35755. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Donald H. Burn, Concepcion Ausin, Michael P. Wiper, (2016), “Time-varying nonstationary multivariate risk analysis using a dynamic Bayesian copula”, Water Resources Research, Vol: 52, 2327–2349, doi:10.1002/2015WR018525. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Donald H. Burn, Fiona Johnson, Raj Mehrotra, Ashish Sharma, (2016), “Water resources climate change projections using supervised nonlinear and multivariate soft computing techniques”, Journal of Hydrology, Vol: 536, 119-132. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Reza Modarres, Donald Burn, (2016), “Changes of extreme drought and flood events in Iran”, Global and Planetary Change, Vol 144, 67-81. Read Article

  • Eric D. Soulis, Ali Sarhadi, Tinel, M. Suthar, (2016), “Extreme precipitation time trends in Ontario, 1960-2010”, Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10969. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Saeed Soltani, (2016), “Determination of environmental water requirements of the Gavkhuni wetland, Iran: A comparison of ecological and hydrological approaches”, Journal of Wetlands Biodiversity, Vol:6, 47-60. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Richard Kelly, Reza Modarres, (2014), “Snow water equivalent time-series forecasting in Ontario, Canada, in link to large atmospheric circulations”, Hydrological Processes, volume 28, No: 16, 4640-4653 Read Article

  • Esmaeel Dodangeh, Saeed Soltani, Ali Sarhadi, J.T. Shiau, (2014), "Application of l-moments and Bayesian inference for low-flow regionalization in Sefidroud basin, Iran", Hydrological Processes, Vol: 28, No: 4, pp: 1663-1676. Read Article

  • Saeed Soltani, Ali Sarhadi, (2013), "Determination of water requirements of the Gavkhuni wetland, Iran: A hydrological approach", Arid Environments, Volume 98, November 2013, Pages 27–40. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Majid Hydarizadeh, (2013), "Regional frequency analysis and spatial pattern characterization of dry spells by l-moment in Iran", International Journal of Climatology, Vol: 34, No: 3, pp: 835-848. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Saeed Soltani, Reza Modarres, (2012), "Probabilistic flood inundation mapping at ungauged rivers: A link of GIS techniques and frequency analysis", Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 458-459, pp:68-86. Read Article

  • Ali Sarhadi, Reza Modarres (2011), "Flood seasonality-based regionalization methods: A data-based comparison", Hydrological Processes, Vol. 25, No. 23, pp: 3613–3624. Read Article

  • Reza Modarres, Ali Sarhadi, (2010), "Statistically-based regionalization of rainfall climates of Iran", Global and Planetary Change, Vol. 75, pp: 67-75, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.10.009. Read Article

  • Reza Modarres, Ali Sarhadi, (2009), "Frequency distribution of extreme hydrologic drought of southwestern Iran", Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE), 15(4), 255–264. Read Article

  • Reza Modarres, Ali Sarhadi, (2009), "Rainfall trend analysis of Iran in the last half of the 20th century", Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, Vol. 114, D03101, doi:10.1029/2008JD010707. Read Article