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Abedeh Abdolghafoorian

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Contact Info

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    Name
    Dr. Abedeh Abdolghafoorian
    Job Title
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Office Number
    Research Hall, Room 260

    Affiliations

    Centers

    • Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)

    Research Areas

    • Atmospheric Science
    • Climate Science
    • Earth Observation
    • Modeling

    Education

    PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, George Washington University, (2019)

    MS, Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, (2010)

    BS, Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, (2007)

     

    About

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a substantial experience on land surface modeling, data assimilation, remote sensing, statistical modeling, and spatio-temporal uncertainty quantification.

    Research interest: Earth and atmospheric sciences, Land-atmosphere interactions, Hydroclimatology.

    Selected Publications

    • https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018WR024580
    • Abdolghafoorian, Abedeh, and Leila Farhadi. "Estimation of Surface Turbulent Fluxes from Land Surface Moisture and Temperature via a Variational Data Assimilation Framework." Water Resources Research (2019).
    • https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JHM-D-16-0097.1
    • Abdolghafoorian, Abedeh, et al. "Characterizing the effect of vegetation dynamics on the bulk heat transfer coefficient to improve variational estimation of surface turbulent fluxes." Journal of Hydrometeorology 18.2 (2017): 321-333.
    • https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7466075
    • Abdolghafoorian, Abedeh, and Leila Farhadi. "Uncertainty quantification in land surface hydrologic modeling: Toward an integrated variational data assimilation framework." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 9.6 (2016): 2628-2637.

    Contact Info

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    Name
    Dr. Abedeh Abdolghafoorian
    Job Title
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Office Number
    Research Hall, Room 260