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Taha B. M. J. Ouarda

Areas of expertise

Statistical hydrometeorology , Climate-health links , Statistical models in the environment

  • Professor
  • Holder of Canada Research Chair in Statistical Hydroclimatology

Phone
418-654-3842

Email
taha.ouarda@ete.dev.inrs.ca

Eau Terre Environnement Research Centre

490 rue de la Couronne Street
Québec, Quebec  G1K 9A9
CANADA

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Research interests

Professor Ouarda’s work focuses on local and regional estimation of extreme hydrological events, hydrological forecasting, design of measurement networks, analysis of the spatial and temporal variability of hydrological variables, modelling of the impact of climate change on hydrometeorological variables, homogenization of data series, modelling of uncertainties, risk, and reliability in hydrology, analysis of water resource systems, flood damage estimation, and evolution of hydrological regimes.

Professor Ouarda also develops tools to assist in the design of hydraulic structures and in statistical hydrology in northern environments, mainly concerning the influence of ice cover on the design of upstream reservoirs or forebays and the analysis of hydrological variables in northern environments in a climate change context.

Publications

Al Yammahi, Aishah; Marpu, Prashanth Reddy & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2021). Modeling directional distributions of wind data in the United Arab Emirates at different elevations. Arabian J. Geosci., 14: Art. 774.

Alobaidi, Mohannad H.; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Marpu, Prashanth Reddy & Chebana, Fateh (2021). Diversity-driven ANN-based ensemble framework for seasonal low-flow analysis at ungauged sites. Adv. Water Resour., 147: Art. 103814.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103814

Desai, Shitanshu & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2021). Regional hydrological frequency analysis at ungauged sites with random forest regression. J. Hydrol., 594: Art. 125861.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125861

Ferchichi, Habiba; St-Hilaire, André; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Lévesque, Benoît (2021). Impact of the future coastal water temperature scenarios on the risk of potential growth of pathogenic Vibrio marine bacteria. Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci., 250: Art. 107094.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2020.107094

Lee, Taesam; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Seidou, Ousmane (2021). Characterizing and forecasting climate indices using time series models. Theor. Appl. Climatol., ONLINE.
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-280240/v1

Bahmani, Ramin; Solgi, Abazar & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2020). Groundwater level simulation using gene expression programming and M5 model tree combined with wavelet transform. Hydrol. Sci. J.J. Flood Risk Manage., 65 (8): 1430-1442.
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2020.1749762

Ben Alaya, Mohammed Ali; Ternynck, Camille S.; Dabo-Niang, Sophie; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2020). Change point detection of flood events using a functional data framework. Adv. Water Resour., 137: Art. 103522.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103522

Han, Xudong; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Rahman, Ataur; Haddad, Khaled; Mehrotra, Rajeshwar & Sharma, Ashish (2020). A network approach for delineating homogeneous regions in regional flood frequency analysis. Water Resour. Res., 56 (3): Art. e2019WR025910.
DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025910

Msilini, Amina; Masselot, Pierre & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2020). Regional frequencya analysis at ungauged sites with multivariate adaptive regression splines. J. Hydrometeorol., 21 (12): 2777-2792.
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-19-0213.1

Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Charron, Christian & St-Hilaire, André (2020). Uncertainty of stationary and nonstationary models for rainfall frequency analysis. Int. J. Climatol., 40 (4): 2373-2392.
DOI: 10.1002/joc.6339

Phanikumar, Devulapalli Venkata; Basha, Ghouse; Venkat Ratnam, M.; Kumar, Kondapalli Niranjan; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Pangaluru, Kishore (2020). Assessment of particulate matter concentration and gaseous pollutants in urban and rural regions over the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE. J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phy., 199: Art. 105217.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2020.105217

Rocio Gonzalez, Sanchez; Seliger, Roman; Fahl, Fernando; De Felice, Luca; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Farinosi, Fabio (2020). Freshwater use of the energy sector in Africa. Appl. Ener., 270: Art. 115171.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115171

Woldesellasse, Haile; Marpu, Prashanth Reddy & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2020). Long-term forecasting of wind speed in the UAE using nonlinear canonical correlation analysis (NLCCA). Arabian J. Geosci., 13 (18): Art. 962.
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-020-05981-9

Yan, Bixun; Chebana, Fateh; Masselot, Pierre; Campagna, Céline; Gosselin, Pierre; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Lavigne, Éric (2020). A cold-health watch and warning system, applied to the province of Quebec (Canada). Sci. Total Environ., 741: Art. 140188.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140188

Zounemat-Kermani, Mohammad; Ramezani-Charmahineh, Abdollah; Razavi, Reza; Alizamir, Meysam & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2020). Machine learning and water economy: a new approach to predicting dams water sales Revenue. Water Resour. Manage., 34: 1893-1911.
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-020-02529-0

Basha, Ghouse; Ratnam, Madineni Venkat; Kumar, Kondapalli Niranjan; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Kishore, Pangaluru & Velicogna, Isabella (2019). Long-term variation of dust episodes over the United Arab Emirates. J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phy., 187: 33-39.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2019.03.006

Curceac, Stelian; Ternynck, Camille S.; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Chebana, Fateh & Niang, Sophie Dabo (2019). Short-term air temperature forecasting using Nonparametric Functional Data Analysis and SARMA models. Environ. Model. Soft., 111: 394-408.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.09.017

Fathian, Farshad; Fakheri-Fard, Ahmad; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Dinpashoh, Yagob & Mousavi Nadoushani, S. Saeid (2019). Multiple streamflow time series modeling using VAR-MGARCH approach. Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk Asses., 33 (2): 407-425.
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-019-01651-9

Fathian, Farshad; Fard, Ahmad Fakheri; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Dinpashoh, Yagob & Nadoushani, S. S. Mousavi (2019). Modeling streamflow time series using nonlinear SETAR-GARCH models. J. Hydrol., 573: 82-97.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.03.072

Kumar, Kondapalli Niranjan; Phanikumar, Devulapalli Venkata; Sharma, S.; Basha, Ghouse; Naja, Manish; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Ratnam, Madineni Venkat & Kumar, Kishore K. (2019). Influence of tropical-extratropical interactions on the dynamics of extreme rainfall event: A case study from Indian region. Dynam. Atmosph. Oceans, 85: 28-40.
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2018.12.002

Lee, Taesam & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2019). Multivariate nonstationary oscillation simulation of climate indices with empirical mode decomposition. Water Resour. Res., 55 (6): 5033-5052.
DOI: 10.1029/2018WR023892

Masselot, Pierre; Chebana, Fateh; Lavigne, Éric; Campagna, Céline; Gosselin, Pierre & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2019). Toward an improved air pollution warning system in Quebec. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 16 (12): Art. 2095.
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16122095

Ouarda, T. B. M. J.; Yousef, Latifa A. & Charron, Christian (2019). Non-stationary Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves integrating information concerning teleconnections and climate change. Int. J. Climatol., 39 (4): 2306-2323.
DOI: 10.1002/joc.5953

Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Charron, Christian (2019). Changes in the distribution of hydro-climatic extremes in a non-stationary framework. Scientific Reports, 9: Art. 8104.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44603-7

Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Charron, Christian; Kumar, Kondapalli Niranjan; Phanikumar, Devulapalli Venkata; Molini, Annalisa & Basha, Ghouse (2019). Nonstationary warm spell frequency analysis integrating climate variability and change with application to the Middle East. Clim. Dynam., 53 (9-10): 5329-5347.
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-019-04866-2

Tsvetkova, Olga & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2019). Quasi-Monte Carlo technique in global sensitivity analysis of wind resource assessment with a study on UAE. J. Renew. Sustain. Energy, 11 (5): Art. 053303.
DOI: 10.1063/1.5120035

Ben Alaya, Mohammed Ali; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Chebana, Fateh (2018). Non-Gaussian spatiotemporal simulation of multisite daily precipitation: downscaling framework. Clim. Dynam., 50 (1-2): 1-15.
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3578-0

Ben-Romdhane, Haïfa; Al-Musallami Mohamed; Marpu, Prashanth Reddy; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Ghedira, Hosni (2018). Change detection using remote sensing in a reef environment of the UAE during the extreme event of El Niño 2015-2016. Int. J. Remote Sens., 39 (19): 6358-6382.
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1460502

Bin Ashoor, Badr; Giwa, Adewale; Hassan, Shadi W.; Ouarda, T. B. M. J. & Mhamdi, Adel (2018). Multivariable statistical analysis for enhancing performance indicators in direct contact membrane distillation. Desalin. Water Treat., 113: 45-56.
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2018.22295

Lee, Taesam & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2018). Conditional stochastic simulation model for spatial downscaling for assessing the effects of climate change on hydro-meteorological variables. Climatic Change, 150 (3-4): 163-180.
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-018-2276-1

Liosis, Nikolaos; Marpu, Prashanth Reddy; Pavlopoulos, Kosmas & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2018). Ground subsidence monitoring with SAR interferometry techniques in the rural area of Al Wagan, UAE. Remote Sens. Environ., 216: 276-288.
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.07.001

Masselot, Pierre; Chebana, Fateh; Bélanger, Diane; St-Hilaire, André; Abdous, Belkacem; Gosselin, Pierre & Ouarda, T. B. M. J. (2018). Aggregating the response in time series regression models, applied to weather-related cardiovascular mortality. Sci. Total Environ., 628-629: 217-225.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.014

Masselot, Pierre; Chebana, Fateh; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Bélanger, Diane; St-Hilaire, André & Gosselin, Pierre (2018). A new look at weather-related health impacts through functional regression. Scientific Reports, 8: Art. 15241.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33626-1

Masselot, Pierre; Chebana, Fateh; St-Hilaire, André; Belkacem, Abdous; Gosselin, Pierre & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2018). EMD-regression for modelling multi-scale relationships, and application to weather-related cardiovascular mortality. Sci. Total Environ., 612: 1018-1029.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.276

Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Charron, Christian (2018). On the mixture of wind speed distribution in a Nordic region. Energ. Convers. Manage., 174: 33-44.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2018.08.007

Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Charron, Christian (2018). Nonstationary Temperature-Duration-Frequency curves. Scientific Reports, 8: Art. 15493.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33974-y

Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Charron, Christian; Hundecha, Yeshewatesfa; St-Hilaire, André & Chebana, Fateh (2018). Introduction of the GAM model for regional low-flow frequency analysis at ungauged basins and comparison with commonly used approaches. Environ. Model. Soft., 109: 256-271.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.08.031

Rahman, A.; Charron, Christian; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Chebana, Fateh (2018). Development of regional flood frequency analysis techniques using generalized additive models for Australia. Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk Asses., 32 (1): 123-139.
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-017-1384-1

Requena, Ana I.; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2018). A functional framework for flow-duration-curve and daily streamflow estimation at ungauged sites. Adv. Water Resour., 113: 328-340.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.01.019

Requena, Ana I.; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Chebana, Fateh (2018). Low-flow frequency analysis at ungauged sites based on regionally estimated streamflows. J. Hydrol., 563: 523-532.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.06.016

Thiombiano, Alida Nadège; St-Hilaire, André; El Adlouni, Salah-Eddine & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2018). Nonlinear response of precipitation to climate indices using a non-stationary Poisson-generalized Pareto model: case study of southeastern Canada. Int. J. Climatol., 38 (S1): e875-e888.
DOI: 10.1002/joc.5415

Abdi, Amin; Hassanzadeh, Yousef & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Regional frequency analysis using growing neural gas network. J. Hydrol., 550: 92-102.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.04.047

Abdi, Amin; Hassanzadeh, Yousef; Talatahari, Siamak; Fakheri-Fard, Ahmad; Mirabbasi, Rasoul & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Multivariate regional frequency analysis: Two new methods to increase the accuracy of measures. Adv. Water Resour., 107: 290-300.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.07.006

Basha, Ghouse; Kishore, Pangaluru; Ratnam, Madineni Venkat; Jayaraman, A.; Kouchak, Amir Agha; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Velicogna, Isabella (2017). Historical and projected surface temperature over India during the 20th and 21st century. Scientific Reports, 7: Art. 2987.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02130-3

Ben Alaya, Mohammed Ali; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Multivariate missing data in hydrology – Review and applications. Adv. Water Resour., 110: 299-309.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.10.002

Chebana, Fateh; Ben Aissia, M. A. & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Multivariate shift testing for hydrological variables, review, comparison and application. J. Hydrol., 548: 88-103.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.02.033

Jung, Kichul; Marpu, Prashanth R. & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Impact of river network type on the time of concentration. Arabian J. Geosci., 10 (24): Art. 546.
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-017-3323-3

Jung, Kichul & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Classification of drainage network types in the arid and semi-arid regions of Arizona and California. J. Arid Environ., 144: 60-73.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2017.04.013

Kumar, Kondapalli Niranjan; Molini, Annalisa; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Rajeevan, Madhavan Nair (2017). North Atlantic controls on wintertime warm extremes and aridification trends in the Middle East. Scientific Reports, 7: Art. 12301.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12430-3

Lee, Teasam; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Yoon, Sunkwon (2017). KNN-based local linear regression for the analysis and simulation of low flow extremes under climatic influence. Clim. Dynam., 49 (9-10): 3493-3511.
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3525-0

Loutatidou, Savvina; Liosis, Nikos; Pohl, Robert; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Arafat, Hassan A. (2017). Wind-powered desalination for strategic water storage: Techno-economic assessment of concept. Desalination, 408: 36-51.
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2017.01.002

Masselot, Pierre; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Fast and direct nonparametric procedures in the L-moment homogeneity test. Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk Asses., 31 (2): 509-522.
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-016-1248-0

Naizghi, Mussie Seyoum & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Teleconnections and analysis of long-term wind speed variability in the UAE. Int. J. Climatol., 37 (1): 230-248.
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4700

Nasri, Bouchra; Bouezmarni, Taoufik; St-Hilaire, André & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Non-stationary hydrologic frequency analysis using B-spline quantile regression. J. Hydrol., 554: 532-544.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.09.035

Ouali, Dhouha; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Fully nonlinear statistical and machine learning approaches for hydrological frequency estimation at ungauged sites. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 9 (2): 1292-1306.
DOI: 10.1002/2016MS000830

Requena, Ana I.; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2017). Heterogeneity measures in hydrological studies: review and new developments. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21 (3): 1651-1668.
DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-1651-2017

Requena, Ana I.; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Chebana, Fateh (2017). Flood frequency analysis at ungauged sites based on regionally estimated streamflows. J. Hydrometeorol., 18 (9): 2521-2539.
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0143.1

Thiombiano, Alida Nadège; El Adlouni, Salah-Eddine; St-Hilaire, André; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & El Jabi, Nassir (2017). Nonstationary frequency analysis of extreme daily precipitation amounts in Southeastern Canada using a peaks-over-threshold approach. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 129 (1-2): 413-426.
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-016-1789-7

Ben Alaya, Mohammed Ali; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, T. B. M. J. (2016). Multisite and multivariable statistical downscaling using a Gaussian copula quantile regression model. Clim. Dynam., 47 (5-6): 1383-1397.
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2908-3

Durocher, Martin; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2016). On the prediction of extreme flood quantiles at ungauged locations with spatial copula. J. Hydrol., 533: 523-532.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.12.029

Durocher, Mathieu; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2016). Delineation of homogenous regions using hydrological variables predicted by projection pursuit regression. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20 (12): 4717-4729.
DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-4717-2016

Durocher, Mathieu; Lee, Tae Sam; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Chebana, Fateh (2016). Hybrid signal detection approach for hydro-meteorological variables combining EMD and cross-wavelet analysis. Int. J. Climatol., 36 (4): 1600-1613.
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4444

Gonzalez, Rocio; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Marpu, Prashanth R.; Allam, Mariam M.; Eltahir, Elfatih A. B. & Pearson, Simon (2016). Water budget analysis in arid regions, application to the United Arab Emirates. Water, 8 (9): Art. 415.
DOI: 10.3390/w8090415

Joshi, Deepti; St-Hilaire, André; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Daigle, Anik & Thiémonge, Nathalie (2016). Comparison of direct statistical and indirect statistical-deterministic frameworks in downscaling river low-flow indices. Hydrol. Sci. J., 61 (11): 1996-2010.
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2014.966719

Kishore, Pangaluru; Basha, Ghouse; Venkat Ratnam, M.; Velicogna, Isabella; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Narayana Rao, D. (2016). Evaluating CMIP5 models using GPS radio occultation COSMIC temperature in UTLS region during 2006-2013: twenty-first century projection and trends. Clim. Dynam., 47 (9-10): 3253-3270.
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3024-8

Kishore, Pangaluru; Velicogna, Isabella; Ratnam, Madineni Venkat; Basha, Ghouse; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Namboothiri, S. P.; Jiang, Jonathan H.; Sutterley, Tyler Clark; Madhavi, G. N. & Rao, S. Vijaya Bhaskara (2016). Sudden stratospheric warmings observed in the last decade by satellite measurements. Remote Sens. Environ., 184: 263-275.
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.07.008

Masselot, Pierre; Dabo-Niang, Sophie; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2016). Streamflow forecasting using functional regression. J. Hydrol., 538: 754-766.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.04.048

Nasri, Bouchra; Tramblay, Yves; El Adlouni, Salaheddine; Hertig, Elke & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2016). Atmospheric predictors for annual maximum precipitation in North Africa. J. Appl. Meteorol. Clim., 55 (4): 1063-1076.
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0122.1

Niranjan Kumar, K.; Phanikumar, Devulapalli Venkata; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Rajeevan, Madhavan N.; Naja, Manish & Shukla, Krishna Kumar (2016). Modulation of surface meteorological parameters by extratropical planetary-scale Rossby waves. Ann. Geophys., 34 (1): 123-132.
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-34-123-2016

Niranjan Kumar, Kondapalli; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Sandeep, Sukumaran & Ajayamohan, R. S. (2016). Wintertime precipitation variability over the Arabian Peninsula and its relationship with ENSO in the CAM4 simulations. Clim. Dynam., 47 (7-8): 2443-2454.
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-2973-2

Ouali, Dhouha; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2016). Quantile regression in regional frequency analysis: a better exploitation of the available information. J. Hydrometeorol., 17 (6): 1869-1883.
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0187.1

Ouali, Dhouha; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2016). Non-linear canonical correlation analysis in regional frequency analysis. Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk Asses., 30 (2): 449-462.
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-015-1092-7

Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Charron, Christian & Chebana, Fateh (2016). Review of criteria for the selection of probability distributions for wind speed data and introduction of the moment and L-moment ratio diagram methods, with a case study. Energ. Convers. Manage., 124: 247-265.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2016.07.012

Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Charron, Christian; Marpu, Prashanth R. & Chebana, Fateh (2016). The generalized additive model for the assessment of the direct, diffuse, and global solar irradiances using SEVIRI images, with application to the UAE. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens., 9 (4): 1553-1566.
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2522764

Shin, Ju-Young; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Lee, Taesam (2016). Heterogeneous mixture distributions for modeling wind speed, application to the UAE. Renew. Energ., 91: 40-52.
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.01.041

Ternynck, Camille S.; Ben Alaya, Mohammed Ali; Chebana, Fateh; Dabo-Niang, Sophie & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2016). Streamflow hydrograph classification using functional data analysis. J. Hydrometeorol., 17: 327-344.
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0200.1

Wazneh, Hussein; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2016). Identification of hydrological neighborhoods for regional flood frequency analysis using statistical depth functio. Adv. Water Resour., 94: 251-263.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.05.013

Alobaidi, M. H.; Marpu, P. R.; Ouarda, T. B. M. J. & Chebana, F. (2015). Regional frequency analysis at ungauged sites using a two-stage resampling generalized ensemble framework. Adv. Water Resour., 84: 103-111.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.07.019

Basha, G.; Kishore, P.; Venkat Ratnam, M.; Ouarda, T. B. M. J.; Velicogna, I. & Sutterley, T. (2015). Vertical and latitudinal variation of the intertropical convergence zone derived using GPS radio occultation measurements. Remote Sens. Environ., 163: 262-269.
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.024

Basha, G.; Marpu, P. R. & Ouarda, T. B. M. J. (2015). Tropospheric temperature climatology and trends observed over the Middle East. J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phy., 133: 79-86.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2015.07.019

Basha, G.; Ouarda, T. B. M. J. & Marpu, P. R. (2015). Long-term projections of temperature, precipitation and soil moisture using non-stationary oscillation processes over the UAE region. Int. J. Climatol., 35 (15): 4606-4618.
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4310

Basha, G.; Phanikumar, D. V.; Niranjan Kumar, K.; Ouarda, T. B. M. J. & Marpu, P. R. (2015). Investigation of aerosol optical, physical, and radiative characteristics of a severe dust storm observed over UAE. Remote Sens. Environ., 169: 404-417.
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.08.033

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