Hamed Moftakhari
Biographic Data
| ID | 6833419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hamed Moftakhari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hamed |
| FAMILY NAME | Moftakhari |
| SIGNATURE | MOFTAKHARI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3170-8653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Establishing closure criteria for coastal roadways under flooding conditions
A data-driven framework for an efficient block-level coastal flood risk assessment
The escalating global frequency and severity of disasters highlight the need for regional to national risk assessments, necessary for risk-informed decision-making. The susceptibility of the Gulf Coast of the United States to flooding underscores the urgency of this need. Here, we introduce a framework for fine-scale (i.e. block-level) flood risk assessment in low-lying coastal regions prone to compound hazards that systematically addresses limit…
Enhancing compound flood simulation accuracy and efficiency in urbanized coastal areas using hybrid meshes and modified digital elevation model
Global evidence for co-variability of tidal constituents
Understanding how tides respond to short-term climate variability and long-term climatic trends is central to projecting future coastal hazards. While past research has focused on tide-surge or tide-river interactions, the relationships among tidal constituents themselves remain unexplored. Here we present the first global analysis of tidal constituent co-variability using tide gauge records available since mid–20 th century. For each gauge, we i…
Divergent changes in crop yield loss risk due to droughts over time in the US
Drought poses a major threat to agricultural production and food security. This study evaluates the changes in drought-induced crop yield loss risk for six crops (alfalfa, barley, corn, soybean, spring wheat, and winter wheat) between 1971–2000 and 1991–2020 across the contiguous US. Using a copula-based probabilistic framework, our results reveal a spatially heterogeneous change in yield risk to meteorological droughts, which varies with crop ty…
Unraveling the hydropower vulnerability to drought in the United States
Drought, a potent natural climatic phenomenon, significantly challenges hydropower systems, bearing adverse consequences for economies, societies, and the environment. This study delves into the profound impact of drought on hydropower generation (HG) in the United States, revealing a robust correlation between hydrologic drought and hydroelectricity generation. Our analysis of the period from 2003 to 2020 for the Contiguous United States (CONUS)…
Water trading as a tool to combat economic losses in agriculture under climate change
Climate Extremes and Compound Hazards in a Warming World
Climate extremes threaten human health, economic stability, and the well-being of natural and built environments (e.g., 2003 European heat wave). As the world continues to warm, climate hazards are expected to increase in frequency and intensity. The impacts of extreme events will also be more severe due to the increased exposure (growing population and development) and vulnerability (aging infrastructure) of human settlements. Climate models att…
Toward a more effective hurricane hazard communication
Tropical cyclones are among the most devastating natural disasters that pose risk to people and assets all around the globe. The Saffir-Simpson scale is commonly used to inform threatened communities about the severity of hazard, but lacks consideration of other potential drivers of a hazardous situation (e.g. terrestrial and coastal flooding). Here, we propose an alternative approach that accounts for multiple components and their likelihood of …
Increasing exposure of energy infrastructure to compound hazards: Cascading wildfires and extreme rainfall
Floods and debris flows pose a significant threat, especially when extreme rain falls over burned areas. This is an example of a compound event in which two concurrent or consecutive events lead to extreme societal impacts. Compound and cascading hazards are becoming increasingly important and have notable impacts on threatened communities across the world. Wildfire followed by an intense precipitation event can result in a large flood under whic…
Climate-informed environmental inflows to revive a drying lake facing meteorological and anthropogenic droughts
The rapid shrinkage of Lake Urmia, one of the world's largest saline lakes located in northwestern Iran, is a tragic wake-up call to revisit the principles of water resources management based on the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. The overarching goal of this paper is to set a framework for deriving dynamic, climate-informed environmental inflows for drying lakes considering both meteorological/climatic and…
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Climate-informed environmental inflows to revive a drying lake facing meteorological and anthropogenic droughts
The rapid shrinkage of Lake Urmia, one of the world's largest saline lakes located in northwestern Iran, is a tragic wake-up call to revisit the principles of water resources management based on the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. The overarching goal of this paper is to set a framework for deriving dynamic, climate-informed environmental inflows for drying lakes considering both meteorological/climatic and…
Increasing exposure of energy infrastructure to compound hazards: Cascading wildfires and extreme rainfall
Floods and debris flows pose a significant threat, especially when extreme rain falls over burned areas. This is an example of a compound event in which two concurrent or consecutive events lead to extreme societal impacts. Compound and cascading hazards are becoming increasingly important and have notable impacts on threatened communities across the world. Wildfire followed by an intense precipitation event can result in a large flood under whic…
Climate Extremes and Compound Hazards in a Warming World
Climate extremes threaten human health, economic stability, and the well-being of natural and built environments (e.g., 2003 European heat wave). As the world continues to warm, climate hazards are expected to increase in frequency and intensity. The impacts of extreme events will also be more severe due to the increased exposure (growing population and development) and vulnerability (aging infrastructure) of human settlements. Climate models att…
Toward a more effective hurricane hazard communication
Tropical cyclones are among the most devastating natural disasters that pose risk to people and assets all around the globe. The Saffir-Simpson scale is commonly used to inform threatened communities about the severity of hazard, but lacks consideration of other potential drivers of a hazardous situation (e.g. terrestrial and coastal flooding). Here, we propose an alternative approach that accounts for multiple components and their likelihood of …
Water trading as a tool to combat economic losses in agriculture under climate change
Divergent changes in crop yield loss risk due to droughts over time in the US
Drought poses a major threat to agricultural production and food security. This study evaluates the changes in drought-induced crop yield loss risk for six crops (alfalfa, barley, corn, soybean, spring wheat, and winter wheat) between 1971–2000 and 1991–2020 across the contiguous US. Using a copula-based probabilistic framework, our results reveal a spatially heterogeneous change in yield risk to meteorological droughts, which varies with crop ty…
Unraveling the hydropower vulnerability to drought in the United States
Drought, a potent natural climatic phenomenon, significantly challenges hydropower systems, bearing adverse consequences for economies, societies, and the environment. This study delves into the profound impact of drought on hydropower generation (HG) in the United States, revealing a robust correlation between hydrologic drought and hydroelectricity generation. Our analysis of the period from 2003 to 2020 for the Contiguous United States (CONUS)…
Establishing closure criteria for coastal roadways under flooding conditions
A data-driven framework for an efficient block-level coastal flood risk assessment
The escalating global frequency and severity of disasters highlight the need for regional to national risk assessments, necessary for risk-informed decision-making. The susceptibility of the Gulf Coast of the United States to flooding underscores the urgency of this need. Here, we introduce a framework for fine-scale (i.e. block-level) flood risk assessment in low-lying coastal regions prone to compound hazards that systematically addresses limit…
Enhancing compound flood simulation accuracy and efficiency in urbanized coastal areas using hybrid meshes and modified digital elevation model
Global evidence for co-variability of tidal constituents
Understanding how tides respond to short-term climate variability and long-term climatic trends is central to projecting future coastal hazards. While past research has focused on tide-surge or tide-river interactions, the relationships among tidal constituents themselves remain unexplored. Here we present the first global analysis of tidal constituent co-variability using tide gauge records available since mid–20 th century. For each gauge, we i…
Environmental Science (9 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Climatology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (4 works) · Computer security (3 works)