Publications
Publications
All 79 peer-reviewed journal articles, newest first. Trainee authors are underlined, and each title links to the published paper.
- 2026Projection of future climate change and precipitation extremes over the Canadian Lake Erie and Lake Ontario basins under global warming
Liu Y., Tanguturi S., Shrestha R.R., RahimiMovaghar M., Najafi M.R.. Frontiers in Water
- 2026Teleconnection controls on precipitation variability and extremes across Iran's climate zones
Mirzaei Hassanlu A., Erfanian M., Javan K., Najafi M.R.. Natural Hazards
- 2026The Role of Droughts in Modulating Hailstorm Dynamics in Alberta, Canada
Mohamed I., Najafi M.R., Joe P., Mo R.. Journal of Hydrometeorology
- 2026Atmospheric Rivers as Triggers of Compound Flooding: Quantifying Extreme Joint Events in Western North America Under Climate Change
Grgas-Svirac A.V., Fereshtehpour M., Najafi M.R., Cannon A.J., Shirkhani H.. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
- 2026Dynamic and thermodynamic drivers of extreme precipitation under nonstationarity: implications for probable maximum precipitation across North America
Islam M.R., Najafi M.R.. Natural Hazards
- 2026Vegetation suffers greater and longer impacts under hydrological-triggered droughts
Zhang L., Chang J., Yang G., Najafi M.R., Wang Y., Zhou K.. Journal of Environmental Management
- 2025Intensifying hydroclimatic swings under a warming climate: Disentangling anthropogenic climate change and internal variability in North America
Na W., Grgas-Svirac A.V., Najafi M.R.. Global and Planetary Change
- 2025Observed intensification of temporally compound dry–wet transitions and serial combinations across East Asia
Lee J., Cho E., Jun C., Najafi M.R., Yoo C., Na W.. Science of The Total Environment
- 2025Influence of Large-Scale Teleconnection Patterns on Hailstorm Severity in Alberta
Mohamed I., Najafi M.R., Joe P., Mo R.. Geophysical Research Letters
- 2025Machine learning-based regional flood frequency framework for climate resilient infrastructure
Islam M.R., Najafi M.R.. Journal of Hydrology
- 2025A Dynamic Bayesian Network Approach to Characterize Multi-Hazard Risks and Resilience in Interconnected Critical Infrastructures
Bakhtiari S., Najafi M.R., Goda K., Peerhossaini H.. Reliability Engineering & System Safety
- 2025Quantifying the individual and combined influence of climate change, land cover transition, and internal climate variability on the hydrology of a snow-dominated forested watershed
Fereshtehpour M., Najafi M.R., Leach J.A., Wang Y.. Climatic Change
- 2025Urban stormwater resilience: Global insights and strategies for climate adaptation
Fereshtehpour M., Najafi M.R.. Urban Climate
- 2025Characterizing compound inland flooding mechanisms and risks in North America under climate change
Fereshtehpour M., Najafi M.R., Cannon A.J.. Earth's Future
- 2025A copula-based multivariate flood frequency analysis under climate change effects
Khajehali M., Safavi H.R., Nikoo M.R., Najafi M.R., Alizadeh-Sh R.. Scientific Reports
- 2025Successive warm-wet and warm-dry events in the Great Lakes Basin: future projections using CMIP6 models
RahimiMovaghar M., Najafi M.R., Shrestha R.R., Liu Y.. Climate Dynamics
- 2025Multi‐Model Projection of Climate Extremes under 1.5° C–4° C Global Warming Levels across Iran
Najafi M.R., Abbasian M., Na W., RahimiMovaghar M., Bakhtiari S., Islam M.R., Fereshtehpour M., Jalili Pirani F., Rezvani R.. International Journal of Climatology
- 2024Multivariate analysis of compound hail, wind and rainfall extremes in Alberta's hail alley
Mohamed I., Najafi M.R., Joe P., Brimelow J.. Weather and Climate Extremes
- 2024Projections of rain‐on‐snow events in a sub‐arctic river basin under 1.5° C–4° C global warming
Warden J.W., Rezvani R., Najafi M.R., Shrestha R.R.. Hydrological Processes
- 2024Rising risks of hydroclimatic swings: A large ensemble study of dry and wet spell transitions in North America
Na W., Najafi M.R.. Global and Planetary Change
- 2024Fusion of Google Street View, LiDAR, and Orthophoto Classifications Using Ranking Classes Based on F1 Score for Building Land-Use Type Detection
Sorboni N.G., Wang J., Najafi M.R.. Remote Sensing
- 2024Trend Analysis of Precipitation Extreme Indices in Iran Based on Quantile Regression Model
Mirzaei Hassanlu A., Erfanian M., Javan K., Najafi M.R.. Environment and Water Engineering
- 2024Automated first floor height estimation for flood vulnerability analysis using deep learning and Google Street View
Sorboni N.G., Wang J., Najafi M.R.. Journal of Flood Risk Management
- 2024Spatiotemporal pattern of successive hydro-hazards and the influence of low-frequency variability modes over Canada
RahimiMovaghar M., Fereshtehpour M., Najafi M.R.. Journal of Hydrology
- 2024Integrated Bayesian Network and Strongest Path Method (BN-SPM) for effective multi-hazard risk assessment of interconnected infrastructure systems
Bakhtiari S., Najafi M.R., Goda K., Peerhossaini H.. Sustainable Cities and Society
- 2024Urban flood mapping using Sentinel-1 and RADARSAT Constellation Mission image and convolutional Siamese network
Sorboni N.G., Wang J., Najafi M.R.. Natural Hazards
- 2024Climate-resilience of dams and levees in Canada: a review
Islam M.R., Fereshtehpour M., Najafi M.R., Khaliq M.N., Khan A.A., Sushama L., Nguyen V.T., Elshorbagy A., Roy R., Wilson A., Perdikaris J.. Discover Applied Sciences
- 2024The impact of environmental degradation and climate change on dust in Khuzestan province, Iran
Mohammadi Z., Rahimi D., Najafi M.R., Zakerinejad R.. Natural Hazards
- 2024Daily precipitation concentration and Shannon’s entropy characteristics: spatial and temporal variability in Iran, 1966–2018
Mirzaei Hassanlu A., Erfanian M., Javan K., Najafi M.R.. Theoretical and Applied Climatology
- 2024Building flood resilience under climate change
Wang X., Nguyen V.T., Zhou X., Najafi M.R.. Frontiers in Environmental Science
- 2023Heatwave Duration and Heating Rate in a Non‐Stationary Climate: Spatiotemporal Pattern and Key Drivers
Chitsaz F., Gohari A., Najafi M.R., Zareian M.J., Haghighi A.T.. Earth's Future
- 2023A ten-year statistical radar analysis of an operational hail suppression program in Alberta
Jalili Pirani F., Najafi M.R., Joe P., Brimelow J., McBean G., Rahimian M., Stewart R., Kovacs P.. Atmospheric Research
- 2023Accelerated lagged compound floods and droughts in northwest North America under 1.5° C− 4° C global warming levels
Rezvani R., RahimiMovaghar M., Na W., Najafi M.R.. Journal of Hydrology
- 2023Risk analysis of hydrological extremes—spatio-temporal dynamics, interdependence, and uncertainty
Onyutha C., Golian S., Moftakhari H., Najafi M.R., Tabari H.. Frontiers in Water
- 2023Probabilistic Assessment of Concurrent Tornado and Storm-Related Flash Flood (TORFF) Events
Ngui Y.D., Najafi M.R., de Souze C., Sills D.. International Journal of Climatology
- 2023Lagged Compound Dry and Wet Spells in Northwest North America Under 1.5°C - 4°C Global Warming Levels
Rezvani R., Na W., Najafi M.R.. Atmospheric Research
- 2023Nonstationary frequency analysis of compound flooding in Canada's coastal zones
Jalili Pirani F., Najafi M.R.. Coastal Engineering
- 2023Characterizing compound flooding potential and the corresponding driving mechanisms across coastal environments
Jalili Pirani F., Najafi M.R.. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
- 2022Multivariate Analysis of Compound Flood Hazard Across Canada's Atlantic, Pacific and Great Lakes Coastal Areas
Jalili Pirani F., Najafi M.R.. Earth's Future
- 2022Spatiotemporal bias adjustment of IMERG satellite precipitation data across Canada
Moazami S., Na W., Najafi M.R., de Souza C.. Advances in Water Resources
- 2022Influence of low frequency variability modes on spatiotemporal patterns of temperature and precipitation in Northwestern North America
Mahmoudi M.H., Najafi M.R., Abbasian M.S.. Hydrological Sciences Journal
- 2022Evaluation and joint projection of temperature and precipitation extremes across Canada based on hierarchical Bayesian modelling and large ensembles of regional climate simulations
Singh H., Najafi M.R., Cannon A.. Weather and Climate Extremes
- 2022Building detection using a Dense Attention Network from LiDAR and image data
Sorboni N.G., Wang J., Najafi M.R.. Geomatica
- 2022Hydrological Extremes in a Warming Climate: Nonstationarity, Uncertainties and Impacts
Shrestha R.R., Najafi M.R.. Water
- 2022Canadian Large Ensembles Adjusted Dataset version 1 (CanLEADv1): Multivariate bias‐corrected climate model outputs for terrestrial modelling and attribution studies in North America
Cannon A.J., Alford H., Shrestha RR., Kirchmeier‐Young M.C., Najafi M.R.. Geoscience Data Journal
- 2021Uncertainties in Riverine and Coastal Flood Impacts under Climate Change
Wang S., Najafi M.R., Cannon A., Khan AA.. Water
- 2021Spatial and temporal changes in climate extremes over northwestern North America: the influence of internal climate variability and external forcing
Mahmoudi M.H., Najafi M.R., Singh H., Schnorbus M.. Climatic Change
- 2021A Comprehensive Evaluation of GPM-IMERG V06 and MRMS with Hourly Ground-Based Precipitation Observations across Canada
Moazami S., Najafi M.R.. Journal of Hydrology
- 2021Characterizing Non‑Stationary Compound Extreme Events in a Changing Climate Based on Large‑Ensemble Climate Simulations
Singh H., Najafi M.R., Cannon A.. Climate Dynamics
- 2021Increasing risk of meteorological drought in the Lake Urmia basin under climate change: Introducing the precipitation–temperature deciles index
Abbasian M.S., Najafi M.R., Abrishamchi A.. Journal of Hydrology
- 2021Probable maximum precipitation estimation over western Iran based on remote sensing observations: comparing deterministic and probabilistic approaches
Merrikhpour M.H., Rahimzadegan M., Najafi M.R., Mahjouri N.. Hydrological Sciences Journal
- 2021Heterogeneous Snowpack Response and Snow Drought Occurrence across River Basins of Northwestern North America under 1.0°C to 4.0°C Global Warming
Shrestha R., Bonnyman M., Bonsal B., Cannon A., Najafi M.R.. Climatic Change
- 2021A flood risk assessment framework for interdependent infrastructure systems in coastal environments
Najafi M.R., Zhang Y., Martyn N.. Sustainable Cities and Society
- 2020Multi-Site Statistical Downscaling of Precipitation Using Generalized Hierarchical Linear Models: A Case Study of The Imperiled Lake Urmia Basin
Abbasian M.S., Abrishamchi A., Najafi M.R., Moghim S.. Hydrological Sciences Journal
- 2020Recent Trends in Individual and Multivariate Compound Flood Drivers in Canada's Coasts
Jalili Pirani F., Najafi M.R.. Water Resources Research
- 2020Probabilistic Numerical Modelling of Compound Flooding Caused by Tropical Storm Matthew Over a Data‐Scarce Coastal Environment
Zhang Y., Najafi M.R.. Water Resources Research
- 2020Evaluation of gridded climate datasets over Canada using univariate and bivariate approaches: Implications for hydrological modelling
Singh H., Najafi M.R.. Journal of Hydrology
- 2020Uncertainties in runoff projection and hydrological drought assessment over Gharesu basin under CMIP5 RCP scenarios
Ashrafi S.M., Gholami H., Najafi M.R.. Journal of Water and Climate Change
- 2019Characterizing the Temperature and Precipitation Covariability over Canada
Singh H., Jalili F., Najafi M.R.. Theoretical and Applied Climatology
- 2017Assessing the impacts of climate change on future precipitation trends based on downscaled CMIP5 simulations data
Dars GH, Najafi M.R., Qureshi AL.. Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology
- 2017Attribution of observed streamflow changes in key British Columbia drainage basins
Najafi M.R., Zwiers F., Gillett N.. Geophysical Research Letters
- 2017Attribution of the Observed Spring Snowpack Decline in British Columbia to Anthropogenic Climate Change
Najafi M.R., Zwiers F., Gillett N.. Journal of Climate
- 2016Testing the skill of numerical hydraulic modelling to simulate spatiotemporal flooding patterns in the Logone floodplain, Cameroon
Fernández A., Najafi M.R., Durand M., Mark B., Moritz M., Neal J, Shastry A., Laborde S., Phang S., Hamilton I., Xiao N.. Journal of Hydrology
- 2016Attribution of the Spring Snow Cover Extent Decline in the Northern Hemisphere, Eurasia and North America to Anthropogenic Influence
Najafi M.R., Zwiers F., Gillett N.. Climatic Change
- 2016Trends in Total Precipitation and Magnitude-Frequency of Extreme Precipitation in Iran, 1969-2009
Najafi M.R., Moazami S.. International Journal of Climatology
- 2015Multi-Model Ensemble Analysis of the Runoff Extremes for Climate Change Impact Assessments
Najafi M.R., Moradkhani H.. Journal of Hydrology
- 2015Attribution of Arctic Temperature Change to Greenhouse Gas and Aerosol Influences
Najafi M.R., Zwiers F., Gillett N.. Nature Climate Change
- 2015Ensemble Combination of Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts
Najafi M.R., Moradkhani H.. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
- 2014A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for the Analysis of Climate Change Impact on Runoff Extremes
Najafi M.R., Moradkhani H.. Hydrological Processes
- 2013Analysis of Runoff Extremes using Spatial Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
Najafi M.R., Moradkhani H.. Water Resources Research
- 2013Analysis of Precipitation Extremes with the Assessment of Regional Climate Models over the Willamette River Basin-US
Halmstad A., Najafi M.R., Moradkhani H.. Hydrological Processes
- 2013Controlling Rooster Tail Development in Gated Tunnels
Najafi M.R., Roshan R., Kavianpour M.R., Zarrati A.R.. International Journal on Hydropower and Dams
- 2012Ensemble Streamflow Prediction: Climate Signal Weighting Methods vs. Climate Forecast System Reanalysis
Najafi M.R., Moradkhani H., Piechota T.. Journal of Hydrology
- 2012Air Demand in Gated Tunnels, a Bayesian Approach to Merge Various Predictions
Najafi M.R., Kavianpour Z., Najafi B., Kavianpour M.R., Moradkhani H.. Journal of Hydroinformatics
- 2012The Effects of Steps on the Hydraulic Characteristics of the Subcritical Free Surface Flow in Long-Distance Conveyance Tunnels
Najafi M.R., Nabipour M.. Tunneling and Underground Space Technology
- 2011Assessing the Uncertainties of Hydrologic Model Selection in Climate Change Impact Studies
Najafi M.R., Moradkhani H., Jung I.W.. Hydrological Processes
- 2011Statistical Downscaling of Precipitation using Machine Learning with Optimal Predictor Selection
Najafi M.R., Moradkhani H., Wherry S.. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
- 2010Numerical Simulation of Air- Water Flow in Gated Tunnels
Najafi M.R., Zarrati A.R.. Journal of Water Management
- 2009A Fuzzy Genetic Method to Predict Air Demand Downstream of Bottom Outlet Gates
Kavianpour M.R., Najafi M.R.. Amirkabir Journal of Science and Technology, Civil Engineering
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