CV

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Awards

2022: Second place winner, Berkeley Lab Research SLAM [Berkeley Lab Newsletter, Twitter, EESA Twitter, SLAM Website]
2020-21: Henry Samueli Endowed Fellowship [UCI CEE]; ~ 16,000$
2020: AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA); top 2-5% presentations [UCI News, Twitter, AGU Website].
2020: Outstanding Young Engineer Award, Orange County Engineering Council (OCEC).
2021: U.S./China Clean Energy Research Center for Water-Energy Technologies (CERC-WET) Fellow for Outstanding Contributions to Research.
2016: Swedish Institute Study Scholarship (offered); top 4-6% of applicants
2018: National Science Foundation (NSF) Award to attend AMS Policy Colloquium; ~ 5,000$
2019: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Award to attend Conference. of Ministry of Water Resources, Sudan; ~ 3,000$
2020: Associated Graduate Students (AGS) at UCI Travel Grant
2019-20: UC Irvine Civil & Environmental Engineering Targeted Recruitment & Diversity Funds; ~ 11,600$

Education

Career

Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine (2021)

M.Sc. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine (2017)

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Khartoum (2014)

Assistant Professor, Climate & Space Sciences & Engineering, University of Michigan (Sep 2023 - Present)
Postdoctoral Scientist, Climate Sciences Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (June 2021 - June 2023)
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California Irvine (Sep 2016 - June 2021)
Research Assistant, Water Research Center at University of Khartoum (2015 - 2016)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Hydrology (CEE 176-276), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine (Fall 2020)
Teaching Assistant, Hydrology (CEE 176-276), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine (Fall 2019)
Guest Lecturer, ArcGIS for Civil Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine (Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
Teaching Assistant, Hydrology, Fluid Mechanics, Irrigation, Hydraulics Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Khartoum (2014-15)

Full List of Publications

2023

Ombadi, M.*, Risser, M., Rhoades, A. & Varadharajan, C. (2023). A warming-induced reduction in snow fraction amplifies rainfall extremes. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06092-7

Rhoades, A.M., C.M. Zarzycki, H.A. Inda-Diaz, M. Ombadi, U. Pasquier, A. Srivastava, B.J. Hatchett, E. Dennis, A. Heggli, R.R. McCrary, S. McGinnis, S. Rahimi-Esfarjani, E. Slinskey, P.A. Ullrich, M. Wehner, and A.D. Jones (2023). Recreating the California New Year’s flood event of 1997 in a regionally refined Earth system model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003793

2022

Ombadi, M.* & Risser, M. (2022). What's the temperature tomorrow? Increasing trends in extreme volatility of daily maximum temperature in Central and Eastern United States (1950–2019). Weather and Climate Extremes. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2022.100515
Ombadi, M.* & Varadharajan, C. (2022). Urbanization and aridity mediate distinct salinity response to floods in rivers and streams across the Contiguous United States. Water Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118664
Varadharajan, C., Appling, A., Arora, B., Christianson, D., Hendrix, V., Kumar, V., Lima, A., Mueller, J., Oliver, S., Ombadi, M., Perciano, T., Sadler, J., Weierbach, H., Willard, J., Xu, Z. (2022). Can Machine Learning Accelerate Process Understanding and Decision-Relevant Predictions of River Water Quality? Hydrological Processes, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14565

2021

Ombadi, M.*, Nguyen, P., Sorooshian, S., & Hsu, K. L., Complexity of hydrologic basins: A chaotic dynamics perspective. Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126222
Ombadi, M.*, Nguyen, P., Sorooshian, S., & Hsu, K. L., How much Information on Precipitation is Contained in Satellite Infrared Imagery?. Atmospheric Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105578
Ombadi, M.*, Nguyen, P., Sorooshian, S., & Hsu, K. L., Retrospective Analysis and Bayesian Model Averaging of CMIP6 Precipitation in the Nile River Basin. Journal of Hydrometeorology, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0157.1

2020

Ombadi, M.*, Nguyen, P., Sorooshian, S., & Hsu, K. L., Evaluation of methods for causal discovery in hydrometeorological systems. Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027251
Nguyen, P., Ombadi, M., Gorooh, V. A., Shearer, E. J., Sorooshian, S., Hsu, K., Bolvin, D., & Ralph, M. F., PERSIANN Dynamic Infrared-Rain Rate (PDIR-Now): A Near-real time, Quasi-Global Satellite Precipitation Dataset. Journal of Hydrometeorology, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0177.1
Nguyen, P., Shearer, E. J., Ombadi, M., Gorooh, V. A., Hsu, K., Sorooshian, S., ... & Ralph, M., PERSIANN Dynamic Infrared–Rain Rate Model (PDIR) for High-Resolution, Real-Time Satellite Precipitation Estimation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0118.1
Nguyen, P., Ashouri, H., Ombadi, M., Hayatbini, N., Hsu, K. L., & Sorooshian, S. (2020). PERSIANN-CDR for Hydrology and Hydro-climatic Applications. In Satellite Precipitation Measurement (pp. 993-1012). Springer, Cham.
Sorooshian, S., Gorooh, V. A., Hayatbini, N., Ombadi, M., Sadeghi, M., Nguyen, P., & Hsu, K. Predictability of Hydrometeorological Extremes and Climate Impacts on Water Resources in Semiarid Zones: Expectations and Reality. The Bridge National Academy of Engineering.

2019

Tran, H., Nguyen, P., Ombadi, M., Hsu, K. L., Sorooshian, S., & Qing, X., A cloud-free MODIS snow cover dataset for the contiguous United States from 2000 to 2017. Nature Scientific data, https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.300.
Tran, H., Nguyen, P., Ombadi, M., Hsu, K., Sorooshian, S., & Andreadis, K., Improving hydrologic modeling using cloud-free MODIS flood maps. Journal of Hydrometeorology, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-19-0021.1.
Nguyen, P., Shearer, E. J., Tran, H., Ombadi, M., Hayatbini, N., Palacios, T., ... & Kuligowski, B., The CHRS Data Portal, an easily accessible public repository for PERSIANN global satellite precipitation data. Nature Scientific data, https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.296.

2018

Ombadi, M.*, Nguyen, P., Sorooshian, S., & Hsu, K. L., Developing Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves From Satellite-Based Precipitation: Methodology and Evaluation. Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022929.
Nguyen, P., Ombadi, M., Sorooshian, S., Hsu, K., AghaKouchak, A., Braithwaite, D., ... & Thorstensen, A. R., The PERSIANN family of global satellite precipitation data: A review and evaluation of products. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5801-2018.

2017

Salih, A., & Ombadi, M. (2017). Sudan and the Water Sciences Programmes of UNESCO. University Of Khartoum Engineering Journal.