Ombadi Lab
Hydroclimatic Extremes, Impacts and Data Analytics (HEIDA)
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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About me
Hi there!
I'm an Assistant Professor at University of Michigan College of Engineering. My research group studies the impact of climate change on the hydrologic cycle using advanced data analytics.
Prior to joining University of Michigan, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I earned my Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of California Irvine in 2021. My research interests lie at the intersection of hydrology, climate sciences, and data science. I'm particularly interested in using the latest data science and big data analytics tools to enhance our mechanistic and predictive understanding of climate change's impact on the hydrologic cycle.
NEWS
FEATURED: New Paper Published In Nature
Paper Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06092-7
Full access without subscription: https://rdcu.be/dfA53
Media coverage: The New York Times, Associated Press, France 24 (AFP), Inside Climate News, Scientific American, Publico, New Scientist, Down to Earth, The Guardian, US News and World Report, Phys.org, Science Museum Group.
Research Group News
Recent news about our postdocs, students and researchers
UROP Students present their research in the UROP Spring Symposium [04/24/2024]
Abigail Dolunt, Vicky Lin and Aleksandra Putintceva presented their year-long research projects in the University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Spring Research Symposium. Abbey, Vicky and Aleksandra conducted research over the 2023-24 academic year on the impacts of meteorological droughts on vegetation, soil moisture and crop yield across Midwestern States [Read more].
PhD students, Lisa Nguyen and Tianxiang Gao join HEIDA
Lisa Nguyen is an Applied Physics PhD student at the University of Michigan, who joined HEIDA in summer 2024. Prior to joining UM, Lisa obtained a BSc in Mathematics from the University of California Berkeley.
Tianxiang Gao is an incoming PhD student in Fall 2024. Tianxiang has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Atmospheric Science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
Welcome, Lisa and Tianxiang. [Read more].
Media
Check out recent interviews and media appearances
New Article in the Conversation [09/19/2023]
ABC News Interview [08/17/2023]
Himalayas experiencing more rainfall and less snowfall.
Wall Street Journal Interview [08/23/2023]
BBC Interview [08/17/2023]
Himachal Pradesh floods: More rain, less snow are turning Himalayas dangerous
Vox Interview [07/17/2023]
The “new abnormal”: The rise of extreme flooding, briefly explained
Recent Research Articles
Check out recent research
Ombadi et al., A warming-induced reduction in snow fraction amplifies rainfall extremes, Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06092-7
Ombadi & Varadharajan, 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
Ombadi & Risser, 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 et al., Evaluation of Methods for Causal Discovery in Hydrometeorological Systems, Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027251
Science Communication
Bay Area Research Slam [10/20/2022]
I represented Berkeley Lab, together with two talented postdocs, in the Bay Area Research SLAM (a competition across four national labs: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, SLAC National Lab and Sandia National Labs.
American Geophyscial Union (AGU) Outstanding Student Presentation Award [12/2020] 🏆
At the 2020 Fall Meeting titled: “Toward an Improved Understanding of Hydrologic Complexity”.
Results presented in this talk were published in Journal of Hydrology at: Complexity of hydrologic basins: A chaotic dynamics perspective. Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126222
Berkeley Lab Research Slam [09/22/2022]
Very honored to have won the second place prize in the 5th annual Berkeley Lab Research SLAM. 🏆
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