Development of a composite drought indicator for operational drought monitoring in the MENA region

Autor: Karim Bergaoui, Makram Belhaj Fraj, Stephen Fragaszy, Ali Ghanim, Omar Hamadin, Emad Al-Karablieh, Jawad Al-Bakri, Mona Fakih, Abbas Fayad, Fadi Comair, Mohamed Yessef, Hayat Ben Mansour, Haythem Belgrissi, Kristi Arsenault, Christa Peters-Lidard, Sujay Kumar, Abheera Hazra, Wanshu Nie, Michael Hayes, Mark Svoboda, Rachael McDonnell

Publikováno v: Scientific Reports, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2024)

Abstract This paper presents the composite drought indicator (CDI) that Jordanian, Lebanese, Moroccan, and Tunisian government agencies now produce monthly to support operational drought management decision making, and it describes their iterative co

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Snowpack dynamics in the Lebanese mountains from quasi-dynamically downscaled ERA5 reanalysis updated by assimilating remotely sensed fractional snow-covered area

Autor: Esteban Alonso-González, Ethan Gutmann, Kristoffer Aalstad, Abbas Fayad, Marine Bouchet, Simon Gascoin

Publikováno v: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol 25, Pp 4455-4471 (2021)
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, European Geosciences Union, 2021, 25 (8), pp.4455-4471. ⟨10.5194/hess-25-4455-2021⟩
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2021, 25 (8), pp.4455-4471. ⟨10.5194/hess-25-4455-2021⟩

The snowpack over the Mediterranean mountains constitutes a key water resource for the downstream populations. However, its dynamics have not been studied in detail yet in many areas, mostly because of the scarcity of snowpack observations. In this w

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4455-2021

Advances in modelling large river basins in cold regions with Modélisation Environmentale Communautaire - Surface and Hydrology (MESH), the Canadian hydrological land surface scheme

Autor: Matthew K. MacDonald, Bruce Davison, Zelalem Tesemma, Fuad Yassin, Saman Razavi, Mohamed Elshamy, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Ala Bahrami, C. M. DeBeer, John W. Pomeroy, Abbas Fayad, Prabin Rokaya, Amin Haghnegahdar, Alain Pietroniro, Daniel Princz, Mohamed S. Abdelhamed, Howard Wheater, Andrew Ireson, Amin Elshorbagy, Youssef Loukili

Cold regions provide water resources for half the global population yet face rapid change. Their hydrology is dominated by snow, ice and frozen soils, and climate warming is having profound effects. Hydrological models have a key role in predicting c

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https://doi.org/10.22541/au.162738548.88997933/v1

Process-based model evaluation of cold region hydrological processes

Autor: Abbas Fayad, Wouter J. M. Knoben, Martyn P. Clark, Vincent Vionnet

Model simulations of hydrological processes are critical for applications in streamflow forecasting and water security assessments. In this work, we develop a model-agnostic benchmarking framework to evaluate the fidelity of continental-domain model

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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-4184

The role of liquid water percolation representation to estimate snow water equivalent in a Mediterranean mountain region (Mount Lebanon)

Autor: Simon Gascoin, Abbas Fayad

In many Mediterranean mountain regions, the seasonal snowpack is an essential yet poorly known water resource. Here, we examine, for the first time, the spatial distribution and evolution of the snow water equivalent (SWE) during three snow seasons (

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-514