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Ali Behrangi is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

The primary subfields of Behrangi's research include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Oceanography. Their work spans a broad range of topics such as Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate Variability and Models, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, and Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds.

Behrangi's recent papers reflect a focus on precipitation analysis, climate data merging techniques, and atmospheric composition studies. Some notable publications include:

  • The New Version 3.2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly and Daily Precipitation Products, 2023, Journal of Climate
  • Precipitation Merging Based on the Triple Collocation Method Across Mainland China, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Measurement report: Long-range transport patterns into the tropical northwest Pacific during the CAMP 2 Ex aircraft campaign: chemical composition, size distributions, and the impact of convection, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Stacking machine learning models versus a locally weighted linear model to generate high-resolution monthly precipitation over a topographically complex area, 2022, Atmospheric Research
  • Assessment of the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) for Snowfall Retrieval in High Latitudes Using CloudSat and Machine Learning, 2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology

Behrangi has frequently published in several scientific journals including:

  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Remote Sensing
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Environmental Research Letters

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, such as Mohammad Reza Ehsani, Yang Song, Guo-Yue Niu, Mostafa Javadian, and Mohammad Ali Farmani.

Overall, Ali Behrangi's research portfolio reflects a concentration on atmospheric processes, advanced precipitation measurement techniques, climate variability analysis, and the application of machine learning methods in environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;C. K. Shum;Shuang Yi

  • Hydrologic evaluation of satellite precipitation products over a mid-size basin

    Ali Behrangi;Ali Behrangi;Behnaz Khakbaz;Tsou Chun Jaw;Amir AghaKouchak

  • Evaluation of satellite-retrieved extreme precipitation rates across the central United States

    A. AghaKouchak;A. Behrangi;S. Sorooshian;K. Hsu

  • Systematic and random error components in satellite precipitation data sets

    Amir AghaKouchak;Ali Mehran;Hamidreza Norouzi;Ali Behrangi

  • Early assessment of Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement over China

    Hao Guo;Sheng Chen;Sheng Chen;Anming Bao;Ali Behrangi

  • A Recent Systematic Increase in Vapor Pressure Deficit over Tropical South America

    Armineh Barkhordarian;Sassan S. Saatchi;Sassan S. Saatchi;Ali Behrangi;Paul C. Loikith

  • Accounting for spatiotemporal errors of gauges: A critical step to evaluate gridded precipitation products

    Guoqiang Tang;Guoqiang Tang;Ali Behrangi;Ali Behrangi;Ali Behrangi;Di Long;Changming Li

  • PERSIANN-MSA: A Precipitation Estimation Method from Satellite-Based Multispectral Analysis

    Ali Behrangi;Kuo-lin Hsu;Bisher Imam;Soroosh Sorooshian

  • Status of High latitude precipitation estimates from observations and reanalyses.

    Ali Behrangi;Matthew Christensen;Matthew Christensen;Mark Richardson;Matthew Lebsock

  • On the quantification of oceanic rainfall using spaceborne sensors

    Ali Behrangi;Matthew Lebsock;Sun Wong;Bjorn Lambrigtsen

  • On the use of indices to study extreme precipitation on sub-daily and daily timescales

    Lisa V Alexander;Hayley J Fowler;Margot Bador;Ali Behrangi

  • Precipitation Intensity Effects on Groundwater Recharge in the Southwestern United States

    Brian F. Thomas;Ali Behrangi;James S. Famiglietti

  • What does CloudSat reveal about global land precipitation detection by other spaceborne sensors

    Ali Behrangi;Yudong Tian;Yudong Tian;Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen;Graeme L. Stephens

  • An Update on the Oceanic Precipitation Rate and Its Zonal Distribution in Light of Advanced Observations from Space

    Ali Behrangi;Graeme Stephens;Robert F. Adler;George J. Huffman

  • Large uncertainties in observed daily precipitation extremes over land

    Nicholas Herold;Ali Behrangi;Lisa V. Alexander

  • The New Version 3.2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly and Daily Precipitation Products

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  • Impact of increased water vapor on precipitation efficiency over northern Eurasia

    Hengchun Ye;Eric J. Fetzer;Sun Wong;Ali Behrangi

  • Stacking machine learning models versus a locally weighted linear model to generate high-resolution monthly precipitation over a topographically complex area

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  • Precipitation Merging Based on the Triple Collocation Method Across Mainland China

    Feng Lyu;Guoqiang Tang;Ali Behrangi;Tsechun Wang

  • A Wet-Bulb Temperature-Based Rain-Snow Partitioning Scheme Improves Snowpack Prediction Over the Drier Western United States

    Yuan Heng Wang;Patrick Broxton;Yuanhao Fang;Ali Behrangi

  • Satellite-Based Precipitation Estimation and Its Application for Streamflow Prediction over Mountainous Western U.S. Basins

    Ali Behrangi;Konstantinos Andreadis;Joshua B. Fisher;F. Joseph Turk

  • Evaluating the Utility of Multispectral Information in Delineating the Areal Extent of Precipitation

    Ali Behrangi;Kuo-lin Hsu;Bisher Imam;Soroosh Sorooshian

  • On the use of satellite, gauge, and reanalysis precipitation products for drought studies

    Saeed Golian;Mostafa Javadian;Ali Behrangi

Frequent Co-Authors

Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine
Joshua B. Fisher
Joshua B. Fisher Chapman University
Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma
Eric J. Fetzer
Eric J. Fetzer California Institute of Technology
Kuolin Hsu
Kuolin Hsu University of California, Irvine
Robert F. Adler
Robert F. Adler University of Maryland, College Park
Graeme L. Stephens
Graeme L. Stephens Jet Propulsion Lab
George J. Huffman
George J. Huffman Goddard Space Flight Center
Armin Sorooshian
Armin Sorooshian University of Arizona
Yudong Tian
Yudong Tian University of Maryland, College Park

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