2026 Amir AghaKouchak: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	101	356	333	157	142	399	37237

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2013 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Amir AghaKouchak is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several major topics such as Climate Variability and Models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Amir AghaKouchak include:

A typology of compound weather and climate events, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Climate Extremes and Compound Hazards in a Warming World, 2020, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Understanding and managing connected extreme events, 2020, Nature Climate Change
Evidence of anthropogenic impacts on global drought frequency, duration, and intensity, 2021, Nature Communications
Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction, 2020, Nature Climate Change

The scientist frequently publishes in journals including Earth's Future, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Research Letters, Scientific Reports, and Journal of Hydrology.

Amir AghaKouchak collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Mojtaba Sadegh, Farshid Vahedifard, Laurie S. Huning, John T. Abatzoglou, and Iman Mallakpour.

In addition to journal publications, Amir AghaKouchak has contributed to book publications such as a work published by the American Society of Civil Engineers titled "Impacts of Future Weather and Climate Extremes on United States Infrastructure" in 2021.

The scientist has received recognition through awards like the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019 and the Hellman Fellowship in 2013.

Best Publications

Future climate risk from compound events

Jakob Zscheischler;Seth Westra;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Sonia I. Seneviratne

2120
Citations
A typology of compound weather and climate events

Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Olivia Martius;Olivia Martius;Seth Westra;Emanuele Bevacqua

1279
Citations
Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

A. AghaKouchak;A. Farahmand;F. S. Melton;J. Teixeira

999
Citations
Multivariate Standardized Drought Index: A parametric multi-index model

Zengchao Hao;Amir AghaKouchak

953
Citations
Climate Extremes and Compound Hazards in a Warming World

Amir AghaKouchak;Felicia Chiang;Laurie S. Huning;Charlotte A. Love

911
Citations
Global warming and changes in risk of concurrent climate extremes: Insights from the 2014 California drought

Amir AghaKouchak;Linyin Cheng;Omid Mazdiyasni;Alireza Farahmand

753
Citations
Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system.

Zengchao Hao;Amir AghaKouchak;Navid Nakhjiri;Alireza Farahmand

742
Citations
Substantial increase in concurrent droughts and heatwaves in the United States.

Omid Mazdiyasni;Amir AghaKouchak

696
Citations
Understanding and managing connected extreme events

Colin Raymond;Colin Raymond;Radley M. Horton;Jakob Zscheischler;Olivia Martius

597
Citations
Evidence of anthropogenic impacts on global drought frequency, duration, and intensity.

Felicia Chiang;Omid Mazdiyasni;Amir AghaKouchak

586
Citations
Non-stationary extreme value analysis in a changing climate

Linyin Cheng;Amir AghaKouchak;Eric Gilleland;Richard W Katz

581
Citations
The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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549
Citations
Iran’s Socio-economic Drought: Challenges of a Water-Bankrupt Nation

Kaveh Madani;Amir AghaKouchak;Ali Mirchi

540
Citations
Nonstationary precipitation Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves for infrastructure design in a changing climate.

Linyin Cheng;Amir AghaKouchak

532
Citations
Compounding effects of sea level rise and fluvial flooding

Hamed R. Moftakhari;Gianfausto Salvadori;Amir AghaKouchak;Brett F. Sanders

522
Citations
A generalized framework for deriving nonparametric standardized drought indicators

Alireza Farahmand;Amir AghaKouchak

508
Citations
Water shortages worsened by reservoir effects

Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Niko Wanders;Amir AghaKouchak;Linda Kuil

468
Citations
A Nonparametric Multivariate Multi-Index Drought Monitoring Framework

Zengchao Hao;Amir AghaKouchak

452
Citations
Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

Angeline G. Pendergrass;Gerald A. Meehl;Roger Pulwarty;Mike Hobbins;Mike Hobbins

444
Citations
Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves.

Omid Mazdiyasni;Amir AghaKouchak;Steven J. Davis;Shahrbanou Madadgar

422
Citations
Hydrologic evaluation of satellite precipitation products over a mid-size basin

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

419
Citations
Water and climate: Recognize anthropogenic drought.

Amir AghaKouchak;David Feldman;Martin Hoerling;Travis Huxman

416
Citations
Aral Sea syndrome desiccates Lake Urmia: Call for action

Amir AghaKouchak;Hamid Norouzi;Kaveh Madani;Ali Mirchi

402
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine

Kuolin Hsu University of California, Irvine

Brett F. Sanders University of California, Irvine

Kaveh Madani Yale University

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou University of California, Irvine

Scott Samuelsen University of California, Irvine

Emad Habib University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Steven J. Davis Stanford University

András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart

Chiyuan Miao Beijing Normal University

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