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Amir AghaKouchak publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amir AghaKouchak sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 399 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Amir AghaKouchak D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amir AghaKouchak sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

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

  • A typology of compound weather and climate events

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

  • Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

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

  • Multivariate Standardized Drought Index: A parametric multi-index model

    Zengchao Hao;Amir AghaKouchak

  • Climate Extremes and Compound Hazards in a Warming World

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

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

    Amir AghaKouchak;Linyin Cheng;Omid Mazdiyasni;Alireza Farahmand

  • Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system.

    Zengchao Hao;Amir AghaKouchak;Navid Nakhjiri;Alireza Farahmand

  • Substantial increase in concurrent droughts and heatwaves in the United States.

    Omid Mazdiyasni;Amir AghaKouchak

  • Understanding and managing connected extreme events

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

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

    Felicia Chiang;Omid Mazdiyasni;Amir AghaKouchak

  • Non-stationary extreme value analysis in a changing climate

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

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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

    Kaveh Madani;Amir AghaKouchak;Ali Mirchi

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

    Linyin Cheng;Amir AghaKouchak

  • Compounding effects of sea level rise and fluvial flooding

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

  • A generalized framework for deriving nonparametric standardized drought indicators

    Alireza Farahmand;Amir AghaKouchak

  • Water shortages worsened by reservoir effects

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

  • A Nonparametric Multivariate Multi-Index Drought Monitoring Framework

    Zengchao Hao;Amir AghaKouchak

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

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

  • Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves.

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

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

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

  • Water and climate: Recognize anthropogenic drought.

    Amir AghaKouchak;David Feldman;Martin Hoerling;Travis Huxman

  • Aral Sea syndrome desiccates Lake Urmia: Call for action

    Amir AghaKouchak;Hamid Norouzi;Kaveh Madani;Ali Mirchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine
Kuolin Hsu
Kuolin Hsu University of California, Irvine
Brett F. Sanders
Brett F. Sanders University of California, Irvine
Kaveh Madani
Kaveh Madani Yale University
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou University of California, Irvine
Scott Samuelsen
Scott Samuelsen University of California, Irvine
Emad Habib
Emad Habib University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Stanford University
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart
Chiyuan Miao
Chiyuan Miao Beijing Normal University

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