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Ehsan Forootan

Ehsan Forootan

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Earth Science

D-Index
42
Citations
5269
World Ranking
5372
National Ranking
53

Overview

Ehsan Forootan is a researcher affiliated with Aalborg University in Denmark. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Geophysics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main topics of research include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, GNSS positioning and interference, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods, and Earthquake Detection and Analysis.

Recent publications by Ehsan Forootan illustrate this multidisciplinary approach and include the following works:

  • Comparison of Data-Driven Techniques to Reconstruct (1992-2002) and Predict (2017-2018) GRACE-Like Gridded Total Water Storage Changes Using Climate Inputs, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Bayesian convolutional neural networks for predicting the terrestrial water storage anomalies during GRACE and GRACE-FO gap, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • An Iterative ICA-Based Reconstruction Method to Produce Consistent Time-Variable Total Water Storage Fields Using GRACE and Swarm Satellite Data, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Machine learning based downscaling of GRACE-estimated groundwater in Central Valley, California, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Exploring groundwater and soil water storage changes across the CONUS at 12.5 km resolution by a Bayesian integration of GRACE data into W3RA, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Ehsan Forootan has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Water Resources Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Scientific Reports
  • Earth and Space Science

Collaborations form an important part of their research activity. Frequent co-authors include Saeed Farzaneh, Maike Schumacher, Fan Yang, C. K. Shum, and Nooshin Mehrnegar.

Best Publications

  • Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes over the Greater Horn of Africa region from 1961 to 2010

    Philip Aming'o Omondi;Joseph L. Awange;Ehsan Forootan;Laban Ayieko Ogallo

  • Revealing the physics of movement: Comparing the similarity of movement characteristics of different types of moving objects

    Somayeh Dodge;Robert Weibel;Ehsan Forootan

  • Separation of large scale water storage patterns over Iran using GRACE, altimetry and hydrological data

    E. Forootan;R. Rietbroek;J. Kusche;M. Sharifi

  • Understanding the global hydrological droughts of 2003?2016 and their relationships with teleconnections

    Ehsan Forootan;Ehsan Forootan;M. Khaki;M. Schumacher;V. Wulfmeyer

  • Uncertainties in remotely sensed precipitation data over Africa

    J.L. Awange;V.G. Ferreira;E. Forootan;E. Forootan;Khandu

  • Improving drought simulations within the Murray-Darling Basin by combined calibration/assimilation of GRACE data into the WaterGAP Global Hydrology Model

    M. Schumacher;M. Schumacher;M. Schumacher;Ehsan Forootan;A.I.J.M. van Dijk;H. Müller Schmied

  • Comparison of Data-Driven Techniques to Reconstruct (1992–2002) and Predict (2017–2018) GRACE-Like Gridded Total Water Storage Changes Using Climate Inputs

    Fupeng Li;Fupeng Li;Jürgen Kusche;Roelof Rietbroek;Zhengtao Wang

  • Water storage changes and climate variability within the Nile Basin between 2002 and 2011

    Joseph Awange;Joseph Awange;E. Forootan;Michael Kuhn;J. Kusche

  • Does GRACE see the terrestrial water cycle 'intensifying'?

    Annette Eicker;Ehsan Forootan;Anne Springer;Laurent Longuevergne

  • Separation of global time-variable gravity signals into maximally independent components

    Ehsan Forootan;J. Kusche

  • Potential impacts of climate and environmental change on the stored water of Lake Victoria Basin and economic implications

    Joseph Awange;R. Anyah;N. Agola;E. Forootan

  • The updated ESA Earth System Model for future gravity mission simulation studies

    Henryk Dobslaw;Inga Bergmann-Wolf;Robert Dill;Ehsan Forootan

  • Understanding linkages between global climate indices and terrestrial water storage changes over Africa using GRACE products.

    R. Anyah;E. Forootan;Joseph Awange;M. Khaki

  • Characterization of Ethiopian mega hydrogeological regimes using GRACE, TRMM and GLDAS datasets

    J. Awange;M. Gebremichael;Ehsan Forootan;G. Wakbulcho;G. Wakbulcho

  • Independent patterns of water mass anomalies over Australia from satellite data and models

    E. Forootan;Joseph Awange;Joseph Awange;J. Kusche;B. Heck

  • Multivariate Prediction of Total Water Storage Changes Over West Africa from Multi-Satellite Data

    Ehsan Forootan;Jürgen Kusche;Ina Loth;Wolf-Dieter Schuh

  • Exploring the influence of precipitation extremes and human water use on total water storage (TWS) changes in the Ganges‐Brahmaputra‐Meghna River Basin

    Khandu;Ehsan Forootan;Maike Schumacher;Joseph L. Awange

  • Exploring hydro-meteorological drought patterns over the Greater Horn of Africa (1979–2014) using remote sensing and reanalysis products

    Joseph Langat Awange;Joseph Langat Awange;Joseph Langat Awange;Khandu;Markus Schumacher;Ehsan Forootan;Ehsan Forootan;Ehsan Forootan

  • Bayesian convolutional neural networks for predicting the terrestrial water storage anomalies during GRACE and GRACE-FO gap

    Shaoxing Mo;Yulong Zhong;Ehsan Forootan;Nooshin Mehrnegar

  • Decadal rainfall variability modes in observed rainfall records over East Africa and their relations to historical sea surface temperature changes

    P. Omondi;J. Awange;J. Awange;L.A. Ogallo;R.A. Okoola

  • Assessing sequential data assimilation techniques for integrating GRACE data into a hydrological model

    M. Khaki;I. Hoteit;Michael Kuhn;Joseph Awange

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph L. Awange
Joseph L. Awange Curtin University
Jürgen Kusche
Jürgen Kusche University of Bonn
Michael Kuhn
Michael Kuhn Curtin University
C. K. Shum
C. K. Shum The Ohio State University
Ibrahim Hoteit
Ibrahim Hoteit King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Laurent Longuevergne
Laurent Longuevergne University of Rennes
Michael Bliss Singer
Michael Bliss Singer Cardiff University
Guillaume Ramillien
Guillaume Ramillien Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michael W. I. Schmidt
Michael W. I. Schmidt University of Zurich
Hannes Müller Schmied
Hannes Müller Schmied Goethe University Frankfurt

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