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D-Index
49
Citations
8787
World Ranking
5251
National Ranking
1932

Overview

Faisal Hossain is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and focuses on research within Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ocean Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their recent research outputs include papers published in diverse scientific journals. Notable publications include:

  • Towards a global Reservoir Assessment Tool for predicting hydrologic impacts and operating patterns of existing and planned reservoirs, 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Satellite observations reveal 13 years of reservoir filling strategies, operating rules, and hydrological alterations in the Upper Mekong River basin, 2022, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Predicting the Likely Thermal Impact of Current and Future Dams Around the World, 2021, Earth's Future
  • Hydropower's hidden transformation of rivers in the Mekong, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Hindcast and forecast of daily inundation extents using satellite SAR and altimetry data with rotated empirical orthogonal function analysis: Case study in Tonle Sap Lake Floodplain, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

The primary topics addressed by their work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Transboundary Water Resource Management, and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Faisal Hossain include Hyongki Lee, Sanchit Minocha, S. Ahmad, Pritam Das, and Tamlin M. Pavelsky.

They have published extensively in selected scientific venues, with multiple contributions to Environmental Modelling & Software, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

In addition to journal articles, Faisal Hossain has contributed to book publications, including a forthcoming book titled Satellite Remote Sensing for Water Management to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence

    Roger A. Pielke Sr.;Andy Pitman;Dev Niyogi;Rezaul Mahmood

  • An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope

    M. Durand;C. J. Gleason;P. A. Garambois;D. Bjerklie

  • A first approach to global runoff simulation using satellite rainfall estimation

    Yang Hong;Robert F. Adler;Faisal Hossain;Scott Curtis

  • The Influence of Large Dams on Surrounding Climate and Precipitation Patterns

    Ahmed Mohamed Degu;Faisal Hossain;Dev Niyogi;Roger Pielke

  • A two-dimensional satellite rainfall error model

    F. Hossain;E.N. Anagnostou

  • Contamination and ecological risk assessment of trace elements in sediments of the rivers of Sundarban mangrove forest, Bangladesh.

    M.A. Islam;A. Al-mamun;F. Hossain;S.B. Quraishi

  • Satellite rainfall applications for surface hydrology

    Mekonnen Gebremichael;Faisal Hossain

  • Investigating Error Metrics for Satellite Rainfall Data at Hydrologically Relevant Scales

    Faisal Hossain;George J. Huffman

  • Characterization of complex fluvial systems using remote sensing of spatial and temporal water level variations in the Amazon, Congo, and Brahmaputra Rivers.

    Hahn Chul Jung;James Hamski;Michael Durand;Doug Alsdorf

  • Understanding the Dependence of Satellite Rainfall Uncertainty on Topography and Climate for Hydrologic Model Simulation

    Abebe S. Gebregiorgis;F. Hossain

  • Assessment of current passive-microwave- and infrared-based satellite rainfall remote sensing for flood prediction

    Faisal Hossain;Emmanouil N. Anagnostou

  • Benchmarking High-Resolution Global Satellite Rainfall Products to Radar and Rain-Gauge Rainfall Estimates

    E.N. Anagnostou;V. Maggioni;E.I. Nikolopoulos;T. Meskele

  • Understanding the Scale Relationships of Uncertainty Propagation of Satellite Rainfall through a Distributed Hydrologic Model

    Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos;Emmanouil N. Anagnostou;Faisal Hossain;Mekonnen Gebremichael

  • Hydrological model sensitivity to parameter and radar rainfall estimation uncertainty

    Faisal Hossain;Emmanouil N. Anagnostou;Tufa Dinku;Marco Borga

  • Forecasting transboundary river water elevations from space

    Sylvain Biancamaria;Faisal Hossain;D. P. Lettenmaier

  • Satellite-based Flood Modeling Using TRMM-based Rainfall Products.

    Amanda Harris;Sayma Rahman;Faisal Hossain;Lance Yarborough

  • Understanding the impact of dam‐triggered land use/land cover change on the modification of extreme precipitation

    Abel T. Woldemichael;Faisal Hossain;Roger Pielke;Adriana Beltrán-Przekurat

  • Proof of Concept of an Altimeter-Based River Forecasting System for Transboundary Flow Inside Bangladesh

    Faisal Hossain;A. H. Siddique-E-Akbor;Liton Chandra Mazumder;Sardar M. ShahNewaz

  • A review of applications of satellite earth observation data for global societal benefit and stewardship of planet earth

    Pratistha Kansakar;Faisal Hossain

  • Comparison of ordinary kriging and artificial neural network for spatial mapping of arsenic contamination of groundwater

    Mohammad Chowdhury;Ali Alouani;Faisal Hossain

  • Dealing With Complexity and Extreme Events Using a Bottom-Up, Resource-Based Vulnerability Perspective

    Roger A. Pielke;Rob Wilby;Dev Niyogi;Faisal Hossain

Frequent Co-Authors

Hyongki Lee
Hyongki Lee University of Houston
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou University of Connecticut
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
Tamlin M. Pavelsky
Tamlin M. Pavelsky University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
C. K. Shum
C. K. Shum The Ohio State University
Bart Nijssen
Bart Nijssen University of Washington
Michael Durand
Michael Durand The Ohio State University
Casey Brown
Casey Brown University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gordon W. Holtgrieve
Gordon W. Holtgrieve University of Washington

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