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Haraldur Ólafsson

Haraldur Ólafsson

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Overview

Haraldur Ólafsson is affiliated with the Icelandic Meteorological Office in Iceland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial number of publications in these fields.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Ólafsson's research addresses key topics such as:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Climate variability and models
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Their recent publications illustrate the scope of these topics, including:

  • "Impacts of Drought on Vegetation Assessed by Vegetation Indices and Meteorological Factors in Afghanistan" (2020), published in Remote Sensing
  • "Decadal Urban Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Its Impact on Surface Runoff Potential for the Dhaka City and Surroundings Using Remote Sensing" (2020), published in Remote Sensing
  • "Assessment of Climate Variability among Seasonal Trends Using In Situ Measurements: A Case Study of Punjab, Pakistan" (2021), published in Atmosphere
  • "Comparison of Harmonic Analysis of Time Series (HANTS) and Multi-Singular Spectrum Analysis (M-SSA) in Reconstruction of Long-Gap Missing Data in NDVI Time Series" (2020), published in Remote Sensing
  • "The 2000-2017 drought risk assessment of the western and southwestern basins in Iran" (2020), published in Modeling Earth Systems and Environment

Frequent publication venues for Ólafsson include:

  • Atmosphere
  • Preprints.org
  • Earth Science Informatics
  • Remote Sensing
  • International Agrophysics

Collaborations have been numerous, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Imán Rousta
  • Jaromir Krzyszczak
  • Piotr Baranowski
  • Hao Zhang
  • M Moniruzzaman

Best Publications

  • Airborne observations of the Eyjafjalla volcano ash cloud over Europe during air space closure in April and May 2010

    U. Schumann;B. Weinzierl;O. Reitebuch;H. Schlager

  • The Effect of Rotation and Surface Friction on Orographic Drag

    Haraldur Ólafsson;Philippe Bougeault

  • The Icelandic volcanic aeolian environment: Processes and impacts — A review

    Olafur Arnalds;Olafur Arnalds;Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Haraldur Olafsson;Haraldur Olafsson

  • Spatiotemporal analysis of land use/land cover and its effects on surface urban heat island using Landsat data: a case study of Metropolitan city Tehran (1988-2018).

    Iman Rousta;Sarif;Rajan Gupta;Haraldur Olafsson

  • Nonlinear Flow Past an Elliptic Mountain Ridge

    Haraldur Ólafsson;Philippe Bougeault

  • LOAC: a small aerosol optical counter/sizer for ground-based and balloon measurements of the size distribution and nature of atmospheric particles – Part 1: Principle of measurements and instrument evaluation

    Jean-Baptiste Renard;François Dulac;Gwenaël Berthet;Thibaut Lurton

  • An Earth-system prediction initiative for the twenty-first century

    Melvyn Shapiro;Jagadish Shukla;Gilbert Brunet;Carlos Nobre

  • Impacts of Drought on Vegetation Assessed by Vegetation Indices and Meteorological Factors in Afghanistan

    Iman Rousta;Iman Rousta;Haraldur Olafsson;Moniruzzaman;Hao Zhang

  • THE GREENLAND FLOW DISTORTION EXPERIMENT

    I. A. Renfrew;G. W. K. Moore;J E Kristjánsson;H Ólafsson

  • LOAC: a small aerosol optical counter/sizer for ground-based and balloon measurements of the size distribution and nature of atmospheric particles – Part 2: First results from balloon and unmanned aerial vehicle flights

    Jean-Baptiste Renard;François Dulac;Gwenaël Berthet;Thibaut Lurton

  • The Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer SUMO: Recent developments and applications of a micro-UAS for atmospheric boundary layer research

    Joachim Reuder;Marius O. Jonassen;Haraldur Ólafsson

  • Decadal Urban Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Its Impact on Surface Runoff Potential for the Dhaka City and Surroundings Using Remote Sensing

    Moniruzzaman;Praveen K. Thakur;Pramod Kumar;Ashraful Alam

  • Long-term frequency and characteristics of dust storm events in Northeast Iceland (1949–2011)

    Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Olafur Arnalds;Haraldur Olafsson;Haraldur Olafsson;Haraldur Olafsson

  • Long-term variability of dust events in Iceland (1949-2011)

    Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Olafur Arnalds;Haraldur Ólafsson;Haraldur Ólafsson;Haraldur Ólafsson

  • Quantification of iron-rich volcanogenic dust emissions and deposition over the ocean from Icelandic dust sources

    Olafur Arnalds;Haraldur Ólafsson;Haraldur Ólafsson;Haraldur Ólafsson;Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova

  • Gap-Filling of MODIS Time Series Land Surface Temperature (LST) Products Using Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA)

    Hamid Reza Ghafarian Malamiri;Iman Rousta;Haraldur Olafsson;Hadi Zare

  • Interactions between the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosystems at northern high latitudes

    Michael Boy;Erik S. Thomson;Juan-Camilo Acosta Navarro;Olafur Arnalds

  • Flow in the Lee of Idealized Mountains and Greenland

    GuĐún Nína Petersen;Haraldur Ólafsson;Jón Egill Kristjánsson

  • The weather and climate of Iceland

    Haraldur Ólafsson;Markus Furger;Burghard Brümmer

  • The Norwegian IPY–THORPEX: Polar Lows and Arctic Fronts during the 2008 Andøya Campaign

    J. E. Kristjánsson;I. Barstad;T. Aspelien;I. Føre

  • Modelling of spatial variability and topographic effects over Arctic fjords in Svalbard

    Tiina Kilpeläinen;Tiina Kilpeläinen;Timo Vihma;Haraldur Ólafsson;Haraldur Ólafsson

  • Snow–Dust Storm: Unique case study from Iceland, March 6–7, 2013

    Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova;Olafur Arnalds;Haraldur Olafsson;Haraldur Olafsson;Haraldur Olafsson;Jindrich Hladil

Frequent Co-Authors

Jón Egill Kristjánsson
Jón Egill Kristjánsson University of Oslo
Tómas Jóhannesson
Tómas Jóhannesson Icelandic Meteorological Office
Joan Cuxart
Joan Cuxart University of the Balearic Islands
Trond Iversen
Trond Iversen Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie
Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
Timo Vihma
Timo Vihma Finnish Meteorological Institute
Øystein Hov
Øystein Hov Norwegian Meteorological Institute
François Dulac
François Dulac French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Aki Virkkula
Aki Virkkula Finnish Meteorological Institute
Ian A. Renfrew
Ian A. Renfrew University of East Anglia

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