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Overview

Mekonnen Gebremichael is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular emphasis on hydrology and watershed management.

The main fields of study covered in their work are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of study within these areas include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering

Their research addresses a range of topics related to water and environmental processes, including:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Recent papers by Mekonnen Gebremichael demonstrate a focus on managed aquifer recharge, groundwater sustainability, and hydrological modeling. These include:

  • Managed aquifer recharge implementation criteria to achieve water sustainability, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Can Managed Aquifer Recharge Mitigate the Groundwater Overdraft in California's Central Valley?, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Uncertainty assessment of LSTM based groundwater level predictions, 2022, Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Budyko-Based Long-Term Water and Energy Balance Closure in Global Watersheds From Earth Observations, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • Post-Drought Groundwater Storage Recovery in California's Central Valley, 2021, Water Resources Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mekonnen Gebremichael include:

  • Vahid Nourani
  • Sarfaraz Alam
  • Haowen Yue
  • Dennis P. Lettenmaier
  • Kayden Haleakala

Their work has been published in a variety of venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of High-Resolution Satellite Precipitation Products over Very Complex Terrain in Ethiopia

    Feyera A. Hirpa;Mekonnen Gebremichael;Thomas Hopson

  • Evaluation of satellite rainfall estimates over Ethiopian river basins

    T. G. Romilly;M. Gebremichael

  • Evaluation of satellite rainfall products through hydrologic simulation in a fully distributed hydrologic model

    Menberu M. Bitew;Mekonnen Gebremichael

  • Using self-organizing maps and wavelet transforms for space-time pre-processing of satellite precipitation and runoff data in neural network based rainfall-runoff modeling.

    Vahid Nourani;Vahid Nourani;Aida Hosseini Baghanam;Aida Hosseini Baghanam;Jan Adamowski;Mekonnen Gebremichael

  • Evaluation of MODIS Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) in tropical monsoon regions

    Mekonnen Gebremichael;Ana P. Barros

  • Evaluation of High-Resolution Satellite Rainfall Products through Streamflow Simulation in a Hydrological Modeling of a Small Mountainous Watershed in Ethiopia

    Menberu M. Bitew;Mekonnen Gebremichael;Lula T. Ghebremichael;Yared A. Bayissa

  • Assessment of satellite rainfall products for streamflow simulation in medium watersheds of the Ethiopian highlands

    M. M. Bitew;M. Gebremichael

  • Satellite rainfall applications for surface hydrology

    Mekonnen Gebremichael;Faisal Hossain

  • Managed aquifer recharge implementation criteria to achieve water sustainability.

    Sarfaraz Alam;Annesh Borthakur;Sujith Ravi;Mekonnen Gebremichael

  • 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

  • Comparison of ground-based and remotely-sensed surface soil moisture estimates over complex terrain during SMEX04

    Enrique R. Vivoni;Mekonnen Gebremichael;Christopher J. Watts;Rajat Bindlish

  • Rainfall Variability over Mountainous and Adjacent Lake Areas: The Case of Lake Tana Basin at the Source of the Blue Nile River

    Alemseged T. Haile;Tom Rientjes;Ambro Gieske;Mekonnen Gebremichael

  • Upstream satellite remote sensing for river discharge forecasting: Application to major rivers in South Asia

    Feyera A. Hirpa;Thomas M. Hopson;Tom De Groeve;G. Robert Brakenridge

  • Assessment of the Statistical Characterization of Small-Scale Rainfall Variability from Radar: Analysis of TRMM Ground Validation Datasets

    Mekonnen Gebremichael;Witold F. Krajewski

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

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

  • Accuracy of satellite rainfall estimates in the Blue Nile Basin: Lowland plain versus highland mountain

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  • Characterization of the temporal sampling error in space‐time‐averaged rainfall estimates from satellites

    Mekonnen Gebremichael;Witold F. Krajewski

  • River flow fluctuation analysis: Effect of watershed area

    Feyera A. Hirpa;Mekonnen Gebremichael;Thomas M. Over

  • Evaluation of CMORPH Precipitation Products at Fine Space–Time Scales

    Dawit A. Zeweldi;Mekonnen Gebremichael

  • A Detailed Evaluation of GPCP 1° Daily Rainfall Estimates over the Mississippi River Basin

    Mekonnen Gebremichael;Witold F. Krajewski;Mark L. Morrissey;George J. Huffman

  • Submesoscale spatiotemporal variability of North American monsoon rainfall over complex terrain

    Mekonnen Gebremichael;Enrique R. Vivoni;Christopher J. Watts;Julio C. Rodríguez

  • Evaluation Through Independent Measurements: Complex Terrain and Humid Tropical Region in Ethiopia

    Menberu M. Bitew;Mekonnen Gebremichael

Frequent Co-Authors

Witold F. Krajewski
Witold F. Krajewski University of Iowa
Jun Yan
Jun Yan University of Connecticut
Vahid Nourani
Vahid Nourani University of Tabriz
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou University of Connecticut
Gabriel B. Senay
Gabriel B. Senay United States Geological Survey
Enrique R. Vivoni
Enrique R. Vivoni Arizona State University
Faisal Hossain
Faisal Hossain University of Washington
Isabel F. Trigo
Isabel F. Trigo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Robert F. Adler
Robert F. Adler University of Maryland, College Park
George J. Huffman
George J. Huffman Goddard Space Flight Center

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