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Moetasim Ashfaq 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 Moetasim Ashfaq sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 129 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Moetasim Ashfaq 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 Moetasim Ashfaq sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Moetasim Ashfaq is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science. They have also contributed to related subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and oceanography.

The main areas of study in Ashfaq's work include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, hydrology and drought analysis, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, cryospheric studies and observations, climate change impacts on agriculture, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Recent publications by Ashfaq include the following papers:

  • Projected Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Over the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean in CMIP6 GCMs, 2021, Earth Systems and Environment
  • Assessment of CMIP6 Performance and Projected Temperature and Precipitation Changes Over South America, 2021, Earth Systems and Environment
  • Projected future daily characteristics of African precipitation based on global (CMIP5, CMIP6) and regional (CORDEX, CORDEX-CORE) climate models, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • Climate hazard indices projections based on CORDEX-CORE, CMIP5 and CMIP6 ensemble, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • Enhanced risk of concurrent regional droughts with increased ENSO variability and warming, 2022, Nature Climate Change

Ashfaq collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Erika Coppola, Deeksha Rastogi, Muhammad Adnan Abid, Fred Kucharski, and Sushant Das.

Their work is regularly published in several notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Earth Systems and Environment
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth's Future

Best Publications

  • Regional Climate Modeling for the Developing World: The ICTP RegCM3 and RegCNET

    Jeremy S. Pal;Filippo Giorgi;Xunqiang Bi;Nellie Elguindi

  • A multi-model and multi-index evaluation of drought characteristics in the 21st century

    Danielle Touma;Danielle Touma;Moetasim Ashfaq;Munir A. Nayak;Shih-Chieh Kao

  • Snowfall less sensitive to warming in Karakoram than in Himalayas due to a unique seasonal cycle

    Sarah B. Kapnick;Sarah B. Kapnick;Thomas L. Delworth;Moetasim Ashfaq;Sergey Malyshev

  • Suppression of south Asian summer monsoon precipitation in the 21st century

    Moetasim Ashfaq;Ying Shi;Wen Wen Tung;Robert J. Trapp

  • Projected Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Over the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean in CMIP6 GCMs

    Mansour Almazroui;M. Nazrul Islam;Fahad Saeed;Sajjad Saeed;Sajjad Saeed

  • Assessment of CMIP6 performance and projected temperature and precipitation changes over South America

    Mansour Almazroui;Mansour Almazroui;Moetasim Ashfaq;M. Nazrul Islam;Irfan Ur Rashid

  • Intensification of hot extremes in the United States

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Moetasim Ashfaq;Moetasim Ashfaq;Moetasim Ashfaq

  • Drought and immunity determine the intensity of West Nile virus epidemics and climate change impacts

    Sara H. Paull;Sara H. Paull;Daniel E. Horton;Daniel E. Horton;Moetasim Ashfaq;Deeksha Rastogi

  • Response of snow-dependent hydrologic extremes to continued global warming

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Martin Scherer;Moetasim Ashfaq

  • Projected future daily characteristics of African precipitation based on global (CMIP5, CMIP6) and regional (CORDEX, CORDEX-CORE) climate models

    Alessandro Dosio;Martin W. Jury;Martin W. Jury;Mansour Almazroui;Mansour Almazroui;Moetasim Ashfaq

  • Climate hazard indices projections based on CORDEX-CORE, CMIP5 and CMIP6 ensemble

    Erika Coppola;Francesca Raffaele;Filippo Giorgi;Graziano Giuliani

  • Compound Drought and Heatwaves at a Global Scale: The Role of Natural Climate Variability-Associated Synoptic Patterns and Land-Surface Energy Budget Anomalies

    Sourav Mukherjee;Moetasim Ashfaq;Ashok Kumar Mishra

  • Regional hydrologic response to climate change in the conterminous United States using high-resolution hydroclimate simulations

    Bibi S. Naz;Shih-Chieh Kao;Moetasim Ashfaq;Deeksha Rastogi

  • Influence of climate model biases and daily-scale temperature and precipitation events on hydrological impacts assessment: A case study of the United States

    Moetasim Ashfaq;Moetasim Ashfaq;Moetasim Ashfaq;Laura C. Bowling;Keith Cherkauer;Jeremy S. Pal

  • A large-scale, high-resolution hydrological model parameter data set for climate change impact assessment for the conterminous US

    Abdoul A Oubeidillah;Shih-Chieh Kao;Moetasim Ashfaq;Bibi S Naz

  • Near‐term acceleration of hydroclimatic change in the western U.S.

    Moetasim Ashfaq;Moetasim Ashfaq;Moetasim Ashfaq;Subimal Ghosh;Shih-Chieh Kao;Laura C. Bowling

  • Effects of climate change on streamflow extremes and implications for reservoir inflow in the United States

    Bibi S. Naz;Shih-Chieh Kao;Moetasim Ashfaq;Huilin Gao

  • Projecting changes in annual hydropower generation using regional runoff data: An assessment of the United States federal hydropower plants

    Shih Chieh Kao;Michael J. Sale;Moetasim Ashfaq;Rocio Uria Martinez

  • Deadly heat stress to become commonplace across South Asia already at 1.5°C of global warming

    Fahad Saeed;Fahad Saeed;Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner;Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner;Moetasim Ashfaq

  • Assessing mean climate change signals in the global CORDEX-CORE ensemble

    Claas Teichmann;Daniela Jacob;Armelle Reca Remedio;Thomas Remke

  • Influence of SST biases on future climate change projections

    Moetasim Ashfaq;Moetasim Ashfaq;Moetasim Ashfaq;Christopher B. Skinner;Christopher B. Skinner;Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Noah S. Diffenbaugh

  • Summer aridity in the United States: Response to mid‐Holocene changes in insolation and sea surface temperature

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Moetasim Ashfaq;Bryan Shuman;John W. Williams

  • Climate hazard indices projections based on CORDEX-CORE, CMIP5 and CMIP6 ensemble.

    Erika Coppola

  • Near-term acceleration of hydroclimatic change in the western U.S.

    Moetasim Ashfaq

Frequent Co-Authors

Noah S. Diffenbaugh
Noah S. Diffenbaugh Stanford University
Erika Coppola
Erika Coppola International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Filippo Giorgi
Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Jeremy S. Pal
Jeremy S. Pal Loyola Marymount University
Mansour Almazroui
Mansour Almazroui King Abdulaziz University
Xuejie Gao
Xuejie Gao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Benjamin L. Preston
Benjamin L. Preston RAND Corporation
Daniela Jacob
Daniela Jacob Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Laura C. Bowling
Laura C. Bowling Purdue University West Lafayette
Fred Kucharski
Fred Kucharski International Centre for Theoretical Physics

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