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Overview

Rezaul Mahmood is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Environmental Engineering.

They have extensively published work related to Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, and Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mahmood include:

  • "Irrigation in the Earth system," 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "A Hydrometeorological Assessment of the Historic 2019 Flood of Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Minimizing trade-offs for sustainable irrigation," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Mapping Heat Vulnerability Index Based on Different Urbanization Levels in Nebraska, USA," 2021, GeoHealth
  • "Panarchy theory for convergence," 2023, Sustainability Science

Frequent co-authors working alongside Mahmood include Michael J. Hayes, Paul Flanagan, Eric Rappin, U. S. Nair, and Jesse E. Bell.

Their work is often published in venues such as the Journal of Hydrometeorology, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Earth Interactions.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • Soil moisture: A central and unifying theme in physical geography:

    David R. Legates;Rezaul Mahmood;Delphis F. Levia;Tracy L. DeLiberty

  • Impacts of land use/land cover change on climate and future research priorities

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • Impact of Irrigation on Midsummer Surface Fluxes and Temperature under Dry Synoptic Conditions: A Regional Atmospheric Model Study of the U.S. High Plains

    Jimmy O. Adegoke;Roger A. Pielke;J. Eastman;Rezaul Mahmood

  • Irrigation in the Earth system

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  • Unresolved issues with the assessment of multidecadal global land surface temperature trends

    Roger A. Pielke;Christopher A. Davey;Dev Niyogi;Souleymane Fall

  • Impacts of irrigation on 20th century temperature in the northern Great Plains

    Rezaul Mahmood;Stuart A. Foster;Travis Keeling;Kenneth G. Hubbard

  • Effect of Time of Temperature Observation and Estimation of Daily Solar Radiation for the Northern Great Plains, USA

    Rezaul Mahmood;Kenneth G. Hubbard

  • Impacts of the agricultural Green Revolution-induced land use changes on air temperatures in India

    Shouraseni Sen Roy;Rezaul Mahmood;Dev Niyogi;Ming Lei

  • Impacts of air temperature variations on the boro rice phenology in Bangladesh: implications for irrigation requirements

    Rezaul Mahmood

  • Simulating sensitivity of soil moisture and evapotranspiration under heterogeneous soils and land uses

    Rezaul Mahmood;Kenneth G Hubbard

  • Air temperature variations and rice productivity in Bangladesh: a comparative study of the performance of the YIELD and the CERES-Rice models

    Rezaul Mahmood

  • Modification of growing‐season surface temperature records in the northern great plains due to land‐use transformation: verification of modelling results and implication for global climate change

    Rezaul Mahmood;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Christy Carlson

  • Relationship Between Soil Moisture of Near Surface and Multiple Depths of the Root Zone Under Heterogeneous Land Uses and Varying Hydroclimatic Conditions

    Rezaul Mahmood;Kenneth G. Hubbard

  • Land use/land cover changes and regional climate over the Loess Plateau during 2001–2009. Part I: observational evidence

    Xingang Fan;Xingang Fan;Zhuguo Ma;Qing Yang;Yunhuan Han

  • Lightning activity associated with precipitation and CAPE over Bangladesh

    Ashraf Dewan;Emmanuel T. Ongee;M. Rafiuddin;Md. Masudur Rahman

  • Observed data-based assessment of relationships among soil moisture at various depths, precipitation, and temperature

    Rezaul Mahmood;Ashley Littell;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Jinsheng You

  • Estimating Daily Dew Point Temperature for the Northern Great Plains Using Maximum and Minimum Temperature

    Kenneth G. Hubbard;Rezaul Mahmood;Christy Carlson

  • Anthropogenic land-use change in the North American tall grass-short grass transition and modification of near-surface hydrologic cycle

    Rezaul Mahmood;Kenneth G. Hubbard

  • The GeoProfile metadata, exposure of instruments, and measurement bias in climatic record revisited

    Rezaul Mahmood;Stuart A. Foster;David Logan

  • Land’s complex role in climate change

    Roger A. Pielke;Rezaul Mahmood;Clive McAlpine

  • Reply to comment by David E. Parker et al. on: Unresolved issues with the assessment of multidecadal global land surface temperature trends

    Roger A. Pielke;Christopher A. Davey;Dev Niyogi;Souleymane Fall

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth G. Hubbard
Kenneth G. Hubbard University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
David R. Legates
David R. Legates University of Delaware
Michael J. Hayes
Michael J. Hayes University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Clive McAlpine
Clive McAlpine University of Queensland
Joseph A. Santanello
Joseph A. Santanello Goddard Space Flight Center
Peter D. Blanken
Peter D. Blanken University of Colorado Boulder
Richard T. McNider
Richard T. McNider University of Alabama in Huntsville
Zong-Liang Yang
Zong-Liang Yang The University of Texas at Austin

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