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Sultan Hameed is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work addresses topics that include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Coastal and Marine Dynamics.

Hameed's publications have appeared in a variety of scientific journals with multiple contributions to Geophysical Research Letters and the International Journal of Climatology. Other venues include the Journal of Physical Oceanography, Journal of Food and Agricultural Technology Research, and International Journal of Heat and Technology.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Icelandic Low and Azores High Migrations Impact Florida Current Transport in Winter" (2021), Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • "Has the Gulf Stream Slowed or Shifted in the Altimetry Era?" (2021), Geophysical Research Letters
  • "North Atlantic centers of action and seasonal to subseasonal temperature variability in Europe and eastern North America" (2020), International Journal of Climatology
  • "Reconsidering the Relationship Between Gulf Stream Transport and Dynamic Sea Level at U.S. East Coast" (2023), Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Impact of the Icelandic Low on British climate in winter" (2020), International Journal of Climatology

Frequent coauthors include Christopher L. Wolfe, Lequan Chi, Mahmoud Osman, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, and Hamada S. Badr.

Best Publications

  • An evaluation of subsidence rates and sea‐level variability in the northern Gulf of Mexico

    Alexander S. Kolker;Mead A. Allison;Sultan Hameed

  • Tropospheric nitrogen: A three‐dimensional study of sources, distributions, and deposition

    J. E. Penner;C. S. Atherton;J. Dignon;S. J. Ghan

  • Trends in extreme daily rainfall and temperature indices over South Asia

    M. M. Sheikh;N. Manzoor;J. Ashraf;M. Adnan

  • Changes in the geographical distributions of global emissions of NOx and SOx from fossil-fuel combustion between 1966 and 1980

    Sultan Hameed;Jane Dignon

  • Ecosystem responses in the southern Caribbean Sea to global climate change

    Gordon T. Taylor;Frank E. Muller-Karger;Robert C. Thunell;Mary I. Scranton

  • Simulation of the Northern Summer Monsoon in the ECMWF Model: Sensitivity to Horizontal Resolution

    Kennetu R. Sperber;Sultan Hameed;Gerald L. Potter;James S. Boyle

  • Seasonal and interannual dynamics of Calanus finmarchicus in the Gulf of Maine (Northeastern US shelf) with reference to the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Alessandra Conversi;Sergey Piontkovski;Sultan Hameed

  • Global Emissions of Nitrogen and Sulfur Oxides in Fossil Fuel Combustion 1970–1986

    Sultan Hameed;Jane Dignon

  • Core polarization corrections to oscillator strengths and singlet-triplet splittings in alkaline earth atoms

    S Hameed

  • Saharan mineral dust transport into the Caribbean: Observed atmospheric controls and trends

    O. M. Doherty;N. Riemer;S. Hameed

  • Impact of altitude and latitude on changes in temperature extremes over South Asia during 1971–2000

    Jayashree Revadekar;S Hameed;Dean Collins;Michael John Manton

  • Solar cycle and the Pacific ‘centers of action’

    P. Christoforou;S. Hameed

  • solar cycle and the Pacific centers of action

    P. Christoforou;S. Hameed

  • High-resolution records of the response of coastal wetland systems to long-term and short-term sea-level variability

    Alexander S. Kolker;Steven L. Goodbred;Sultan Hameed;J. Kirk Cochran

  • The dominant influence of the Icelandic Low on the position of the Gulf Stream northwall

    Sultan Hameed;Sergey Piontkovski

  • The variation of moisture conditions in China during the last 2000 years

    Gaofa Gong;Sultan Hameed

  • An analysis of periodicities in the 1470 to 1974 Beijing precipitation record

    S. Hameed;W. M. Yeh;M. T. Li;R. D. Cess

  • Harmonic analysis of the seasonal cycle in precipitation over the United States: a comparison between observations and a general circulation model

    Kristina I. Kirkyla;Sultan Hameed

  • Response of the global climate to changes in atmospheric chemical composition due to fossil fuel burning

    Sultan Hameed;Robert D. Cess;Joseph S. Hogan

  • On the widespread winter fog in northeastern Pakistan and India

    Sultan Hameed;M. Ishaq Mirza;B. M. Ghauri;Z. R. Siddiqui

  • Meteorologically driven trends in sea level rise

    Alexander S. Kolker;Sultan Hameed

  • On the variability of African dust transport across the Atlantic

    N. Riemer;O. M. Doherty;S. Hameed

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Cess
Robert D. Cess Stony Brook University
Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Kenneth R. Sperber
Kenneth R. Sperber Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Steven L. Goodbred
Steven L. Goodbred Vanderbilt University
Julienne Stroeve
Julienne Stroeve University of Manitoba
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Drew T. Shindell
Drew T. Shindell Duke University
Thomas L. Mote
Thomas L. Mote University of Georgia
Wei-Chyung Wang
Wei-Chyung Wang University at Albany, State University of New York
Andrew A. Lacis
Andrew A. Lacis Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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