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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
76
Citations
19877
World Ranking
1209
National Ranking
42

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Taha B. M. J. Ouarda is affiliated with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions across various subfields, including global and planetary change, environmental engineering, water science and technology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's work spans multiple core topics within environmental science. These topics include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Wind and air flow studies
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations

Frequent co-authors of Taha Ouarda include André St-Hilaire, Ataur Rahman, Pierre Masselot, Fateh Chebana, and Christian Charron.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent venues for their publications are:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energy Conversion and Management
  • Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
  • Water

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Taha Ouarda are:

  • "Regional hydrological frequency analysis at ungauged sites with random forest regression," 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • "A review of sensitivity analysis practices in wind resource assessment," 2021, Energy Conversion and Management
  • "Peaks-over-threshold model in flood frequency analysis: a scoping review," 2022, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
  • "Groundwater level modeling with hybrid artificial intelligence techniques," 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • "Multivariate non-stationary hydrological frequency analysis," 2021, Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

  • Towards operational guidelines for over-threshold modeling

    Michel Lang;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;Bernard Bobée

  • Frequency analysis of a sequence of dependent and/or non-stationary hydro-meteorological observations: A review

    M.N. Khaliq;T.B.M.J. Ouarda;J.-C. Ondo;P. Gachon

  • Generalized maximum likelihood estimators for the nonstationary generalized extreme value model

    S. El Adlouni;T. B. M. J. Ouarda;X. Zhang;R. Roy

  • The Gumbel mixed model for flood frequency analysis

    Sheng Yue;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;Bernard Bobée;Pierre Legendre

  • Use of Systematic, Palaeoflood and Historical Data for the Improvement of Flood Risk Estimation. Review of Scientific Methods

    Gerardo Benito;Michel Lang;Mariano Barriendos;M. Carmen Llasat

  • Identification of hydrological trends in the presence of serial and cross correlations: A review of selected methods and their application to annual flow regimes of Canadian rivers

    M.N. Khaliq;M.N. Khaliq;T.B.M.J. Ouarda;P. Gachon;L. Sushama

  • Automated regression-based statistical downscaling tool

    Masoud Hessami;Philippe Gachon;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;André St-Hilaire

  • Regional flood frequency estimation with canonical correlation analysis

    Taha B.M.J. Ouarda;Claude Girard;George S. Cavadias;Bernard Bobée

  • A Review of Statistical Water Temperature Models

    Loubna Benyahya;Daniel Caissie;André St-Hilaire;Taha B.M.J Ouarda

  • A review of bivariate gamma distributions for hydrological application

    S. Yue;T.B.M.J. Ouarda;B. Bobée

  • On the tails of extreme event distributions in hydrology

    S. El Adlouni;B. Bobée;T.B.M.J. Ouarda

  • Regional flood frequency analysis at ungauged sites using the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system

    Chang Shu;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda

  • Probability distributions of wind speed in the UAE

    Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;Christian Charron;Juyoung Shin;Prashanth R. Marpu

  • On the critical values of the standard normal homogeneity test (SNHT)

    M. N. Khaliq;T. B. M. J. Ouarda

  • Non-stationary regional flood frequency analysis at ungauged sites

    Martin Leclerc;Taha B.M.J. Ouarda

  • Multivariate quantiles in hydrological frequency analysis

    Fateh Chebana;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda

  • Trends in the timing and magnitude of floods in Canada

    Juraj M. Cunderlik;Taha B.M.J. Ouarda

  • Flood frequency analysis at ungauged sites using artificial neural networks in canonical correlation analysis physiographic space

    C. Shu;T. B. M. J. Ouarda

  • Estimation of water quality characteristics at ungauged sites using artificial neural networks and canonical correlation analysis

    B. Khalil;T.B.M.J. Ouarda;T.B.M.J. Ouarda;A. St-Hilaire

  • Physiographical space‐based kriging for regional flood frequency estimation at ungauged sites

    Karem Chokmani;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda

  • Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity modelling of hydrologic time series

    Reza Modarres;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda

Frequent Co-Authors

André St-Hilaire
André St-Hilaire Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Isabella Velicogna
Isabella Velicogna University of California, Irvine
M. Venkat Ratnam
M. Venkat Ratnam National Atmospheric Research Laboratory
Donald H. Burn
Donald H. Burn University of Waterloo
Paul H. Whitfield
Paul H. Whitfield University of Saskatchewan
Christopher Spence
Christopher Spence Environment and Climate Change Canada
Eric Lavigne
Eric Lavigne University of Ottawa
Laxmi Sushama
Laxmi Sushama McGill University
Gilles Boulet
Gilles Boulet Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart

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