Elfatih Eltahir

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Elfatih Eltahir is affiliated with the following schools: National University of Ireland, University of California, Irvine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Khartoum

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Bachelors Civil Engineering University of Khartoum

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According to Wikipedia, Elfatih Ali Babiker Eltahir is a Sudanese -American Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Hydrology and Climate, and Director of the MIT-UM6P Research Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Simulation of regional‐scale water and energy budgets: Representation of subgrid cloud and precipitation processes within RegCM (2000) (689)
A Soil Moisture–Rainfall Feedback Mechanism: 1. Theory and observations (1998) (598)
Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability (2016) (460)
Precipitation recycling in the Amazon basin (1994) (416)
Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia (2017) (309)
Atmospheric Controls on Soil Moisture-Boundary Layer Interactions. Part II: Feedbacks within the Continental United States (2003) (254)
An analysis of the soil moisture‐rainfall feedback, based on direct observations from Illinois (1997) (248)
Dynamics of Wet and Dry Years in West Africa (1996) (243)
On the asymmetric response of aquifer water level to floods and droughts in Illinois (1999) (235)
North China Plain threatened by deadly heatwaves due to climate change and irrigation (2018) (234)
Pathways Relating Soil Moisture Conditions to Future Summer Rainfall within a Model of the Land-Atmosphere System (2001) (231)
The Role of Vegetation in the Dynamics of West African Monsoons (1998) (215)
El Niño and the Natural Variability in the Flow of the Nile River (1996) (211)
Representation of Water Table Dynamics in a Land Surface Scheme. Part I: Model Development (2005) (202)
ENSO and the natural variability in the flow of tropical rivers (1997) (191)
On the sensitivity of drainage density to climate change (1998) (178)
Ecosystem dynamics and the Sahel Drought (2000) (177)
Role of vegetation in sustaining large‐scale atmospheric circulations in the tropics (1996) (169)
A Soil Moisture–Rainfall Feedback Mechanism: 2. Numerical experiments (1998) (148)
The response to deforestation and desertification in a model of West African monsoons (1997) (136)
Summer dryness in a warmer climate: a process study with a regional climate model (2002) (116)
Hydrology of malaria: Model development and application to a Sahelian village (2008) (116)
Role of vegetation dynamics in enhancing the low‐frequency variability of the Sahel rainfall (2000) (116)
Hydroclimatology of Illinois: A comparison of monthly evaporation estimates based on atmospheric water balance and soil water balance (1998) (111)
Decadal variability of rainfall in the Sahel: results from the coupled GENESIS-IBIS atmosphere-biosphere model (2004) (104)
Climate change enhances interannual variability of the Nile river flow (2017) (102)
Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot? (2020) (100)
Incorporating the effects of humidity in a mechanistic model of Anopheles gambiae mosquito population dynamics in the Sahel region of Africa (2013) (92)
Assessment of the Regional Climate Model Version 3 over the Maritime Continent Using Different Cumulus Parameterization and Land Surface Schemes (2012) (92)
A satellite-based Daily Actual Evapotranspiration estimation algorithm over South Florida (2009) (91)
The Impact of Observed Deforestation on the Mesoscale Distribution of Rainfall and Clouds in Amazonia (2000) (89)
Sources of moisture for rainfall in West Africa (1996) (86)
Biosphere—atmosphere interactions over West Africa. II: Multiple climate equilibria (2007) (82)
Aggregation‐disaggregation properties of a stochastic rainfall model (1994) (80)
Representation of Water Table Dynamics in a Land Surface Scheme. Part II: Subgrid Variability (2005) (79)
Relationship between surface conditions and subsequent rainfall in convective storms (1996) (71)
A feedback mechanism between soil‐moisture distribution and storm tracks (2003) (70)
Estimation of the fractional coverage of rainfall in climate models (1993) (70)
Rainfall consistently enhanced around the Gezira Scheme in East Africa due to irrigation (2015) (66)
Hypsometric control on surface and subsurface runoff (2008) (65)
A mechanistic approach for accurate simulation of village scale malaria transmission (2009) (63)
Atmospheric controls on soil moisture‐boundary layer interactions: Three‐dimensional wind effects (2003) (63)
Coupling of Integrated Biosphere Simulator to Regional Climate Model Version 3 (2009) (62)
A Description of Rainfall Interception over Large Areas. (1993) (62)
Use of ENSO information in medium- and long-range forecasting of the Nile floods (1999) (62)
Twentieth Century Regional Climate Change During the Summer in the Central United States Attributed to Agricultural Intensification (2017) (60)
Droughts and floods over the upper catchment of the Blue Nile and their connections to the timing of El Niño and La Niña events (2013) (59)
Forest on the edge: Seasonal cloud forest in Oman creates its own ecological niche (2006) (59)
Statistical modeling of the effect of rainfall flushing on dengue transmission in Singapore (2018) (58)
Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Environmental Suitability for Malaria Transmission in West Africa (2013) (57)
Sensitivity of Regional Climate to Deforestation in the Amazon Basin (1994) (55)
On the response of the tropical atmosphere to large-scale deforestation (1993) (53)
A mechanism relating tropical Atlantic spring sea surface temperature and west African rainfall (1999) (52)
Ecohydrology of a seasonal cloud forest in Dhofar: 1. Field experiment (2007) (52)
Geomorphic controls on regional base flow (2001) (50)
Impact of Potential Large-Scale Irrigation on the West African Monsoon and Its Dependence on Location of Irrigated Area (2014) (48)
Teleconnections of soil moisture and rainfall during the 1993 midwest summer flood (2002) (48)
On the response of the tropical atmosphere tio large‐scale deforestation (1993) (47)
Estimation of the Heat and Water Budgets of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf Using a Regional Climate Model (2015) (46)
The climatology of dust aerosol over the arabian peninsula (2015) (46)
A Stochastic Linear Theory of Mesoscale Circulation Induced by the Thermal Heterogeneity of the Land Surface. (1996) (44)
The Hydroclimatology of Kuwait: Explaining the Variability of Rainfall at Seasonal and Interannual Time Scales (2008) (44)
Assessment of the Impact of Climate Shifts on Malaria Transmission in the Sahel (2009) (44)
Nilometers, El Niño, and climate variability (1999) (41)
Sensitivity of regional hydrology to climate changes, with application to the Illinois River basin (2005) (41)
Ecohydrology of a seasonal cloud forest in Dhofar: 2. Role of clouds, soil type, and rooting depth in tree‐grass competition (2007) (41)
Drought frequency analysis of annual rainfall series in central and western Sudan (1992) (41)
Simulation of the diurnal variation of rainfall over the western Maritime Continent using a regional climate model (2017) (40)
Role of the biosphere in the mid‐Holocene climate of West Africa (2003) (38)
Regional Climate Modeling over the Maritime Continent. Part II: New Parameterization for Autoconversion of Convective Rainfall (2014) (38)
A feedback mechanism in annual rainfall, Central Sudan (1989) (38)
Climate change unlikely to increase malaria burden in West Africa (2016) (37)
Regional Climate Modeling over the Maritime Continent. Part I: New Parameterization for Convective Cloud Fraction (2014) (37)
Introducing an Irrigation Scheme to a Regional Climate Model: A Case Study over West Africa (2014) (37)
Coupling of a regional atmospheric model (RegCM3) and a regional oceanic model (FVCOM) over the maritime continent (2014) (36)
Efficacy of local neem extracts for sustainable malaria vector control in an African village (2008) (36)
Environmental determinants of malaria transmission in African villages (2016) (35)
Estimation of evaporation over the upper Blue Nile basin by combining observations from satellites and river flow gauges (2016) (34)
Analysis of the pathways relating soil moisture and subsequent rainfall in Illinois (1999) (34)
A Sequence of Flushing and Drying of Breeding Habitats of Aedes aegypti (L.) Prior to the Low Dengue Season in Singapore (2016) (33)
Improving the Simulation of the West African Monsoon Using the MIT Regional Climate Model (2014) (32)
Role of topography in facilitating coexistence of trees and grasses within savannas (2004) (32)
Modeling the Biosphere–Atmosphere System: The Impact of the Subgrid Variability in Rainfall Interception (2000) (31)
Impact of CO2 concentration changes on the biosphere-atmosphere system of West Africa (2002) (31)
Epidemiology of malaria in an area of seasonal transmission in Niger and implications for the design of a seasonal malaria chemoprevention strategy (2013) (30)
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Sustainability in the Upper Blue Nile (UBN) Basin (2019) (30)
On the Environmental Determinants of COVID‐19 Seasonality (2021) (29)
A sensitivity study on the role of the swamps of southern Sudan in the summer climate of North Africa using a regional climate model (2013) (28)
Effects of mineral aerosols on the summertime climate of southwest Asia: Incorporating subgrid variability in a dust emission scheme (2010) (28)
Explaining and forecasting interannual variability in the flow of the Nile River (2013) (28)
Stochastic analysis of the relationship between topography and the spatial distribution of soil moisture (1998) (28)
Impact of Irrigation on Regional Climate Over Eastern China (2019) (27)
Modeling the Summertime Climate of Southwest Asia: The Role of Land Surface Processes in Shaping the Climate of Semiarid Regions (2012) (27)
Modeling the hydroclimatology of the midwestern United States. Part 1: current climate (2011) (26)
Patterns of Urban Housing Shape Dengue Distribution in Singapore at Neighborhood and Country Scales (2018) (26)
Multiple Salinity Equilibria and Resilience of Persian/Arabian Gulf Basin Salinity to Brine Discharge (2020) (25)
Enhancement of rainfall and runoff upstream from irrigation location in a climate model of West Africa (2014) (25)
Future climate change enhances rainfall seasonality in a regional model of western Maritime Continent (2018) (25)
Projections of rising heat stress over the western Maritime Continent from dynamically downscaled climate simulations (2018) (23)
Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Mesoscale Circulations Induced by the Thermal Heterogeneities of Land Surface (1998) (22)
Climate change impacts on the Water Highway project in Morocco (2019) (21)
Hydrological Cycles over the Congo and Upper Blue Nile Basins: Evaluation of General Circulation Model Simulations and Reanalysis Products (2013) (21)
Using a horizontal precipitation model to investigate the role of turbulent cloud deposition in survival of a seasonal cloud forest in Dhofar (2008) (20)
Hydrologic modeling to screen potential environmental management methods for malaria vector control in Niger (2008) (19)
Past and future trends of Egypt’s water consumption and its sources (2021) (19)
Prediction of regional water balance components based on climate, soil, and vegetation parameters, with application to the Illinois River Basin (2004) (19)
Local feedback mechanisms of the shallow water region around the Maritime Continent (2014) (19)
The Sensitivity of Latent Heat Flux to Changes in the Radiative Forcing: A Framework for Comparing Models and Observations (2010) (18)
A see‐saw oscillation between the Amazon and Congo basins (2004) (18)
On the use of satellite‐based estimates of rainfall temporal distribution to simulate the potential for malaria transmission in rural Africa (2011) (17)
Water Budget Analysis in Arid Regions, Application to the United Arab Emirates (2016) (17)
Simulating the connections of ENSO and the rainfall regime of East Africa and the upper Blue Nile region using a climate model of the Tropics (2014) (17)
Impact of Brine Discharge from Seawater Desalination Plants on Persian/Arabian Gulf Salinity (2019) (16)
Modelling and observing the role of wind in Anopheles population dynamics around a reservoir (2018) (16)
Linking environmental variability to village-scale malaria transmission using a simple immunity model (2013) (16)
Coupled Ocean‐Atmosphere Modeling Over the Maritime Continent: A Review (2020) (16)
Uncertainty in modeled and observed climate change impacts on American Midwest hydrology (2015) (15)
The role of mineral aerosols in shaping the regional climate of West Africa (2014) (14)
Modeling the Hydroclimatology of Kuwait: The Role of Subcloud Evaporation in Semiarid Climates (2008) (14)
Summer Climate Change in the Midwest and Great Plains due to Agricultural Development during the Twentieth Century (2019) (14)
Understanding climate change over the southwestern Mediterranean using high-resolution simulations (2020) (13)
Modeling the hydroclimatology of the midwestern United States. Part 2: future climate (2011) (12)
Future Heat Stress During Muslim Pilgrimage (Hajj) Projected to Exceed “Extreme Danger” Levels (2019) (12)
Role of ecosystem dynamics in biosphere‐atmosphere interaction over the coastal region of West Africa (1999) (12)
Impact of climate change on malaria in Africa: a combined modelling and observational study (2017) (12)
Simulations of the observed ‘jump’ in the West African monsoon and its underlying dynamics using the MIT regional climate model (2018) (12)
Seasonal Precipitation Forecast Over Morocco (2018) (11)
Increased risk of malaria transmission with warming temperature in the Ethiopian Highlands (2020) (11)
The role of clouds in the surface energy balance over the Amazon forest (1998) (10)
Role of the Indian Ocean sea surface temperature in shaping the natural variability in the flow of Nile River (2014) (10)
Environmental Determinants of Malaria Transmission Around the Koka Reservoir in Ethiopia (2018) (10)
Early warnings of the potential for malaria transmission in rural Africa using the hydrology, entomology and malaria transmission simulator (HYDREMATS) (2010) (9)
Near-term regional climate change over Bangladesh (2021) (9)
Dynamics of seasonal snowpack over the High Atlas (2020) (8)
Prevention of malaria transmission around reservoirs: an observational and modelling study on the effect of wind direction and village location. (2018) (8)
Hysteresis in simulations of malaria transmission (2017) (8)
Satellite-Based Daily Actual Evapotranspiration Estimation (2003) (7)
Interactions of hydrology and climate in the Amazon basin (1993) (7)
Laboratory experiments on stranding of Anopheles larvae under different shoreline environmental conditions (2015) (6)
Elements of the Dynamical Response to Climate Change over the Mediterranean (2020) (5)
The bottom water exchange between the Singapore Strait and the West Johor Strait (2017) (4)
Prediction and projection of heatwaves (2022) (4)
The role of lateral boundary conditions in simulations of mineral aerosols by a regional climate model of Southwest Asia (2011) (3)
Near-term regional climate change in East Africa (2022) (3)
Future projections of High Atlas snowpack and runoff under climate change (2020) (3)
Comments on ‘The parametrization of rainfall interception in GCMs’ by A. J. Dolman and D. Gregory (April 1992, 118, 455–467) (1994) (3)
Present and future land surface and wet bulb temperatures in the Arabian Peninsula (2022) (3)
Simulating the connections of ENSO and the hydrology of the Blue Nile using a climate model of the tropics (2014) (3)
Dividing the Nile (2017) (2)
Future projections of High Atlas snowpack and runoff under climate change (2022) (2)
Correction to “Stochastic analysis of the relationship between topography and the spatial distribution of soil moisture” (1998) (2)
Linking environmental variability to village-scale malaria transmission using a simple immunity model (2013) (2)
Extreme storms in Southwest Asia (Northern Arabian Peninsula) under current and future climates (2021) (2)
Mechanisms of European summer drying under climate change (2021) (2)
An environmental determinant of viral respiratory disease (2020) (2)
Projections of high resolution climate change for Northwest Africa using MIT-Regional Climate model (2018) (2)
Estimation of the Heat and Water Budgets of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf using a two-way, coupled Gulf-atmosphere regional model (GARM) (2015) (2)
Investigating the relationship between climate change and malaria in West Africa using the Hydrology, Entomology and Malaria Transmission Simulator (HYDREMATS) (2014) (1)
North China Plain threatened by deadly heatwaves due to climate change and irrigation (2018) (1)
Uncertainty in future projections of precipitation decline over Mesopotamia (2022) (1)
Spatial distribution of precipitation recycling in the Amazon basin (2008) (1)
The Role of the Persian Gulf in Shaping Southwest Asian Surface Climate (2015) (1)
The Hydrology of a Semiarid Cloud Forest in Dhofar (Oman) (2004) (1)
Impacts of Climate Change on Malaria Transmission in Africa (2017) (1)
Heat Stress During Arba’een Foot‐Pilgrimage (World’s Largest Gathering) Projected to Reach “Dangerous” Levels Due To Climate Change (2022) (1)
Introducing the MIT Regional Climate Model (MRCM) (2013) (1)
Large-scale circulation and precipitation decline in the Mediterranean (2018) (1)
Optimal allocation of land and water resources to achieve Water, Energy and Food Security in the upper Blue Nile basin (2017) (1)
Wind: a neglected factor in the spread of infectious diseases - Authors' reply. (2018) (1)
The influence of mineral dust particles on the energy output of photovoltaic cells (2016) (1)
Incorporating the effects of humidity in a mechanistic model of Anopheles gambiae mosquito population dynamics in the Sahel region of Africa (2013) (1)
Evaluation of the impact of brine discharge position on salinity in the Persian/Arabian Gulf’s slow flushing zone (2020) (1)
EFFECT OF THE HERBICIDE OXYFLUORFEN ON NITRATE REDUCTASE AND NITRATE CONTENT IN Zea mays L. SEEDLINGS (2020) (0)
Wet-Bulb Temperature Seasonality (2017) (0)
Role of Heterogeneous Transmission in the Decline of COVID-19 Cases During Winter of 2020/2021 in Massachusetts (2021) (0)
Horizontal Precipitation in a Semiarid Cloud Forest: A Feedback Between Vegetation and Water Availability (2005) (0)
Past and future trends of water consumption in Egypt (2021) (0)
Environmental determinants of malaria transmission in African villages (2016) (0)
Towards a Predictive Theory of Malaria: Connections to Spatio-temporal Variability of Climate and Hydrology (2015) (0)
Future Heat Waves In Asia (2017) (0)
Laboratory experiments on stranding of Anopheles larvae under different shoreline environmental conditions (2015) (0)
Foreword to Special Section on Observation, Estimation, and Prediction of Precipitation Variability at all Scales: Seventh International Conference on Precipitation (2003) (0)
Improving simulation of the feedback between radiation, convective clouds and rainfall over the Maritime Continent (2012) (0)
Vulnerability to changes in malaria transmission due to climate change in West Africa (2012) (0)
Evaluation of Dynamics of the West African Monsoon Jump Simulated by the MIT Regional Climate Model (2015) (0)
ELTAHIR AND PAL : SURFACE CONDITIONS AND SUBSEQUENT RAINFALL 26 , 239 LCLI " • • • '-soundmg ( a ) rmxlng (2007) (0)
GRL is wetter than you think (1999) (0)
Improving the Ability of RegCM3-IBIS to Simulate the Hydroclimatology of the American Midwest (2008) (0)
Effect of potassium chlorate on nitrate uptake and reduction in zea mays l. Seedlings (2012) (0)
CHANGES IN STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE AND TURGOR PRESSURE IN Gossypium hirsutum L. IN RESPONSE TO FOLIAR APPLICATION OF FOUR HERBICIDES (2011) (0)
EFFECT OF FOLIAR APPLICATION ON THE HERBICIDE STOMP ON NITRATE REDUCTASE IN THE LEAVES OF Gossypium hirsutum L. (2010) (0)
Predicted impacts of climate change on malaria transmission in West Africa (2014) (0)
On the Role of Boundary Conditions in Simulations of Mineral Aerosols by Regional Climate Models (2010) (0)
SUMMER DRYNESS AND GREENHOUSE WARMING : A PROCESS STUDY FOR THE MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES . (2001) (0)
Creating a Sustainable Earth: An MIT Research, Teaching, and Public Service Initiative for Understanding, Restoring and Managing the Environment A Report by the Committee to Assess Environmental Activities at MIT (2007) (0)
Regional Climate Change Over Southwest Asia (2015) (0)
Global warming could unleash malaria in the protected highlands of East Africa (2020) (0)
IN ANNUAL RAINFALL, CENTRAL (1989) (0)
Two-Way Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions: Their Implications for Satellite Observations of Regional Land Cover Changes (2005) (0)
Application of satellite estimates of rainfall distribution to simulate the potential for malaria transmission in Africa (2009) (0)
The effect of mineral aerosols on the climate of West Africa (2012) (0)
Evaporation Estimation over the Upper Blue Nile Basin By Combining Satellite Observations and River Flow Gauges (2014) (0)
Stochastic modeling of the thermally induced atmospheric flow at mesoscale (1996) (0)
Multi-model Ensemble Regional Climate Projection of the Maritime Continent using the MIT Regional Climate Model (2016) (0)
Hydroepidemiology of Cholera Transmission in Bangladesh: A Spatially Explicit and Seasonally Varying Cholera Prevalence Model (2011) (0)
Improving Modeling of the Summer Climate of Semi-Arid Regions (2009) (0)
Changes in the Water and Energy Cycles of the American Midwest (2008) (0)
Simulating malaria transmission in the current and future climate of West Africa (2015) (0)
Simulation of the dynamics of malaria resurgence 1 following termination of insecticide-treated nets in 2 Africa 3 4 (2017) (0)
Simulations of Water and Energy Cycles over the Congo and Upper Blue Nile basins by IPCC GCMs (2012) (0)
Impacts of Irrigation Development on Regional Rainfall in Africa (2015) (0)
Mechanistic modeling of the impact of climate variability and change on malaria transmission in Africa (2016) (0)
Representation of Water Table Dynamics In a Land Surface Parameterization Scheme (2003) (0)
Regional climate projection of the Maritime Continent using the MIT Regional Climate Model (2014) (0)
A FEEDBACK MECHANISM SUDAN IN ANNUAL RAINFALL , CENTRAL (2007) (0)
Investigating the relationship between climate change and malaria in West Africa using the Hydrology, Entomology and Malaria Transmission Simulator (HYDREMATS) (2014) (0)
Role of the Environment in Shaping Malaria Transmission in Africa (2014) (0)
The Interaction between Vegetation and Dust Emissions over West Afria (2013) (0)
Epidemiology of malaria in an area of seasonal transmission in Niger and implications for the design of a seasonal malaria chemoprevention strategy (2013) (0)
Impact of potential large-scale and medium-scale irrigation on the West African Monsoon and its dependence on location of irrigated area (2014) (0)
Water Resources Research Seasonal Precipitation Forecast Over Morocco (2018) (0)
Modelling and observing the role of wind in Anopheles population dynamics around a reservoir (2018) (0)
Modeling the Hydroclimatology of the Midwestern United States: Predicting Soil Moisture Under a Warmer Climate (2010) (0)
The interaction between vegetation dynamics and dust emissions over West Africa (2012) (0)
Near-term climate change impacts on food crops productivity in East Africa (2023) (0)

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