Ombadi Lab
Hydroclimatic Extremes, Impacts and Data Analytics (HEIDA)
University of Michigan
Mohammed Ombadi
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
About me
Hi there!
I’m an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. My research group studies the impact of climate change on the hydrologic cycle using advanced data analytics.
Prior to joining the University of Michigan, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I earned my Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of California Irvine in 2021. My research interests lie at the intersection of hydrology, climate sciences, and data science. I’m particularly interested in using the latest data science and big data analytics tools to enhance our mechanistic and predictive understanding of climate change’s impact on the hydrologic cycle.
News
Featured: New paper published in Nature
Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06092-7
Full access without subscription: https://rdcu.be/dfA53
Media coverage:
Climate Change Can Turn Snow Into Rain, Raising Risks in Mountain Zones
High-altitude regions will get more extreme rain than previously thought, making floods and landslides more likely, a study finds.
Warming Causes More Extreme Rain, Not Snow, Over Mountains. Scientists Say That’s a Problem
A new study says climate change is turning major snowfalls into more extreme rain over mountains, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year and long-term water shortages.
Every 1C of Warming Means 15% More Extreme Rain, Researchers Say
Global heating incrementally boosts the intensity of extreme rainfall at higher altitudes, putting two billion people living in or downstream from mountains at greater risk of floods and landslides,…
New Article in the Conversation
[09/19/2023]
ABC News Interview
[08/17/2023]
Himalayas experiencing more rainfall and less snowfall.
Wall Street Journal Interview
[08/23/2023]
BBC Interview
[08/17/2023]
Himachal Pradesh floods: More rain, less snow are turning Himalayas dangerous
Recent Research Articles
Ombadi et al., A warming-induced reduction in snow fraction amplifies rainfall extremes, Nature.
Ombadi & Varadharajan, Urbanization and aridity mediate distinct salinity response to floods in rivers and streams across the contiguous United States, Water Research.
Ombadi & Risser, What’s the temperature tomorrow? Increasing trends in extreme volatility of daily maximum temperature in Central and Eastern United States (1950–2019), Weather and Climate Extremes.
Ombadi et al., Evaluation of Methods for Causal Discovery in Hydrometeorological Systems, Water Resources Research.
Science Communication
Bay Area Research Slam [10/20/2022]
I represented Berkeley Lab, together with two talented postdocs, in the Bay Area Research SLAM (a competition across four national labs: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, SLAC National Lab and Sandia National Labs.
Berkeley Lab Research Slam [09/22/2022]
Very honored to have won the second place prize in the 5th annual Berkeley Lab Research SLAM.
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Outstanding Student Presentation
Award [12/2020] 🏆
At the 2020 Fall Meeting titled: “Toward an Improved Understanding of Hydrologic Complexity”.
Results presented in this talk were published in Journal of Hydrology at: Complexity of hydrologic basins: A chaotic dynamics perspective. Journal of Hydrology,
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