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Emad Habib, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering

Researcher, Center for Louisiana Inland Water Studies

B.S., Civil Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, 1987

M.S., Civil Engineering (Irrigation and Hydraulics), Ain Shams University, Egypt, 1996

Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering (Hydrology and Water Resources),
University of Iowa, USA

P.O. Box 42291
Lafayette, LA 70504
Madison 254M
Phone: 337-482-6513
Email: habib@louisiana.edu

Short List of Research Interests:
  • Hydrologic modeling using remote-sensing rainfall information
  • Hydrologic applications of advanced statistical methods and artificial intelligence techniques
  • Rainfall measurement and estimation
  • Validation and uncertainty assessment of radar rainfall estimates
  • Numerical hydraulic and hydrologic modeling

Major/Principal Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

 

  1. Ciach, G. J., Habib, E., and W. F. Krajewski, 2003. Zero-covariance hypothesis in the error variance separation method of radar rainfall verification, Advances in Water Resources, 26, 573-580.
     
  2. Krajewski, W. F., Ciach, G. J., and E. Habib, E., 2003. An analysis of small-scale rainfall variability in different climatic regimes, Journal of Hydrological Sciences, 48, 151-162.
     
  3. Habib, E. and W. F. Krajewski, 2002. Uncertainty Analysis of the TRMM Ground Validation Radar-Rainfall Products: Application to the TEFLUN-B Field Campaign. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 41(5), 558–572.
     
  4. Habib, E., Krajewski, W.F., and A. Kruger, 2001. Sampling errors of tipping-bucket rain gauge measurements. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 6(2), 159-166.
     
  5. Habib, E., and W.F. Krajewski, 2001. An example of computational approach used for aerodynamic design of a rain disdrometer. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 39(4), 425-428.
     
  6. Habib, E., Krajewski, W.F., and G.J. Ciach, 2001. Estimation of inter-station correlation coefficient in rainfall data. Journal of Hydrometeorology 2, 621-629.
     
  7. Habib, E., Krajewski, W.F., Nešpor, V., and A. Kruger, 1999. Numerical simulation studies of raingage data correction due to wind Effect. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104(D16), 19723-19734, 1999.
     
  8. Habib, E., Ciach G.J., and W. F. Krajewski, 2003. A Method for Filtering out Raingauge Representativeness Errors from the Verification Distributions of Radar and Raingauge Rainfall, Advances in Water Resources (submitted)
     
  9. Neary, V., Habib, E., and M. Fleming, 2003: Hydrologic Modeling with NEXRAD Precipitation in Middle Tennessee, Journal or Hydrologic Engineering (submitted).

Document last revised Monday, October 22, 2007 2:56 PM

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