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Curriculum Vitae
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh
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Phone: 571-***-****
Cell-phone: 703-***-****
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Employment History:
Academic member of Atmospheric Science and Meteorological Research Center (ASMERC), 1998 up to 2016, Iran
Director of climatology research group of ASMERC, 2010-2016
Director of national office for IPCC, 2013-2015
Educational Degrees and Training Courses:
M.S., Statistics, Shahid Beheshti University
Meteorology, Class I course of WMO program (one year), I.R. of Iran Meteorological Training Center
B.S., Statistics, Shahid Beheshti University
Skills
Research and data management
Ability to analyze and interpret climate model output and meteorological observations
Statistical downscaling for climate change projections
Familiar with challenges in climate information and data in developing countries such as middle east country
Understanding of the fundamentals of climate vulnerability and risk assessment and adaptation
Familiar with fundamentals of mitigation climate change approaches especially renewable energy (i.e. Wind energy)
High proficient in using statistical software packages, such as SPSS,
High proficient in programming including R, FORTRAN, Microsoft Visual Basic.
High proficiency in using Word and Excel, PowerPoints,
Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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Adviser on many dissertations and theses of students in climate change and climatology
Honor and Awards:
Nobel Peace Prize (shared), 2007, as part of IPCC,
Excellent Researcher for the years of 2008, 2006, 2004, and 2001 (Iran
Excellent instructor of IRIMO training Center 2000.
Kharazmi international award for contribution on Climate Modeling and Climate Projection, ASMERC and International Center for Climatology, Mashhad Province, 2007
Research Projects:
Supervising and managing research projects:
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) in I.R. of IRAN 2014-2015
Determination of sunflower varieties resistant to drought and adapted to climatic conditions in Ardabil 2014-2015
Determination of relation air temperature and soil temperature at depths of Ardabil province’s stations in order to survey on freezing temperatures at depth. .
2014-2015
Precipitation Trends in Fars Province, ASMERC and IRIMO Meteorology Office, Fars Province 2013-2014
Statistical Analysis of Temperature and Precipitation in Iran 2011-2012
Countrywide Homogenization of Climatological Data 2010-2012
Classification of Iranian Provinces Based on their Potentials for Renewable Energy (including Wind and Solar Energy ), ASMERC and IRIMO Meteorology Office in Esfehan Province 2006-2007
Climatic Classification of Iranian Provinces, ASMERC and IRIMO Meteorology Office in Semnan Province 2005-2006
Survey of Changes in Extreme Climatic Events in Iran 2003-2005
Countrywide Detection of Climate Change 2000-2003
Contributions to research projects:
Wind Atlas for Iran 2016
Climate Modeling and Climate Projection, ASMERC and International Center for Climatology, Mashhad Province, 2005-2006,
Countrywide Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on water Resources 2005-2006
Survey on Variation of Free Atmosphere using Upper Air Data
2005-2007
Drought Monitoring in East Azarbaijan province, ASMERC Meteorology Office in Azarbaijan 2002-2003
Data Rescue of Iranian Meteorological Datasets, 2000-2004
Survey of Winds in Coastal Areas 1998
Study on Intensity, Duration and Frequency of Rainfall and their Changes 1998
Climate and Weather Disaster Atlas 1997
Wind Energy Atlas 1997
Climate Atlas 1992-95
International Activities
Member of ad-hoc WMO CCL Extremes investigation 2017
Member of IPCC Bureau, Vice-Chair of Working Groups I of IPCC Bureau 2008- 2015
( http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session29/new-ipccbureau.pdf )
Review editor and Expert Review of IPCC WGI fifth assessment (paleoclimate information section) 2009 to 2014
Member of Steering Committee of “Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX),” IPCC, 2011. http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/report/
Expert Reviewer of IPCC Special Report Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, 2012,
(http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/images/uploads/SREX-Annex_FINAL.pdf)
Referee for Journal of Climate, Atmospheria, Journal of Hydrology, and International Journal of Climatology
( srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report/IPCC_SRREN_Ch07)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for World Wide Views: the project “World Wide Views on Global Warming” (WWViews), 2009,
(www.wwviews.org/node/141)
Lead Author of IPCC WGI Fourth Assessment ((2004-2007),
(www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch3.html)
Coauthor of WMO No. 1210, 2004. Guidelines on climate data rescue, World Meteorological Organization,
(http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/wcdmp/documents/WCDMP-55.pdf)
Co-Author of WMO -No. 984, 2005 The Global Climate System Review 2003, World Meteorological Organization (Co-Author of this document).
(www.vsamp.com/resume/publications/WMO-No.984.pdf)
Member of The CCL Expert Team on the Rescue Preservation and Digitization of Climate Records(2001-2005),
Member of CLIPS in Region II, Working group on Climate matters for the subject Rapporteur on Regional Climate data management including data Rescue (2000-2004)
English Publications:
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, Sanchez-Lorenzo, M. Hamedi, M. C. Kruk, M. Wild, A New evidence of the dimming/brightening phenomenon and decreasing diurnal temperature range in Iran (1961-2009). Article first published online: 21 JUL 2014 DOI: 10.1002/joc.4107
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, Mojtaba Nassaji Zavareh, 2013: Effects of adjustment for non-climatic discontinuities on determination of temperature trends and variability over Iran, Int. J. Climatol., DOI: 10.1002/joc.3823.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, Mojdeh Pedram, and Michael C. Kruk, 2012: An examination of the Trends in Sunshine Hours over Iran, Meteorological application, Meteorological Application, DOI: 10.1002/met.1334.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, Ali Mohammad Noorian, Mojdeh Pedram, Michael C. Kruk, 2010, "Wind speed variability over Iran and its impact on wind power potential: a case study for Esfehan Province, Journal of Meteorological Applications, DOI: 10.1002/met.229.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, Ahmad Asgari, and Ebrahim Fattahi, 2008. Variability of extreme temperature and precipitation in Iran during recent decades, Int J Climatol, n/a,
doi:10.1002/joc.1739.
Alexander, L., X. Zhang, T. C. Peterson, J. Caesar, B. Gleason, A. Klein Tank, M. Haylock, D. Collins, B. Trewin, Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, A. Taghipour, K. Rupa Kumar, J. Revadekar, G.Griffiths, L. Vincent, D. Stephenson, J. Burn, E. Aguilar,M. Brunet, M. Taylor, M. New, P. Zhai, M. Rusticucci, J. L. Vazquez-Aguirre.,2006: Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation. J. Geophys. Res., D05109, doi:10. 1029/2005JD006290, http://www.knmi.nl/publications/fulltexts/global_extremes_for_jgr.pdf
With Zhang, X., E. Aguilar, S. Sensoy, H. Melkonyan, U. Tagiyeva, N. Ahmed, N. Kutaladze, Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, A. Taghipour, T.H. Hantosh, P. Albert, M. Semawi, M. Karam Ali, M. Halal Said Al-Shabibi, Z. Al-Oulan,Taha Zatari, I. Al Dean Khelet, S. Hammoud, M. Demircan, M.Eken, M. Adiguzel, L. Alexander, T.Peterson and Trevor Wallis, 2006: Trends in Middle East Climate Extremes Indices during 1930-2003. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D22104, doi:10.1029/2005JD006181.
Co-author of annually published articles in the Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society (BAMs) "State of Climate" from 2004 to 2015:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-86-6-Levinson
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-87-6-shein
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-88-6-Stateof theClimate
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-89-7-StateoftheClimate
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-90-8-StateoftheClimate
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-91-7-StateoftheClimate
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477-92.6.S1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2012BAMSstateof theClimate
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2013/6
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2014BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/2015BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/state-of-the-climate/
Selected Persian Publications
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, Mojtaba Nassaji Zavareh, Trends and variability of temperature during 1961-2010 over Iran after adjustment of non-climatic inhomogeneities, 2013, Accepted by J. Research in Geography.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, Mojdeh Pedram, Abdollah Sedaghat Kerdar, Golamali Kamali, 2008, Estimation of Wind Energy in Synoptic station of Esfehan Province, J. Humanities University of Isfahan (Geography and Programming), 35, 155-172.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, Ahmad Asgari, Ebrahim Fattahi, Nooshin Mohammadian and Afsaneh Taghipour, 2008, “Trends of climate extremes indices for temperature over Iran in 1951-2003,” Researches in Geography, 93, 151-170.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, Ahmad Asgari, Nooshin Mohammadian, and Ebrahim Fatthi, 2007, “Analysis of extreme precipitation indices over Iran”, J. Iranian Water Resources Assn., 9.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, Mojdeh Pedram, Fatemeh Sahraian and Keyvan Noohi, 2008, Change in the frost free season length and number of frost days in the west and east Azerbaijan province, Journal of Humanities University of Isfahan.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh and A. Asgari 2006, “Study of variability of recent decades precipitation over Iran”, Researches in Geography, No. 58, pages 67-80. Jahangiri, Zohre, Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, 2005, “The Necessity of Meteorological Information Reliability on Climate and Change Problems”, Journal of Nivar, Vol.56 & 57, page 92-112.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh and M. Khoshkam Ahmad Asgari, 2004. Changes in Humidity Series in Iranian Synoptic Stations. Nivar, No. 54 and 55, page 21-39.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh and Ahmad Asgari, 2004. A look at the Difference between Increase Rates of Minimum and Maximum Temperature and the Decrease Rates of Diurnal Temperature Range (DTR) in Iran, Geographical Research, No 73, Page 153-171.
Fatemeh Rahimzadeh
Presented more than 120 articles to national and international conferences, meeting and workshops.
Contribution to Press Releases:
Statistical Methods in Meteorology and Climatology research (Persian language and Reference book), by Fatemeh Rahimzadeh, 2011, Hosseini press, Iran,
IPCC, 2007. Climate Change (2007), “The Physical Science Basis, A Contribution of Working Groups. I, to the Forth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Solomon and the Core Writing Team (eds)”. Cambridge University press. United Kingdom, and New York, USA.
WMO No. 984, 2005. The Global Climate System Review 2003, World Meteorological Organization.
WMO No. 1210, 2004. Guideline on climate data rescue, World Meteorological Organization.
Initial National Communication to UNFCCC, 2003, Prepared by Department of environment, National Climate Change Office with cooperation of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
(unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/iranc1.pdf)
Teaching:
Climatology and Hydrometeorology, Climate Change Models, Statistics Applications in Meteorology, Statistical Applications in Climatology, R programming, Time Series Analysis, Applications of Statistical Software, computer programming including ORTRAN, Operating system, computational techniques, algorithms.
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