Dr. Kian Abbasnezhadi, P.Eng.

Research Scientist

Environment and Climate Change Canada

4905 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON M3H 5T4

Current research and/or projects

Contibuting to some of ECCC's priority program areas, specifically in the area of spatial modelling of climate variables and blending of remotely sensed precipitation data in Canada
Modernizing the Climate Research Division’s spatial modelling platform
Blending in-situ gauge precipitation data with satellite precipitation estimates

Professional activities / interests

Adjunct Professor, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Manuscript Reviewer - Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, Journal of Advances in Water Resources, Canadian Water Resources Journal, MDPI Water journal, ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Springer Nature journal of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
Research interests: hydrological modeling, rainfall-runoff modeling, precipitation monitoring network design, geostatistics, data assimilation, trend analysis, data fusion algorithms, stochastic modeling, PMP & PMSA, automatic calibration, multiobjective optimization, flood inudation mapping, snow hydrology

Education and awards

PRP Postdoctoral Fellowship, Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2020-2023
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2019-2020
Mitacs Accelerate Scholarship, R&D Researcher, Manitoba Hydro, 2017-2018
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Water Resources), University of Manitoba, 2017

Additional links

Kian Abbasnezhadi (researchgate.net)

Key publications

Abbasnezhadi, K., Rousseau, A. N., Foulon, É., and S., Savary, 2021. Verification of Regional Deterministic Precipitation Analysis products using snow data assimilation for application in meteorological network assessment in sparsely gauged Nordic basins, AMS Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22 (4): 859-876. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-20-0106.1
Augas, J., Abbasnezhadi, K., Rousseau, A. N., and M., Baraer, 2020. What is the trade-off between snowpack stratification and simulated snow water equivalent in a physically-based snow model?, MDPI Water, 12 (12): 3449. doi: 10.3390/w12123449
Abbasnezhadi, K., Rousseau, A. N., and S., Bohrn, 2020. Mid-21st century anthropogenic changes in extreme precipitation and snowpack projections over Newfoundland, Canadian Water Resources Journal, 45 (3): 216-236. doi: 10.1080/07011784.2020.1760140
Samuel, J., Rousseau, A. N., Abbasnezhadi, K., and S., Savary, 2019. Development and evaluation of a hydrologic data-assimilation scheme for short-range flow and inflow forecasts in a data-sparse high-latitude region using a distributed model and ensemble Kalman filtering, Advances in Water Resources, 130: 198-220. doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.06.004
Abbasnezhadi, K., Rousseau, A. N., Wruth, A. M., and Z., Zahmatkesh, 2019. Synchronized generation of high-resolution gridded precipitation and temperature fields, Journal of Hydrology, 573: 631-647. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.03.096
Abbasnezhadi, K., Rousseau, A. N., Koenig, K. A., Zahmatkesh, Z., and A. M., Wruth, 2018. Hydrological assessment of meteorological network density through data assimilation simulation, Journal of Hydrology, 569: 844-858. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.12.027