PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
1. Sajjad Ahmad, Ajay Kalra and Haroon Stephen (2009), Estimating
Soil Moisture using Remote Sensing Data: A Machine Learning Approach, Advances in Water Resources (in press)
2. Haroon Stephen, Sajjad Ahmad, and
Thomas C. Piechota (2009), Land
Surface Brightness Temperature Modeling Using Solar Insolation,
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
(in press)
3. Ajay Kalra and Sajjad Ahmad, Using oceanic-atmospheric oscillations for long lead-time stream flow forecasting, Water Resources Research, 2009, 45, W03413, doi:10.1029/2008WR006855
4. Masood Ahmad, Razzaq Ghumman and Sajjad Ahmad (2009), Estimation of Clark’s Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph Parameters and Development of Direct Surface Runoff Hydrograph, Water Resources Management, 23:2417-2435.
5. Neeraj Vedwan, Sajjad Ahmad, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Kenneth Broad, David Letson, Guillermo Podesta, Institutional evolution in Lake Okeechobee Management in Florida: Characteristics, Impacts, and Limitations, Water Resources Management, 2008, 22: 699-718.
6.
Ahmad S and Franz GA, Raising
Taxes to Reduce Smoking Prevalence: A Simulation of the
Anticipated Health and Economic Impacts, Public Health, 2008 122 (1): 3-10.
7.
Daniel Impoinvil; Robert Duncan; Rinku Roy Chowdhury; Joseph
Keating; Gabriel Cardenas; Sajjad Ahmad; Charles Mbogo;
John Githure; and John Beier.
The association between distance to
water pipes and water bodies positive for anopheline
mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)
in the urban community of
8.
Daniel E. Impoinvil, Sajjad Ahmad, Adriana Troyo, Joseph Keating, Andrew K. Githeko, Charles
M, Mbogo, Lydiah
Kibe, John I. Githure, Adel
M. Gad, Ali N. Hassan, Laor Orshan,
Alon Warburg, Olger Calderón-Arguedas, Victoria M. Sánchez-Loría,
Rosanna Velit-Suarez, Dave D. Chadee, Robert J. Novak, and John C. Beier. Comparison of
mosquito control programs in seven urban sites in Africa, the Middle East, and
the Americas, Health Policy,
2007, 83 (2-3): 196-212
9.
Mosquera-Machado S. C. and Ahmad S. Flood hazard assessment of Atrato river in Colombia,
Water Resources Management. 2007. 21: 591-609.
10. Ahmad S and John Billimek, Limiting youth access to tobacco: Comparing the long-term health impacts of increasing cigarette excise taxes and raising the legal smoking age to 21, Health Policy, 2007. 80:378-391.
11.
Ahmad
S. and Simonovic S. P., An intelligent decision support system for management of
floods, Water Resources Management, 2006 20 (3): 391-410.
12. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S.
P., An Artificial Neural Network
model for generating hydrograph from hydro-meteorological parameters,
Journal of Hydrology, 2005, 315 (1-4), 236-251.
13. Simonovic S. P. and Ahmad S., Computer-based model for flood
evacuation emergency planning, Natural Hazards, 2005: 34(1) 25-51.
14. Tengs, T., Ahmad, S, Savage, J,
15. Ahmad
S., The Cost-Effectiveness
of Raising the Legal Smoking Age in California, Medical Decision Making, 2005: 25(3) 330-340.
16. Ahmad S., Closing the youth access gap: The
projected health benefits and cost savings of a national policy to raise the
legal smoking age to 21 in the United States, Health Policy, 2005: 75 (1):
74-84
17. Ahmad S., Increasing excise taxes on cigarettes in California: a dynamic simulation of health and economic impacts, Preventive Medicine, 2005: 41(1) 276-283.
18. Ahmad S and John Billimek, Estimating the Health Impacts of Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Simulation modeling Approach, Risk Analysis, 2005: 25(4), 801-812.
19. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S. P., Spatial system dynamics: a new approach
for simulation of water resources systems, ASCE Journal of Computing in
Civil Engineering, 2004: 18(4) 331-340.
20. Tengs T., Ahmad, S,
21. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S. P., Integration of heuristic knowledge with
analytical tools for selection of flood control measures, Canadian Journal
of Civil Engineering, 2001: 28(2), 208-221.
22. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S. P., A
decision support tool for evaluation of impacts of flood management policies.
Hydrological Science and Technology, 2001:17 (1-4), 11-22.
23. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S. P., Modeling reservoir
operations using system dynamics, ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil
Engineering, 2000: 14(3), 190-198.
Conference presentations
1.
Kalra; S.
Ahmad; H.Stephen, Evaluating Changes And Estimating
Seasonal Precipitation For Colorado River Basins Using Nonparametric Density
Estimation. 2010 Fall AGU meeting,
2.
Sumit Puri, Haroon
Stephen, Sajjad Ahmad Relating Surface Backscatter Response from TRMMPR to SCAN
Soil Moisture in Southern United States, 2010 Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco
3.
Haroon Stephen, Sajjad
Ahmad, and Thomas C. Piechota, Relating Surface Backscatter Response from
TRMM Precipitation Radar to Simulated Soil Moisture: Preliminary Results over a
Semi-Arid Region, 2010 Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco
4.
Haroon Stephen, Sajjad
Ahmad, and Thomas C. Piechota, Improved Soil Moisture
Estimation from TRMM Precipitation Radar Backscatter Corrected for Azimuth
Modulation, 2010
Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco
5. Kalra, A., Ahmad, S (2008). Bringing
Statistical Learning Machines and Disaggregation Approach Together for Hydrological
Predictions, ASCE Environmental and Water
Resources Congress,
6. Kalra, A., Ahmad, S (2008) Estimating Inflows to Lake Okeechobee Using Climate
Indices: A Machine Learning Approach, AGU
7.
Ahmad, S. 2008. Grey Water Use as a Water
Management Option in
8.
Ahmad, S. 2008.
Evaluating Policies to Reduce Water Demand: A Simulation Modeling Approach”, Water Resource Systems Management under
Extreme Conditions,
9. Walter S. Johnson, Jacimaria R.
Batista, and Sajjad Ahmad, Indirect Potable Water
Reuse: An Alternative for Water Quality Management in The
10. Ahmad S. Evaluating Water Supply and Water Quality Management Options
for
11. Kalra, A, Ahmad Using oceanic-atmospheric oscillations for long lead-time streamflow forecasting in the
12. Melesse, Mcclain, Ahmad, Wang, Nangia and Lim. 2007. Suspended Sediment Load Prediction Using
Artificial Neural Networks Approach Joint AGU Assembly, May 21-25, 2007,
13. Sajjad Ahmad, Planning for Water Resources of South Florida: A system dynamics modeling approach, AGU, San Francisco 2006
14. Sajjad
Ahmad, Guillermo Podesta,
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Reinaldo Garcia, An integrated model for sustainable management of
water resources in south Florida. Annual Conference of American Meteorological
Society,
15. Reinaldo Garcia-Martinez, Sajjad Ahmad, Fernando Miralles-Wilhem, Predicting rainfall in the Lake Okeechobee watershed based on historic rainfall records and climate indicators: an Artificial Neural Network modeling approach, Annual Conference of American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, 2006.
16. Ahmad, Sajjad, Fernando R Miralles-Wilhelm, Guillermo P Podestá
Kenny Broad David Letson, (2005). Evaluating the
Impacts of Climate Variability on Agriculture: an integrated modeling approach,
AGU Joint Assembly,
17. Haroon, Stephen, David G. Long and Sajjad Ahmad
(2005). Moisture mapping in the Amazon basin using Near-Nadir and Far-Range
backscatter slopes, AGU
Joint Assembly,
18. Tengs T O, and Ahmad S (2004).
Simulating the population health impacts of mandating nicotine reductions in
cigarettes: results from the tobacco policy model. International society for pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research. ISPOR 9th
Annual int. meeting,
19. Ahmad, S., (2004). Public Health and Economic Impacts
of Raising the Legal Smoking Age in
20. Ahmad
S and Tengs T., (2004). Clearing the smoke: a
computer simulation of the population health impacts of reducing nicotine in
cigarettes, 10th annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco,
21.
Ahmad, S., (2003).
Real time flood forecasting: a case study of the Jhelum River, Pakistan. IUGG
the XXIII General Assembly of the Inter. Union of Geodesy & Geophysics
22.
Ahmad, S., (2003).
Revisiting 1992 Floods in
23. Turbow, D., Dwight, R, Ahmad, S, Norwick, S. (2003). A dynamic simulation model of the
public health and economic aspects of coastal water quality in
24. Ahmad S and
Tengs T., (2003) Federal Policy Mandating Safer
Cigarettes: A Simulation of the Anticipated Population Health Gains or Losses,
25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making October 18-22,
25. Ahmad S and
Tengs T., (2003), Validating Computer Simulation
Models: Case of the Tobacco Policy Model, 25th Meeting of the Society for
Medical Decision Making Oct 18-22,
26. Ahmad S and
Tengs T., (2003), Reducing Nicotine in Cigarettes: A
dynamic simulation of the population health impacts.
27. Ahmad, S. (2002). Operating water
resources systems under climate change scenarios, American Geophysical Union
(AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
28. Turbow, D., Norwick,
S. and Ahmad, S (2002). A
dynamic simulation model of beach sand replenishment: a case study of
29. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S. P.
(2001). Modeling human behavior for evacuation planning: a system
dynamics approach in “Bridging the Gap”, Proceedings
of the ASCE world water and environmental resources congress, edt. Don Phelps and Gerald Shelke,
30. Ahmad
S. and Simonovic S. P. (2001), Topography and
overland flow algorithms: performance comparison of 1D and 2D hydrodynamic
modeling approaches. Proc. of the 15th Canadian Hydro-technical
Conference, edt. Don Noakes,
Brenda McCabe, Maria Elektorowicz, Ram
31. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S. P.
(2001). Predicting runoff hydrograph using artificial neural
networks, in “Bridging the Gap”, Proc. of
ASCE world water and environmental resources congress, edt. Don Phelps and Gerald Shelke,
32. Ahmad
S. and Simonovic S. P. (2001), Modeling dynamic processes
in space and time: a spatial system dynamics approach, in “Bridging the Gap”, Proceedings of the
ASCE world water and environmental resources congress, edt. Don Phelps and Gerald Shelke,
33. Ahmad, S., and Simonovic S. P.
(2000). Dynamic modeling of flood management policies, in
“sustainability in third millennium”, Proc. of the 18th Int. Conf. of the
System Dynamics Society, edt.
Pål Davidsen, David Ford, and
Ali Mashayekh ,
34. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S. P. (2000).
Analysis of economic and social impacts of flood management policies using
system dynamics, in “Atmospheric, Surface and Subsurface Hydrology and
Interactions”, Proc. of the Int. Conf. of the American Institute of Hydrology, research triangle
park, NC, 13 pp.
35. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S. P.
(2000). Modeling flood emergency management policies: a system
dynamics approach. Proc. of
36. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S. P.
(2000). Behavioral model for evacuation planning
during flood emergencies, Workshop on Extreme Events and the Assessment of
Risk,
37.
Ahmad,
S. (2000). Expert system for selection of flood control measures, 17th
38. Ahmad, S. (2000). Modeling reservoir
operations for flood management using system dynamics, 17th
39.
Ahmad
S. (1999). Decision support system structure and applications, Workshop on GIS
Modeling from Theory to Applications,
40. Ahmad S. and Simonovic S. P.
(1999). Role of a coupled GIS-2-D hydrodynamic
model in a decision support system for flood control, in “Red River Flooding-Decreasing
Our Risks”, Proc. of Canadian Water Resources Association’s Conference,
41. Ahmad, S., and Simonovic S. P. (1999). Comparison of one-dimensional and two-dimensional
hydrodynamic modeling approaches for
42. Piracha, A. L., Ginn-Yein, C., and Ahmad,
S. (1998). Integrated Use of GIS & Remote Sensing in Hydrological
Modeling, in Proc. of GIS Applications to Resource Management and Environmental
Planning,
