College of Engineering

Selected Publications

• Reichle, R. H., W. Crow, R. D. Koster, H. Sharif, and S. Mahanama, “The contribution of soil moisture retrievals to land data assimilation products”, submitted to Geophysical Research Letters, 2007

• Sharif, H. O., W. T. Crow, N. L. Miller, and E. F. Wood, “Multi-decadal High-resolution Hydrological Modeling of the Arkansas/Red River Basin”, J. of Hydrometeorology, October 2007

• Wang, X., H. Xie, H. O. Sharif, and J. Zeitler “Comparison of NEXRAD MPE and Stage III Precipitation Products at the Upper Guadalupe River Basin, Texas Hill Country”, J. of Hydrology, in press, 2007

• Sharif, H. O., D. Yates, R. Roberts, and C. Mueller, “The Use of an Automated Now-Casting System to Forecast Flash Floods in an Urban Watershed", J. of Hydrometeorology, doi: 10.1175/JHM482.1, 2006

• Crow, W. T., R. D. Koster, R. H. Reichle, and H. O. Sharif, “Relevance of Time-varying and Time-invariant Retrieval Error Sources for the Spaceborne detection of Soil Moisture Anomalies”, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L24405, doi:10.1029/2005GL024889, 2005

• Sharif, H. O., F. L. Ogden, W. F. Krajewski, Ed Brandes, and M. Xue, “Using Radar-Rainfall Estimates at Ground Level: Beam, Storm, and Watershed Geometric Interactions”, submitted to Hydrological Processes, 2006

• Sharif, H. O., F. L. Ogden, W. F. Krajewski, and M. Xue, “Statistical Analysis of Radar‑rainfall Error Propagation”, J. of Hydrometeorology, 5 (1), 199-212, 2004

• Sharif, H. O., F. L. Ogden, W. F. Krajewski, and M. Xue, “Numerical Simulations of Radar‑rainfall Error Propagation”, Water Resources Research, 38(8), doi: 10.1029/2001WR000525, 2002

• Senarath, S., F. Ogden, C. Downer, and H. Sharif, "On the Calibration and Validation of Two-Dimensional, Distributed, Hortonian, Continuous Catchment Models", Water Resources Research, 36(6), 1495-1510, 2000

• Ogden, F. L., H. O. Sharif, S. Senarath, J. Smith, M. L. Baeck, and J. Richardson, "Hydrologic Analysis of the Fort Collins, Colorado, Flash Flood of 1997", J. of Hydrology, 228, 82-100, 2000

White Papers

Other Publications

• H. O. Sharif and N. L. Miller, "Hydroclimatological Predictions Based on Basin's Humidity Index", Combined preprints of the 86th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2006
• H. O. Sharif and E. A. Brandes, "Radar-Rain Gauge Adjustment and its Sensitivity to the Method of Comparison", preprints of the American Meteorological Society 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, August 2003
• H. O. Sharif, N. L. Miller, W. T. Crow, K. E. Bashford, E. F. Wood, "An Evaluation of a 30-year Land Surface Model Simulation using Observational Forcing", Combined preprints of the 83rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 2003
• H. O. Sharif, E. A. Brandes, and W. F. Krajewski, "Comparison of Reflectivity and Precipitation Fields Estimated by Two Radar Systems", Combined preprints of the 83rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 2003
• K. E. Bashford, W. T. Crow, H. O. Sharif, N. L. Miller, E. F. Wood, "An investigation of scale and spatial variability using fully- and semi-distributed TOPLATS at the Whitewater Watershed, Kansas", Combined preprints of the 83rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 2003
• H. O. Sharif, F. L. Ogden, "Using Radar-Rainfall Estimates at Ground Level: Beam, Storm, and Watershed Geometric Interactions", Preprints of the Fifth International Symposium on Hydrologic Applications of Weather Radar, Kyoto, Japan, 2001
• H. O. Sharif, F. L. Ogden, "Impact of Radar-Rainfall Estimation Errors on Distributed Hydrologic Model Predictions: A Simulation Framework", Preprints of the Fifth International Symposium on Hydrologic Applications of Weather Radar, Kyoto, Japan, 2001
• Ogden, F. L., and H. O. Sharif, "Rainfall Input for Distributed Hydrologic Modeling_ The Case for Radar", Proceedings of the ASCE Watershed Management Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 2000
• F. Ogden, S. Senarath, H. O. Sharif, J. Smith, M. Steiner, M. L. Baeck, and J. Richardson, "Multi-Parameter Rainfall Estimation Coupled with Distributed Hydrologic Modeling of the Fort Collins Flash Flood of 28-29 July 1997 - Part II: Hydrologic Modeling to Identify Uncertainty", Preprints of t the Fourth International Symposium on Hydrologic Applications of Weather Radar, San Diego, CA, April, 1998

Invited Seminars

• “Precipitation and Flood Forecasting”, at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 2007

• “Distributed Modeling and Flash Flood Forecasting Example” at the San Antonio River Authority, San Antonio, TX, September 2006

• “A Distributed Model Example”  at the COMET Advanced Hydrologic Sciences Course 06-1 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, June 2006

• "Flash Flood Forecasting in an Urban Watershed” at the Austin/San Antonio National Weather Service Office, New Braunfels, TX, January 2006

• "Simulation of Radar-Rainfall Estimation Error Propagation Through Runoff Predictions", H. O. Sharif, F. L. Ogden, W. F. Krajewski, E. N. Anagnostou, and M. Xue, an invited seminar presented by Dr. Ogden at National Weather Service Headquarters, Silver Spring, Maryland, April 2001

• "Evaluation of Range‑dependent Radar‑rainfall Error Propagation through Runoff Predictions” at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, January 2000