F. S. Syed

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

F. S. Syed is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, F. S. Syed has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in F. S. Syed's work include Climate variability and models (20 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (19 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (5 papers). F. S. Syed is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (20 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (19 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (5 papers). F. S. Syed collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, Sweden and Italy. F. S. Syed's co-authors include Jeremy S. Pal, Filippo Giorgi, Muhammad Latif, Abdel Hannachi, Heiner Körnich, Martin P. King, Allison L. Steiner, Moetasim Ashfaq, Xunqiang Bi and Sara A. Rauscher and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society and International Journal of Climatology.

In The Last Decade

F. S. Syed

20 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Regional Climate Modeling for the Developing World: The ICTP RegCM3 and RegCNET

2007 804 citations Jeremy S. Pal, Filippo Giorgi et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
F. S. Syed Pakistan	15	1.4k	1.2k	200	159	156	21	1.6k
Izuru Takayabu Japan	25	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	133 0.7×	138 0.9×	96 0.6×	70	1.5k
R Francisco Italy	7	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	123 0.6×	210 1.3×	148 0.9×	10	1.6k
Xunqiang Bi Italy	7	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	204 1.0×	183 1.2×	171 1.1×	9	1.8k
G. T. Diro Canada	21	1.2k 0.8×	911 0.8×	117 0.6×	176 1.1×	190 1.2×	39	1.4k
Daniel Martínez-Castro Peru	18	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	85 0.4×	110 0.7×	97 0.6×	53	1.5k
Laura Mariotti Italy	19	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	159 0.8×	215 1.4×	243 1.6×	24	1.7k
B. N. Goswami India	5	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	138 0.7×	195 1.2×	240 1.5×	6	1.7k
Ross C. Blamey South Africa	20	1.0k 0.7×	750 0.6×	151 0.8×	101 0.6×	127 0.8×	41	1.2k
A. van Ulden Netherlands	10	1.1k 0.7×	825 0.7×	118 0.6×	232 1.5×	86 0.6×	11	1.3k
Minoru Chikira Japan	9	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	290 1.4×	140 0.9×	125 0.8×	11	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of F. S. Syed

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20 of 20 papers shown

Syed, F. S., et al.. (2025). Scintillation Properties of PSR B1133+16 Measured with Very Long Baseline Interferometry. The Astrophysical Journal. 992(2). 192–192. 1 indexed citations

Syed, F. S., et al.. (2024). Observed heatwaves characteristics and variability over Saudi Arabia. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 136(2). 6 indexed citations

Syed, F. S., et al.. (2022). Identification of droughts over Saudi Arabia and global teleconnections. Natural Hazards. 112(3). 2717–2737. 27 indexed citations

Syed, F. S., et al.. (2019). Regional climate model RCA4 simulations of temperature and precipitation over the Arabian Peninsula: sensitivity to CORDEX domain and lateral boundary conditions. Climate Dynamics. 53(11). 7045–7064. 19 indexed citations

Syed, F. S. & Abdel Hannachi. (2018). Inter-annual variability of moisture transport over the northern Indian Ocean and South Asian summer monsoon. Climate Research. 75(1). 23–31. 10 indexed citations

Latif, Muhammad, Abdel Hannachi, & F. S. Syed. (2017). Analysis of rainfall trends over Indo‐Pakistan summer monsoon and related dynamics based on CMIP5 climate model simulations. International Journal of Climatology. 38(S1). 46 indexed citations

Latif, Muhammad, F. S. Syed, & Abdel Hannachi. (2016). Rainfall trends in the South Asian summer monsoon and its related large-scale dynamics with focus over Pakistan. Climate Dynamics. 48(11-12). 3565–3581. 83 indexed citations

Syed, F. S., et al.. (2016). Mean climate and representation of jet streams in the CORDEX South Asia simulations by the regional climate model RCA4. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 129(1-2). 1–19. 32 indexed citations

Latif, Muhammad & F. S. Syed. (2015). Determination of summer monsoon onset and its related large-scale circulation characteristics over Pakistan. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 125(3-4). 509–520. 43 indexed citations

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Syed, F. S. & Fred Kucharski. (2015). Statistically related coupled modes of South Asian summer monsoon interannual variability in the tropics. Atmospheric Science Letters. 17(2). 183–189. 15 indexed citations

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Kucharski, Fred, et al.. (2014). Tropical Atlantic influence on Pacific variability and mean state in the twentieth century in observations and CMIP5. Climate Dynamics. 44(3-4). 881–896. 45 indexed citations

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Syed, F. S., et al.. (2013). Uncertainties in the regional climate models simulations of South-Asian summer monsoon and climate change. Climate Dynamics. 42(7-8). 2079–2097. 51 indexed citations

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Syed, F. S., Heiner Körnich, & Michael Tjernström. (2012). On the fog variability over south Asia. Climate Dynamics. 39(12). 2993–3005. 89 indexed citations

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Syed, F. S.. (2011). On the intra-seasonal to decadal climate variability over South-Asia. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Syed, F. S., Jin Yoo, Heiner Körnich, & Fred Kucharski. (2011). Extratropical influences on the inter-annual variability of South-Asian monsoon. Climate Dynamics. 38(7-8). 1661–1674. 51 indexed citations

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Syed, F. S., et al.. (2010). Are intraseasonal summer rainfall events micro monsoon-onsets over the western edge of the South-Asian monsoon?. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 14832. 3 indexed citations

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Syed, F. S., Jin Yoo, Heiner Körnich, & Fred Kucharski. (2010). Are intraseasonal summer rainfall events micro monsoon onsets over the western edge of the South-Asian monsoon?. Atmospheric Research. 98(2-4). 341–346. 23 indexed citations

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Syed, F. S., Filippo Giorgi, Jeremy S. Pal, & Kevin Keay. (2009). Regional climate model simulation of winter climate over Central–Southwest Asia, with emphasis on NAO and ENSO effects. International Journal of Climatology. 30(2). 220–235. 100 indexed citations

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Pal, Jeremy S., Filippo Giorgi, Xunqiang Bi, et al.. (2007). Regional Climate Modeling for the Developing World: The ICTP RegCM3 and RegCNET. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 88(9). 1395–1410. 804 indexed citations breakdown →

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Syed, F. S., Filippo Giorgi, Jeremy S. Pal, & Martin P. King. (2006). Effect of remote forcings on the winter precipitation of central southwest Asia part 1: observations. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 86(1-4). 147–160. 177 indexed citations

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