Moetasim Ashfaq

7.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
86 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Moetasim Ashfaq is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Moetasim Ashfaq has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 56 papers in Atmospheric Science and 18 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Moetasim Ashfaq's work include Climate variability and models (62 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (37 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (18 papers). Moetasim Ashfaq is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (62 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (37 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (18 papers). Moetasim Ashfaq collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and China. Moetasim Ashfaq's co-authors include Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Shih‐Chieh Kao, Deeksha Rastogi, Danielle Touma, Jeremy S. Pal, Bibi S. Naz, Munir Ahmad Nayak, Christopher B. Skinner, Rui Mei and Martin Scherer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Moetasim Ashfaq

82 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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 →
A multi-model and multi-index evaluation of drought characteristics in the 21st century

2014 341 citations Danielle Touma, Moetasim Ashfaq et al. profile →
Enhanced risk of concurrent regional droughts with increased ENSO variability and warming

2022 111 citations Moetasim Ashfaq, Christopher B. Skinner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Moetasim Ashfaq United States	36	3.5k	2.4k	1.0k	503	309	86	4.6k
Simon J. Brown United Kingdom	23	3.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	547 0.5×	439 0.9×	282 0.9×	40	3.7k
Andreas Gobiet Austria	34	4.4k 1.3×	3.7k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	542 1.1×	424 1.4×	66	6.2k
Erika Coppola Italy	44	5.2k 1.5×	4.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	518 1.0×	477 1.5×	146	6.2k
Klaus Wyser Sweden	31	3.8k 1.1×	2.9k 1.2×	663 0.7×	345 0.7×	344 1.1×	66	4.9k
Jouni Räisänen Finland	32	3.5k 1.0×	2.7k 1.1×	953 0.9×	431 0.9×	350 1.1×	128	5.2k
Jianfeng Li China	41	3.6k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	424 0.8×	831 2.7×	157	4.9k
Sven Kotlarski Switzerland	39	3.7k 1.1×	3.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	314 0.6×	494 1.6×	89	5.8k
Qiaohong Sun China	26	3.0k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	971 1.0×	306 0.6×	382 1.2×	45	4.0k
Wim Thiery Belgium	37	3.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	487 1.0×	566 1.8×	131	5.0k
Willem A. Landman South Africa	33	2.4k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	525 0.5×	509 1.0×	249 0.8×	105	3.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Moetasim Ashfaq

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rastogi, Deeksha, Haoran Niu, Shih‐Chieh Kao, & Moetasim Ashfaq. (2025). Evaluating Extreme Storm Events in an Ensemble of High‐Resolution Projections. Earth s Future. 13(12).

Wang, Xiao, Jong Youl Choi, Hong‐Jun Yoon, et al.. (2025). ORBIT-2: Scaling Exascale Vision Foundation Models for Weather and Climate Downscaling. 86–98. 1 indexed citations

Kucharski, Fred, et al.. (2024). Seasonal variability and predictability of monsoon precipitation in Southern Africa. Environmental Research Letters. 19(3). 34010–34010. 1 indexed citations

Kucharski, Fred, et al.. (2024). Winter precipitation predictability in Central Southwest Asia and its representation in seasonal forecast systems. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 5 indexed citations

Ashfaq, Moetasim, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Fred Kucharski, et al.. (2023). The influence of natural variability on extreme monsoons in Pakistan. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 8 indexed citations

Kao, Shih‐Chieh, Gang Zhao, Sudershan Gangrade, et al.. (2023). Evaluating Enhanced Reservoir Evaporation Losses From CMIP6‐Based Future Projections in the Contiguous United States. Earth s Future. 11(3). 17 indexed citations

Ashfaq, Moetasim, Sarah Kapnick, Muhammad Adnan Abid, et al.. (2022). Dominant controls of cold-season precipitation variability over the high mountains of Asia. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 5(1). 15 indexed citations

Saeed, Fahad, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, & Moetasim Ashfaq. (2021). Deadly Heat Stress to Become Commonplace Across South Asia Already at 1.5°C of Global Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 83 indexed citations

Ashfaq, Moetasim, et al.. (2021). Amplified risk of spatially compounding droughts during co-occurrences of modes of natural ocean variability. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 4(1). 62 indexed citations

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Ali, Shaukat, Moetasim Ashfaq, Firdos Khan, et al.. (2021). Hydrological projections over the Upper Indus Basin at 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C temperature increase. The Science of The Total Environment. 788. 147759–147759. 24 indexed citations

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Das, Sushant, Erika Coppola, Filippo Giorgi, et al.. (2020). Future projections in the climatology of five low-level jets across different CORDEX domains. 1 indexed citations

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Jager, Henriëtte I., Anthony King, Sudershan Gangrade, et al.. (2018). Will future climate change increase the risk of violating minimum flow and maximum temperature thresholds below dams in the Pacific Northwest?. Climate Risk Management. 21. 69–84. 9 indexed citations

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Brancucci, Carlo, Ignacio Carreño, Michael Rossol, et al.. (2018). Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Wind and Solar Electricity Generation in Texas. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Batıbeniz, Fulden, et al.. (2017). Changes in Severe Weather Characteristics in Response to Increase in Radiative Forcing by Mid 21st Century. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Pagán, Brianna R., Moetasim Ashfaq, Shih‐Chieh Kao, et al.. (2016). Extreme Hydrological Changes in the Western United States Drive Reductions in Water Supply by Mid Century. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Singh, Deepti, Daniel E. Horton, Michael Tsiang, et al.. (2014). 17. Severe precipitation in Northern India in June 2013: Causes, historical context, and changes in probability. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 95(9). 558–561. 35 indexed citations

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Ashfaq, Moetasim, Subimal Ghosh, Shih‐Chieh Kao, et al.. (2013). Near‐term acceleration of hydroclimatic change in the western U.S.. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 118(19). 97 indexed citations

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Diffenbaugh, Noah S., Martin Scherer, & Moetasim Ashfaq. (2012). Response of snow-dependent hydrologic extremes to continued global warming. Nature Climate Change. 3(4). 379–384. 134 indexed citations

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Diffenbaugh, Noah S., Moetasim Ashfaq, & Martin Scherer. (2011). Transient regional climate change: Analysis of the summer climate response in a high-resolution, century-scale ensemble experiment over the continental United States. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(D24). n/a–n/a. 38 indexed citations

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Naz, Bibi S., et al.. (2009). Hydrological Sensitivity of the Upper Indus River to Glacier Changes in the Karakoram Himalaya Region. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 3 indexed citations

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