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Dr Adnan Ahmad Tahir

Tenured Professor
Area of Interest: Snow and glacier hydrology; Application of GIS & RS in water resources and cryosphere monitoring; Snowmelt- runoff modeling; Climate Change impacts on water resources.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (92)992-383591-5 Ext 374
 
Academics/ Degrees
  • Postdoctorate - Snow and glacier dynamics using photo-grammetry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 2014-15
  • PhD - Hydrological Sciences, Laboratories Hydrosciences, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, 2008-2011
  • MS2 - Environmental Sciences Université Paris 6 ‐ Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2007-2008
  • M.Sc (Hons) -Agricultural Engineering, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, 2003-2005 
  • B.Sc. - Agricultural Engineering,University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, 1999-2003
 
Journal Publications
1. Wu Kunpeng,A.Tahir Spatiotemporal pattern of glacier mass balance in the Tibetan Plateau interior area over the past 40 years, Journal of Hydrology, 2024
2. Mudassir Khan,A.Tahir Machine learning-based assessment and simulation of land use modification effects on seasonal and annual land surface temperature variations, Heliyon, 2023
3. A.Nazir,A.Tahir,Dr. AM Abbasi Analysis of the relationship among land surface temperature (LST), land use land cover (LULC), and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) with topographic elements in the lower Himalayan region. Heliyon, 9(2)., Heliyon, 2023
4. A.Tahir,R.Khan Heterogeneous mass balance of selected Glaciers in the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalaya between 2000 and 2018, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2023
5. A.Tahir,M.Irshad,Khan, A. J.,Dr. AM Abbasi Simulation of the meltwater under different climate change scenarios in a poorly gauged snow and glacier-fed chitral river catchment (Hindukush region), Geocarto Intenational, 2022
6. R.Khan,A.Tahir,M.Siddique,M.Bilal Layered Double Hydroxide and Graphitc Carbon Nitride Hybrid as Nanoadsorbent for Selected Azo-Dye Removal from Aqueous Solution, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2022
7. Muhammad Asfand Ijaz,A.Tahir Prediction of Sediment Yield in a Data-Scarce River Catchment at the Sub-Basin Scale Using Gridded Precipitation Datasets, Water, 2022
8. A.Tahir,A.Nazir,K. Ahmad,Syed Umair Shahid,R.Khan Trends and projections of land use land cover and land surface temperature using an integrated weighted evidence-cellular automata (WE-CA) model, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2022
9. Mohammad Omar Ahmad Shakarneh,A.Tahir,Q.Mahmood,M. Shahzad,Khan, A. J.,R.Khan Modeling of rainfall–runoff events using HEC-HMS model in southern catchments of Jerusalem Desert-Palestine, Arabian Journal of Geosciences , 2022
10. Huma Hayat,A.Tahir,Shiyin Liu,Sher Muhammad,Muhammad Saifullah,Muhammad Ashraf,R.Khan Flood Hazard Mapping of Rivers in Snow- and Glacier-Fed Basins of Different Hydrological Regimes Using a Hydrodynamic Model under RCP Scenarios, Water, 2021
11. Muhammad Fawad,Faridullah,Wisal Shah,M.Irshad,Q.Mahmood,A.Tahir,Didar Ahmad IMPACTS OF THE MARBLE WASTE SLURRY ON GROUND WATER QUALITY AND ITS REUSE POTENTIAL , Fresenius Environmental Bulletin , 2021
12. Muhammad Fawad,Faridullah,M.Irshad,Wisal Shah,A.Tahir,Q.Mahmood,Toqeer Ahmed Pollution hotspots and potential impacts on land use in the Mohmand Marble Zone, Pakistan, Environmental Earth Sciences, 2021
13. F.Hafeez,M.Irshad,Q.Mahmood,A.Tahir,Dr. Akhtar Iqbal,Faridullah,Didar Ahmad The comparative analysis of essential nutrient fractions in permafrost and different land use systems of Diamer Division, Gilgit-Baltistan, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021
14. Didar Ahmad,Faridullah,F.Hafeez,M.Irshad,Q.Mahmood,A.Tahir,Dr. Akhtar Iqbal Comparative analysis of essential nutrients fractions in permafrost and different land use system of Diamer Division Gilgit Baltistan. , Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021
15. A.Tahir Surging dynamics of glaciers in Hunza valley under an equilibrium mass state since 1990, Remote sensing, 2020
16. A.Tahir Upward expansion of Supra-glacial Debris Cover in the Hunza Valley, Karakoram during 1990 ~ 2019, Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 2020
17. A.Tahir Spatio-temporal Trends in Snow Extent and their Linkage to Hydro-climatological and Topographical Factors in the Chitral River Basin (Hindukush, Pakistan), Geocarto International, 2020
18. A.Tahir,Khan, A. J. Impacts of Climate Change on the Water Availability, Seasonality and Extremes in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB), Sustainability, 2020
19. A.Tahir Spatio-temporal changes in the six major glaciers of the Chitral River basin (Hindukush Region of Pakistan) between 2001 and 2018, Journal of Mountain Sciences, 2020
20. A.Tahir Comprehensive evaluation of 0.25° precipitation datasets combined with MOD10A2 snow cover data in the ice-dominated river basins of Pakistan, Atmospheric research, 2020
21. A.Tahir,Khan, A. J. Remote Sensing-Based Quantification of the Relationships between Land Use Land Cover Changes and Surface Temperature over the Lower Himalayan Region, Sustainability, 2019
22. A.Tahir,Dr. AM Abbasi,K. Ahmad Analysis and simulation of land cover changes and their impacts on land surface temperature in a lower Himalayan region, Journal of Environmental Management, 2019
23. A.Tahir Exploring climate change impacts during 1st half of the 21st century on flow regime of the transboundary Kabul River in the Hindukush region, Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2019
24. A.Tahir,Muhammad Saifullah,Shiyin Liu Development of Threshold Levels and a Climate-Sensitivity Model of the Hydrological Regime of the High-Altitude Catchment of the Western Himalayas, Pakistan, Water, 2019
25. A.Tahir,Dr. AM Abbasi,K. Ahmad,A.Nazir,Siddique Ullah Analysis and simulation of land cover changes and their impacts on land surface temperature in a lower Himalayan region, Journal of Environmental Management, 2019
26. A.Tahir Application of Multi-Indexes to Characterize Dry Periods in Songhua River Basin of Northeast China, Climate research, 2019
27. A.Tahir,M.Irshad,Huma Hayat Simulating Current and Future River-Flows in the Karakoram and Himalayan Regions of Pakistan Using Snowmelt-Runoff Model and RCP Scenarios, Water, 2019
28. A.Tahir,M.Irshad,Z.Hussain LEACHABILITY OF IODINE FROM UNSTRUCTURED SOILS OF DIFFERENT LAND USES AS AFFECTED BY SELECTED AMENDMENTS, Environmental Engineering and Management, 2019
29. A.Tahir Hypsometric Properties of Mountain Landscape of Hunza River Basin of the Karakoram Himalaya, Journal of Mountain Sciences, 2018
30. S.U.Baig,Hum.Khan,A.Tahir Hypsometric properties of mountain landscape of Hunza River Basin of the Karakoram Himalaya, Journal of Mountain Science, 2018
31. A.Tahir Performance Evaluation of Hydrological Models using Ensemble of General Circulation Models in the Northeastern China, Journal of Hydrology, 2018
32. Jesse Norris,Leila M. V. Carvalho,Charles Jones,Forest Cannon,Bodo Bookhagen,Elisa Palazzi,A.Tahir The spatiotemporal variability of precipitation over the Himalaya: evaluation of one-year WRF model simulation, Climate Dynamics, 2017
33. A.Tahir Simulation of snowmelt-runoff under climate change scenarios in a data-scarce mountain environment, International Journal of Digital Earth, 2017
34. A.Tahir Effect Of Irrigation Application On Soil And Land Productivity Of Wheat Under Semi-Arid Environment, Journal of Agricultural research, 2017
35. A.Tahir The influence of tropical forcing on extreme winter precipitation in the western Himalaya, Climate dynamics, 2017
36. Yongjian DING,Donghui SHANGGUAN,A.Tahir,Muhammad Naveed Anjum Comparison of two successive versions 6 and 7 of TMPA satellite precipitation products with rain gauge data over Swat Watershed, Hindukush Mountains, Pakistan, Atmospheric Science Letters, 2016
37. Pierre Chevallier,Ayaz-ul-Haq,Silvia Terzago,A.Tahir,Jan Franklin Adamowski Comparative assessment of spatiotemporal snow cover changes and hydrological behavior of the Gilgit, Astore and Hunza River basins (Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya region - Pakistan), Meteorology and Atmospheric physics, 2016
38. A.Tahir Sediment control interventions and river flow dynamics: impact on sediment entry into the large canals, Environmental Earth Sciences, 2015
39. A.Tahir,Adnan Muhammad,Q.Mahmood,Sheikh Saeed Ahmad,Zahid Ullah Impact of rapid urbanization on microclimate of urban areas of Pakistan, Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health , 2015
40. A.Tahir,Yves Arnaud,Muhammad Ashraf,Muhammad Tousif Bhatti,Pierre Chevallier Snow cover trend and hydrological characteristics of the Astore River basin (Western Himalayas) and its comparison to the Hunza basin (Karakoram region), Science of The Total Environment, 2015
41. Dr. AM Abbasi,MN. Khan,A.Nazir,A.Tahir Traditional uses of medicinal plants against malarial disease by the tribal communities of Lesser Himalayas–Pakistan, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2014
42. A.Tahir Comparison of two snowmelt modelling approaches in the Dudh Koshi Basin (Eastern Himalayas, Nepal) , Hydrological SCiences Journal, 2014
43. Nadeem Khan, Xinbo Guo,Mir Ajab Khan,Manzoor Hussain, Sultan Bibi,Dr. AM Abbasi,A.Nazir,A.Tahir,Ghulam Mujtaba Shah Traditionalusesofmedicinalplantsagainstmalarialdisease bythetribalcommunitiesofLesserHimalayas–Pakistan, Journal ofEthnopharmacology, May 2014, 2014
44. A.Tahir,Adnan Muhammad,Q.Mahmood,Sheikh Saeed Ahmad,Zahid Ullah Impact of Rapid Urbanization on Microclimate of Urban Areas of Pakistan,, Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, 2014
45. A.Tahir,M.Bilal Remote sensing data application to monitor snow cover variation and hydrological regime in a poorly gauged river catchment – Northern Pakistan, International Journal of Geosciences, 2014
46. A.Tahir,M.Bilal Waste biomass adsorbents for copper removal from industrial wastewater— A review, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2013
47. M.Bilal,Tahhab Ashfaq,Syed Mubasher Gardezi,A.Tahir,A.Pervez,Q.Mahmood Waste biomass adsorbents for copper removal from industrial wastewater—A review, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2013
48. Elisa Palazzi,Paolo Cristofanelli,A.Tahir,Elisa Vuillermoz ,Paolo Bonasoni,Antonello Provenzale Climatic characterization of Baltoro glacier (Karakoram) and northern Pakistan from in-situ stations, Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU General Assembly 2013, 2013
49. A.Tahir Modeling snowmelt-runoff under climate scenarios in the Hunza River basin, Karakoram Range, Northern Pakistan, Journal of Hydrology, 2011
50. A.Tahir Snow cover dynamics and hydrological regime of the Hunza River basin, Karakoram Range, Northern Pakistan, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2011
 
 
BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
1. A.Tahir Status and Change of the Cryosphere in the Extended Hindu Kush Himalaya Region, , 2019
2. Cristofanelli Paolo,Vuillermoz Elisa,Provenzale Antonello,A.Tahir,Elisa Palazzi Climate Change and Engineering Geology, , 2014
 
Profile/Bio
PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 

  • January 2018 - To date: Associate Professor/ Senior Warden SF Boys Hostel. Teaching/ Research; Head group of Climate Change, Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad
  • Dec. 2011 to 2018: Assistant Professor/ Head group of Climate Change, Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad
  • Sept. 2014 – Aug 2015: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Dec. 2008 to Sept. 2011: Researcher, Laboratories Hydrosciences, MAISON DES Sciences, DE L’EAU, UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER 2 – Montpellier, France
  • Jan. 2008 to June 2008: Researcher, HBAN CEMAGREF, ANTONY, France
  • April 2005 to April 2007: Lecturer, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
 
 
Research Interests
  • Snow and glacier hydrology;
  • Application of GIS & RS in water resources and cryosphere monitoring;
  • Snowmelt-runoff modeling;
  • Climate change impacts on water resources;
 
Awards

Professional Trainings, Achievements, Awards & Scholarships 

  • Attended two Summer Schools on Alpine Environment in Italy in year 2012 and 2013
  • Certificate of 7 months intensive FRENCH language course in Pakistan and France
  • Awarded SWISS GOVERNMENT EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP in 2014 for 1 year postdoctoral research in Switzerland
  • Awarded with HEC Overseas scholarship for MS leading to PhD n 2007
  • Awarded with merit scholarship during B.Sc. Engineering and Intermediate
  • Life time member of Pakistan Engineering Council
  • Affilated to the following journals as a reviewer: “Journal of Hydrology” “Hydrology and Earth System Sciences” “Hydrological Processes” “Hydrological Sciences Journal” “International Journal of Remote Sensing” “Journal of Arid Land” “Journal of Mountain Sciences” “Pakistan Journal of agricultural sciences”, “Pakistan journal of life and social sciences
  • Established MoU and research collaboration with ISAC-CNR, Italy
  • Field Excursion of 12 days on Batura glacier (Karakoram range) with German institute to manage the installed high-altitude climate stations
  • Managed Automatic Weather Station at COMSATS Abbottabad for 2 years 

 
Research Projects
  1. Glacier changes and associated hydrologic impact under warming climate in Hunza Valley along the Sino-Pakistan Economic Corridor (30 Million PKR - International collaborative Project between China, Pakistan and Nepal – Approved by Funding Agency: NSFC China and ICIMOD)
  2. Investigating the snow cover and glaciers variation trend in the Gilgit River basin, using satellite remote sensing – HEC project of Rs. 0.5 million, approved in May, 2012 for 1 year duration – Completed
  3. Climate change impact on Cryosphere melt and hydrology of a high-altitude river catchment area – Use of a blend of Remote Sensing and ground data – 0.16 Million PKR (Completed)
  4. Snow and Glaciers Investigation and Hydrological Modeling of the Hindukush-Karakoram-Western Himalaya Region (Northern Pakistan) Under Future Climate Change Scenarios using Field Observations and Satellite Remote Sensing Data – Key For Water Management (7.67 Million PKR – Submitted under HEC NRPU)
  5. Impact of land use and land cover (LULC) changes on the land surface temperature (LST) trends using remote sensing data and field observations in the northern areas of Pakistan (7.23 Million PKR – Submitted under HEC NRPU)