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WORK ADDRESS
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249-0668
hatim.sharif@utsa.edu
(210) 458-6478; (210) 458-6475 (fax)
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT
August 2005 - Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of Texas at San Antonio
July 2004 – July 2005: Research Staff, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton
University
February 2004 – August 2005: Scientist, University of California Berkeley, Earth Sciences
Division, Berkeley National Laboratory
January 2002 – January 2004: Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Study Program, National Center
for Atmospheric Research
August 2001 - December 2001: Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering, University of Connecticut
May 2001 – December 2001: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering, University of Connecticut
January 2001 - August 2001: Adjunct Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University
September 1999 – May 2001: Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Civil &
Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut
January 1997 - August 1999: Research Assistant, Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering, University of Connecticut
January 1993 - December 1996: Graduate Research Student, Department of Civil Engineering,
Colorado State University
JOURNAL REVIEWING
COURSES TAUGHT
Major Sponsors:
NASA
National Science Foundation
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Texas Department of Transportation
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Wang, X., H. Xie, N. Mazari, H. O. Sharif, and J. Zeitler, 2010: Validation and comparison of
DSP and MPE products using 50 rain gauges over the Upper Guadalupe River Basin. Submitted
to J. of Hydrology
Sharif, H. O. and F. L. Ogden, 2010: On the remapping of radar data onto Cartesian coordinates.
Submitted to Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
Sharif, H. O., T. Jackson, M. Hossain, Sazzad Bin-Shafique, and D. Zane, 20109: Motor
Vehicle-related Flood Fatalities in Texas, 1959-2008. Journal of Transportation Safety &
Security. In press.
Sharif, H. O., A. A. Hassan, Sazzad Bin-Shafique, Hongjie Xie, and Jon Zeitler, 2010:
Hydrologic Modeling of an Extreme Flood in the Guadalupe River in Texas. J. of American
Water Resources Association. In press.
Sharif, H. O., S. Chintalapudi, A. Elhassan, H. Xie, and J. Zeitler, 2010: Physically-Based
Hydrological Modeling of the 2002 Floods in San Antonio, Texas . Civil Engineering and
Environmental Systems. In press.
Sharif, H. O., L. Sparks, A. A. Hassan, X. Wang. J. Zeitler, and H. Xie, 2010: Hydrologic
Analysis of the 2004 Flood of Bull Creek Watershed, Austin, Texas. J. of Hydrologic
Engineering. 15(8), 651-657. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000228
Reichle, R. H., W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, H. O. Sharif, and S. P. P. Mahanama, 2008:
Contribution of soil moisture retrievals to land data assimilation products, Geophysical. Research
Letters, 35, L01404, doi:10.1029/2007GL031986
Wang, X., H. Xie, H. O. Sharif, and J. Zeitler, 2008: Comparison of NEXRAD MPE and Stage
III precipitation products at the Upper Guadalupe River basin, Texas Hill Country. J. of
Hydrology, Vol. 348/1-2 pp 73-86 DOI information: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.09.057
Sharif, H. O., W. T. Crow, N. L. Miller, and E. F. Wood, 2007: Multi-decadal high-resolution
hydrological modeling of the Arkansas/Red River basin. J. of Hydrometeorology, doi:
10.1175/JHM622.1
Sharif, H. O., D. Yates, R. Roberts, and C. Mueller, 2006: The Use of an automated now-casting
system to forecast flash floods in an urban watershed. J. of Hydrometeorology, doi:
10.1175/JHM482.1
Crow, W. T., R. D. Koster, R. H. Reichle, and H. O. Sharif, 2005: Relevance of time-varying and
time-invariant retrieval error sources for the Spaceborne detection of soil moisture anomalies.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L24405, doi:10.1029/2005GL024889
Sharif, H. O., F. L. Ogden, W. F. Krajewski, and M. Xue, 2004: Statistical analysis of
radar-rainfall error propagation. J. of Hydrometeorology, 5 (1), 199-212
Sharif, H. O., F. L. Ogden, W. F. Krajewski, and M. Xue, 2002: Numerical simulations of
radar-rainfall error propagation. Water Resources Research, 38(8), doi: 10.1029/2001WR000525
Ogden, F., S. Senarath, C. Downer, and H. Sharif, 2001: Comment on “On the calibration and
validation of two-dimensional, distributed, Hortonian, continuous catchment models” by Sharika
U. S. Senarath et al. - Reply. Water Resources Research, 37 (12), 3397-3400
Senarath, S., F. Ogden, C. Downer, and H. Sharif, 2000: On the calibration and validation of
two-dimensional, distributed, Hortonian, continuous catchment models. Water Resources
Research, 36(6), 1495-1510
Ogden, F. L., H. O. Sharif, S. Senarath, J. Smith, M. L. Baeck, and J. Richardson, 2000:
Hydrologic analysis of the Fort Collins, Colorado, flash flood of 1997. J. of Hydrology, 228, 82-
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WHITE PAPERS
Wendy Graham, Anton Kruger, Praveen Kumar, Venkat Lakshmi, Upmanu Lall (Vice-Chair),
Dennis Lettenmaier, David Maidment (Chair), Michael Piasecki, Chunmiao Zheng, Jay Alameda,
Marshall Moss, Hatim Sharif, Jeff Weber, and William Wise, “CUAHSI Hydrologic Information
Systems” White Paper Prepared for Discussion at the CUAHSI Planning Review Meeting, Snowbird,
Utah, August 18-20, 2002
INVITED SEMINARS
“Health Impacts of Climate and Weather: Influenza and Floods as Examples”, Invited
presentation at the 2010 European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Austria, May, 2010
“Flood Fatalities in Texas”, Keynote presentation at the 2010 South Texas Severe Weather
Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March 13, 2010
“Weather Disasters in Texas: Floods as an Example”, Invited presentation at the 2010 Texas
Homeland Security Conference, San Antonio, Texas, February 18, 2010
"Flood Fatalities in Texas”. Webinar presented to the Texas Flash Flood Coalition, December
2009
"Distributed Hydrologic Modeling in South Central Texas” at the University of Texas, TX,
November 2008
"Hydrologic modeling and Forecasting – South Central Texas” at the Austin/San Antonio
National Weather Service Office, New Braunfels, TX, January 2008
“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
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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, 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
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
H. O. Sharif, “Using Health Education to Reduce Flood Fatalities”, presented at the 2010 “Water
Resources in Ethiopia” Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2010
J. Joseph and H. O. Sharif, “A Bayesian Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis for Improving the
Quality of Parameter Confidence Intervals”, presented at the World Environmental and Water
Resources Congress, Providence, RI, May 2009
A. Elhassan and H. O. Sharif, “Analysis of San Antonio River Floods Caused by Tropical Storm
Erin”, presented at the 2008 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco,
CA, December 2008
H. O. Sharif and F. L. Ogden, “On the Remapping of Radar Estimates onto Cartesian
Coordinates”, presented at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San
Francisco, CA, December 2007
N. Mezari, H. Xie, H. O. Sharif, and J. Zeitler, “NEXRAD reflectivity derived rainfall estimates
comparison with measurement from collocated rain gauges”, presented at the 2007 Fall Meeting
of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 2007
H. O. Sharif, D. Gochis, and D. Yates, “Summer 2006 Precipitation over the Colorado Rockies
Front Range Area”, presented at the 2006 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San
Francisco, CA, and December 2006
H. O. Sharif and E. A. Brandes, “Radar-Rain Gauge Adjustment and its Sensitivity to the Method
of Comparison”, presented at the American Meteorological Society 31st Conference on Radar
Meteorology, Seattle, WA, August 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, "Hydrometeorological Analysis of the Fort Collins Flash Flood", presented at the
Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium Research Conference, Hartford, CT, November,
1998