Dr. rer. nat. Bijan Fallah

Senior Scientist
Fallah

With a background in applied physics, mathematics and climate research I excelled challenging problems while developing cutting edge solutions to scientific questions. For the last 8 years I have been wrangling, querying, analyzing, visualizing and communicating a variety of complex climate data-set. I have a bachelor degree in Physics, a master in Meteorology and finished my PhD in 2015 at Freie Universität Berlin under supervision of Prof. Ulrich Cubasch.

Currently, I am working in Green Central Asia project and will create open access, high-resolution climate change projections data-set, developed specifically for the region.

 

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Curriculum Vitae

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Contact

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
T +49 (0)331 288 2517
fallah[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam

ORCID

Since 09/2020

Postdoctral scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

09/2019- 08/2020

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Tropospheric Environmental Research (TrUmF): Short-term forecasts of pollution.

09/2015 - 08/2019

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Climate System Modeling working group at the Institute of Meteorology at Freie Universität Berlin (BMBF project Palmod)

 

 

09/2014 - 09/2015

Researcher, Urban Climate and Health, Institute of Meteorology, Free University of Berlin

 

 

09/2011 - 02/2015

Ph.D., Climate System Modeling, Institute of Meteorology, Free University of Berlin,

Title: "Modeling the Asian Paleo-hydroclimatic Variability", supervisor: Prof. Ulrich Cubasch, PDF.

 

09/2010 - 09/2011

Researcher at Iranian National Cloud Seeding Center, Yazd, Iran

 

08/2008 - 08/2010

Military Service (as Meteorologist) at Iranian Air Force, Tehran , Iran

 

08/2006 - 09/2007

Scientific assistant at Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

 

09/2003 - 02/2006

M.Sc.  Meteorology, Institute of Geophysics University of Tehran, Iran, Title: A numerical boundary layer model for an area with complex topography, area Tehran.

 

 

09/1998 - 02/2003

  B.Sc.  Physics, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran

 

 

09/1994 - 02/1998

High School Diploma Mathematics and Physics, NODET (National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talent, Babol, Iran

  • Implementation of Data Assimilation techniques in an open-source chemical transport model (Short-term forecasts of pollution).
  • Online/offline Data Assimilation techniques for long-scale climate simulations (centennial to millennial scale).
  • High-resolution climate simulations (∼1.7×1.7 Km) to feed a statistical model for forecasting surface friction coefficient
  • Designing climate simulations of different duration for the last 2,000 years.
  • Applied statistical inference of model outputs
  • Regional climate model simulations over area Iran with WRF model
  • Urban climate modeling over area Tehran using the EULAG model

Fallah, B., Menz, C., Russo, E., Harder, P., Hoffmann, P., Didovets, I., and Hattermann, F. F.: Climate Model Downscaling in Central Asia: A Dynamical and a Neural Network Approach, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-227, in review, 2023.

EMS2023:  Fallah, B., Russo, E., Menz, C., Hoffmann, P., Didovets, I., and Hattermann, F. F.: The Human Factor: Increasing the Risk of Weather Extremes in Central Asia, EMS Annual Meeting 2023, Bratislava, Slovakia, 4–8 Sep 2023, EMS2023-196, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2023-196, 2023.

Fallah, B., Russo, E., Menz, C. et al. Anthropogenic influence on extreme temperature and precipitation in Central Asia. Sci  Rep 13, 6854 (2023). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33921-6

Russo, E., Fallah, B., Ludwig, P., Karremann, M., and Raible, C. C.: The long-standing dilemma of European summer temperatures at the mid-Holocene and other considerations on learning from the past for the future using a regional climate model, Clim. Past, 18, 895–909, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-895-2022, 2022.

Hoffmann, P., Lehmann, J., Fallah, Bet al. Author Correction: Atmosphere similarity patterns in boreal summer show an increase of persistent weather conditions connected to hydro-climatic risks. Sci Rep 11, 24242 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03671-4

Fallah, B., Russo, E., Acevedo, W., Mauri, A., Becker, N., and Cubasch, U.: Towards high-resolution climate reconstruction using an off-line data assimilation and COSMO-CLM 5.00 model, Clim. Past, 14, 1345-1360, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1345-2018, 2018.

Acevedo, W., Fallah, B., Reich, S., and Cubasch, U.: Assimilation of pseudo-tree-ring-width observations into an atmospheric general circulation model, Clim. Past, 13, 545-557, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-545-2017, 2017.

Bijan Fallah, Abbas Ali Saberi, Sahar Sodoudi, Emergence of global scaling behaviour in the coupled Earth-atmosphere interaction, Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 34005,  https://www.nature.com/articles/srep34005 (2016)

Ulrich Cubasch and Bijan Fallah , Extrem-Dürreperioden in Asien während der letzten 1.000 Jahre in Proxy-Daten und Modell-Simulationen, Sitzungsberichte der Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 129 (2016), 47–54, https://leibnizsozietaet.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Cubasch_u.a..pdf (2016) .

Bijan Fallah, Ulrich Cubasch, Kerstin Prömmel and Sahar Sodoudi, A numerical model study on the behaviour of Asian summer monsoon and AMOC due to orographic forcing of Tibetan Plateau, Climate Dynamics, DOI:10.1007/s00382-015-2914-5, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-015-2914-5 (2015).

Bijan Fallah, Sahar Sodoudi, Emmanuele Russo, Ingo Kirchner and Ulrich Cubasch, Towards modeling the regional rainfall changes over Iran due to the climate forcing of the past 6000 years, Quaternary International, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215009556?via%3Dihub (2015).

Bijan Fallah, Sahar Sodoudi and Ulrich Cubasch, Westerly jet stream and past millennium climate change in Arid Central Asia simulated by COSMO-CLM model, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-015-1479-x (2015).

Bijan Fallah and Sahar Sodoudi, Bimodality and regime behavior in atmosphere–ocean interactions during the recent climate change, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Volume 70, Pages 1-11, ISSN 0377-0265, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377026515000135?via%3Dihub (2015).

Bijan Fallah and Ulrich Cubasch, A comparison of model simulations of Asian megadroughts during the past millennium with proxy reconstructions, Climate of the Past, 11, 253-263, doi:10.5194/cp-11-253-2015, https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/11/253/2015/ (2015).

Polanski, S., Fallah, B., Befort, D. J., Prasad, S. and Cubasch, U., Regional moisture change over India during the past Millennium: A comparison of multi-proxy reconstructions and climate model simulations, Global and Planetary Change, Volume 122, November 2014, Pages 176185, ISSN 0921-8181, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818114001817?via%3Dihub (2014).