Dr. Yassmin Mahmoud (H. Essa)

Scientist, Postdoctoral Researcher
Mahmoud (H. Essa)

Department

Earth System Analysis

Working Group

Past and Future Earth

Contact

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Yassmin.Hesham.Hanfi.Mahmoud[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam

ORCID

0000-0001-7512-8461

Acadamic Background

2018 - Cairo University, Egypt.

 Ph.D. in Meteorology.
Thesis Title: ‘Climate change outlook and its impact on drought in North Africa’.

2014 - Cairo University, Egypt.

 M.Sc. in Meteorology.
Thesis Title: ‘Assessment and monitoring drought over Egypt’.

2012 - Cairo University, Egypt.

 Diploma in Meteorology. 

2009 - Cairo University, Egypt.

 B. Sc. in Math and Computer Science.

 Full publication list and Public profiles are on ORCID, Google Scholar, Researchgate.

Selected publications 

  • Monjo, R., Essa, Y. H., Prado-López, C., Kaur, M.,  Redolat, D., Paradinas, C.,  Royé,  D., Ahrens, B., and San José, R. (2025). High time- and spatial-resolution climate scenarios of the DISTENDER project according to statistical and dynamical downscaling. Climate Services. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100623.
  • Essa, Y. H., Hirschi, M., Thiery, W., El-Kenawy, A., and Yang. C. (2023). Drought characteristics in Mediterranean under climate change scenarios. npj climate and atmospheric science, 6, 133 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00458-4 .
  • Madonna F, Essa, Y. H., Marra, F, Serva, F, Gardiner, T., and Rosoldi, M. (2023). Using measurement uncertainties for calculation of climate indices from USCRN data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(11), e2022JD038057. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD038057.
  • De Toma, V., Ciani, D., Essa, Y. H., Yang, C., Artale, V., Pisano, A., Cavaliere, d., Santoleri, R., and Storto, A. (2024). Skin sea surface temperature schemes in coupled ocean-atmosphere modelling: the impact of chlorophyll-interactive e-folding depth. GMD, 17, 5145-5165. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5145-2024
  • Essa, Y. H., Cagnazzo, C., Madonna, F., Cristofanelli, P., Yang, C., Serva, F., Caporaso, L., and Santoleri, R. (2022). Intercomparison of Atmospheric Upper-Air Temperature from Recent Global Reanalysis Datasets. Front. Earth Sci. 10:935139. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.935139. 
  • Yang, C., Cagnazzo, C., …, Essa, Y. H, Eyring, V., … and Santoleri, R. (2022). Independent Quality Assessment of Essential Climate Variables: Lessons learnt from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0109.1

Datasets

Completed Projects

  • DISTENDER “DevelopIng STratEgies by integrating mitigatioN, aDaptation and participation to climate changE Risks”.  6.417.722,13 Euros. (Role: Team member)

  • Evaluation and Quality Control of climate datasets in Climate Data Store (CDS) of Copernicus Climate Change Service (Tender C3S2_520) 2022-2026 – 5.500.000 Euros. (Role: Deputy coordinator and WP1 leader)

  • DYNAMOL “Observation-aware dynamical downscaling of sub-seasonal to seasonal predictions onto the Mediterranean region and Lazio area”.  (Role: Team member)

  • Quality Assessment of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) in the framework of Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). 2020-2021 – 4.888.000 Euros. (Role: Team member)

  • PNRR CN-HPC Spoke 4 (Earth and Climate).

  • Participation in the Egyptian-Chinese project ‘Smart agriculture based on meteorological big data’. 2021-2023. 

  • Participation in the international project ‘Optimizing Water Management for Cultivated Lands through Remote Sensing Analyses and Climate Change Scenarios (OptiMED-Water)’. 2018-2021.

  • Participation in ‘Regional Climate Change database for Agriculture sector in Egypt’. 2013-2016.

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