Mohammad Darand

Introduction

I was born in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, in 1984. I received the B.Sc. degree in Climatology from the University of Tarbiat Moallem, Tehran, Iran, in 2006, the M.Sc. degree in Climatology in Environmental Planning from the University of Tarbiat Modares, Iran, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in Synoptic Climatology from the University of Isfahan in 2011. In 2011, i joined the Department of Climatology, University of Kurdistan, as an academic member and Assistance Professor. My interests area are Climate Change, Synoptic Climatology, and Dynamic Climatology.

Education

BSc. in Climatology , Tarbiat Moallem Tehran , Iran (2002 - 2006)
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PhD. in Climatology (Synoptic Climatology) , Isfahan , Iran (2008 - 2011)
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MSc. in Climatology in Environmental Planning , Tarbiat Modares University , Iran (2006 - 2008)
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Courses

Bachelor Of Science

Weather and Climatology

Probability and Statistics

Hydroclimatology

Statistical Climatology

Introduction to Climatic Softwares

Climatic Data Bases and Weather Maps

Master Of Science

Climatic Change Impact Assessment

Advanced Statistical Methods in Climatology

Climatic Hazards

Medical Climatology

Programming Laboratory and Climatic Software

Introduction of Synoptic Climatology

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Research activities

Journal Papers

Influence of climate extremes on production of wheat and barley in West Azerbaijan province, IRAN (1404)

Probability changes of observed extreme precipitation events over Iran from 1962 to 2019 Mohammad Darand (2025)

Spatiotemporal characteristics of daily precipitation concentration in Iran Farshad Pazhoh, Mohammad Darand (2025)

Climatological Analysis of Variability in Snow Cover Features Across Iran During 1981–2022 Marzieh Sadeghi, Hossein Asakereh, Mohammad Darand (2025)

Analysis Of Diurnal Temperature Range (DTR) Change in West Azerbaijan Province (1404)

Evaluation of spatio-temporal accuracy of precipitation estimation of ERA-5 database over Iran (1404)

Seasonal asymmetries in the lag between insolation and surface air temperature over Iran during 1971–2017 Mohammad Darand, Xabat Qamari, Mohammad Yasin Khaledian, Duan Anmin, Jun Jian, Yuepeng Pan (2025)

Trend Analysis of Snow Cover Changes Using Statistical Downscaling Model and Climate Scenarios in Sefid-Rud Basin (IRAN) Hersh Entezami, Firouz Mojarrad, Mohammad Darand, Ebrahim Ghaderpour (2025)

Impact of future cold and heat on mortality by two exposure measurements under different scenarios: Impact of global warming in the west of Iran Reza Rezaee, Afshin Maleki, Omid Abobakri, Mahdi Safari, Seied Abolfazl Masudian, Gholamreza Goudarzi, Mozhdeh Zarei, Ardeshir Khosravi, Kazem Godini, Mohammad Darand (2025)

Identification of the Driving factors impacts of Land Surface Albedo over Iran: An analysis with the MODIS data OmidReza Kefayatmotlagh, Mohammad Darand (2024)

Detection of land surface albedo changes over Iran using remote sensing data OmidReza Kefayatmotlagh, Mohammad Darand (2024)

Investigation variation in atmospheric circulation affecting the time delay of Comprehensive and effective autumn precipitation (1403)

Climatology of Iran's Albedo using MODIS Data (1403)

The effect of mid-latitude atmospheric circulation changes on the position of the Mediterranean trough and the occurrence of super heavy precipitation in Iran (1403)

Spatiotemporal analysis of precipitation variability based on entropy over Iran Mohammad Darand, Farshad Pazhoh (2024)

Prediction of air quality using vertical atmospheric condition and developing hybrid models Fariba Karimi, Jamil Amanollahi, Marzieh Reisi Varzaneh, Mohammad Darand (2023)

Shifting the Sowing Date of Winter Wheat as a Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change in a Mediterranean-Type Environment Behnam Rezaie, Farzad Hosseinpanahi, Adel Siosemardeh, Mohammad Darand, Mohammad Banayyan (2022)

Spatiotemporal changes in precipitation concentration over Iran during 1962–2019 Mohammad Darand, Farshad Pazhoh (2022)

Trend analysis of land surface temperature over Iran based on land cover and topography Masoud Moradi, Mohammad Darand (2022)

Analysis of the trend of long-term changes in the tropopause height on the Iranian atmosphere in the transition seasons (1401)

Investigating the Relationship between Change of Tropopause Pressure's level (TPL) and Cyclones Associated with Widespread Precipitation (WP) in Iran (1401)

Spatial analysis of outgoing longwave radiation trend in Iran (1400)

Spatiotemporal and physiographic relationship between MODIS land surface temperature and air temperature over Iran Masoud Moradi, Mohammad Darand (2022)

Evaluation of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, Integrated Multi‐satellite Retrievals for GPM, Climate Hazards Centre InfraRed Precipitation with Station data, and European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis v5 data in estimating precipitation and capturing meteorological droughts over Iran Mohammad Sadegh Keikhosravi Kiany, Seied Abolfazl Masudian, Robert C. Balling Jr, Mohammad Darand (2022)

Analysis of surface urban heat island in Urmia and Tabriz cities and the relationship with water extent variation of Urmia Lake (1400)

Mean Zonal and Meridional Variations of Westerlies in wet and dry periods in the western Iran (1400)

Investigating the Changes in Snow Cover in Sefidrood Drainage Basin using Remote Sensing (1400)

Evaluation of high resolution global satellite precipitation mapping during meteorological drought over Iran Mohammad Darand, Hassan Fathai (2021)

An evaluation of Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) datasets over Iran Mohammad Darand, Zeinab Siavashi (2021)

Future changes in temperature extremes in climate variability over Iran Mohammad Darand (2020)

Projected changes in extreme precipitation events over Iran in the 21st century based on CMIP5 models Mohammad Darand (2020)

Statistical evaluation of gridded precipitation datasets using rain gauge observations over Iran Mohammad Darand, Khandu Khandu (2020)

Descriptive Characteristics of Tropopause on the Atmosphere of Iran in Transitional seasons (1399)

Investigation and analysis of turbulence and fluctuations of rainfall regions of Iran (1399)

Identifying the moisture source of precipitation in the southern coasts of the Caspian Sea Hossein Mir mosavi, Mohammad Darand, Somayeh Ahmadpour (2020)

Spatiotemporal analysis of the relationship between near-surface air temperature and troposphere thickness over Iran Mohammad Darand (2020)

The relationships between precipitation, rain days, and relative vorticity of the mid-troposphere 500 hPa over Iran Mohammad Darand, Nabi Mirzaee (2019)

Impacts of cold and hot temperatures on mortality rate in Isfahan, Iran Rozhan Gholampour, Mohammad Darand, Amir hossein Halabian (2019)

High accuracy of precipitation reanalyses resulted in good river discharge simulations in a semi-arid basin MohammadReza Eni, Saman Javadi, Majid Delavar, José A.F Monteiro, Mohammad Darand (2019)

Vertically integrated moisture flux convergence over Iran Mohammad Darand, Farshad Pazhoh (2019)

Trend analysis of tropospheric specific humidity over Iran during 1979–2016 Mohammad Darand, Farshad Pazhoh, Mohammad Saligheh (2019)

Synoptic analysis of sea level pressure patterns and Vertically Integrated Moisture Flux Convergence VIMFC during the occurrence of durable and pervasive rainfall in Iran Mohammad Darand, Farshad Pazhoh (2019)

Analysis of Iran’s thermal seasons and variation during last decades (1398)

Identification of atmospheric boundary layer height and trends over Iran using high-resolution ECMWF reanalysis dataset Mohammad Darand, Fariba Zandkarimi (2019)

Accuracy of PERSIANN-CDR Precipitation Satellite Database in Simulation Assessment of Runoff in SWAT Model on Maharlu Basin (1397)

Assessing the accuracy of MLR, PCR, ARIMA, and MLP in predicting the aerosols optical depth (1397)

Analysis the Impact of Climatic Signals on Kurdistan Precipitation (1397)

Analysis of pervasive precipitation in similar gradient areas of Iran Hossein Asakereh, Mohammad Darand, Mehdi Dostkamian (2018)

Identifying drought- and flood-prone areas based on significant changes in daily precipitation over Iran Mohammad Darand, Mohammad Mehdi Sohrabi (2018)

Synoptic conditions leading to extremely warm periods in Western Iran Mohammad Darand, Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, Hossein Asakereh, Roya Amiri, David Barriopedro (2018)

Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis of Extreme Precipitation in Iran Mohammad Darand, Mehdi Dostkamyan, Muhammad Ishaq Asif Rehmani (2017)

Evaluation of the performance of TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) estimation over Iran Mohammad Darand, Jamil Amanollahi, Soma Zandkarimi (2017)

Spatial and temporal trend analysis of temperature extremes based on Iranian climatic database (1962–2004) Mohammad Darand, Seied Abolfazl Masudian, Hamid Nazaripour, Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar (2015)

Variation of agro-climatic indices in Kurdistan province of Iran within 1962–2012 Mohammad Darand, Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar (2015)

Regionalization of Precipitation Regimes in Iran Using Principal Component Analysis and Hierarchical Clustering Analysis Mohammad Darand, Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar (2014)

Classification Synoptic Circulation Patterns Impacting on Air Pollution in Tehran Mohammad Darand, Amir hossein Halabian (2013)

Synoptic analysis of extreme cold days in Iran Seied Abolfazl Masudian, Mohammad Darand (2011)

Forecasting the Air Pollution with using Artificial Neural Networks: The Case Study; Tehran City Mohammad hosayn Gholizadeh, Mohammad Darand (2009)

Recognition of Tehran weather types Seied Abolfazl Masudian, Mohammad hosayn Gholizadeh, Mohammad Darand (2009)

Forecasting precipitation with Artificial Neural Networks (case study: Tehran) Mohammad hosayn Gholizadeh, Mohammad Darand (2009)

ANALYZING THE INFLUENCE OF AIR TEMPERATURE ON THE CARDIOVASCULAR, RESPIRATORY AND STROKE MORTALITY IN TEHRAN Manuchehr Farajzadeh, Mohammad Darand (2009)

Conference Papers

Detection the variability of climatic seasons in Bijar (1404)

Changes in Seasons Length over Iran due to Global Warming (1404)

Detection the changes of equivalent potential temperature as an indicator of global warming at the Marivan synoptic station (1404)

Analyzing the Impact of Global Warming and Climate Change on Extreme Precipitation and Temperature Events at the Marivan Synoptic Station (1404)

The effect of global warming on hydro-climatic changes and water levels of Zaribar Lake, Marivan (1404)

Climate Change and Extreme Precipitation Events Mohammad Darand (2024)

Detection of Snow Season over Kurdistan Province and its Variation during Recent Decades (1402)

Response of Hydrological Streamflows to Climate Change in Iran Mohammad Darand (2021)

Climate and human mortality in Tehran, Iran Manuchehr Farajzadeh, Mohammad Darand (2009)

Speech

Climate Change and Extreme Precipitation Events Mohammad Darand (2024)

Snow Seasons Timing over Kurdistan Province (1402)

Probability of extreme precipitation occurrence over Iran (1402)

Drought Monitoring with Satellite Precipitation Estimates Mohammad Darand (2022)

Impact of Climate Change on the River Discharge Regime Mohammad Darand (2020)

Vertically Integrated Moisture Flux Convergence over Iran Mohammad Darand (2017)

WorkShop

Climate Change, Natural and Anthropogenic Factors (1403)

برگزاری کارگاه بین المللی GrADS Mohammad Darand (2024)

Theses

Assessment of the relationship between daily and short-term precipitation over Kurdistan province (1404)

Analysis of the Trend of Dusty Days in the Western Half of the Country (1404)

Analysis of synoptic patterns leading to heavy precipitations in Kurdistan province (1403)

Analyzing the seasonal delay of temperature in Kermanshah province (1402)

Synoptic and dynamic analysis of snowfall in Kurdistan province (1402)

واکاوی برآورد دمای رویه‌ی سطح زمین در سنندج با استفاده از سنجش از دور Hamid Akhdar, Mohammad Darand, Xabat Qamari, Masoud Moradi (2023)

Evaluation of time-spatial accuracy of precipitation estimation of ERA-5 database over Iran (1401)

Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Thermal Comfort Indices over Iran (1401)

Evaluation the Effect of Climate Change on Karkheh Rivers Basin (1401)

The impact of the bifurcation of westerlies on the precipitation of Iran (1401)

Analysis of the Changes in Seasonal Lag over Iran (1401)

تغییرپذیری مکانی – زمانی پوشش برف در حوضۀ سفید رود و تأثیر تغییر اقلیم بر آن Hiresh Entezami, Firouz Mojarrad, Himan Shahabi, Mohammad Darand (2022)

Evaluation of Spatio-temporal Accuracy of Estimated Temperature by ERA-5 dataset over Iran (1400)

Relationship between climate parameters and human mortality in Isfahan city (1397)

Analyzing the specific humidity troposphere of Iran for water supply potential (1397)

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Research interests

Statistical Climatology
Dynamic Climatology
Synoptic Climatology
Climate Change

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Name: Soma Zandkarimi

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