Yonas Demissie began his career in Agricultural Engineering then moved on to get a PhD from in Civil Engineering, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. His research interests include surface and subsurface hydrology, deterministic and stochastic hydrology, data mining and assimilation, and renewable energy and climate change impacts on hydrology.
Research
Activities and Products
- A multivariate and probabilistic assessment of drought in the Pacific Northwest under historical and future climate change
- A multivariate drought assessment of the Yakima River Basin under historical and future climate change
- Updated and Forward Looking Rainfall and Runoff Intensity- Duration-Frequency Curves for Washington State
- Runoff Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves for Washington State considering the change and uncertainty of observed and anticipated extreme rainfall and snow events
- Bayesian Augmented L-Moment Approach for Regional Frequency Analysis
- New Drought Index to Characterize Droughts Within a Snowmelt and Reservoirs Dominated Watershed
- The Complex Relationship between Heavy Storms and Floods: Implication on Stormwater Drainage design and Management
- Comprehensive Characterization of Droughts to Assess the Effectiveness of a Basin-Wide Integrated Water Management in the Yakima River Basin
- A Holistic View of Climate Change and Water Management Impacts on Future Droughts: A Global Multi-Model Analysis
- Historical and Future Drought Risk in Bangladesh using Bivariate Regional Frequency Analysis, Theoretical and Applied Climatology