Omar Farooq Wani


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Wani

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Omar Farooq

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0000-0002-3124-3705

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  • Does distributed monitoring improve the calibration of urban drainage models?
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Wani, Omar Farooq; Maurer, Max; Rieckermann, Jörg; et al. (2022)
    Costa Mesa
    We conclude that while distributed sensing of discharge and water level helps understanding the dynamics of the stormwater runoff, it is not always straightforward to make better predictive models of complex urban drainage networks using this data. This analysis - by delineating the bottlenecks towards informative inference - provides via-negativa recommendations for the placement of distributed sensors, when improved model performance is also one of the motivating factors for such data collection campaigns.
  • Smart urban water systems: what could possibly go wrong?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Moy de Vitry, Matthew; Schneider, Mariane Yvonne; Wani, Omar Farooq; et al. (2019)
    Environmental Research Letters
  • Impact of different sources of precipitation data on urban rainfall-runoff predictions: A comparison of rain gauges, commercial microwave links and radar
    Item type: Conference Paper
    Disch, A.; Scheidegger, Andreas; Wani, Omar Farooq; et al. (2019)
    Rainfall Monitoring, Modelling and Forecasting in Urban Environment. UrbanRain18: 11th International Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas. Conference Proceedings
  • Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub' al Khali Desert
    Item type: Journal Article
    Zaki, Abdallah S.; Delaunay, Antoine; Baby, Guillaume; et al. (2025)
    Communications Earth & Environment
    Abundant geomorphological, biological, and isotopic records show that Arabia repeatedly underwent significant climate-driven environmental changes during late Quaternary humid periods. Precisely mapping how the enhancement and expansion of the African Monsoon during these humid periods have affected landscape evolution and human occupation dynamics in Arabia remains a scientific challenge. Here we reconstruct an ancient water-sculpted landscape consisting of lake and river deposits, coupled with a large outlet valley in the Rub' al Khali Desert of Saudi Arabia. During the peak of the Holocene Humid Period or before, intense rainfall reactivated alluvial floodplains and filled a similar to 1100 km(2) topographic depression, which eventually breached, carving a deep similar to 150 km-long valley. Coupling geologic reconstructions with transient Earth system model simulations shows that this hydrological activity was linked to higher seasonal precipitation punctuated by repeated heavy events. Analysis of lacustrine and fluvial sedimentary deposits implies sediment routing across distances of up to 1000 km from the Asir Mountains. Our results indicate that such intense flooding challenges the conventional view of simple, weak, and linear landscape stabilization following increased rainfall in Arabia. Our findings highlight the crucial role of an enhanced African Monsoon in driving rapid landscape transformations in the Arabian Desert.
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