Mohsen Tahmasebi Nasab water resources engineer
// research

Publications

My published work, mostly on cold-climate and depression-dominated hydrology: macro-scale modeling, snowmelt, frozen-ground recession, DEM resolution, watershed delineation, and a few side trips into soil temperature and remote sensing. I have also presented at more than 20 national and international conferences.

Google Scholar profile ~315 citations h-index 10 i10-index 10 metrics via Google Scholar
// the model I built from scratch

Macro-HyProS

A Macro-scale Hydrologic Processes Simulator for cold-climate, depression-dominated regions, written from the ground up in FORTRAN and Python during my PhD (NSF and USGS funded). It is a grid-based, daily model with a "LEGO-fashion" layout that handles sub-grid land-use variation, five stacked vertical bands (atmosphere, vegetation, snow, surface, sub-surface), and improved methods for snow, frozen ground, and surface depressions. Tested on the Red River of the North Basin, it reached Nash-Sutcliffe efficiencies of 0.56 in calibration and 0.72 in validation, and showed that the basin spends about 145 days a year with frozen or partially frozen ground.

FORTRAN + Pythongrid-based5 vertical bands snow and frozen grounddepression-dominated terrain
Read the paper · Journal of Hydrology More on the projects page
BRICKSBLOCKSPLATE
Macro-HyProS represents each grid as a "plate" carrying stacked land-use "blocks" and "bricks" (after Fig. 1 of the Journal of Hydrology paper).
// journal articles · 13

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. 2024

    Daily soil temperature simulation at different depths in the Red River Basin: a long short-term memory approach

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., Pattanayak, S., Williams, T. W., Sharifan, A., Raheem, Y., & Fournier, C. · Modeling Earth Systems and Environment
    Scholar
  2. 2023

    Impacts of temperature data sets on macroscale snowmelt simulations in the Missouri River Basin

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., & Chu, X. · Journal of Cold Regions Engineering, 37(2), 04023003
    Scholar
  3. 2023

    Uncovering the depletion patterns of inland water bodies via remote sensing, data mining, and statistical analysis

    Zolghadr-Asli, B., Naghdyzadegan Jahromi, M., Wan, X., Enayati, M., Tahmasebi Nasab, M., et al. · Water, 15(8), 1508
    Scholar
  4. 2022

    Impacts of seasonally frozen ground on streamflow recession in the Red River of the North Basin

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., Berg, S. S., Comba, L., Sellner, B., & Epperson, C. · River Research and Applications, 38(7), 1277-1284
    DOI Scholar
  5. 2021

    Do sub-daily temperature fluctuations around the freezing temperature alter macro-scale snowmelt simulations?

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., & Chu, X. · Journal of Hydrology, 596, 125683
    Scholar
  6. 2020

    Macro-HyProS: a new macro-scale hydrologic processes simulator for depression-dominated cold climate regions

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., & Chu, X. · Journal of Hydrology, 580, 124366
    Scholar
  7. 2019

    Macro-scale grid-based and subbasin-based hydrologic modeling: joint simulation and cross-calibration

    Chu, X., Lin, Z., Tahmasebi Nasab, M., Zeng, L., Grimm, K., Bazrkar, M. H., et al. · Journal of Hydroinformatics, 21(1), 77-91
    Scholar
  8. 2018

    SWAT modeling of non-point source pollution in depression-dominated basins under varying hydroclimatic conditions

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., Grimm, K., Bazrkar, M., Zeng, L., Shabani, A., Zhang, X., & Chu, X. · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(11), 2492
    Scholar
  9. 2018

    TWI computations and topographic analysis of depression-dominated surfaces

    Grimm, K., Tahmasebi Nasab, M., & Chu, X. · Water, 10(5), 663
    Scholar
  10. 2017

    A new depression-dominated delineation (D-cubed) method for improved watershed modeling

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., Zhang, J., & Chu, X. · Hydrological Processes, 31(19), 3364-3378
    Scholar
  11. 2017

    SWAT modeling for depression-dominated areas: how do depressions manipulate hydrologic modeling?

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., Singh, V., & Chu, X. · Water, 9(1), 58
    Scholar
  12. 2016

    How does DEM resolution affect microtopographic characteristics, hydrologic connectivity, and modeling of hydrologic processes?

    Habtezion, N., Tahmasebi Nasab, M., & Chu, X. · Hydrological Processes, 30(25), 4870-4892
    Scholar
  13. 2015

    Simulation of water surface profile in vertically stratified rockfill dams

    Asiaban, P., Tokaldany, E. A., & Tahmasebi Nasab, M. · International Journal of Environmental Research
    Scholar
// conference presentations · 5

Conference presentations and proceedings

  1. 2019

    Macro-scale hydrologic modeling for depression-dominated cold climate regions

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., & Chu, X. · AGU Fall Meeting
  2. 2018

    Topo-statistical analyses of ponding area versus ponding storage of depression-dominated regions for macro-scale hydrologic modeling

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., & Chu, X. · World Environmental and Water Resources Congress (ASCE)
  3. 2017

    Scale analysis for depression-dominated areas: how does threshold resolution represent a surface?

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., Grimm, K., Wang, N., & Chu, X. · World Environmental and Water Resources Congress (ASCE)
  4. 2016

    Modeling of subsurface drainage under varying microtopographic, soil and rainfall conditions

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M., Jia, X., & Chu, X. · 10th International Drainage Symposium (ASABE)
  5. 2015

    DEM-based watershed delineation: comparison of different methods and applications

    Chu, X., Zhang, J., & Tahmasebi Nasab, M. · AGU Fall Meeting
// book chapters · 2

Book chapters

  1. 2022

    Decision tree (DT): a valuable tool for water resources engineering

    Enayati, M., Bozorg-Haddad, O., Pourgholam-Amiji, M., Zolghadr-Asli, B., & Tahmasebi Nasab, M. · In: Computational Intelligence for Water and Environmental Sciences (pp. 201-223). Springer Nature
  2. 2021

    Conflict resolution: the gist of the matter in water resources planning and management

    Enayati, M., Bozorg-Haddad, O., & Tahmasebi Nasab, M. · In: Essential Tools for Water Resources Analysis, Planning, and Management (pp. 263-273). Springer
// also

Dissertation

  1. 2019

    A new macro-scale hydrologic processes simulator for depression-dominated cold climate regions

    Tahmasebi Nasab, M. · PhD dissertation, North Dakota State University

Where a DOI exists, the title links to it; otherwise it links to a Google Scholar search. The full list with citation counts is on the Scholar profile. The modeling work behind several of these is described on the projects page.