Nasser Najibi

Assistant Professor | Extension Specialist University of Florida

  • Gainesville FL

Nasser Najibi's research focuses on enhancing climate risk assessments and disaster resilience in built and environmental systems.

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Biography

Nasser Najibi is an assistant professor of climate resilience and an extension specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. He is also a core faculty member of the Center for Land Use Efficiency. Nasser works on developing engineering approaches, tools and datasets at the intersection of hydroclimate extremes, risk assessment and decision-making in a changing environment. His work bridges hydroclimate science, systems engineering and geospatial data modeling to enhance climate resilience by characterizing the drivers and impacts of extreme weather events and changing climate on infrastructure systems and communities.

Areas of Expertise

Stochastic Models
Droughts
Extreme Weather Events
Climate Risk
Water Resources
floods
System Planning

Media Appearances

Agricultural & Biological Engineering Update

University of Florida  online

2025-06-01

ABE’s Nasser Najibi, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Climate Resilience and an Extension Specialist, aims to make unprecedented weather patterns more predictable. His research interests focus on developing engineering approaches, decision support tools and data sets at the intersection of hydroclimate extremes, risk assessments and systems planning in a changing environment.

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Articles

Compound Continental Risk of Multiple Extreme Floods in the United States

Geophysical Research Letters

Najibi, et al.

2023-11-04

Understanding spatially correlated floods and modeling joint hazard associated with threshold exceedances across multiple locations is crucial for accurate estimation of continental-scale portfolio risk. This work uses a non-parametric copula-based spatial simulator to analyze peak floods across the United States to derive the first-of-its-kind continental portfolio risk estimates at the 10- and 100-year return levels.

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Extreme Precipitation-Temperature Scaling in California: The Role of Atmospheric Rivers

Geophysical Research Letters

Najibi & Steinschneider

2023-07-25

The sensitivity of atmospheric river (AR)-induced precipitation to climate change is primarily driven by increases in atmospheric water vapor with warming. However, the rate at which AR-based precipitation intensifies with warming and whether this rate differs from non-AR events remains uncertain. This work uses multiple statistical models to estimate regional, extreme precipitation-temperature scaling rates in California for AR and non-AR events.

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Scaling of Floods With Geomorphologic Characteristics and Precipitation Variability Across the Conterminous United States

Water Resources Research

Najibi & Devineni

2023-01-30

Accurate flood risk assessment requires a comprehensive understanding of flood sensitivity to regional drivers and climate factors. This paper presents the scaling of floods (duration, peak, volume) with geomorphologic characteristics of the basin (i.e., drainage area, slope, elevation) and precipitation patterns (rainfall accumulation, variability).

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