Dr Fahad Saeed
Scientific Model and Data Manager / Regional Climate Scientist
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Fahad is part of the Climate Science and Impacts team at Climate Analytics, working as the regional lead for South Asia and the Middle East. He has been working with Climate Analytics since 2017, in different roles and capacities working on climate modelling and data, regional climate science, and providing scientific and strategic advisory support to Least Developed Countries. He is currently based in Islamabad, Pakistan.
His expertise encompasses climate modelling as well its associated risks and impacts. He has published with numerous international peer-reviewed publications, and has written and contributed to many scientific reports and policy briefs, mainly on the topics of climatology, hydrology/glaciology and climate policy. In addition, he writes articles and engages with media on issues concerning climate change and its impacts.
Fahad has previously worked with Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-Met) and Climate Service Center (GERICS) under Helmholtz-Zentrum-Geesthacht (HZG), in Hamburg, Germany. He was Climate Change Advisor and Head of Environment and Climate Change Unit at the policy think tank, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Islamabad, Pakistan. During his early career at Global Change Impact Studies Center (GCISC) in Islamabad, Pakistan, he also led the research section on Water Resources.
Fahad holds a Ph.D. degree in Earth Sciences from MPI-Met, Hamburg, Germany with a focus on Regional Climate Modelling, mainly working on the South Asian region. He has a background in physics and received his M.Phil. degree in Computational Physics and the M. Sc. in Physics, both from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Blog posts
- Flooding in Pakistan: where vulnerability meets climate change, devastation can follow Manjeet Dhakal, Fahad Saeed, 21 September 2022
- Renewed hope for tackling climate change - could it boost South Asia cooperation? Fahad Saeed, Ursula Fuentes-Hutfilter, 27 January 2021
- Glacial melt spells more trouble in the Himalayan LDCs Fahad Saeed, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, 25 February 2019
- En route to Katowice: Negotiators from Least Developed Countries prepare for COP24 Manjeet Dhakal, Kouassigan Tovivo, Fahad Saeed, 27 October 2018
- Hot, dry or flooded - more weather extremes beyond 1.5°C warming Quentin Lejeune, Fahad Saeed, Kai Kornhuber, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, 27 August 2018
- A year of climate extremes: a case for Loss & Damage at COP23 Dr. Bill Hare, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Olivia Serdeczny, Fahad Saeed, Adelle Thomas, Luis Zamarioli, 01 November 2017
- In China and Pakistan's coal romance - where is the love for the climate? Fahad Saeed, 30 March 2017
Publications
- Peer reviewed
- Deadly Heat Stress to Become Commonplace Across South Asia Already at 1.5°C of Global Warming Fahad Saeed, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Moetasim Ashfaq (2021)
- Sharing the burden: quantifying climate change spillovers in the European Union under the Paris Agreement Jessie Ruth Schleypen, Malcolm N. Mistry, Fahad Saeed & Shouro Dasgupta (2021)
- Sharing the burden: quantifying climate change spillovers in the European Union under the Paris Agreement Jessie Ruth Schleypen, Malcolm N. Mistry, Fahad Saeed, Shouro Dasgupta (2021)
- From Paris To Makkah: Heat stress risks for Muslim pilgrims at 1.5°C and 2°C Fahad Saeed, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Mansour Almazroui, Environmental Research Letters, 16,2, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd067, (2021)
- Projected change in temperature and precipitation over Africa from CMIP6 Mansour Almazroui, Fahad Saeed, Sajjad Saeed, M. Nazrul Islam, Muhammad Ismail, Nana Ama Browne Klutse & Muhammad Haroon Siddiqui (2020)
- Projections of precipitation and temperature over the South Asian countries in CMIP6 Mansour Almazroui, Sajjad Saeed, Fahad Saeed, M. Nazrul Islam & Muhammad Ismail (2020)
- Water availability in Pakistan from Hindukush–Karakoram–Himalayan watersheds at 1.5°C and 2°C Paris Agreement targets Shabeh ul Hasson, Fahad Saeed, Jürgen Böhner, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Advances in Water Resources, (2019)
- 1.5°C Hotspots: Climate Hazards, Vulnerabilities, and Impacts Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Delphine Deryng, Sarah D'haen, William Hare, Tabea Lissner, Mouhamed Ly, Alexander Nauels, Melinda Noblet, Peter Pfleiderer, Patrick Pringle, Martin Rokitzki, Fahad Saeed, Michiel Schaeffer, Olivia Serdeczny, Adelle Thomas, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 43:135-163, doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025835, (2018)
- Crop productivity changes in 1.5° C and 2° C worlds under climate sensitivity uncertainty Schleussner, C.F., Deryng, D., Müller, C., Elliott, J., Saeed, F., Folberth, C., Liu, W., Wang, X., Pugh, T.A., Thiery, W. and Seneviratne, S.I., Environmental Research Letters , 13(6), p.064007, (2018)
- Risks for the global freshwater system at 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming Petra Döll, Tim Trautmann, Dieter Gerten, Hannes Müller Schmied, Sebastian Ostberg, Fahad Saaed, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Environmental Research Letters, 13 (4) 044038, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aab792, (2018)
- Robust changes in tropical rainy season length at 1.5° C and 2° C Saeed, Fahad, Ingo Bethke, Erich M. Fischer, Stephanie Legutke, Hideo Shiogama, Daithi Stone, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aab797, (2018)
- Impacts of 1.5 versus 2.0 °C on cereal yields in the West African Sudan Savanna Babacar Faye, Heidi Webber, Jesse B Naab, Dilys S MacCarthy, Myriam Adam, Frank Ewert, John P A Lamers, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Alex Ruane, Ursula Gessner, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Ken Boote, Vakhtang Shelia, Fahad Saeed, Dominik Wisser, Sofia Hadir, Patrick Laux and Thomas Gaiser, Environmental Research Letters, Volume 13, Number 3, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaab40, (2018)
- Assessing the robustness and uncertainties of projected changes in temperature and precipitation in AR4 Global Climate Models over the Arabian Peninsula M. Almazroui, F. Saeed, M. N. Islam, Atmospheric Research, Volume 182, Pages 163–175, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.07.025, (2016)
- Simulation of temperature and precipitation climatology for the CORDEX-MENA/Arab do- main using RegCM4 M. Almazroui, M. N. Islam, A. K. Al-Khalaf, F. Saeed, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 9: 13, doi:10.1007/s12517-015-2045-7, (2016)
- Representation of extreme precipitation events leading to opposite climate change signals over the Congo basin F. Saeed, A. Haensler, S. Hagemann, D. Jacob, Atmosphere , 4(3), 254-271, doi:10.3390/atmos4030254, (2013)
- Perspectives in Mod- elling Climate-Hydrology Interactions. In: The Earth’s Hydrological Cycle. [L. Bengtsson, R.M. Bonnet, M. Calisto, G. Destouni, R. Gurney, J. Johannessen, Y. Kerr, W.A. Lahoz, M. Rast (eds.)] S. Hagemann, T. Blome, F. Saeed, T. Stacke, Springer. ISBN: 978-94-017-8789-5, (2013)
- Assessing the robustness of projected precipitaion changes over central Africa on the basis of a multitude of global and regional climate projections Haensler, A., Saeed, F. & Jacob, D. , Climatic Change , 121: 349, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0863-8, (2013)
- Assessment of projected climate change signals over central Africa based on a multitude of global and regional climate projections. In: Climate Change Scenarios for the Congo Basin. [Haensler A., Jacob D., Kabat P., Ludwig F. (eds.)] , Climate Service Centre Report No. 11, Hamburg, Germany, , ISSN: 2192-4058, (2013)
- Perspectives in modelling climate-hydrology interactions S. Hagemann, T. Blome, F. Saeed, T. Stacke , Surv. Geophys. , doi:10.1007/s10712-013-9245-z, (2013)
- Influence of mid-latitude circulation on upper Indus basin precipitation: the explicit role of irrigation F. Saeed, S. Hagemann, S. Saeed and D. Jacob , Clim. Dyn., , doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1480-3, (2012)
- Can regional climate models represent the Indian monsoon? P. Lucas-Picher, J. H. Christensen, F. Saeed, P. Kumar, S. Asharaf, B. Ahrens, A. Wiltshire, D. Jacob, S. Hagemann , J. Hydrol. Meteorol., , doi:10.1175/2011JHM1327.1, (2011)
- A framework for the evaluation of South Asian summer monsoon in a regional climate model applied to REMO F. Saeed, S. Hagemann, D. Jacob , Int. Jour. Climatol., , doi:10.1002/joc.2285, (2011)
- Impact of irrigation on south Asian summer monsoon F. Saeed, S. Hagemann, D. Jacob , Geophys. Res. Let., , 36, L20711, doi:10.1029/2009GL040625, (2009)
- Briefing papers
- Why geoengineering is not a solution to the climate problem Fahad Saeed, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, William Hare (2018)
- HAPPI DE 1.5C Project Carl-Friedrich Schleußner, Fahad Saeed, Alexander Nauels, Tim Trautmann, Kevin Sieck, Juliane Petersen, Stephanie Legutke (2018)
- Reports
- Long term strategies: low carbon growth, resilience and prosperity for Least Developed Countries Nandini Das, Manjeet Dhakal, Damon Jones, MJ Mace, Victor Maxwell, Felipe Osses, Sneha Pandey, Fahad Saeed, Diego Torralva Becerra, Tenzin Wangmo, Alexandre Yédjannavo Zounmenou (2022)
- Coal phase out and energy transition pathways for Asia and the Pacific Ursula Fuentes, Anna Chapman, Gaurav Ganti, Fahad Saeed, Jessie Ruth Schleypen, Bill Hare Review: Matt Gidden, Deborah Ramalope (2021)
- Decarbonising South Asia and South East Asia Ursula Fuentes Hutfilter, Paola Yanguas Parra, Anne Zimmer, Andrzej Ancygier, Fahad Saeed, Robert Brecha, Bill Hare, Jessie Granadillos, Tina Aboumahboub, Gaurav Ganti, Ilsa Kelischek, Raghuveer Vyas, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Michiel Schaeffer (2019)
- Auswirkungen der Bewässerung auf den sudasiatischen Monsun , Forschungsbericht 2012 - Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie, Hamburg, Deutschland, (2012)
- Climate change and irrigation: Global impacts and regional feedbacks , EU WATCH Project, Technical Report 47, (2011)
- Impact of irrigation on South Asian monsoon climate , Report on Earth System Science, Max Planck Insitute for Meteorology, Hamburg, ISSN:1614-1199, (2011)
- Development of climate change scenarios for specific sites corresponding to selected GCM outputs, using statistical downscaling techniques F. Saeed, M. R. Anis, R. Aslam and A. M. Khan, GCISC-RR-09, Global Change Impact Studies Centre (GCISC), Islamabad, Pakistan, ISBN: 978-969-9395-08-6, (2009)