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Elahe Tajfar

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4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

Curriculum Vitae:

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Member of:

Water & Ecosystems

Postdoctoral Researcher

Biography

I am interested in land-atmosphere interactions. My current research focuses on synthesizing and analyzing in-situ measurements, satellite data, and land surface model output to quantify variations in the Earth’s water, energy, and carbon cycles at regional and global scales. In addition, disentangling the role of the land use and vegetation on the partitioning of energy and water balance components is part of my project.

Education

  • Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i.
  • M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnique), Tehran, Iran.
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.

Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Postdoctoral Researcher (2023 - present)
  • University of Arkansas, Biological & Agricultural Engineering - Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2023)
  • University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Civil & Environmental Engineering - Research Assistant (2014-2019)

Research Interests

  • Water & Carbon Cycles
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Land-Atmosphere Interactions
  • Sustainable Agriculture

Selected Awards

  • Graduate Division Achievement Scholarship, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UH Manoa (2019)
  • June Chun Naughton International Student Services Scholarship, UH Manoa (2018)

Selected Publications

  1. Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F., Minor, B., Wang, T., Anapalli, S., Anderson, R. G., Evett, S., French, A., Jasoni, R., Bambach, N., Kustas, W. P., Alfieri, J., Prueger, J., Hipps, L., McKee, L., Castro, S. J., Alsina, M. M., McElrone, A. J., Reba, M., Runkle, B., Saber, M., Sanchez, C., Tajfar, E., Allen, R., Anderson, M. (2023a). “Post-processed data and graphical tools for a CONUS-wide eddy flux evapotranspiration dataset.” Data in Brief, 109274, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109274.
  2. Tajfar, E., Bateni, S. M., Margulis, S. A., Gentine, P., and Auligne, T., (2019). “Estimation of Turbulent Heat Fluxes via Assimilation of Air Temperature and Specific Humidity into an Atmospheric Boundary Layer Model.” Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(2), 205-225, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-19-0104.1.
  3. Tajfar, E., Bateni, S. M., Lakshmi, V., and Ek, M., (2020a). “Estimation of Surface Heat Fluxes via Variational Assimilation of Land Surface Temperature, Air Temperature and Specific Humidity into a Coupled Land Surface-Atmospheric Boundary Layer Model.” Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124577.
  4. Tajfar, E., Bateni, S. M., and Xu, T., (2020b). “Evaluating the Information Content of Reference-level Air Temperature and Humidity for Partitioning the Available Energy between the Turbulent Heat Fluxes in Different Vegetative and Climatic Conditions.” Remote Sensing, 12(7), 1065, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071065.
  5. Parazoo N, Bowman K, Baier B, Liu J, Lee M, Kuai L, Shiga Y, Baker I, Whelan M, Feng S, Krol M, Sweeney C, Runkle BRK, Tajfar E, Davis KJ, 2021. Covariation of airborne biogenic tracers (CO2, COS, and CO) supports stronger than expected growing season photosynthetic uptake in the southeastern US. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35(10), e2021GB006956. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB006956.