Designation: Senior Scientific Officer, Climatology section

Education: M.Phil (Mathematics)

Email: m.amjad@gcisc.org.pk; callamjad@gmail.com

Phone: +92 (0)51 - 9262705 Ext 824

Publications in international peer-reviewed journals:

1. Mehwish Ramzan, Suryun Ham, Muhammad Amjad, Eun-Chul Chang and Kei Yoshimura, (accepted in 2017) “Sensitivity evaluation of convective parameterizations and spectral nudging schemes in historical dynamical downscaling for South Asia” in Advances in Meteorology. (https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7560818).
2. Muhammad Amjad, Qudsia Zafar, Firdos Khan and Muhammad Munir Sheikh (2015), “Evaluation of weather research and forecasting model for the assessment of wind resource over Gharo, Pakistan”, Int. J. Climatol. 35: 1821–1832,DOI: 10.1002/joc.4089.http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.4089/pdf
3. Firdos Khan, Jürgen Pilz, Muhammad Amjad and David A. Wiberg (2015), “Climate variability and its impacts on water resources in the Upper Indus Basin under IPCC climate change”, Int. J. Global Warming, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2015. http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/forthcoming.php?jcode=ijgw 

Publications in national journals:

1. Saba Sarfraz, Muhammad Amjad, Aneela Bibi, Zahid Asghar (2017) “Affordable Housing and Land use patterns for Pakistan” a report submitted after my participation in LEADership Development Program (LDP) – Cohort 19 of LEAD Pakistan
2. Muhammad Amjad, Brian D Fath, Elena Rovenskaya (2011) “Ecological Network Model and Analysis for Rawal Lake, Pakistan”. Published as an Interim Report (IR-11-023) by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PUB/Documents/IR-11-023.pdf
3. M. Munir Sheikh, Muhammad Amjad and Arshad M. Khan (Editors) (2007) Proceedings of the “APN-CAPaBLE Regional Workshop on Comprehensive Research Results” Kathmandu, Nepal June19-23, 2007.

Publications in conferences:

1. Muhammad Amjad (2012) “Finding Clues of Extreme Events in Seasonal Climate Prediction” at APEC Climate Center (APCC), Busan, Republic of Korea on 27 December 2012. (Published in APCC Young Scientist Support Program 2012 final report).
2. Muhammad Amjad, Firdos Khan, Qudsia Zafar, M. Munir Sheikh (2012) “Assessment of Wind Power Potential in Pakistan using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model” presented in PCST International Conference on Climate Change during 9-11 May 2012 in Islamabad.
3. Muhammad Amjad, M. Munir Sheikh, (2010) “Dynamical Downscaling of Seasonal Climate Hindcast and Prediction Experiments using Regional Spectral Model (RSM) over South Asia”, paper presented in the 9th international workshop on the “Climate and Environmental Change: Challenges for Developing Countries” 17-20 November 2010 in Beijing, China.
4. Muhammad Amjad, S. Mehmood, M. Munir Sheikh, (2008) “Comparison of Convective Schemes in Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model over South Asia”, paper presented in the International Workshop on "Development of Regional Earth System Model and its Applications" Sep 17-19, 2008, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.
5. Muhammad Amjad, (2008) “Simulations of Extreme Events Using MM5 & WRFV2.2”, paper presented in the Second East Asia WRF Workshop and Tutorial – April 7 - 12, 2008, Seoul, Korea organizer by Seoul National University (SNU), Korea, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), USA at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.