Name: Yehia Yehia Hafez

Title: Professor

Affiliation: Professor, Department of Meteorology

Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Email: ysalam@kau.edu.sa      d_hafez@hotmail.com

Research fields:

l  Environmental Protection

Climate Change

Global Warming

l  Geoscience

Natural Hazards

Qualifications:

1997 Ph.D., University of Cairo, Meteorology

1995 M.Sc., University of Cairo, Meteorology

1986 B.Sc., University of Ain Shams, Physics

Select Publications

1.      Y. Hafez and A. Labban (2020). A Recent Study of the Relationship between the Precipitation Rate over Saudi Arabia in the Fall and Climatic Indices. Advances in Meteorology, 2020, 11 pages, https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8953967

2.      Y. Y. Hafez, H. M. Hasanean and M. A. Hussein (2020). A blocking diagnosis method and its  

application in the blocking system over Europe in the Summer of 2010. Asia-Pacific Journal of

Atmospheric Sciences.1, 27, 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13143-020-00172

3.      Y. Hafez (2019). A Recent Study Concerning the Climatic Variability over the Kingdom Saudi Arabia for the Period 1948-2018. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 7, 268-289.

https://doi.org/10.4236/gep.2019.78020

4.      Y. Hafez and A. H. Labban (2018) The role played by blocking system over North America on the

development of hurricane Ophelia over North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Geoscience and        

Environment Protection, 6,1-20.https://doi.org/10.4236/gep.2018.612001

5.      Y. Hafez (2018) A Recent Study of Seasonal and Interannual Climate Variability over the Eastern

Mediterranean Region. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 6, 132-151.

https://doi.org/10.4236/gep.2018.61009

6.      Y. Hafez (2017) On the relationship between heat waves over the western and central Europe and NAO, SOI, El-Nino 3.4 in summer 2015. Journal of Geoscience and Environment  Protection.5, 31-45.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4236/gep.2017.54004.

7.      Y. Hafez (2017) Anomaly of Weather Conditions Over the Indian Ocean and the Formation of Hurricane Chapala. International Journal of Research in Geography (IJRG), 3, 1, 2017, PP 16-25  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20431/2454-8685.0301003.

8.      Y. Hafez (2016) On the relationship between Intertropical Convergence Zone ITCZ variability over Indian Ocean and hurricane Chapala.Climate Change conference, October 24-26,

2016 Valencia, Spain.

9.      Y. Hafez (2016) Study on the Relationship between the Oceanic Nino Index and Surface Air Temperature and Precipitation Rate over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 4, 146-162. doi: 10.4236/gep.2016.45015.

10.  Y. Y. Hafez and M. Almazroui (2016). Study of the relationship between African ITCZ variability and an extreme heat wave on Egypt in summer 2015. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. Volume 9; doi: 10.1007/s12517-016-2497-4

11.  Y. Y. Hafez and M. Almazroui (2016). Study of the relationship between geopotential height anomaly over Europe and extreme abnormal weather over the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East during December 2013.Arabian Journal of Geosciences. Volume 9; doi:10.1007/s12517- 016-2424-8

12.  Y. Y. Hafez and M. Almazroui (2015). A Recent Study on the Relationship between Global Radiative Forcing and Global Annual Climatic Variability. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 5, 23-55.http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/acs.2015.51003

13.  Y. Y. Hafez and M. Almazroui (2014). Recent study of anomaly of global annual geopotential  height  and global warming.  Atmospheric and climate sciences. , 2014, 4, 347-357 Published Online July 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/acs               http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/acs.2014.43035 

14.  Y. Y . Hafez (2013). IPCC, (2013): Annex VI: Expert Reviewers of the IPCC WGI Fifth

Assessment Report. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physi¬cal Science Basis. Contribution of

Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

15.  Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A.

Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,

United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

16.  Y. Y. Hafez and M. Almazroui (2013). The Role Played by Blocking Systems over Europe in

Abnormal Weather over Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Summer 2010. Advances in

Meteorology, vol. 2013, Article ID 705406, 20 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/705406.

17.  Y. Hafez and  M. Almazorui (2013).  Teleconnection between north hemisphere geopotential

Height at 500 hpa level and climatic indices NAO, SOI and El Nino3.4. Science Series

Data Report Journal, 5, 2, 67-84.

18.  Y.Y. Hafez (2012):Book Chapter ;Variability of Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)  and            

Extreme Weather Events by Yehia Hafez in the book "Atmospheric Model Applications"      

edited by Ismail Yucel, ISBN 978-953-51-0488-9, InTech, April 4, 2012

19.  Y.Y. Hafez (2012):Book Chapter ;Blocking Systems Persist over North Hemisphere and Its Role                     

in Extreme Hot Waves over Russia During Summer 2010. by Yehia Hafez in the book 

"Atmospheric Model Applications" edited by Ismail Yucel, ISBN 978-953-51-0488-9,

InTech, April 4, 2012.

20.  Y.Y. Hafez (2011):. Relationship Between Geopotential Height Anomalies Over  North

America and Europe and the USA Landfall Atlantic Hurricanes Activity. The J. Amer.

Sci.,  7, 6, 663-671.

21.  S. M. Robaa and Y. Y. Hafez (2010): Monitoring of Urbanization Growth and its Effects on

Climatic Changes Over Greater Cairo, Egypt Using of Satellite images. I. J. Meteorology,

U. K., Vol., 35, No., 348, 111-122.

22.  Y.Y. Hafez (2009):. The Role Played By Azores High in Developing of Extratropical Cyclone

Klaus. The J. Amer. Sci.,  5, 5, 145-163.

23.  Y.Y. Hafez (2008):. The teleconnection between the global mean surface air temperature and    

precipitation over Europe.  J. Meteorology UK ;33(331):230-236.

24.  Y.Y. Hafez (2008): The Role Played by Blocking over the Northern Hemisphere on Hurricane 

Katrina. The Journal of American Science, Vol. 4 - Number 2, pp:  10-25.

25.  M. A. EL-Rafy and Y. Y. Hafez (2008): Anomalies in Meteorological Fields over Northern                 

Asia and It's Impact on Hurricane Gonu. The 28th Conference on Hurricanes and

Tropical Meteorology, 28 April- 2 May 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA.

26.  Y.Y. Hafez and S.M. Robaa(2008): The Relationship Between the Mean Surface Air Temperature in Egypt and NAO Index and ENSO. The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, 2008, 2, 8-17.

27.  Y.Y. Hafez (2008): Study of the 50 Years Anomalies of 500 mb Level Geopotential Heights

over  Egypt. Bull. Fac. Sci., Cairo Univ. 76 (A): 1-13.

28.  Y.Y. Hafez (2008): Study of  the Precipitation Trend over Egypt. Journal of Environmental  Sciences, Vol. 6, PP: 21-31.