Published Papers

25. Ashraf Farahat, Hesham El-Askary and Abdulaziz Al-Shaibani, “Study of Aerosols’ Characteristics and Dynamics over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using a Multi Sensor Approach Combined with Ground Observations” Advances In Meteorology, (Accepted with Revision, 2014) pdficon_large
24. Hesham El-Askary, Seon K. Park, Myung-Hwan Ahn, Anup Prasad, and Menas Kafatos, “On the Detection and Monitoring of the Transport of an Asian Dust Storm Using Multi-sensor Satellite Remote Sensing”, Journal of Environmental Informatics, (Accepted with revision), 2014. pdficon_large
23. William Sprigg, Slobodan  Nickovic, John N Galgiani, Goran  PejanovicSlavko PetkovicMirjam VujadinovicAna Vukovic, Milan Dacic; Scott DiBiase, Anup Prasad and Hesham El-Askary “Regional dust storm modeling for health services: the case of valley fever”,  Journal of Aeolian Research, 14, 53-73, 2014. pdficon_large
22. Sora Kim, Anup Prasad, Hesham El-Askary, Woo-Kyun Lee, Doo-Ahn Kwak, Seung-Ho Lee, and Menas Kafatos “Application of the Savitzky–Golay Filter to Land Cover Classification using Temporal MODIS Vegetation Indices”, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 80(7): 675-685, 2014. pdficon_large
21. El-Askary H., Hamdy S., J. Li, Hattab M., and El-Raey M., “Change Detection of Coral Reef Habitat Using Landsat-5 TM, Landsat-7 ETM+ Data and Landsat-8 OLI in the Red Sea (Hurghada, Egypt)”,  International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35(6): 2327–2346, 2014. pdficon_large
20. A. Vukovic, M. Vujadinovic, G. Pejanovic, J. Andric, M. J. Kumjian, V. Djurdjevic, M. Dacic, A. K. Prasad, H. M. El-Askary, B. C. Paris, S. Petkovic, W. Sprigg, and S. Nickovic, “Numerical Simulation of “An American Haboob””, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 3211-3230, 2014. pdficon_large
19. Y. Aboel FetouhH. El Askary, El Raey, M. Allali, W. A. Sprigg, and M. Kafatos “Annual Patterns of Atmospheric Pollutions and Episodes over Cairo Egypt” Advances In Meteorology  vol. 2013, Article ID 984853, doi:10.1155/2013/984853. pdficon_large
18. El-Askary, H.M., Allali, M., Rakovski, C., Prasad, A.K., Kafatos, M., and Struppa, D., “Computational Methods for Climate Data”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, WIREs Comp Stat. doi: 10.1002/wics.1213, 2012. pdficon_large
17. Sprigg, W.A., J.N. Galgiani, S. Nickovic, G. Pejanovic, M. Vujadinovic, A. Vukovic, A. Prasad, S. Petkovic, H. El-AskaryR. Gaddi, Z. Janjic, D. Pappagianis, N. Sarafoglou, M. Kafatos, M. Bruck and M.-J. Ferng: Airborne Dust Models: A Tool in Environmental Health Tracking; final report, CDC, Atlanta, GA, 180 pp., 2012. pdficon_large
16. Kaskaoutis, D. G., Prasad, A.K., Kosmopoulos, P.G., Sinha, P.R., Kharol, S.K., Gupta, P., El-Askary, H.M., and Kafatos, M., “Synergistic use of remote sensing and modeling for tracing dust storms in the Mediterranean” Advances In Meteorology,  Volume 2012, Article ID 861026, doi:10.1155/2012/861026 2012. pdficon_large
15. Marey, H. S., Gille, J. C., El-Askary, H. M., Shalaby, E. A., and El-Raey, M. E.: Aerosol Climatology over Nile Delta based on MODIS, MISR and OMI satellite data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 10637-10648, 2011. pdficon_large
14. Gerasopoulos, E., Amiridis, V., Kazadzis, S., Kokkalis, P., Eleftheratos, K., Andreae, M.O., Andreae T.W., El-Askary, H., Zerefos, C.S., “Three-year ground based measurements of Aerosol Optical Depth over the Eastern Mediterranean: the urban environment of Athens” Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 2145–2159, doi:10.5194/acp-11-2145-2011, 2011. pdficon_large
13. Agustin Sanchez-Arcilla, Cesar Mosso, Joan Pau Sierra, Marc Mestres, Ali Harzallah, Mohamed Senouci, Mohamed El Raey and Hesham El-Askary, “Erratum to: Climatic drivers of potential hazards in Mediterranean coasts”, Journal of Regional Environmental Change, DOI: 10.1007/s10113-011-0206-0, 11(3) p. 637, 2011.  The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1007/s10113-010-0193-6. pdficon_largepdficon_large
12. Marey H., Gille J., El-Askary H., Shalaby S., and El-Raey M., “Study of the formation of the “Black Cloud” and its dynamics over Cairo, Egypt using MODIS and MISR sensors”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D21206, doi:10.1029/2010JD014384, 2010. pdficon_large
11. Prasad A. K., El-Askary H., and Kafatos M.,  “High altitude dust transport over Nile Delta during biomass burning season”, Environmental Pollution, 158, 3385-3391, 2010 doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.07.035. pdficon_large
10. Prasad A. K., K.-H. S. Yang, El-Askary H., and M. Kafatos M., “Melting of major Glaciers in the western Himalayas: evidence of climatic changes from long term MSU derived tropospheric temperature trend (1979-2008)” Annales Geophysicea 27, 4505–4519, 2009. pdficon_large
9. El-Askary H., Farouk R., Ichoku C., and Kafatos M., “Inter-continental transport of dust and pollution aerosols across Alexandria, Egypt” Annales Geophysicea 27, 2869–2879, 2009. pdficon_large
8. El-Askary H., and Kafatos M, “Dust Storm and Black Cloud Influence on Aerosol Optical Properties over Cairo and the Greater Delta Region, Egypt” International Journal of Remote Sensing 29(24): 7199–7211, 2008, doi: 10.1080/01431160802144179 pdficon_large
7. Agarwal A., El-Askary H., El-Ghazawi T., Kafatos M., and Le-Moigne J., “Efficient PCA Fusion Techniques for MISR Multi-angle Observations with Applications to Monitoring Dust Storms” IEEE .Geosc. and Remote Sensing Letters, 4(4): 678-682, 2007, doi:  10.1109/LGRS.2007.904467. pdficon_large
6. El-Askary H., “Air pollution Impact on Aerosol Variability over mega cities using Remote Sensing Technology: Case study, Cairo,” Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science, V. 9, 31-40, 2006. pdficon_large
5. El-Askary H., Gautam R., Singh R. P., and Kafatos M., “Dust Storms Detection over the Indo-Gangetic basin using multi sensor data,” Advances in Space Research Journal, 37: 728-733, 2006, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.134. pdficon_large
4. El-Askary H., Sarkar S., Chiu L., Kafatos M., and El-Gahzawi T., “Rain Gauge Derived Precipitation Variability over Virginia and its Relation with the EL NINO Southern Oscillation (ENSO),” Advances in Space Research Journal, 33: 338-342, 2004, doi:10.1016/S0273-1177(03)00478-2. pdficon_large
3. El-Askary H., Gautam R., and Kafatos M., “Remote Sensing of Dust Storms over the Indo-Gangetic Basin,” Indian Journal of Remote Sensing32(2): 121-124, 2004, doi: 10.1007/BF03030869. pdficon_large
2. El-Askary H., Sarkar, S., Kafatos, M., and El-Gazawi, T., “A Multi-Sensor Approach to Dust Storm Monitoring over the Nile Delta,” IEEE Trans. Geosc. Remote Sensing, 41(10): 2386-2391, 2003, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817189. pdficon_large
1. El-Askary H., Kafatos M., and Hegazy M. “Dust Storms over Egypt using satellite data,” Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, III: 113-124, 2002. pdficon_large