Sajjad Saeed

Office
Email: sajjad.saeed@zmaw.de
Phone: +49-40-41173-177
Fax: +49-40-41173-368
Room no. N402
Mailing Address
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Bundesstr. 53
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Department
Atmosphere in the Earth System
Research Interests
- Climate Dynamics.
- Atmospheric Processes including large scale circulation.
- Climate Modelling
- Regional Climate Change.
Curriculum vitae
University:
University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Muzaffarabad, M.Sc in Physics, 1998.
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad, MS Meteorology, 2006.
Professional Qualifications:
Institute of Meteorology & GeoPhy, Karachi, WMO Class II Course, Nov 2001- May 2002.
Institute of Meteorology & GeoPhy, Karachi, WMO Class III Course, June 2001- Sep 2001.
Employment:
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Deputy Director, March 2008 - Continued.
Pakistan Meteorological Department, Meteorologist, May 2001 - March 2008.
Additional Affiliation:
Global Change Impact Studies Centre, Islamabad, Research Fellow, June 2003- March 2008.
Visiting Position:
Beijing Climate Centre, CMA Beijing, Visiting Scientist, 01 March-31 May 2007.
Ph.D.
Since May 2008
Title of the thesis: Study of the relative contribution of changes in the basic state circulation and land atmosphere coupling on the regional climate.
Research Papers/ International Conference Presentations:
1. Saeed, S., M. M. Sheikh, F. S. Syed., “Simulation of 1992 Flood in River Jhelum using High Resolution Regional Climate Model PRECIS to study the underlying Physical Process Involved in the Extreme Precipitation Event”, Pak. J. of Meteo., 3: issue 6, 35-55.
2. Saeed, S., G. Rasul. “Simulations of Super Cyclonic Storm in Bay f Bengal During October 1999: Domain Size Experiments” Accepted, Pakistan Journal of Geography, Peshawar University.
3. Saeed, S., I. Shahid, S. Raza., “Upgraded Emission Inventory of Pakistan for the Year 2005”, UNEP Third Training Workshop on Emissions Inventory, Scenarios and Atmospheric Transport Modeling, Oral, 28 Jan to 01 Feb, 2008. AIT, Pathumthani, Bangkok, Thailand.
4. Saeed, S., A. T. Khan., “Emission Inventory of Pakistan for the Year 2004-05”, UNEP Second Training Workshop on Emissions Inventory, Scenarios and Atmospheric Transport Modeling, Oral, 26 Feb to 02 March, 2007. AIT, Pathumthani, Bangkok, Thailand.
5. Sheikh, M. M, S. Saeed., F. S. Syed., “Decadal Variability of Disastrous Weather and Climate Events in Pakistan”, Third International Symposium on Extreme Weather and Climate Events Their Dynamics and Prediction, Poster, Session G, October 12-16, 2004, Beijing, China.
6. Syed, F. S., S. Saeed., I. Nadeem., “Climate Simulation Evolution and Transferability of Convective Schemes in the Regional Climate Model RegCM3 over South Asia”, Oral, August 02-11, 2005. IAMAS 2005 Scientific Assembly Beijing, China.
7. Saeed, S., M. M. Sheikh, A. M. Khan.,” Validation of Regional Climate Model PRECIS over South Asia”, A validation report published by Global Change Impact Studies Centre.
8. Saeed, S., M. M. Sheikh, A. M. Khan.,” Validation of Regional Climate Model PRECIS over South Asia”, Oral, APN CaPABLE South Asia Regional Workshop on Comprehensive Climate Change Research Results, 19-23 June 2007, Kathmandu, Nepal.
9. Saeed, S., Y. LIU., “Multiyear Hindcast Experiments of Summer Monsoon over Pakistan by Using a Nested Regional climate Model (BCC_RegCM1.0)”, Oral, 09-11 April 2008, FOCRAII. Beijing Climate Centre, Beijing, China.
10. Saeed, S., W. Mueller, S. Hagemann., D. Jacob., " Future changes in basic state circulation, teleconnections and land atmosphere coupling simulated by ECHAM5-MPIOM", Poster, 17-21, Nov 2008, ICTP, Treiste, Italy.


