Moctar Dembele
Researcher in International Water Management Institute(IWMI),University of Oxford
Research interests:
Hydrological modelling, water accounting, water resources assessment, irrigation, drought, climate change, remote sensing, geographic information systems.
Email:mocdembele@gmail.com
Brief Introduction about main academic achievements and key publications
Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, Moctar Dembele is a researcher at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and honorary research associate at the University of Oxford. With about ten years of professional experience, Moctar has worked for a variety of public and private organizations in research and international development across nine countries in Africa and Europe. His research focus includes water accounting and productivity, hydrological modelling, climate change impact assessment and spatial analysis with satellite remote sensing data. He is currently investigating the hydrological dynamics of West African river basins under environmental changes
Publications: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=iihgZDYAAAAJ&hl=en
Key publications are:
1. Moctar Dembélé & Sander J. Zwart (2016) Evaluation and comparison of satellite-based rainfall products in Burkina Faso, West Africa, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 37:17, 3995-4014, DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1207258
2. Dembélé, M., Hrachowitz, M., Savenije,H. H. G., Mariéthoz, G., & Schaefli, B.(2020). Improving the predictive skill ofa distributed hydrological model bycalibration on spatial patterns withmultiple satellite data sets.WaterResources Research,56,e2019WR026085. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026085Received 1 AUG 2019Accepted 13 JAN 2020Accepted article online 15 JAN 2020DEMBÉLÉ ET AL.1of26
3. Dembélé, M., Schaefli, B., van de Giesen, N., and Mariéthoz, G.: Suitability of 17 gridded rainfall and temperature datasets for large-scale hydrological modelling in West Africa, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 5379–5406, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5379-2020, 2020.
4. Moctar Dembélé, Natalie Ceperley, Sander J. Zwart, Elga Salvadore, Gregoire Mariethoz, Bettina Schaefli, Potential of satellite and reanalysis evaporation datasets for hydrological modelling under various model calibration strategies,Advances in Water Resources,Volume 143,2020,103667,ISSN 0309-1708,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103667.
5. Moctar Dembélé, Fabio Oriani, Jacob Tumbulto, Grégoire Mariéthoz, Bettina Schaefli, Gap-filling of daily streamflow time series using Direct Sampling in various hydroclimatic settings,Journal of Hydrology, Volume 569, 2019, Pages 573-586, ISSN 0022-1694, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.11.076.
