He is known for his contributions to analysis and understanding of natural hazards and their societal impacts, including droughts, floods, heat waves, and the interactions between inter-related compounds.
[3] He serves on the board of directors of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science,[4] and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Earth’s Future.
[1] AghaKouchak joined University of California, Irvine as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing in 2010.
[1] AghaKouchak has conducted research focusing on hydrology, statistics, climatology and remote sensing to address global water resource issues.
[9] His group also introduced the concept of anthropogenic drought[10] and authored an article discussing the effect of human activity on the global ecosystem.
[16] In 2018, he authored an article focusing on how the natural hazards cascade to cause disasters including discussion on fire-snow and drought-heatwaves relationships.
He authored a paper on uncertainty quantification of remotely sensed radar rainfall data using a non-Gaussian copula-based model.