Haider Ali

Haider Ali is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University, with over six years of experience in environmental hydrology and climate science. His research focuses on understanding the effects of climate change on natural hazards, particularly extreme events such as intense rainfall, heatwaves, and tropical cyclones. He has developed innovative methods for analyzing temperature–precipitation scaling using quality-controlled sub-daily data, contributing to improved physical understanding of global rainfall extremes—work that has twice been featured as Editor’s Highlights on Eos. Haider has contributed to several major international projects, including INTENSE (examining intense rainfall and its drivers), FUTURE-DRAINAGE (flash flooding in urban areas), and the GCRF Living Deltas project (cyclones and monsoon variability in Southeast Asia). In addition to research, he has supported climate modeling and managed fieldwork logistics. He currently works on the NERC-funded Huracan project, investigating the influence of tropical-origin cyclones on the UK and US.