PhD, 2016: Hydrology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
MSc, 2011: Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
BSc, 2009: Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
2016-2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA.
2020-present: Research Associate, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA.
Shervan is a Research Associate at the University of Saskatchewan, School of Geography and Planning. Shervan’s research focuses in four main areas: (i) Understanding models and their interaction/complexity with in hand hydrological knowledge; (ii) model fidelity and realism from hillslope to continental scale; (iii) Improvement of continental scale modeling and inclusion of often neglected human impacts on hydrological cycle; and (iv) application of information theory in earth system models. Shervan has published his work in top-tier journals, including Water Resources Research, Hydrology and Earth System Science, and Journal of Hydrology.
Clark Martyn P., Vogel Richard M., Lamontagne Jonathan R., Mizukami Naoki, Knoben Wouter J. M., Tang Guoqiang, Gharari Shervan, Freer Jim E., Whitfield Paul H., Shook Kevin R., Papalexiou Simon Michael, 2021: The Abuse of Popular Performance Metrics in Hydrologic Modeling. Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2020WR029001
Gharari Shervan, Gupta Hoshin V., Clark Martyn P., Hrachowitz Markus, Fenicia Fabrizio, Matgen Patrick, Savenije Hubert H. G., 2021: Understanding the Information Content in the Hierarchy of Model Development Decisions: Learning From Data. Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2020WR027948
Khoshnoodmotlagh Sajad, Daneshi Alireza, Gharari Shervan, Verrelst Jochem, Mirzaei Mohsen, Omrani Hossien, 2021: Urban morphology detection and it’s linking with land surface temperature: A case study for Tehran Metropolis Iran. Sustainable Cities and Society, doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.103228
Mizukami Naoki, Clark Martyn P., Gharari Shervan, Kluzek Erik, Pan Ming, Lin Peirong, Beck Hylke E., Yamazaki Dai, 2021: A Vector-Based River Routing Model for Earth System Models: Parallelization and Global Applications. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi: 10.1029/2020MS002434
Sheikholeslami Razi, Gharari Shervan, Papalexiou Simon Michael, Clark Martyn P., 2021: VISCOUS: A Variance-Based Sensitivity Analysis Using Copulas for Efficient Identification of Dominant Hydrological Processes. Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2020WR028435
Wong Jefferson S., Zhang Xuebin, Gharari Shervan, Shrestha Rajesh R., Wheater Howard S., Famiglietti James S., 2021: Assessing Water Balance Closure Using Multiple Data Assimilation– and Remote Sensing–Based Datasets for Canada. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-20-0131.1
Gharari Shervan, Clark Martyn P., Mizukami Naoki, Knoben Wouter J. M., Wong Jefferson S., Pietroniro Alain, 2020: Flexible vector-based spatial configurations in land models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, doi: 10.5194/hess-24-5953-2020
Blöschl Günter and 203 others, 2019: Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective. Hydrological Sciences Journal, doi: 10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507
Gharari Shervan, Clark Martyn P., Mizukami Naoki, Wong Jefferson S., Pietroniro Alain, Wheater Howard S., 2019: Improving the Representation of Subsurface Water Movement in Land Models. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-19-0108.1
Gharari S., Razavi S., 2018: A review and synthesis of hysteresis in hydrology and hydrological modeling: Memory path-dependency or missing physics?. Journal of Hydrology, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.06.037
Gao Hongkai, Hrachowitz Markus, Sriwongsitanon Nutchanart, Fenicia Fabrizio, Gharari Shervan, Savenije Hubert H. G., 2016: Accounting for the influence of vegetation and landscape improves model transferability in a tropical savannah region: VEGETATION AND TOPOGRAPHY DATA IMPROVE MODEL TRANSFERABILITY. Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1002/2016WR019574
Gao H., Hrachowitz M., Fenicia F., Gharari S., Savenije H. H. G., 2014: Testing the realism of a topography-driven model (FLEX-Topo) in the nested catchments of the Upper Heihe China. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, doi: 10.5194/hess-18-1895-2014
Gharari S., Shafiei M., Hrachowitz M., Kumar R., Fenicia F., Gupta H. V., Savenije H. H. G., 2014: A constraint-based search algorithm for parameter identification of environmental models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, doi: 10.5194/hess-18-4861-2014
Gharari S., Hrachowitz M., Fenicia F., Gao H., Savenije H. H. G., 2014: Using expert knowledge to increase realism in environmental system models can dramatically reduce the need for calibration. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4839-2014
Hrachowitz M., Fovet O., Ruiz L., Euser T., Gharari S., Nijzink R., Freer J., Savenije H. H. G., Gascuel‐Odoux C., 2014: Process consistency in models: The importance of system signatures expert knowledge and process complexity. Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1002/2014WR015484
Shafiei Mojtaba, Ghahraman Bijan, Saghafian Bahram, Pande Saket, Gharari Shervan, Davary Kamran, 2014: Assessment of rain-gauge networks using a probabilistic GIS based approach. Hydrology Research, doi: 10.2166/nh.2013.042
Gharari S., Hrachowitz M., Fenicia F., Savenije H. H. G., 2013: An approach to identify time consistent model parameters: sub-period calibration. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, doi: 10.5194/hess-17-149-2013
Gharari S., Hrachowitz M., Fenicia F., Savenije H. H. G., 2011: Hydrological landscape classification: investigating the performance of HAND based landscape classifications in a central European meso-scale catchment. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, doi: 10.5194/hess-15-3275-2011
