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ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

Zubair, L. (2005), Modernization of Sri Lanka’s traditional irrigation system and sustainability, Science, Technology and Society, 10 (20): 161-195.

Zubair, L. (2003), Development of Meteorological studies in Sri Lanka, Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, 35 (2): 14-18, 2002

Zubair, L. (2002), An assessment of Environmental Impact Assessment in Sri Lanka, Environmental Impact Analysis Review, 21(5): 469-478.

CLIMATE IMPACTS – CROSS CUTTING

Zubair, L., and Nijamdeen, A. (2021) The Maldives: The 2014-2016 El Niño in the Maldives: Climate, Impacts, and Response. In M. H. Glantz (Ed.) “El Niño Ready Nations and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).” Springer Nature (in press).

Zubair, L., and Nijamdeen, A. (2021) Sri Lanka: The 2014-16 El Niño in Sri Lanka: Climate, Impacts, and Response. In M. H. Glantz (Ed.) “El Niño Ready Nations and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).” Springer Nature (in press).

Zubair, L., et al. (2016). The El Nino event of 2015/16 in Sri Lanka: Predictions, Preparedness, Communication and Impacts. In Climate Change Secretariat (Ed.), NEELAHARITHA-The Climate Change Magazine of Sri Lanka (pp.40-46). Sri Lanka: Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment.

HAZARDS AND DISASTERS

Zubair, L., et al. (2009), Fine scale evaluation of drought hazard for tropical climates, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 48 (1): 77-88.

Zubair, L., et al. (2006), Natural disaster risks in Sri Lanka: Mapping hazards and risk hotspots, Chapter 4, in Natural Disaster Hotspots Case Studies, Washington, DC: World Bank 2006.

Zubair, L. (2004), May 2003 disaster in Sri Lanka and cyclone 01-B in the Bay of Bengal, Natural Hazards, 33: 303-318.

Zubair, L., et al. (2004), What led to the May 2003 floods? Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, XXXVI (3): 51 – 56.

Zubair, L., and P. Wickramagamage (Editors), Proceedings of the Pinga Oya Symposium, Foundation for Environment, Climate and Technology, Kandy.

CLIMATE IMPACTS ON HEALTH

Zubair, L., et al. (2009), Potential use of El Niño for malaria early warning in Sri Lanka, Malaria Journal, 7:140.

Briet, OJT, GNL Galappaththy, L Zubair, P Vounatsou (2006), Rainfall as predictor of malaria in Sri Lanka, European Journal of Epidemiology, , 21, 45, 2006

CLIMATE IMPACTS ON AGRICULTURE

L. Zubair, et al. (2013). Climate Change Impacts on Rice Farming Systems in North Western Sri Lanka, In Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Global and Regional Aspects and Implications. D. Hillel, and C. Rosenzweig, Eds., ICP Series on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation, Imperial College Press.

S. Peiris, J. Hansen and Zubair, L. (2008), Use of seasonal climate information to predict coconut production in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Climatology, 28 (1) : 103-110.

Zubair, L., R. Perera and Z. Yahiya (2004), Was the 2002/03 Maha bumper harvest due to El Nino? Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, XXXVIII, (4): 63 – 70.

Zubair, L. (2002), El Nino Influences on rice production in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Climatology, 22 (2):249-260

Fernando, N, L. Zubair, T.S.G. Peiris, C.S. Ranasinghe and J. Ratnasiri (2004), Economic value of climate variability impacts on coconut production in Sri Lanka, AIACC Working Paper No. 45, Washington, DC: START.

CLIMATE ADAPTATION

Rosenzweig, C., J.W. Jones, J.L. Hatfield, C.Z. Mutter, S.G.K. Adiku, A. Ahmad, Y. Beletse, B. Gangwar, D. Guntuku, J. Kihara, P. Masikati, P. Paramasivan, K.P.C. Rao, and L. Zubair (2012). The agricultural model inter-comparison and improvement project (AgMIP): Integrated regional assessment projects. In Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Global and Regional Aspects and Implications. D. Hillel, and C. Rosenzweig, Eds., ICP Series on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation Vol. 2. Imperial College Press, 263-280.

A contributor to 2 other papers in the volume on Integrated Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture: An overview of the AGMIP regional research in South Asia and The AgMIP Coordinated Climate-Crop Modeling Project (C3MP): Methods and Protocols

CLIMATE DIAGNOSTICS

Gadgil, S., M. Rajeevan, L. Zubair and P. Yadav (2011), South Asian Monsoon: Inter annual variability, In Eds, Ding et al., Global Monsoon System, Research and Forecast, World Scientific Publications and World Meteorological Organization.

A.K. Srivastava, M. Rajeevan, L. Zubair and J. Revadekar, South Asia, in Blunden, Jessica, Derek S. Arndt ( 2012), State of the climate in 2011. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, S1–S282.

Zubair, L., et al. (2008), Predictability of Sri Lankan rainfall based on ENSO, International Journal of Climatology. 28 (1): 91-101.

Zubair, L. and C.F. Ropelewski (2006), The strengthening relationship of ENSO and the North-East Monsoon rainfall over Sri Lanka and Southern India, Journal of Climate, 19 (8): 1567–1575.

Zubair, L., S. C. Rao and Toshio Yamagata (2003), The Influence of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the Sri Lankan Maha rainfall, with Geophysical Research Letters,10 (2): 1063-1066

Zubair, L. (2002), Diurnal and seasonal wind climate at Sita Eliya, Sri Lanka, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 71 (1-2): 119-127.

Zubair, L. (1998), Diurnal and seasonal variation of surface winds at Hambantota, Journal of the National Science Council, Sri Lanka, 25(3).235-245p.

HYDROCLIMATOLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Mahanama, S., Koster, R., Riehl, & R. Zubair, L. (2007), The role of soil moisture in seasonal streamflow predictability, Advances in Water Resources. 31 (3): 1333-1343.

Chandimala, J. and L. Zubair (2008), Predictability of Streamflow and Rainfall for Water Resources Management in Sri Lanka, Journal of Hydrology, 335 (3-4), 303-312.

Zubair, L. and J. Chandimala (2007), Epochal Changes in ENSO-Streamflow relations in Sri Lanka, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7 (6):1237-1246.

Zubair, L. (2004), Sensitivity of Kelani streamflow in Sri Lanka to ENSO, Hydrological Processes, 17 (12) 2439-2448.

Zubair, L. (2003), ENSO influences on Mahaweli streamflow in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Climatology, 23(1):91-102.

CLIMATE MODELING

Qian, J.-H., and L. Zubair (2011), The effects of grid-resolution and domain choice on the quality of simulations of the South Asian northeast monsoon rainfall, Monthly Weather Review. 138 (7): 2780-2802

Gunaratne, Ajith and L. Zubair (2015). Fine Scale Evaluation of Tropical Wind Climatologies Using a Mass Consistent Model. International Journal of Numerical Methods and Applications, 14 (2) 77-105, December 2015.

Agalawatte, P., Zubair, L., et al., and Yahiya, Z. (2016). State of the art climate change assessments for Sri Lanka from CMIP5. In Climate Change Secretariat (Ed.), NEELAHARITHA-The Climate Change Magazine of Sri Lanka (pp.40-46). Sri Lanka: Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment.

FLUID DYNAMICS

Zubair, L. (1995), Characterization of Intermittency in Turbulence, Physics of Fluids, 7 (8) pp. 2089.

Zubair, L., K.R. Sreenivasan and M.V. Wickerhauser (1991), Compression of turbulence data and images using wavelet-packets, In Studies in Turbulence, Springer-Verlag, eds. T. Gadsky, S. Sirkar and C. Speziale. pp. 489-513.

TERTIARY EDUCATION

Zubair, L. (2009), Engendering Multi-disciplinarity and Quality: Environmental education at the University of Peradeniya, Chapter 2, In Ed. N. Hennanayake et al. Traversing No Mans Land, University of Peradeniya, 2009, ISBN 978-955-30-1526-6.

CLIMATE CAPACITY BUILDING

Zubair, L. (2004), Towards developing weather and climate prediction for Sri Lanka, Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, XXXVII, 2:53-58.

Zubair, L. (2004), Weather and Climate in Sri Lanka: A Reference Guide, Natural Resources Management Services, Kandy, Sri Lanka ISBN 955-8968-00-5.

Zubair, L., et al. (2016). Providing climate services for water management in Sri Lanka. In Climate Change Secretariat (Ed.), Neelaharitha-The Climate Change Magazine of Sri Lanka (pp.40-46). Sri Lanka: Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment.


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