Title: The Role of Vegetation Cover in Reducing Carbon Emissions: A Critical Strategy for the Arabian Peninsula
Short Biography:
Prof. Almazroui was the founder and Director of the Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research (CECCR) at the King Abdulaziz University. He was the Head of the Department of Meteorology in King Abdulaziz University from 2008 to 2020. He was the Consultant, General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection (GAMEP), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is the fellow of Climatic Research Unit in East Angelia University. He is the Lead Author, Chapter 10, IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), Working Group I, 2018-2021. He also the Contributing Author of Chap 11 and Atlas of IPCC AR6, Working Group I, 2018-2021. He was a Saudi Shura Council member from 2021 to 2024.
Prof. Almazroui attracted research projects from home and abroad. In addition, he has a collaborator in several international research institutes from Belgium, Germany, UK, Italy, South Korea and the USA. He established two international journals where King Abdulaziz University is a partner, one is “Earth Systems and Environment” publishing by Springer and the other is “npj Climate and Atmospheric Science” publishing by Nature. He published more than 250 peer–reviewed scientific articles on climate and climate change, and his H-Index is 59.
His current research focuses are weather and climate variability, climate change and its impact on the environment, water resources and agriculture. He is interested in detecting climate change signals and future climate change in the Middle East using the state-of-the-art Global Climate Models (GCMs) and Regional Climate Models (RCMs). He is also interested in studying large-scale circulation patterns affecting local climatic elements and extremes in Saudi Arabia as well as neighbouring countries and their relationship to large-scale teleconnections (e.g. NAO, ENSO).