Published Papers

June 2006: with Ralapanawe V., Tennakone, U., Yahiya, Z., and Perera, R., Natural Disaster Risks in Sri Lanka: Mapping Hazards and Risk Hotspots, Chapter 4, in Eds: Margaret Arnold, Robert Chen, Uwe Deichmann, Maxx Dilley and Arthur Lerner-Lam, Randolph E. Pullen, Zoe Trohanis, Natural Disaster Hotspots Case Studies, Washington, DC: World Bank 2006.

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

Sep 2005: with R. Perera and Z. Yahiya, Was the 2002/03 Maha bumper harvest due to El Nino?, Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, XXXVIII, (4): 63 – 70. pdf

Jul 2005, Modernization of Sri Lanka’s Traditional Irrigation System and Sustainability, Science, Technology and Society, 10 (20): 161-195. Abstract and Print Version

Nov 2004: May 2003 disaster in Sri Lanka and Cyclone 01-B in the Bay of Bengal, Natural Hazards, 33: 303-318, 2004. Abstract and Print Version

Apr 2004: Towards Developing Weather and Climate Prediction for Sri Lanka, Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, XXXVII, 2:53-58. pdf

Sep 2003: Sensitivity of Kelani streamflow in Sri Lanka to ENSO, Hydrological Processes, 17 (12) 2439-2448. Abstract and Print Version

Jul 2003: with U. Tennakone, Z. Yahiya, J. Chandimala & M.R.A. Siraj, What led to the May 2003 Floods?, Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, XXXVI (3): 51 – 56. pdf

Jan 2003: with Suryachandra Rao and Toshio Yamagata, Modulation of Sri Lanka Rainfall by the Indian Ocean Dipole, Geophysical Research Letters, 10 (2) 1063-1066. Abstract and Print Version

Jan 2003: ENSO influences on Mahaweli Streamflow in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Climatology, 23(1)91-102
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May 2002: Development of Meteorology in Sri Lanka, Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka. 15(2):14-18. pdf

February 2002: El-Niño-Southern Oscillation influences on Rice Production in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Climatology. 22 (2):249-260
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January 2002: Diurnal and Seasonal Variations in Surface Winds at Sita Eliya, Sri Lanka, Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 71 (1-2): 119-127. Abstract
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September 2001: Challenges to EIA in Sri Lanka, Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 21(5): 469-478.  pdf

August 1995: Characterization of Intermittency in Turbulence, Physics of Fluids, 7 (8) pp. 2089-2091, 1995
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December 1991: Compression of turbulence data and images using wavelet packets, In: Studies in Turbulence, Eds: Gadsky, T., Sirkar, S., Speziale, C., Springer Verlag, pp. 489-513, 1991, with K.R. Sreenivasan and V. Wickerhauser
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Books/Reports

January 2004: Weather and Climate of Sri Lanka and Impacts and Adaptation: A Reference Guide, Natural Resources Management Services, Kandy, Sri Lanka ISBN 955-8968-00-5, 117 pages.

Submitted/In Press

Oct 2005: in press, with J. Chandimala, Epochal Changes in ENSO-Streamflow relations in Sri Lanka, Journal of Hydrometeorology.

Aug 2005: conditionally accepted, with S. Peiris and J. Hansen, Use of Seasonal Climate Information to Predict Coconut Production in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Climatology.

Conference Proceedings/Abstracts

March 2006: Lareef Zubair, Progress in Developing a Climate based Malaria Early Warning System in Sri Lanka, Climate Predictions and Applications Sciences Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, 21-24 March 2006.

February 2006: Lareef Zubair, Using Climate Information for River Basin Management in Sri Lanka, Invited Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, February 2, 2006.

July 2005: Lareef Zubair, Climate Risk Management: Case Studies in Public Health, Natural Disasters and Renewable Energy, Biennal Conference of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, July 23-27.

March 2005: Lareef Zubair, Using Climate Information for Disaster Risk Identification in Sri Lanka, Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop, March 15-17, 2005, Palisades, New York.

December 2004: Using Climate Information for Disaster Risk Identification in Sri Lanka, Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

November 2004: Downscaling of Sri Lanka's Maha Rainfall from a GCM and Indian Ocean Dipole and ENSO influences, International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Changing Environment of the Monsoon Region, United Nations University, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

November 2004: with Janaki Chandimala, Predictability of Streamflow and Rainfall in the Kelani river basin in Sri Lanka using ENSO, International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Changing Environment of the Monsoon Region, United Nations University, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

November 2004: with Upamala Tennakoon and Manjula Siriwardhana, Climate Change Assessments for Sri Lanka from Quality Evaluated Data, International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Changing Environment of the Monsoon Region, United Nations University, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

July 2004: Weather, Climate Variability and Climate Change, Workshop Report, Synthesis Workshop on Climate Variability, Climate Change and Health in Small-Island States, pages 13-14, World Health Organization, Bandos, Maldives.

May 2004: with Joshua Qian, High-resolution dynamic regional climate downscaling over Sri Lanka, 10th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

May 2004: with Ajith Gunaratne, Wind Climatologies From A Mass-Consistent Wind Model For Sri Lanka, 10th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

October 2003: with Vidhura Ralapanawe, Assessment of High-Risk Natural Disaster Hotspots of Sri Lanka, 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, Montreal, Canada

June 2003: with Ruvini Perera and Herath Mathrithillake, Using Climate Information for Mahaweli river basin management, World Water and Environmental Resources Congress 2003, Philadelphia.

December 2002: with Heli Bulathsinhala, Quality Evaluation of Mean Historical Temperature Data in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, 58th Annual Sessions, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

October 2001: Seasonal streamflow predictions from sea surface temperatures: Application to Mahaweli river in Sri Lanka, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency 26th Climate Diagnostics Workshop, San Diego, California.

October 2001: 1997-99 El Nino / La Nina Episode in Sri Lanka: Forecasts, Communication, Responses and Impacts in an Indebted and Peripheral Country., 2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

October 2000: A dynamical model for orographic rainfall in monsoonal Sri Lanka, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency 25th Climate Diagnostics Workshop, New York 25:305-308.

March 2001: Climate Applications for Water Management in Sri Lanka, 1st International Science and Technical Advisory Committee Meeting, IRI, Palisades, New York.

December 1999: A dynamical model for orographic rainfall in Sri Lanka, Proceedings of the Asian Fluid Dynamics Congress, Shenzen, China 8:864-867.

December 1999: with Gunaratne, A.U.K, A mass consistent wind model for Sri Lanka, Proceedings of the Asian Fluid Dynamics Congress, Shenzen, China 8:817-820.

November 1999: Modelling of Irrigation Networks: Udawalawe in Sri Lanka, Jubilee Congress of the Asian Institute for Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 1999, IV: 91-100, with R. Aloysius.

Published Articles

July 2004: Empowering the Vulnerable , TIEMPO, 52:3-6, University of East Anglia, UK, pdf version , Also see SciDev.net Communities facing climate change need local science .

December 2003: Climate and Cricket in Sri Lanka , Ceylon Daily News, Sri Lanka.

September 2003: Saving Weather Data , TIEMPO, University of East Anglia, UK.

August 2003: What led to the May Flooding , The Island, Sri Lanka, August 23, 2003.

July 2002: Questions for Climate Science from the Mahaweli Water Managers, Frontier Newsletter, Volume 19. for pdf

June 2002: Climate Change and National Security , The Island, June 22, 2002.

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