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Dr Muhammad Eeqmal HASSIM

Deputy Principal Research Scientist
Department of Climate Research
Climate Projections and Extremes Branch

  • muhammad_eeqmal_hassim@nea.gov.sg
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Dr Muhammad Eeqmal HASSIM

Dr Muhammad Eeqmal HASSIM’s main research interests are on understanding regional climate variability, climate extremes and climate change for the Southeast Asia region. In particular, he focuses on what influences the properties and behaviour of tropical rainfall over Singapore and how such characteristics may change in the future. He previously identified eight weather regimes that characterise Singapore’s climate.

Dr Hassim was part of the team that delivered the Second National Climate Change Study for Singapore, in collaboration with the United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UK Met Office). He is currently part of the team working on the Third National Climate Change Study for Singapore. Dr Hassim has also collaborated in other projects with the Public Utilities Board (PUB) and the Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI) of the National University of Singapore (NUS), looking into various aspects of the local and regional climate. His expertise covers high-resolution mesoscale and regional climate modelling, analysis of ground-based radar observations, weather regimes and tropical weather systems.

Education

    • 2007-2012
    • PhD (Atmospheric Science), School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
    • 2006
    • BSc (Hons), School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Working Experience

    • 2014-present
    • Deputy Principal Research Scientist / Senior Research Scientist / Research Scientist, Centre for Climate Research Singapore, MSS
    • 2012-2014
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
    • 2009-2010
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
    • 2007-2008
    • Research Assistant, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia

Research Interests

  • Atmospheric moist convection and its multiscale interactions
  • Tropical meteorology and climate variability
  • Drivers of rainfall extremes
  • Regional climate-aerosol interactions

Hassim, M. E. and Timbal B., 2019:

Observed rainfall trends over Singapore and the Maritime Continent from the perspective of regional-scale weather regimes.

J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 58, 365–384, doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0136.1.

Hassim, M. E., 2018:

Hourly climatology of convective areas around Singapore from ground-based radar observations.

MSS Research Letters, 1:8-14.

Timbal, B., Turkington, T., Hassim, M. E. and Gao, E., 2018:

Heavy rain.

ENVISION, 14:29-31.

Timbal, B., Turkington, T. and Hassim, M. E., 2018:

Temperatures rising.

ENVISION, 15:54-57.

Hassim, M. E., R. Rahmat, R. K. Lestari and B. Timbal, 2016:

Generating climate change rainfall scenarios for Singapore: A tale of scale.

COSMOS, 12(1), 8-13, doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219607716710014.

Hassim, M. E. E., Lane, T. P., and Grabowski, W. W., 2016:

The diurnal cycle of rainfall over New Guinea in convection-permitting WRF simulations.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 161-175, doi:10.5194/acp-16-161-2016.

Cathryn Birch, Stuart Webster, Simon Peatman, Douglas Parker, Adrian Matthews, Yue Li, Muhammad E. E. Hassim, 2016:

Scale interactions between the MJO and the western Maritime Continent.

J. Climate, 29, 2471-2492.

John L. Mcbride, Sandeep Sahany, Muhammad E. E. Hassim, Chi Mai Nguyen, See Yee Lim, Raizan Rahmat, and Wee Kiong Cheong, 2015:

The 2014 Record Dry Spell at Singapore: An Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Drought.

Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96, S126–S130. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-EEE_2014_ch25.1.

Hassim, M. E. E., T. P. Lane and P. T. May, 2014:

Ground-based observations of overshooting convection during the Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment.

J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 880-905, doi: 10.1002/2013JD020673.

Hassim, M. E. E., and T.P. Lane, 2010:

A model study on the influence of overshooting convection on TTL water vapour.

Atmos. Chem. Physics, 10, 9833-9849.

Hassim, M. E. E., and K. J. E. Walsh, 2008:

Tropical cyclone trends in the Australian region.

Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q07V07, doi: 10.1029/2007GC001804.

Dr Hassim’s full publication record may be accessed here.