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D-Index
67
Citations
24402
World Ranking
1925
National Ranking
801

Andrew W. Wood publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew W. Wood sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 306 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Andrew W. Wood D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew W. Wood sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Andrew W. Wood is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to hydrology and climate. Key areas include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, and Cryospheric Studies and Observations.

Andrew W. Wood has co-authored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Martyn Clark
  • Andrew J. Newman
  • Guoqiang Tang
  • Simon Michael Papalexiou
  • Wouter Knoben

The scientist has published widely in several venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Representative recent publications include:

  • "Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Ensemble flood forecasting: Current status and future opportunities," 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • "Generating Ensemble Streamflow Forecasts: A Review of Methods and Approaches Over the Past 40 Years," 2021, Water Resources Research
  • "Hybrid forecasting: blending climate predictions with AI models," 2023, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "NOAA's National Water Model: Advancing operational hydrology through continental-scale modeling," 2024, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Among recognized distinctions, Andrew W. Wood received the SPIE Fellow award in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Hydrologic Implications of Dynamical and Statistical Approaches to Downscaling Climate Model Outputs

    A. W. Wood;L. R. Leung;V. Sridhar;D. P. Lettenmaier

  • A Long-Term Hydrologically Based Dataset of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States*

    E. P. Maurer;A. W. Wood;J. C. Adam;D. P. Lettenmaier

  • Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Hugo G. Hidalgo;Celine Bonfils

  • Use of a standardized runoff index for characterizing hydrologic drought

    Shraddhanand Shukla;Andrew W. Wood

  • The Effects of Climate Change on the Hydrology and Water Resources of the Colorado River Basin

    Niklas S. Christensen;Andrew W. Wood;Nathalie Voisin;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • Long‐range experimental hydrologic forecasting for the eastern United States

    Andrew W. Wood;Edwin P. Maurer;Arun Kumar;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • Twentieth-Century Drought in the Conterminous United States

    Konstantinos M. Andreadis;Elizabeth A. Clark;Andrew W. Wood;Alan F. Hamlet

  • Development of a large-sample watershed-scale hydrometeorological data set for the contiguous USA: data set characteristics and assessment of regional variability in hydrologic model performance

    A. J. Newman;M. P. Clark;K. Sampson;A. Wood

  • Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change on the Water Resources of the Columbia River Basin

    Jeffrey T. Payne;Andrew W. Wood;Alan F. Hamlet;Richard N. Palmer

  • A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 1. Modeling concept

    Martyn P. Clark;Bart Nijssen;Jessica D. Lundquist;Dmitri Kavetski

  • A Long-Term Hydrologically-Based Data Set of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States

    Edwin P. Maurer;A. W. Wood;J. C. Adam;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Gerald A. Meehl;Roger Pulwarty;Mike Hobbins;Mike Hobbins

  • Water Resources Implications of Global Warming: A U.S. Regional Perspective

    Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Andrew W. Wood;Richard N. Palmer;Eric F. Wood

  • Detection and Attribution of Streamflow Timing Changes to Climate Change in the Western United States

    H.G. Hidalgo;T. Das;M.D. Dettinger;M.D. Dettinger;D.R. Cayan;D.R. Cayan

  • Potential Implications of PCM Climate Change Scenarios for Sacramento–San Joaquin River Basin Hydrology and Water Resources

    Nathan T. Vanrheenen;Andrew W. Wood;Richard N. Palmer;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • The Evaporative Demand Drought Index. Part I: Linking Drought Evolution to Variations in Evaporative Demand

    Michael T. Hobbins;Michael T. Hobbins;Andrew Wood;Daniel J. McEvoy;Justin L. Huntington

  • The evolution of process-based hydrologic models: historical challenges and the collective quest for physical realism

    Martyn P. Clark;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Luis Samaniego;Ross A. Woods

  • Attribution of declining Western U.S. Snowpack to human effects

    David W. Pierce;Tim P. Barnett;Hugo G. Hidalgo;Tapash Das

  • Continental and global scale flood forecasting systems

    Rebecca E. Emerton;Rebecca E. Emerton;Elisabeth M. Stephens;Florian Pappenberger;Thomas C. Pagano

  • Characterizing Uncertainty of the Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change

    Martyn P. Clark;Robert L. Wilby;Ethan D. Gutmann;Julie A. Vano

  • The Great Colorado Flood of September 2013

    David Gochis;Russ Schumacher;Katja Friedrich;Nolan Doesken

Frequent Co-Authors

Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Bart Nijssen
Bart Nijssen University of Washington
Christa D. Peters-Lidard
Christa D. Peters-Lidard Goddard Space Flight Center
Ross Woods
Ross Woods University of Bristol
Florian Pappenberger
Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Daniel R. Cayan
Daniel R. Cayan University of California, San Diego
Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Upmanu Lall
Upmanu Lall Columbia University
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart

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