2026 Andrew W. Wood: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	67	1925	1835	801	739	306	24402

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

2294
Citations
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

1723
Citations
Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States

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

1573
Citations
Use of a standardized runoff index for characterizing hydrologic drought

Shraddhanand Shukla;Andrew W. Wood

1429
Citations
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

1355
Citations
Long‐range experimental hydrologic forecasting for the eastern United States

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

1263
Citations
Twentieth-Century Drought in the Conterminous United States

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

753
Citations
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

551
Citations
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

551
Citations
A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 1. Modeling concept

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

535
Citations
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

481
Citations
Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

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

444
Citations
Water Resources Implications of Global Warming: A U.S. Regional Perspective

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

379
Citations
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

375
Citations
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

374
Citations
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

365
Citations
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

350
Citations
Attribution of declining Western U.S. Snowpack to human effects

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

338
Citations
Continental and global scale flood forecasting systems

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

292
Citations
Characterizing Uncertainty of the Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change

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

291
Citations
The Great Colorado Flood of September 2013

David Gochis;Russ Schumacher;Katja Friedrich;Nolan Doesken

285
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan

Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles

Bart Nijssen University of Washington

Christa D. Peters-Lidard Goddard Space Flight Center

Ross Woods University of Bristol

Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Daniel R. Cayan University of California, San Diego

Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin

Upmanu Lall Columbia University

András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart

External Links

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