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55
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15863
World Ranking
3778
National Ranking
1441

Overview

Bart Nijssen is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States, focusing primarily on environmental science. Their research encompasses various subfields including water science and technology, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, and ocean engineering.

Their work addresses a range of main topics such as hydrology and watershed management studies, water-energy-food nexus studies, cryospheric studies and observations, meteorological phenomena and simulations, fish ecology and management studies, climate variability and models, and hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Water Resources Research
  • HydroShare Resources
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Environmental Research Letters

Bart Nijssen has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, including:

  • Andrew Bennett
  • Martyn Clark
  • Jonathan L. Goodall
  • David E. Rupp
  • Yifan Cheng

Recent publications by Nijssen showcase a focus on hydrologic and climatic modeling:

  • "Deep Learned Process Parameterizations Provide Better Representations of Turbulent Heat Fluxes in Hydrologic Models" (2021), published in Water Resources Research
  • "MetSim: A Python package for estimation and disaggregation of meteorological data" (2020), published in The Journal of Open Source Software
  • "Climate change alters flood magnitudes and mechanisms in climatically-diverse headwaters across the northwestern United States" (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "Effects of Climate Change on Capacity Expansion Decisions of an Electricity Generation Fleet in the Southeast U.S." (2021), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Reservoirs Modify River Thermal Regime Sensitivity to Climate Change: A Case Study in the Southeastern United States" (2020), published in Water Resources Research

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Hydrologic sensitivity of global rivers to climate change

    Bart Nijssen;Greg M. O'Donnell;Alan F. Hamlet;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

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

    Ben Livneh;Eric A. Rosenberg;Chiyu Lin;Bart Nijssen

  • Streamflow simulation for continental-scale river basins

    Bart Nijssen;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Xu Liang;Suzanne W. Wetzel;Suzanne W. Wetzel

  • Regional scale hydrology: I. Formulation of the VIC-2L model coupled to a routing model

    D. Lohmann;E. Raschke;B. Nijssen;D. P. Lettenmaier

  • Predicting the discharge of global rivers

    Bart Nijssen;Greg M. O'donnell;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;D. A. G. Lohmann

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

    Ying Fan;M. Clark;D. M. Lawrence;S. Swenson

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

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

  • A spatially comprehensive, hydrometeorological data set for Mexico, the U.S., and Southern Canada 1950–2013

    Ben Livneh;Theodore J. Bohn;David W. Pierce;Francisco Munoz-Arriola

  • Global Retrospective Estimation of Soil Moisture Using the Variable Infiltration Capacity Land Surface Model, 1980–93

    Bart Nijssen;Reiner Schnur;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • Changes in observed climate extremes in global urban areas

    Vimal Mishra;Vimal Mishra;Vimal Mishra;Auroop R Ganguly;Bart Nijssen;Dennis P Lettenmaier;Dennis P Lettenmaier

  • Regional scale hydrology: II. Application of the VIC-2L model to the Weser River, Germany

    D. Lohmann;E. Raschke;B. Nijssen;D. P. Lettenmaier

  • The Variable Infiltration Capacity model version 5 (VIC-5): infrastructure improvements for new applications and reproducibility

    Joseph J. Hamman;Joseph J. Hamman;Bart Nijssen;Theodore J. Bohn;Diana R. Gergel

  • Effect of precipitation sampling error on simulated hydrological fluxes and states: Anticipating the Global Precipitation Measurement satellites

    Bart Nijssen;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e) - 1: Experiment description and summary intercomparisons

    Laura C. Bowling;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Bart Nijssen;Bart Nijssen;L. Phil Graham

  • Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis of land surface parameters using the Variable Infiltration Capacity model

    Eleonora M. Demaria;Bart Nijssen;Thorsten Wagener

  • A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 2. Model implementation and case studies

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

  • Towards seamless large-domain parameter estimation for hydrologic models

    Naoki Mizukami;Martyn P. Clark;Andrew J. Newman;Andrew W. Wood

  • Global evaluation of MTCLIM and related algorithms for forcing of ecological and hydrological models

    Theodore J. Bohn;Ben Livneh;Jared Wesley Oyler;Steven W Running

  • Detection of Intensification in Global- and Continental-Scale Hydrological Cycles: Temporal Scale of Evaluation

    Alan D. Ziegler;Justin Sheffield;Edwin P. Maurer;Bart Nijssen

  • Value of long-term streamflow forecasts to reservoir operations for water supply in snow-dominated river catchments

    Daniela Anghileri;Nathalie Voisin;Andrea Francesco Castelletti;Francesca Pianosi

  • Hydrological modeling of continental-scale basins

    Eric F. Wood;Dennis Lettenmaier;Xu Liang;Bart Nijssen

Frequent Co-Authors

Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew W. Wood
Andrew W. Wood National Center for Atmospheric Research
Wieslaw Maslowski
Wieslaw Maslowski Naval Postgraduate School
John J. Cassano
John J. Cassano University of Colorado Boulder
Ethan Gutmann
Ethan Gutmann National Center for Atmospheric Research
David E. Rupp
David E. Rupp Oregon State University
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Ben Livneh
Ben Livneh University of Colorado Boulder
Wade T. Crow
Wade T. Crow Agricultural Research Service

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