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45
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6248
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Ben Livneh 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 Ben Livneh sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 164 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ben Livneh 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 Ben Livneh sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ben Livneh is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the disciplines of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these fields, their work focuses on several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.

The research topics that Ben Livneh has extensively contributed to include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Ben Livneh has published articles in a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent publication sources include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth's Future
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology

Among their recent notable papers are:

  • "Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought," 2020, Science
  • "Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage," 2023, Science
  • "Drought less predictable under declining future snowpack," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Remotely sensed ensembles of the terrestrial water budget over major global river basins: An assessment of three closure techniques," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Ben Livneh's frequent co-authors include:

  • Nels R. Bjarke
  • Balaji Rajagopalan
  • Fangfang Yao
  • J. Toby Minear
  • N. P. Molotch

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

  • Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products

    Youlong Xia;Kenneth Mitchell;Michael Ek;Justin Sheffield

  • Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought.

    A. Park Williams;Edward R. Cook;Jason E. Smerdon;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • 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

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

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

  • Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 2. Validation of model‐simulated streamflow

    Youlong Xia;Kenneth Mitchell;Michael Ek;Brian Cosgrove

  • 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

  • Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage

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  • Spatial variation of the rain-snow temperature threshold across the Northern Hemisphere.

    Keith Jennings;Taylor Scott Winchell;Ben Livneh;Noah P. Molotch;Noah P. Molotch;Noah P. Molotch

  • Snowmelt rate dictates streamflow

    Theodore B. Barnhart;Theodore B. Barnhart;Noah P. Molotch;Noah P. Molotch;Noah P. Molotch;Ben Livneh;Ben Livneh;Adrian A. Harpold

  • Skill in streamflow forecasts derived from large-scale estimates of soil moisture and snow

    Randal D. Koster;Sarith P. P. Mahanama;Sarith P. P. Mahanama;Ben Livneh;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • An assessment of differences in gridded precipitation datasets in complex terrain

    Brian Henn;Brian Henn;Andrew J. Newman;Ben Livneh;Ben Livneh;Christopher Daly

  • Axial testing and numerical modeling of square shaft helical piles under compressive and tensile loading

    Ben LivnehB. Livneh;M. Hesham El NaggarM.H. El Naggar

  • Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture and Snow Depth Retrievals for Drought Estimation

    Sujay V. Kumar;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;David Mocko;Rolf Reichle

  • 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

  • Noah LSM Snow Model Diagnostics and Enhancements

    Ben Livneh;Youlong Xia;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Michael B. Ek

  • Reservoir Evaporation in the Western United States: Current Science, Challenges, and Future Needs

    Katja Friedrich;Robert L. Grossman;Justin Huntington;Peter D. Blanken

  • Noah land surface model modifications to improve snowpack prediction in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

    Michael Barlage;Fei Chen;Mukul Tewari;Kyoko Ikeda

  • Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply

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  • Drought less predictable under declining future snowpack

    Ben Livneh;Ben Livneh;Andrew M. Badger;Andrew M. Badger

  • Soil Moisture, Snow, and Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts in the United States

    Sarith Mahanama;Ben Livneh;Randal Koster;Dennis Lettenmaier

  • Modeling seasonal snowpack evolution in the complex terrain and forested colorado headwaters region: A model intercomparison study

    Fei Chen;Michael Barlage;Mukul Tewari;Roy Rasmussen

Frequent Co-Authors

Noah P. Molotch
Noah P. Molotch University of Colorado Boulder
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Balaji Rajagopalan
Balaji Rajagopalan University of Colorado Boulder
Martin P. Hoerling
Martin P. Hoerling National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michael Ek
Michael Ek National Center for Atmospheric Research
Eric E. Small
Eric E. Small University of Colorado Boulder
David Mocko
David Mocko National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Youlong Xia
Youlong Xia M-Systems
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University

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