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Bodo Bookhagen publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bodo Bookhagen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Bodo Bookhagen D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bodo Bookhagen sits on this spectrum.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Bodo Bookhagen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research covers a broad array of topics such as:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Bookhagen's recent academic papers include the following:

  • "Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia," published in 2021 in Science
  • "Beyond Vertical Point Accuracy: Assessing Inter-pixel Consistency in 30 m Global DEMs for the Arid Central Andes," published in 2021 in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Assessing Multi-Temporal Snow-Volume Trends in High Mountain Asia From 1987 to 2016 Using High-Resolution Passive Microwave Data," published in 2020 in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Climatic and Biotic Controls on Topographic Asymmetry at the Global Scale," published in 2020 in Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • "Tracking Downstream Variability in Large Grain-Size Distributions in the South-Central Andes," published in 2021 in Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Bookhagen include:

  • Manfred R. Strecker
  • Taylor Smith
  • Asfaw Erbello
  • Daniel Melnick
  • Heiko Pingel

Bookhagen has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among the honors received is the Hellman Fellow award in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Toward a complete Himalayan hydrological budget: Spatiotemporal distribution of snowmelt and rainfall and their impact on river discharge

    Bodo Bookhagen;Douglas W. Burbank

  • Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover

    Dirk Scherler;Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Topography, relief, and TRMM-derived rainfall variations along the Himalaya

    Bodo Bookhagen;Bodo Bookhagen;Douglas W. Burbank

  • Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

    Matthias Huss;Matthias Huss;B Bookhagen;Christian Huggel;Dean Jacobsen

  • Urban tree species mapping using hyperspectral and lidar data fusion

    Michael Alonzo;Bodo Bookhagen;Dar A. Roberts

  • Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes

    M.R. Strecker;R.N. Alonso;B. Bookhagen;B. Carrapa

  • Complex networks reveal global pattern of extreme-rainfall teleconnections

    Niklas Boers;Bedartha Goswami;Aljoscha Rheinwalt;Bodo Bookhagen

  • Late Quaternary intensified monsoon phases control landscape evolution in the northwest Himalaya

    Bodo Bookhagen;Rasmus Christoph Thiede;Martin R. Strecker

  • Orographic barriers, high‐resolution TRMM rainfall, and relief variations along the eastern Andes

    Bodo Bookhagen;Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Climatic control on rapid exhumation along the Southern Himalayan Front

    Rasmus C. Thiede;Bodo Bookhagen;J.Ramón Arrowsmith;Edward R. Sobel

  • Abnormal monsoon years and their control on erosion and sediment flux in the high, arid northwest Himalaya

    Bodo Bookhagen;Rasmus C. Thiede;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Analysis of spatial and temporal extreme monsoonal rainfall over South Asia using complex networks

    Nishant Malik;Nishant Malik;Bodo Bookhagen;Norbert Marwan;Jürgen Kurths;Jürgen Kurths

  • Comparison of gully erosion estimates using airborne and ground-based LiDAR on Santa Cruz Island, California

    Ryan L. Perroy;Bodo Bookhagen;Gregory P. Asner;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia.

    Dongfeng Li;Xixi Lu;Irina Overeem;Desmond E. Walling

  • Prediction of extreme floods in the eastern Central Andes based on a complex networks approach

    N. Boers;N. Boers;B. Bookhagen;B. Bookhagen;H. M. J. Barbosa;N. Marwan

  • Segmentation of megathrust rupture zones from fore-arc deformation patterns over hundreds to millions of years, Arauco peninsula, Chile

    Daniel Melnick;Bodo Bookhagen;Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker;Helmut Peter Echtler

  • Spatiotemporal trends in erosion rates across a pronounced rainfall gradient: Examples from the southern Central Andes

    Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker

  • δ18O and δD of streamwaters across the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau: Implications for moisture sources and paleoelevation reconstructions

    Michael T. Hren;Bodo Bookhagen;Peter M. Blisniuk;Amanda L. Booth

  • Changes in seasonal snow water equivalent distribution in High Mountain Asia (1987 to 2009)

    Taylor Smith;Bodo Bookhagen

  • Multi-phased uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes

    T. F. Schildgen;D Cosentino;B. Bookhagen;S. Niedermann

  • Complex networks identify spatial patterns of extreme rainfall events of the South American Monsoon System

    Niklas Boers;Niklas Boers;Bodo Bookhagen;Norbert Marwan;Jürgen Kurths;Jürgen Kurths

  • Climatic forcing of erosion, landscape, and tectonics in the Bhutan Himalayas

    Djordje Grujic;Isabelle Coutand;Bodo Bookhagen;Stéphane Bonnet

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred R. Strecker
Manfred R. Strecker University of Potsdam
Douglas W. Burbank
Douglas W. Burbank University of California, Santa Barbara
Jürgen Kurths
Jürgen Kurths Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Dirk Scherler
Dirk Scherler Freie Universität Berlin
Taylor F. Schildgen
Taylor F. Schildgen University of Potsdam
Dirk Sachse
Dirk Sachse University of Potsdam
Helmut Echtler
Helmut Echtler University of Potsdam
Edward R. Sobel
Edward R. Sobel University of Potsdam
Djordje Grujic
Djordje Grujic Dalhousie University
Martin H. Trauth
Martin H. Trauth University of Potsdam

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