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Overview

Brett F. Sanders is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to several interconnected subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, sociology and political science, earth-surface processes, and environmental engineering.

Their work frequently addresses topics related to flood risk assessment and management, disaster management and resilience, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, coastal and marine dynamics, hydrology and drought analysis, hydrology and watershed management studies, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Brett F. Sanders include:

  • Large and inequitable flood risks in Los Angeles, California, 2022, published in Nature Sustainability
  • Breaking Down the Computational Barriers to Real-Time Urban Flood Forecasting, 2021, published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • A Framework for Mechanistic Flood Inundation Forecasting at the Metropolitan Scale, 2022, published in Water Resources Research
  • How urban form impacts flooding, 2024, published in Nature Communications
  • Re-envisioning stormwater infrastructure for ultrahazardous flooding, 2020, published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Brett F. Sanders has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Jochen E. Schubert, Darren R. Reid, Katharine J. Mach, Richard A. Matthew, and Matthew W. Brand. The number of collaborations ranges from 7 to 15 publications per coauthor.

Their work has been published in multiple recognized scientific publication venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • Advances in Water Resources
  • Water Resources Research
  • Earth's Future
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Taking the “Waste” Out of “Wastewater” for Human Water Security and Ecosystem Sustainability

    Stanley B Grant;Stanley B Grant;Jean-Daniel Saphores;David L Feldman;Andrew J Hamilton

  • Compounding effects of sea level rise and fluvial flooding

    Hamed R. Moftakhari;Gianfausto Salvadori;Amir AghaKouchak;Brett F. Sanders

  • Evaluation of on-line DEMs for flood inundation modeling

    Brett F. Sanders

  • Finite-Volume Model for Shallow-Water Flooding of Arbitrary Topography

    Scott F. Bradford;Brett F. Sanders

  • Building treatments for urban flood inundation models and implications for predictive skill and modeling efficiency

    Jochen E. Schubert;Brett F. Sanders

  • Unstructured grid finite-volume algorithm for shallow-water flow and scalar transport with wetting and drying

    Lorenzo Begnudelli;Brett F. Sanders

  • Two-dimensional, high-resolution modeling of urban dam-break flooding: A case study of Baldwin Hills, California

    Humberto A. Gallegos;Jochen E. Schubert;Brett F. Sanders

  • Unstructured mesh generation and landcover-based resistance for hydrodynamic modeling of urban flooding

    Jochen E. Schubert;Brett F. Sanders;Martin J. Smith;Nigel G. Wright

  • Multihazard Scenarios for Analysis of Compound Extreme Events

    Mojtaba Sadegh;Hamed Moftakhari;Hoshin V. Gupta;Elisa Ragno

  • Integral formulation of shallow-water equations with anisotropic porosity for urban flood modeling

    Brett F. Sanders;Jochen E. Schubert;Humberto A. Gallegos

  • Generation of enterococci bacteria in a coastal saltwater marsh and its impact on surf zone water quality.

    S B Grant;B F Sanders;A B Boehm;J A Redman

  • An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope

    M. Durand;C. J. Gleason;P. A. Garambois;D. Bjerklie

  • Scaling and management of fecal indicator bacteria in runoff from a coastal urban watershed in southern California.

    Ryan L. Reeves;Stanley B. Grant;Robert D. Mrse;Carmen M. Copil Oancea

  • Cumulative hazard: The case of nuisance flooding

    Hamed R. Moftakhari;Amir AghaKouchak;Brett F. Sanders;Richard A. Matthew

  • Increased nuisance flooding along the coasts of the United States due to sea level rise: Past and future

    Hamed R. Moftakhari;Amir AghaKouchak;Brett F. Sanders;David L. Feldman

  • Linking statistical and hydrodynamic modeling for compound flood hazard assessment in tidal channels and estuaries

    Hamed Moftakhari;Hamed Moftakhari;Jochen E. Schubert;Amir AghaKouchak;Richard A. Matthew

  • What Is Nuisance Flooding? Defining and Monitoring an Emerging Challenge

    Hamed R. Moftakhari;Amir AghaKouchak;Brett F. Sanders;Maura Allaire

  • Environmental Fate and Transport Modeling for Perfluorooctanoic Acid Emitted from the Washington Works Facility in West Virginia

    Hyeong-Moo Shin;Verónica M. Vieira;P. Barry Ryan;Russell Detwiler

  • ParBreZo: A parallel, unstructured grid, Godunov-type, shallow-water code for high-resolution flood inundation modeling at the regional scale

    Brett F. Sanders;Jochen E. Schubert;Russell L. Detwiler

  • From Rain Tanks to Catchments: Use of Low-Impact Development To Address Hydrologic Symptoms of the Urban Stream Syndrome

    Asal Askarizadeh;Megan A. Rippy;Tim D. Fletcher;David L. Feldman

Frequent Co-Authors

Amir AghaKouchak
Amir AghaKouchak University of California, Irvine
Stanley B. Grant
Stanley B. Grant Virginia Tech
Tim D. Fletcher
Tim D. Fletcher University of Melbourne
James S. Famiglietti
James S. Famiglietti University of Saskatchewan
Kyle Steenland
Kyle Steenland Emory University
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine
Alexandria B. Boehm
Alexandria B. Boehm Stanford University
Kuolin Hsu
Kuolin Hsu University of California, Irvine
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol
Michael Durand
Michael Durand The Ohio State University

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