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Overview

Chris Kilsby is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within environmental and earth sciences, focusing extensively on hydrology and related fields.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial portion of work concentrated in these areas. Key subfields in their research portfolio cover Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Kilsby has contributed to several specific topics within these fields. These topics include:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate Variability and Models

Their recent papers provide insight into their range of research interests. These include:

  • "Dissecting innovative trend analysis," 2020, published in Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
  • "Implications of Using Global Digital Elevation Models for Flood Risk Analysis in Cities," 2020, published in Water Resources Research
  • "Is Precipitation Responsible for the Most Hydrological Model Uncertainty?", 2022, published in Frontiers in Water
  • "All in order: Distribution of serially correlated order statistics with applications to hydrological extremes," 2020, published in Advances in Water Resources
  • "Improved hydrological modelling of urban catchments using runoff coefficients," 2020, published in Journal of Hydrology

Frequent co-authors in Kilsby's body of work include:

  • Vassilis Glenis
  • Elizabeth Lewis
  • Francesco Serinaldi
  • András Bàrdossy
  • Christos Iliadis

The venues where Kilsby's work has been regularly published reflect a focus on hydrology and environmental sciences. These include:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water
  • Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Best Publications

  • A daily weather generator for use in climate change studies

    C. G. Kilsby;P. D. Jones;A. Burton;A. C. Ford

  • Stationarity is undead: Uncertainty dominates the distribution of extremes

    Francesco Serinaldi;Chris G. Kilsby

  • UK Climate Projections Briefing Report

    Geoff J Jenkins;James M Murphy;David M Sexton;Jason A Lowe

  • A regional frequency analysis of United Kingdom extreme rainfall from 1961 to 2000

    H. J. Fowler;C. G. Kilsby

  • Future heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities

    Selma B Guerreiro;Richard J Dawson;Chris Kilsby;Elizabeth Lewis

  • Floods and climate: emerging perspectives for flood risk assessment and management

    B. Merz;J. Aerts;K. Arnbjerg-Nielsen;M. Baldi

  • Multi‐temporal synthetic aperture radar flood mapping using change detection

    M.A. Clement;C.G. Kilsby;P. Moore

  • RainSim: A spatial-temporal stochastic rainfall modelling system

    A. Burton;C. G. Kilsby;H. J. Fowler;P. S. P. Cowpertwait

  • UK Climate Projections science report: Projections of future daily climate for the UK from the Weather Generator

    PD Jones;CG Kilsby;C Harpham;Glenis

  • Using regional climate model data to simulate historical and future river flows in northwest England

    H. J. Fowler;C. G. Kilsby

  • Modeling the impacts of climatic change and variability on the reliability, resilience, and vulnerability of a water resource system

    H. J. Fowler;C. G. Kilsby;P. E. O'Connell

  • New estimates of future changes in extreme rainfall across the UK using regional climate model integrations. 1. Assessment of control climate

    H.J. Fowler;M. Ekström;C.G. Kilsby;P.D. Jones

  • New estimates of future changes in extreme rainfall across the UK using regional climate model integrations. 2. Future estimates and use in impact studies

    M. Ekström;H.J. Fowler;C.G. Kilsby;P.D. Jones

  • A weather-type conditioned multi-site stochastic rainfall model for the generation of scenarios of climatic variability and change

    H.J. Fowler;C.G. Kilsby;P.E. O'Connell;A. Burton

  • Using satellite altimetry data to augment flow estimation techniques on the Mekong River

    S. J. Birkinshaw;G. M. O'Donnell;P. Moore;C. G. Kilsby

  • Rainfall extremes: Toward reconciliation after the battle of distributions

    Francesco Serinaldi;Chris G. Kilsby

  • Untenable nonstationarity: An assessment of the fitness for purpose of trend tests in hydrology

    Francesco Serinaldi;Chris G. Kilsby;Federico Lombardo

  • A space‐time Neyman‐Scott model of rainfall: Empirical analysis of extremes

    P. S. P. Cowpertwait;C. G. Kilsby;P. E. O'Connell

  • Quantifying and Mitigating Wind-Induced Undercatch in Rainfall Measurements

    M. D. Pollock;G. O'Donnell;P. Quinn;M. Dutton

  • Modelling the impacts of projected future climate change on water resources in north-west England

    H. J. Fowler;C. G. Kilsby;J. Stunell

  • Implications of changes in seasonal and annual extreme rainfall

    H. J. Fowler;C. G. Kilsby

  • Predicting rainfall statistics in England and Wales using atmospheric circulation variables

    C. G. Kilsby;P. S. P. Cowpertwait;P. E. O'Connell;P. D. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Hayley J. Fowler
Hayley J. Fowler Newcastle University
Jim W. Hall
Jim W. Hall University of Oxford
Stephen Blenkinsop
Stephen Blenkinsop Newcastle University
Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson Newcastle University
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
James C. Bathurst
James C. Bathurst Newcastle University
Nigel G. Wright
Nigel G. Wright University of Birmingham
João Pedro Nunes
João Pedro Nunes Wageningen University & Research
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart
Cliff B. Jones
Cliff B. Jones Newcastle University

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