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Overview

Christel Prudhomme is affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their main areas of work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Variability and Models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Cryospheric Studies and Observations.

Recent publications by Christel Prudhomme include:

  • "Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979-present," 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • "ERA5-HEAT: A global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis," 2020, Geoscience Data Journal
  • "Global prediction of extreme floods in ungauged watersheds," 2024, Nature
  • "Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?," 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include:

  • Shaun Harrigan
  • Florian Pappenberger
  • Hannah Cloke
  • Ervin Zsótér
  • Peter Salamon

Christel Prudhomme's work is regularly published in several journals and publication venues, notably:

  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Journal of Flood Risk Management
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Atmosphere
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment

    Christel Prudhomme;Ignazio Giuntoli;Emma L. Robinson;Douglas B. Clark

  • SW—Soil and Water: Climate Change and Water Resources Management in Arid and Semi-arid Regions: Prospective and Challenges for the 21st Century

    Ragab Ragab;Christel Prudhomme

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems.

    Sebastian Birk;Daniel Chapman;Laurence Carvalho;Bryan M. Spears

  • Downscaling of global climate models for flood frequency analysis: where are we now?

    Christel Prudhomme;Nick Reynard;Sue Crooks

  • Bias correction of daily precipitation simulated by a regional climate model: a comparison of methods

    Thomas Lafon;Simon James Dadson;Gwen B. Buys;Christel Prudhomme

  • Health Effects of Drought: a Systematic Review of the Evidence

    Carla Stanke;Marko Kerac;Marko Kerac;Christel Prudhomme;Jolyon Medlock

  • Scenario-neutral approach to climate change impact studies: Application to flood risk

    Christel Prudhomme;Robert L. Wilby;Sue M. Crooks;Alison L. Kay

  • Uncertainty and climate change impact on the flood regime of small UK catchments

    Christel Prudhomme;Dörte Jakob;Cecilia Svensson

  • Large-scale river flow archives: importance, current status and future needs.

    David M. Hannah;Siegfried Demuth;Henny A. J. van Lanen;Ulrich Looser

  • Assessing uncertainties in climate change impact analyses on the river flow regimes in the UK. Part 1: baseline climate

    Christel Prudhomme;Helen Davies

  • GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979–present

    Shaun Harrigan;Ervin Zsoter;Lorenzo Alfieri;Christel Prudhomme;Christel Prudhomme

  • Characterizing Uncertainty of the Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change

    Martyn P. Clark;Robert L. Wilby;Ethan D. Gutmann;Julie A. Vano

  • Interacting effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on drought-sensitive butterflies

    Tom H. Oliver;Harry H. Marshall;Mike D. Morecroft;Tom Brereton

  • MAPPING EXTREME RAINFALL IN A MOUNTAINOUS REGION USING GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES: A CASE STUDY IN SCOTLAND

    Christel Prudhomme;Duncan W. Reed

  • Climate change and water resources management in arid and semi-arid regions : prospective and challenges for the twenty first century.

    Ragab Ragab;Christel Prudhomme

  • Hydrology needed to manage droughts: the 2015 European case

    Henny A.J. Van Lanen;Gregor Laaha;Daniel G. Kingston;Tobias Gauster

  • Examining the large‐scale spatial coherence of European drought using regional indicators of precipitation and streamflow deficit

    Jamie Hannaford;Benjamin Lloyd-Hughes;Caroline Keef;Simon Parry

  • The flood characteristics of large U.K. Rivers : Potential effects of changing climate and land use

    N. S. Reynard;C. Prudhomme;S. M. Crooks

  • The European 2015 drought from a hydrological perspective

    Gregor Laaha;Tobias Gauster;Lena M. Tallaksen;Jean Philippe Vidal

  • ERA5-HEAT: a global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis

    Claudia Di Napoli;Christopher Barnard;Christel Prudhomme;Christel Prudhomme;Hannah L. Cloke

  • Potential influences on the United Kingdom's floods of winter 2013/14

    Chris Huntingford;Terry Marsh;Adam A. Scaife;Elizabeth J. Kendon

Frequent Co-Authors

Jamie Hannaford
Jamie Hannaford National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Hannah Cloke
Hannah Cloke University of Reading
Florian Pappenberger
Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Robert L. Wilby
Robert L. Wilby Loughborough University
David M. Hannah
David M. Hannah University of Birmingham
Peter Salamon
Peter Salamon Universitat Politècnica de València
Lena M. Tallaksen
Lena M. Tallaksen University of Oslo
Simon Dadson
Simon Dadson University of Oxford
Kerstin Stahl
Kerstin Stahl University of Freiburg
Paul J. Wood
Paul J. Wood Loughborough University

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