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Christian Birkel 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 Christian Birkel sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 155 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Christian Birkel 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 Christian Birkel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christian Birkel is affiliated with the University of Costa Rica in Costa Rica. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with extensive work across related subfields including global and planetary change, water science and technology, ecology, atmospheric science, and environmental engineering.

Their work covers a wide range of topics within environmental science, particularly emphasizing hydrology and watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, climate variability and models, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Christian Birkel has authored several scientific papers, including:

  • RF-MEP: A novel Random Forest method for merging gridded precipitation products and ground-based measurements (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Improving regional flood risk assessment using flood frequency and dendrogeomorphic analyses in mountain catchments impacted by tropical cyclones (2021) published in Geomorphology
  • Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of floods in a dynamic tropical river (2020) published in Geomorphology
  • Continuous in situ measurements of water stable isotopes in soils, tree trunk and root xylem: Field approval (2021) published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
  • Tracer-Aided Modeling in the Low-Relief, Wet-Dry Tropics Suggests Water Ages and DOC Export Are Driven by Seasonal Wetlands and Deep Groundwater (2020) published in Water Resources Research

Christian Birkel frequently publishes in several venues, with a notable number of publications in:

  • Hydrological Processes
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo
  • Doerthe Tetzlaff
  • Chris Soulsby
  • Saúl Arciniega-Esparza
  • Germain Esquivel-Hernández

Best Publications

  • Global rainfall erosivity assessment based on high-temporal resolution rainfall records

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Bofu Yu

  • Temporal and spatial evaluation of satellite-based rainfall estimates across the complex topographical and climatic gradients of Chile

    Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini;Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini;Alexandra Nauditt;Christian Birkel;Christian Birkel;Koen Verbist

  • Storage dynamics in hydropedological units control hillslope connectivity, runoff generation, and the evolution of catchment transit time distributions.

    Doerthe Tetzlaff;Christian Birkel;Jonathan James Dick;Josie Geris

  • RF-MEP: A novel random forest method for merging gridded precipitation products and ground-based measurements

    Oscar M. Baez-Villanueva;Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini;Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini;Hylke E. Beck;Ian McNamara

  • Stream water age distributions controlled by storage dynamics and nonlinear hydrologic connectivity: Modeling with high-resolution isotope data.

    C Soulsby;C Birkel;J Geris;J Dick

  • Advancing tracer-aided rainfall–runoff modelling: a review of progress, problems and unrealised potential

    Christian Birkel;Christian Birkel;Chris Soulsby

  • Using SAS functions and high-resolution isotope data to unravel travel time distributions in headwater catchments

    Paolo Benettin;Chris Soulsby;Christian Birkel;Doerthe Tetzlaff

  • Modelling catchment‐scale water storage dynamics: reconciling dynamic storage with tracer‐inferred passive storage

    Christian Birkel;Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff

  • Towards a simple dynamic process conceptualization in rainfall–runoff models using multi-criteria calibration and tracers in temperate, upland catchments

    C. Birkel;C. Birkel;D. Tetzlaff;S. M. Dunn;C. Soulsby

  • High‐frequency storm event isotope sampling reveals time‐variant transit time distributions and influence of diurnal cycles

    Christian Birkel;Christian Birkel;Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Sarah Dunn

  • Using time domain and geographic source tracers to conceptualize streamflow generation processes in lumped rainfall-runoff models

    Christian Birkel;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Sarah M. Dunn;Chris Soulsby

  • Key drivers controlling stable isotope variations in daily precipitation of Costa Rica: Caribbean Sea versus Eastern Pacific Ocean moisture sources

    Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo;C. Birkel;C. Birkel;Kristen Welsh;Kristen Welsh;G. Esquivel-Hernández

  • Modelling landscape controls on dissolved organic carbon sources and fluxes to streams

    J. J. Dick;D. Tetzlaff;C. Birkel;C. Soulsby

  • Conceptual modelling to assess how the interplay of hydrological connectivity, catchment storage and tracer dynamics controls nonstationary water age estimates

    Christian Birkel;Chris Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff

  • Groundwater recharge mechanisms inferred from isoscapes in a complex tropical mountainous region

    Ricardo Sánchez‐Murillo;Christian Birkel;Christian Birkel

  • Developing a consistent process-based conceptualization of catchment functioning using measurements of internal state variables

    Christian Birkel;Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff

  • Assessing the value of high-resolution isotope tracer data in the stepwise development of a lumped conceptual rainfall-runoff model

    C. Birkel;C. Birkel;S. M. Dunn;D. Tetzlaff;C. Soulsby

  • A comparison of wetness indices for the prediction of observed connected saturated areas under contrasting conditions

    Genevieve Ali;Christian Birkel;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Christopher Soulsby

  • Deciphering key processes controlling rainfall isotopic variability during extreme tropical cyclones

    Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo;Ana M. Durán-Quesada;Germain Esquivel-Hernández;Daniela Rojas-Cantillano

  • Transit time distributions of a conceptual model: their characteristics and sensitivities

    S. M. Dunn;C. Birkel;C. Birkel;Doerthe Tetzlaff;C. Soulsby

  • A simple topography-driven and calibration-free runoff generation module

    Hongkai Gao;Christian Birkel;Markus Hrachowitz;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Doerthe Tetzlaff

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Soulsby
Chris Soulsby University of Aberdeen
Doerthe Tetzlaff
Doerthe Tetzlaff Leibniz Association
Sarah M. Dunn
Sarah M. Dunn James Hutton Institute
Jan Boll
Jan Boll Washington State University
Lindsay B. Hutley
Lindsay B. Hutley Charles Darwin University
Harald Biester
Harald Biester Technische Universität Braunschweig
Niels C. Munksgaard
Niels C. Munksgaard James Cook University
Damien T. Maher
Damien T. Maher Southern Cross University
Andrea Rinaldo
Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Olivier Roupsard
Olivier Roupsard Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

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