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Darren L. Ficklin

Darren L. Ficklin

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Environmental Sciences

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Citations
6825
World Ranking
8305
National Ranking
2967

Overview

Darren L. Ficklin is a researcher affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the domain of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The research topics addressed by Darren L. Ficklin encompass a range of hydrological and ecological themes. Key subjects include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate Variability and Models, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, as well as Hydrological Forecasting Using AI.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Hydrological Processes
  • Earth's Future
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Among recent papers authored by Darren L. Ficklin or closely related to their research network are:

  • Hydrological Intensification Will Increase the Complexity of Water Resource Management (2022, Earth's Future)
  • Confronting the Water Potential Information Gap (2022, Nature Geoscience)
  • The Impacts of Rising Vapour Pressure Deficit in Natural and Managed Ecosystems (2024, Plant Cell & Environment)
  • Incorporating Rain-on-Snow into the SWAT Model Results in More Accurate Simulations of Hydrologic Extremes (2021, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Bias Correction of Paleoclimatic Reconstructions: A New Look at 1,200+ Years of Upper Colorado River Flow (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

Ficklin frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field, including:

  • Scott M. Robeson
  • Daniel T. Myers
  • Kimberly A. Novick
  • Jason H. Knouft
  • Damon M. Hall

Best Publications

  • The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes

    Kimberly A. Novick;Darren L. Ficklin;Paul C. Stoy;Christopher A. Williams

  • Climate change sensitivity assessment of a highly agricultural watershed using SWAT

    Darren L. Ficklin;Yuzhou Luo;Eike Luedeling;Minghua Zhang

  • Historic and projected changes in vapor pressure deficit suggest a continental‐scale drying of the United States atmosphere

    Darren L. Ficklin;Kimberly A. Novick

  • Effects of climate change on stream temperature, dissolved oxygen, and sediment concentration in the Sierra Nevada in California

    Darren L. Ficklin;Iris T. Stewart;Edwin P. Maurer

  • Confronting the water potential information gap

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  • The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity in Flowing Freshwater Systems

    Jason H. Knouft;Darren L. Ficklin

  • Response of ecosystem intrinsic water use efficiency and gross primary productivity to rising vapor pressure deficit

    Quan Zhang;Quan Zhang;Darren L Ficklin;Stefano Manzoni;Lixin Wang

  • Drought legacies are dependent on water table depth, wood anatomy and drought timing across the eastern US.

    Steven A. Kannenberg;Steven A. Kannenberg;Justin T. Maxwell;Neil Pederson;Loïc D'Orangeville;Loïc D'Orangeville

  • Climate Change Impacts on Streamflow and Subbasin-Scale Hydrology in the Upper Colorado River Basin

    Darren L. Ficklin;Iris T. Stewart;Edwin P. Maurer

  • Assessment of climate change impacts on hydrology and water quality with a watershed modeling approach

    Yuzhou Luo;Darren L. Ficklin;Xiaomang Liu;Xiaomang Liu;Minghua Zhang

  • Impacts of recent climate change on trends in baseflow and stormflow in United States watersheds

    Darren L. Ficklin;Darren L. Ficklin;Scott M. Robeson;Jason H. Knouft

  • Impacts of DEM resolution, source, and resampling technique on SWAT-simulated streamflow.

    Mou Leong Tan;Darren L. Ficklin;Barnali M. Dixon;Ab Latif Ibrahim

  • The impacts of rising vapour pressure deficit in natural and managed ecosystems.

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  • Development and application of a hydroclimatological stream temperature model within the Soil and Water Assessment Tool

    Darren L. Ficklin;Yuzhou Luo;Iris T. Stewart;Edwin P. Maurer

  • Hydrological Intensification Will Increase the Complexity of Water Resource Management

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  • A climatic deconstruction of recent drought trends in the United States

    Darren L Ficklin;Darren L Ficklin;Justin T Maxwell;Sally L Letsinger;Hamed Gholizadeh

  • Spatio-temporal variations of soil nutrients influenced by an altered land tenure system in China

    Xingmei Liu;Weiwen Zhang;Minghua Zhang;Darren L. Ficklin

  • Natural and managed watersheds show similar responses to recent climate change.

    Darren L. Ficklin;John T. Abatzoglou;Scott M. Robeson;Sarah E. Null

  • Dynamic modeling of organophosphate pesticide load in surface water in the northern San Joaquin Valley watershed of California

    Yuzhou Luo;Xuyang Zhang;Xingmei Liu;Xingmei Liu;Darren Ficklin

  • Impact of climate change on streamflow in the arid Shiyang River Basin of northwest China

    Zhonggen Wang;Darren L. Ficklin;Yongyong Zhang;Minghua Zhang

  • Sensitivity of agricultural runoff loads to rising levels of CO2 and climate change in the San Joaquin Valley watershed of California.

    Darren L. Ficklin;Yuzhou Luo;Eike Luedeling;Sarah E. Gatzke

  • Effects of projected climate change on the hydrology in the Mono Lake Basin, California

    Darren L. Ficklin;Iris T. Stewart;Edwin P. Maurer

  • Impacts and uncertainties of climate change on streamflow of the Johor River Basin, Malaysia using a CMIP5 General Circulation Model ensemble

    Mou Leong Tan;Darren L. Ficklin;Ab Latif Ibrahim;Zulkifli Yusop

Frequent Co-Authors

Edwin P. Maurer
Edwin P. Maurer Santa Clara University
Kimberly A. Novick
Kimberly A. Novick Indiana University
Richard P. Phillips
Richard P. Phillips Indiana University
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced
Paul C. Stoy
Paul C. Stoy University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lixin Wang
Lixin Wang Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Eike Luedeling
Eike Luedeling University of Bonn
Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service
Peter D. Blanken
Peter D. Blanken University of Colorado Boulder
Asko Noormets
Asko Noormets Texas A&M University

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