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Overview

David E. Rupp is a researcher affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States, with a primary focus on Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple specialized areas including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, and Surgery.

The scientist's research topics include Fire effects on ecosystems, Climate variability and models, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Cryospheric studies and observations, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Compound Extremes Drive the Western Oregon Wildfires of September 2020 (2021), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Anthropogenic Influence on Recent Severe Autumn Fire Weather in the West Coast of the United States (2022), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Recession analysis revisited: impacts of climate on parameter estimation (2020), published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Climate change alters flood magnitudes and mechanisms in climatically-diverse headwaters across the northwestern United States (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • New snow metrics for a warming world (2021), published in Hydrological Processes

Frequent collaborators include Bart Nijssen, Anton Kruger, John T. Abatzoglou, Sihan Li, and Kumud Acharya.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in scholarly venues such as:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Framework for Understanding Structural Errors (FUSE): A modular framework to diagnose differences between hydrological models

    Martyn P. Clark;Andrew G. Slater;David E. Rupp;Ross A. Woods

  • Hydrological data assimilation with the ensemble Kalman filter: Use of streamflow observations to update states in a distributed hydrological model

    Martyn P. Clark;David E. Rupp;Ross A. Woods;Xiaogu Zheng

  • A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 1. Modeling concept

    Martyn P. Clark;Bart Nijssen;Jessica D. Lundquist;Dmitri Kavetski

  • Seasonal Climate Variability and Change in the Pacific Northwest of the United States

    John T. Abatzoglou;David E. Rupp;Philip W. Mote

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

    T.C. Peterson;L.V. Alexander;M.R. Allen;J.A. Anel;J.A. Anel

  • A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 2. Model implementation and case studies

    Martyn P. Clark;Bart Nijssen;Jessica D. Lundquist;Dmitri Kavetski

  • On the use of the Boussinesq equation for interpreting recession hydrographs from sloping aquifers

    David E. Rupp;David E. Rupp;John S. Selker

  • Consistency between hydrological models and field observations: linking processes at the hillslope scale to hydrological responses at the watershed scale

    Martyn P Clark;David E Rupp;Ross A Woods;H J Tromp-van Meerveld

  • The importance of hydraulic groundwater theory in catchment hydrology: The legacy of Wilfried Brutsaert and Jean‐Yves Parlange

    Peter A. Troch;Alexis Berne;Patrick Bogaart;Ciaran Harman

  • Information, artifacts, and noise in dQ/dt − Q recession analysis

    David E. Rupp;John S. Selker

  • Time scale and intensity dependency in multiplicative cascades for temporal rainfall disaggregation.

    David E. Rupp;David E. Rupp;Richard F. Keim;Mina Ossiander;Marcela Brugnach

  • How Do Modeling Decisions Affect the Spread Among Hydrologic Climate Change Projections? Exploring a Large Ensemble of Simulations Across a Diversity of Hydroclimates

    Oriana S. Chegwidden;Bart Nijssen;David E. Rupp;Jeffrey R. Arnold

  • Compound Extremes Drive the Western Oregon Wildfires of September 2020

    John T. Abatzoglou;David E. Rupp;Larry W. O'Neill;Mojtaba Sadegh

  • Perspectives on the causes of exceptionally low 2015 snowpack in the western United States

    Philip W. Mote;David E. Rupp;Sihan Li;Darrin J. Sharp

  • Detection and Attribution of Observed Changes in Northern Hemisphere Spring Snow Cover

    David E. Rupp;Philip W. Mote;Nathaniel L. Bindoff;Peter A. Stott

  • Drainage of a horizontal Boussinesq aquifer with a power law hydraulic conductivity profile

    David E. Rupp;John S. Selker

  • Spatial variability of hydrological processes and model structure diagnostics in a 50 km2 catchment

    Hilary K. McMillan;Myriam Gueguen;Elisabeth Grimon;Ross Woods

  • Near-future forest vulnerability to drought and fire varies across the western United States.

    Polly C. Buotte;Samuel Levis;Beverly E. Law;Tara W. Hudiburg

  • Projections of 21st century climate of the Columbia River Basin

    David E. Rupp;John T. Abatzoglou;Philip W. Mote

  • Improved streamflow recession parameter estimation with attention to calculation of − dQ/dt

    Clément Roques;David E. Rupp;John S. Selker

  • Analytical assessment and parameter estimation of a low-dimensional groundwater model.

    David E. Rupp;Jochen Schmidt;Ross A. Woods;Vincent J. Bidwell

  • Hydrological Data Assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter: Use of Streamflow Observations to Update States in a Distributed Hydrological Model

    R. P. Ibbitt;M. P. Clark;R. A. Woods;X. Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Selker
John S. Selker Oregon State University
Philip W. Mote
Philip W. Mote Oregon State University
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Ross Woods
Ross Woods University of Bristol
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Bart Nijssen
Bart Nijssen University of Washington
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced
Jim Freer
Jim Freer University of Bristol
Friederike E. L. Otto
Friederike E. L. Otto University of Oxford

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