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David L Dunkerley

David L Dunkerley

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
42
Citations
5372
World Ranking
7513
National Ranking
284

Overview

David L Dunkerley is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has contributed to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Soil Science, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of their work comprise Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Frequently publishing in journals such as CATENA, Water, Preprints.org, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Hydrology, Dunkerley has contributed multiple papers to these venues, with notable citations across their work.

Recent significant publications include:

  • Fusion of Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope time-series data into daily 3 m surface reflectance and wheat LAI monitoring (2020), published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand? (2021), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Trade-off between surface runoff and soil erosion during the implementation of ecological restoration programs in semiarid regions: A meta-analysis (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Observed meteorological drought trends in Bangladesh identified with the Effective Drought Index (EDI) (2021), published in Agricultural Water Management
  • The importance of incorporating rain intensity profiles in rainfall simulation studies of infiltration, runoff production, soil erosion, and related landsurface processes (2021), published in Journal of Hydrology

They have collaborated frequently with researchers including Xuan Zhu, Md Anarul Haque Mondol, Benjamin J. Henley, Gao-Lin Wu, and Bojie Fu, reflecting a research network with diverse expertise.

Best Publications

  • A fresh framework for the ecology of arid Australia

    S.R. Morton;D.M. Stafford Smith;C.R. Dickman;D.L. Dunkerley

  • Identifying individual rain events from pluviograph records: a review with analysis of data from an Australian dryland site

    David Llewellyn Dunkerley

  • Measuring interception loss and canopy storage in dryland vegetation: a brief review and evaluation of available research strategies

    David L Dunkerley

  • Rain event properties in nature and in rainfall simulation experiments: a comparative review with recommendations for increasingly systematic study and reporting

    David Llewellyn Dunkerley

  • Effects of rainfall intensity fluctuations on infiltration and runoff: rainfall simulation on dryland soils, Fowlers Gap, Australia

    David Dunkerley

  • Runoff and runon areas in a patterned chenopod shrubland, arid western New South Wales, Australia: characteristics and origin.

    D.L. Dunkerley;K.J. Brown

  • Infiltration rates and soil moisture in a groved mulga community near Alice Springs, arid central Australia: evidence for complex internal rainwater redistribution in a runoff–runon landscape

    David L Dunkerley

  • Hydrologic effects of dryland shrubs: defining the spatial extent of modified soil water uptake rates at an Australian desert site

    David L Dunkerley

  • Fusion of Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope time-series data into daily 3 m surface reflectance and wheat LAI monitoring

    Yuval Sadeh;Xuan Zhu;David Dunkerley;Jeffrey P. Walker

  • Estimating the mean speed of laminar overland flow using dye injection‐uncertainty on rough surfaces

    David L Dunkerley

  • BANDED VEGETATION : DEVELOPMENT UNDER UNIFORM RAINFALL FROM A SIMPLE CELLULAR AUTOMATON MODEL

    David L Dunkerley

  • Efficiency of the reformulated Gash's interception model in semiarid afforestations

    Seyed Mohammad Moein Sadeghi;Pedram Attarod;John Toland Van Stan;Thomas Grant Pypker

  • The influence of organic litter on the erosive effects of raindrops and of gravity drops released from desert shrubs

    Nicole Geddes;David L Dunkerley

  • Plant canopy interception of rainfall and its significance in a banded landscape, arid western New South Wales, Australia

    David L Dunkerley;T L Booth

  • Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand?

    Wouter Dorigo;Stephan Dietrich;Filipe Aires;Luca Brocca

  • Flow behaviour, suspended sediment transport and transmission losses in a small (sub-bank-full) flow event in an Australian desert stream

    David L Dunkerley;Kate J Brown

  • Trade-off between surface runoff and soil erosion during the implementation of ecological restoration programs in semiarid regions: A meta-analysis.

    Yi Fan Liu;David Dunkerley;Manuel López-Vicente;Zhi Hua Shi

  • Banded vegetation near Broken Hill, Australia: significance of surface roughness and soil physical properties

    David L Dunkerley;Kate J Brown

  • Stemflow on the woody parts of plants: dependence on rainfall intensity and event profile from laboratory simulations

    David Llewellyn Dunkerley

  • Percolation through leaf litter: What happens during rainfall events of varying intensity?

    David Dunkerley

  • CHANNEL GEOMETRY, BED MATERIAL, AND INFERRED FLOW CONDITIONS IN EPHEMERAL STREAM SYSTEMS, BARRIER RANGE, WESTERN N.S.W. AUSTRALIA

    D. L. Dunkerley

  • Evaporation of impact water droplets in interception processes: historical precedence of the hypothesis and a brief literature overview.

    David Llewellyn Dunkerley

Frequent Co-Authors

Karine Chenu
Karine Chenu University of Queensland
Gao-Lin Wu
Gao-Lin Wu Lanzhou University
Nigel J. Tapper
Nigel J. Tapper Monash University
Thomas G. Pypker
Thomas G. Pypker Thompson Rivers University
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Manuel López-Vicente
Manuel López-Vicente Universidad de Zaragoza
Christian D. Kummerow
Christian D. Kummerow Colorado State University
Michaela I. Hegglin
Michaela I. Hegglin University of Reading
Lisan Yu
Lisan Yu Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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