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Overview

Denis A. Hughes is affiliated with Rhodes University in South Africa and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work covers a range of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Soil Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The main research topics engaged by Denis A. Hughes include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
  • Water resources management and optimization

Recent notable publications by Hughes address different aspects of hydrology and water resources in Africa. These include:

  • Evaluation of the Drivers Responsible for Flooding in Africa, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • ADHI: the African Database of Hydrometric Indices (1950-2018), 2021, Earth system science data
  • Understanding and modelling the effects of wetland on the hydrology and water resources of large African river basins, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • Establishing uncertainty ranges of hydrologic indices across climate and physiographic regions of the Congo River Basin, 2020, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Prediction of sediment yield of the Inxu River catchment (South Africa) using the MUSLE, 2020, International Soil and Water Conservation Research

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Hughes include:

  • Pierre Mulamba Kabuya
  • Raphaël M. Tshimanga
  • Mark A. Trigg
  • Paul Bates
  • Gode B. Bola

Regarding publication venues, Hughes has contributed a substantial number of papers to the following journals and outlets:

  • Geophysical Monograph
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Radiography
  • Water Resources Research
  • Earth System Science Data

Best Publications

  • A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

    M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

  • “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022

    A. Montanari;G. Young;H.H.G. Savenije;D.A. Hughes

  • Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies

    O. Batelaan;D.A. Hughes;P.W. Swarzenski;P. Willems

  • A desktop model used to provide an initial estimate of the ecological instream flow requirements of rivers in South Africa

    Denis A Hughes;Pauline Hannart

  • Daily flow time series patching or extension: a spatial interpolation approach based on flow duration curves

    D. A. Hughes;V. Smakhtin

  • Comparison of satellite rainfall data with observations from gauging station networks

    D.A. Hughes

  • Impact of climate change and development scenarios on flow patterns in the Okavango River

    Lotta Andersson;Julie Wilk;Martin C. Todd;Denis A. Hughes

  • Automated estimation and analyses of meteorological drought characteristics from monthly rainfall data

    V. U. Smakhtin;D. A. Hughes

  • Behavioural and ecological investigations of the crabOcypode ceratophthalmus (Crustacea: Ocypodidae)

    D. A. Hughes

  • Estimating rainfall and water balance over the Okavango River Basin for hydrological applications

    Julie Wilk;Dominic Kniveton;Lotta Andersson;Russell Layberry

  • Review, automated estimation and analyses of drought indices in South Asia

    Vladimir U. Smakhtin;D.A. Hughes

  • Regional calibration of the Pitman model for the Okavango River

    Denis A. Hughes;Lotta Andersson;Julie Wilk;Hubert H.G. Savenije

  • Providing hydrological information and data analysis tools for the determination of ecological instream flow requirements for South African rivers

    D.A Hughes

  • Hydrology-based assessment of environmental flows: an example from Nepal

    V. U. Smakhtin;R. L. Shilpakar;D. A. Hughes

  • Regionalization of daily flow characteristics in part of the Eastern Cape, South Africa

    V. Y. Smakhtin;D. A. Hughes;E. Creuse-Naudin

  • Simulating the impacts of land-use and climate change on water resource availability for a large south Indian catchment

    Julie Wilk;Denis A. Hughes

  • Incorporating uncertainty in hydrological predictions for gauged and ungauged basins in southern Africa

    E. Kapangaziwiri;D. A. Hughes;Thorsten Wagener

  • Monthly rainfall-runoff models applied to arid and semiarid catchments for water resource estimation purposes

    D. A. Hughes

  • Uncertainty in water resources availability in the Okavango River basin as a result of climate change

    D.A Hughes;D.g D. G. Kingston;M.C Todd

  • Continuous baseflow separation from time series of daily and monthly streamflow data

    Denis A Hughes;Pauline Hannart;Deidre Watkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
Martin C. Todd
Martin C. Todd University of Sussex
Vladimir U. Smakhtin
Vladimir U. Smakhtin United Nations University
Dominic Kniveton
Dominic Kniveton University of Sussex
Alberto Montanari
Alberto Montanari University of Bologna
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Demetris Koutsoyiannis National Technical University of Athens
Gil Mahé
Gil Mahé University of Montpellier
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart

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