2026 Donald H. Burn: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	61	2746	2622	116	108	193	15238

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Donald H. Burn is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with specific attention to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics related to hydrology, climate variability, and flood risk assessment. Recent papers include:

"A temporal downscaling approach for sub-daily gridded extreme rainfall intensity estimation under climate change" (2021), published in Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
"Detection of trends in flood magnitude and frequency in Canada" (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
"Climate related changes to flood regimes show an increasing rainfall influence" (2023), published in Journal of Hydrology
"Trend Detection in the Presence of Positive and Negative Serial Correlation: A Comparison of Block Maxima and Peaks-Over-threshold Data" (2021), published in Water Resources Research
"Climate Driven Trends in Historical Extreme Low Streamflows on Four Continents" (2024), published in Water Resources Research

Donald H. Burn often collaborates with frequent coauthors, including Paul H. Whitfield, Ana I. Requena, Paulin Coulibaly, Nicole O'Brien, and Truong-Huy Nguyen.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Climate variability and models
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Frequent publication venues for Burn's work are:

Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
Water Resources Research
Journal of Hydrology
Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques
Hydrological Sciences Journal

This combination of topics and publication outlets situates Donald H. Burn as a researcher working at the intersection of hydrological science and climate change, focusing on how these environmental factors influence water systems and extreme weather events.

Best Publications

Detection of hydrologic trends and variability

Donald H. Burn;Mohamed A. Hag Elnur

1648
Citations
Review of surrogate modeling in water resources

Saman Razavi;Bryan A. Tolson;Donald H. Burn

1006
Citations
Short term streamflow forecasting using artificial neural networks

Cameron M. Zealand;Donald H. Burn;Slobodan P. Simonovic

757
Citations
Evaluation of regional flood frequency analysis with a region of influence approach

Donald H. Burn

682
Citations
Trends and variability in the hydrological regime of the Mackenzie River Basin

Omar I. Abdul Aziz;Donald H. Burn

450
Citations
Catchment similarity for regional flood frequency analysis using seasonality measures

Donald H. Burn

412
Citations
Hydrologic effects of climatic change in west-central Canada

Donald H. Burn

398
Citations
Hydrological trends and variability in the Liard River basin / Tendances hydrologiques et variabilité dans le basin de la rivière Liard

Donald H. Burn;Donald H. Burn;Juraj M. Cunderlik;Juraj M. Cunderlik;Alain Pietroniro;Alain Pietroniro

331
Citations
Trends in evaporation for the Canadian Prairies

Donald H. Burn;Nicole M. Hesch

329
Citations
Wavelet analysis of variability in annual Canadian streamflows

Paulin Coulibaly;Donald H. Burn

301
Citations
Non-stationary pooled flood frequency analysis

Juraj M. Cunderlik;Donald H. Burn

276
Citations
Climate change effects on the hydrologic regime within the Churchill-Nelson River Basin

Jason R Westmacott;Donald H Burn

274
Citations
Assessing the effectiveness of hydrological similarity measures for flood frequency analysis

A. Castellarin;D.H. Burn;A. Brath

260
Citations
Artificial neural network ensembles and their application in pooled flood frequency analysis

Chang Shu;Donald H. Burn

246
Citations
An appraisal of the “region of influence” approach to flood frequency analysis

Donald H. Burn

241
Citations
Earlier springs decrease peak summer productivity in North American boreal forests

Wolfgang Buermann;Parida R. Bikash;Martin Jung;Donald H. Burn

238
Citations
Climatic influences on streamflow timing in the headwaters of the Mackenzie River Basin

Donald H. Burn

228
Citations
Estimation of hydrological parameters at ungauged catchments

Donald H. Burn;David B. Boorman

222
Citations
Flood frequency analysis for ungauged sites using a region of influence approach

Zolt Zrinji;Donald H. Burn

222
Citations
An entropy approach to data collection network design

Yujuin Yang;Donald H. Burn

216
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul H. Whitfield University of Saskatchewan

Paulin Coulibaly McMaster University

Manish Kumar Goyal Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Slobodan P. Simonovic University of Western Ontario

Edward A. McBean University of Guelph

Alain Pietroniro University of Saskatchewan

Henrik Madsen Technical University of Denmark

Jamie Hannaford National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Kerstin Stahl University of Freiburg

Taha B. M. J. Ouarda Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique

External Links

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