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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
89
Citations
25824
World Ranking
626
National Ranking
46

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Florian Pappenberger is affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, water science and technology, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers a range of interconnected topics, notably meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and watershed management studies, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, hydrological forecasting using AI, and climate change and health impacts.

Florian Pappenberger has co-authored numerous papers with frequent collaborators including Hannah Cloke, Christel Prudhomme, David A. Lavers, Linus Magnusson, and Claudia Di Napoli.

The following are some of their recent publications with corresponding years and venues:

  • GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979-present, 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • ERA5-HEAT: A global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis, 2020, Geoscience Data Journal
  • Global prediction of extreme floods in ungauged watersheds, 2024, Nature
  • Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States, 2022, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Publication venues where Florian Pappenberger has contributed frequently include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Weather and Forecasting
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Ensemble flood forecasting: a review.

    Hannah Cloke;F. Pappenberger

  • Global-scale evaluation of 22 precipitation datasets using gauge observations and hydrological modeling

    Hylke E. Beck;Noemi Vergopolan;Ming Pan;Vincenzo Levizzani

  • Ignorance is bliss: Or seven reasons not to use uncertainty analysis

    F. Pappenberger;Keith J. Beven

  • Uncertainty in the calibration of effective roughness parameters in HEC-RAS using inundation and downstream level observations

    F. Pappenberger;Keith J. Beven;M. Horritt;S. Blazkova

  • ERA-Interim/Land: a global land surface reanalysis data set

    G. Balsamo;C. Albergel;A. Beljaars;S. Boussetta

  • GloFAS – global ensemble streamflow forecasting and flood early warning

    L. Alfieri;P. Burek;E. Dutra;B. Krzeminski

  • Daily evaluation of 26 precipitation datasets using Stage-IV gauge-radar data for the CONUS

    Hylke E. Beck;Ming Pan;Tirthankar Roy;Graham P. Weedon

  • Influence of uncertain boundary conditions and model structure on flood inundation predictions.

    Florian Pappenberger;Patrick Matgen;Keith J. Beven;Jean-Baptiste Henry

  • Cascading model uncertainty from medium range weather forecasts (10 days) through a rainfall-runoff model to flood inundation predictions within the European Flood Forecasting System (EFFS)

    F. Pappenberger;K. J. Beven;N. M. Hunter;Paul D Bates

  • Progress in integration of remote sensing– derived flood extent and stage data and hydraulic models

    Guy Schumann;Paul D. Bates;Matthew S. Horritt;Patrick Matgen

  • Operational early warning systems for water-related hazards in Europe

    Lorenzo Alfieri;Peter Salamon;Florian Pappenberger;Fredrik Wetterhall

  • Multi-method global sensitivity analysis of flood inundation models.

    Florian Pappenberger;Keith J. Beven;Keith J. Beven;Marco Ratto;Patrick Matgen

  • GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979–present

    Shaun Harrigan;Ervin Zsoter;Lorenzo Alfieri;Christel Prudhomme;Christel Prudhomme

  • Impacts of uncertain river flow data on rainfall‐runoff model calibration and discharge predictions

    Hilary McMillan;Jim Freer;Florian Pappenberger;Tobias Krueger

  • Technical review of large-scale hydrological models for implementation in operational flood forecasting schemes on continental level

    A. Kauffeldt;F. Wetterhall;F. Pappenberger;P. Salamon

  • The Monetary Benefit of Early Flood Warnings in Europe

    Florian Pappenberger;Florian Pappenberger;Hannah L. Cloke;Dennis J. Parker;Fredrik Wetterhall

  • Development of a European flood forecasting system

    Ad P.J. de Roo;Ben Gouweleeuw;Jutta Thielen;Jens Bartholmes

  • Continental and global scale flood forecasting systems

    Rebecca E. Emerton;Rebecca E. Emerton;Elisabeth M. Stephens;Florian Pappenberger;Thomas C. Pagano

  • Assessing heat-related health risk in Europe via the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI)

    Claudia Di Napoli;Florian Pappenberger;Hannah L. Cloke

  • The TIGGE Project and Its Achievements

    Richard Swinbank;Masayuki Kyouda;Piers Buchanan;Lizzie Froude

  • A first large-scale flood inundation forecasting model

    G. J.-P. Schumann;Jeff Neal;N. Voisin;K. M. Andreadis

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannah Cloke
Hannah Cloke University of Reading
Fredrik Wetterhall
Fredrik Wetterhall European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Emanuel Dutra
Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Peter Salamon
Peter Salamon Universitat Politècnica de València
Keith Beven
Keith Beven Lancaster University
Christel Prudhomme
Christel Prudhomme European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Patrick Matgen
Patrick Matgen Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Lorenzo Alfieri
Lorenzo Alfieri European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Roberto Buizza
Roberto Buizza Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

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