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42
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8572
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7315
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Fredrik Wetterhall publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fredrik Wetterhall sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 128 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Fredrik Wetterhall D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fredrik Wetterhall sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Fredrik Wetterhall is affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their scholarly work covers topics that include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate variability and models
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Fire dynamics and safety research

Fredrik Wetterhall has published in several academic venues, notably:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Scientific Data
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Earth system science data
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Francesca Di Giuseppe
  • Christopher Barnard
  • Ilias Pechlivanidis
  • Peter Salamon
  • Florian Pappenberger

Selected recent papers by Fredrik Wetterhall are:

  • Europe faces up to tenfold increase in extreme fires in a warming climate, 2024, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Advances in the Application and Utility of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Predictions, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979-present, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Ensemble flood forecasting: Current status and future opportunities, 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Hydrological drought forecasts outperform meteorological drought forecasts, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Precipitation downscaling under climate change: Recent developments to bridge the gap between dynamical models and the end user

    Douglas Maraun;Douglas Maraun;F. Wetterhall;A. M. Ireson;R. E. Chandler

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

    Lorenzo Alfieri;Peter Salamon;Florian Pappenberger;Fredrik Wetterhall

  • Distribution-based scaling to improve usability of regional climate model projections for hydrological climate change impacts studies

    Wei Yang;Johan Andréasson;L. Phil Graham;Jonas Olsson

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

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

  • 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

  • Evaluation of different downscaling techniques for hydrological climate-change impact studies at the catchment scale

    Claudia Teutschbein;Fredrik Wetterhall;Fredrik Wetterhall;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert

  • Ensemble flood forecasting: Current status and future opportunities

    Wenyan Wu;Rebecca Emerton;Qingyun Duan;Andrew W. Wood

  • Deriving global flood hazard maps of fluvial floods through a physical model cascade

    F. Pappenberger;F. Pappenberger;E. Dutra;F. Wetterhall;H. L. Cloke;H. L. Cloke

  • TOWARD GLOBAL DROUGHT EARLY WARNING CAPABILITY Expanding International Cooperation for the Development of a Framework for Monitoring and Forecasting

    Will Pozzi;Justin Sheffield;Robert Stefanski;Douglas Cripe

  • How do I know if my forecasts are better? Using benchmarks in hydrological ensemble prediction

    F. Pappenberger;F. Pappenberger;F. Pappenberger;M. H. Ramos;H. L. Cloke;F. Wetterhall

  • Skilful seasonal forecasts of streamflow over Europe

    Louise Arnal;Louise Arnal;Hannah L. Cloke;Elisabeth Stephens;Fredrik Wetterhall

  • Statistical precipitation downscaling in central Sweden with the analogue method

    Fredrik Wetterhall;Sven Halldin;Chong-yu Xu

  • Evaluation of ensemble streamflow predictions in Europe

    Lorenzo Alfieri;Florian Pappenberger;Fredrik Wetterhall;Thomas Haiden

  • Advances in the application and utility of subseasonal-to-seasonal predictions

    Christopher J. White;Daniela I. V. Domeisen;Nachiketa Acharya;Elijah A. Adefisan

  • Daily precipitation‐downscaling techniques in three Chinese regions

    Fredrik Wetterhall;Fredrik Wetterhall;András Bárdossy;Deliang Chen;Deliang Chen;Sven Halldin

  • Modelling climate impact on floods with ensemble climate projections

    Hannah L. Cloke;Hannah L. Cloke;Frederik Wetterhall;Yi He;Jim E. Freer

  • Tracking the uncertainty in flood alerts driven by grand ensemble weather predictions

    Y He;F Wetterhall;H.L Cloke;Florian Pappenberger

  • Visualizing probabilistic flood forecast information: expert preferences and perceptions of best practice in uncertainty communication

    Florian Pappenberger;Elisabeth M. Stephens;Jutta Thielen;Peter Salamon

  • The Potential Predictability of Fire Danger Provided by Numerical Weather Prediction

    Francesca Di Giuseppe;Florian Pappenberger;Fredrik Wetterhall;Blazej Krzeminski

  • Forecasting droughts in East Africa

    E. Mwangi;F. Wetterhall;E. Dutra;F. Di Giuseppe

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Pappenberger
Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Hannah Cloke
Hannah Cloke University of Reading
Emanuel Dutra
Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Sven Halldin
Sven Halldin Uppsala University
Andrew W. Wood
Andrew W. Wood National Center for Atmospheric Research
Christel Prudhomme
Christel Prudhomme European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Chong-Yu Xu
Chong-Yu Xu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
Peter Salamon
Peter Salamon Universitat Politècnica de València
Lorenzo Alfieri
Lorenzo Alfieri European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Jim Freer
Jim Freer University of Bristol

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