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D-Index
57
Citations
11839
World Ranking
3451
National Ranking
264

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
  • Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

Overview

Hannah Cloke is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work primarily focuses on topics related to flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and watershed management studies, and climate variability and models.

Their most recent publications include:

  • 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
  • Don't blame the rain: Social power and the 2015-2017 drought in Cape Town, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • Evaluation of the ERA5 reanalysis-based Universal Thermal Climate Index on mortality data in Europe, 2021, Environmental Research
  • Recent Advances and New Frontiers in Riverine and Coastal Flood Modeling, 2023, Reviews of Geophysics

Frequent co-authors working with Hannah Cloke include:

  • Florian Pappenberger
  • Christel Prudhomme
  • Elisabeth Stephens
  • Ervin Zsótér
  • Giuliano Di Baldassarre

Hannah Cloke has published repeatedly in several venues, including:

  • Journal of Flood Risk Management
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • CentAUR (University of Reading)

The main fields of study represented in their work are Environmental Science with 120 publications and Earth and Planetary Sciences with 41 publications. Subfields within these areas include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Sociology and Political Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Main topics covered by their research are:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Hannah Cloke has been recognized as a Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), reflecting their engagement with meteorological and forecasting communities.

Best Publications

  • Ensemble flood forecasting: a review.

    Hannah Cloke;F. Pappenberger

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

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

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

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

  • The Monetary Benefit of Early Flood Warnings in Europe

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ensemble predictions and perceptions of risk, uncertainty, and error in flood forecasting

    David Demeritt;Hannah Cloke;Florian Pappenberger;Jutta Thielen

  • ERA5-HEAT: a global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis

    Claudia Di Napoli;Christopher Barnard;Christel Prudhomme;Christel Prudhomme;Hannah L. Cloke

  • Detection of flooded urban areas in high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar images using double scattering

    David C. Mason;Laura Giustarini;Javier García-Pintado;Hannah L. Cloke

  • 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

  • Comment on:"Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water" by Eric F. Wood et al.

    Keith J. Beven;Keith J. Beven;Keith J. Beven;Hannah L. Cloke

  • Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anna Agusti-Panareda;Clement Albergel;Gabriele Arduini

  • Challenges of operational river forecasting

    Thomas C. Pagano;Andrew W. Wood;Maria-Helena Ramos;Hannah L. Cloke

  • The 2010–2011 drought in the Horn of Africa in ECMWF reanalysis and seasonal forecast products

    Emanuel Dutra;Linus Magnusson;Frederik. Wetterhall;Hannah L. Cloke;Hannah L. Cloke

  • New dimensions in early flood warning across the globe using grand-ensemble weather predictions

    Florian Pappenberger;Jens Bartholmes;Jutta Thielen;Hannah L. Cloke

  • Modelling climate impact on floods with ensemble climate projections

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

  • Assessing the performance of global hydrological models for capturing peak river flows in the Amazon basin

    Jamie Towner;Hannah L. Cloke;Ervin Zsoter;Zachary Flamig

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

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

  • Challenges in communicating and using ensembles in operational flood forecasting

    David Demeritt;Sébastien Nobert;Hannah Cloke;Florian Pappenberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Pappenberger
Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Fredrik Wetterhall
Fredrik Wetterhall European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Christel Prudhomme
Christel Prudhomme European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Jim Freer
Jim Freer University of Bristol
Peter Salamon
Peter Salamon Universitat Politècnica de València
Emanuel Dutra
Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Joaquin Munoz-Sabater
Joaquin Munoz-Sabater European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol
David C. Mason
David C. Mason University of Reading
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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