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Hannes Müller Schmied

Hannes Müller Schmied

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2025

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D-Index
35
Citations
7264
World Ranking
823
National Ranking
26

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
38
Citations
9488
World Ranking
8507
National Ranking
525

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Hannes Müller Schmied is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and focuses their research within Environmental Science, with 91 publications in this broad field. Their work spans multiple subfields, prominently Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Engineering.

The primary topics addressed in their research include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Climate Variability and Models, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change, 2021, Science
  • WFDE5: bias-adjusted ERA5 reanalysis data for impact studies, 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development

Among frequent co-authors in their collaborations are Simon N. Gosling, Naota Hanasaki, Yadu Pokhrel, Yusuke Satoh, and Yoshihide Wada.

Common publication venues for their research include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geoscientific Model Development, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature Water.

Best Publications

  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change

    Yadu Pokhrel;Farshid Felfelani;Yusuke Satoh;Yusuke Satoh;Julien Boulange

  • Global-scale assessment of groundwater depletion and related groundwater abstractions: Combining hydrological modeling with information from well observations and GRACE satellites

    Petra Döll;Hannes Müller Schmied;Carina Schuh;Felix T. Portmann

  • Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Zizhan Zhang;Himanshu Save;Alexander Y. Sun

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change

    Lukas Gudmundsson;Julien Boulange;Hong X. Do;Hong X. Do;Hong X. Do;Simon N. Gosling

  • WFDE5: bias adjusted ERA5 reanalysis data for impact studies

    Marco Cucchi;Graham P. Weedon;Alessandro Amici;Nicolas Bellouin

  • Recent global decline in endorheic basin water storages.

    Jida Wang;Chunqiao Song;Chunqiao Song;John T. Reager;Fangfang Yao

  • The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation

    Hannes Müller Schmied;Denise Cáceres;Stephanie Eisner;Martina Flörke

  • How is the impact of climate change on river flow regimes related to the impact on mean annual runoff? A global-scale analysis

    Petra Döll;Hannes Müller Schmied

  • Human–water interface in hydrological modelling : current status and future directions

    Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Ad de Roo;Paul A. Dirmeyer

  • State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

  • Calibration/Data Assimilation Approach for Integrating GRACE Data into the WaterGAP Global Hydrology Model (WGHM) Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter: First Results

    Annette Eicker;Maike Schumacher;Jürgen Kusche;Petra Döll

  • Variations of global and continental water balance components as impacted by climate forcing uncertainty and human water use

    Hannes Müller Schmied;Linda Adam;Stephanie Eisner;Gabriel Fink

  • Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales

    Stefan Lange;Jan Volkholz;Tobias Geiger;Tobias Geiger;Fang Zhao

  • Modelling Freshwater Resources at the Global Scale: Challenges and Prospects

    Petra Doll;Herve Douville;Andreas Guntner;Hannes Muller Schmied

  • Worldwide evaluation of mean and extreme runoff from six global-scale hydrological models that account for human impacts

    Jamal Zaherpour;Simon N Gosling;Nick Mount;Hannes Müller Schmied

  • Toward seamless hydrologic predictions across spatial scales

    Luis Samaniego;Rohini Kumar;Stephan Thober;Oldrich Rakovec

  • Comparison of Groundwater Storage Changes From GRACE Satellites With Monitoring and Modeling of Major U.S. Aquifers

    Ashraf Rateb;Bridget R. Scanlon;Donald R. Pool;Alexander Sun

  • Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study

    Robert Reinecke;Hannes Müller Schmied;Tim Trautmann;Lauren Seaby Andersen

  • Understanding each other's models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication

    Camelia-Eliza Telteu;Hannes Müller Schmied;Wim Thiery;Guoyong Leng

  • Seasonal Water Storage Variations as Impacted by Water Abstractions: Comparing the Output of a Global Hydrological Model with GRACE and GPS Observations

    Petra Döll;Mathias Fritsche;Annette Eicker;Hannes Müller Schmied

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra Döll
Petra Döll Goethe University Frankfurt
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Simon N. Gosling
Simon N. Gosling University of Nottingham
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Yadu Pokhrel
Yadu Pokhrel Michigan State University
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Naota Hanasaki
Naota Hanasaki National Institute for Environmental Studies
Manolis G. Grillakis
Manolis G. Grillakis Technical University of Crete
Stephanie Eisner
Stephanie Eisner University of Kassel
Jinfeng Chang
Jinfeng Chang Zhejiang University

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