2026 Hessel Winsemius: 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	53	4167	3988	107	102	227	14410

Overview

Hessel Winsemius is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable work in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hessel Winsemius include:

Philip J. Ward
Dirk Eilander
Dai Yamazaki
Albrecht Weerts
H. H. G. Savenije

Publication venues where their research is frequently published encompass:

Natural hazards and earth system sciences
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Journal of Flood Risk Management
Hydrology and earth system sciences
Scientific Reports

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Hessel Winsemius include:

"Review article: Natural hazard risk assessments at the global scale" (2020), published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
"Measuring compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes at the global scale" (2020), published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
"Global-scale benefit-cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures" (2020), published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
"The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally" (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters
"Cutting the costs of coastal protection by integrating vegetation in flood defences" (2021), published in Nature Communications

Best Publications

A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

1379
Citations
Global drivers of future river flood risk

Hessel C. Winsemius;Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts;Ludovicus P.H. van Beek;Marc F.P. Bierkens

1123
Citations
A global reanalysis of storm surges and extreme sea levels

Sanne Muis;Martin Verlaan;Hessel C. Winsemius;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

776
Citations
A framework for global river flood risk assessments

H. C. Winsemius;L. P. H. Van Beek;B. Jongman;P. J. Ward

489
Citations
Declining vulnerability to river floods and the global benefits of adaptation

Brenden Jongman;Hessel C. Winsemius;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts;Erin Coughlan de Perez;Erin Coughlan de Perez

487
Citations
Earth's surface water change over the past 30 years

Gennadii Donchyts;Fedor Baart;Hessel C. Winsemius;Noel Gorelick

480
Citations
Assessing flood risk at the global scale: model setup, results, and sensitivity

Ph.J. Ward;B. Jongman;F.C. Sperna Weiland;A. Bouwman

441
Citations
Disaster risk, climate change, and poverty: assessing the global exposure of poor people to floods and droughts

Hessel C. Winsemius;Brenden Jongman;Ted I.E. Veldkamp;Stephane Hallegatte

417
Citations
Hyper-resolution global hydrological modelling: what is next?

Marc F. P. Bierkens;Victoria A. Bell;Peter Burek;Nathaniel Chaney

406
Citations
A global framework for future costs and benefits of river-flood protection in urban areas

Philip J. Ward;Brenden Jongman;Brenden Jongman;Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts;Paul D. Bates

379
Citations
FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards

Paolo Scussolini;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts;Brenden Jongman;Laurens M. Bouwer

333
Citations
Strong influence of El Niño Southern Oscillation on flood risk around the world

Philip J. Ward;Brenden Jongman;Matti Kummu;Michael D. Dettinger

329
Citations
Usefulness and limitations of global flood risk models

Philip J. Ward;Brenden Jongman;Brenden Jongman;Peter Salamon;Alanna Simpson

312
Citations
Measuring compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes at the global scale

Anaïs Couasnon;Dirk Eilander;Sanne Muis;Ted I. E. Veldkamp

298
Citations
Dependence between high sea-level and high river discharge increases flood hazard in global deltas and estuaries

Philip J Ward;Anaïs Couasnon;Dirk Eilander;Ivan D Haigh

294
Citations
Review article: Natural hazard risk assessments at the global scale

Philip J. Ward;Veit Blauhut;Nadia Bloemendaal;James E. Daniell

281
Citations
A framework to assess the realism of model structures using hydrological signatures

T. Euser;H. C. Winsemius;M. Hrachowitz;F. Fenicia

275
Citations
A 30 m Resolution Surface Water Mask Including Estimation of Positional and Thematic Differences Using Landsat 8, SRTM and OpenStreetMap: A Case Study in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Gennadii Donchyts;Jaap Schellekens;Hessel Winsemius;Elmar Eisemann

255
Citations
On the calibration of hydrological models in ungauged basins: A framework for integrating hard and soft hydrological information

H. C. Winsemius;Bettina Schaefli;A. Montanari;H. H. G. Savenije

248
Citations
The credibility challenge for global fluvial flood risk analysis

Mark Trigg;Cathryn Birch;Jeffrey Neal;Paul Bates

241
Citations
Estimation of predictive hydrological uncertainty using quantile regression: examples from the national flood forecasting system (England and Wales)

A. H. Weerts;H. C. Winsemius;J. S. Verkade

226
Citations
The design of an optimal filter for monthly GRACE gravity models

R. Klees;E. A. Revtova;B. C. Gunter;P. Ditmar

219
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology

Marc F. P. Bierkens Utrecht University

Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Markus Hrachowitz Delft University of Technology

Paul D Bates University of Bristol

Albrecht Weerts Wageningen University & Research

Dai Yamazaki University of Tokyo

Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Nick van de Giesen Delft University of Technology

External Links

Personal website of Hessel Winsemius

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