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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
100
Citations
34032
World Ranking
133
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Hubert H. G. Savenije is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a significant contribution to subfields such as global and planetary change, water science and technology, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, and ecology.

The research topics covered by Savenije include hydrology and watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, geophysics and gravity measurements, hydrology and sediment transport processes, soil moisture and remote sensing, and soil erosion and sediment transport.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Savenije include Markus Hrachowitz, Fabrizio Fenicia, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Hessel Winsemius, and Hongkai Gao, indicating a broad and active research network.

Savenije has published multiple papers in notable scientific journals. Recent papers include:

  • Improving the Predictive Skill of a Distributed Hydrological Model by Calibration on Spatial Patterns With Multiple Satellite Data Sets, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Behind the scenes of streamflow model performance, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Improved Understanding of the Link Between Catchment-Scale Vegetation Accessible Storage and Satellite-Derived Soil Water Index, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Ecosystem adaptation to climate change: the sensitivity of hydrological predictions to time-dynamic model parameters, 2022, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Revisiting wind speed measurements using actively heated fiber optics: a wind tunnel study, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

These publications are spread across several frequent venues where Savenije has appeared, including Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Water Resources Research, Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, Science Bulletin, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

In the course of their career, Savenije has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2014, reflecting a professional standing within the geophysical science community.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Socio‐hydrology: A new science of people and water

    Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan;Hubert H. G. Savenije;Günter Blöschl

  • The water footprint of cotton consumption: An assessment of the impact of worldwide consumption of cotton products on the water resources in the cotton producing countries

    Ashok Chapagain;Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra;H.H.G. Savenije;R. Gautam

  • Origin and fate of atmospheric moisture over continents

    Rudi J. van der Ent;Hubert H. G. Savenije;Bettina Schaefli;Susan C. Steele-Dunne

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022

    A. Montanari;G. Young;H.H.G. Savenije;D.A. Hughes

  • Runoff prediction in ungauged basins: Synthesis across processes, places and scales

    Günter Blöschl;Murugesu Sivapalan;Thorsten Wagener;Alberto Viglione

  • Water saving through international trade of agricultural products

    Ashok Chapagain;Ashok Chapagain;Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra;H.H.G. Savenije;H.H.G. Savenije

  • The importance of interception and why we should delete the term evapotranspiration from our vocabulary

    Hubert H. G. Savenije

  • Elements of a flexible approach for conceptual hydrological modeling : 1. Motivation and theoretical development

    Fabrizio Fenicia;Dmitri Kavetski;Hubert H. G. Savenije

  • Water as an Economic Good and Demand Management Paradigms with Pitfalls

    Hubert H.G. Savenije;Pieter van der Zaag

  • Towards an automated SAR-based flood monitoring system: Lessons learned from two case studies

    P. Matgen;R. Hostache;G. Schumann;L. Pfister

  • What can flux tracking teach us about water age distribution patterns and their temporal dynamics

    Markus Hrachowitz;H. Savenije;H. Savenije;T. A. Bogaard;T. A. Bogaard;D. Tetzlaff

  • Integrated water resources management: concepts and issues

    H.H.G. Savenije;H.H.G. Savenije;P. Van der Zaag;P. Van der Zaag

  • Understanding catchment behavior through stepwise model concept improvement

    Fabrizio Fenicia;Hubert H. G. Savenije;Patrick Matgen;Laurent Pfister

  • Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China

    J. Liu;H. H. G. Savenije;H. H. G. Savenije

  • The unfolding water drama in the Anthropocene: towards a resilience-based perspective on water for global sustainability

    Johan Rockström;Malin Falkenmark;T. Allan;Carl Folke

  • Spatial and temporal variability of canopy and forest floor interception in a beech forest

    A. M. J. Gerrits;L. Pfister;H. H. G. Savenije

  • A simple approach to assess water scarcity integrating water quantity and quality

    Zhao Zeng;Junguo Liu;Hubert H.G. Savenije

  • Learning from model improvement: On the contribution of complementary data to process understanding

    Fabrizio Fenicia;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Hubert H. G. Savenije

  • 139. Water as an Economic Good and Demand Management Paradigms with Pitfalls

    Hubert H.G. Savenije;Pieter van der Zaag

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Hrachowitz
Markus Hrachowitz Delft University of Technology
Stefan Uhlenbrook
Stefan Uhlenbrook International Water Management Institute
Hessel Winsemius
Hessel Winsemius Delft University of Technology
Laurent Pfister
Laurent Pfister Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Demetris Koutsoyiannis National Technical University of Athens
Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart

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