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Hylke E. Beck is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

Their work encompasses several main topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Among the recent publications by Hylke E. Beck are:

  • High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901-2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections, 2023, Scientific Data
  • Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Beck include Ming Pan, Eric F. Wood, Noemi Vergopolan, Justin Sheffield, and Tim R. McVicar. These collaborations highlight interdisciplinary approaches within hydrological and environmental science research.

Beck's publications have often appeared in notable scientific journals and outlets, such as Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Scientific Data, and Water Resources Research.

  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Data
  • Water Resources Research

Their research contributes to understanding environmental processes and advancing methods in the measurement and modeling of climate and hydrological phenomena. The work spans methodological developments, such as assessing soil moisture and precipitation data quality, to broader climate model evaluations and global change analyses.

Best Publications

  • Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution

    Hylke E. Beck;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Noemi Vergopolan

  • GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture

    Brecht Martens;Diego G. Miralles;Diego G. Miralles;Hans Lievens;Hans Lievens;Robin van der Schalie

  • The Millennium Drought in southeast Australia (2001–2009): Natural and human causes and implications for water resources, ecosystems, economy, and society

    Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Hylke E. Beck;Russell S. Crosbie;Richard A. M. de Jeu

  • MSWEP V2 Global 3-Hourly 0.1° Precipitation: Methodology and Quantitative Assessment

    Hylke E. Beck;Eric F. Wood;Ming Pan;Colby K. Fisher

  • MSWEP: 3-hourly 0.25° global gridded precipitation (1979–2015) by merging gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data

    Hylke E. Beck;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Vincenzo Levizzani;Jaap Schellekens

  • Global-scale evaluation of 22 precipitation datasets using gauge observations and hydrological modeling

    Hylke E. Beck;Noemi Vergopolan;Ming Pan;Vincenzo Levizzani

  • Daily evaluation of 26 precipitation datasets using Stage-IV gauge-radar data for the CONUS

    Hylke E. Beck;Ming Pan;Tirthankar Roy;Graham P. Weedon

  • Global-scale regionalization of hydrologic model parameters

    Hylke E. Beck;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Ad de Roo;Diego G. Miralles

  • Satellite Remote Sensing for Water Resources Management: Potential for Supporting Sustainable Development in Data-Poor Regions

    J. Sheffield;Eric F. Wood;M. Pan;H. Beck

  • Global evaluation of four AVHRR–NDVI data sets: Intercomparison and assessment against Landsat imagery

    Hylke E. Beck;Tim R. McVicar;Albert I.J.M. van Dijk;Jaap Schellekens

  • Global Reconstruction of Naturalized River Flows at 2.94 Million Reaches

    Peirong Lin;Ming Pan;Hylke E. Beck;Yuan Yang;Yuan Yang

  • El Niño-La Niña cycle and recent trends in continental evaporation

    Diego G. Miralles;Martinus J. van den Berg;John H. Gash;Robert M. Parinussa

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Differentiable modelling to unify machine learning and physical models for geosciences

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  • Global patterns in base flow index and recession based on streamflow observations from 3394 catchments

    Hylke E. Beck;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Diego G. Miralles;Richard A. M. de Jeu

  • Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors

    Hylke E. Beck;Ming Pan;Diego G. Miralles;Rolf H. Reichle

  • Global evaluation of runoff from 10 state-of-the-art hydrological models

    Hylke E. Beck;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Ad de Roo;Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra

  • Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network

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  • RF-MEP: A novel random forest method for merging gridded precipitation products and ground-based measurements

    Oscar M. Baez-Villanueva;Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini;Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini;Hylke E. Beck;Ian McNamara

  • A global water resources ensemble of hydrological models: The eartH2Observe Tier-1 dataset

    Jaap Schellekens;Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra;Alberto Martínez-de la Torre;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • Publisher Correction: Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution.

    Hylke E. Beck;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Noemi Vergopolan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Tim R. McVicar
Tim R. McVicar Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Albert van Dijk
Albert van Dijk Australian National University
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
Diego G. Miralles
Diego G. Miralles Ghent University
George J. Huffman
George J. Huffman Goddard Space Flight Center
Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma

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