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James C. Bathurst is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with a demonstrated specialization in hydrology and watershed management studies. The scientist has contributed significantly to related subfields such as global and planetary change, water science and technology, atmospheric science, ecology, and environmental engineering.

Bathurst has published extensively on topics including flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and drought analysis, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, hydrology and sediment transport processes, and hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence.

The scientist's recent publications have appeared in the journal Hydrological Processes. These include the following papers:

  • Forests and floods: Using field evidence to reconcile analysis methods (2020, Hydrological Processes)
  • Forest operations, tree species composition and decline in rainfall explain runoff changes in the Nacimiento experimental catchments, south central Chile (2021, Hydrological Processes)
  • Partial afforestation has uncertain effect on flood frequency and peak discharge at large catchment scales (100-1000 km2), south-central Chile (2022, Hydrological Processes)
  • Leaky dams augment afforestation to mitigate catchment scale flooding (2023, Hydrological Processes)

Among frequent co-authors, Bathurst has collaborated with Andrés Iroumé, Julia Jones, B. D. Fahey, Hannah Hagon, and Frederick Hambly Barton.

The consistent publication venue for Bathurst's recent work is Hydrological Processes, showing a focused contribution within this journal.

Best Publications

  • An introduction to the European Hydrological System — Systeme Hydrologique Europeen, “SHE”, 1: History and philosophy of a physically-based, distributed modelling system

    M.B. Abbott;J.C. Bathurst;J.A. Cunge;P.E. O'Connell

  • An introduction to the European Hydrological System — Systeme Hydrologique Europeen, “SHE”, 2: Structure of a physically-based, distributed modelling system

    M.B. Abbott;J.C. Bathurst;J.A. Cunge;P.E. O'Connell

  • Flow Resistance Estimation in Mountain Rivers

    James C. Bathurst

  • Land use change impacts on floods at the catchment scale : challenges and opportunities for future research

    M. Rogger;M. Agnoletti;A. Alaoui;J.C. Bathurst

  • Sediment transport in gravel-bed rivers

    C. R. Thorne;J. C. Bathurst;R. D. Hey

  • Secondary Flow and Shear Stress at River Bends

    James C. Bathurst;Richard D. Hey;Colin R. Thorne

  • SHESED: a physically based, distributed erosion and sediment yield component for the SHE hydrological modelling system

    J.M. Wicks;J.C. Bathurst

  • Flow Resistance of Large-Scale Roughness

    James C. Bathurst

  • Physically-based distributed modelling of an upland catchment using the Systeme Hydrologique Europeen

    James C. Bathurst

  • Physically based modelling of shallow landslide sediment yield at a catchment scale

    A. Burton;J. C. Bathurst

  • Resistance Equation for Large-Scale Roughness

    James C. Bathurst;Daryl B. Simons;Ruh-Ming Li

  • Direct measurements of secondary currents in river bends

    J. C. Bathurst;C. R. Thorne;R. D. Hey

  • At-a-site variation and minimum flow resistance for mountain rivers

    J.C. Bathurst

  • Future of distributed modelling: The Systeme Hydrologique Europeen

    J. C. Bathurst;P. E. O'Connell

  • Effect of Pinus radiata plantations on water balance in Chile

    Anton Huber;Andrés Iroumé;James Bathurst

  • The SHE/SHESED basin scale water flow and sediment transport modelling system.

    J. C. Bathurst;J. M. Wicks;P. E. O'Connell;V. P. Singh

  • VALIDATION OF CATCHMENT MODELS FOR PREDICTING LAND-USE AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS. : 2. CASE STUDY FOR A MEDITERRANEAN CATCHMENT

    G Parkin;GM O'Donnell;J Ewen;JC Bathurst

  • Sensitivity analysis of the Systeme Hydrologique Europeen for an upland catchment

    James C. Bathurst

  • Effect of Coarse Surface Layer on Bed-Load Transport

    James C. Bathurst

  • Validation of catchment models for predicting land-use and climate change impacts. 3. Blind validation for internal and outlet responses

    J.C Bathurst;J Ewen;G Parkin;P.E O'Connell

  • Gravel-Bed Rivers: Fluvial Processes, Engineering and Management

    R. D. Hey;J. C. Bathurst;C. R. Thorne

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrés Iroumé
Andrés Iroumé Austral University of Chile
Chris Kilsby
Chris Kilsby Newcastle University
Colin R. Thorne
Colin R. Thorne University of Nottingham
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
Daryl B. Simons
Daryl B. Simons Colorado State University
José María García-Ruiz
José María García-Ruiz Spanish National Research Council
Francesc Gallart
Francesc Gallart Spanish National Research Council
Santiago Beguería
Santiago Beguería Spanish National Research Council
Marco Borga
Marco Borga University of Padua
Julia A. Jones
Julia A. Jones Oregon State University

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