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Switzerland
2022

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Earth Science

D-Index
88
Citations
27849
World Ranking
308
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Jan Seibert is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland, focusing primarily on environmental science with a specialization in hydrology. Their research is concentrated in the subfields of water science and technology, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and ecology.

Their scholarly work spans a range of topics within hydrology, particularly in watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, cryospheric studies and observations, drought analysis, hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence, groundwater flow and contamination studies, and climate change impacts on permafrost.

Seibert has contributed to numerous publications, many of which appear in key journals and venues including Hydrological Processes, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Hydrological Sciences Journal, and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water.

Frequent collaborators in Seibert's work include Ilja van Meerveld, Barbara Strobl, Simon Etter, Maria Staudinger, and Marc Vis, highlighting sustained research partnerships that contribute to the multidisciplinary nature of their studies.

Recent significant papers by Jan Seibert include:

  • Toward catchment hydro-biogeochemical theories (2020), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Progressive water deficits during multiyear droughts in basins with long hydrological memory in Chile (2021), Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Global Fully Distributed Parameter Regionalization Based on Observed Streamflow From 4,229 Headwater Catchments (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Enhanced genome assembly and a new official gene set for Tribolium castaneum (2020), BMC Genomics
  • Glacio-hydrological model calibration and evaluation (2020), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Best Publications

  • Bias correction of regional climate model simulations for hydrological climate-change impact studies: Review and evaluation of different methods

    Claudia Teutschbein;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert

  • On the calculation of the topographic wetness index: evaluation of different methods based on field observations

    Rasmus Sörensen;Ursula Zinko;Jan Seibert

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

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

  • The role of topography on catchment-scale water residence time

    K.J. McGuire;K.J. McGuire;Jeffery J. McDonnell;M. Weiler;C. Kendall

  • On the dialog between experimentalist and modeler in catchment hydrology: Use of soft data for multicriteria model calibration

    Jan Seibert;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Teaching hydrological modeling with a user-friendly catchment-runoff-model software package

    Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert;Marc J P Vis

  • Regionalisation of parameters for a conceptual rainfall-runoff model.

    Jan Seibert

  • A new triangular multiple flow direction algorithm for computing upslope areas from gridded digital elevation models

    Jan Seibert;Brian L. McGlynn

  • Multi-criteria calibration of a conceptual runoff model using a genetic algorithm

    J. Seibert

  • Regional Climate Models for Hydrological Impact Studies at the Catchment Scale: A Review of Recent Modeling Strategies

    Claudia Teutschbein;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert

  • Is bias correction of regional climate model (RCM) simulations possible for non-stationary conditions?

    Claudia Teutschbein;Claudia Teutschbein;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert

  • Resolving the Double Paradox of rapidly mobilized old water with highly variable responses in runoff chemistry

    Kevin Bishop;Jan Seibert;Stephan Jürgen Köhler;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Topographical influences on soil properties in boreal forests

    Jan Seibert;Johan Stendahl;Rasmus Sørensen

  • Prediction uncertainty of conceptual rainfall-runoff models caused by problems in identifying model parameters and structure

    Stefan Uhlenbrook;Jan Seibert;Christian Leibundgut;Allan Rodhe

  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

  • Modeling spatial patterns of saturated areas: A comparison of the topographic wetness index and a dynamic distributed model

    T Grabs;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert;K Bishop;H Laudon

  • Estimation of parameter uncertainty in the HBV model: Paper presented at the Nordic Hydrological Conference (Akureyri, Iceland-August 1996)

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  • Effects of DEM resolution on the calculation of topographical indices: TWI and its components

    Rasmus Sørensen;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert

  • Aqua Incognita: the unknown headwaters

    Kevin H Bishop;Ishi Buffam;M Erlandsson;J Fölster

  • How does landscape structure influence catchment transit time across different geomorphic provinces

    D. Tetzlaff;J. Seibert;K.J. McGuire;H. Laudon

  • Gauging the ungauged basin: how many discharge measurements are needed?

    J. Seibert;J. Seibert;Keith J. Beven;Keith J. Beven

  • A new topographic index to quantify downslope controls on local drainage

    K N Hjerdt;J J McDonnell;Jan Seibert;Allan Rodhe

Frequent Co-Authors

Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Markus Weiler
Markus Weiler University of Freiburg
Kerstin Stahl
Kerstin Stahl University of Freiburg
Steve W. Lyon
Steve W. Lyon The Ohio State University
Sven Halldin
Sven Halldin Uppsala University
Doerthe Tetzlaff
Doerthe Tetzlaff Leibniz Association
Chris Soulsby
Chris Soulsby University of Aberdeen
Keith Beven
Keith Beven Lancaster University

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