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Jens Christian Refsgaard is affiliated with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions across various subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their work encompasses a range of topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Integrated Water Resources Management, and Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jens Christian Refsgaard include Simon Stisen, Torben O. Sonnenborg, Julian Koch, Ida Karlsson Seidenfaden, and Christen Duus Børgesen.

Refsgaard has published multiple papers in notable venues. Key recent publications include:

  • Hydrological process knowledge in catchment modelling - Lessons and perspectives from 60 years development, 2021, Hydrological Processes
  • Nitrate Management Discourses in Poland and Denmark-Laggards or Leaders in Water Quality Protection?, 2020, Water
  • Impacts of land use, climate change and hydrological model structure on nitrate fluxes: Magnitudes and uncertainties, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Quantifying stratigraphic uncertainty in groundwater modelling for infrastructure design, 2021, Hydrogeology Journal
  • The effect of weighting hydrological projections based on the robustness of hydrological models under a changing climate, 2022, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

The scientist regularly publishes in several journals including the Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Processes, Water, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies, and Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Uncertainty in the environmental modelling process - A framework and guidance

    Jens Christian Refsgaard;Jeroen P. van der Sluijs;Anker Lajer Højberg;Peter A. Vanrolleghem

  • Parameterisation, calibration and validation of distributed hydrological models

    Jens Christian Refsgaard

  • Operational Validation and Intercomparison of Different Types of Hydrological Models

    Jens Christian Refsgaard;Jesper Knudsen

  • A framework for dealing with uncertainty due to model structure error

    Jens Christian Refsgaard;Jeroen P. van der Sluijs;James Brown;Peter van der Keur

  • Modelling guidelines––terminology and guiding principles

    Jens Christian Refsgaard;Hans Jørgen Henriksen

  • The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Jan Dierking;Helen C. Andersson;Erik Bonsdorff

  • Methodology for construction, calibration and validation of a national hydrological model for Denmark

    Hans Jørgen Henriksen;Lars Troldborg;Per Nyegaard;Torben Obel Sonnenborg

  • Distributed hydrological modelling.

    Michael B. Abbott;Jens Christian Refsgaard

  • Distributed hydrological modelling of the Senegal River Basin — model construction and validation

    Jens Andersen;Jens C Refsgaard;Karsten H Jensen

  • Assessing the effect of land use change on catchment runoff by combined use of statistical tests and hydrological modelling: Case studies from Zimbabwe

    Jens Kristian Lørup;Jens Kristian Lørup;Jens Christian Refsgaard;Dominic Mazvimavi

  • Construction, Calibration And Validation of Hydrological Models

    J. C. Refsgaard;B. Storm

  • Review of strategies for handling geological uncertainty in groundwater flow and transport modeling

    Jens Christian Refsgaard;Steen Christensen;Torben O. Sonnenborg;Dorte Seifert

  • Validation and Intercomparison of Different Updating Procedures for Real-Time Forecasting

    Jens Christian Refsgaard

  • Large scale modelling of groundwater contamination from nitrate leaching

    J.C. Refsgaard;M. Thorsen;J.B. Jensen;S. Kleeschulte

  • Effect of grid size on effective parameters and model performance of the MIKE‐SHE code

    R. F. Vázquez;L. Feyen;J. Feyen;J. C. Refsgaard

  • Quality assurance in model based water management - review of existing practice and outline of new approaches

    Jens Christian Refsgaard;Hans Jørgen Henriksen;William G. Harrar;Huub Scholten

  • Combined effects of climate models, hydrological model structures and land use scenarios on hydrological impacts of climate change

    Ida B. Karlsson;Torben O. Sonnenborg;Jens Christian Refsgaard;Dennis Trolle

  • Terminology, Modelling Protocol And Classification of Hydrological Model Codes

    J. C. Refsgaard

  • Review of classification systems and new multi-scale typology of groundwater–surface water interaction

    M. Dahl;B. Nilsson;J.H. Langhoff;J.C. Refsgaard

  • Incorporating remote sensing data in physically based distributed agro-hydrological modelling

    E Boegh;M Thorsen;M.B Butts;S Hansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Karsten Høgh Jensen
Karsten Høgh Jensen University of Copenhagen
Torben O. Sonnenborg
Torben O. Sonnenborg Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen University of Copenhagen
Henrik Madsen
Henrik Madsen Technical University of Denmark
Jørgen E. Olesen
Jørgen E. Olesen Aarhus University
Søren Hansen
Søren Hansen University of Copenhagen
René Therrien
René Therrien Université Laval
Morten Foldager Pedersen
Morten Foldager Pedersen Roskilde University
Hans Erik Bøtker
Hans Erik Bøtker Aarhus University Hospital
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University

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