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Jens M. Turowski

Jens M. Turowski

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Earth Science

D-Index
49
Citations
6828
World Ranking
3696
National Ranking
255

Overview

Jens M. Turowski is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields such as Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Earth-Surface Processes, Soil Science, and Geophysics.

The scientist's work concentrates on key topics including Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Landslides and related hazards, Geological formations and processes, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques.

Turowski has contributed multiple times to several publication venues. Frequent outlets for their research include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Water Resources Research
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Nature Communications

Collaboration plays an important role in their scholarly output. Notable frequent co-authors encompass:

  • Ci-Jian Yang
  • Hui Tang
  • Ron Nativ
  • Michael Dietze
  • Jonathan B. Laronne

Their recent publications cover diverse aspects of earth surface and environmental sciences and include the following papers:

  • "Constraining tectonic uplift and advection from the main drainage divide of a mountain belt," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The role of infrequently mobile boulders in modulating landscape evolution and geomorphic hazards," 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Deriving Debris-Flow Dynamics From Real-Time Impact-Force Measurements," 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • "A digital-twin platform for cryospheric disaster warning," 2024, National Science Review
  • "Mass balance, grade, and adjustment timescales in bedrock channels," 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics

Best Publications

  • The partitioning of the total sediment load of a river into suspended load and bedload: a review of empirical data

    Jens M. Turowski;Dieter Rickenmann;Simon J. Dadson

  • The impact of exceptional events on erosion, bedload transport and channel stability in a step-pool channel

    Jens M. Turowski;Elowyn M. Yager;Alexandre Badoux;Dieter Rickenmann

  • Cover effect in bedrock abrasion : A new derivation and its implications for the modeling of bedrock channel morphology

    Jens M. Turowski;Jens M. Turowski;Dimitri Lague;Dimitri Lague;Niels Hovius

  • Bedload transport measurements at the Erlenbach stream with geophones and automated basket samplers

    Dieter Rickenmann;Jens M. Turowski;Bruno Fritschi;Angela Klaiber

  • Distribution of erosion across bedrock channels

    Jens M. Turowski;Niels Hovius;Hsieh Meng-Long;Dimitri Lague

  • Hydraulic geometry, river sediment and the definition of bedrock channels

    Jens M. Turowski;Niels Hovius;Andrew Wilson;Ming-Jame Horng

  • Evaluation of bedload transport predictions using flow resistance equations to account for macro-roughness in steep mountain streams

    Manuel Nitsche;Dieter Rickenmann;Jens M. Turowski;Alexandre Badoux

  • Start and end of bedload transport in gravel-bed streams

    Jens M. Turowski;Alexandre Badoux;Dieter Rickenmann

  • A demonstration of the importance of bedload transport for fluvial bedrock erosion and knickpoint propagation

    Kristen L. Cook;Jens M. Turowski;Niels Hovius

  • Bedload transport measurements with impact plate geophones: comparison of sensor calibration in different gravel‐bed streams

    Dieter Rickenmann;Jens M. Turowski;Bruno Fritschi;Carlos Wyss

  • Sediment supply, grain protrusion, and bedload transport in mountain streams

    E. M. Yager;J. M. Turowski;D. Rickenmann;B. W. McArdell

  • Long-term erosion of the Nepal Himalayas by bedrock landsliding: the role of monsoons, earthquakes and giant landslides

    Odin Marc;Robert Behling;Christoff Andermann;Jens Turowski

  • Tools and cover effects in bedload transport observations in the Pitzbach, Austria

    Jens M. Turowski;Dieter Rickenmann

  • Seismic monitoring of torrential and fluvial processes

    Arnaud Burtin;Niels Hovius;Jens M. Turowski

  • Bed load sediment transport inferred from seismic signals near a river

    Danica L. Roth;Emily E. Brodsky;Noah J. Finnegan;Dieter. Rickenmann

  • Experimental channel response to tectonic uplift

    Jens M. Turowski;Dimitri Lague;Alain Crave;Niels Hovius

  • Analysis of changes in the step-pool morphology and channel profile of a steep mountain stream following a large flood

    Peter Molnar;Alexander L. Densmore;Brian W. McArdell;Jens M. Turowski

  • Runoff-driven export of particulate organic carbon from soil in temperate forested uplands

    Joanne C. Smith;Albert Galy;Niels Hovius;Andrew M. Tye

  • Scaling relationships between bed load volumes, transport distances, and stream power in steep mountain channels

    Johannes M. Schneider;Jens M. Turowski;Dieter Rickenmann;Ramon Hegglin

  • Measuring Bed Load Transport Rates by Grain-Size Fraction Using the Swiss Plate Geophone Signal at the Erlenbach

    Carlos R. Wyss;Dieter Rickenmann;Bruno Fritschi;Jens M. Turowski

  • The partitioning of the total sediment load of a river into suspended load and bedload

    J. M. Turowski;D. Rickenmann;S. J. Dadson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Rickenmann
Dieter Rickenmann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Niels Hovius
Niels Hovius University of Potsdam
Brian W. McArdell
Brian W. McArdell Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Michael C. Dietze
Michael C. Dietze Boston University
Dimitri Lague
Dimitri Lague University of Rennes
Jonathan B. Laronne
Jonathan B. Laronne Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva
Massimiliano Zappa
Massimiliano Zappa Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Peter Molnar
Peter Molnar University of Colorado Boulder

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