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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
84
Citations
26800
World Ranking
789
National Ranking
66

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Jim Freer is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and specializes in environmental science, with a focus on hydrology and watershed management studies. Their research encompasses several subfields including global and planetary change, water science and technology, environmental engineering, ecology, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics related to flood risk, drought analysis, and hydrological processes. Notable papers include:

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, 2022, published in Nature
  • The Abuse of Popular Performance Metrics in Hydrologic Modeling, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • CAMELS-GB: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain, 2020, Earth system science data
  • A Brief Analysis of Conceptual Model Structure Uncertainty Using 36 Models and 559 Catchments, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • A history of TOPMODEL, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences

Freer frequently collaborates with a group of researchers including Gemma Coxon, Thorsten Wagener, Wouter Knoben, Martyn Clark, and Shervan Gharari. These co-authors contribute to advancing the study of hydrology and associated environmental sciences.

Publications by Freer appear predominantly in scientific outlets such as:

  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Water Resources Research
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Earth system science data
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Freer's research topics emphasize multiple aspects of hydrology including:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI

Best Publications

  • Equifinality, data assimilation, and uncertainty estimation in mechanistic modelling of complex environmental systems using the GLUE methodology

    Keith Beven;Jim Freer

  • Sensitivity analysis of environmental models

    Francesca Pianosi;Keith Beven;Jim Freer;Jim W. Hall

  • A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

    M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

  • Technical note: Inherent benchmark or not? Comparing Nash-Sutcliffe and Kling-Gupta efficiency scores

    Wouter J. M. Knoben;Wouter J. M. Knoben;Jim E. Freer;Ross A. Woods

  • Bayesian Estimation of Uncertainty in Runoff Prediction and the Value of Data: An Application of the GLUE Approach

    Jim Freer;Keith J. Beven;Bruno Ambroise

  • A high‐resolution global flood hazard model

    Christopher C. Sampson;Andrew M. Smith;Paul D. Bates;Jeffrey C. Neal

  • Benchmarking observational uncertainties for hydrology: rainfall, river discharge and water quality

    Hilary Mcmillan;Tobias Krueger;Jim E Freer

  • A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 1. Modeling concept

    Martyn P. Clark;Bart Nijssen;Jessica D. Lundquist;Dmitri Kavetski

  • A dynamic TOPMODEL

    Keith Beven;Jim Freer

  • Toward a generalization of the TOPMODEL concepts:Topographic indices of hydrological similarity

    Bruno Ambroise;Keith J. Beven;Jim Freer

  • Quantifying contributions to storm runoff through end-member mixing analysis and hydrologic measurements at the Panola Mountain Research Watershed (Georgia, USA).

    Douglas A. Burns;Jeffrey J. Mcdonnell;Richard P. Hooper;Norman E. Peters

  • The role of bedrock topography on subsurface storm flow

    Jim Freer;Jeffery J. McDonnell;K.J. Beven;N.E. Peters

  • So just why would a modeller choose to be incoherent

    Keith J. Beven;Paul J. Smith;Jim E. Freer

  • Using hysteresis analysis of high-resolution water quality monitoring data, including uncertainty, to infer controls on nutrient and sediment transfer in catchments

    Charlotte E M Lloyd;Jim E Freer;Penny J Johnes;A. L. Collins

  • Flood-plain mapping: a critical discussion of deterministic and probabilistic approaches

    Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Guy Schumann;Paul D. Bates;Jim E. Freer

  • Impacts of uncertain river flow data on rainfall‐runoff model calibration and discharge predictions

    Hilary McMillan;Jim Freer;Florian Pappenberger;Tobias Krueger

  • Calibration of hydrological models using flow-duration curves

    Ida Westerberg;José-Luis Guerrero;P. M. Younger;Keith Beven;Keith Beven

  • The abuse of popular performance metrics in hydrologic modeling

    Martyn P. Clark;Richard M. Vogel;Jonathan R. Lamontagne;Naoki Mizukami

  • Equifinality and uncertainty in physically based soil erosion models: application of the GLUE methodology to WEPP–the Water Erosion Prediction Project–for sites in the UK and USA

    Richard E. Brazier;Keith J. Beven;Jim Freer;John S. Rowan

  • Constraining dynamic TOPMODEL responses for imprecise water table information using fuzzy rule based performance measures

    J.E. Freer;H. McMillan;J.J. McDonnell;K.J. Beven

  • CAMELS-GB: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain

    Gemma Coxon;Nans Addor;Nans Addor;John P. Bloomfield;Jim Freer;Jim Freer

  • Geophysical Research Abstracts

    Charlotte E M Lloyd;Jim E Freer;Penny J Johnes;A Collins

  • Sensitivity Analysis of Environmental Models: A Systematic Review with Practical Workflow

    F. Pianosi;T. Wagener;J. Rougier;J. Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Beven
Keith Beven Lancaster University
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam
Ross Woods
Ross Woods University of Bristol
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol
Penny J Johnes
Penny J Johnes University of Bristol
Adrian L. Collins
Adrian L. Collins Rothamsted Research
Philip M. Haygarth
Philip M. Haygarth Lancaster University
Hannah Cloke
Hannah Cloke University of Reading
John N. Quinton
John N. Quinton Lancaster University
Dawei Han
Dawei Han University of Bristol

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