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Hungary
2026

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Earth Science

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36
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4636
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  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Hungary Leader Award

Overview

Jozsef Szilagyi is affiliated with Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary and contributes extensively to environmental science, focusing primarily on global and planetary change, water science and technology, and atmospheric science. Their work intersects fields such as environmental engineering and nutrition and dietetics, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach.

Szilagyi's research explores multiple topics related to hydrology and climate, including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, hydrology and watershed management studies, as well as drought and flood risk assessment and management. These topics represent the primary thematic areas that frame their scientific inquiries.

Their publication record reveals a concentration in journals specializing in hydrology and related Earth sciences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Water Resources Research
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Hidrológiai Közlöny

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Szilagyi include:

  • "Calibration-Free Complementary Relationship Estimates Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Globally," 2021, Water Resources Research
  • "Benchmarking large-scale evapotranspiration estimates: A perspective from a calibration-free complementary relationship approach and FLUXCOM," 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • "On the thermodynamic foundations of the complementary relationship of evaporation," 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • "Water-balance-based evapotranspiration for 56 large river basins: A benchmarking dataset for global terrestrial evapotranspiration modeling," 2024, Journal of Hydrology
  • "Complementary Relationship for evaporation performance at different spatial and temporal scales," 2022, Journal of Hydrology

Szilagyi regularly collaborates with other researchers in the field, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Richard D. Crago
  • Ning Ma
  • Russell J. Qualls
  • Yongqiang Zhang
  • Eszter Nagy

Their work predominantly centers around environmental science with a strong focus on global and planetary change, supported by extensive analysis of water science and hydrological processes. This body of research contributes to understanding water balance, evapotranspiration dynamics, and the coupled energy and water cycles at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Best Publications

  • Complementary-Relationship-Based Modeling of Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Across China During 1982–2012: Validations and Spatiotemporal Analyses

    Ning Ma;Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi;Yinsheng Zhang;Yinsheng Zhang;Wenbin Liu

  • Diurnal fluctuations in shallow groundwater levels and streamflow rates and their interpretation – A review

    Zoltán Gribovszki;Zoltán Gribovszki;József Szilágyi;József Szilágyi;Péter Kalicz

  • Riparian zone evapotranspiration estimation from diurnal groundwater level fluctuations

    Zoltán Gribovszki;Zoltán Gribovszki;Péter Kalicz;József Szilágyi;József Szilágyi;Mihály Kucsara

  • Calibration-free complementary relationship estimates terrestrial evapotranspiration globally

    Ning Ma;Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi;Yongqiang Zhang

  • Baseflow separation based on analytical solutions of the Boussinesq equation

    Jozsef Szilagyi;Marc B. Parlange

  • A calibration-free formulation of the complementary relationship of evaporation for continental-scale hydrology

    Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi;Richard Crago;Russell Qualls

  • Evaporation variability of Nam Co Lake in the Tibetan Plateau and its role in recent rapid lake expansion

    Ning Ma;Ning Ma;Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi;Guo Yue Niu;Yinsheng Zhang;Yinsheng Zhang

  • Recession flow analysis for aquifer parameter determination

    Jozsef Szilagyi;Marc B. Parlange;John D. Albertson

  • The CR of Evaporation: A Calibration-Free Diagnostic and Benchmarking Tool for Large-Scale Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Modeling

    Ning Ma;Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi

  • New findings about the complementary relationship- based evaporation estimation methods

    Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi;Janos Jozsa

  • Regional Estimation of Base Recharge to Ground Water Using Water Balance and a Base‐Flow Index

    Jozsef Szilagyi;F. Edwin Harvey;Jerry F. Ayers

  • Evaluating the complementary relationship for estimating evapotranspiration from arid shrublands

    J. L. Huntington;J. Szilagyi;J. Szilagyi;S. W. Tyler;G. M. Pohll

  • On the inherent asymmetric nature of the complementary relationship of evaporation

    Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi

  • Evaluating the complementary relationship of evapotranspiration in the alpine steppe of the Tibetan Plateau

    Ning Ma;Yinsheng Zhang;Jozsef Szilagyi;Yanhong Guo

  • Mapping mean annual groundwater recharge in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA

    Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi;Vitaly A. Zlotnik;John B. Gates;Janos Jozsa

  • Estimation of catchment-scale evapotranspiration from baseflow recession data: Numerical model and practical application results

    Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi;Zoltan Gribovszki;Peter Kalicz

  • Sudden drawdown and drainage of a horizontal aquifer

    J-Y Parlange;F Stagnitti;A. Heilig;Jozsef Szilagyi

  • Rescaling the complementary relationship for land surface evaporation

    R. Crago;J. Szilagyi;R. Qualls;J. Huntington

  • On the specific water holding capacity of litter for three forest ecosystems in the eastern foothills of the Alps

    Katalin Anita Zagyvai-Kiss;Péter Kalicz;József Szilágyi;József Szilágyi;Zoltán Gribovszki

  • Temperature corrections in the Priestley–Taylor equation of evaporation

    Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi

  • Evapotranspiration intensifies over the conterminous United States

    Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi;Jozsef Szilagyi;Gabriel G. Katul;Marc B. Parlange

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc B. Parlange
Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island
Vitaly A. Zlotnik
Vitaly A. Zlotnik University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Chong-Yu Xu
Chong-Yu Xu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
John D. Albertson
John D. Albertson Cornell University
Thomas A. McMahon
Thomas A. McMahon University of Melbourne
Murray C. Peel
Murray C. Peel University of Melbourne
Trenton E. Franz
Trenton E. Franz University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Charles Meneveau
Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University
Thaddeus K. Graczyk
Thaddeus K. Graczyk Johns Hopkins University

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