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Juraj Parajka

Juraj Parajka

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Earth Science
Austria
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
56
Citations
14031
World Ranking
2369
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Juraj Parajka is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria and is an active researcher specializing in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Soil Science.

Parajka's research interests revolve around key topics such as:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate Variability and Models

The scientist has contributed to various frequent publication venues, including:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water
  • Journal of Hydrology

Some notable recent papers by Parajka include:

  • "Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years" (2020), published in Nature
  • "More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer summers" (2020), published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Why does a conceptual hydrological model fail to correctly predict discharge changes in response to climate change?" (2020), published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Mapping snow cover from daily Collection 6 MODIS products over Austria" (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology
  • "The Added Value of Different Data Types for Calibrating and Testing a Hydrologic Model in a Small Catchment" (2020), published in Water Resources Research

Frequent collaborators in Parajka's research include:

  • Günter Blöschl
  • Borbála Széles
  • Jürgen Komma
  • Peter Strauß
  • Attilio Castellarin

Juraj Parajka's scientific contributions extend predominantly in hydrology-related fields, emphasizing hydrological modeling, flood risk, and water resource management. Their extensive research output in renowned journals reflects an engagement with both observational and modeling approaches to environmental and watershed science issues.

Best Publications

  • Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods

    Günter Blöschl;Julia Hall;Alberto Viglione;Alberto Viglione;Rui A P Perdigão

  • Changing climate shifts timing of European floods

    Günter Blöschl;Julia Hall;Juraj Parajka;Rui A. P. Perdigão

  • Understanding Flood Regime Changes in Europe: A state of the art assessment

    J Hall;B Arheimer;M Borga;R Brazdil;R Brazdil

  • A comparison of regionalisation methods for catchment model parameters

    J. Parajka;J. Parajka;R. Merz;G. Blöschl

  • Time stability of catchment model parameters: Implications for climate impact analyses

    Ralf Merz;Juraj Parajka;Günter Blöschl

  • Spatio-temporal combination of MODIS images - potential for snow cover mapping

    J. Parajka;J. Parajka;G. Blöschl

  • Land use change impacts on floods at the catchment scale : challenges and opportunities for future research

    M. Rogger;M. Agnoletti;A. Alaoui;J.C. Bathurst

  • Bacterial diversity along a 2600 km river continuum

    Domenico Savio;Lucas Sinclair;Umer Z. Ijaz;Juraj Parajka

  • Spatio-temporal variability of event runoff coefficients

    R. Merz;G. Blöschl;J. Parajka

  • The June 2013 flood in the Upper Danube Basin, and comparisons with the 2002, 1954 and 1899 floods

    G. Blöschl;T. Nester;J. Komma;J. Parajka

  • Validation of MODIS snow cover images over Austria

    J. Parajka;J. Parajka;G. Blöschl

  • The value of MODIS snow cover data in validating and calibrating conceptual hydrologic models

    J. Parajka;G. Blöschl

  • Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years

    Günter Blöschl;Andrea Kiss;Alberto Viglione;Mariano Barriendos

  • Comparative assessment of predictions in ungauged basins – Part 1: Runoff-hydrograph studies

    J. Parajka;J. Parajka;A. Viglione;M. Rogger;J. L. Salinas

  • Uncertainty and multiple objective calibration in regional water balance modelling: case study in 320 Austrian catchments

    J. Parajka;R. Merz;G. Blöschl

  • Flood timescales: Understanding the interplay of climate and catchment processes through comparative hydrology

    Ladislav Gaál;Ján Szolgay;Silvia Kohnová;Juraj Parajka

  • More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer summers

    Theodoros Mastrotheodoros;Christoforos Pappas;Peter Molnar;Paolo Burlando

  • Seasonal characteristics of flood regimes across the Alpine-Carpathian range.

    J. Parajka;S. Kohnova;G. Balint;M. Barbuc

  • Increasing river floods: fiction or reality?

    Günter Blöschl;Ladislav Gaál;Julia Hall;Andrea Kiss

  • Multivariate Interpolation of Precipitation Using Regularized Spline with Tension

    Jaroslav Hofierka;Juraj Parajka;Helena Mitasova;Lubos Mitas

  • A regional snow-line method for estimating snow cover from MODIS during cloud cover

    J. Parajka;J. Parajka;M. Pepe;A. Rampini;S. Rossi

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Ralf Merz
Ralf Merz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Attilio Castellarin
Attilio Castellarin University of Bologna
Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
Ross Woods
Ross Woods University of Bristol
Berit Arheimer
Berit Arheimer Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Demetris Koutsoyiannis National Technical University of Athens
Alberto Montanari
Alberto Montanari University of Bologna
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart

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