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40
Citations
9829
World Ranking
7923
National Ranking
2818

Overview

Lauren E. Hay is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant number of publications in these fields.

The scientist's main subfields of study include water science and technology, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, geology, and environmental engineering. Their work covers topics such as hydrology and watershed management studies, cryospheric studies and observations, flood risk assessment and management, environmental monitoring and data management, arsenic contamination and mitigation, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, and water resources management and optimization.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Ashley E. Van Beusekom, Andrew Bennett, Young-Don Choi, Iman Maghami, and Bart Nijssen, with multiple collaborations recorded with each.

The scientist has published extensively across several venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • HydroShare Resources
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Recent significant papers include:

  • "Assessing the Impact of Drought on Arsenic Exposure from Private Domestic Wells in the Conterminous United States," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Runoff sensitivity to snow depletion curve representation within a continental scale hydrologic model," 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • "Disentangling the potential effects of land-use and climate change on stream conditions," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Hydrologic Model Sensitivity to Temporal Aggregation of Meteorological Forcing Data: A Case Study for the Contiguous United States," 2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • "Spatiotemporal Variability of Modeled Watershed Scale Surface-Depression Storage and Runoff for the Conterminous United States," 2020, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Best Publications

  • A COMPARISON OF DELTA CHANGE AND DOWNSCALED GCM SCENARIOS FOR THREE MOUNTAINOUS BASINS IN THE UNITED STATES

    Lauren E. Hay;Robert L. Wilby;George H. Leavesley

  • Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX): An overview of science strategy and major results from the second and third workshops

    Q. Duan;J. Schaake;V. Andréassian;S. Franks

  • Framework for Understanding Structural Errors (FUSE): A modular framework to diagnose differences between hydrological models

    Martyn P. Clark;Andrew G. Slater;David E. Rupp;Ross A. Woods

  • Development of a large-sample watershed-scale hydrometeorological data set for the contiguous USA: data set characteristics and assessment of regional variability in hydrologic model performance

    A. J. Newman;M. P. Clark;K. Sampson;A. Wood

  • A comparison of downscaled and raw GCM output: implications for climate change scenarios in the San Juan River basin, Colorado

    R.L. Wilby;R.L. Wilby;L.E. Hay;G.H. Leavesley

  • Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century

    Shelley D. Crausbay;Aaron R. Ramirez;Shawn L. Carter;Molly S. Cross

  • The Schaake Shuffle: A Method for Reconstructing Space–Time Variability in Forecasted Precipitation and Temperature Fields

    Martyn Clark;Subhrendu Gangopadhyay;Lauren Hay;Balaji Rajagopalan

  • Hydrological responses to dynamically and statistically downscaled climate model output

    Robert L. Wilby;Robert L. Wilby;Lauren E. Hay;William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt

  • Rain-on-Snow Events in the Western United States

    Gregory J. McCabe;Martyn P. Clark;Lauren E. Hay

  • Use of statistically and dynamically downscaled atmospheric model output for hydrologic simulations in three mountainous basins in the western United States

    L.E. Hay;M.P. Clark

  • Assimilation of snow covered area information into hydrologic and land-surface models

    Martyn P. Clark;Andrew G. Slater;Andrew P. Barrett;Lauren E. Hay

  • PRMS-IV, the precipitation-runoff modeling system, version 4

    Steven L. Markstrom;R. Steve Regan;Lauren E. Hay;Roland J. Viger

  • Simulation of precipitation by weather type analysis

    Lauren E. Hay;Gregory J. McCabe;David M. Wolock;Mark A. Ayers

  • Use of Regional Climate Model Output for Hydrologic Simulations

    Lauren E. Hay;Martyn P. Clark;Robert L. Wilby;William J. Gutowski Jr.

  • Flow regime alterations under changing climate in two river basins: implications for freshwater ecosystems

    C. A. Gibson;J. L. Meyer;N. L. Poff;L. E. Hay

  • Accelerating advances in continental domain hydrologic modeling

    Stacey A. Archfield;Martyn Clark;Berit Arheimer;Lauren E. Hay

  • Use of Medium-Range Numerical Weather Prediction Model Output to Produce Forecasts of Streamflow

    Martyn P. Clark;Lauren E. Hay

  • Step Wise, Multiple Objective Calibration of a Hydrologic Model for a Snowmelt Dominated Basin

    Lauren E. Hay;George H. Leavesley;Martyn P. Clark;Steve L. Markstrom

  • Watershed-Scale Response to Climate Change through the Twenty-First Century for Selected Basins across the United States

    Lauren E. Hay;Steven L. Markstrom;Christian D. Ward-Garrison

  • mizuRoute version 1: a river network routing tool for a continental domain water resources applications

    Naoki Mizukami;Martyn P. Clark;Kevin Sampson;Bart Nijssen

  • Use of weather types to disaggregate general circulation model predictions

    Lauren E. Hay;Gregory J. McCabe;David M. Wolock;Mark A. Ayers

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory J. McCabe
Gregory J. McCabe United States Geological Survey
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Terri S. Hogue
Terri S. Hogue Colorado School of Mines
Robert L. Wilby
Robert L. Wilby Loughborough University
David M. Wolock
David M. Wolock United States Geological Survey
William A. Battaglin
William A. Battaglin United States Geological Survey
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam
Randall J. Hunt
Randall J. Hunt United States Geological Survey
Balaji Rajagopalan
Balaji Rajagopalan University of Colorado Boulder
William J. Gutowski
William J. Gutowski Iowa State University

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