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Lena M. Tallaksen

Lena M. Tallaksen

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
47
Citations
13981
World Ranking
5671
National Ranking
67

Overview

Lena M. Tallaksen is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, with a specific focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their work frequently addresses topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate Variability and Models, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Lena M. Tallaksen's notable recent papers include:

  • Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review (2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water)
  • The 2018 northern European hydrological drought and its drivers in a historical perspective (2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences)
  • Drought Characteristics Derived Based on the Standardized Streamflow Index: A Large Sample Comparison for Parametric and Nonparametric Methods (2020, Water Resources Research)
  • Lessons from the 2018-2019 European droughts: a collective need for unifying drought risk management (2022, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences)
  • Beyond binary baseflow separation: a delayed-flow index for multiple streamflow contributions (2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences)

Frequent co-authors of Tallaksen include Kerstin Stahl, Gregor Laaha, Frøde Stordal, Sigrid Jørgensen Bakke, and Monica Ioniță.

The scholar has published extensively in journals such as Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Hydrology Research, Scientific Reports, and Biogeosciences.

Best Publications

  • A review of baseflow recession analysis

    L.M. Tallaksen

  • Hydrological drought. Processes and estimation methods for streamflow and groundwater

    L. Tallaksen;H.A.J. van Lanen

  • Candidate Distributions for Climatological Drought Indices (SPI and SPEI)

    James H. Stagge;Lena M. Tallaksen;Lukas Gudmundsson;Anne F. Van Loon;Anne F. Van Loon

  • Drought in the Anthropocene

    Anne F. Van Loon;Tom Gleeson;Julian Clark;Albert I J M Van Dijk

  • Streamflow trends in Europe: evidence from a dataset of near-natural catchments

    K. Stahl;K. Stahl;H. Hisdal;J. Hannaford;L.M. Tallaksen

  • Have streamflow droughts in Europe become more severe or frequent

    Hege Hisdal;Hege Hisdal;Kerstin Stahl;Lena M. Tallaksen;Siegfried Demuth

  • Drought in a human-modified world : reframing drought definitions, understanding, and analysis approaches

    Anne F. Van Loon;Kerstin Stahl;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Julian Clark

  • On the definition and modelling of streamflow drought duration and deficit volume

    Lena M. Tallaksen;Henrik Madsen;Bente Clausen

  • Large-scale river flow archives: importance, current status and future needs.

    David M. Hannah;Siegfried Demuth;Henny A. J. van Lanen;Ulrich Looser

  • A global evaluation of streamflow drought characteristics

    A. K. Fleig;L. M. Tallaksen;H. Hisdal;H. Hisdal;S. Demuth

  • Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review

    Manuela I. Brunner;Louise Slater;Lena M. Tallaksen;Martyn Clark

  • The European 2015 drought from a climatological perspective

    Monica Ionita;Lena M. Tallaksen;Daniel G. Kingston;James H. Stagge

  • Hydrological drought across the world: impact of climate and physical catchment structure

    H. A. J. Van Lanen;N. Wanders;N. Wanders;L. M. Tallaksen;A. F. Van Loon

  • Estimation of regional meteorological and hydrological drought characteristics: a case study for Denmark

    Hege Hisdal;Hege Hisdal;Lena M. Tallaksen

  • Impacts of European drought events: insights from an international database of text-based reports

    Kerstin Stahl;Irene Kohn;Veit Blauhut;Julia Urquijo

  • Modeling drought impact occurrence based on meteorological drought indices in Europe.

    James H. Stagge;Irene Kohn;Lena M. Tallaksen;Kerstin Stahl

  • Space–time modelling of catchment scale drought characteristics

    Lena M. Tallaksen;Hege Hisdal;Hege Hisdal;Henny A.J. Van Lanen

  • Hydrology needed to manage droughts: the 2015 European case

    Henny A.J. Van Lanen;Gregor Laaha;Daniel G. Kingston;Tobias Gauster

  • Estimating drought risk across Europe from reported drought impacts, drought indices, and vulnerability factors

    Veit Blauhut;Kerstin Stahl;James Howard Stagge;Lena M. Tallaksen

  • The European 2015 drought from a hydrological perspective

    Gregor Laaha;Tobias Gauster;Lena M. Tallaksen;Jean Philippe Vidal

  • Pan-European comparison of candidate distributions for climatological drought indices, SPI and SPEI

    James Stagge;Lena Tallaksen;Lukas Gudmundsson;Anne Van Loon

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerstin Stahl
Kerstin Stahl University of Freiburg
David M. Hannah
David M. Hannah University of Birmingham
Jamie Hannaford
Jamie Hannaford National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Anne F. Van Loon
Anne F. Van Loon Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Frode Stordal
Frode Stordal University of Oslo
Chong-Yu Xu
Chong-Yu Xu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
Niko Wanders
Niko Wanders Utrecht University
Christel Prudhomme
Christel Prudhomme European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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