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Overview

Luc Feyen is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate Variability and Models, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, and Climate Change and Health Impacts.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Luc Feyen include Lorenzo Mentaschi, Michalis Vousdoukas, Francesco Dottori, Lorenzo Alfieri, and Carmelo Cammalleri.

Their research has been published in multiple venues with repeated contributions to the Joint Research Centre (European Commission), Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Earth's Future, and Earth System Science Data.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Luc Feyen are:

  • Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe, 2020, Nature Communications
  • More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion

    Michalis I. Vousdoukas;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Lorenzo Mentaschi;Theocharis A. Plomaritis;Theocharis A. Plomaritis

  • Global projections of river flood risk in a warmer world

    Lorenzo Alfieri;Berny Bisselink;Francesco Dottori;Gustavo Naumann

  • Global Changes in Drought Conditions Under Different Levels of Warming

    Gustavo Naumann;L. Alfieri;K. Wyser;L. Mentaschi

  • Global long-term observations of coastal erosion and accretion.

    Lorenzo Mentaschi;Michalis I. Vousdoukas;Jean-Francois Pekel;Evangelos Voukouvalas

  • Global probabilistic projections of extreme sea levels show intensification of coastal flood hazard.

    Michalis I. Vousdoukas;Lorenzo Mentaschi;Evangelos Voukouvalas;Martin Verlaan

  • Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming

    Francesco Dottori;Wojciech Szewczyk;Juan Carlos Ciscar;Fang Zhao

  • Increasing stress on disaster-risk finance due to large floods

    Brenden Jongman;Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler;Luc Feyen;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

  • Global warming increases the frequency of river floods in Europe

    L. Alfieri;P. Burek;L. Feyen;G. Forzieri

  • Physical and economic consequences of climate change in Europe

    Juan Carlos Ciscar;Ana Iglesias;Luc Feyen;László Szabó

  • Comparative flood damage model assessment: towards a European approach

    B. Jongman;H. Kreibich;H. Apel;J. I. Barredo

  • Extreme sea levels on the rise along Europe's coasts

    Michalis I. Vousdoukas;Lorenzo Mentaschi;Evangelos Voukouvalas;Martin Verlaan

  • Development and evaluation of a framework for global flood hazard mapping

    Francesco Dottori;Peter Salamon;Alessandra Bianchi;Lorenzo Alfieri

  • Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming

    Gustavo Naumann;Carmelo Cammalleri;Lorenzo Mentaschi;Luc Feyen

  • Climate change impact on flood hazard in Europe: An assessment based on high-resolution climate simulations

    Rutger Dankers;Luc Feyen

  • Projections of extreme storm surge levels along Europe

    Michalis I. Vousdoukas;Evangelos Voukouvalas;Alessandro Annunziato;Alessio Giardino

  • Ensemble flood risk assessment in Europe under high end climate scenarios

    Lorenzo Alfieri;Luc Feyen;Francesco Dottori;Alessandra Bianchi

  • Escalating impacts of climate extremes on critical infrastructures in Europe

    Giovanni Forzieri;Alessandra Bianchi;Filipe Batista e Silva;Mario A. Marin Herrera

  • Climate change and river floods in the European Union: Socio-economic consequences and the costs and benefits of adaptation

    Rodrigo Rojas;Luc Feyen;Paul Watkiss

  • Advances in pan-European flood hazard mapping

    Lorenzo Alfieri;Peter Salamon;Alessandra Bianchi;Jeffrey Neal

  • Multi-hazard assessment in Europe under climate change

    Giovanni Forzieri;Luc Feyen;Simone Russo;Michalis Vousdoukas

  • Impact of global warming on streamflow drought in Europe

    Luc Feyen;Rutger Dankers

  • Ensemble projections of future streamflow droughts in Europe

    G. Forzieri;L. Feyen;R. Rojas;M. Flörke

  • Increasing risk over time of weather-related hazards to the European population: a data-driven prognostic study

    Giovanni Forzieri;Alessandro Cescatti;Filipe Batista e Silva;Luc Feyen

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorenzo Alfieri
Lorenzo Alfieri European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Peter Salamon
Peter Salamon Universitat Politècnica de València
Alain Dassargues
Alain Dassargues University of Liège
Alessandro Dosio
Alessandro Dosio Joint Research Centre
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Okke Batelaan
Okke Batelaan Flinders University
W. J. Wouter Botzen
W. J. Wouter Botzen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Frank Raes
Frank Raes Bocconi University
Alessandro Cescatti
Alessandro Cescatti European Union

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