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Luis Samaniego publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luis Samaniego sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 275 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Luis Samaniego D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luis Samaniego sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Luis Samaniego is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work addresses various topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Climate Variability and Models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Hydrological Forecasting Using AI.

Some of the recent papers published by Luis Samaniego include:

  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • The 2018-2020 Multi-Year Drought Sets a New Benchmark in Europe, 2022, Earth s Future
  • CNRD v1.0: A High-Quality Natural Runoff Dataset for Hydrological and Climate Studies in China, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Understanding each other's models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication, 2021, Geoscientific model development
  • Strong hydroclimatic controls on vulnerability to subsurface nitrate contamination across Europe, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors of Luis Samaniego include:

  • Oldřich Rakovec
  • Rohini Kumar
  • Stephan Thober
  • Sabine Attinger
  • Juliane Mai

The scientist's work has been published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Earth s Future

Best Publications

  • Multiscale parameter regionalization of a grid-based hydrologic model at the mesoscale

    Luis Samaniego;Rohini Kumar;Sabine Attinger;Sabine Attinger

  • Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts

    L. Samaniego;S. Thober;R. Kumar;N. Wanders

  • A Network of Terrestrial Environmental Observatories in Germany

    Steffen Zacharias;Heye Bogena;Luis Samaniego;Matthias Mauder

  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

    Yves Tramblay;Aristeidis Koutroulis;Luis Samaniego;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • Hyper-resolution global hydrological modelling: what is next?

    Marc F. P. Bierkens;Victoria A. Bell;Peter Burek;Nathaniel Chaney

  • The 2018–2020 Multi‐Year Drought Sets a New Benchmark in Europe

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  • Implications of distributed hydrologic model parameterization on water fluxes at multiple scales and locations

    Rohini Kumar;Luis Samaniego;Sabine Attinger;Sabine Attinger

  • Revisiting the recent European droughts from a long-term perspective.

    Martin Hanel;Oldřich Rakovec;Oldřich Rakovec;Yannis Markonis;Petr Máca

  • The evolution of process-based hydrologic models: historical challenges and the collective quest for physical realism

    Martyn P. Clark;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Luis Samaniego;Ross A. Woods

  • Towards seamless large-domain parameter estimation for hydrologic models

    Naoki Mizukami;Martyn P. Clark;Andrew J. Newman;Andrew W. Wood

  • Climate change alters low flows in Europe under global warming of 1.5, 2, and 3 °C

    Andreas Marx;Rohini Kumar;Stephan Thober;Oldrich Rakovec;Oldrich Rakovec

  • The German drought monitor

    Matthias Zink;Luis Samaniego;Rohini Kumar;Stephan Thober

  • Multiscale evaluation of the Standardized Precipitation Index as a groundwater drought indicator

    Rohini Kumar;Jude L. Musuuza;Jude L. Musuuza;Anne F. Van Loon;Anne F. Van Loon;Adriaan J. Teuling

  • Cross‐scale intercomparison of climate change impacts simulated by regional and global hydrological models in eleven large river basins

    Fred Hattermann;V. Krysanova;Simon N. Gosling;Rutger Dankers

  • Supervised Classification of Remotely Sensed Imagery Using a Modified $k$ -NN Technique

    L. Samaniego;A. Bardossy;K. Schulz

  • Combining satellite data and appropriate objective functions for improved spatial pattern performance of a distributed hydrologic model

    Mehmet C. Demirel;Mehmet C. Demirel;Juliane Mai;Juliane Mai;Gorka Mendiguren;Gorka Mendiguren;Julian Koch;Julian Koch

  • Multiscale and Multivariate Evaluation of Water Fluxes and States over European River Basins

    Oldrich Rakovec;Rohini Kumar;Juliane Mai;Matthias Cuntz

  • Are we unnecessarily constraining the agility of complex process-based models?

    Pablo A. Mendoza;Pablo A. Mendoza;Martyn P. Clark;Michael Barlage;Balaji Rajagopalan

  • Implications of Parameter Uncertainty on Soil Moisture Drought Analysis in Germany

    Luis Samaniego;Rohini Kumar;Matthias Zink

  • Sources of uncertainty in hydrological climate impact assessment: a cross-scale study

    Fred Hattermann;Tobias Vetter;Tobias Vetter;Lutz Breuer;Buda Su

  • The impact of standard and hard-coded parameters on the hydrologic fluxes in the Noah-MP land surface model

    Matthias Cuntz;Matthias Cuntz;Juliane Mai;Luis Samaniego;Martyn Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Rohini Kumar
Rohini Kumar Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Sabine Attinger
Sabine Attinger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Matthias Cuntz
Matthias Cuntz University of Lorraine
Niko Wanders
Niko Wanders Utrecht University
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart
Peter Dietrich
Peter Dietrich University of Tübingen

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