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Lukas Gudmundsson

Lukas Gudmundsson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
13094
World Ranking
3987
National Ranking
105

Overview

Lukas Gudmundsson is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in environmental science with a focus on global and planetary change. Their research encompasses various subfields such as atmospheric science, water science and technology, signal processing, and oceanography.

Their work covers a number of key topics, including climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, music and audio processing, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and flood risk assessment and management.

Recent published papers by Lukas Gudmundsson include:

  • Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change (2021), published in Science
  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change (2021), published in Nature Climate Change
  • Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes (2021), published in Science
  • Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change (2020), published in Nature Geoscience

Lukas has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Sonia I. Seneviratne, Wim Thiery, Frederik Kratzert, Grey Nearing, and Nans Addor.

Their research contributions have been published in multiple venues, with notable frequency in the following journals and platforms:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Science
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Earth System Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Technical Note: Downscaling RCM precipitation to the station scale using statistical transformations – a comparison of methods

    Lukas Gudmundsson;Lukas Gudmundsson;John Bjørnar Bremnes;Jan Erik Haugen;Torill Engen-Skaugen

  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change

    Yadu Pokhrel;Farshid Felfelani;Yusuke Satoh;Yusuke Satoh;Julien Boulange

  • 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

  • Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally.

    Laibao Liu;Lukas Gudmundsson;Mathias Hauser;Dahe Qin

  • Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change

    Lukas Gudmundsson;Julien Boulange;Hong X. Do;Hong X. Do;Hong X. Do;Simon N. Gosling

  • Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage

    Vincent Humphrey;Jakob Zscheischler;Philippe Ciais;Lukas Gudmundsson

  • Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes

    Wim Thiery;Stefan Lange;Joeri Rogelj;Carl Friedrich Schleussner

  • GRUN: an observation-based global gridded runoff dataset from 1902 to 2014

    Gionata Ghiggi;Gionata Ghiggi;Vincent Humphrey;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Lukas Gudmundsson

  • The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive (GSIM) – Part 1: The production of a daily streamflow archive and metadata

    Hong Xuan Do;Lukas Gudmundsson;Michael Leonard;Seth Westra

  • State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

  • Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change

    Ryan S. Padrón;Lukas Gudmundsson;Bertrand Decharme;Agnès Ducharne

  • Assessing Global Water Storage Variability from GRACE: Trends, Seasonal Cycle, Subseasonal Anomalies and Extremes

    Vincent Humphrey;Lukas Gudmundsson;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century

    Vincent Humphrey;Vincent Humphrey;Lukas Gudmundsson

  • Hydrology needed to manage droughts: the 2015 European case

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

  • A drought event composite analysis using satellite remote-sensing based soil moisture

    Nadine Nicolai-Shaw;Jakob Zscheischler;Martin Hirschi;Lukas Gudmundsson

  • Observed Trends in Global Indicators of Mean and Extreme Streamflow

    L. Gudmundsson;M. Leonard;H. X. Do;H. X. Do;S. Westra

  • Caravan - A global community dataset for large-sample hydrology

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  • Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing

    Luke Grant;Inne Vanderkelen;Lukas Gudmundsson;Zeli Tan

  • Towards pan-European drought risk maps: quantifying the link between drought indices and reported drought impacts

    Veit Blauhut;Lukas Gudmundsson;Kerstin Stahl

  • Comparing Large-Scale Hydrological Model Simulations to Observed Runoff Percentiles in Europe

    Lukas Gudmundsson;Lena M. Tallaksen;Kerstin Stahl;Douglas B. Clark

  • The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive (GSIM) – Part 2: Quality Control, Time-series Indices and Homogeneity Assessment

    Lukas Gudmundsson;Hong Xuan Do;Michael Leonard;Seth Westra

  • Predicting above normal wildfire activity in southern Europe as a function of meteorological drought

    L Gudmundsson;F C Rego;M Rocha;S I Seneviratne

  • 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

Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Jakob Zscheischler
Jakob Zscheischler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Kerstin Stahl
Kerstin Stahl University of Freiburg
Lena M. Tallaksen
Lena M. Tallaksen University of Oslo
Seth Westra
Seth Westra University of Adelaide
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Simon N. Gosling
Simon N. Gosling University of Nottingham
Jaco Vangronsveld
Jaco Vangronsveld Hasselt University

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