2026 Martyn P. Clark: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	107	238	221	10	7	433	44085

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award
2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Martyn P. Clark is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Climate variability and models
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Cryospheric studies and observations
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Hydrological Forecasting Using AI

Among their frequent co-authors are:

Simon Michael Papalexiou
Wouter Knoben
Andrew W. Wood
Guoqiang Tang
Andrew J. Newman

Martyn P. Clark has published extensively in several key venues, notably:

Water Resources Research
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Journal of Hydrometeorology
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Geoscientific Model Development

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Martyn P. Clark include:

"Have satellite precipitation products improved over last two decades? A comprehensive comparison of GPM IMERG with nine satellite and reanalysis datasets," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
"Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review," 2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
"Differentiable modelling to unify machine learning and physical models for geosciences," 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"The Abuse of Popular Performance Metrics in Hydrologic Modeling," 2021, Water Resources Research
"How Do Climate and Catchment Attributes Influence Flood Generating Processes? A Large-Sample Study for 671 Catchments Across the Contiguous USA," 2021, Water Resources Research

In collaboration with FAO eBooks, Martyn P. Clark contributed to the book The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture 2021 - Systems at breaking point, published in 2022.

Martyn P. Clark was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2016.

Best Publications

DECLINING MOUNTAIN SNOWPACK IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA

Philip W. Mote;Alan F. Hamlet;Martyn P. Clark;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

1967
Citations
The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

1818
Citations
A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

1379
Citations
Treatment of input uncertainty in hydrologic modeling: doing hydrology backward with Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation.

Jasper A. Vrugt;Jasper A. Vrugt;Cajo J. F. ter Braak;Martyn P. Clark;James M. Hyman

1032
Citations
Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

1009
Citations
The future intensification of hourly precipitation extremes

Andreas F. Prein;Roy M. Rasmussen;Kyoko Ikeda;Changhai Liu

950
Citations
Characteristics of the western United States snowpack from snowpack telemetry (SNOTEL) data

Mark C. Serreze;Martyn P. Clark;Richard L. Armstrong;David A. McGinnis

838
Citations
The CAMELS data set: Catchment attributes and meteorology for large-sample studies

Nans Addor;Nans Addor;Andrew J. Newman;Naoki Mizukami;Martyn P. Clark

754
Citations
Effects of Temperature and Precipitation Variability on Snowpack Trends in the Western United States

Alan F. Hamlet;Philip W. Mote;Martyn P. Clark;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

723
Citations
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

698
Citations
Seasonal Cycle Shifts in Hydroclimatology over the Western United States

Satish Kumar Regonda;Balaji Rajagopalan;Martyn Clark;John Pitlick

667
Citations
Pursuing the method of multiple working hypotheses for hydrological modeling

Martyn P. Clark;Dmitri Kavetski;Fabrizio Fenicia

646
Citations
Hydrological data assimilation with the ensemble Kalman filter: Use of streamflow observations to update states in a distributed hydrological model

Martyn P. Clark;David E. Rupp;Ross A. Woods;Xiaogu Zheng

630
Citations
Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

Martyn P. Clark;Ying Fan;David M. Lawrence;Jennifer C. Adam

605
Citations
Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America

Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Mike Barlage

603
Citations
Slower snowmelt in a warmer world

Keith N. Musselman;Martyn P. Clark;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

599
Citations
Have satellite precipitation products improved over last two decades? A comprehensive comparison of GPM IMERG with nine satellite and reanalysis datasets

Guoqiang Tang;Guoqiang Tang;Martyn P. Clark;Simon Michael Papalexiou;Simon Michael Papalexiou;Ziqiang Ma

584
Citations
Trends in Northern Hemisphere Surface Cyclone Frequency and Intensity

Gregory J. McCabe;Martyn P. Clark;Mark C. Serreze

568
Citations
Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

Ying Fan;M. Clark;D. M. Lawrence;S. Swenson

565
Citations
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

551
Citations
A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 1. Modeling concept

Martyn P. Clark;Bart Nijssen;Jessica D. Lundquist;Dmitri Kavetski

535
Citations
Towards a comprehensive assessment of model structural adequacy

Hoshin V. Gupta;Martyn P. Clark;Jasper A. Vrugt;Jasper A. Vrugt;Gab Abramowitz

503
Citations
Hydrological Data Assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter: Use of Streamflow Observations to Update States in a Distributed Hydrological Model

R. P. Ibbitt;M. P. Clark;R. A. Woods;X. Zheng

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew W. Wood National Center for Atmospheric Research

Bart Nijssen University of Washington

Ross Woods University of Bristol

Balaji Rajagopalan University of Colorado Boulder

Ethan Gutmann National Center for Atmospheric Research

Roy Rasmussen National Center for Atmospheric Research

Dmitri Kavetski University of Adelaide

Luis Samaniego Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Kyoko Ikeda National Center for Atmospheric Research

Lauren E. Hay United States Geological Survey

External Links

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