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Overview

Mary Lynn Baeck is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on atmospheric and global planetary change. The scientist's work encompasses applied aspects of environmental engineering, water science and technology, as well as policy and management monitoring.

The main topics covered by their research include meteorological phenomena and simulations, precipitation measurement and analysis, flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and drought analysis, and climate variability and models. Their studies also address hydrology and watershed management as well as tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Frequent coauthors of Mary Lynn Baeck include James A. Smith, Andrew J. Miller, Zhengzheng Zhou, Daniel B. Wright, and Brianne Smith, reflecting ongoing collaborative work within their research network.

The scientist has published extensively in several key journals, including Water Resources Research, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Hydrological Processes, Hydrological Sciences Journal, and the Journal of Hydrometeorology.

  • The impact of the spatiotemporal structure of rainfall on flood frequency over a small urban watershed: an approach coupling stochastic storm transposition and hydrologic modeling (2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences)
  • Strange Storms: Rainfall Extremes From the Remnants of Hurricane Ida (2021) in the Northeastern US (2023, Water Resources Research)
  • Assessing urban rainfall-runoff response to stormwater management extent (2021, Hydrological Processes)
  • Rainfall Frequency Analysis Based on Long-Term High-Resolution Radar Rainfall Fields: Spatial Heterogeneities and Temporal Nonstationarities (2024, Water Resources Research)
  • Range Dependence of Polarimetric Radar Estimates for Extreme Flood-Producing Rainfall in Urban Watersheds (2022, Journal of Hydrometeorology)

Best Publications

  • An Intercomparison Study of NEXRAD Precipitation Estimates

    James A. Smith;Dong Jun Seo;Mary Lynn Baeck;Michael D. Hudlow

  • Hydrologic analysis of the Fort Collins, Colorado, flash flood of 1997

    F. L. Ogden;H. O. Sharif;S. U.S. Senarath;James A. Smith

  • On the frequency of heavy rainfall for the Midwest of the United States

    Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Renato Vitolo

  • Catastrophic rainfall from an upslope thunderstorm in the central Appalachians: The Rapidan Storm of June 27, 1995

    James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Matthias Steiner;Andrew J. Miller

  • The Regional Hydrology of Extreme Floods in an Urbanizing Drainage Basin

    James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Julia E. Morrison;Paula Sturdevant-Rees

  • Rainfall Estimation by the WSR-88D for Heavy Rainfall Events

    Mary Lynn Baeck;James A. Smith

  • Mixture Distributions and the Hydroclimatology of Extreme Rainfall and Flooding in the Eastern United States

    James A. Smith;Gabriele Villarini;Mary Lynn Baeck

  • Examining Flood Frequency Distributions in the Midwest U.S.1

    Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Witold F. Krajewski

  • An evaluation of NEXRAD precipitation estimates in complex terrain

    C. Bryan Young;Brian R. Nelson;A. Allen Bradley;James A. Smith

  • Field studies of the storm event hydrologic response in an urbanizing watershed

    James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Katherine L. Meierdiercks;Peter A. Nelson;Peter A. Nelson

  • Analyses of urban drainage network structure and its impact on hydrologic response.

    Katherine L. Meierdiercks;James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Andrew J. Miller

  • Characterization of rainfall distribution and flooding associated with U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones: Analyses of Hurricanes Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne (2004)

    Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Timothy Marchok

  • Extreme Rainfall and Flooding from Supercell Thunderstorms

    James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Yu Zhang;Charles A. Doswell

  • Radar rainfall estimation for flash flood forecasting in small urban watersheds

    James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Katherine L. Meierdiercks;Andrew J. Miller

  • Estimating the frequency of extreme rainfall using weather radar and stochastic storm transposition

    Daniel B. Wright;James A. Smith;Gabriele Villarini;Mary Lynn Baeck

  • Flood frequency analysis using radar rainfall fields and stochastic storm transposition

    Daniel B. Wright;Daniel B. Wright;James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck

  • Catastrophic Rainfall and Flooding in Texas

    James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Julia E. Morrison;Paula Sturdevant-Rees

  • Modeling Extreme Rainfall, Winds, and Surge from Hurricane Isabel (2003)

    Ning Lin;James A. Smith;Gabriele Villarini;Timothy P. Marchok

  • Strange Floods: The Upper Tail of Flood Peaks in the United States

    James A. Smith;Alexander A. Cox;Mary Lynn Baeck;Long Yang

  • Analyses of a long-term, high-resolution radar rainfall data set for the Baltimore metropolitan region

    James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Gabriele Villarini;Claire Welty

  • Towards better utilization of NEXRAD data in hydrology: an overview of Hydro-NEXRAD

    Witold F. Krajewski;Anton Kruger;James A. Smith;Ramon Lawrence

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriele Villarini
Gabriele Villarini Princeton University
Witold F. Krajewski
Witold F. Krajewski University of Iowa
Elie Bou-Zeid
Elie Bou-Zeid Princeton University
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol
Fuqiang Tian
Fuqiang Tian Tsinghua University
Efrat Morin
Efrat Morin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David C. Goodrich
David C. Goodrich US Department of Agriculture
Fred L. Ogden
Fred L. Ogden National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Peter R. Jaffé
Peter R. Jaffé Princeton University
Claire F. Gmachl
Claire F. Gmachl Princeton University

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