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Overview

Paul A. Carling is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a focus on understanding geological and hydrological processes in various contexts.

Carling's work covers key topics including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Their research fields of study are mainly concentrated in:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, Carling has contributed to several subfields, including:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Ecology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Geophysics

Carling has a diverse publication record with frequent contributions to the following scientific journals:

  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Geomorphology
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Earth Surface Dynamics
  • The Depositional Record

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Carling include:

  • "Increasing glacial lake outburst flood hazard in response to surge glaciers in the Karakoram" (2020) published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Save the Mekong Delta from drowning" (2022) published in Science
  • "Assessment of local outburst flood risk from successive landslides: Case study of Baige landslide-dammed lake, upper Jinsha river, eastern Tibet" (2021) published in Journal of Hydrology
  • "Catastrophic Drainage From the Northwestern Outlet of Glacial Lake Agassiz During the Younger Dryas" (2021) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Glacier surging controls glacier lake formation and outburst floods: The example of the Khurdopin Glacier, Karakoram" (2021) published in Global and Planetary Change

In addition to journal articles, Carling has contributed to books published by UNESCO, including titles focused on gravel composition, salmonid egg washout, and cobble-bedded stream dynamics.

Frequent collaborators in Carling's research include:

  • John D. Jansen
  • Stephen E. Darby
  • Nazir Ahmed Bazai
  • Dingzhu Liu
  • Mahmoud Abbas

Best Publications

  • Sustainable sediment management in reservoirs and regulated rivers: Experiences from five continents

    G. Mathias Kondolf;Yongxuan Gao;George W. Annandale;Gregory L. Morris

  • Observations on siting, dimensions and structure of salmonid redds

    D. T. Crisp;P. A. Carling

  • Computational Dam-Break Hydraulics over Erodible Sediment Bed

    Zhixian Cao;Gareth Pender;Steve Wallis;Paul Carling

  • The impact of fine sediment accumulation on the survival of incubating salmon progeny: Implications for sediment management

    S.M. Greig;D.A. Sear;P.A. Carling

  • Threshold of coarse sediment transport in broad and narrow natural streams

    P. A. Carling

  • Changing sediment budget of the Mekong: Cumulative threats and management strategies for a large river basin

    G. Mathias Kondolf;G. Mathias Kondolf;Rafael J.P. Schmitt;Rafael J.P. Schmitt;Paul Carling;Steve Darby

  • Structure, composition and bulk properties of upland stream gravels

    Paul A. Carling;Nigel A. Reader

  • A review of factors influencing the availability of dissolved oxygen to incubating salmonid embryos

    S. M. Greig;D. A. Sear;P. A. Carling

  • Deposition of Fine and Coarse Sand in an Open-Work Gravel Bed

    Paul A. Carling

  • The concept of dominant discharge applied to two gravel-bed streams in relation to channel stability thresholds

    Paul Carling

  • Subaqueous Gravel Dunes

    Paul A. Carling

  • Lowland floodplain rivers : geomorphological perspectives

    Paul Carling;Geoffrey E. Petts

  • Increasing glacial lake outburst flood hazard in response to surge glaciers in the Karakoram

    Nazir Ahmed Bazai;Peng Cui;Paul A. Carling;Hao Wang

  • Repeated glacial-lake outburst floods in Patagonia: an increasing hazard?

    Alejandro Dussaillant;Gerardo Benito;Wouter Buytaert;Wouter Buytaert;Paul A. Carling

  • Freshwater megaflood sedimentation: What can we learn about generic processes?

    Paul A. Carling

  • Observations on the structure of brown trout, Salmo trutta Linnaeus, redds

    E. M. Ottaway;P. A. Carling;A. Clarke;N. A. Reader

  • Morphology, sedimentology and palaeohydraulic significance of large gravel dunes, Altai Mountains, Siberia

    P. A. Carling

  • A typology of sculpted forms in open bedrock channels

    Keith Richardson;Paul Anthony Carling

  • An appraisal of the velocity-reversal hypothesis for stable pool-riffle sequences in the river severn, England

    P. A. Carling

  • Late Quaternary Catastrophic Flooding in the Altai Mountains of South–Central Siberia: A Synoptic Overview and an Introduction to Flood Deposit Sedimentology

    P. A. Carling;A. D. Kirkbride;S. Parnachov;P. S. Borodavko

  • Floods: hydrological, sedimentological and geomorphological implications.

    Keith J. Beven;Paul Carling

  • Outburst floods in China: A review

    Weiming Liu;Weiming Liu;Paul A. Carling;Kaiheng Hu;Hao Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

David Sear
David Sear University of Southampton
Zhixian Cao
Zhixian Cao Wuhan University
Ryuji Tada
Ryuji Tada University of Tokyo
Peter M. Atkinson
Peter M. Atkinson Lancaster University
Maarten G. Kleinhans
Maarten G. Kleinhans Utrecht University
Devon M. Burr
Devon M. Burr Northern Arizona University
Gareth Pender
Gareth Pender Heriot-Watt University
Matti Kummu
Matti Kummu Aalto University
Stephen E. Darby
Stephen E. Darby University of Southampton
Peter K. Swart
Peter K. Swart University of Miami

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