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Paul D Bates publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul D Bates sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Paul D Bates D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul D Bates sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 15 scientists 31 D-Index: 42 scientists 32 D-Index: 60 scientists 33 D-Index: 90 scientists 34 D-Index: 103 scientists 35 D-Index: 108 scientists 36 D-Index: 142 scientists 37 D-Index: 147 scientists 38 D-Index: 147 scientists 39 D-Index: 152 scientists 40 D-Index: 143 scientists 41 D-Index: 157 scientists 42 D-Index: 141 scientists 43 D-Index: 151 scientists 44 D-Index: 140 scientists 45 D-Index: 135 scientists 46 D-Index: 121 scientists 47 D-Index: 108 scientists 48 D-Index: 128 scientists 49 D-Index: 111 scientists 50 D-Index: 106 scientists 51 D-Index: 112 scientists 52 D-Index: 102 scientists 53 D-Index: 103 scientists 54 D-Index: 94 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 101 scientists 57 D-Index: 71 scientists 58 D-Index: 65 scientists 59 D-Index: 78 scientists 60 D-Index: 93 scientists 61 D-Index: 56 scientists 62 D-Index: 58 scientists 63 D-Index: 52 scientists 64 D-Index: 63 scientists 65 D-Index: 49 scientists 66 D-Index: 53 scientists 67 D-Index: 57 scientists 68 D-Index: 50 scientists 69 D-Index: 44 scientists 70 D-Index: 44 scientists 71 D-Index: 31 scientists 72 D-Index: 33 scientists 73 D-Index: 33 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 32 scientists 76 D-Index: 24 scientists 77 D-Index: 17 scientists 78 D-Index: 19 scientists 79 D-Index: 9 scientists 80 D-Index: 21 scientists 81 D-Index: 20 scientists 82 D-Index: 17 scientists 83 D-Index: 19 scientists 84 D-Index: 19 scientists 85 D-Index: 14 scientists 86 D-Index: 6 scientists 87 D-Index: 14 scientists 88 D-Index: 17 scientists 89 D-Index: 10 scientists 90 D-Index: 8 scientists 91 D-Index: 8 scientists 92 D-Index: 9 scientists 93 D-Index: 6 scientists 94+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 94+

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Paul D Bates is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses on several areas within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on flood risk and hydrology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of interest encompass:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Ecology

Key topics of their work cover:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Paul D Bates include:

  • "Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods", 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Combined Modeling of US Fluvial, Pluvial, and Coastal Flood Hazard Under Current and Future Climates", 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene", 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • "Increased Flood Exposure Due to Climate Change and Population Growth in the United States", 2020, Earth's Future
  • "New insights into US flood vulnerability revealed from flood insurance big data", 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jeffrey Neal
  • Mark A. Trigg
  • Raphaël M. Tshimanga
  • Oliver Wing
  • Christopher Sampson

Paul D Bates has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Geophysical Monograph
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters

Regarding professional recognitions, Paul D Bates was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • A simple raster-based model for flood inundation simulation

    P.D Bates;A.P.J De Roo

  • Evaluation of 1D and 2D numerical models for predicting river flood inundation

    M.S. Horritt;P.D. Bates

  • A high-accuracy map of global terrain elevations

    Dai Yamazaki;Daiki Ikeshima;Ryunosuke Tawatari;Tomohiro Yamaguchi

  • A simple inertial formulation of the shallow water equations for efficient two-dimensional flood inundation modelling.

    Paul D. Bates;Matthew S. Horritt;Timothy J. Fewtrell

  • MERIT Hydro: A High-Resolution Global Hydrography Map Based on Latest Topography Dataset

    Dai Yamazaki;Dai Yamazaki;Daiki Ikeshima;Jeison Sosa;Paul D. Bates

  • A high‐resolution global flood hazard model

    Christopher C. Sampson;Andrew M. Smith;Paul D. Bates;Jeffrey C. Neal

  • Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods

    Bruno Merz;Günter Blöschl;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Francesco Dottori

  • Simple spatially-distributed models for predicting flood inundation: A review

    Neil M. Hunter;Paul D. Bates;Matthew S. Horritt;Matthew D. Wilson

  • A subgrid channel model for simulating river hydraulics and floodplain inundation over large and data sparse areas

    Jeffrey C. Neal;Guy Schumann;Guy Schumann;Paul D. Bates

  • Flood frequency analysis for nonstationary annual peak records in an urban drainage basin

    Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith;Francesco Serinaldi;Jerad Bales

  • Assessing the uncertainty in distributed model predictions using observed binary pattern information within GLUE

    G. Aronica;P. D. Bates;M. S. Horritt

  • Effects of spatial resolution on a raster based model of flood flow

    M.S Horritt;P.D Bates

  • Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene

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  • Comparative flood damage model assessment: towards a European approach

    B. Jongman;H. Kreibich;H. Apel;J. I. Barredo

  • Benchmarking 2D hydraulic models for urban flooding

    N.M. Hunter;P.D. Bates;S. Neelz;G. Pender

  • Predicting floodplain inundation: raster-based modelling versus the finite-element approach

    M. S. Horritt;P. D. Bates

  • Estimates of present and future flood risk in the conterminous United States

    Oliver E J Wing;Paul D Bates;Andrew M Smith;Christopher C Sampson

  • A Change Detection Approach to Flood Mapping in Urban Areas Using TerraSAR-X

    L. Giustarini;R. Hostache;P. Matgen;Guy J.-P Schumann

  • Cascading model uncertainty from medium range weather forecasts (10 days) through a rainfall-runoff model to flood inundation predictions within the European Flood Forecasting System (EFFS)

    F. Pappenberger;K. J. Beven;N. M. Hunter;Paul D Bates

  • Progress in integration of remote sensing– derived flood extent and stage data and hydraulic models

    Guy Schumann;Paul D. Bates;Matthew S. Horritt;Patrick Matgen

  • Combined Modeling of US Fluvial, Pluvial, and Coastal Flood Hazard Under Current and Future Climates

    Paul D. Bates;Niall Quinn;Christopher Sampson;Andrew Smith

  • Integration of high-resolution topographic data with floodplain flow models.

    Kate Marks;Paul Bates

  • An adaptive time step solution for raster-based storage cell modelling of floodplain inundation

    Neil M. Hunter;Matthew S. Horritt;Paul D. Bates;Matthew D. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey C. Neal
Jeffrey C. Neal University of Bristol
David C. Mason
David C. Mason University of Reading
Guy Schumann
Guy Schumann University of Bristol
M. S. Horritt
M. S. Horritt Halcrow Group Ltd.
Jim Freer
Jim Freer University of Bristol
Malcolm G. Anderson
Malcolm G. Anderson University of Bristol
Dai Yamazaki
Dai Yamazaki University of Tokyo
Keith Beven
Keith Beven Lancaster University
Douglas Alsdorf
Douglas Alsdorf The Ohio State University
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Giuliano Di Baldassarre Uppsala University

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