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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
114
Citations
42469
World Ranking
60
National Ranking
8

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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