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Overview

Paul H. Whitfield is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and has a research portfolio focused on Environmental Science with a significant emphasis on Water Science and Technology.

Their research covers several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

Key research topics addressed by Whitfield include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Whitfield has contributed to numerous scientific papers, with notable recent publications such as:

  • The Abuse of Popular Performance Metrics in Hydrologic Modeling, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • SCDNA: a serially complete precipitation and temperature dataset for North America from 1979 to 2018, 2020, Earth system science data
  • EMDNA: an Ensemble Meteorological Dataset for North America, 2021, Earth system science data
  • The sensitivity of snow hydrology to changes in air temperature and precipitation in three North American headwater basins, 2022, Journal of Hydrology
  • Climate change impacts on snow and streamflow drought regimes in four ecoregions of British Columbia, 2021, Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Whitfield include Martyn Clark, Simon Michael Papalexiou, John W. Pomeroy, Guoqiang Tang, and Andrew W. Wood.

Their work has appeared in several publication venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Hydrology, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Water Resources Research, and Earth System Science Data.

Best Publications

  • Groundwater–surface water interaction under scenarios of climate change using a high-resolution transient groundwater model

    Jacek Scibek;Diana M. Allen;Alex J. Cannon;Paul H. Whitfield

  • The abuse of popular performance metrics in hydrologic modeling

    Martyn P. Clark;Richard M. Vogel;Jonathan R. Lamontagne;Naoki Mizukami

  • Downscaling recent streamflow conditions in British Columbia, Canada using ensemble neural network models

    Alex J Cannon;Paul H Whitfield

  • Recent Variations in Climate and Hydrology in Canada

    Paul H. Whitfield;Alex J. Cannon

  • Detection of runoff timing changes in pluvial, nival, and glacial rivers of western Canada

    Stephen J. Déry;K. Stahl;K. Stahl;R. D. Moore;P. H. Whitfield

  • Climate-driven variability in the occurrence of major floods across North America and Europe

    Glenn A. Hodgkins;Paul H. Whitfield;Donald H. Burn;Jamie Hannaford

  • Potential forest fire danger over Northern Eurasia: Changes during the 20th century

    Pavel Ya. Groisman;Boris G. Sherstyukov;Vyacheslav N. Razuvaev;Richard W. Knight

  • Flood processes in Canada: Regional and special aspects

    James M. Buttle;Diana M. Allen;Daniel Caissie;Bruce Davison

  • The 2013 flood event in the South Saskatchewan and Elk River basins: Causes, assessment and damages

    John W. Pomeroy;Ronald E. Stewart;Paul H. Whitfield

  • Floods in future climates: a review

    P.H. Whitfield;P.H. Whitfield

  • EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON THE HYDROLOGY OF STREAMS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL BC

    Rory M.M. Leith;Paul H. Whitfield

  • Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Hydroclimatology of Western Canada—Review and Prospects

    Paul H. Whitfield;R.D. (Dan) Moore;Sean W. Fleming;Alexi Zawadzki

  • Changes in floods and flood regimes in Canada

    Donald H. Burn;Paul H. Whitfield

  • Regime‐dependent streamflow sensitivities to Pacific climate modes cross the Georgia–Puget transboundary ecoregion

    Sean W. Fleming;Paul H. Whitfield;R. D. Moore;Edward J. Quilty

  • An Overview of Temporary Stream Hydrology in Canada

    James M Buttle;Sarah Boon;D L Peters;Christopher Spence

  • Spatiotemporal mapping of ENSO and PDO surface meteorological signals in British Columbia, Yukon, and southeast Alaska

    Sean W. Fleming;Paul H. Whitfield

  • Linked hydrologic and climate variations in British Columbia and Yukon

    Paul H. Whitfield

  • Reference hydrologic networks I: the status and potential future directions of national reference hydrologic networks for detecting trends

    Paul H. Whitfield;Donald H. Burn;Jamie Hannaford;Hélène Higgins

  • Modelling Streamflow in Present and Future Climates: Examples from the Georgia Basin, British Columbia

    Paul H. Whitfield;Alex J. Cannon;Christopher J. Reynolds

  • Climate Controls on Runoff and Low Flows in Mountain Catchments of Western North America

    Jennifer R. Dierauer;Paul H. Whitfield;Paul H. Whitfield;Diana M. Allen

  • Snow Drought Risk and Susceptibility in the Western United States and Southwestern Canada

    Jennifer R. Dierauer;Diana M. Allen;Paul H. Whitfield;Paul H. Whitfield

  • Synoptic Map-Pattern Classification Using Recursive Partitioning and Principal Component Analysis

    Alex J. Cannon;Paul H. Whitfield;Edward R. Lord

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Pomeroy
John W. Pomeroy University of Saskatchewan
Diana M. Allen
Diana M. Allen Simon Fraser University
Donald H. Burn
Donald H. Burn University of Waterloo
Alex J. Cannon
Alex J. Cannon University of Victoria
Christopher Spence
Christopher Spence Environment and Climate Change Canada
Kerstin Stahl
Kerstin Stahl University of Freiburg
André St-Hilaire
André St-Hilaire Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
R. D. Moore
R. D. Moore University of British Columbia
Jamie Hannaford
Jamie Hannaford National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan

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