2026 Peter Salamon: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	58	3218	3079	81	81	121	16203

Overview

Peter Salamon is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain. Their research publication record spans multiple topics primarily within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences.

Salamon has contributed extensively to fields such as environmental science, with 65 publications, and earth and planetary sciences, with 32 publications. Their work also covers important subfields including global and planetary change (40 publications), atmospheric science (22 publications), water science and technology (20 publications), oceanography (8 publications), and environmental engineering (4 publications).

Their main research topics include flood risk assessment and management, represented in 52 publications, hydrology and watershed management studies with 40, followed by hydrology and drought analysis and meteorological phenomena and simulations, each with 16 publications. Other notable topics are precipitation measurement and analysis and tropical and extratropical cyclones research, each with 10 publications, along with cryospheric studies and observations (8 publications).

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Salamon include:

Christel Prudhomme (10 collaborations)
Francesco Dottori (10 collaborations)
Stefania Grimaldi (9 collaborations)
Ervin Zsótér (7 collaborations)
Lorenzo Alfieri (6 collaborations)

Salamon's research has been published in several prominent venues, including:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 5 publications
Earth system science data - 3 publications
Natural hazards and earth system sciences - 3 publications
Hydrology and earth system sciences - 2 publications
Journal of Hydrometeorology - 2 publications

Notable recent publications by Salamon include:

"GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979-present", 2020, Earth system science data
"River flood hazard maps for Europe and the Mediterranean Basin region", 2021, Publications Office of the European Union
"A new dataset of river flood hazard maps for Europe and the Mediterranean Basin", 2022, Earth system science data
"Daily ensemble river discharge reforecasts and real-time forecasts from the operational Global Flood Awareness System", 2023, Hydrology and earth system sciences
"Hydrological performance of the ERA5 reanalysis for flood modeling in Tunisia with the LISFLOOD and GR4J models", 2022, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

Best Publications

The marine viromes of four oceanic regions

Florent E Angly;Ben Felts;Mya Breitbart;Peter Salamon

1143
Citations
Metagenomic Analyses of an Uncultured Viral Community from Human Feces

Mya Breitbart;Ian Hewson;Ben Felts;Joseph M. Mahaffy

948
Citations
Global projections of river flood risk in a warmer world

Lorenzo Alfieri;Berny Bisselink;Francesco Dottori;Gustavo Naumann

854
Citations
Lytic to temperate switching of viral communities

B. Knowles;C. B. Silveira;B. A. Bailey;K. Barott

690
Citations
Metagenomic and Small-Subunit rRNA Analyses Reveal the Genetic Diversity of Bacteria, Archaea, Fungi, and Viruses in Soil

Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;Mya Breitbart;James Nulton;Peter Salamon

678
Citations
Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments.

Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Lin Lin Li;Linda Wegley;Mike Furlan

493
Citations
Development and evaluation of a framework for global flood hazard mapping

Francesco Dottori;Peter Salamon;Alessandra Bianchi;Lorenzo Alfieri

443
Citations
A review and numerical assessment of the random walk particle tracking method.

Peter Salamon;Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia;J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández

406
Citations
Operational early warning systems for water-related hazards in Europe

Lorenzo Alfieri;Peter Salamon;Florian Pappenberger;Fredrik Wetterhall

349
Citations
Advances in pan-European flood hazard mapping

Lorenzo Alfieri;Peter Salamon;Alessandra Bianchi;Jeffrey Neal

341
Citations
Usefulness and limitations of global flood risk models

Philip J. Ward;Brenden Jongman;Brenden Jongman;Peter Salamon;Alanna Simpson

312
Citations
GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979–present

Shaun Harrigan;Ervin Zsoter;Lorenzo Alfieri;Christel Prudhomme;Christel Prudhomme

301
Citations
Technical review of large-scale hydrological models for implementation in operational flood forecasting schemes on continental level

A. Kauffeldt;F. Wetterhall;F. Pappenberger;P. Salamon

300
Citations
Continental and global scale flood forecasting systems

Rebecca E. Emerton;Rebecca E. Emerton;Elisabeth M. Stephens;Florian Pappenberger;Thomas C. Pagano

292
Citations
Fluvial flood risk in Europe in present and future climates

Luc Feyen;Rutger Dankers;Katalin Bódis;Peter Salamon

284
Citations
Developments in large-scale coastal flood hazard mapping

Michalis I. Vousdoukas;Evangelos Voukouvalas;Lorenzo Mentaschi;Francesco Dottori

260
Citations
The credibility challenge for global fluvial flood risk analysis

Mark Trigg;Cathryn Birch;Jeffrey Neal;Paul Bates

241
Citations
A software framework for construction of process-based stochastic spatio-temporal models and data assimilation

Derek Karssenberg;Oliver Schmitz;Peter Salamon;Kor de Jong

241
Citations
How do I know if my forecasts are better? Using benchmarks in hydrological ensemble prediction

F. Pappenberger;F. Pappenberger;F. Pappenberger;M. H. Ramos;H. L. Cloke;F. Wetterhall

201
Citations
Assessing parameter, precipitation, and predictive uncertainty in a distributed hydrological model using sequential data assimilation with the particle filter

Peter Salamon;Luc Feyen

191
Citations
The impact of lake and reservoir parameterization on global streamflow simulation

Zuzanna Zajac;Beatriz Revilla-Romero;Peter Salamon;Peter Burek

182
Citations
Evaluation of ensemble streamflow predictions in Europe

Lorenzo Alfieri;Florian Pappenberger;Fredrik Wetterhall;Thomas Haiden

174
Citations
Calibration of the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) using daily streamflow data

Feyera A. Hirpa;Peter Salamon;Hylke E. Beck;Valerio Lorini

173
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Lorenzo Alfieri European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Luc Feyen Stanford University

Paul D Bates University of Bristol

Christel Prudhomme European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Hannah Cloke University of Reading

Fredrik Wetterhall European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Philip J. Ward Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Peter Burek International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Hessel Winsemius Delft University of Technology

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