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Peter Troch 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 Peter Troch sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 678 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Peter Troch 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 Peter Troch sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 87 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Peter Troch is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research outputs primarily span the fields of Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Civil and Structural Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Oceanography.

The main research topics covered by Peter Troch include:

  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Wave and Wind Energy Systems
  • Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Earthquake and Tsunami Effects
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Peter Troch has published extensively in several scientific journals and conference proceedings. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Coastal Engineering Proceedings
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on the Application of Physical Modelling in Coastal and Port Engineering and Science
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Applied Ocean Research

Selected recent papers by Peter Troch include:

  • Efficient response of an onshore Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converter using a one-phase SPH model coupled with a multiphysics library, 2021, Applied Ocean Research
  • Coupling an SPH-based solver with an FEA structural solver to simulate free surface flows interacting with flexible structures, 2023, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Large Scale Experimental Study of the Scour Protection Damage Around a Monopile Foundation Under Combined Wave and Current Conditions, 2020, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • An Inter-Model Comparison for Wave Interactions with Sea Dikes on Shallow Foreshores, 2020, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • Validation of RANS Modelling for Wave Interactions with Sea Dikes on Shallow Foreshores Using a Large-Scale Experimental Dataset, 2020, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter Troch include:

  • Vicky Stratigaki
  • Maximilian Streicher
  • Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Yuri Pepi
  • Alejandro Crespo

In 2015, Peter Troch was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

    M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

  • Catchment Classification and Hydrologic Similarity

    Thorsten Wagener;Murugesu Sivapalan;Peter A. Troch;Ross A Woods

  • The future of hydrology: an evolving science for a changing world.

    Thorsten Wagener;Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan;Peter A. Troch;Brian L. McGlynn

  • Catchment classification: Empirical analysis of hydrologic similarity based on catchment function in the eastern USA

    K. Sawicz;T. Wagener;M. Sivapalan;M. Sivapalan;P. A. Troch

  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

  • Hillslope‐storage Boussinesq model for subsurface flow and variable source areas along complex hillslopes: 1. Formulation and characteristic response

    Peter A. Troch;Claudio Paniconi;E. Emiel van Loon

  • Improved understanding of soil moisture variability dynamics

    Adriaan J. Teuling;Peter A. Troch

  • Effective water table depth to describe initial conditions prior to storm rainfall in humid regions

    Peter A. Troch;François P. De Troch;Wilfried Brutsaert

  • A gridded global data set of soil, intact regolith, and sedimentary deposit thicknesses for regional and global land surface modeling

    Jon D. Pelletier;Patrick D. Broxton;Pieter Hazenberg;Xubin Zeng

  • Long-crested wave generation and absorption for SPH-based DualSPHysics model

    Corrado Altomare;J.M. Domínguez;A.J.C. Crespo;J. González-Cao

  • Climate and vegetation water use efficiency at catchment scales

    Peter A. Troch;Guillermo F. Martinez;Valentijn R. N. Pauwels;Matej Durcik

  • Retrieving Soil Moisture Over Bare Soil from ERS 1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Data: Sensitivity Analysis Based on a Theoretical Surface Scattering Model and Field Data

    Elio Altese;Orsola Bolognani;Marco Mancini;Peter A. Troch

  • Climate-vegetation-soil interactions and long-term hydrologic partitioning: signatures of catchment co-evolution

    P. A. Troch;G. Carrillo;M. Sivapalan;Thorsten Wagener;Thorsten Wagener

  • Assimilation of active microwave observation data for soil moisture profile estimation

    Rudi Hoeben;Peter A. Troch

  • Analytical solutions to a hillslope-storage kinematic wave equation for subsurface flow

    Peter Troch;Emiel van Loon;Arno Hilberts

  • Hysteresis of soil moisture spatial heterogeneity and the "homogenizing" effect of vegetation

    Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Simone Fatichi;Simone Fatichi;G. Darrel Jenerette;Javier F. Espeleta

  • The master transit time distribution of variable flow systems

    Ingo Heidbüchel;Peter A. Troch;Steve W. Lyon;Markus Weiler

  • Observed timescales of evapotranspiration response to soil moisture

    A.J. Teuling;S.I. Seneviratne;C. Williams;P.A.A. Troch

  • Spatial scale dependence of ecohydrologically mediated water balance partitioning: A synthesis framework for catchment ecohydrology

    Sally E. Thompson;Sally E. Thompson;Ciaran J. Harman;Peter A. Troch;Paul D. Brooks

  • Comparative hydrology across AmeriFlux sites: The variable roles of climate, vegetation, and groundwater

    S. E. Thompson;C. J. Harman;A. G. Konings;Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan

  • Assimilation of remotely sensed latent heat flux in a distributed hydrological model

    J.M. Schuurmans;P.A.A. Troch;A.A. Veldhuizen;W.G.M. Bastiaanssen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Chorover
Jon Chorover University of Arizona
Ciaran J. Harman
Ciaran J. Harman Johns Hopkins University
Paul D. Brooks
Paul D. Brooks University of Utah
Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Claudio Paniconi
Claudio Paniconi Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Steve W. Lyon
Steve W. Lyon The Ohio State University
Guo-Yue Niu
Guo-Yue Niu University of Arizona
Patrick Meire
Patrick Meire University of Antwerp
Jon D. Pelletier
Jon D. Pelletier University of Arizona

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