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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
74
Citations
49390
World Ranking
1306
National Ranking
88

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Petra Döll is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research specializes in Environmental Science with a particular focus on several subfields, including Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, such as:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Water Resources Management and Optimization
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Petra Döll has contributed extensively to academic literature, with publications appearing frequently in the following venues:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Recent papers include:

  • The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems, 2020, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Understanding each other's models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • GMD perspective: The quest to improve the evaluation of groundwater representation in continental- to global-scale models, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Hannes Müller Schmied
  • Claudia Herbert
  • Luis Samaniego
  • Bridget R. Scanlon
  • Rafael Rosolem

Best Publications

  • Climate Change 2014: Impacts,Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente R. Barros;Michael D. Mastrandrea;Katharine J. Mach

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Development and validation of a global database of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands

    Bernhard Lehner;Bernhard Lehner;Petra Döll

  • High‐resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river‐flow management

    Bernhard Lehner;Catherine Reidy Liermann;Carmen Revenga;Charles Vörösmarty

  • Ground water and climate change

    Richard G. Taylor;Bridget R. Scanlon;Petra Döll;Matt Rodell

  • Groundwater use for irrigation - a global inventory

    Stefan Siebert;Jacob Burke;Jean-Marc Faures;Karen Frenken

  • MIRCA2000—Global monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000: A new high‐resolution data set for agricultural and hydrological modeling

    Felix T. Portmann;Stefan Siebert;Stefan Siebert;Petra Döll

  • A global hydrological model for deriving water availability indicators: model tuning and validation

    Petra Döll;Frank Kaspar;Bernhard Lehner

  • Development and testing of the WaterGAP 2 global model of water use and availability

    Joseph Alcamo;Petra Döll;Thomas Henrichs;Frank Kaspar

  • Estimating the Impact of Global Change on Flood and Drought Risks in Europe: A Continental, Integrated Analysis

    Bernhard Lehner;Petra Döll;Joseph Alcamo;Thomas Henrichs

  • The implications of projected climate change for freshwater resources and their management

    Z.W. Kundzewicz;L.J. Mata;Nigel William Arnell;P. Doll

  • Global modeling of irrigation water requirements

    Petra Döll;Stefan Siebert

  • Quantifying blue and green virtual water contents in global crop production as well as potential production losses without irrigation

    Stefan Siebert;Petra Döll

  • Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water

    Eric F. Wood;Joshua K. Roundy;Tara J. Troy;L. P. H. van Beek

  • Global-scale assessment of groundwater depletion and related groundwater abstractions: Combining hydrological modeling with information from well observations and GRACE satellites

    Petra Döll;Hannes Müller Schmied;Carina Schuh;Felix T. Portmann

  • Impact of water withdrawals from groundwater and surface water on continental water storage variations

    P. Döll;H. Hoffmann-Dobrev;F. T. Portmann;S. Siebert

  • Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Irrigation Requirements: A Global Perspective

    Petra Döll

  • Development and validation of the global map of irrigation areas

    Stefan Siebert;Petra Döll;Jippe Hoogeveen;Jean-Marc Faures

  • Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Zizhan Zhang;Himanshu Save;Alexander Y. Sun

  • A Pilot Global Assessment of Environmental Water Requirements and Scarcity

    Vladimir Smakhtin;Carmen Revenga;Petra Doll

  • Global-scale analysis of river flow alterations due to water withdrawals and reservoirs

    Petra Döll;Kristina Fiedler;Jing Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannes Müller Schmied
Hannes Müller Schmied Goethe University Frankfurt
Stefan Siebert
Stefan Siebert University of Göttingen
Jürgen Kusche
Jürgen Kusche University of Bonn
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Stephanie Eisner
Stephanie Eisner University of Kassel
Bernhard Lehner
Bernhard Lehner McGill University
Martina Flörke
Martina Flörke Ruhr University Bochum
Andreas Güntner
Andreas Güntner University of Potsdam
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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