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Overview

Philip Brunner is affiliated with the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Their research broadly covers environmental science with a particular focus on hydrology and watershed management studies.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of study where Brunner has significant contributions are:

  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

Main topics covered in their scientific work include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods

Brunner has contributed articles to several frequent publication venues such as:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • HydroShare Resources
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences

Recent scientific papers authored or coauthored by Brunner include:

  • Low-flow behavior of alpine catchments with varying quaternary cover under current and future climatic conditions, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Advancing measurements and representations of subsurface heterogeneity and dynamic processes: towards 4D hydrogeology, 2023, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • A Framework for Untangling Transient Groundwater Mixing and Travel Times, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • Simulating Fully-Integrated Hydrological Dynamics in Complex Alpine Headwaters: Potential and Challenges, 2022, Water Resources Research
  • Salix psammophila afforestations can cause a decline of the water table, prevent groundwater recharge and reduce effective infiltration, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including:

  • Daniel Hunkeler
  • Rolf Kipfer
  • Hugo Delottier
  • Morgan Peel
  • Oliver S. Schilling

In addition to articles, Brunner has a book publication titled Quantification of Groundwater Recharge, set to be published in 2025 under The Groundwater Project eBooks.

Best Publications

  • HydroGeoSphere: A Fully Integrated, Physically Based Hydrological Model

    Philip Brunner;Craig T. Simmons

  • Hydrogeologic controls on disconnection between surface water and groundwater

    Philip Andreas Brunner;Peter G Cook;Craig Trevor Simmons

  • Advances in understanding river-groundwater interactions

    Philip Brunner;René Therrien;Philippe Renard;Craig T. Simmons

  • Evaluation of outputs from automated baseflow separation methods against simulated baseflow from a physically based, surface water-groundwater flow model

    Daniel Partington;Philip Brunner;Craig Simmons;Adrian Werner

  • How can remote sensing contribute in groundwater modeling

    P. Brunner;H.-J.Hendricks Franssen;L. Kgotlhang;Peter Bauer-Gottwein

  • Modeling surface water-groundwater interaction with MODFLOW: some considerations.

    Philip Brunner;Craig T. Simmons;Peter G. Cook;René Therrien

  • Introductory overview of identifiability analysis : A guide to evaluating whether you have the right type of data for your modeling purpose

    Joseph H. A. Guillaume;Joseph H. A. Guillaume;John D. Jakeman;Stefano Marsili-Libelli;Michael Asher

  • Spatial and temporal aspects of the transition from connection to disconnection between rivers, lakes and groundwater

    Philip Brunner;Craig T. Simmons;Peter G. Cook

  • Disconnected surface water and groundwater: from theory to practice.

    Philip Brunner;Peter G. Cook;Peter G. Cook;Craig T. Simmons

  • Groundwater inflow to a shallow, poorly-mixed wetland estimated from a mass balance of radon

    P Cook;Cameron Wood;Troy White;Craig Simmons

  • Solute dynamics during bank storage flows and implications for chemical base flow separation

    James L. McCallum;Peter G. Cook;Peter G. Cook;Philip Brunner;Dawit Berhane

  • Heterogeneous or homogeneous? Implications of simplifying heterogeneous streambeds in models of losing streams

    Dylan Irvine;Philip Brunner;Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen;Craig Trevor Simmons

  • Using remote sensing to regionalize local precipitation recharge rates obtained from the Chloride Method

    Philip Brunner;Peter Bauer;Martin Eugster;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Sustainable groundwater management — problems and scientific tools

    Wolfgang Kinzelbach;Peter Bauer;Tobias Siegfried;Philip Brunner

  • Beyond Classical Observations in Hydrogeology: The Advantages of Including Exchange Flux, Temperature, Tracer Concentration, Residence Time, and Soil Moisture Observations in Groundwater Model Calibration

    Oliver S. Schilling;Oliver S. Schilling;Peter G. Cook;Philip Brunner

  • An analysis of river bank slope and unsaturated flow effects on bank storage

    Rebecca Doble;Philip Brunner;James McCallum;Peter G. Cook;Peter G. Cook

  • Uncertainty assessment and implications for data acquisition in support of integrated hydrologic models

    Philip Brunner;John Doherty;Craig Simmons

  • Field assessment of surface water–groundwater connectivity in a semi-arid river basin (Murray–Darling, Australia)

    Sébastien Lamontagne;Sébastien Lamontagne;A. R Taylor;Peter G Cook;Peter G Cook;R. S Crosbie

  • Generating soil electrical conductivity maps at regional level by integrating measurements on the ground and remote sensing data

    P. Brunner;H. T. Li;W. Kinzelbach;W. P. Li

  • A hydraulic mixing-cell method to quantify the groundwater component of streamflow within spatially distributed fully integrated surface water-groundwater flow models

    D. Partington;P. Brunner;C. T. Simmons;R. Therrien

  • Geology controls streamflow dynamics

    Claire Carlier;Stefanie B. Wirth;Fabien Cochand;Daniel Hunkeler

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig T. Simmons
Craig T. Simmons University of Newcastle Australia
Daniel Hunkeler
Daniel Hunkeler University of Neuchâtel
Peter G. Cook
Peter G. Cook Flinders University
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen Forschungszentrum Jülich
René Therrien
René Therrien Université Laval
Harry Vereecken
Harry Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich
Rolf Kipfer
Rolf Kipfer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Adrian D. Werner
Adrian D. Werner Flinders University
Edward A. Sudicky
Edward A. Sudicky University of Waterloo

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