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65
Citations
18722
World Ranking
1379
National Ranking
618

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Reed M. Maxwell is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on water-related processes with particular attention to hydrology, groundwater systems, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The subfields in which Reed M. Maxwell has published prominently are:

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

Key topics addressed in their work are:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Several recent publications highlight the scope and focus of Maxwell's research efforts. These include:

  • Evapotranspiration depletes groundwater under warming over the contiguous United States (2020), Nature Communications
  • Global Groundwater Modeling and Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges (2021), Water Resources Research
  • Simulating coupled surface-subsurface flows with ParFlow v3.5.0: capabilities, applications, and ongoing development of an open-source, massively parallel, integrated hydrologic model (2020), Geoscientific model development
  • GMD perspective: The quest to improve the evaluation of groundwater representation in continental- to global-scale models (2021), Geoscientific model development
  • Continental Hydrologic Intercomparison Project, Phase 1: A Large-Scale Hydrologic Model Comparison Over the Continental United States (2021), Water Resources Research

The frequent co-authors of Reed M. Maxwell include:

  • Laura E. Condon
  • Hoang Tran
  • Chen Yang
  • P. Melchior
  • D. Tijerina

Maxwell's research has appeared repeatedly in several scientific venues that reflect the environmental and hydrological focus, such as:

  • Ground Water
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water Resources Research
  • Frontiers in Water
  • Geoscientific Model Development

In recognition of their work, Reed M. Maxwell was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Ground water and climate change

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

  • Integrated surface-groundwater flow modeling: A free-surface overland flow boundary condition in a parallel groundwater flow model

    Stefan J. Kollet;Reed M. Maxwell

  • Capturing the influence of groundwater dynamics on land surface processes using an integrated, distributed watershed model

    Stefan J. Kollet;Stefan J. Kollet;Reed M. Maxwell

  • Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

    Martyn P. Clark;Ying Fan;David M. Lawrence;Jennifer C. Adam

  • Development of a Coupled Land Surface and Groundwater Model

    Reed M. Maxwell;Norman L. Miller

  • Connections between groundwater flow and transpiration partitioning

    Reed M. Maxwell;Laura E. Condon

  • Interdependence of groundwater dynamics and land-energy feedbacks under climate change

    Reed M. Maxwell;Stefan J. Kollet

  • Hyper-resolution global hydrological modelling: what is next?

    Marc F. P. Bierkens;Victoria A. Bell;Peter Burek;Nathaniel Chaney

  • A high-resolution simulation of groundwater and surface water over most of the continental US with the integrated hydrologic model ParFlow v3

    R. M. Maxwell;L. E. Condon;Stefan Kollet

  • Algorithm for Flow Direction Enforcement Using Subgrid-Scale Stream Location Data

    M. H. Daniels;M. H. Daniels;R. M. Maxwell;F. K. Chow

  • Evapotranspiration depletes groundwater under warming over the contiguous United States

    Laura E. Condon;Adam L. Atchley;Reed M. Maxwell

  • A terrain-following grid transform and preconditioner for parallel, large-scale, integrated hydrologic modeling

    Reed M. Maxwell

  • Surface-subsurface model intercomparison: A first set of benchmark results to diagnose integrated hydrology and feedbacks

    Reed M. Maxwell;Mario Putti;Steven Meyerhoff;Jens Olaf Delfs

  • The groundwater land-surface atmosphere connection: Soil moisture effects on the atmospheric boundary layer in fully-coupled simulations

    Reed M. Maxwell;Fotini Katopodes Chow;Stefan J. Kollet

  • Global Groundwater Modeling and Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges

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  • Hydrological Partitioning in the Critical Zone: Recent Advances and Opportunities for Developing Transferable Understanding of Water Cycle Dynamics

    Paul D. Brooks;Jon Chorover;Ying Fan;Sarah E. Godsey

  • Proof of concept of regional scale hydrologic simulations at hydrologic resolution utilizing massively parallel computer resources

    Stefan J. Kollet;Reed M. Maxwell;Carol S. Woodward;Steve Smith

  • Regional Differences in the Influence of Irrigation on Climate

    David Lobell;Govindasamy Bala;Art Mirin;Thomas Phillips

  • Evaluating the relationship between topography and groundwater using outputs from a continental‐scale integrated hydrology model

    Laura E. Condon;Reed M. Maxwell

  • Engineered Infiltration Systems for Urban Stormwater Reclamation

    Janel E. Grebel;Janel E. Grebel;Sanjay K. Mohanty;Sanjay K. Mohanty;Andrew A. Torkelson;Andrew A. Torkelson;Alexandria B. Boehm;Alexandria B. Boehm

  • Bark beetle infestation impacts on nutrient cycling, water quality and interdependent hydrological effects

    Kristin M. Mikkelson;Lindsay A. Bearup;Reed M. Maxwell;John D. Stednick

  • The East River, Colorado, watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological–biogeochemical dynamics

    Susan S. Hubbard;Kenneth Hurst Williams;Deb Agarwal;Jillian Banfield

  • Hydrological effects of forest transpiration loss in bark beetle-impacted watersheds

    Lindsay A. Bearup;Reed M. Maxwell;David W. Clow;John E. McCray

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Kollet
Stefan Kollet Forschungszentrum Jülich
John E. McCray
John E. McCray Colorado School of Mines
Kenneth H. Williams
Kenneth H. Williams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Gochis
David Gochis National Center for Atmospheric Research
Graham E. Fogg
Graham E. Fogg University of California, Davis
Wendy D. Graham
Wendy D. Graham University of Florida
Carl I. Steefel
Carl I. Steefel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David W. Clow
David W. Clow United States Geological Survey
William P. Ball
William P. Ball Johns Hopkins University
Clemens Simmer
Clemens Simmer University of Bonn

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