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Richard B. Lammers is affiliated with the University of New Hampshire in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to a range of topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, and Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics.

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by Richard B. Lammers are:

  • Differential Impact of Climate Change on the Hydropower Economics of Two River Basins in High Mountain Asia, 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Coordination and control - limits in standard representations of multi-reservoir operations in hydrological modeling, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Distinguishing Direct Human-Driven Effects on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle, 2022, Earth's Future
  • Integrated hydrological, power system and economic modelling of climate impacts on electricity demand and cost, 2022, Nature Energy
  • Water balance model (WBM) v.1.0.0: a scalable gridded global hydrologic model with water-tracking functionality, 2022, Geoscientific Model Development

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Danielle Grogan
  • Shan Zuidema
  • Karen Fisher-Vanden
  • Alexander Prusevich
  • Matthew Lisk

Richard B. Lammers has published notably in several venues with multiple contributions, including:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Global Water Resources: Vulnerability from Climate Change and Population Growth

    Charles J. Vorosmarty;Pamela Green;Joseph E. Salisbury;Richard B. Lammers

  • Increasing river discharge to the Arctic Ocean

    Bruce J Peterson;Robert M Holmes;James W McClelland;Charles J Vörösmarty

  • Coupled Atmosphere–Biophysics–Hydrology Models for Environmental Modeling

    Robert L. Walko;Larry E. Band;Jill Baron;Timothy G. F. Kittel

  • The large-scale freshwater cycle of the Arctic

    Mark C. Serreze;Andrew P. Barrett;Andrew G. Slater;Rebecca A. Woodgate

  • Assessment of contemporary Arctic river runoff based on observational discharge records

    Richard B. Lammers;Alexander I. Shiklomanov;Charles J. Vörösmarty;Balázs M. Fekete

  • Analysis of the Arctic System for Freshwater Cycle Intensification: Observations and Expectations

    Michael A. Rawlins;Michael Steele;Marika M. Holland;Jennifer C. Adam

  • Global system of rivers: Its role in organizing continental land mass and defining land-to-ocean linkages

    Charles J. Vorosmarty;Balazs M. Fekete;M. Meybeck;Richard B. Lammers

  • Widespread decline in hydrological monitoring threatens Pan-Arctic Research

    Alexander I. Shiklomanov;Richard B. Lammers;Charles J. Vorosmarty

  • Large‐scale hydro‐climatology of the terrestrial Arctic drainage system

    Mark C. Serreze;David H. Bromwich;Martyn P. Clark;Andrew J. Etringer

  • Forest ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: basis for distributed simulation

    Larry E. Band;David L. Peterson;Steven W Running;Joseph C. Coughlan

  • THE DYNAMICS OF RIVER WATER INFLOW TO THE ARCTIC OCEAN

    Igor A. Shiklomanov;Alexander I. Shiklomanov;Richard B. Lammers;B. J. Peterson

  • Rising minimum daily flows in northern Eurasian rivers: A growing influence of groundwater in the high‐latitude hydrologic cycle

    Laurence C. Smith;Tamlin M. Pavelsky;Glen M. MacDonald;Alexander I. Shiklomanov

  • Geomorphometric attributes of the global system of rivers at 30-minute spatial resolution

    Charles J. Vorosmarty;Balazs M. Fekete;M. Meybeck;Richard B. Lammers

  • Invisible water, visible impact: groundwater use and Indian agriculture under climate change

    Esha Zaveri;Danielle S Grogan;Karen Fisher-Vanden;Steve Frolking

  • The Arctic Water Resource Vulnerability Index: An Integrated Assessment Tool for Community Resilience and Vulnerability with Respect to Freshwater

    Lilian Alessa;Lilian Alessa;Andrew Kliskey;Richard B. Lammers;Chris Arp

  • Record Russian river discharge in 2007 and the limits of analysis

    Alexander I. Shiklomanov;Richard B. Lammers

  • Scaling gridded river networks for macroscale hydrology: Development, analysis, and control of error

    Balázs M. Fekete;Charles J. Vörösmarty;Richard B. Lammers

  • Cold region river discharge uncertainty—estimates from large Russian rivers

    Alexander I. Shiklomanov;Tatyana I. Yakovleva;Richard B. Lammers;Iosiph Ph. Karasev

  • Flux of nutrients from Russian rivers to the Arctic Ocean: Can we establish a baseline against which to judge future changes?

    R. M. Holmes;B. J. Peterson;V. V. Gordeev;A. V. Zhulidov

  • Temporal and spatial variations in maximum river discharge from a new Russian data set

    Alexander I. Shiklomanov;Richard B. Lammers;M. A. Rawlins;L. C. Smith

  • EFFECTS OF LAND COVER, WATER REDISTRIBUTION, AND TEMPERATURE ON ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES IN THE SOUTH PLATTE BASIN

    Jill S. Baron;Jill S. Baron;Melannie D. Hartman;Timothy G. F. Kittel;Larry E. Band

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander I. Shiklomanov
Alexander I. Shiklomanov University of New Hampshire
Charles J. Vörösmarty
Charles J. Vörösmarty City College of New York
Steve Frolking
Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire
Balázs M. Fekete
Balázs M. Fekete City College of New York
Jill S. Baron
Jill S. Baron United States Geological Survey
Lawrence E. Band
Lawrence E. Band University of Virginia
Dominik Wisser
Dominik Wisser University of Bonn
Kyle C. McDonald
Kyle C. McDonald City College of New York
Mark C. Serreze
Mark C. Serreze University of Colorado Boulder
Timothy G. F. Kittel
Timothy G. F. Kittel University of Colorado Boulder

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