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Rohini Kumar is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany, contributing extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist focuses on several key topics within environmental research. These include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Climate variability and models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies.

Rohini Kumar has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in specific scholarly venues. These include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Water Resources Research, Earth s Future, Hydrology and earth system sciences, and Environmental Research Letters.

Their recent papers feature contributions to topics on drought, climate change, and water quality. Notable papers include:

  • Increased future occurrences of the exceptional 2018-2019 Central European drought under global warming (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • The 2018-2020 Multi-Year Drought Sets a New Benchmark in Europe (2022, Earth s Future)
  • Global river water quality under climate change and hydroclimatic extremes (2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Moist heat stress extremes in India enhanced by irrigation (2020, Nature Geoscience)
  • The rise of compound warm-season droughts in Europe (2021, Science Advances)

Throughout their career, Rohini Kumar has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Regular coauthors include Oldřich Rakovec, Luis Samaniego, Sabine Attinger, Andréas Musolff, and Stephan Thober.

Best Publications

  • Multiscale parameter regionalization of a grid-based hydrologic model at the mesoscale

    Luis Samaniego;Rohini Kumar;Sabine Attinger;Sabine Attinger

  • Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts

    L. Samaniego;S. Thober;R. Kumar;N. Wanders

  • Increased future occurrences of the exceptional 2018-2019 Central European drought under global warming

    Vittal Hari;Oldrich Rakovec;Oldrich Rakovec;Yannis Markonis;Martin Hanel

  • The 2018–2020 Multi‐Year Drought Sets a New Benchmark in Europe

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  • Implications of distributed hydrologic model parameterization on water fluxes at multiple scales and locations

    Rohini Kumar;Luis Samaniego;Sabine Attinger;Sabine Attinger

  • Revisiting the recent European droughts from a long-term perspective.

    Martin Hanel;Oldřich Rakovec;Oldřich Rakovec;Yannis Markonis;Petr Máca

  • Large-sample hydrology: a need to balance depth with breadth

    H. V. Gupta;C. Perrin;G. Blöschl;A. Montanari

  • Global river water quality under climate change and hydroclimatic extremes

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  • On the choice of calibration metrics for “high-flow” estimation using hydrologic models

    Naoki Mizukami;Oldrich Rakovec;Oldrich Rakovec;Andrew J. Newman;Martyn P. Clark;Martyn P. Clark

  • Moist heat stress extremes in India enhanced by irrigation

    Vimal Mishra;Anukesh Krishnankutty Ambika;Akarsh Asoka;Saran Aadhar

  • Climate change alters low flows in Europe under global warming of 1.5, 2, and 3 °C

    Andreas Marx;Rohini Kumar;Stephan Thober;Oldrich Rakovec;Oldrich Rakovec

  • The German drought monitor

    Matthias Zink;Luis Samaniego;Rohini Kumar;Stephan Thober

  • Multiscale evaluation of the Standardized Precipitation Index as a groundwater drought indicator

    Rohini Kumar;Jude L. Musuuza;Jude L. Musuuza;Anne F. Van Loon;Anne F. Van Loon;Adriaan J. Teuling

  • Multiscale and Multivariate Evaluation of Water Fluxes and States over European River Basins

    Oldrich Rakovec;Rohini Kumar;Juliane Mai;Matthias Cuntz

  • Implications of Parameter Uncertainty on Soil Moisture Drought Analysis in Germany

    Luis Samaniego;Rohini Kumar;Matthias Zink

  • Heat wave exposure in India in current, 1.5 °C, and 2.0 °C worlds

    Vimal Mishra;Sourav Mukherjee;Rohini Kumar;Dáithí A Stone

  • On the frequency of the 2015 monsoon season drought in the Indo-Gangetic Plain

    Vimal Mishra;Saran Aadhar;Akarsh Asoka;Sivananda Pai

  • Dominant control of agriculture and irrigation on urban heat island in India

    Rahul Kumar;Vimal Mishra;Jonathan Buzan;Rohini Kumar

  • A comparison of changes in river runoff from multiple global and catchment-scale hydrological models under global warming scenarios of 1 °C, 2 °C and 3 °C

    Simon N. Gosling;Jamal Zaherpour;Nick J. Mount;Fred F. Hattermann

  • The rise of compound warm-season droughts in Europe.

    Yannis Markonis;Rohini Kumar;Martin Hanel;Oldrich Rakovec;Oldrich Rakovec

  • Toward seamless hydrologic predictions across spatial scales

    Luis Samaniego;Rohini Kumar;Stephan Thober;Oldrich Rakovec

  • Intercomparison of regional-scale hydrological models and climate change impacts projected for 12 large river basins worldwide—a synthesis

    Valentina Krysanova;Tobias Vetter;Stephanie Eisner;Shaochun Huang;Shaochun Huang

  • Multi-model ensemble projections of European river floods and high flows at 1.5, 2, and 3 degrees global warming

    Stephan Thober;Rohini Kumar;Niko Wanders;Andreas Marx

  • Streamflow prediction in ungauged catchments using copula‐based dissimilarity measures

    Luis Samaniego;András Bárdossy;Rohini Kumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis Samaniego
Luis Samaniego Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Sabine Attinger
Sabine Attinger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jan H. Fleckenstein
Jan H. Fleckenstein University of Bayreuth
Niko Wanders
Niko Wanders Utrecht University
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Matthias Cuntz
Matthias Cuntz University of Lorraine
Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
Vimal Mishra
Vimal Mishra Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan

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