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Sergiy Vorogushyn is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on topics such as Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Their work extensively covers subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Atmospheric Science, with additional contributions to Economics and Econometrics and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Frequent publication venues for Sergiy Vorogushyn include:

  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Water Resources Research
  • Hydrological Sciences Journal

Sergiy Vorogushyn has contributed to several notable papers, including:

  • Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, 2022, Nature
  • Joint Trends in Flood Magnitudes and Spatial Extents Across Europe, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Understanding Heavy Tails of Flood Peak Distributions, 2022, Water Resources Research
  • Do small and large floods have the same drivers of change? A regional attribution analysis in Europe, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences

Collaborations are a significant component of their research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Bruno Merz
  • Nguyễn Việt Dũng
  • Heidi Kreibich
  • Björn Guse
  • Kai Schröter

The research themes covered by Sergiy Vorogushyn focus largely on understanding and assessing flood risks and hydrological phenomena. These include meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, as well as the study of tropical and extratropical cyclones and precipitation measurement and analysis.

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods

    Bruno Merz;Günter Blöschl;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Francesco Dottori

  • Substantial glacier mass loss in the Tien Shan over the past 50 years

    Daniel Farinotti;Laurent Longuevergne;Geir Moholdt;Doris Duethmann

  • Adaptation to flood risk: Results of international paired flood event studies

    Heidi Kreibich;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

  • What do we know about past changes in the water cycle of Central Asian headwaters? A review

    Katy Unger-Shayesteh;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Daniel Farinotti;Abror Gafurov

  • HESS Opinions "More efforts and scientific rigour are needed to attribute trends in flood time series"

    B. Merz;S. Vorogushyn;S. Uhlemann;J. Delgado

  • Attribution of streamflow trends in snow and glacier melt-dominated catchments of the Tarim River, Central Asia

    Doris Duethmann;Tobias Bolch;Daniel Farinotti;David Kriegel

  • A new methodology for flood hazard assessment considering dike breaches

    S. Vorogushyn;B. Merz;K.-E. Lindenschmidt;H. Apel

  • Spatially coherent flood risk assessment based on long-term continuous simulation with a coupled model chain

    Daniela Falter;Kai Schröter;Nguyen Viet Dung;Sergiy Vorogushyn

  • Probabilistic flood hazard mapping: effects of uncertain boundary conditions

    A. Domeneghetti;S. Vorogushyn;A. Castellarin;B. Merz

  • Development of dike fragility curves for piping and micro-instability breach mechanisms

    S. Vorogushyn;B. Merz;H. Apel

  • Continuous, large‐scale simulation model for flood risk assessments: proof‐of‐concept

    D. Falter;N.V. Dung;S. Vorogushyn;K. Schröter

  • Joint Trends in Flood Magnitudes and Spatial Extents Across Europe

    Matthias Kemter;Matthias Kemter;Bruno Merz;Norbert Marwan;Sergiy Vorogushyn

  • Charting unknown waters—On the role of surprise in flood risk assessment and management

    Bruno Merz;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Upmanu Lall;Alberto Viglione

  • The value of satellite-derived snow cover images for calibrating a hydrological model in snow-dominated catchments in Central Asia

    Doris Duethmann;Juliane Peters;Theresa Blume;Sergiy Vorogushyn

  • Changes in glacierisation, climate and runoff in the second half of the 20th century in the Naryn basin, Central Asia

    David Kriegel;Christoph Mayer;Wilfried Hagg;Sergiy Vorogushyn

  • Analysis of a detention basin impact on dike failure probabilities and flood risk for a channel-dike-floodplain system along the river Elbe, Germany

    Sergiy Vorogushyn;Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt;Heidi Kreibich;Heiko Apel

  • Drivers of flood risk change in residential areas

    F. Elmer;J. Hoymann;D. Düthmann;S. Vorogushyn

  • Identification of coherent flood regions across Europe by using the longest streamflow records

    L. Mediero;T.R. Kjeldsen;N. Macdonald;S. Kohnova

  • Do small and large floods have the same drivers of change? A regional attribution analysis in Europe

    Miriam Bertola;Alberto Viglione;Sergiy Vorogushyn;David Lun

  • Hydraulic model evaluation for large‐scale flood risk assessments

    Daniela Falter;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Julien Lhomme;Heiko Apel

  • The Value of Empirical Data for Estimating the Parameters of a Sociohydrological Flood Risk Model

    M. H. Barendrecht;A. Viglione;H. Kreibich;B. Merz

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Merz
Bruno Merz University of Potsdam
Heidi Kreibich
Heidi Kreibich Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Heiko Apel
Heiko Apel University of Potsdam
Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Andreas Güntner
Andreas Güntner University of Potsdam
Attilio Castellarin
Attilio Castellarin University of Bologna
Matthias Huss
Matthias Huss University of Fribourg
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol

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