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Thorsten Wagener

Thorsten Wagener

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Environmental Sciences
UK
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
91
Citations
35075
World Ranking
555
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Thorsten Wagener is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and specializes in environmental science with a particular focus on hydrology and watershed management. They have contributed extensively to the study of flood risk assessment, groundwater flow, drought analysis, water resources management, and landslides associated with environmental hazards.

Wagener's research covers several specific topics which include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Landslides and Related Hazards
  • Water Resources Management and Optimization

Their work is also categorized under major environmental science subfields such as:

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

Thorsten Wagener has frequently published in respected scientific venues including:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Water Resources Research
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Journal of Hydrology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management" (2022) published in Nature
  • "CAMELS-GB: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain" (2020) published in Earth System Science Data
  • "Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene" (2020) published in Water Resources Research
  • "How climate change and unplanned urban sprawl bring more landslides" (2022) published in Nature
  • "The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision" (2020) published in One Earth

Wagener collaborates regularly with other researchers, including:

  • Robert Reinecke
  • Francesca Pianosi
  • Gemma Coxon
  • Marc F. P. Bierkens
  • Tom Gleeson

In 2020, Thorsten Wagener was recognized as a member of the European Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Sensitivity analysis of environmental models

    Francesca Pianosi;Keith Beven;Jim Freer;Jim W. Hall

  • A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

    M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

  • Karst water resources in a changing world: Review of hydrological modeling approaches

    Andreas J Hartmann;N. Goldscheider;Thorsten Wagener;J. Lange

  • Catchment Classification and Hydrologic Similarity

    Thorsten Wagener;Murugesu Sivapalan;Peter A. Troch;Ross A Woods

  • “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022

    A. Montanari;G. Young;H.H.G. Savenije;D.A. Hughes

  • Drought in the Anthropocene

    Anne F. Van Loon;Tom Gleeson;Julian Clark;Albert I J M Van Dijk

  • Towards reduced uncertainty in conceptual rainfall-runoff modelling: Dynamic identifiability analysis

    Thorsten Wagener;N McIntyre;M J Lees;H S Wheater

  • Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX): An overview of science strategy and major results from the second and third workshops

    Q. Duan;J. Schaake;V. Andréassian;S. Franks

  • Runoff prediction in ungauged basins: Synthesis across processes, places and scales

    Günter Blöschl;Murugesu Sivapalan;Thorsten Wagener;Alberto Viglione

  • Reconciling theory with observations: elements of a diagnostic approach to model evaluation

    Hoshin V. Gupta;Thorsten Wagener;Yuqiong Liu

  • A framework for development and application of hydrological models

    Thorsten Wagener;Douglas P. Boyle;Douglas P. Boyle;Matthew J. Lees;Howard S. Wheater

  • The future of hydrology: an evolving science for a changing world.

    Thorsten Wagener;Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan;Peter A. Troch;Brian L. McGlynn

  • A Matlab toolbox for Global Sensitivity Analysis

    Francesca Pianosi;Fanny Sarrazin;Thorsten Wagener

  • Framework for Understanding Structural Errors (FUSE): A modular framework to diagnose differences between hydrological models

    Martyn P. Clark;Andrew G. Slater;David E. Rupp;Ross A. Woods

  • A process-based diagnostic approach to model evaluation: Application to the NWS distributed hydrologic model

    Koray K. Yilmaz;Hoshin V. Gupta;Thorsten Wagener

  • Regionalization of constraints on expected watershed response behavior for improved predictions in ungauged basins

    Maitreya Yadav;Thorsten Wagener;Hoshin Gupta

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

    Ying Fan;M. Clark;D. M. Lawrence;S. Swenson

  • Catchment classification: Empirical analysis of hydrologic similarity based on catchment function in the eastern USA

    K. Sawicz;T. Wagener;M. Sivapalan;M. Sivapalan;P. A. Troch

  • A simple and efficient method for global sensitivity analysis based onźcumulative distribution functions

    Francesca Pianosi;Thorsten Wagener

  • Rainfall-runoff modelling in gauged and ungauged catchments

    Thorsten Wagener;Howard S Wheater;Hoshin V Gupta

  • A formal framework for scenario development in support of environmental decision-making

    Mohammed Mahmoud;Yuqiong Liu;Holly Hartmann;Steven Stewart

  • Sensitivity Analysis of Environmental Models: A Systematic Review with Practical Workflow

    F. Pianosi;T. Wagener;J. Rougier;J. Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Freer
Jim Freer University of Bristol
Hoshin V. Gupta
Hoshin V. Gupta University of Arizona
Patrick M. Reed
Patrick M. Reed Cornell University
Ross Woods
Ross Woods University of Bristol
Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Neil McIntyre
Neil McIntyre University of Queensland
Tom Gleeson
Tom Gleeson University of Victoria
Berit Arheimer
Berit Arheimer Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Brian L. McGlynn
Brian L. McGlynn Duke University
Dawei Han
Dawei Han University of Bristol

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