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Valentijn R. N. Pauwels

Valentijn R. N. Pauwels

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
49
Citations
7887
World Ranking
5311
National Ranking
187

Overview

Valentijn R. N. Pauwels is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and specializes in Environmental Science with an emphasis on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Ecology.

Their research focuses primarily on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Frequent collaborators in Pauwels' work include Jeffrey P. Walker, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Luis Samaniego, Manuela Girotto, and Tobias Jonas.

Key recent publications by Pauwels encompass a range of topics related to soil moisture, water cycle components, and rainfall prediction, including:

  • "Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study" (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • "Reanalysis in Earth System Science: Toward Terrestrial Ecosystem Reanalysis" (2021, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • "Perspective on satellite-based land data assimilation to estimate water cycle components in an era of advanced data availability and model sophistication" (2022, Frontiers in Water)
  • "The Soil Moisture Active Passive Experiments: Validation of the SMAP Products in Australia" (2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing)
  • "Deep Learning for an Improved Prediction of Rainfall Retrievals From Commercial Microwave Links" (2020, Water Resources Research)

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Frontiers in Water
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Best Publications

  • The evolution of process-based hydrologic models: historical challenges and the collective quest for physical realism

    Martyn P. Clark;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Luis Samaniego;Ross A. Woods

  • Multiscale assimilation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–EOS snow water equivalent and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer snow cover fraction observations in northern Colorado

    Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Rolf H. Reichle;Kristi R. Arsenault;Paul R. Houser

  • Climate and vegetation water use efficiency at catchment scales

    Peter A. Troch;Guillermo F. Martinez;Valentijn R. N. Pauwels;Matej Durcik

  • SMOS soil moisture assimilation for improved hydrologic simulation in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia

    H. Lievens;S.K. Tomer;A. Al Bitar;G.J.M. De Lannoy

  • The importance of the spatial patterns of remotely sensed soil moisture in the improvement of discharge predictions for small-scale basins through data assimilation

    Valentijn R.N. Pauwels;Rudi Hoeben;Niko E.C. Verhoest;François P. De Troch

  • Correcting for forecast bias in soil moisture assimilation with the ensemble Kalman filter

    Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;Paul R. Houser;Valentijn R. N. Pauwels

  • Towards the sequential assimilation of SAR-derived water stages into hydraulic models using the Particle Filter: proof of concept

    P. Matgen;M. Montanari;R. Hostache;L. Pfister

  • Comparison of data-driven Takagi-Sugeno models of rainfall-discharge dynamics

    Hilde Vernieuwe;Olga Georgieva;Bernard De Baets;Valentijn R.N. Pauwels

  • Remote Sensing-Derived Water Extent and Level to Constrain Hydraulic Flood Forecasting Models: Opportunities and Challenges

    Stefania Grimaldi;Yuan Li;Valentijn R. N. Pauwels;Jeffrey P. Walker

  • Assimilating SAR-derived water level data into a hydraulic model: A case study

    L. Giustarini;P. Matgen;R. Hostache;M. Montanari

  • The importance of hydraulic groundwater theory in catchment hydrology: The legacy of Wilfried Brutsaert and Jean‐Yves Parlange

    Peter A. Troch;Alexis Berne;Patrick Bogaart;Ciaran Harman

  • Flood mapping under vegetation using single SAR acquisitions

    S. Grimaldi;J. Xu;Y. Li;V.R.N. Pauwels

  • Crop Classification Using Short-Revisit Multitemporal SAR Data

    H Skriver;F Mattia;G Satalino;A Balenzano

  • Improved water balance component estimates through joint assimilation of GRACE water storage and SMOS soil moisture retrievals

    Siyuan Tian;Paul Tregoning;Luigi John Renzullo;Albert Ide Jan Martijn van Dijk

  • Optimization of a coupled hydrology-crop growth model through the assimilation of observed soil moisture and leaf area index values using an ensemble Kalman filter

    Valentijn R. N. Pauwels;Niko E. C. Verhoest;Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Vincent Guissard

  • Satellite-Scale Snow Water Equivalent Assimilation into a High-Resolution Land Surface Model

    Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Rolf H. Reichle;Paul R. Houser;Kristi R. Arsenault

  • Comparison of different methods to measure and model actual evapotranspiration rates for a wet sloping grassland

    Valentijn R.N. Pauwels;Roeland Samson

  • Improvement of TOPLATS-based discharge predictions through assimilation of ERS-based remotely sensed soil moisture values

    Valentijn R. N. Pauwels;Rudi Hoeben;Niko E. C. Verhoest;François P. De Troch

  • Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study

    Anna Balenzano;Francesco Mattia;Giuseppe Satalino;Francesco P. Lovergine

  • State and bias estimation for soil moisture profiles by an ensemble Kalman filter: Effect of assimilation depth and frequency

    Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Paul R. Houser;Valentijn R. N. Pauwels;Niko E. C. Verhoest

  • Assessment of model uncertainty for soil moisture through ensemble verification

    Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Paul R. Houser;Valentijn R. N. Pauwels;Niko E. C. Verhoest

  • Multivariate and Multiscale Data Assimilation in Terrestrial Systems: A Review

    Carsten Montzka;Valentijn Rachel Noel Pauwels;Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen;Xujun Han

Frequent Co-Authors

Niko E. C. Verhoest
Niko E. C. Verhoest Ghent University
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University
Rolf H. Reichle
Rolf H. Reichle Goddard Space Flight Center
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen Forschungszentrum Jülich
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency
Patrick Matgen
Patrick Matgen Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

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