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Vazken Andréassian

Vazken Andréassian

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
20648
World Ranking
3020
National Ranking
118

Overview

Vazken Andréassian is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily addresses topics within Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis. Additional focus areas include Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Assessing the performance and robustness of two conceptual rainfall-runoff models on a worldwide sample of watersheds, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Hydrograph separation: an impartial parametrisation for an imperfect method, 2020, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Streamflow naturalization methods: a review, 2020, Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves, 2022, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • A combined mixing model for high-frequency concentration-discharge relationships, 2020, Journal of Hydrology

They have frequently published in the following venues:

  • Hydrology and earth system sciences (9 publications)
  • Hydrological Sciences Journal (5 publications)
  • Comptes Rendus Géoscience (5 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (4 publications)
  • LHB (4 publications)

Vazken Andréassian collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Charles Perrin (17 joint publications)
  • Guillaume Thirel (9 joint publications)
  • Olivier Delaigue (7 joint publications)
  • Alban de Lavenne (6 joint publications)
  • François Bourgin (6 joint publications)

Their work contributes to a broad spectrum of environmental and hydrological research, emphasizing conceptual rainfall-runoff models, hydrograph separation methods, and streamflow naturalization. Their collaboration network and choice of publication venues highlight their engagement with the hydrology and earth system sciences community.

Best Publications

  • Improvement of a parsimonious model for streamflow simulation

    Charles Perrin;Claude Michel;Vazken Andréassian

  • Position paper: Characterising performance of environmental models

    Neil D. Bennett;Barry F. W. Croke;Giorgio Guariso;Joseph H. A. Guillaume

  • Which potential evapotranspiration input for a lumped rainfall-runoff model?. Part 2: Towards a simple and efficient potential evapotranspiration model for rainfall-runoff modelling

    Ludovic Oudin;Frédéric Hervieu;Claude Michel;Charles Perrin

  • Waters and forests: from historical controversy to scientific debate

    Vazken Andréassian

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

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

  • Does a large number of parameters enhance model performance? Comparative assessment of common catchment model structures on 429 catchments

    C. Perrin;C. Michel;V. Andréassian

  • 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

  • Spatial proximity, physical similarity, regression and ungaged catchments: A comparison of regionalization approaches based on 913 French catchments

    Ludovic Oudin;Vazken Andréassian;Charles Perrin;Claude Michel

  • Crash testing hydrological models in contrasted climate conditions: An experiment on 216 Australian catchments

    L. Coron;Vazken Andréassian;C. Perrin;J. Lerat

  • A review of efficiency criteria suitable for evaluating low-flow simulations

    Raji Pushpalatha;Charles Perrin;Nicolas Le Moine;Vazken Andréassian

  • Impact of imperfect rainfall knowledge on the efficiency and the parameters of watershed models

    Vazken Andréassian;Charles Perrin;Claude Michel;Iolanda Usart-Sanchez

  • Are seemingly physically similar catchments truly hydrologically similar

    Ludovic Oudin;Alison Kay;Vazken Andréassian;Charles Perrin

  • The suite of lumped GR hydrological models in an R package

    Laurent Coron;Guillaume Thirel;Olivier Delaigue;Charles Perrin

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

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

  • Stepwise development of a two-parameter monthly water balance model

    Safouane Mouelhi;Claude Michel;Charles Perrin;Vazken Andréassian

  • Soil Conservation Service Curve Number method: How to mend a wrong soil moisture accounting procedure?

    Claude Michel;Vazken Andréassian;Charles Perrin

  • Dynamic averaging of rainfall‐runoff model simulations from complementary model parameterizations

    Ludovic Oudin;Vazken Andréassian;Thibault Mathevet;Charles Perrin

  • ‘As simple as possible but not simpler’: What is useful in a temperature-based snow-accounting routine? Part 2 – Sensitivity analysis of the Cemaneige snow accounting routine on 380 catchments

    Audrey Valéry;Vazken Andréassian;Charles Perrin

  • Impact of biased and randomly corrupted inputs on the efficiency and the parameters of watershed models

    Ludovic Oudin;Charles Perrin;Thibault Mathevet;Vazken Andréassian

  • When does higher spatial resolution rainfall information improve streamflow simulation? An evaluation using 3620 flood events

    F. Lobligeois;Vazken Andréassian;C. Perrin;P. Tabary

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Perrin
Charles Perrin University of Paris-Saclay
Ludovic Oudin
Ludovic Oudin Sorbonne University
François Anctil
François Anctil Université Laval
Hoshin V. Gupta
Hoshin V. Gupta University of Arizona
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam
Jai Vaze
Jai Vaze Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Qingyun Duan
Qingyun Duan Hohai University
Jean-Marie Mouchel
Jean-Marie Mouchel Université Paris Cité
Alberto Montanari
Alberto Montanari University of Bologna
Terri S. Hogue
Terri S. Hogue Colorado School of Mines

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