Ben Livneh

11.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
116 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Ben Livneh is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Livneh has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 73 papers in Water Science and Technology and 57 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Ben Livneh's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (70 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (40 papers) and Climate variability and models (40 papers). Ben Livneh is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (70 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (40 papers) and Climate variability and models (40 papers). Ben Livneh collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Ben Livneh's co-authors include Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Andrew M. Badger, N. P. Molotch, Bart Nijssen, Youlong Xia, Michael Ek, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Justin Sheffield, Lifeng Luo and Helin Wei and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ben Livneh

109 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products

2011 1.0k citations Ben Livneh, Dennis P. Lettenmaier et al. profile →
Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

2020 632 citations Park Williams, Edward R. Cook et al. Science profile →
A Long-Term Hydrologically Based Dataset of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States: Update and Extensions

2013 529 citations Ben Livneh, Eric A. Rosenberg et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 2. Validation of model‐simulated streamflow

2011 374 citations Ben Livneh et al. profile →
A spatially comprehensive, hydrometeorological data set for Mexico, the U.S., and Southern Canada 1950–2013

2015 332 citations Ben Livneh, T. J. Bohn et al. profile →
Spatial variation of the rain–snow temperature threshold across the Northern Hemisphere

2018 292 citations Keith S. Jennings, Ben Livneh et al. profile →
Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage

2023 255 citations Fangfang Yao, Ben Livneh et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Livneh United States	38	4.7k	3.6k	3.3k	1.3k	515	116	7.5k
Brecht Martens Belgium	21	4.5k 1.0×	3.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	668 1.3×	36	6.6k
Lifeng Luo United States	35	4.1k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	448 0.9×	94	6.1k
Gonzalo Miguez‐Macho Spain	35	3.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	577 1.1×	87	5.5k
Niko Wanders Netherlands	44	4.7k 1.0×	1.9k 0.5×	3.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	508 1.0×	120	7.7k
Emanuel Dutra United Kingdom	43	5.5k 1.2×	4.0k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	628 1.2×	100	7.7k
Agnès Ducharne France	33	3.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	678 1.3×	86	5.1k
Boris Orlowsky Switzerland	16	4.7k 1.0×	3.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.4×	2.3k 1.7×	368 0.7×	26	6.7k
Martin Hirschi Switzerland	29	5.9k 1.2×	4.3k 1.2×	1.9k 0.6×	2.9k 2.1×	458 0.9×	55	8.4k
Jun Qin China	47	5.0k 1.0×	5.4k 1.5×	1.5k 0.4×	2.6k 1.9×	872 1.7×	121	9.2k
Martin Best United Kingdom	25	4.6k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	2.0k 1.5×	436 0.8×	50	6.6k

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Livneh, Ben, Fernando L. Rosario‐Ortiz, Fangfang Yao, et al.. (2025). Wildfires drive multi-year water quality degradation over the western United States. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Bhaskar, Aditi S., et al.. (2024). Understanding Spatiotemporal Patterns and Drivers of Urban Flooding Using Municipal Reports. Hydrological Processes. 38(12).

Abolafia‐Rosenzweig, Ronnie, Cenlin He, Fei Chen, et al.. (2024). Evaluating Noah‐MP Simulated Runoff and Snowpack in Heavily Burned Pacific‐Northwest Snow‐Dominated Catchments. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(9). 3 indexed citations

Musselman, K. N., et al.. (2023). Effects of Snow Water Storage on Hydrologic Partitioning Across the Mountainous, Western United States. Water Resources Research. 59(8). 9 indexed citations

Livneh, Ben, et al.. (2023). A 21st‐Century perspective on snow drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 59(2). 396–415. 21 indexed citations

Livneh, Ben, et al.. (2023). A data-driven evaluation of post-fire landslide susceptibility. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(4). 1631–1652. 14 indexed citations

Jennings, Keith S., et al.. (2023). Recent decreases in snow water storage in western North America. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 170–170. 50 indexed citations

Wobus, Cameron, et al.. (2022). Water Allocation, Return Flows, and Economic Value in Water-Scarce Environments: Results from a Coupled Natural-Human System Model. Water. 14(20). 3280–3280. 1 indexed citations

Badger, Andrew M., et al.. (2021). A multi‐sensor evaluation of precipitation uncertainty for landslide‐triggering storm events. Hydrological Processes. 35(7). e14260–e14260. 6 indexed citations

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Livneh, Ben, Sarah C. Elmendorf, N. P. Molotch, et al.. (2021). Catchment‐scale observations at the Niwot Ridge long‐term ecological research site. Hydrological Processes. 35(9). 8 indexed citations

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Williams, Park, Edward R. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, et al.. (2020). Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought. Science. 368(6488). 314–318. 632 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abolafia‐Rosenzweig, Ronnie, Ben Livneh, Eric E. Small, & Sujay V. Kumar. (2019). Soil Moisture Data Assimilation to Estimate Irrigation Water Use. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(11). 3670–3690. 52 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qinghuan, Qiuhong Tang, John F. Knowles, & Ben Livneh. (2019). Contribution of model parameter uncertainty to future hydrological projections. 7 indexed citations

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Hein, Christopher J., John E. Ten Hoeve, Sathya Gopalakrishnan, et al.. (2018). Overcoming early career barriers to interdisciplinary climate change research. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 9(5). 36 indexed citations

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Small, Eric E., et al.. (2018). Controls on surface soil drying rates observed by SMAP and simulated by the Noah land surface model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(3). 1649–1663. 58 indexed citations

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Hoerling, Martin P., et al.. (2015). How Has Human-induced Climate Change Affected California Drought Risk?. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Livneh, Ben, et al.. (2015). Assessing Causes of Hydrologic Climate Extremes in the Upper Missouri Basin. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 2 indexed citations

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Livneh, Ben, Eric A. Rosenberg, Bart Nijssen, et al.. (2013). A Long-Term Hydrologically Based Dataset of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States: Update and Extensions. Journal of Climate. 26(23). 9384–9392. 529 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bohn, T. J., М. В. Глаголев, R. Schroeder, et al.. (2012). Bracketing the range of lake and wetland methane emissions rates in West Siberia using models, in situ observations, and remote sensing. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 6622.

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Livneh, Ben & Dennis P. Lettenmaier. (2012). Multi-criteria parameter estimation for the Unified Land Model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(8). 3029–3048. 35 indexed citations

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