Bettina Schaefli

8.4k citations

105 papers · 4.3k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 32

Impact in

Water Science and Technology top 0.2%
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate variability and models
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Papers in

Water Science and Technology 89
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies 89
Atmospheric Science 52
- Cryospheric studies and observations 42
- Climate change and permafrost 15
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis 11

Co-authors: Hoshin V. Gupta H. H. G. Savenije Benoît Hingray Ruud van der Ent Susan Steele‐Dunne A. Musy Moctar Dembélé Grégoire Mariethoz
Journals: Hydrology and earth system sciences (23 papers)Water Resources Research (9 papers)Journal of Hydrology (6 papers)Hydrological Processes (5 papers)Advances in Water Resources (3 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland Netherlands United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Bettina Schaefli

97 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Origin and fate of atmospheric moisture over continents 2010 · 662 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 Water Resources Research
2007 Hydrological Processes

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1	Scale dependency in modeling nivo-glacial hydrological systems: the case of the Arolla basin, Switzerland Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Anne-Laure Argentin, Pascal Horton, Bettina Schaefli, Jamal Abdul Naser Shokory, Felix Pitscheider, Leona Repnik, Mattia Gianini, Simone Bizzi, Stuart N. Lane, Francesco Comiti	2025	0
2	Separating snow and ice melt using water stable isotopes and glacio-hydrological modelling: towards improving the application of isotope analyses in highly glacierized catchments The cryosphere ·Tom Müller, Mauro Fischer, Stuart N. Lane, Bettina Schaefli	2025	2
3	Glacier-influenced hydrological regimes in the Afghanistan Hindu Kush Himalaya under current and future climate Hydrology research ·Jamal Abdul Naser Shokory, Pascal Horton, Bettina Schaefli, Stuart N. Lane	2025	0
4	On the role of lake level management in modulating climate change impacts on perialpine lakes Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies ·Tobias Wechsler, Florian Lustenberger, Andreas Inderwildi, Jacob Hirschberg, Bettina Schaefli, Massimiliano Zappa	2024	4
5	Current and future roles of meltwater–groundwater dynamics in a proglacial Alpine outwash plain Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Tom Müller, Matteo Roncoroni, Davide Mancini, Stuart N. Lane, Bettina Schaefli	2024	4
6	Impacts of hot-dry conditions on hydropower production in Switzerland Environmental Research Letters ·Noelia Otero, Pascal Horton, Olivia Martius, Sam Allen, Massimiliano Zappa, Tobias Wechsler, Bettina Schaefli	2023	12
7	Towards a conceptualization of the hydrological processes behind changes of young water fraction with elevation: a focus on mountainous alpine catchments Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Alessio Gentile, Davide Canone, Natalie Ceperley, Davide Gisolo, Maurizio Previati, Giulia Zuecco, Bettina Schaefli, Stefano Ferraris	2023	15
8	NH-SWE: Northern Hemisphere Snow Water Equivalent dataset based on in situ snow depth time series Earth system science data ·Adrià Fontrodona‐Bach, Bettina Schaefli, Ross Woods, Adriaan J. Teuling, Joshua Larsen	2023	22
9	Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Tom Müller, Stuart N. Lane, Bettina Schaefli	2022	16
10	Hydrological Drivers of Bedload Transport in an Alpine Watershed Water Resources Research ·Gilles Antoniazza, Tobias Nicollier, Stefan Boss, François Mettra, Alexandre Badoux, Bettina Schaefli, Dieter Rickenmann, Stuart N. Lane	2022	18
11	Characterizing renewable energy compound events across Europe using a logistic regression‐based approach Meteorological Applications ·Noelia Otero, Olivia Martius, Sam Allen, Hannah Bloomfield, Bettina Schaefli	2022	22
12	Stream temperature evolution in Switzerland over the last 50 years Adrien Michel, Tristan Brauchli, Michael Lehning, Bettina Schaefli, Hendrik Huwald	2019	6
13	Understanding snow hydrological processes through the lens of stable water isotopes Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water ·Harsh Beria, Joshua Larsen, Natalie Ceperley, Anthony Michelon, Torsten Vennemann, Bettina Schaefli	2018	104
14	Quantification of snowmelt processes in a high Alpine catchment from hydrographs, satellite images and stable water isotopes EGUGA ·Anthony Michelon, Natalie Ceperley, Harsh Beria, Joshua Larsen, Bettina Schaefli	2018	2
15	The role of glaciers for Swiss hydropower production EGUGA ·Bettina Schaefli, Pedro Manso, Mauro Fischer, Matthias Huss	2016	2
16	The Dischma river mystery: why does my snow hydrological model not work here ? EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Bettina Schaefli, Natalie Ceperley, Tristan Brauchli, Michael Lehning, Tobias Jonas, Massimiliano Zappa	2016	1
17	Signature-based model calibration for hydrological prediction in mesoscale Alpine catchments Hydrological Sciences Journal ·Benoît Hingray, Bettina Schaefli, Abdelkader Mezghani, Yasser Hamdi	2010	59
18	Hydrologic predictions in a changing environment: behavioral modeling Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) ·Bettina Schaefli, C. J. Harman, Murugesu Sivapalan, Stanislaus J. Schymanski	2010	11
19	A calibration framework for data scarce basins: sequential use of information from conventional and remote sensing data EGUGA ·Hessel Winsemius, Alberto Montanari, Bettina Schaefli, H. H. G. Savenije	2009	1
20	Use of the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm for the quantification of the hydrological modelling uncertainty in climate change impact studies Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) ·Bettina Schaefli, Benoît Hingray, A. Musy	2004	1

About Bettina Schaefli

Bettina Schaefli is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Ocean Engineering, having authored 105 papers that have together received 4.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (89 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (42 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (34 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (16 papers), Climate change and permafrost (15 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (11 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Hydrological Forecasting Using AI (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Water Science and Technology (2.9k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.5k citations), Atmospheric Science (1.7k citations), Environmental Engineering (980 citations) and Geochemistry and Petrology (195 citations). Bettina Schaefli has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Hoshin V. Gupta, H. H. G. Savenije, Benoît Hingray, Ruud van der Ent, Susan Steele‐Dunne, A. Musy, Moctar Dembélé, Grégoire Mariethoz, André Musy and Pascal Horton. Their work appears in journals such as Hydrology and earth system sciences, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Processes and Advances in Water Resources.

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