Charles W. Downer

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

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Charles W. Downer is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles W. Downer has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Water Science and Technology, 18 papers in Environmental Engineering and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Charles W. Downer's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (27 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (15 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (12 papers). Charles W. Downer is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (27 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (15 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (12 papers). Charles W. Downer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. Charles W. Downer's co-authors include Fred L. Ogden, Nawa Raj Pradhan, Hatim O. Sharif, Sharika U. S. Senarath, P. J. Restrepo, Chaopeng Shen, David G. Tarboton, David Gochis, V. Y. Ivanov and Brian A. Ebel and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

In The Last Decade

Charles W. Downer

32 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology

2016 456 citations Simone Fatichi, Enrique R. Vivoni et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles W. Downer United States	12	1.1k	830	609	310	156	32	1.4k
Bruno Ambroise France	11	983 0.9×	636 0.8×	477 0.8×	208 0.7×	243 1.6×	35	1.4k
Paolo Reggiani Netherlands	19	944 0.9×	879 1.1×	445 0.7×	399 1.3×	92 0.6×	36	1.3k
Shervan Gharari Canada	19	980 0.9×	780 0.9×	472 0.8×	237 0.8×	79 0.5×	35	1.2k
Yasuto Tachikawa Japan	19	1.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.5×	354 0.6×	528 1.7×	155 1.0×	233	1.6k
Flora Branger France	17	717 0.7×	603 0.7×	432 0.7×	102 0.3×	175 1.1×	42	1.0k
Hartmut Wittenberg Germany	13	867 0.8×	590 0.7×	522 0.9×	101 0.3×	82 0.5×	19	1.0k
R. Steve Regan United States	15	1.0k 1.0×	487 0.6×	619 1.0×	256 0.8×	55 0.4×	24	1.2k
Fekadu Moreda United States	14	1.1k 1.1×	901 1.1×	430 0.7×	375 1.2×	78 0.5×	30	1.3k
Nicolás Le Moine France	17	1.6k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	576 0.9×	333 1.1×	101 0.6×	33	1.7k
R. D. Singh India	15	774 0.7×	810 1.0×	414 0.7×	227 0.7×	138 0.9×	23	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charles W. Downer

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Wilson, Anna M., et al.. (2020). The Hydrometeorological Observation Network in California’s Russian River Watershed: Development, Characteristics, and Key Findings from 1997 to 2019. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(10). E1781–E1800. 11 indexed citations

Pradhan, Nawa Raj, Charles W. Downer, & S. S. Marchenko. (2019). Catchment Hydrological Modeling with Soil Thermal Dynamics during Seasonal Freeze-Thaw Cycles. Water. 11(1). 116–116. 10 indexed citations

Follum, Michael L., et al.. (2018). A simple temperature-based method to estimate heterogeneous frozen ground within a distributed watershed model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(5). 2669–2688. 3 indexed citations

Douglas, Thomas A., M. Torre Jorgenson, C. A. Hiemstra, et al.. (2016). Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Army Alaska with Decision Support Tools Developed Through Field Work and Modeling. 2 indexed citations

Fatichi, Simone, Enrique R. Vivoni, Fred L. Ogden, et al.. (2016). An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology. Journal of Hydrology. 537. 45–60. 456 indexed citations breakdown →

Follum, Michael L., et al.. (2015). A radiation-derived temperature-index snow routine for the GSSHA hydrologic model. Journal of Hydrology. 529. 723–736. 14 indexed citations

Downer, Charles W., et al.. (2014). Modeling Subsurface Storm and Tile Drain Systems in GSSHA with SUPERLINK. This Digital Resource was created in Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat. 68(6). 703–4; author reply 705. 1 indexed citations

Follum, Michael L., Charles W. Downer, & Jeffrey D. Niemann. (2014). Simulating the spatial distribution of snow pack and snow melt runoff with different snow melt algorithms in a physics based watershed model. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Jing-Ru C., et al.. (2013). Development of Parallel GSSHA. US Army Corps of Engineers: Engineer Research and Development Center (Knowledge Core). 1 indexed citations

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Downer, Charles W., Fred L. Ogden, William D. Martin, & Russell S. Harmon. (2012). Opportunity-driven hydrological model development in US Army research and development programs. Geological Society London Special Publications. 362(1). 267–286. 1 indexed citations

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Ogden, Fred L., Nawa Raj Pradhan, & Charles W. Downer. (2009). Uncertainty in tile drain locations: Implications for hydrologic modeling of agricultural watersheds. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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Downer, Charles W.. (2009). Simulation of Reactive Constituent Fate and Transport in Hydrologic Simulator GSSHA. US Army Corps of Engineers: Engineer Research and Development Center (Knowledge Core). 1 indexed citations

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Downer, Charles W., et al.. (2007). A GSSHA Model of the Perris Basin of the San Jacinto River Watershed, Riverside County, California. US Army Corps of Engineers: Engineer Research and Development Center (Knowledge Core). 3 indexed citations

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Downer, Charles W.. (2007). Development of a Simple Soil Moisture Model in the Hydrologic Simulator GSSHA. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 4 indexed citations

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Downer, Charles W., et al.. (2007). Watershed Scale TMDL Model: Multidimensional Sediment Erosion, Transport, and Fate. US Army Corps of Engineers: Engineer Research and Development Center (Knowledge Core). 3 indexed citations

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Downer, Charles W. & Fred L. Ogden. (2004). GSSHA: Model To Simulate Diverse Stream Flow Producing Processes. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 9(3). 161–174. 183 indexed citations

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Downer, Charles W. & Fred L. Ogden. (2003). Prediction of runoff and soil moistures at the watershed scale: Effects of model complexity and parameter assignment. Water Resources Research. 39(3). 46 indexed citations

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Ogden, Fred L., et al.. (2001). Reply [to “Comment on ‘On the calibration and verification of two‐dimensional, distributed, Hortonian, continuous watershed models‘ by Sharika U. S. Senarath et al.”]. Water Resources Research. 37(12). 3397–3400. 1 indexed citations

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Downer, Charles W., Billy E. Johnson, Fred L. Ogden, & Ehab Meselhe. (2001). Advances in Physically Based Hydrologic Modeling with CASC2D. 1–10. 4 indexed citations

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Senarath, Sharika U. S., Fred L. Ogden, Charles W. Downer, & Hatim O. Sharif. (2000). On the calibration and verification of two‐dimensional, distributed, Hortonian, continuous watershed models. Water Resources Research. 36(6). 1495–1510. 117 indexed citations

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