Christian Onof

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
133 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Christian Onof is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Onof has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 54 papers in Atmospheric Science and 50 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Christian Onof's work include Hydrology and Drought Analysis (64 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (50 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (42 papers). Christian Onof is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Drought Analysis (64 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (50 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (42 papers). Christian Onof collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Belgium and France. Christian Onof's co-authors include H. S. Wheater, Richard E. Chandler, Demetris Koutsoyiannis, Valerie Isham, Li-Pen Wang, Marie-Laure Segond, Kwok Pan Chun, Elizabeth Kendon, Susana Ochoa-Rodríguez and Andrew Ireson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Christian Onof

126 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Precipitation downscaling under climate change: Recent developments to bridge the gap between dynamical models and the end user

2010 1.4k citations Richard E. Chandler, Elizabeth Kendon et al. profile →

Peers

Christian Onof

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Simon Michael Papalexiou Canada

Fredrik Wetterhall United Kingdom

Francesco Serinaldi United Kingdom

Fiona Johnson Australia

Richard E. Chandler United Kingdom

Jonas Olsson Sweden

Gianfausto Salvadori Italy

Xiaogang Gao United States

Robert Leconte Canada

T. A. Buishand Netherlands

Simon Michael Papalexiou Canada

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2.5k ×0.9

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1.4k ×0.7

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710 ×0.8

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195 ×1.0

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Countries citing papers authored by Christian Onof

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Onof

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Christian Onof. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Christian Onof. The network helps show where Christian Onof may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Onof

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Onof. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Onof based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christian Onof. Christian Onof is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Wang, Li-Pen, et al.. (2025). Modelling convective cell life cycles with a copula-based approach. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(1). 1–25.

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Luca, Davide Luciano De, Francesco Napolitano, Dongkyun Kim, et al.. (2025). Rainfall nowcasting models: state of the art and possible future perspectives. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 70(9). 1419–1438. 2 indexed citations

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Paschalis, Athanasios, et al.. (2024). Study of the effect of local forcing on the fractal behaviour of shallow groundwater levels in a riparian aquifer. Hydrological Processes. 38(8). 1 indexed citations

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Onof, Christian. (2023). The Unicity, Infinity and Unity of Space. Kantian Review. 28(2). 273–295.

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Wang, Li-Pen, et al.. (2021). pyBL: An open source Python package for stochastic high-resolution rainfall modelling based upon a Bartlett Lewis Rectangular Pulse model. 1 indexed citations

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Paschalis, Athanasios, et al.. (2020). Changing Spatial Structure of Summer Heavy Rainfall, Using Convection‐Permitting Ensemble. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(3). 30 indexed citations

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Onof, Christian & Li-Pen Wang. (2020). Modelling rainfall with a Bartlett–Lewis process: new developments. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(5). 2791–2815. 27 indexed citations

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Ochoa-Rodríguez, Susana, Li-Pen Wang, Patrick Willems, & Christian Onof. (2019). A Review of Radar‐Rain Gauge Data Merging Methods and Their Potential for Urban Hydrological Applications. Water Resources Research. 55(8). 6356–6391. 122 indexed citations

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Onof, Christian, et al.. (2019). A hybrid stochastic rainfall model that reproduces some important rainfall characteristics at hourly to yearly timescales. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(2). 989–1014. 18 indexed citations

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Onof, Christian, et al.. (2018). A Hybrid Stochastic Rainfall Model That Reproduces Rainfall Characteristics at Hourly through Yearly Time Scale. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 5 indexed citations

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Cross, David, Christian Onof, Hugo Winter, & Pietro Bernardara. (2018). Censored rainfall modelling for estimation of fine-scale extremes. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(1). 727–756. 12 indexed citations

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Kim, Dongkyun, Christian Onof, & Jungha Park. (2017). Incorporating Dependencies between Rainfall Statistics and Rainfall Interannual Variability into Hourly Stochastic Rainfall Generator for Improved Extreme Value Reproduction. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 5885. 1 indexed citations

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Ochoa-Rodríguez, Susana, Li-Pen Wang, Patrick Willems, & Christian Onof. (2016). A Monte-Carlo Bayesian framework for urban rainfall error modelling. Spiral (Imperial College London). 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Li-Pen, Susana Ochoa-Rodríguez, Christian Onof, & Patrick Willems. (2015). Singularity-sensitive gauge-based radar rainfall adjustment methods for urban hydrological applications. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 19(9). 4001–4021. 26 indexed citations

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Leitão, João P., et al.. (2015). Stochastic evaluation of sewer inlet capacity on urban pluvial flooding. Spiral (Imperial College London). 2 indexed citations

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Manz, Bastian, Wouter Buytaert, & Christian Onof. (2014). Optimization of TRMM 2A25 Extreme Rainfall Rate and Probability. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 6694. 1 indexed citations

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Lekkas, Dimitrios, et al.. (2013). Application of artificial neural networks for flood forecasting.. Global NEST Journal. 6(3). 205–211. 33 indexed citations

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Zulkafli, Zed, et al.. (2013). A critical assessment of the JULES land surface model hydrology for humid tropical environments. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(3). 1113–1132. 30 indexed citations

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Onof, Christian, et al.. (2010). Analysis of high-resolution spatiotemporal structures of mesoscale rainfields based upon the theory of left-sided Multifractals. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 3 indexed citations

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Wheater, H. S., et al.. (2000). Generation of spatially consistent rainfall data. UCL Discovery (University College London). 12 indexed citations

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