Edward Byers

5.7k citations

60 papers · 2.2k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 27

Impact in

Energy Engineering and Power Technology top 1%
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
Water Science and Technology top 1%
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Papers in

Water Science and Technology 27
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies 24
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies 6
Energy Engineering and Power Technology 5

Co-authors: Shonali Pachauri Simon Parkinson Jim W. Hall Keywan Riahi Julian David Hunt Alessio Mastrucci Jaime M. Amézaga Yoshihide Wada
Journals: Environmental Research Letters (7 papers)Nature Climate Change (5 papers)Nature Communications (4 papers)Nature Sustainability (3 papers)Energy Conversion and Management (2 papers)
Partner nations: Austria United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Edward Byers

56 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets 2023 · 111 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.

2023 Nature Climate Change
2022 Nature Communications

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#	Work
1	The hours matter: comparing indicators of US residential cooling from hourly versus daily climate variables Environmental Research Letters ·F Galliano, Tracey Holloway, Daniel J. Vimont, Alessio Mastrucci, Edward Byers, K. Avneesh	2025	0
2	Climate policy and the SDGs agenda: how does near-term action on nexus SDGs influence the achievement of long-term climate goals? Environmental Research Letters ·Isabela Schmidt Tagomori, Mathijs Harmsen, Muhammad Awais, Edward Byers, Vassilis Daioglou, Jonathan Doelman, Adriano Vinca, Keywan Riahi, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2024	2
3	MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM nexus module: integrating water sector and climate impacts Geoscientific model development ·Muhammad Awais, Adriano Vinca, Edward Byers, Stefan Frank, Oliver Fricko, Esther Boere, Peter Burek, V. N. Hornostai, Paul Kishimoto, Alessio Mastrucci, Yusuke Satoh, Amanda Palazzo, Madeleine McPherson, Keywan Riahi, Volker Krey	2024	8
4	Solar irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: economic feasibility and development potential Environmental Research Letters ·Giacomo Falchetta, Olga Frisch, Marta Tuninetti, Eris Aas Bakketeig, Shonali Pachauri, Edward Byers	2023	18
5	Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets Nature Climate Change ·Robin Lamboll, Zebedee Nicholls, Chris Smith, Jarmo Kikstra, Edward Byers, Joeri Rogelj	2023	2
6	Towards scenario representation of adaptive capacity for global climate change assessments Nature Climate Change ·Marina Andrijevic, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Tabea Lissner, Raya Muttarak, Keywan Riahi, Emily Theokritoff, Adelle Thomas, Nicole van Maanen, Edward Byers	2023	30
7	Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets Nature Climate Change ·Robin Lamboll, Zebedee Nicholls, Chris Smith, Jarmo Kikstra, Edward Byers, Joeri Rogelj Hit paper breakdown →	2023	111
8	The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change Nature Communications ·Yusuke Satoh, Kei Yoshimura, Yadu Pokhrel, Hyungjun Kim, Hideo Shiogama, Tokuta Yokohata, Naota Hanasaki, Yoshihide Wada, Peter Burek, Edward Byers, Hannes Müller Schmied, Dieter Gerten, Sebastian Ostberg, Simon N. Gosling, Julien Boulangé, Taikan Oki Hit paper breakdown →	2022	181
9	pyam: Analysis and visualisation of integrated assessment and macro-energy scenarios Open Research Europe ·Daniel Huppmann, Matthew Gidden, Zebedee Nicholls, Jonas Hörsch, Robin Lamboll, Paul Kishimoto, Thorsten Burandt, Oliver Fricko, Edward Byers, Jarmo Kikstra, Maarten Brinkerink, Maik Budzinski, Shelly Maria Purba, Sebastian Zwickl-Bernhard, Lara Welder, Tianfan Cai, Chris Smith	2021	16
10	pyam: Analysis and visualisation of integrated assessment and macro-energy scenarios Open Research Europe ·Daniel Huppmann, Matthew Gidden, Zebedee Nicholls, Jonas Hörsch, Robin Lamboll, Paul Kishimoto, Thorsten Burandt, Oliver Fricko, Edward Byers, Jarmo Kikstra, Maarten Brinkerink, Maik Budzinski, Shelly Maria Purba, Sebastian Zwickl-Bernhard, Lara Welder, Tianfan Cai, Chris Smith	2021	5
11	Global scenarios of household access to modern energy services under climate mitigation policy Nature Energy ·Miguel Poblete-Cazenave, Shonali Pachauri, Edward Byers, Alessio Mastrucci, Bas van Ruijven	2021	45
12	Drought and climate change impacts on cooling water shortages and electricity prices in Great Britain Nature Communications ·Edward Byers, Gemma Coxon, Jim Freer, Jim W. Hall	2020	77
13	The NExus Solutions Tool (NEST) v1.0: an open platform for optimizing multi-scale energy–water–land system transformations Geoscientific model development ·Adriano Vinca, Simon Parkinson, Edward Byers, Peter Burek, Zarrar Khan, Volker Krey, Frances C. Wilson, Yaoping Wang, 何伟君, Alexandre C. Köberle, Iain Staffell, Stefan Pfenninger, Abubakr Muhammad, Andrew Rowe, Roberto Schaeffer, Narasimha D. Rao, Yoshihide Wada, Ned Djilali, Keywan Riahi	2020	45
14	Transboundary cooperation a potential route to sustainable development in the Indus basin Nature Sustainability ·Adriano Vinca, Simon Parkinson, Keywan Riahi, Edward Byers, Afreen Siddiqi, Abubakr Muhammad, 何伟君, 麻子落合, Bárbara Willaarts, Piotr Magnuszewski, Muhammad Awais, Andrew Rowe, Ned Djilali	2020	71
15	Systematic scenario process to support analysis of long-term emissions scenarios and transformation pathways for the IPCC WG3 6th Assessment Report Edward Byers, Keywan Riahi, Elmar Kriegler, А.В. Сумин, Roberto Schaeffer, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Matthew Gidden, Daniel Huppmann, Jarmo Kikstra, Robin Lamboll, Malte Meinshausen, Zebedee Nicholls, Joeri Rogelj	2020	1
16	Global resource potential of seasonal pumped hydropower storage for energy and water storage Nature Communications ·Julian David Hunt, Edward Byers, Yoshihide Wada, Simon Parkinson, David Gernaat, Simon Langan, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Keywan Riahi	2020	159
17	Achieving Climate-Land-Energy-Water Sustainable Development Goals in the Indus Basin IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·Adriano Vinca, Simon Parkinson, Bárbara Willaarts, Piotr Magnuszewski, Edward Byers, Peter Burek, 何伟君, Yaoping Wang, Anindya Bhattacharya, 麻子落合, Afreen Siddiqi, 公彦北倉, Asif Khan, Yoshihide Wada, Abubakr Muhammad, Volker Krey, Ned Djilali, Keywan Riahi	2019	2
18	Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry Nature Sustainability ·Yue Qin, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Edward Byers, Kuishuang Feng, Fabian Wagner, Wei Peng, Denise L. Mauzerall	2018	55
19	Quantifying the potential for reservoirs to secure future surface water yields in the world’s largest river basins Environmental Research Letters ·Lu Liu, Simon Parkinson, Matthew Gidden, Edward Byers, Yusuke Satoh, Keywan Riahi, Barton A. Forman	2018	27
20	Visualisation Tools for Multi-Perspective, Cross-Sector, Long-Term Infrastructure Performance Evaluation David Alderson, Stewart Barr, Martino Tran, Jim W. Hall, Alexander Otto, Adrian Hickford, Edward Byers	2015	0

About Edward Byers

Edward Byers is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Pollution, Ocean Engineering and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 60 papers that have together received 2.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (24 papers), Water resources management and optimization (14 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (14 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (13 papers), Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (6 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (258 citations), Water Science and Technology (731 citations), Pollution (434 citations), Environmental Engineering (383 citations) and Ocean Engineering (346 citations). Edward Byers has collaborated with scholars based in Austria, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Shonali Pachauri, Simon Parkinson, Jim W. Hall, Keywan Riahi, Julian David Hunt, Alessio Mastrucci, Jaime M. Amézaga, Yoshihide Wada, Simon Langan and Giacomo Falchetta. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Nature Sustainability and Energy Conversion and Management.

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