Hylke E. Beck

24.5k citations

106 papers · 15.4k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Climate variability and models
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Water Science and Technology top 0.05%
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Papers in

Water Science and Technology 66
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies 65
Global and Planetary Change 86
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management 43
- Climate variability and models 39
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis 19
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 16

Co-authors: Eric F. Wood Tim R. McVicar Noemi Vergopolan Albert I. J. M. van Dijk Alexis Berg Niklaus E. Zimmermann Diego G. Miralles Richard de Jeu
Journals: Hydrology and earth system sciences (20 papers)Water Resources Research (14 papers)Journal of Hydrology (6 papers)Remote Sensing of Environment (6 papers)Scientific Data (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Hylke E. Beck

100 papers receiving 15.1k citations

Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

Warming accelerates global drought severity 2025 · 41 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.

2025 Nature
2025 Scientific Data
2023 Scientific Data
2021 Hydrology and earth system sciences
2019 Hydrology and earth system sciences
2018 Water Resources Research
2018 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
2018 Scientific Data
2017 Hydrology and earth system sciences
2017 Hydrology and earth system sciences
2017 Geoscientific model development
2013 Water Resources Research

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1	Saudi Rainfall (SaRa): hourly 0.1° gridded rainfall (1979–present) for Saudi Arabia via machine learning fusion of satellite and model data Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Xuetong Wang, Asatjonova E’zoza Ravshan qizi, Oscar M. Baez‐Villanueva, Amy Green, Matthew F. McCabe, Yoshihide Wada, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Muhammad Adnan Abid, Hylke E. Beck	2025	1
2	Improving differentiable hydrologic modeling with interpretable forcing fusion Journal of Hydrology ·Alice Vidal, Yalan Song, Ming Pan, Hylke E. Beck, Rachel McCrary, Paul Ullrich, Kathryn Lawson, Chaopeng Shen	2025	1
3	Warming accelerates global drought severity Nature ·Solomon H. Gebrechorkos, Justin Sheffield, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Chris Funk, Diego G. Miralles, Jian Peng, Ellen Dyer, Ірина Снітко, Hylke E. Beck, Michael Bliss Singer, Simon Dadson Hit paper breakdown →	2025	41
4	From RNNs to Transformers: benchmarking deep learning architectures for hydrologic prediction Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Jiangtao Liu, Chaopeng Shen, Fearghal O’Donncha, Yalan Song, Zhi Wei, Hylke E. Beck, Tadd Bindas, Abdalbari Alfars, Kathryn Lawson	2025	0
5	Elevation Regulates the Response of Climate Heterogeneity to Climate Change Geophysical Research Letters ·Yanlong Guan, Junguo Liu, Klaus Huber, Deliang Chen, Jiankai Zhang, Hongwei Lu, Eduardo Eiji Maeda, Zhenzhong Zeng, Hylke E. Beck	2024	13
6	On the timescale of drought indices for monitoring streamflow drought considering catchment hydrological regimes Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Oscar M. Baez‐Villanueva, Mauricio Zambrano‐Bigiarini, Diego G. Miralles, Hylke E. Beck, Jonatan F. Siegmund, Camila Álvarez-Garretón, Koen Verbist, René Garreaud, Juan Pablo Boisier, Mauricio Galleguillos	2024	13
7	Inversion of river discharge from remotely sensed river widths: A critical assessment at three-thousand global river gauges Remote Sensing of Environment ·Peirong Lin, Dongmei Feng, Colin J. Gleason, Ming Pan, Craig Brinkerhoff, Xiao Yang, Hylke E. Beck, Renato Prata de Moraes Frasson	2023	22
8	Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–2022 Earth system science data ·Solomon H. Gebrechorkos, Jian Peng, Ellen Dyer, Diego G. Miralles, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Chris Funk, Hylke E. Beck, Dagmawi Asfaw, Michael Bliss Singer, Simon Dadson	2023	45
9	Sub‐Grid Representation of Vegetation Cover in Land Surface Schemes Improves the Modeling of How Climate Responds to Deforestation Geophysical Research Letters ·Minru Liang, Dashan Wang, Alfred Lynne Brannen, Xitian Cai, Z Li, Hylke E. Beck, Zhenzhong Zeng	2023	5
10	Reconciling historical changes in the hydrological cycle over land npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·Sanaa Hobeichi, Gab Abramowitz, Anna Ukkola, Martin G. De Kauwe, A. J. Pitman, Jason P. Evans, Hylke E. Beck	2022	22
11	Use of Hydrological Models in Global Stochastic Flood Modeling Water Resources Research ·Gaia Olcese, Paul Bates, Jeffrey Neal, Christopher Sampson, Oliver Wing, Niall Quinn, Hylke E. Beck	2022	7
12	High‐Resolution Soil Moisture Data Reveal Complex Multi‐Scale Spatial Variability Across the United States Geophysical Research Letters ·Noemi Vergopolan, Justin Sheffield, Nathaniel W. Chaney, Ming Pan, Hylke E. Beck, Craig R. Ferguson, A. Gillie, Felix Eigenbrod, Wade T. Crow, Eric F. Wood	2022	30
13	Low and contrasting impacts of vegetation CO ₂ fertilization on global terrestrial runoff over 1982–2010: accounting for aboveground and belowground vegetation–CO ₂ effects Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Yuting Yang, Tim R. McVicar, Dawen Yang, Yongqiang Zhang, Shilong Piao, Shushi Peng, Hylke E. Beck	2021	17
14	Synergistic Satellite Assessment of Global Vegetation Health in Relation to ENSO‐Induced Droughts and Pluvials Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Justin Sheffield, I. Velicogna, Meng Zhao, Ming Pan, Colby K. Fisher, Hylke E. Beck, Jennifer D. Watts, Lj-Jun, Eric F. Wood	2021	6
15	On the selection of precipitation products for the regionalisation of hydrological model parameters Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Oscar M. Baez‐Villanueva, Mauricio Zambrano‐Bigiarini, Pablo A. Mendoza, Ian McNamara, Hylke E. Beck, 洋美平林, Alexandra Nauditt, Lars Ribbe, Nguyen Xuan Thinh	2021	21
16	Bias correction of global high-resolution precipitation climatologies using streamflow observations from 9372 catchments Camila Álvarez-Garretón, Hylke E. Beck, Eric F. Wood, Tim R. McVicar, Mauricio Zambrano‐Bigiarini, Oscar M. Baez‐Villanueva, Justin Sheffield, Dirk Nikolaus Karger	2020	1
17	Linear Optimal Runoff Aggregate (LORA): a global gridded synthesis runoff product Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Sanaa Hobeichi, Gab Abramowitz, Jason P. Evans, Hylke E. Beck	2019	39
18	MSWEP V2 Global 3-Hourly 0.1° Precipitation: Methodology and Quantitative Assessment Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Hylke E. Beck, Eric F. Wood, Ming Pan, Colby K. Fisher, Diego G. Miralles, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Tim R. McVicar, Robert F. Adler Hit paper breakdown →	2018	888
19	Global-scale evaluation of 23 precipitation datasets using gaugeobservations and hydrological modeling INFM-OAR (INFN Catania) ·Hylke E. Beck, Noemi Vergopolan, Ming Pan, Vincenzo Levizzani, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Graham P. Weedon, Luca Brocca, Florian Pappenberger, George J. Huffman, Eric F. Wood	2017	69
20	Global‐scale regionalization of hydrologic model parameters Water Resources Research ·Hylke E. Beck, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Ad de Roo, Diego G. Miralles, Tim R. McVicar, Jaap Schellekens, L. A. Bruijnzeel	2016	290

About Hylke E. Beck

Hylke E. Beck is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Oceanography, having authored 106 papers that have together received 15.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (65 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (43 papers), Climate variability and models (39 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (25 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (24 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (19 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (17 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (9.4k citations), Water Science and Technology (5.7k citations), Atmospheric Science (5.2k citations), Environmental Engineering (3.4k citations) and Ecological Modeling (400 citations). Hylke E. Beck has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Eric F. Wood, Tim R. McVicar, Noemi Vergopolan, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Alexis Berg, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Diego G. Miralles, Richard de Jeu, Ming Pan and Jaap Schellekens. Their work appears in journals such as Hydrology and earth system sciences, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Data.

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