Manuela I. Brunner

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Manuela I. Brunner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Manuela I. Brunner has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 56 papers in Water Science and Technology and 15 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Manuela I. Brunner's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (55 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (50 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (40 papers). Manuela I. Brunner is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (55 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (50 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (40 papers). Manuela I. Brunner collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Manuela I. Brunner's co-authors include Martyn Clark, Anne‐Catherine Favre, Eric Gilleland, Louise Slater, Lena M. Tallaksen, Jan Seibert, Massimiliano Zappa, Andrew W. Wood, Daniel L. Swain and Reinhard Furrer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Manuela I. Brunner

63 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review

2021 229 citations Manuela I. Brunner, Louise Slater et al. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water profile →
Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth

2025 49 citations Manuela I. Brunner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Manuela I. Brunner Switzerland	25	1.4k	1.1k	392	262	112	73	1.8k
Jafet Andersson Sweden	15	911 0.6×	819 0.8×	319 0.8×	223 0.9×	86 0.8×	39	1.3k
Shaochun Huang Germany	28	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	422 1.1×	253 1.0×	152 1.4×	54	2.0k
Uwe Ehret Germany	18	1.2k 0.9×	828 0.8×	604 1.5×	318 1.2×	123 1.1×	53	1.6k
Il‐Won Jung South Korea	21	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	534 1.4×	359 1.4×	114 1.0×	56	1.8k
Takahiro Sayama Japan	24	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	597 1.5×	396 1.5×	146 1.3×	126	2.0k
N. V. Umamahesh India	24	1.2k 0.8×	701 0.6×	418 1.1×	282 1.1×	65 0.6×	73	1.6k
Adnan Rajib United States	23	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	297 0.8×	410 1.6×	227 2.0×	52	1.6k
Mohammad Reza Najafi Canada	25	1.6k 1.1×	754 0.7×	900 2.3×	309 1.2×	78 0.7×	77	2.0k
Hege Hisdal Norway	19	1.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.4×	397 1.0×	189 0.7×	155 1.4×	38	2.3k
Bibi S. Naz United States	21	715 0.5×	761 0.7×	409 1.0×	282 1.1×	91 0.8×	37	1.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bruno, Giulia, et al.. (2025). Riverine heatwaves are an emergent climate change risk. Nature Water. 3(12). 1356–1364.

Brunner, Manuela I., et al.. (2025). Drought decreases annual streamflow response to precipitation, especially in arid regions. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(13). 2749–2764. 1 indexed citations

Anderson, Bailey, et al.. (2025). What is a drought-to-flood transition? Pitfalls and recommendations for defining consecutive hydrological extreme events. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(21). 6069–6092.

Anderson, Bailey, Manuela I. Brunner, Louise Slater, & Simon Dadson. (2024). Elasticity curves describe streamflow sensitivity to precipitation across the entire flow distribution. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(7). 1567–1583. 9 indexed citations

Brunner, Manuela I., et al.. (2024). Spatial Modeling and Future Projection of Extreme Precipitation Extents. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 120(549). 80–95. 4 indexed citations

Ludwig, Ralf, et al.. (2024). Climate change impacts on regional fire weather in heterogeneous landscapes of central Europe. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(2). 411–428. 11 indexed citations

Brunner, Manuela I. & Eric Gilleland. (2024). Future Changes in Floods, Droughts, and Their Extents in the Alps: A Sensitivity Analysis With a Non‐Stationary Stochastic Streamflow Generator. Earth s Future. 12(4). 9 indexed citations

Ahmadisharaf, Ebrahim, et al.. (2023). Multi-reservoir system response to alternative stochastically simulated stationary hydrologic scenarios: An evaluation for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) Basin. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 51. 101608–101608. 2 indexed citations

Brunner, Manuela I. & Kerstin Stahl. (2023). Temporal hydrological drought clustering varies with climate and land-surface processes. Environmental Research Letters. 18(3). 34011–34011. 15 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I.. (2023). Floods and droughts: a multivariate perspective. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(13). 2479–2497. 21 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I., et al.. (2023). Hydrological Drought Generation Processes and Severity Are Changing in the Alps. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(2). 31 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I. & Svenja Fischer. (2022). Snow-influenced floods are more strongly connected in space than purely rainfall-driven floods. Environmental Research Letters. 17(10). 104038–104038. 23 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I. & Erin Dougherty. (2022). Varying Importance of Storm Types and Antecedent Conditions for Local and Regional Floods. Water Resources Research. 58(12). 20 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I., Louise Slater, Lena M. Tallaksen, & Martyn Clark. (2021). Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 8(3). 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brunner, Manuela I., Reinhard Furrer, & Eric Gilleland. (2021). Functional data clustering as a powerful tool to group streamflow regimes and flood hydrographs. 2 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I. & Louise Slater. (2021). Extreme floods in Europe: going beyond observations using reforecast ensemble pooling. 1 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I. & Eric Gilleland. (2020). Stochastic simulation of streamflow and spatial extremes: a continuous, wavelet-based approach. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(8). 3967–3982. 29 indexed citations

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Kellner, Elke & Manuela I. Brunner. (2020). Reservoir Governance in World's Water Towers Needs to Anticipate Multi‐purpose Use. Earth s Future. 9(1). 18 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I., Daniel Farinotti, Harry Zekollari, Matthias Huss, & Massimiliano Zappa. (2019). Future shifts in extreme flow regimes in Alpine regions. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(11). 4471–4489. 62 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I., Reinhard Furrer, & Anne‐Catherine Favre. (2019). Modeling the spatial dependence of floods using the Fisher copula. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(1). 107–124. 45 indexed citations

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