Micha Werner

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Micha Werner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Micha Werner has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 50 papers in Water Science and Technology and 15 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Micha Werner's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (47 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (43 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (25 papers). Micha Werner is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (47 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (43 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (25 papers). Micha Werner collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Colombia. Micha Werner's co-authors include Paul Bates, S. Uhlenbrook, Neil Hunter, Jan Verkade, Shreedhar Maskey, Patricia Trambauer, Florian Pappenberger, Emanuel Dutra, Hessel Winsemius and Soon Thiam Khu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Micha Werner

74 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Projections of rapidly rising surface temperatures over Africa under low mitigation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Micha Werner Netherlands	25	1.9k	1.4k	700	417	277	77	2.5k
Gopi Goteti United States	6	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	876 1.3×	506 1.2×	161 0.6×	11	2.5k
Xihui Gu China	35	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	625 1.5×	394 1.4×	125	3.2k
J. A. Vano United States	21	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	858 1.2×	201 0.5×	192 0.7×	35	2.2k
Shreedhar Maskey Netherlands	31	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	753 1.1×	476 1.1×	358 1.3×	62	3.2k
Deepak Jhajharia India	21	2.3k 1.2×	976 0.7×	722 1.0×	494 1.2×	159 0.6×	41	2.8k
Ousmane Seidou Canada	24	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	521 0.7×	381 0.9×	162 0.6×	87	2.0k
Alireza Farahmand United States	12	2.2k 1.1×	684 0.5×	565 0.8×	292 0.7×	285 1.0×	21	2.7k
Jiabo Yin China	32	2.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	699 1.0×	480 1.2×	165 0.6×	134	3.3k
Thomas C. Piechota United States	32	2.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	986 1.4×	863 2.1×	324 1.2×	100	3.2k
Mauricio Zambrano‐Bigiarini Chile	19	1.4k 0.8×	973 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	470 1.1×	197 0.7×	52	2.6k

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Masih, Ilyas, et al.. (2025). Typologies of climate service co-creation approaches in practice. Climate Services. 40. 100607–100607.

Werner, Micha, et al.. (2025). Beyond streamflow: Plausible hydrological modelling for the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 59. 102290–102290. 1 indexed citations

Pérez, Carlos L., et al.. (2024). Disentangling the socio-natural dynamics of drought and water scarcity in Colombia's Tropical Andes. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 56. 102068–102068. 2 indexed citations

Dasgupta, Antara, Louise Arnal, Rebecca Emerton, et al.. (2023). Connecting hydrological modelling and forecasting from global to local scales: Perspectives from an international joint virtual workshop. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 18(1). 18 indexed citations

Werner, Micha, et al.. (2022). Benchmarking global hydrological and land surface models against GRACE in a medium-sized tropical basin. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(16). 4323–4344. 15 indexed citations

Werner, Micha, et al.. (2022). Flash flood warnings in context: combining local knowledge and large-scale hydro-meteorological patterns. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(2). 461–480. 8 indexed citations

Salazar, Juan F., et al.. (2022). Consideraciones sobre la oferta hídrica de los sistemas acuífero-humedal en la cuenca Magdalena-Cauca, Colombia, a partir de la interpretación de datos de los satélites GRACE. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 57(1). 1–24. 1 indexed citations

Werner, Micha, et al.. (2021). Benchmarking global hydrological and land surface models against GRACE in a medium-size tropical basin. 2 indexed citations

Werner, Micha, et al.. (2021). Flash Flood warning in context: combining local knowledge and large-scale hydro-meteorological patterns. 6 indexed citations

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Winsemius, Hessel, Marc van den Homberg, Micha Werner, et al.. (2020). Linking Drought Forecast Information to Smallholder Farmer’s Strategies and Local Knowledge in Southern Malawi. 1 indexed citations

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Rodríguez, Erasmo, et al.. (2017). Combined use of local and global hydrometeorological data with regional and global hydrological models in the Magdalena - Cauca river basin, Colombia. EGUGA. 10477. 1 indexed citations

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Wetterhall, Fredrik, Hessel Winsemius, Emanuel Dutra, Micha Werner, & Florian Pappenberger. (2015). Seasonal predictions of agro-meteorological drought indicators for the Limpopo basin. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 19(6). 2577–2586. 51 indexed citations

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Trambauer, Patricia, Micha Werner, Hessel Winsemius, et al.. (2015). Hydrological drought forecasting and skill assessment for the Limpopo River basin, southern Africa. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 19(4). 1695–1711. 70 indexed citations

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Trambauer, Patricia, Micha Werner, Hessel Winsemius, et al.. (2014). Hydrological drought forecasting and skill assessment for the Limpopo river basin, Southern Africa. 4 indexed citations

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Trambauer, Patricia, Emanuel Dutra, Shreedhar Maskey, et al.. (2014). Comparison of different evaporation estimates over the African continent. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(1). 193–212. 114 indexed citations

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Naumann, Gustavo, Emmah Mwangi, Paulo S. F. Barbosa, et al.. (2014). Drought vulnerability assessment for prioritising drought warning implementation. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 16685. 1 indexed citations

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Winsemius, Hessel, Emanuel Dutra, F. Engelbrecht, et al.. (2013). The potential value of seasonal forecasts in a changing climate. 3 indexed citations

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Werner, Micha, et al.. (2013). Identifying needs for streamflow forecasting in the Incomati basin, Southern Africa. EGUGA. 13210. 1 indexed citations

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Weijs, Steven, Luciano Raso, & Micha Werner. (2012). Deciding Under Uncertainty vs. Reducing Uncertainty by Observations: the Optimal Observation Problem. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Restrepo, P. J., et al.. (2010). Hydrologic Forecasting at the US National Weather Service in the 21st Century: Transition from the NWS River Forecast System (NWSRFS) to the Community Hydrologic Prediction System (CHPS). EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 6760. 2 indexed citations

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