Paul Bates

41.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
389 papers, 28.2k citations indexed

About

Paul Bates is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Bates has authored 389 papers receiving a total of 28.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 299 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 217 papers in Water Science and Technology and 109 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Paul Bates's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (291 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (215 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (87 papers). Paul Bates is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (291 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (215 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (87 papers). Paul Bates collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Paul Bates's co-authors include Jeffrey Neal, M. S. Horritt, Guy Schumann, Matthew S. Horritt, A. P. J. De Roo, Christopher Sampson, Timothy Fewtrell, Dai Yamazaki, David C. Mason and Jim Freer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Paul Bates

383 papers receiving 27.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A simple raster-based model for flood inundation simulation

2000 1.1k citations Paul Bates et al. profile →
A high‐accuracy map of global terrain elevations

2017 939 citations Dai Yamazaki, Daiki Ikeshima et al. profile →
Evaluation of 1D and 2D numerical models for predicting river flood inundation

2002 884 citations Paul Bates et al. profile →
A simple inertial formulation of the shallow water equations for efficient two-dimensional flood inundation modelling

2010 820 citations Paul Bates, Timothy Fewtrell et al. profile →
MERIT Hydro: A High‐Resolution Global Hydrography Map Based on Latest Topography Dataset

2019 582 citations Dai Yamazaki, Daiki Ikeshima et al. Water Resources Research profile →
A high-resolution global flood hazard model

2015 408 citations Christopher Sampson, Paul Bates et al. Water Resources Research profile →
Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods

2021 401 citations Paul Bates et al. profile →
Estimates of present and future flood risk in the conterminous United States

2018 301 citations Oliver Wing, Paul Bates et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene

2022 256 citations Oliver Wing, William Lehman et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Bates

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Bates. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Bates 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 Paul Bates. Paul Bates is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Bare‐Earth GoogleDEM to Simulate Flooding in New Delhi, India 2025 ·Water Resources Research ·Yinxue Liu, Paul Bates, Jeffrey Neal, Louise Slater, (unknown), Zvika Ben‐Haim	1
2	Developing a Levee Module for Global Flood Modeling With a Reach‐Level Parameterization Approach 2025 ·Water Resources Research ·Gang Zhao, Dai Yamazaki, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Xudong Zhou, Shuping Li, (unknown), Yukiko Hirabayashi, Jeffrey Neal, Paul Bates	0
3	Flooding is Not Like Filling a Bath 2024 ·Earth s Future ·Brett F. Sanders, Oliver Wing, Paul Bates	11
4	Synoptic conditions conducive for compound wind-flood events in Great Britain in present and future climates 2024 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Hannah Bloomfield, Paul Bates, Len Shaffrey, John K. Hillier, Adrian Champion, (unknown), James O. Pope, Dhirendra Kumar	7
5	Future Change in Urban Flooding Using New Convection‐Permitting Climate Projections 2024 ·Water Resources Research ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jeffrey Neal, Gemma Coxon, Paul Bates, Elizabeth Kendon, James Savage	12
6	LISFLOOD-FP 8.1: new GPU-accelerated solvers for faster fluvial/pluvial flood simulations 2023 ·Geoscientific model development ·(unknown), Georges Kesserwani, (unknown), Jeffrey Neal, Paul Bates	30
7	Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene breakdown → 2022 ·Nature Climate Change ·Oliver Wing, William Lehman, Paul Bates, Christopher Sampson, Niall Quinn, Andrew Smith, Jeffrey Neal, Jeremy R. Porter, Carolyn Kousky	256
8	Use of Hydrological Models in Global Stochastic Flood Modeling 2022 ·Water Resources Research ·Gaia Olcese, Paul Bates, Jeffrey Neal, Christopher Sampson, Oliver Wing, Niall Quinn, Hylke E. Beck	7
9	Hydraulic Model Calibration Using CryoSat‐2 Observations in the Zambezi Catchment 2021 ·Water Resources Research ·Cécile Marie Margaretha Kittel, (unknown), Jeffrey Neal, Karina Nielsen, Paul Bates, Peter Bauer‐Gottwein	15
10	Design flood estimation for global river networks based on machine learning models 2021 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Gang Zhao, Paul Bates, Jeffrey Neal, Bo Pang	23
11	Increased Flood Exposure Due to Climate Change and Population Growth in the United States 2020 ·Earth s Future ·Daniel L. Swain, Oliver Wing, Paul Bates, J. Done, Kris Johnson, D. Richard Cameron	178
12	MERIT Hydro: A High‐Resolution Global Hydrography Map Based on Latest Topography Dataset breakdown → 2019 ·Water Resources Research ·Dai Yamazaki, Daiki Ikeshima, Jeison Sosa, Paul Bates, George H. Allen, Tamlin M. Pavelsky	582
13	Developing observational methods to drive future hydrological science: Can we make a start as a community? 2019 ·Hydrological Processes ·Keith Beven, (unknown), Paul Bates, Eleanor Blyth, Nick A. Chappell, (unknown), Hannah Cloke, Simon Dadson, (unknown), Hayley J. Fowler, Jim Freer, David M. Hannah, (unknown), Joseph Holden, Rob Lamb, Huw Lewis, Gerald Morgan, Louise Parry, Thorsten Wagener	42
14	Effects of variability in probable maximum precipitation patterns on flood losses 2018 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Andreas Paul Zischg, (unknown), Rolf Weingartner, Niall Quinn, Gemma Coxon, Jeffrey Neal, Jim Freer, Paul Bates	35
15	Effects of variability in probable maximum precipitation patterns on flood losses 2018 ·Andreas Paul Zischg, (unknown), Rolf Weingartner, Niall Quinn, Gemma Coxon, Jeffrey Neal, Jim Freer, Paul Bates	2
16	GLOFRIM v1.0 – A globally applicable computational framework for integrated hydrological–hydrodynamic modelling 2017 ·Geoscientific model development ·Jannis Hoch, Jeffrey Neal, Fedor Baart, Rens van Beek, Hessel Winsemius, Paul Bates, Marc F. P. Bierkens	29
17	Impact of the SAR acquisition timing on the calibration of a flood inundation model 2015 ·EGUGA ·Sacha Gobeyn, (unknown), Hans Lievens, (unknown), (unknown), Hilde Vernieuwe, Guy Schumann, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Bernard De Baets, Paul Bates, Niko E. C. Verhoest	1
18	The impact of uncertain precipitation data on insurance loss estimates using a flood catastrophe model 2014 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Christopher Sampson, Timothy Fewtrell, Fiachra O’Loughlin, Florian Pappenberger, Paul Bates, Jim Freer, Hannah Cloke	51
19	Critical analysis of thermal inertia approaches for surface soil water content retrieval 2013 ·Hydrological Sciences Journal ·Antonino Maltese, Paul Bates, Fulvio Capodici, Marcella Cannarozzo, Giuseppe Ciraolo, Goffredo La Loggia	32
20	Assimilation of remote observations of surface water into large-scale hydraulic models 2004 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Paul Bates, Machelle Wilson	1

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