Rex L. Baum

6.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
77 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Rex L. Baum is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rex L. Baum has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 34 papers in Atmospheric Science and 30 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rex L. Baum's work include Landslides and related hazards (71 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (30 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (22 papers). Rex L. Baum is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (71 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (30 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (22 papers). Rex L. Baum collaborates with scholars based in United States and Italy. Rex L. Baum's co-authors include Jonathan W. Godt, William Z. Savage, Alan F. Chleborad, Massimiliano Alvioli, Ning Lu, Diana Salciarini, Jeffrey A. Coe, Benjamin B. Mirus, William H. Schulz and Edwin L. Harp and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Rex L. Baum

71 papers receiving 4.3k citations

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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.

TRIGRS - A Fortran Program for Transient Rainfall Infiltration and Grid-Based Regional Slope-Stability Analysis, Version 2.0

2008 446 citations Rex L. Baum, William Z. Savage et al. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World profile →
Early warning of rainfall-induced shallow landslides and debris flows in the USA

2009 433 citations Rex L. Baum, Jonathan W. Godt Landslides profile →
Estimating the timing and location of shallow rainfall‐induced landslides using a model for transient, unsaturated infiltration

2010 320 citations Rex L. Baum, Jonathan W. Godt et al. profile →
Landslide mobility and hazards: implications of the 2014 Oso disaster

2015 302 citations Mark E. Reid, Jonathan W. Godt et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rex L. Baum United States	30	4.2k	1.9k	1.5k	1.4k	1.1k	77	4.5k
Leonardo Cascini Italy	33	4.8k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	1.5k 1.4×	82	5.4k
F.C. Dai China	20	4.7k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	2.3k 1.7×	1.4k 1.3×	27	5.3k
Luciano Picarelli Italy	24	3.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	790 0.6×	956 0.9×	71	4.0k
Th.W.J. van Asch Netherlands	32	3.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	782 0.7×	59	4.2k
Samuele Segoni Italy	37	4.2k 1.0×	986 0.5×	1.8k 1.2×	2.4k 1.7×	838 0.8×	92	4.8k
Silvia Peruccacci Italy	30	4.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	2.5k 1.7×	3.0k 2.2×	708 0.7×	44	5.3k
Federico Agliardi Italy	25	4.1k 1.0×	944 0.5×	1.5k 1.0×	993 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	74	4.5k
Edwin L. Harp United States	30	3.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	911 0.8×	68	4.3k
Stefano Luigi Gariano Italy	27	3.4k 0.8×	713 0.4×	1.8k 1.2×	2.1k 1.5×	508 0.5×	67	3.8k
Francesca Ardizzone Italy	29	4.9k 1.2×	573 0.3×	1.8k 1.2×	2.8k 2.0×	1.0k 1.0×	59	5.4k

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Baum, Rex L., et al.. (2024). Assessing locations susceptible to shallow landslide initiation during prolonged intense rainfall in the Lares, Utuado, and Naranjito municipalities of Puerto Rico. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(5). 1579–1605. 6 indexed citations

Fusco, Francesco, Benjamin B. Mirus, Rex L. Baum, Domenico Calcaterra, & Pantaleone De Vita. (2021). Incorporating the Effects of Complex Soil Layering and Thickness Local Variability into Distributed Landslide Susceptibility Assessments. Water. 13(5). 713–713. 28 indexed citations

Baum, Rex L., et al.. (2021). HydroMet: A New Code for Automated Objective Optimization of Hydrometeorological Thresholds for Landslide Initiation. Water. 13(13). 1752–1752. 12 indexed citations

Mirus, Benjamin B., Eric S. Jones, Rex L. Baum, et al.. (2020). Landslides across the USA: occurrence, susceptibility, and data limitations. Landslides. 17(10). 2271–2285. 91 indexed citations

Fusco, Francesco, Pantaleone De Vita, Benjamin B. Mirus, et al.. (2019). Physically Based Estimation of Rainfall Thresholds Triggering Shallow Landslides in Volcanic Slopes of Southern Italy. Water. 11(9). 1915–1915. 40 indexed citations

Yatheendradas, Soni, Dalia Kirschbaum, Grey Nearing, et al.. (2019). Bayesian analysis of the impact of rainfall data product on simulated slope failure for North Carolina locations. Computational Geosciences. 23(3). 495–522. 15 indexed citations

Mirus, Benjamin B., et al.. (2018). Integrating real-time subsurface hydrologic monitoring with empirical rainfall thresholds to improve landslide early warning. Landslides. 15(10). 1909–1919. 101 indexed citations

Baum, Rex L., Corina Cerovski‐Darriau, William H. Schulz, et al.. (2018). Variability of Hurricane Maria debris-flow source areas in Puerto Rico—Implications for hazard assessment. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Joel B., et al.. (2017). Results of hydrologic monitoring on landslide-prone coastal bluffs near Mukilteo, Washington. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 9 indexed citations

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Baum, Rex L., et al.. (2017). Precipitation thresholds for landslide occurrence near Seattle, Mukilteo, and Everett, Washington. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 24 indexed citations

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Mirus, Benjamin B., Joel B. Smith, & Rex L. Baum. (2017). Hydrologic Impacts of Landslide Disturbances: Implications for Remobilization and Hazard Persistence. Water Resources Research. 53(10). 8250–8265. 34 indexed citations

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Ferretti, M., et al.. (2014). Using the TRIGRS model to predict rainfall-induced shallow landslides over large areas. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 14134. 1 indexed citations

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Alvioli, Massimiliano, et al.. (2014). Improving predictive power of physically based rainfall-induced shallow landslide models: a probabilistic approach. Geoscientific model development. 7(2). 495–514. 128 indexed citations

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Marchesini, Ivan, et al.. (2011). A GIS framework for the stochastic distributed modelling of rainfall induced shallow landslides. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Godt, Jonathan W., Rex L. Baum, Ning Lu, William Z. Savage, & Jonathan P. McKenna. (2006). Applying Distributed, Coupled Hydrological Slope-Stability Models for Landslide Hazard Assessments. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006.

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Baum, Rex L., Jonathan W. Godt, & William Z. Savage. (2006). Unsaturated Zone Effects in Predicting Landslide and Debris-Flow Initiation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 2 indexed citations

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Salciarini, Diana, et al.. (2005). Modelling regional initiation of rainfall-induced shallow landslides in the eastern Umbria region of central Italy. The EGU General Assembly. 7. 3 indexed citations

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Baum, Rex L., et al.. (2005). Hydrologic monitoring of landslide-prone coastal bluffs near Edmonds and Everett, Washington, 2001-2004. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 23 indexed citations

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Crone, Anthony J., et al.. (2001). Landslides induced by Hurricane Mitch in El Salvador -- an inventory and descriptions of selected features. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 18 indexed citations

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Baum, Rex L., Anthony J. Crone, Edwin L. Harp, et al.. (2001). Assessment of landslide hazards resulting from the February 13, 2001, El Salvador earthquake; a report to the government of El Salvador and the U. S. Agency for International Development. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 6 indexed citations

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