Simon Moulds

919 total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 505 citations indexed

About

Simon Moulds is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Moulds has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 505 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Water Science and Technology and 7 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Simon Moulds's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (14 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (9 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers). Simon Moulds is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (14 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (9 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers). Simon Moulds collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Simon Moulds's co-authors include Wouter Buytaert, Ana Mijić, Louise Slater, Marcos Villacís, Michael R. Templeton, Carolina Tovar, L. Acosta, Bert De Bièvre, Koen Verbist and Linda Speight and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Simon Moulds

28 papers receiving 491 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.

Hybrid forecasting: blending climate predictions with AI models

2023 93 citations Louise Slater, Louise Arnal et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Moulds United Kingdom	13	271	160	122	120	73	31	505
Barnabas Amisigo Ghana	14	256 0.9×	230 1.4×	97 0.8×	78 0.7×	75 1.0×	27	552
Trần Văn Tỷ Vietnam	14	268 1.0×	310 1.9×	111 0.9×	49 0.4×	77 1.1×	48	542
Carlos de Oliveira Galvão Brazil	14	239 0.9×	216 1.4×	128 1.0×	113 0.9×	73 1.0×	57	526
Tazen Fowé Burkina Faso	15	437 1.6×	363 2.3×	118 1.0×	76 0.6×	72 1.0×	33	672
Vincent Odongo Netherlands	13	353 1.3×	194 1.2×	70 0.6×	130 1.1×	110 1.5×	21	554
Akinola Adesuji Komolafe Nigeria	15	479 1.8×	202 1.3×	184 1.5×	130 1.1×	134 1.8×	32	741
Noel Aloysius United States	14	246 0.9×	334 2.1×	80 0.7×	94 0.8×	81 1.1×	27	661
Andrew Ogilvie France	14	410 1.5×	344 2.1×	142 1.2×	62 0.5×	123 1.7×	37	663
Piet K. Kenabatho Botswana	15	441 1.6×	168 1.1×	128 1.0×	115 1.0×	71 1.0×	30	638

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Moulds

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20 of 20 papers shown

Moulds, Simon, et al.. (2025). Accelerated River Mobility Linked to Water Discharge Variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(2). 3 indexed citations

Moulds, Simon, et al.. (2025). Four Principles of Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change‐Exacerbated Hazards in Informal Settlements. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 16(3).

Moulds, Simon, Louise Slater, Louise Arnal, & Andrew W. Wood. (2025). Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(11). 2393–2406. 1 indexed citations

Slater, Louise, Anne J. Hoek van Dijke, Feini Huang, et al.. (2025). Challenges and opportunities of ML and explainable AI in large-sample hydrology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 383(2302). 20240287–20240287. 6 indexed citations

Sharmanska, Viktoriia, Wenjia Bai, Simon Moulds, et al.. (2025). Unsupervised deep clustering of high-resolution satellite imagery reveals phenotypes of urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Science of The Total Environment. 988. 179739–179739.

Slater, Louise, Gemma Coxon, Manuela I. Brunner, et al.. (2024). Spatial Sensitivity of River Flooding to Changes in Climate and Land Cover Through Explainable AI. Earth s Future. 12(5). 13 indexed citations

Alam, Rafiul, et al.. (2023). Dhaka city water logging hazards: area identification and vulnerability assessment through GIS-remote sensing techniques. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 195(5). 543–543. 17 indexed citations

Li, Xueying, Di Long, Louise Slater, et al.. (2023). Soil Moisture to Runoff (SM2R): A Data‐Driven Model for Runoff Estimation Across Poorly Gauged Asian Water Towers Based on Soil Moisture Dynamics. Water Resources Research. 59(3). 14 indexed citations

Slater, Louise, Louise Arnal, Marie‐Amélie Boucher, et al.. (2023). Hybrid forecasting: blending climate predictions with AI models. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(9). 1865–1889. 93 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moulds, Simon, Louise Slater, Nick Dunstone, & Doug Smith. (2022). Skillful Decadal Flood Prediction. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(3). 10 indexed citations

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Templeton, Michael R., Honor Bixby, George Owusu, et al.. (2022). Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana. Population and Environment. 44(1-2). 46–76. 15 indexed citations

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Ochoa‐Tocachi, B. F., et al.. (2022). Parameterizing the JULES land surface model for different land covers in the tropical Andes. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 67(10). 1516–1526. 2 indexed citations

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Moulds, Simon, Honor Bixby, George Owusu, et al.. (2022). Sachet water in Ghana: A spatiotemporal analysis of the recent upward trend in consumption and its relationship with changing household characteristics, 2010–2017. PLoS ONE. 17(5). e0265167–e0265167. 14 indexed citations

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Butler, Adrian P., et al.. (2022). Localizing Hydrological Drought Early Warning Using In Situ Groundwater Sensors. Water Resources Research. 58(8). 11 indexed citations

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Moulds, Simon, et al.. (2021). Modeling the Impacts of Urban Flood Risk Management on Social Inequality. Water Resources Research. 57(6). e2020WR029024–e2020WR029024. 31 indexed citations

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Moulds, Simon, Wouter Buytaert, & Ana Mijić. (2018). A spatio-temporal land use and land cover reconstruction for India from 1960–2010. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180159–180159. 26 indexed citations

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Moulds, Simon, Jimmy O’Keeffe, Slobodan Djordjević, & Dragan Savić. (2018). Towards a system dynamics model of the Indo-Gangetic Plain for sustainable water resources management. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Pebesma, Edzer, et al.. (2016). Scalable Earth-observation Analytics for Geoscientists: Spacetime Extensions to the Array Database SciDB. EGUGA. 4 indexed citations

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Moulds, Simon, Wouter Buytaert, & Ana Mijić. (2015). An open and extensible framework for spatially explicit land use change modelling: the lulcc R package. Geoscientific model development. 8(10). 3215–3229. 53 indexed citations

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Moulds, Simon & Wouter Buytaert. (2014). Land Use Change Modelling in R. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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