Uwe Ehret

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Uwe Ehret is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Uwe Ehret has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Water Science and Technology and 17 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Uwe Ehret's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (31 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (19 papers) and Hydrological Forecasting Using AI (10 papers). Uwe Ehret is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (31 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (19 papers) and Hydrological Forecasting Using AI (10 papers). Uwe Ehret collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Uwe Ehret's co-authors include Erwin Zehe, Volker Wulfmeyer, Kirsten Warrach‐Sagi, J. Liebert, Axel Kleidon, Ulrike Scherer, Martijn Westhoff, Conrad Jackisch, Hoshin V. Gupta and Ralf Loritz and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology and Hydrology and earth system sciences.

In The Last Decade

Uwe Ehret

51 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

HESS Opinions "Should we apply bias correction to global and regional climate model data?"

2012 578 citations Uwe Ehret, Erwin Zehe et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
A multi-disciplinary analysis of the exceptional flood event of July 2021 in central Europe – Part 1: Event description and analysis

2023 93 citations Susanna Mohr, Uwe Ehret et al. Natural hazards and earth system sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Uwe Ehret Germany	18	1.2k	828	604	318	123	53	1.6k
Saeed Golian Iran	22	1.2k 0.9×	587 0.7×	658 1.1×	379 1.2×	66 0.5×	59	1.6k
Alfonso Senatore Italy	22	996 0.8×	700 0.8×	456 0.8×	225 0.7×	127 1.0×	63	1.4k
Shanlei Sun China	27	1.7k 1.4×	688 0.8×	696 1.2×	293 0.9×	229 1.9×	95	2.1k
Goutam Konapala United States	16	1.1k 0.9×	782 0.9×	373 0.6×	434 1.4×	125 1.0×	21	1.6k
Mohammad Reza Najafi Canada	25	1.6k 1.3×	754 0.9×	900 1.5×	309 1.0×	78 0.6×	77	2.0k
Subhrendu Gangopadhyay United States	23	1.4k 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	742 1.2×	360 1.1×	82 0.7×	51	1.9k
Francisco Muñoz‐Arriola United States	17	707 0.6×	519 0.6×	365 0.6×	279 0.9×	127 1.0×	51	1.2k
Mike Hobbins United States	27	2.6k 2.1×	1.2k 1.4×	743 1.2×	279 0.9×	176 1.4×	45	3.0k
Gopi Goteti United States	6	1.9k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	876 1.5×	506 1.6×	161 1.3×	11	2.5k
Justin Huntington United States	21	1.5k 1.2×	724 0.9×	323 0.5×	315 1.0×	294 2.4×	53	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Uwe Ehret

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All Works

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Kratzert, Frederik, et al.. (2025). Technical note: An approach for handling multiple temporal frequencies with different input dimensions using a single LSTM cell. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(6). 1749–1758. 3 indexed citations

Staudinger, Maria, Ralf Loritz, Tobias Houska, et al.. (2025). How well do process-based and data-driven hydrological models learn from limited discharge data?. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(19). 5005–5029.

Loritz, Ralf, et al.. (2025). Analyzing the generalization capabilities of a hybrid hydrological model for extrapolation to extreme events. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(5). 1277–1294. 3 indexed citations

Gupta, Hoshin V., et al.. (2024). On the Accurate Estimation of Information-Theoretic Quantities from Multi-Dimensional Sample Data. Entropy. 26(5). 387–387. 4 indexed citations

Loritz, Ralf, et al.. (2024). To bucket or not to bucket? Analyzing the performance and interpretability of hybrid hydrological models with dynamic parameterization. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(12). 2705–2719. 15 indexed citations

Mohr, Susanna, Uwe Ehret, Michael Kunz, et al.. (2023). A multi-disciplinary analysis of the exceptional flood event of July 2021 in central Europe – Part 1: Event description and analysis. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(2). 525–551. 93 indexed citations breakdown →

Ludwig, Patrick, Florian Ehmele, Mário J. Franca, et al.. (2023). A multi-disciplinary analysis of the exceptional flood event of July 2021 in central Europe – Part 2: Historical context and relation to climate change. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(4). 1287–1311. 46 indexed citations

Loritz, Ralf, et al.. (2020). Histogram via entropy reduction (HER): an information-theoretic alternative for geostatistics. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(9). 4523–4540. 8 indexed citations

Wellmann, Florian, et al.. (2020). HER: an information theoretic alternative for geostatistics. 1 indexed citations

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Ehret, Uwe, et al.. (2020). Adaptive clustering: reducing the computational costs of distributed (hydrological) modelling by exploiting time-variable similarity among model elements. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(9). 4389–4411. 12 indexed citations

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Ehret, Uwe, et al.. (2020). Adaptive clustering: A method to analyze dynamical similarity and to reduce redundancies in distributed (hydrological) modeling. 1 indexed citations

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Loritz, Ralf, Hoshin V. Gupta, Conrad Jackisch, et al.. (2018). On the dynamic nature of hydrological similarity. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(7). 3663–3684. 49 indexed citations

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Loritz, Ralf, Hoshin V. Gupta, Conrad Jackisch, et al.. (2018). On the dynamic nature of hydrologicalsimilarity. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 2 indexed citations

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Zehe, Erwin, Uwe Ehret, Laurent Pfister, et al.. (2014). HESS Opinions: Functional units: a novel framework to explore the link between spatial organization and hydrological functioning of intermediate scale catchments. Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). 5 indexed citations

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Ehret, Uwe, et al.. (2014). Applying the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm to compress and characterize time-series and spatial fields of precipitation. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 13537. 1 indexed citations

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Zehe, Erwin, Uwe Ehret, Laurent Pfister, et al.. (2014). HESS Opinions: From response units to functional units: a thermodynamic reinterpretation of the HRU concept to link spatial organization and functioning of intermediate scale catchments. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(11). 4635–4655. 82 indexed citations

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Kleidon, Axel, Erwin Zehe, Uwe Ehret, & Ulrike Scherer. (2013). Thermodynamics, maximum power, and the dynamics of preferential river flow structures at the continental scale. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(1). 225–251. 62 indexed citations

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Ehret, Uwe, Erwin Zehe, Volker Wulfmeyer, & Kirsten Warrach‐Sagi. (2012). Bias Correction used for Climate Projections from Climate Models - A Critique. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 12952. 1 indexed citations

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Ehret, Uwe, et al.. (2009). Operational hydrological forecasting in Bavaria. Part I: Forecast uncertainty. Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. 11(1). 13204–31. 1 indexed citations

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Ehret, Uwe & András Bàrdossy. (2002). Combined Use of Raingauge, Spectrometer and Radar Data For Spatial Rainfall Estimation. EGS General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1714. 1 indexed citations

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