Selected Recent Publications

Gnann, S., Baldwin, J. W., Cuthbert, M. O., Gleeson, T., Schwanghart, W., & Wagener, T. (2025). The influence of topography on the global terrestrial water cycle. Reviews of Geophysics, 63(1), e2023RG000810. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023RG000810 

Stein, L., Mukkavilli, S. K., Pfitzmann, B. M., Staar, P. W., Ozturk, U., ... & Wagener, T. (2024). Wealth over Woe: Global biases in hydro‐hazard research. Earth's Future, 12(10), e2024EF004590. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004590 

Gnann, S., Reinecke, R., Stein, L., (…) & Wagener, T. (2023). Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models. Nature Water, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00160-y  

Devitt, L., Neal, J., Coxon, G., Savage, J. & Wagener, T., (2023). Flood hazard potential reveals global floodplain settlement patterns. Nature Communications, 14(2801).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38297-9

Ozturk, U., Bozzolan, E., Holcombe, E. A., Shukla, R., Pianosi, F., & Wagener, T. (2022). How climate change and unplanned urban sprawl bring more landslides. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/D41586-022-02141-9

Kreibich, H., Van Loon, A. F. et al. (2022). The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/S41586-022-04917-5

Wagener, T., Reinecke, R., & Pianosi, F. (2022). On the evaluation of climate change impact models. WIREs Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.772

Gleeson, T., Wagener, T., Doll, P., Zipper, S. C., West, C., Wada, Y., et al. (2021). GMD perspective: The quest to improve the evaluation of groundwater representation in continental- to global-scale models. Geoscientific Model Development. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-7545-2021

Wagener, T., Gleeson, T., Coxon, G., Hartmann, A., Howden, N., Pianosi, F., et al. (2021). On doing hydrology with dragons: Realizing the value of perceptual models and knowledge accumulation. WIREs Water, 8(6), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1550

Hartmann, A., Jasechklo, S., Gleeson, T. … & Wagener, T. (2021). Risk of groundwater contamination widely underestimated because of fast flow into aquifers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (20) e2024492118 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.202449211