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List of works by Philip J. Ward

A comparison of two global datasets of extreme sea levels and resulting flood exposure

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A first collective validation of global fluvial flood models for major floods in Nigeria and Mozambique

scholarly article by Mark V Bernhofen et al published 1 October 2018 in Environmental Research Letters

A global framework for future costs and benefits of river-flood protection in urban areas

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

A global reanalysis of storm surges and extreme sea levels

scientific article

Adaptation to flood risk: Results of international paired flood event studies

Annual flood sensitivities to El Niño Southern Oscillation at the global scale

Annual flood sensitivities to El Niño–Southern Oscillation at the global scale

article published in 2014

Author Correction: Future climate risk from compound events

scholarly article published in Nature Climate Change

Caught Between Extremes: Understanding Human‐Water Interactions During Drought‐To‐Flood Events in the Horn of Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Changing mechanism of global water scarcity events: Impacts of socioeconomic changes and inter-annual hydro-climatic variability

Compound simulation of fluvial floods and storm surges in a global coupled river-coast flood model: Model development and its application to 2007 Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh

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Corrigendum: A global reanalysis of storm surges and extreme sea levels

scientific article published on 8 September 2016

Corrigendum: The credibility challenge for global fluvial flood risk analysis (2016 Environ. Res. Lett. 11 094014)

scholarly article published in Environmental Research Letters

Cutting the costs of coastal protection by integrating vegetation in flood defences

scientific article published in 2021

Declining vulnerability to river floods and the global benefits of adaptation

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Dependence between high sea-level and high river discharge increases flood hazard in global deltas and estuaries

Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Exploring deep learning capabilities for surge predictions in coastal areas

scientific article published on 26 August 2021

Exploring the ENSO Impact on Basin‐Scale Floods Using Hydrological Simulations and TRMM Precipitation

scientific article published in 2020

FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards

Flood frequencies and durations and their response to El Niño Southern Oscillation: Global analysis

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Flood risk and adaptation strategies under climate change and urban expansion: A probabilistic analysis using global data

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Flood risk assessments at different spatial scales

Floods and climate: emerging perspectives for flood risk assessment and management

Floods and climate: emerging perspectives for flood risk assessment and management

Future changes in Mekong River hydrology: impact of climate change and reservoir operation on discharge

scholarly article by H. Lauri et al published 5 December 2012 in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Future climate risk from compound events

Global River Discharge and Floods in the Warmer Climate of the Last Interglacial

scientific article published in 2020

Global drivers of future river flood risk

Global modeling of tropical cyclone storm surges using high-resolution forecasts

scholarly article by Nadia Bloemendaal et al published 7 September 2018 in Climate Dynamics

Hess Opinions: An interdisciplinary research agenda to explore the unintended consequences of structural flood protection

Hess Opinions: An interdisciplinary research agenda to explore the unintended consequences of structural flood protection

How Close Do We Live to Water? A Global Analysis of Population Distance to Freshwater Bodies

scientific article published on June 8, 2011

Human impact parameterizations in global hydrological models improve estimates of monthly discharges and hydrological extremes: a multi-model validation study

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Impact of Large-scale Climatic Oscillations on Snowfall-related Climate Parameters in the World's Major Downhill Ski Areas: A Review

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Improving predictions and management of hydrological extremes through climate services

scholarly article by Bart J.J.M. van den Hurk et al published March 2016 in Climate Services

Increasing stress on disaster-risk finance due to large floods

Influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on Global Coastal Flooding

Is physical water scarcity a new phenomenon? Global assessment of water shortage over the last two millennia

Lost food, wasted resources: global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use.

scientific article published on 29 September 2012

Modeling the sensitivity of sediment and water runoff dynamics to Holocene climate and land use changes at the catchment scale

scientific article published in March 2011

Over the hills and further away from coast: global geospatial patterns of human and environment over the 20th–21st centuries

article by Matti Kummu et al published 1 March 2016 in Environmental Research Letters

Palaeoclimatological perspective on river basin hydrometeorology: case of the Mekong Basin

Reply to 'Statistics of flood risk'

Review Article: A comparison of flood and earthquake vulnerability assessment indicators

scholarly article by Marleen C. de Ruiter et al published 20 July 2017 in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

River flood risk in Jakarta under scenarios of future change

Sensitivity of discharge and flood frequency to twenty-first century and late Holocene changes in climate and land use (River Meuse, northwest Europe)

Sensitivity of water scarcity events to ENSO-driven climate variability at the global scale

Shifting perspectives on coastal impacts and adaptation

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Spatiotemporal patterns of extreme sea levels along the western North-Atlantic coasts

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Strong influence of El Niño Southern Oscillation on flood risk around the world

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The Asynergies of Structural Disaster Risk Reduction Measures: Comparing Floods and Earthquakes

scientific article published in 2021

The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

scientific article published in 2022

The credibility challenge for global fluvial flood risk analysis

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The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

The world's road to water scarcity: shortage and stress in the 20th century and pathways towards sustainability

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Towards a global water scarcity risk assessment framework: incorporation of probability distributions and hydro-climatic variability

Translating large-scale climate variability into crop production forecast in Europe

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Two-thirds of global cropland area impacted by climate oscillations

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Usefulness and limitations of global flood risk models

Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

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