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Rainfall–runoff modelling in a tropical climate (Citarum basin, West Java, Indonesia): model and climate data intercomparison (2025)
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Vesuviano, G., Mathias, S. A., Rahayu, R., & Reaney, S. M. (online). Rainfall–runoff modelling in a tropical climate (Citarum basin, West Java, Indonesia): model and climate data intercomparison. Nordic hydrology, https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2025.021

Hydrological research in tropical regions has been limited by a lack of high-quality precipitation and evapotranspiration input data, and high-quality observed runoff calibration data. Hence, most hydrological models have been developed for non-tropi... Read More about Rainfall–runoff modelling in a tropical climate (Citarum basin, West Java, Indonesia): model and climate data intercomparison.

Capability Analysis of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Emergency Management (2025)
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Robson, E., Reaney, S. M., & Donoghue, D. (2025). Capability Analysis of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Emergency Management. Remote Sensing, 17(9), Article 1545. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17091545

Space is one of the UK’s fastest-growing industry sectors of the last decade. Recognising this, in 2021 the UK Government’s first National Space Strategy established a new vision to make the nation one of the most innovative and attractive worldwide... Read More about Capability Analysis of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Emergency Management.

Identification of floodwater source areas in Nepal using SCIMAP‐Flood (2022)
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Pearson, C., Reaney, S., Perks, M., Hortobagyi, B., Rosser, N., & Large, A. (2022). Identification of floodwater source areas in Nepal using SCIMAP‐Flood. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 15(4), Article e12840. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12840

Practical approaches for managing flooding from fluvial sources are moving away from mitigation solely at the point of impact and towards integrated catchment management. This considers the source areas, flow pathways of floodwaters and the locations... Read More about Identification of floodwater source areas in Nepal using SCIMAP‐Flood.

Sustainable Catchment-Wide Flood Management: A Review of the Terminology and Application of Sustainable Catchment Flood Management Techniques in the UK (2022)
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Lashford, C., Lavers, T., Reaney, S., Charlesworth, S., Burgess-Gamble, L., & Dale, J. (2022). Sustainable Catchment-Wide Flood Management: A Review of the Terminology and Application of Sustainable Catchment Flood Management Techniques in the UK. Water, 14(8), Article 1204. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14081204

Climate change has seen increased pressures put on the existing ageing flood mitigation infrastructure. As a result, over recent decades there has been a shift from traditional hard-engineered approaches to flooding to more sustainable methods that u... Read More about Sustainable Catchment-Wide Flood Management: A Review of the Terminology and Application of Sustainable Catchment Flood Management Techniques in the UK.

Spatial targeting of nature‐based solutions for flood risk management within river catchments (2022)
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Reaney, S. M. (2022). Spatial targeting of nature‐based solutions for flood risk management within river catchments. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 15(3), Article e12803. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12803

A wide range of nature-based solutions for flood hazard management work by storing and slowing flow within catchments, and therefore, there is a need to identify the optimal locations for implementing these solutions. This paper presents a relative s... Read More about Spatial targeting of nature‐based solutions for flood risk management within river catchments.

Transmission loss estimation for ephemeral sand rivers in Southern Africa (2021)
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Mathias, S. A., Reaney, S. M., & Kenabatho, P. K. (2021). Transmission loss estimation for ephemeral sand rivers in Southern Africa. Journal of Hydrology, 600, Article 126487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126487

Ephemeral sand rivers represent an important water resource in Southern Africa. These rivers only flow for a few days in a year. However, much of this water infiltrates the underlying river bed sediments where it is protected from evaporation and uti... Read More about Transmission loss estimation for ephemeral sand rivers in Southern Africa.

A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes (2020)
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Sinha, P., Rollason, E., Bracken, L. J., Wainwright, J., & Reaney, M. S. (2020). A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes. Science of the Total Environment, 721, Article 137646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137646

Water shortages are forecast to affect 50% of the world's population by 2030, impacting developing nations most acutely. To increase water security there has been a significant increase in Inter-basin Water Transfer (IBWT) schemes, engineering mega-p... Read More about A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes.

Benchmarking the predictive capability of hydrological models for river flow and flood peak predictions across over 1000 catchments in Great Britain (2019)
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Lane, R. A., Coxon, G., Freer, J. E., Wagener, T., Johnes, P. J., Bloomfield, J. P., Greene, S., Macleod, C. J., & Reaney, S. M. (2019). Benchmarking the predictive capability of hydrological models for river flow and flood peak predictions across over 1000 catchments in Great Britain. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(10), 4011-4032. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4011-2019

Benchmarking model performance across large samples of catchments is useful to guide model selection and future model development. Given uncertainties in the observational data we use to drive and evaluate hydrological models, and uncertainties in th... Read More about Benchmarking the predictive capability of hydrological models for river flow and flood peak predictions across over 1000 catchments in Great Britain.

Identifying critical source areas using multiple methods for effective diffuse pollution mitigation (2019)
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Reaney, S., Mackay, E., Haygarth, P., Fisher, M., Molineux, A., Potts, M., & Benskin, C. M. (2019). Identifying critical source areas using multiple methods for effective diffuse pollution mitigation. Journal of Environmental Management, 250, Article 109366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109366

Diffuse pollution from agriculture constitutes a key pressure on the water quality of freshwaters and is frequently the cause of ecological degradation. The problem of diffuse pollution can be conceptualised with a source-mobilisation-pathway (or del... Read More about Identifying critical source areas using multiple methods for effective diffuse pollution mitigation.

Strong and recurring seasonality revealed within stream diatom assemblages (2019)
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Snell, M., Barker, P., Surridge, B., Benskin, C. M. H., Barber, N., Reaney, S., Tych, W., Mindham, D., Large, A., Burke, S., & Haygarth, P. (2019). Strong and recurring seasonality revealed within stream diatom assemblages. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 3313. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37831-w

Improving stream water quality in agricultural landscapes is an ecological priority and a legislative duty for many governments. Ecosystem health can be effectively characterised by organisms sensitive to water quality changes such as diatoms, single... Read More about Strong and recurring seasonality revealed within stream diatom assemblages.

High resolution characterisation of E. coli proliferation profiles in livestock faeces (2019)
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Porter, K. D., Quilliam, R. S., Reaney, S. M., & Oliver, D. M. (2019). High resolution characterisation of E. coli proliferation profiles in livestock faeces. Waste Management, 87, 537-545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2019.02.037

Agricultural intensification can lead to high volumes of livestock faeces being applied to land, either as solid or liquid manures or via direct defecation, and can result in reservoirs of faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) persisting within farmland.... Read More about High resolution characterisation of E. coli proliferation profiles in livestock faeces.

The Role of Attenuation and Land Management in Small Catchments to Remove Sediment and Phosphorus: A Modelling Study of Mitigation Options and Impacts (2018)
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Adams, R., Quinn, P., Barber, N., & Reaney, S. (2018). The Role of Attenuation and Land Management in Small Catchments to Remove Sediment and Phosphorus: A Modelling Study of Mitigation Options and Impacts. Water, 10(9), Article 1227. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10091227

It is well known that soil, hillslopes, and watercourses in small catchments possess a degree of natural attenuation that affects both the shape of the outlet hydrograph and the transport of nutrients and sediments. The widespread adoption of Natural... Read More about The Role of Attenuation and Land Management in Small Catchments to Remove Sediment and Phosphorus: A Modelling Study of Mitigation Options and Impacts.

A catchment-scale model to predict spatial and temporal burden of E . coli on pasture from grazing livestock (2017)
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Oliver, D. M., Bartie, P. J., Louise Heathwaite, A., Reaney, S. M., Parnell, J. A., & Quilliam, R. S. (2018). A catchment-scale model to predict spatial and temporal burden of E . coli on pasture from grazing livestock. Science of the Total Environment, 616-617, 678-687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.263

Effective management of diffuse microbial water pollution from agriculture requires a fundamental understanding of how spatial patterns of microbial pollutants, e.g. E. coli, vary over time at the landscape scale. The aim of this study was to apply t... Read More about A catchment-scale model to predict spatial and temporal burden of E . coli on pasture from grazing livestock.

Predicting diffuse microbial pollution risk across catchments: The performance of SCIMAP and recommendations for future development (2017)
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Porter, K. D., Reaney, S. M., Quilliam, R. S., Burgess, C., & Oliver, D. M. (2017). Predicting diffuse microbial pollution risk across catchments: The performance of SCIMAP and recommendations for future development. Science of the Total Environment, 609, 456-465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.186

Microbial pollution of surface waters in agricultural catchments can be a consequence of poor farm management practices, such as excessive stocking of livestock on vulnerable land or inappropriate handling of manures and slurries. Catchment intervent... Read More about Predicting diffuse microbial pollution risk across catchments: The performance of SCIMAP and recommendations for future development.

Use of spatially distributed time-integrated sediment sampling networks and distributed fine sediment modelling to inform catchment management (2017)
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Perks, M., Warburton, J., Bracken, L., Reaney, S., Emery, S., & Hirst, S. (2017). Use of spatially distributed time-integrated sediment sampling networks and distributed fine sediment modelling to inform catchment management. Journal of Environmental Management, 202, 469-478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.01.045

Under the EU Water Framework Directive, suspended sediment is omitted from environmental quality standards and compliance targets. This omission is partly explained by difficulties in assessing the complex dose-response of ecological communities. But... Read More about Use of spatially distributed time-integrated sediment sampling networks and distributed fine sediment modelling to inform catchment management.

Changing climate and nutrient transfers: Evidence from high temporal resolution concentration-flow dynamics in headwater catchments (2016)
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Ockenden, M., Deasy, C., Benskin, C., Beven, K., Burke, S., Collins, A., Evans, R., Falloon, P., Forber, K., Hiscock, K., Hollaway, M., Kahana, R., Macleod, C., Reaney, S., Snell, M., Villamizar, M., Wearing, C., Withers, P., Zhou, J., & Haygarth, P. (2016). Changing climate and nutrient transfers: Evidence from high temporal resolution concentration-flow dynamics in headwater catchments. Science of the Total Environment, 548-549, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.086

We hypothesise that climate change, together with intensive agricultural systems, will increase the transfer of pollutants from land to water and impact on stream health. This study builds, for the first time, an integrated assessment of nutrient tra... Read More about Changing climate and nutrient transfers: Evidence from high temporal resolution concentration-flow dynamics in headwater catchments.

Predicting microbial water quality with models: Over-arching questions for managing risk in agricultural catchments (2015)
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Oliver, D., Porter, K., Pachepsky, Y., Muirhead, R., Reaney, S., Coffey, R., …Quilliam, R. (2016). Predicting microbial water quality with models: Over-arching questions for managing risk in agricultural catchments. Science of the Total Environment, 544, 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.086

The application of models to predict concentrations of faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) in environmental systems plays an important role for guiding decision-making associated with the management of microbial water quality. In recent years there has... Read More about Predicting microbial water quality with models: Over-arching questions for managing risk in agricultural catchments.

Dominant mechanisms for the delivery of fine sediment and phosphorus to fluvial networks draining grassland dominated headwater catchments (2015)
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Perks, M., Owen, G., Benshin, C., Jonczyk, J., Deasy, C., Burke, S., …Haygarath, P. (2015). Dominant mechanisms for the delivery of fine sediment and phosphorus to fluvial networks draining grassland dominated headwater catchments. Science of the Total Environment, 523, 178-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.008

Recent advances in monitoring technology have enabled high frequency, in-situ measurements of total phosphorus and total reactive phosphorus to be undertaken with high precision, whilst turbidity can provide an excellent surrogate for suspended sedim... Read More about Dominant mechanisms for the delivery of fine sediment and phosphorus to fluvial networks draining grassland dominated headwater catchments.

A geospatial framework to support integrated biogeochemical modelling in the United Kingdom (2015)
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Greene, S., Johnes, P., Bloomfield, J., Reaney, S., Lawley, R., El Khatib, Y., …Percy, B. (2015). A geospatial framework to support integrated biogeochemical modelling in the United Kingdom. Environmental Modelling and Software, 68, 219-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.02.012

Anthropogenic impacts on the aquatic environment, especially in the context of nutrients, provide a major challenge for water resource management. The heterogeneous nature of policy relevant management units (e.g. catchments), in terms of environment... Read More about A geospatial framework to support integrated biogeochemical modelling in the United Kingdom.