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  1. Past and future change in global river flows

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  2. Global hydroclimatic risks and strategic decommissioning pathways for thermal power units

    Article • Nature Sustainability, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  3. Underestimation of Historical Terrestrial Water Storage Droughts in Global Water Models

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  4. Graphical representation of global water models

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, April 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  5. The updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, AWARE2.0

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, April 2025, Wiley

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  6. Process-based evaluation of flood events across global water models

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  7. Towards the use of satellite remote sensing to validate reservoir storage in global hydrological models: methodology and pilot study in the CONUS

    Article • Environmental Research Water, March 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  8. The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2e: description and evaluation of modifications and new features

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, December 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  9. Benefits and Pitfalls of GRACE and Streamflow Assimilation for Improving the Streamflow Simulations of the WaterGAP Global Hydrology Model

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, October 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  10. Examining the contribution of climate change on global soil moisture drought characteristics

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  11. Global hydrological models continue to overestimate river discharge

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, May 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  12. Leveraging multi-variable observations to reduce and quantify the output uncertainty of a global hydrological model: evaluation of three ensemble-based approaches for the Mississippi River basin

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  13. Graphical representation of global water models

    Article • May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  14. Future water stress scenario in South Asia under the Paris Agreement

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  15. A survey of past and future changes in global river flow

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  16. Efficient and systematic evaluation of the global hydrological model WaterGAP against multiple types of observation data 

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  17. Graphical representation of global water models participating in the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  18. Global‐Scale Groundwater Recharge Modeling Is Improved by Tuning Against Ground‐Based Estimates for Karst and Non‐Karst Areas

    Article • Water Resources Research, March 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  19. Global and regional ocean mass budget closure since 2003

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied, Prof Matt A King

  20. Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models

    Article • Nature Water, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  21. Supplementary material to "The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2e: description and evaluation of modifications and new features"

    Article • November 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  22. The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2e: description and evaluation of modifications and new features

    Article • November 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  23. Supplementary material to "Use of satellite remote sensing to validate reservoir operations in global hydrological models: a case study from the CONUS"

    Article • September 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  24. Use of satellite remote sensing to validate reservoir operations in global hydrological models: a case study from the CONUS

    Article • September 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  25. Multi-variable parameter estimation for a global hydrological model: Comparison and evaluation of three ensemble-based calibration methods for the Mississippi River basin

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  26. Supplementary material to "Multi-variable parameter estimation for a global hydrological model: Comparison and evaluation of three ensemble-based calibration methods for the Mississippi River basin"

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  27. Quantifying lifetime water scarcity

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  28. Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  29. The global freshwater availability and water use model WaterGAP 2.2e – features, evaluation and application within ISIMIP3

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  30. Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied, Dr SESHAGIRIRAO KOLUSU

  31. The global land water storage data set release 2 (GLWS2.0) derived via assimilating GRACE and GRACE-FO data into the WaterGAP global hydrological model

    Article • September 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  32. Globally widespread and increasing violations of environmental flow envelopes

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, July 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  33. The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  34. Multi-model evaluation of catchment- and global-scale hydrological model simulations of drought characteristics across eight large river catchments

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, April 2022, Elsevier

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  35. Improving impact model intercomparison by developing and applying quality control and quality assessment tools – the example of the ISIMIP global water sector

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  36. Joint assimilation of GRACE Total Water Storage Anomalies and In-Situ Streamflow Data into a Global Hydrological Model

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  37. South Asia suffers severe water scarcity even under the Paris Agreement

    Article • February 2022, Research Square

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  38. Global sea-level budget and ocean-mass budget, with a focus on advanced data products and uncertainty characterisation

    Article • Earth System Science Data, February 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  39. Divergent Causes of Terrestrial Water Storage Declines between Drylands and Humid Regions Globally

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  40. Validity of estimating flood and drought characteristics under equilibrium climates from transient simulations

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, September 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  41. A quantitative evaluation of the issue of drought definition: a source of disagreement in future drought assessments

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, September 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  42. Understanding each other's models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, June 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  43. Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change

    Article • Science, March 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  44. Analyzing the propagation of drought through water storages using global scale GRACE-based data assimilation

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  45. Decomposing the uncertainties in global drought projection

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  46. Global Freshwater Fluxes into the World Oceans

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  47. How Severe is Water Stress in the Middle East and North Africa Region?

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  48. Joint assimilation of GRACE satellite and in-situ discharge observations into a global hydrological model

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  49. The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, February 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  50. Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, February 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  51. Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change

    Article • Nature Climate Change, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  52. Supplementary material to "Understanding each other's models: a standard representation of global water models to support improvement, intercomparison, and communication"

    Article • January 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  53. Understanding each other's models: a standard representation of global water models to support improvement, intercomparison, and communication

    Article • January 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  54. Climate change impact on water availability of main river basins in Ukraine

    Article • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies, December 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  55. Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales

    Article • Earth s Future, November 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  56. Reply to anonymous referee 1

    Article • November 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  57. Reply to referee Gemma Coxon

    Article • November 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  58. additional modifications of the manuscript

    Article • November 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  59. Comparison of Groundwater Storage Changes From GRACE Satellites With Monitoring and Modeling of Major U.S. Aquifers

    Article • Water Resources Research, November 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  60. Performance evaluation of global hydrological models in six large Pan-Arctic watersheds

    Article • Climatic Change, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  61. Assessing global water mass transfers from continents to oceans over the period 1948–2016

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, October 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  62. How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change

    Article • Climatic Change, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  63. WFDE5: bias-adjusted ERA5 reanalysis data for impact studies

    Article • Earth System Science Data, September 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  64. The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: Model description and evaluation

    Article • July 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  65. Supplementary material to "Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: A global-scale multi-model ensemble study"

    Article • June 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  66. Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: A global-scale multi-model ensemble study

    Article • June 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  67. Global heat uptake by inland waters

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied, Dr Zeli Tan

  68. WFDE5: bias adjusted ERA5 reanalysis data for impact studies

    Article • April 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  69. Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude – evidence from a model–observation investigation

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, April 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  70. Changes of groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: A global-scale multi-model ensemble approach

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  71. Global heat uptake by inland waters

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  72. Similarities and differences among fifteen global water models in simulating the vertical water balance

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  73. The global freshwater availability and water use model WaterGAP 2.2d

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  74. Assessing global water mass transfers from continents to oceans over the period 1948–2016

    Article • February 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  75. Supplementary material to "Assessing global water mass transfers from continents to oceans over the period 1948–2016"

    Article • February 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  76. Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C will lower increases in inequalities of four hazard indicators of climate change

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, November 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  77. A global‐scale analysis of water storage dynamics of inland wetlands: Quantifying the impacts of human water use and man‐made reservoirs as well as the unavoidable and avoidable impacts of climate change

    Article • Ecohydrology, November 2019, Wiley

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  78. Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude – evidence from a model-observation investigation

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, August 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  79. Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude – evidence from a model-observation investigation

    Article • August 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  80. Tracking seasonal fluctuations in land water storage using global models and GRACE satellites

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  81. Multimodel assessments of human and climate impacts on mean annual streamflow in China

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, March 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  82. State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  83. Publisher Correction: Recent global decline in endorheic basin water storages

    Article • Nature Geoscience, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied, John Reager

  84. Exploring the value of machine learning for weighted multi-model combination of an ensemble of global hydrological models

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, January 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  85. Recent global decline in endorheic basin water storages

    Article • Nature Geoscience, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied, John Reager

  86. Multimodel assessments of human and climate impacts on mean annual streamflow in China

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, October 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  87. Multimodel assessments of human and climate impacts on mean annual streamflow in China

    Article • October 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  88. Evapotranspiration simulations in ISIMIP2a—Evaluation of spatio-temporal characteristics with a comprehensive ensemble of independent datasets

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, June 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  89. Worldwide evaluation of mean and extreme runoff from six global-scale hydrological models that account for human impacts

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, May 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

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

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, March 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  91. Evaluation of Groundwater Storage Variations Estimated from GRACE Data Assimilation and State-of-the-Art Land Surface Models in Australia and the North China Plain

    Article • Remote Sensing, March 2018, MDPI AG

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  92. Risks for the global freshwater system at 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, March 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  93. Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  94. Improving drought simulations within the Murray-Darling Basin by combined calibration/assimilation of GRACE data into the WaterGAP Global Hydrology Model

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, January 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  95. Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming – simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, November 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  96. Development and calibration of a global hydrological model for integrated assessment modeling

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, October 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  97. Toward seamless hydrologic predictions across spatial scales

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, September 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied, Dr. Luis E. Samaniego

  98. Human–water interface in hydrological modelling: current status and future directions

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, August 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  99. The critical role of the routing scheme in simulating peak river discharge in global hydrological models

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, June 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  100. Human-water interface in hydrological modeling: Current status and future directions

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, May 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  101. Intercomparison of global river discharge simulations focusing on dam operation—multiple models analysis in two case-study river basins, Missouri–Mississippi and Green–Colorado

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, April 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  102. Toward seamless hydrologic predictions across scales

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, March 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied, Dr. Luis E. Samaniego

  103. Impact of climate forcing uncertainty and human water use on global and continental water balance components

    Article • Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, October 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  104. Evaluation of Radiation Components in a Global Freshwater Model with Station-Based Observations

    Article • Water, October 2016, MDPI AG

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  105. Variations of global and continental water balance components as impacted by climate forcing uncertainty and human water use

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, July 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  106. Variations of global and continental water balance components as impacted by climate forcing uncertainty and human water use

    Article • March 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  107. Variations of global and continental water balance components as impacted by climate forcing uncertainty and human water use

    Article • March 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  108. Exploring the influence of precipitation extremes and human water use on total water storage (TWS) changes in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basin

    Article • Water Resources Research, March 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Khandu Khandu, Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  109. Observational gridded runoff estimates for Europe (E-RUN version 1.0)

    Article • February 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  110. Variations of global and continental water balance components as impacted by climate forcing uncertainty and human water use

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, January 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  111. Modelling Freshwater Resources at the Global Scale: Challenges and Prospects

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  112. Modelling Freshwater Resources at the Global Scale: Challenges and Prospects

    Article • Surveys in Geophysics, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  113. Covariance Analysis and Sensitivity Studies for GRACE Assimilation into WGHM

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  114. Integrating GRACE into WaterGAP Global Hydrological Model WGHM

    Article • Surveys in Geophysics, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  115. Sensitivity of simulated global-scale freshwater fluxes and storages to input data, hydrological model structure, human water use and calibration

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, September 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  116. Global‐scale assessment of groundwater depletion and related groundwater abstractions: Combining hydrological modeling with information from well observations and GRACE satellites

    Article • Water Resources Research, July 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  117. Seasonal Water Storage Variations as Impacted by Water Abstractions: Comparing the Output of a Global Hydrological Model with GRACE and GPS Observations

    Article • Surveys in Geophysics, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  118. Sensitivity of simulated global-scale freshwater fluxes and storages to input data, hydrological model structure, human water use and calibration

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, February 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied

  119. How is the impact of climate change on river flow regimes related to the impact on mean annual runoff? A global-scale analysis

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, March 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied