Publications

Submitted/in revision:

  1. Slater, L.J., Khouakhi, A., River channels respond to large-scale climate variability. Scientific Reports (in revision)
  2. Courty, L., Wilby, R., Hillier, J., Slater, L.J., Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves at the global scale. The associated dataset is accessible via zenodo at: https://zenodo.org/record/2616438 Environmental Research Letters (under review)
  3. Slater, L. J., Thirel, G., Harrigan, S., Delaigue, O., Hurley, A., Khouakhi, A., Prodoscimi, I., Vitolo, C., and Smith, K. (2019) Using R in hydrology: a review of recent developments and future directions, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss.  (in revision) doi:10.5194/hess-2019-50
  4. Khouakhi, A., Villarini, G., Zhang, W., Slater, L. Seasonal predictability of high sea level frequency from Nino3.4 along the U.S. West coast (revision submitted)

In press/published:

  1. Berghuijs, W., Harrigan, s., Molnar, P., Slater, L. , Kirchner, J., (2019)  The relative importance of different flood-generating mechanisms across Europe, Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2019WR024841
  2. Neri, A., Villarini, G., Slater, L.J., Napolitano, F. (2019) On the statistical attribution of the frequency of flood events across the U.S. Midwest, Advances in Water Resources, 127(5), 225-236, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.03.019
  3. Neri, A., Villarini, G., Salvi, K.A., Slater, L.J. and Napolitano, F. (2019) On the decadal predictability of the frequency of flood events across the U.S. Midwest.  International Journal of Climatology. doi:10.1002/joc.5915
  4. Hillier, J. et al. (2019) Demystifying academics to enhance university–business collaborations in environmental science, Geoscience Communication, 2, 1-23; doi:10.5194/gc-2-1-2019
  5. Slater, L.J., Villarini, G. (2018) Enhancing the predictability of seasonal streamflow with a statistical dynamical approach. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2018GL077945
  6. Lutz, S., Popp, A., van Emmerik, T., Gleeson, T., Kalaugher, L., Möbius, K., Mudde, T., Walton, B., Hut, R., Savenije, H., Slater, L.J., Solcerova, A., Stoof, C. and Zink, M. (2018) HESS Opinions: Science in today’s media landscape – challenges and lessons from hydrologists and journalists. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(7).
  7. Villarini, G., Slater, L.J. (2018) Examination of Changes in Annual Maximum Gage Height in the Continental United States Using Quantile Regression, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE), doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001620
  8. Slater, L.J., Villarini, G. (2017) Evaluating the drivers of seasonal streamflow rates in the U.S. Midwest, Water (MDPI). 9, 695; doi:10.3390/w9090695
    Open Access. PDF.
  9. Slater, L.J., Wilby, R.L. (2017) Measuring the changing pulse of rivers (Perspective article), Science, 357(6351), pp. 552, doi:10.1126/science.aao2441. Reprint.
  10. Zhang, W., Villarini, G., Slater, L.J., Vecchi, G., Bradley, A.A. (2017) Improved ENSO Forecasting using Bayesian Updating and the North American Multi Model Ensemble (NMME), Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0073.1.
  11. Slater, L.J., Villarini, G., Bradley, A.A. (2017) Weighting of NMME temperature and precipitation forecasts across Europe, Journal of Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.07.029
  12. Slater, L.J., Villarini, G., Bradley, A., Vecchi G. (2017) A dynamical statistical framework for seasonal streamflow forecasting in an agricultural watershed,  Climate Dynamics. doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3794-7
  13. Clubb, F.J., Mudd, S.M., Milodowski, D.T, Valters, D.A, Slater, L.J., Hurst, M.D., and Limaye, A.B.S. (2017) Geomorphometric delineation of floodplains and terraces from slope and channel relief thresholds, Earth Surface Dynamics, 5(3), pp.369-385. doi:10.5194/esurf-2017-21.
  14. Villarini, G., Slater, L.J. (2017) Climatology of flooding in the United States, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.123 
  15. Wilby, R.L., Clifford, N.J., De Luca, P., Harrigan, S., Hillier, J.K., Hodgkins, R., Johnson, M.F., Matthews, T.K.R., Murphy, C., Noone, S.J., Parry, S., Prudhomme, C., Rice, S.P., Slater, L.J., Smith, K.A., Wood, P.J. (2017) The “dirty dozen” of freshwater science: Detecting then reconciling hydrological data biases and errors, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Water. doi:10.1002/wat2.1209
  16. Slater, L.J., Villarini, G. (2016) On the impact of gaps on trend detection in extreme streamflow time series, International Journal of Climatology. ISSN: 1097-0088. doi: 10.1002/joc.4954.
  17. Slater, L.J., Villarini, G. (2016) Recent trends in U.S. flood risk, Geophysical Research Letters, 2016. 43(24), pp.12,428-12,436, ISSN: 0094-8276. doi: 10.1002/2016GL071199. Featured Research Spotlight in Eos.
  18. Slater, L.J., Villarini, G., Bradley, A. (2016) Evaluation of the skill of North-American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) Global Climate Models in predicting average and extreme precipitation and temperature over the continental USA. Climate Dynamics, special collection on the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) seasonal prediction experiment. doi: 10.1007/s00382-016-3286-1
  19. Slater L.J. (2016) To what extent have changes in channel capacity contributed to flood hazard trends in England and Wales? Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41(8), pp.1115-1128, ISSN: 0197-9337. Special Issue Stormy Geomorphology, doi: 10.1002/esp.3927
  20. Slater, L.J. (2015) Trends in alluvial channel geometry and streamflow: an investigation of patterns and controls, Ph.D thesis, University of St Andrews, http://doi.org/10.17630/10023-6913
  21. Slater, L.J. (2015) Changing Channels (Outreach article), Planet Earth. Html version. pp.22-23, ISSN: 1479-2605.
  22. Slater, L.J., Singer, M.B., Kirchner J.W. (2015) Hydrologic versus geomorphic drivers of trends in flood hazard, Geophysical Research Letters, 42(2), pp.370-376, ISSN: 0094-8276. doi: 10.1002/2014GL062482. PDF. html. Supplementary material. Media attention: AGUniverse Publication Highlight.
  23. Clubb, F.J., Mudd S.M., Milodowski D.T., Hurst M.D., Slater L.J. (2014) Objective extraction of channel heads from high resolution topographic data, Water Resources Research. 50(5), pp.4283-4304.  doi: 10.1002/2013WR015167.
  24. Slater, L. J. and Singer, M.B. (2013) Imprint of climate and climate change in alluvial riverbeds: Continental United States, 1950-2011, Geology, 41(5), pp.595-598, ISSN: 0091-7613. doi:10.1130/G34070.1 PDF; html; Supplementary material. Prize for the best student-led peer-reviewed journal article for 2013.  University of St Andrews Press Release
  25. Piégay, H., Alber, A., Slater, L.J., and Bourdin, L. (2009) Census and typology of braided rivers in the French Alps, Aquatic Sciences, 71(3), 371–388, doi:10.1007/s00027-009-9220-4 (based on French MSc thesis, Slater, L.J. (2007) Caractérisation des rivières en tresses françaises, Master’s thesis, ENS-lyon)