Dr Ross Woods

Research summary

Hydrology, water resources, hazards, hydroclimatology

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Biography

Ross Woods was born and grew up in a small farming community in New Zealand, just south of Christchurch.

He graduated from the University of Canterbury with degrees in Mathematics (Bsc (Hons) 1984) and Operations Research (MComm (Hons) 1986). 

In 1986 he was hired by the Hydrology Centre at the Ministry of Works as a research scientist. His office was transferred to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), and then to the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). From 1993-6 he was granted study leave to work on a PhD at the University of Western ...

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Recent publications

• Blöschl, G, Bierkens, MF, Chambel, A, Cudennec, C, Destouni, G, Fiori, A, Kirchner, JW, McDonnell, JJ, Savenije, HH, Sivapalan, M, Stumpp, C, Toth, E, Volpi, E, Carr, G, Lupton, C, Salinas, J, Széles, B, Viglione, A, Aksoy, H, Allen, ST, Amin, A, Andréassian, V, Arheimer, B, Aryal, SK, Baker, V, Bardsley, E, Barendrecht, MH, Bartosova, A, Batelaan, O, Berghuijs, WR, Beven, K, Blume, T, Bogaard, T, Amorim, PBd, Böttcher, ME, Boulet, G, Breinl, K, Brilly, M, Brocca, L, Buytaert, W & others 2019, ‘Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective’. Hydrological Sciences Journal, vol 64., pp. 1141-1158
• Knoben, WJ, Freer, JE, Fowler, KJ, Peel, MC & Woods, RA, 2019, ‘Modular Assessment of Rainfall-Runoff Models Toolbox (MARRMoT) v1.2: an open-source, extendable framework providing implementations of 46 conceptual hydrologic models as continuous state-space formulations’. Geoscientific Model Development, vol 12., pp. 2463-2480

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