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Dr Solomon Gebrechorkos

Researcher in Climate Change Attribution

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Solomon Gebrechorkos is a Researcher in Climate Change Attribution. Presently, he serves as an Editor and Editorial Board Member of Theoretical and Applied Climatology (TAAC) and an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Climate.

Solomon is a hydro-climatologist with expertise in hydrology and climate variability and change including modelling analyses of hydro-climate extremes such as floods and drought. He completed his PhD at the United Nations University /Technical University of Dresden, Germany in 2018 on assessing and modelling hydro-climatic extremes and climate change impact assessment in East Africa. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Southampton.

His research endeavours have delved into the realms of hydro-climate extremes, climate change impacts, and hydrological processes from catchment to global scale using a combination of hydrological and climate models and multiple forcing datasets such as observations, satellite, and reanalysis. Solomon has been involved in multiple large-scale projects such as FutureDams, EvoFLOOD, BRECcIA, and REACH and he has developed several high-resolution global-scale hydrological and historical and future climate datasets.

Teaching

Postgraduate

Climate modelling (Technical University of Dresden, Germany; 2016-present)
Hydrological modelling (University of Manchester)

Publications

Journal (28)

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AL-Falahi A and others, ‘Projection of Precipitation Variability over the Highlands of Yemen by Statistical down-Scaling for the Period 2026–2100’ (2025) 139 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 103909

Gebrechorkos S and others, ‘Warming Accelerates Global Drought Severity’ [2025] Nature

Wortmann M and others, ‘Global River Topology (GRIT): A Bifurcating River Hydrography’ (2025) 61 Water Resources Research

Haile G and others, ‘Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Global Irrigation Water Withdrawals’ (2024) 305 Agricultural Water Management 109144

Gebrechorkos S and others, ‘Global-Scale Evaluation of Precipitation Datasets for Hydrological Modelling’ (2024) 28 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 3099

Demissie T and Gebrechorkos S, ‘Spatio-Temporal Trends in Precipitation, Temperature, and Extremes: A Study of Malawi and Zambia (1981–2021)’ (2024) 16 Sustainability

AL-Falahi A and others, ‘Hydrological Investigation of Climate Change Impact on Water Balance Components in the Agricultural Terraced Watersheds of Yemeni Highland’ (2024) 155 Theoretical and Applied Climatology 4703

Gebrechorkos S and others, ‘Global High-Resolution Drought Indices for 1981-2022’ (2023) 15 Earth System Science Data 5449

Guan Y and others, ‘Increase in Ocean-onto-Land Droughts and Their Drivers under Anthropogenic Climate Change’ (2023) 6 npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

AL-Falahi A and others, ‘Potential of Traditional Adaptation Measures in Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change’ (2023) 15 Sustainability 15442

Gebrechorkos S and others, ‘A High-Resolution Daily Global Dataset of Statistically Downscaled CMIP6 Models for Climate Impact Analyses’ (2023) 10 Scientific Data

Gebrechorkos S and others, ‘Future Changes in Climate and Hydroclimate Extremes in East Africa’ (2023) 11 Earth’s Future

Basheer M and others, ‘Cooperative Adaptive Management of the Nile River With Climate and Socio-Economic Uncertainties’ (2023) 13 Nature Climate Change 48

Basheer M and others, ‘Negotiating Nile Infrastructure Management Should Consider Climate Change Uncertainties’ (2023) 13 Nature Climate Change 17

Khan Z and others, ‘Emerging Themes and Future Directions of Multi-Sector Nexus Research and Implementation’ (2022) 10 Frontiers in Environmental Science 918085

Gebrechorkos S and others, ‘Variability and Changes in Hydrological Drought in the Volta Basin, West Africa’ (2022) 42 Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies 101143

Li C and others, ‘Increased Flooded Area and Exposure in the White Volta River Basin in Western Africa, Identified from Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data.’ (2022) 12 Scientific reports 3701

Gebrechorkos S and others, ‘Performance of State-of-the-Art C3S European Seasonal Climate Forecast Models for Mean and Extreme Precipitation over Africa’ (2022) 58 Water Resources Research

Gonzalez J and others, ‘Quantifying Cooperation Benefits for New Dams in Transboundary Water Systems Without Formal Operating Rules’ (2021) 9 Frontiers in Environmental Science 596612

Gebrechorkos S, Bernhofer C and Hülsmann S, ‘Climate Change Impact Assessment on the Hydrology of a Large River Basin in Ethiopia Using a Local-Scale Climate Modelling Approach.’ (2020) 742 The Science of the total environment 140504

AL-Falahi A and others, ‘Evaluation the Performance of Several Gridded Precipitation Products over the Highland Region of Yemen for Water Resources Management’ (2020) 12 Remote Sensing 2984

Gebrechorkos S, Hülsmann S and Bernhofer C, ‘Analysis of Climate Variability and Droughts in East Africa Using High-Resolution Climate Data Products’ (2020) 186 Global and Planetary Change 103130

Gebrechorkos S, Bernhofer C and Hülsmann S, ‘Impacts of Projected Change in Climate on Water Balance in Basins of East Africa.’ (2019) 682 The Science of the total environment 160

Gebrechorkos S, Hülsmann S and Bernhofer C, ‘Long-Term Trends in Rainfall and Temperature Using High-Resolution Climate Datasets in East Africa.’ (2019) 9 Scientific reports 11376

Gebrechorkos S, Hülsmann S and Bernhofer C, ‘Regional Climate Projections for Impact Assessment Studies in East Africa’ (2019) 14 Environmental Research Letters 044031

Gebrechorkos S, Hülsmann S and Bernhofer C, ‘Statistically Downscaled Climate Dataset for East Africa.’ (2019) 6 Scientific data 31

Gebrechorkos S, Hülsmann S and Bernhofer C, ‘Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Extremes in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania’ (2019) 39 International Journal of Climatology 18

Gebrechorkos S, Hülsmann S and Bernhofer C, ‘Evaluation of Multiple Climate Data Sources for Managing Environmental Resources in East Africa’ (2018) 22 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 4547

Chapter (1)

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Kurian M and others, ‘Governance of Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Social Network Analysis Approach to Understanding Agency Behaviour’, Managing Water, Soil and Waste Resources to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals (Springer Nature 2018)

Pre-print (4)

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Gebrechorkos S and others, ‘Global High-Resolution Drought Indices for 1981–2022’

Gebrechorkos S, Hülsmann S and Bernhofer C, ‘Evaluation of Multiple Climate Data Sources for Managing Environmental Resources in East Africa’

Gebrechorkos S and others, ‘Global Scale Evaluation of Precipitation Datasets for Hydrological Modelling’

Abbas A and others, ‘Comprehensive Global Assessment of 23 Gridded Precipitation Datasets Across 16,295 Catchments Using Hydrological Modeling’

Other (3)

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Hawker L and others, ‘When One Becomes Many: Including Complex Channel Systems in Large Scale Flood Models’ (2024) Copernicus Publications

Liu Y and others, ‘First Global Estimation of Bankfull River Discharge’ (2024) Copernicus Publications

Gebrechorkos S and others, ‘Supplementary Material to "Global Scale Evaluation of Precipitation Datasets for Hydrological Modelling"’ (2023)