By Dr Fiona Johnson

Journal articles

Johnson F; Hettiarachchi S, 2025, 'A research agenda for improving flood resilience in Australia', Journal of Hydrology, 662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.133887

Liu K; Kinouchi T; Zhao G; Johnson F; Zhang K, 2025, 'Cost-effectiveness of green infrastructure under climate change: model parameterization, uncertainty, and sensitivity', Journal of Hydrology, 661, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.133796

Cairns J; Baird IRC; Johnson F; Noble L; Glamore W, 2025, 'Detecting Petalura gigantea: Novel eDNA Method and Water Balance Modelling Insights Enable Improved Catchment Management and Conservation Outcomes', Ecohydrology, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eco.70013

Cairns J; Glamore W; Johnson F, 2025, 'Environmental water requirements and climate sensitivity of Australia's upland swamps', Science of the Total Environment, 966, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178792

Bulovic N; Johnson F; Lievens H; Shaw TE; McPhee J; Gascoin S; Demuzere M; McIntyre N, 2025, 'Evaluating the Performance of Sentinel-1 SAR Derived Snow Depth Retrievals Over the Extratropical Andes Cordillera', Water Resources Research, 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024WR037766

Cairns J; Mason TJ; Keith DA; Johnson F; Glamore W, 2025, 'Australia's temperate highland peat swamps face a death by a thousand longwall cuts', Journal of Environmental Management, 395, pp. 127836 - 127836, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.127836

Sharifazari S; McCallum J; Meredith K; Johnson F; Palmer JG; Turney CSM; Andersen MS, 2025, 'The impact of declining rainfall and ocean forcing on morphology and dynamics of an island fresh groundwater lens, South-West Western Australia', JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, 663, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134294

Johnson F; Stephens C; Krogh M, 2024, 'Considerations in designing climate change assessments for complex, non-linear hydrological systems', Journal of Hydrology, 645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132182

Wasko C; Stephens C; Peterson TJ; Nathan R; Pepler A; Hettiarachchi S; Vogel E; Johnson F; Westra S, 2024, 'Understanding the implications of climate change for Australia's surface water resources: Challenges and future directions', Journal of Hydrology, 645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132221

Lodge JW; Dansie AP; Dang NM; Johnson F, 2024, 'Corrigendum to “Modelling the availability of water, energy, and food resources in transboundary river basins to achieve Sustainable Development Goals 2, 6, and 7” [Sci. Total Environ. 949 (2024) 175186] (Science of the Total Environment, (S0048969724053609), (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175210))', Science of the Total Environment, 950, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175404

Lodge JW; Dansie AP; Dang NM; Johnson F, 2024, 'Modelling the availability of water, energy, and food resources in transboundary river basins to achieve Sustainable Development Goals 2, 6, and 7', Science of the Total Environment, 949, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175186

Sharifazari S; Palmer JG; Johnson F; Turney CSM; Andersen MS, 2024, 'A multi-centennial drought reconstruction from tree-rings reveals a growing threat to Christmas Island's water resources', Dendrochronologia, 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2024.126238

Cairns J; Mason M; Harrison A; Johnson F; Davie A; Glamore W, 2024, 'Mining impacts peatland hydrology reducing discharge and water storage volumes', Journal of Hydrology, 640, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131735

Peter J; Vogel E; Sharples W; Bende-Michl U; Wilson L; Hope P; Dowdy A; Kociuba G; Srikanthan S; Duong VC; Roussis J; Matic V; Khan Z; Oke A; Turner M; Baron-Hay S; Johnson F; Mehrotra R; Sharma A; Thatcher M; Azarvinand A; Thomas S; Boschat G; Donnelly C; Argent R, 2024, 'Continental-scale bias-corrected climate and hydrological projections for Australia', Geoscientific Model Development, 17, pp. 2755 - 2781, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2755-2024

Wasko C; Westra S; Nathan R; Pepler A; Raupach TH; Dowdy A; Johnson F; Ho M; McInnes KL; Jakob D; Evans J; Villarini G; Fowler HJ, 2024, 'A systematic review of climate change science relevant to Australian design flood estimation', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28, pp. 1251 - 1285, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-1251-2024

Liu S; Kim S; Glamore W; Tamburic B; Johnson F, 2024, 'Remote sensing of water colour in small southeastern Australian waterbodies', Journal of Environmental Management, 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120096

Stephens CM; Band LE; Johnson FM; Marshall LA; Medlyn BE; De Kauwe MG; Ukkola AM, 2023, 'Changes in Blue/Green Water Partitioning Under Severe Drought', Water Resources Research, 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033449

Higgins PA; Palmer JG; Andersen MS; Turney CSM; Johnson F; Allen K; Verdon-Kidd D; Cook ER, 2023, 'Examining past and projecting future: an 800-year streamflow reconstruction of the Australian Murray river', Environmental Research Letters, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acf8d9

Zeinolabedini Rezaabad M; Lacey H; Marshall L; Johnson F, 2023, 'Influence of resampling techniques on Bayesian network performance in predicting increased algal activity', Water Research, 244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.120558

Sharifazari S; Palmer JG; Higgins PA; Rao MP; Johnson F; Turney CSM; Martín-Benito D; Andersen MS, 2023, '500-year reconstruction of Dez River discharge in southwestern Iran from tree rings', Journal of Hydrology, 624, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129895

Jayaweera L; Wasko C; Nathan R; Johnson F, 2023, 'Non-stationarity in extreme rainfalls across Australia', Journal of Hydrology, 624, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129872

Jiang Z; Johnson F, 2023, 'A New Method for Postprocessing Numerical Weather Predictions Using Quantile Mapping in the Frequency Domain', Monthly Weather Review, 151, pp. 1909 - 1925, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0217.1

Lodge JW; Dansie AP; Johnson F, 2023, 'A review of globally available data sources for modelling the Water-Energy-Food Nexus', Earth Science Reviews, 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104485

Higgins PA; Palmer JG; Andersen MS; Turney CSM; Johnson F, 2023, 'Extreme events in the multi-proxy South Pacific drought atlas', Climatic Change, 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03585-2

Vogel E; Johnson F; Marshall L; Bende-Michl U; Wilson L; Peter JR; Wasko C; Srikanthan S; Sharples W; Dowdy A; Hope P; Khan Z; Mehrotra R; Sharma A; Matic V; Oke A; Turner M; Thomas S; Donnelly C; Duong VC, 2023, 'An evaluation framework for downscaling and bias correction in climate change impact studies', Journal of Hydrology, 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129693

Jiang Z; Johnson F; Sharma A, 2023, 'Do Derived Drought Indices Better Characterize Future Drought Change?', Earth S Future, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003350

Earl E; Johnson F; Marshall L; Sanderson D, 2023, 'A critical review of Natural Flood Management application and spatial prioritisation approaches in tropical island catchments', Science of the Total Environment, 878, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162776

Liu S; Glamore W; Tamburic B; Morrow A; Johnson F, 2022, 'Remote sensing to detect harmful algal blooms in inland waterbodies', Science of the Total Environment, 851, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158096

Stephens CM; Marshall LA; Johnson FM; Ajami H; Lin L; Band LE, 2022, 'Spatial Variation in Catchment Response to Climate Change Depends on Lateral Moisture Transport and Nutrient Dynamics', Water Resources Research, 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030577

Stephens CM; Pham HT; Marshall LA; Johnson FM, 2022, 'Which Rainfall Errors Can Hydrologic Models Handle? Implications for Using Satellite-Derived Products in Sparsely Gauged Catchments', Water Resources Research, 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029331

Higgins PA; Palmer JG; Turney CSM; Andersen MS; Johnson F, 2022, 'Do Southern Hemisphere tree rings record past volcanic events? A case study from New Zealand', Climate of the Past, 18, pp. 1169 - 1188, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1169-2022

Higgins PA; Palmer JG; Rao MP; Andersen MS; Turney CSM; Johnson F, 2022, 'Unprecedented High Northern Australian Streamflow Linked to an Intensification of the Indo-Australian Monsoon', Water Resources Research, 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030881

Jiang Z; Sharma A; Johnson F, 2021, 'Variable transformations in the spectral domain – Implications for hydrologic forecasting', Journal of Hydrology, 603, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126816

Pham HT; Marshall L; Johnson F, 2021, 'Daily time series of river water levels derived from a seasonal linear model using multisource satellite products under uncertainty', Journal of Hydrology, 602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126783

Afroz R; Johnson F; Sharma A, 2021, 'The residual mass severity index – A new method to characterize sustained hydroclimatic extremes', Journal of Hydrology, 602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126724

Chen S; Johnson F; Glamore W, 2021, 'Integrating Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling to Quantify the Water Balance of Climate-Induced Intermittent Wetlands', Water Resources Research, 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029310

Liu S; Johnson F; Tamburic B; Crosbie ND; Glamore W, 2021, 'The Effectiveness of Global Constructed Shallow Waterbody Design Guidelines to Limit Harmful Algal Blooms', Water Resources Research, 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028918

Johnson F; Higgins P; Stephens C, 2021, 'Climate change and hydrological risk in the pacific: A humanitarian engineering perspective', Journal of Water and Climate Change, 12, pp. 647 - 678, http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2021.277

Guo D; Thomas J; Lazaro AB; Matwewe F; Johnson F, 2021, 'Modelling the influence of short-term climate variability on drinking water quality in tropical developing countries: A case study in Tanzania', Science of the Total Environment, 763, pp. 142932, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142932

Jiang Z; Rashid MM; Johnson F; Sharma A, 2021, 'A wavelet-based tool to modulate variance in predictors: An application to predicting drought anomalies', Environmental Modelling and Software, 135, pp. 104907, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104907

Rosenqvist T; Johnson F, 2021, 'Editorial', Journal of Humanitarian Engineering, 8, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.36479/jhe.v8i1.174

Stephens CM; Lall U; Johnson FM; Marshall LA, 2021, 'Landscape changes and their hydrologic effects: Interactions and feedbacks across scales', Earth Science Reviews, 212, pp. 103466, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103466

Bulovic N; McIntyre N; Johnson F, 2020, 'Evaluation of imerg v05b 30-min rainfall estimates over the high-elevation tropical andes mountains', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21, pp. 2875 - 2892, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0114.1

Chen S; Johnson F; Drummond C; Glamore W, 2020, 'A new method to improve the accuracy of remotely sensed data for wetland water balance estimates', Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies, 29, pp. 100689, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100689

Jiang Z; Sharma A; Johnson F, 2020, 'Refining Predictor Spectral Representation Using Wavelet Theory for Improved Natural System Modeling', Water Resources Research, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026962

Stephens CM; Marshall LA; Johnson FM; Lin L; Band LE; Ajami H, 2020, 'Is Past Variability a Suitable Proxy for Future Change? A Virtual Catchment Experiment', Water Resources Research, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026275

Rashid MM; Sharma A; Johnson F, 2020, 'Multi-model drought predictions using temporally aggregated climate indicators', Journal of Hydrology, 581, pp. 124419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124419

Jiang Z; Sharma A; Johnson F, 2019, 'Assessing the sensitivity of hydro-climatological change detection methods to model uncertainty and bias', Advances in Water Resources, 134, pp. 103430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103430

Stephens CM; Marshall LA; Johnson FM, 2019, 'Investigating strategies to improve hydrologic model performance in a changing climate', Journal of Hydrology, 579, pp. 124219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124219

Bui A; Johnson F; Wasko C, 2019, 'The relationship of atmospheric air temperature and dew point temperature to extreme rainfall', Environmental Research Letters, 14, pp. 074025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2a26

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