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Keith John Beven (born 23 July 1950) is a British hydrologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Hydrology at Lancaster University. He is the most highly cited hydrologist.
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Background
He graduated with a BSc in Geography from the University of Bristol in 1971 and completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1975. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia from 1979 to 1982 and joined Lancaster University in 1985.
Research
His main research interests are in hydrological modelling and understanding the prediction uncertainties associated with environmental models. He was the originator with Mike Kirkby of the TOPMODEL Concepts and the originator of the Generalised Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) methodology. GLUE has been applied to a wide variety of fields including rainfall-runoff modelling, flood inundation, water quality modelling, sediment transport, recharge and groundwater modelling, vegetation growth models, aphid populations, forest fire and tree death modelling. He is working on novel modelling of flow and transport on hillslopes and in catchments, modelling the impacts of climate and land management on flood runoff and flood frequency, nonparametric estimation of the rainfall-flow nonlinearity, and flood forecasting. He has published 10 books and over 350 papers.