OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 44. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementation of global soil databases in the Noah-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes	339
Evaluating the feasibility of scaling the FIER framework for large-scale flood inundation prediction	208
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components	206
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps	198
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France	153
Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities	141
A novel method for correcting water budget components and reducing their uncertainties by optimally distributing the imbalance residual without full closure	110
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation	105
What can hydrological modelling gain from spatially explicit parameterization and multi-gauge calibration?	93
When physics gets in the way: an entropy-based evaluation of conceptual constraints in hybrid hydrological models	93
Revealing the influence of topography and vegetation on hydrological processes using a stepwise modelling approach in cold alpine basins of the Mongolian Plateau	91
Impact of rainfall variability on sedimentary and hydropower dynamics in a dam reservoir of southern France	90
Regionalization of IDF curves for mainland China: a comparative evaluation of machine learning versus spatial interpolation techniques	89
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations	86
Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment	85
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams	84
Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts	80
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities	74
Drought dynamics across the hydrological cycle – an extensive validation of the National Hydrological Model of Denmark	68
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?	67
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed	65
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations	65
Two-dimensional differential form of distributed Xinanjiang model	64
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa	62
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?	59

Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods	59
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?	56
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data	52
Historical trends of seasonal droughts in Australia	52
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations	51
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?	50
Hydrological regime index for non-perennial rivers	49
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective	49
Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling	48
Adaptively monitoring streamflow using a stereo computer vision system	48
Alleviating interpretational ambiguity in hydrogeology through clustering-based analysis of transient electromagnetic and surface nuclear magnetic resonance data	48
Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich, temperate environment	47
Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates	47
The potential of green infrastructure in urban pluvial flood mitigation – a scenario-based modelling study in Berlin	46
Increasing daily precipitation extremes despite declining annual totals in southern Europe: a modeling study on the effects of Mediterranean Sea warming	46
Reinforce lake water balance component estimations by integrating water isotope compositions with a hydrological model	46
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model	45
Mechanisms and scenarios of the unprecedent flooding event in South Brazil 2024	44
High-resolution soil moisture mapping in northern boreal forests using SMAP data and downscaling techniques	44
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment	44
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure	44
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves	44