OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 42. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment	305
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams	230
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities	188
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?	186
Implementation of global soil databases in the Noah-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes	185
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed	139
Evaluating the feasibility of scaling the FIER framework for large-scale flood inundation prediction	114
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components	112
Two-dimensional differential form of distributed Xinanjiang model	103
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert	97
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa	88
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps	88
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations	86
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France	85
Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities	84
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations	81
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient	80
A novel method for correcting water budget components and reducing their uncertainties by optimally distributing the imbalance residual without full closure	80
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation	76
What can hydrological modelling gain from spatially explicit parameterization and multi-gauge calibration?	73
When physics gets in the way: an entropy-based evaluation of conceptual constraints in hybrid hydrological models	73
Revealing the influence of topography and vegetation on hydrological processes using a stepwise modelling approach in cold alpine basins of the Mongolian Plateau	72
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data	64
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods	63
Regionalization of IDF curves for mainland China: a comparative evaluation of machine learning versus spatial interpolation techniques	60

Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations	60
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed	59
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?	59
Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts	59
Impact of rainfall variability on sedimentary and hydropower dynamics in a dam reservoir of southern France	55
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?	54
Historical trends of seasonal droughts in Australia	52
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?	50
Cooperation under conflict: participatory hydrological modeling for science policy dialogues for the Aculeo Lake	49
Data worth analysis within a model-free data assimilation framework for soil moisture flow	47
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective	44
Alleviating interpretational ambiguity in hydrogeology through clustering-based analysis of transient electromagnetic and surface nuclear magnetic resonance data	44
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models	44
Hydrological regime index for non-perennial rivers	44
Simulating sub-hourly rainfall data for current and future periods using two statistical disaggregation models: case studies from Germany and South Korea	44
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure	44
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy	43
Towards understanding the influence of seasons on low-groundwater periods based on explainable machine learning	42
Better continental-scale streamflow predictions for Australia: LSTM as a land surface model post-processor and standalone hydrological model	42
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs	42