Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 5. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment228
Impact of rainfall variability on sedimentary and hydropower dynamics in a dam reservoir of southern France170
Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts150
Implementation of global soil databases in the Noah-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes142
Historical trends of seasonal droughts in Australia132
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?112
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations104
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves89
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data84
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa83
A hydrologist's guide to open science74
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps72
Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium72
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams67
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities66
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient66
Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations64
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations64
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods60
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?60
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed59
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France58
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?58
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert57
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components56
Assessing the dependence structure between oceanographic, fluvial, and pluvial flooding drivers along the United States coastline56
A novel method for correcting water budget components and reducing their uncertainties by optimally distributing the imbalance residual without full closure55
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?53
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data50
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations49
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation49
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed48
High-resolution soil moisture mapping in northern boreal forests using SMAP data and downscaling techniques48
Short high-accuracy tritium data time series for assessing groundwater mean transit times in the vadose and saturated zones of the Luxembourg Sandstone aquifer47
Historical simulation of maize water footprints with a new global gridded crop model ACEA47
Snowmelt-mediated isotopic homogenization of shallow till soil46
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective45
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs45
Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich, temperate environment45
Bayesian parameter inference in hydrological modelling using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approach with a stochastic rain model44
Use of streamflow indices to identify the catchment drivers of hydrographs43
Barriers to mainstream adoption of catchment-wide natural flood management: a transdisciplinary problem-framing study of delivery practice43
Skill of seasonal flow forecasts at catchment scale: an assessment across South Korea42
Exploring the possible role of satellite-based rainfall data in estimating inter- and intra-annual global rainfall erosivity42
Data worth analysis within a model-free data assimilation framework for soil moisture flow41
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy41
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment41
Cooperation under conflict: participatory hydrological modeling for science policy dialogues for the Aculeo Lake39
Towards understanding the influence of seasons on low-groundwater periods based on explainable machine learning39
Can the combining of wetlands with reservoir operation reduce the risk of future floods and droughts?38
Flood frequency analysis using mean daily flows vs. instantaneous peak flows37
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves37
Simulating sub-hourly rainfall data for current and future periods using two statistical disaggregation models: case studies from Germany and South Korea36
Alleviating interpretational ambiguity in hydrogeology through clustering-based analysis of transient electromagnetic and surface nuclear magnetic resonance data36
Effect of the spatial resolution of digital terrain data obtained by drone on urban fluvial flood modeling of mountainous regions36
Adaptively monitoring streamflow using a stereo computer vision system35
Spatial distribution of groundwater recharge, based on regionalised soil moisture models in Wadi Natuf karst aquifers, Palestine35
Hydrological regime index for non-perennial rivers35
Improved understanding of regional groundwater drought development through time series modelling: the 2018–2019 drought in the Netherlands34
Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates34
Hydrological regime of Sahelian small waterbodies from combined Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter data34
The role of morphology in the spatial distribution of short-duration rainfall extremes in Italy33
Deep learning for monthly rainfall–runoff modelling: a large-sample comparison with conceptual models across Australia33
Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling33
Enhancing generalizability of data-driven urban flood models by incorporating contextual information32
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure31
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models30
Links between seasonal suprapermafrost groundwater, the hydrothermal change of the active layer, and river runoff in alpine permafrost watersheds30
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States30
Advance prediction of coastal groundwater levels with temporal convolutional and long short-term memory networks30
Reinforce lake water balance component estimations by integrating water isotope compositions with a hydrological model29
Seasonal dynamics and spatial patterns of soil moisture in a loess catchment29
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model29
Novel statistical analysis illustrates the importance of flow source for extreme variation in dissolved organic carbon in a eutrophic reservoir in the Great Plains29
The suitability of differentiable, physics-informed machine learning hydrologic models for ungauged regions and climate change impact assessment29
Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling29
Global evaluation of the “dry gets drier, and wet gets wetter” paradigm from a terrestrial water storage change perspective29
Technical note: Isotopic fractionation of evaporating waters: effect of sub-daily atmospheric variations and eventual depletion of heavy isotopes28
Contribution of cryosphere to runoff in the transition zone between the Tibetan Plateau and arid region based on environmental isotopes28
A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change28
Choosing between post-processing precipitation forecasts or chaining several uncertainty quantification tools in hydrological forecasting systems28
Flood generation: process patterns from the raindrop to the ocean28
Long-term reconstruction of satellite-based precipitation, soil moisture, and snow water equivalent in China28
Soil moisture modeling with ERA5-Land retrievals, topographic indices, and in situ measurements and its use for predicting ruts28
On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India26
Technical note: An assessment of the relative contribution of the Soret effect to open-water evaporation26
Interactions between thresholds and spatial discretizations of snow: insights from estimates of wolverine denning habitat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains26
Improving runoff simulation in the Western United States with Noah-MP and VIC models26
Combining passive and active distributed temperature sensing measurements to locate and quantify groundwater discharge variability into a headwater stream26
Sensitivity of the pseudo-global warming method under flood conditions: a case study from the northeastern US26
Machine-learning methods to assess the effects of a non-linear damage spectrum taking into account soil moisture on winter wheat yields in Germany26
Simulating sediment discharge at water treatment plants under different land use scenarios using cascade modelling with an expert-based erosion-runoff model and a deep neural network26
Technical Note: Combining undisturbed soil monoliths for hydrological indoor experiments26
Using machine learning to predict optimal electromagnetic induction instrument configurations for characterizing the shallow subsurface25
Evaluation of the Dual Gamma Generalized Extreme Value distribution for flood events in Poland25
Explicit simulation of microbial transport with a dual-permeability, two-site kinetic deposition formulation using the integrated surface–subsurface hydrological model HydroGeoSphere25
Performance of the Global Forecast System's medium-range precipitation forecasts in the Niger river basin using multiple satellite-based products25
On the visual detection of non-natural records in streamflow time series: challenges and impacts25
Improvement of the KarstMod modelling platform for a better assessment of karst groundwater resources25
Aquifer recharge in the Piedmont Alpine zone: historical trends and future scenarios25
Analysis of high streamflow extremes in climate change studies: how do we calibrate hydrological models?25
Enhancing evapotranspiration estimates under climate change: the role of CO 2 physiological feedback and CMIP6 scenarios25
On the importance of discharge observation uncertainty when interpreting hydrological model performance25
Controls on leaf water hydrogen and oxygen isotopes: a local investigation across seasons and altitude24
Widespread flooding dynamics under climate change: characterising floods using grid-based hydrological modelling and regional climate projections24
On the need for physical constraints in deep learning rainfall–runoff projections under climate change: a sensitivity analysis to warming and shifts in potential evapotranspiration24
HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories24
A comprehensive study of deep learning for soil moisture prediction24
Warming of the Willamette River, 1850–present: the effects of climate change and river system alterations24
A 60-year drought analysis of meteorological data in the western Po River basin23
Comparison between canonical vine copulas and a meta-Gaussian model for forecasting agricultural drought over China23
Technical note: Modeling spatial fields of extreme precipitation – a hierarchical Bayesian approach23
Exploring the provenance of information across Canadian hydrometric stations: implications for discharge estimation and uncertainty quantification23
Pitfalls and a feasible solution for using KGE as an informal likelihood function in MCMC methods: DREAM (ZS) as an example23
Assessment of uncertainties in stage–discharge rating curves: a large-scale application to Quebec hydrometric network23
Isotopic evaluation of the National Water Model reveals missing agricultural irrigation contributions to streamflow across the western United States23
Forecasting green roof detention performance by temporal downscaling of precipitation time-series projections23
A gridded multi-site precipitation generator for complex terrain: an evaluation in the Austrian Alps23
Technical note: Two-component electrical-conductivity-based hydrograph separation employing an exponential mixing model (EXPECT) provides reliable high-temporal-resolution young water fraction estimat23
Technical note: A low-cost approach to monitoring relative streamflow dynamics in small headwater streams using time lapse imagery and a deep learning model23
User priorities for hydrological monitoring infrastructures supporting research and innovation23
Towards reducing the high cost of parameter sensitivity analysis in hydrologic modeling: a regional parameter sensitivity analysis approach23
Inferring sediment-discharge event types in an Alpine catchment from sub-daily time series23
How economically and environmentally viable are multiple dams in the upper Cauvery Basin, India? A hydro-economic analysis using a landscape-based hydrological model23
Technical note: Operational calibration and performance improvement for a 1D hydrodynamic model in a data-scarce coastal area22
Joint optimal operation of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project considering the evenness of water deficit22
How to account for irrigation withdrawals in a watershed model22
On the value of satellite remote sensing to reduce uncertainties of regional simulations of the Colorado River22
Social dilemmas and poor water quality in household water systems22
Development of a land–river–ocean coupled model for compound floods jointly caused by heavy rainfall and storm surges in large river delta regions22
Reconstructing five decades of sediment export from two glacierized high-alpine catchments in Tyrol, Austria, using nonparametric regression22
Exploring hydrologic post-processing of ensemble streamflow forecasts based on affine kernel dressing and non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II22
Disentangling sources of future uncertainties for water management in sub-Saharan river basins22
Pairing remote sensing and clustering in landscape hydrology for large-scale change identification: an application to the subarctic watershed of the George River (Nunavik, Canada)22
Technical note: A fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements22
Flow intermittence prediction using a hybrid hydrological modelling approach: influence of observed intermittence data on the training of a random forest model22
The value of satellite soil moisture and snow cover data for the transfer of hydrological model parameters to ungauged sites22
Optimizing a backscatter forward operator using Sentinel-1 data over irrigated land22
High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy21
The role of catchment characteristics, discharge, and active- layer thaw in seasonal stream chemistry across 10 permafrost catchments21
The influence of human activities on streamflow reductions during the megadrought in central Chile21
Drivers of global irrigation expansion: the role of discrete global grid choice21
Technical note: Conservative storage of water vapour – practical in situ sampling of stable isotopes in tree stems21
Downscaling the probability of heavy rainfall over the Nordic countries21
Interrogating process deficiencies in large-scale hydrologic models with interpretable machine learning21
Towards a global spatial machine learning model for seasonal groundwater level predictions in Germany21
Shannon entropy of transport self-organization due to dissolution–precipitation reaction at varying Peclet numbers in initially homogeneous porous media21
A signal-processing-based interpretation of the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency21
Topothermohaline convection – from synthetic simulations to reveal processes in a thick geothermal system21
Evaluation of reanalysis soil moisture products using cosmic ray neutron sensor observations across the globe20
Technical note: Efficient imaging of hydrological units below lakes and fjords with a floating, transient electromagnetic (FloaTEM) system20
Improved representation of soil moisture processes through incorporation of cosmic-ray neutron count measurements in a large-scale hydrologic model20
Divergent future drought projections in UK river flows and groundwater levels20
Drought research priorities, trends, and geographic patterns20
Projected changes in droughts and extreme droughts in Great Britain strongly influenced by the choice of drought index20
Inter- and intra-event rainfall partitioning dynamics of two typical xerophytic shrubs in the Loess Plateau of China20
Projected future changes in the cryosphere and hydrology of a mountainous catchment in the upper Heihe River, China20
A novel framework for accurately quantifying wetland depression water storage capacity with coarse-resolution terrain data20
Combined impacts of uncertainty in precipitation and air temperature on simulated mountain system recharge from an integrated hydrologic model20
HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a “Day Zero”20
Dynamical forcings in heavy precipitation events over Italy: lessons from the HyMeX SOP1 campaign20
Routing stemflow water through the soil via preferential flow: a dual-labelling approach with artificial tracers20
CONCN: a high-resolution, integrated surface water–groundwater ParFlow modeling platform of continental China20
Feature scale and identifiability: how much information do point hydraulic measurements provide about heterogeneous head and conductivity fields?20
A Bayesian model for quantifying errors in citizen science data: application to rainfall observations from Nepal19
All models are wrong, but are they useful? Assessing reliability across multiple sites to build trust in urban drainage modelling19
High-resolution long-term average groundwater recharge in Africa estimated using random forest regression and residual interpolation19
Elucidating the role of soil hydraulic properties on aspect-dependent landslide initiation19
Uncertainty estimation of regionalised depth–duration–frequency curves in Germany19
A graph neural network (GNN) approach to basin-scale river network learning: the role of physics-based connectivity and data fusion19
Delayed stormflow generation in a semi-humid forested watershed controlled by soil water storage and groundwater dynamics19
Spatiotemporal responses of the crop water footprint and its associated benchmarks under different irrigation regimes to climate change scenarios in China19
Evaporation measurements using commercial microwave links as scintillometers19
Combining statistical and hydrodynamic models to assess compound flood hazards from rainfall and storm surge: a case study of Shanghai19
The effects of rain and evapotranspiration statistics on groundwater recharge estimations for semi-arid environments19
A Bayesian updating framework for calibrating the hydrological parameters of road networks using taxi GPS data19
Technical note: Testing the connection between hillslope-scale runoff fluctuations and streamflow hydrographs at the outlet of large river basins19
Regionalisation of rainfall depth–duration–frequency curves with different data types in Germany18
Machine-learning-constrained projection of bivariate hydrological drought magnitudes and socioeconomic risks over China18
Assessing hydrological sensitivity of grassland basins in the Canadian Prairies to climate using a basin classification-based virtual modelling approach18
Comparison of artificial neural networks and reservoir models for simulating karst spring discharge on five test sites in the Alpine and Mediterranean regions18
Soil moisture estimates at 1 km resolution making a synergistic use of Sentinel data18
A change in perspective: downhole cosmic-ray neutron sensing for the estimation of soil moisture18
Effects of boundary conditions and aquifer parameters on salinity distribution and mixing-controlled reactions in high-energy beach aquifers18
Remotely sensed reservoir water storage dynamics (1984–2015) and the influence of climate variability and management at a global scale18
Evaporation from a large lowland reservoir – observed dynamics and drivers during a warm summer18
Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-Sample SPATially distributed analysis (CAMELS-SPAT): streamflow observations, forcing data and geospatial data for hydrologic studies across North Americ18
Assimilating ESA CCI land surface temperature into the ORCHIDEE land surface model: insights from a multi-site study across Europe18
Climate-warming-driven changes in the cryosphere and their impact on groundwater–surface-water interactions in the Heihe River basin18
Future projections of High Atlas snowpack and runoff under climate change18
Soil moisture estimation in South Asia via assimilation of SMAP retrievals18
Evapotranspiration stress intensifies with enhanced sensitivity to soil moisture deficits in a rapidly greening China18
How seasonal hydroclimate variability drives the triple oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of small lake systems in semiarid environments18
Technical note: Image processing for continuous river turbidity monitoring – full-scale tests and potential applications18
Characterizing basin-scale precipitation gradients in the Third Pole region using a high-resolution atmospheric simulation-based dataset17
A D-vine copula-based quantile regression towards merging satellite precipitation products over rugged topography: a case study in the upper Tekeze–Atbara Basin17
Comparison of BARRA and ERA5 in replicating mean and extreme precipitation over Australia17
Study on a mother wavelet optimization framework based on change-point detection of hydrological time series17
How well does a convection-permitting regional climate model represent the reverse orographic effect of extreme hourly precipitation?17
To bucket or not to bucket? Analyzing the performance and interpretability of hybrid hydrological models with dynamic parameterization17
Technical note: Investigating the potential for smartphone-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and land surface energy-balance partitioning17
Quantifying overlapping and differing information of global precipitation for GCM forecasts and El Niño–Southern Oscillation17
The influence of a rock glacier on the riverbed hydrological system17
An increase in the spatial extent of European floods over the last 70 years17
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments17
Characterizing the spatial distribution of field-scale snowpack using unpiloted aerial system (UAS) lidar and structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry17
Response of active catchment water storage capacity to a prolonged meteorological drought and asymptotic climate variation17
Soil water sources and their implications for vegetation restoration in the Three-Rivers Headwater Region during different ablation periods17
A robust gap-filling approach for European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (ESA CCI) soil moisture integrating satellite observations, model-driven knowledge, and spatiotemporal machine learnin17
Sensitivities of subgrid-scale physics schemes, meteorological forcing, and topographic radiation in atmosphere-through-bedrock integrated process models: a case study in the Upper Colorado River basi16
Impact of urban geology on model simulations of shallow groundwater levels and flow paths16
Development of an integrated socio-hydrological modeling framework for assessing the impacts of shelter location arrangement and human behaviors on flood evacuation processes16
On the links between sub-seasonal clustering of extreme precipitation and high discharge in Switzerland and Europe16
Compound flood impact forecasting: integrating fluvial and flash flood impact assessments into a unified system16
Barriers to urban hydrometeorological simulation: a review16
Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling16
Methodology for constructing a flood-hazard map for a future climate16
Quantitative rainfall analysis of the 2021 mid-July flood event in Belgium16
Root zone in the Earth system16
Mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems using a high-resolution global groundwater model16
Technical note: Analyzing river network dynamics and the active length–discharge relationship using water presence sensors16
High-resolution downscaled CMIP6 drought projections for Australia16
Reducing hydrological uncertainty in large mountainous basins: the role of isotope, snow cover, and glacier dynamics in capturing streamflow seasonality16
From hydraulic root architecture models to efficient macroscopic sink terms including perirhizal resistance: quantifying accuracy and computational speed16
Theoretical and empirical evidence against the Budyko catchment trajectory conjecture16
Soil oxygen dynamics: a key mediator of tile drainage impacts on coupled hydrological, biogeochemical, and crop systems16
Contribution of rock glacier discharge to late summer and fall streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA16
Drastic decline of flood pulse in the Cambodian floodplains (Mekong River and Tonle Sap system)16
Pluvial and potential compound flooding in a coupled coastal modeling framework: New York City during post-tropical Cyclone Ida (2021)16
Thirsty Earth : a game-based approach to interdisciplinary water resource education16
Rainfall recharge thresholds decrease after an intense fire over a near-surface cave at Wombeyan, Australia16
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-198015
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events15
The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways15
Effects of spatial and temporal variability in surface water inputs on streamflow generation and cessation in the rain–snow transition zone15
Present and future thermal regimes of intertidal groundwater springs in a threatened coastal ecosystem15
A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments – case study for the Naryn River, central Asia15
Deep learning of flood forecasting by considering interpretability and physical constraints15
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective15
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates15
Drivers of drought-induced shifts in the water balance through a Budyko approach15
Monitoring the combined effects of drought and salinity stress on crops using remote sensing in the Netherlands15
Leveraging multi-variable observations to reduce and quantify the output uncertainty of a global hydrological model: evaluation of three ensemble-based approaches for the Mississippi River basin15
The role of multi-criteria decision analysis in a transdisciplinary process: co-developing a flood forecasting system in western Africa15
A comprehensive assessment of in situ and remote sensing soil moisture data assimilation in the APSIM model for improving agricultural forecasting across the US Midwest15
Characterizing groundwater heat transport in a complex lowland aquifer using paleo-temperature reconstruction, satellite data, temperature–depth profiles, and numerical models15
Identifying the dynamic evolution and feedback process of water resources nexus system considering socioeconomic development, ecological protection, and food security: A practical tool for sustainable15
Estimating spatiotemporally continuous snow water equivalent from intermittent satellite observations: an evaluation using synthetic data15
Divergent water balance trajectories under two dominant tree species in montane forest catchment shifting from energy- to water-limitation15
Seasonal and interannual dissolved organic carbon transport process dynamics in a subarctic headwater catchment revealed by high-resolution measurements15
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