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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of multi-criteria decision analysis in a transdisciplinary process: co-developing a flood forecasting system in western Africa184
Agricultural intensification vs. climate change: what drives long-term changes in sediment load?174
Technical note: Analyzing river network dynamics and the active length–discharge relationship using water presence sensors155
Evaluating the impact of post-processing medium-range ensemble streamflow forecasts from the European Flood Awareness System145
The influence of vegetation water dynamics on the ASCAT backscatter–incidence angle relationship in the Amazon144
Integrating process-related information into an artificial neural network for root-zone soil moisture prediction125
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert111
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient108
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed105
Drastic decline of flood pulse in the Cambodian floodplains (Mekong River and Tonle Sap system)83
Hydrology without dimensions80
Trends and variability in snowmelt in China under climate change79
A hydrologist's guide to open science76
Compound flood impact forecasting: integrating fluvial and flash flood impact assessments into a unified system73
Drivers of drought-induced shifts in the water balance through a Budyko approach71
The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways69
Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations69
Rainfall–runoff relationships at event scale in western Mediterranean ephemeral streams68
Impact of correcting sub-daily climate model biases for hydrological studies67
Towards hybrid modeling of the global hydrological cycle64
Theoretical and empirical evidence against the Budyko catchment trajectory conjecture62
A combined use of in situ and satellite-derived observations to characterize surface hydrology and its variability in the Congo River basin61
A scaling procedure for straightforward computation of sorptivity61
Recent decrease in summer precipitation over the Iberian Peninsula closely links to reduction in local moisture recycling60
Technical note: Introduction of a superconducting gravimeter as novel hydrological sensor for the Alpine research catchment Zugspitze60
A national-scale hybrid model for enhanced streamflow estimation – consolidating a physically based hydrological model with long short-term memory (LSTM) networks59
HESS Opinions: Drought impacts as failed prospects58
High-resolution operational soil moisture monitoring for forests in central Germany58
Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer worlds – how anthropogenic aerosols change the story54
A robust upwind mixed hybrid finite element method for transport in variably saturated porous media53
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events51
Ensemble streamflow prediction considering the influence of reservoirs in Narmada River Basin, India51
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations50
Effect of tides on river water behavior over the eastern shelf seas of China48
Enhancing the usability of weather radar data for the statistical analysis of extreme precipitation events46
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective45
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities44
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed43
Observation-driven model for calculating water-harvesting potential from advective fog in (semi-)arid coastal regions43
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps41
Modeling water balance components of conifer species using the Noah-MP model in an eastern Mediterranean ecosystem41
Calibration of groundwater seepage against the spatial distribution of the stream network to assess catchment-scale hydraulic properties40
Uncertainty in water transit time estimation with StorAge Selection functions and tracer data interpolation39
Increased nonstationarity of stormflow threshold behaviors in a forested watershed due to abrupt earthquake disturbance39
Spatiotemporal variation of modern lake, stream, and soil water isotopes in Iceland38
Estimating response times, flow velocities, and roughness coefficients of Canadian Prairie basins38
The significance of the leaf area index for evapotranspiration estimation in SWAT-T for characteristic land cover types of West Africa38
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 basin38
Calibrating macroscale hydrological models in poorly gauged and heavily regulated basins37
Effects of urbanization on the water cycle in the Shiyang River basin: based on a stable isotope method37
An ensemble-based approach for pumping optimization in an island aquifer considering parameter, observation and climate uncertainty37
Multi-decadal fluctuations in root zone storage capacity through vegetation adaptation to hydro-climatic variability have minor effects on the hydrological response in the Neckar River basin, Germany36
Characterizing nonlinear, nonstationary, and heterogeneous hydrologic behavior using ensemble rainfall–runoff analysis (ERRA): proof of concept35
Global total precipitable water variations and trends over the period 1958–202135
Evaporation and sublimation measurement and modeling of an alpine saline lake influenced by freeze–thaw on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau34
Technical Note: The divide and measure nonconformity – how metrics can mislead when we evaluate on different data partitions34
Spatiotemporal responses of runoff to climate change in the southern Tibetan Plateau34
Future response of ecosystem water use efficiency to CO2 effects in the Yellow River Basin, China34
Synoptic weather patterns conducive to compound extreme rainfall–wave events in the NW Mediterranean33
Investigation of the functional relationship between antecedent rainfall and the probability of debris flow occurrence in Jiangjia Gully, China33
Inferring reservoir filling strategies under limited-data-availability conditions using hydrological modeling and Earth observations: the case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)33
Glaciers determine the sensitivity of hydrological processes to perturbed climate in a large mountainous basin on the Tibetan Plateau33
Actionable human–water system modelling under uncertainty33
On the optimal level of complexity for the representation of groundwater-dependent wetland systems in land surface models32
The influence of hillslope topography on beech water use: a comparative study in two different climates32
Estimation of groundwater age distributions from hydrochemistry: comparison of two metamodelling algorithms in the Heretaunga Plains aquifer system, New Zealand32
Modelling flood frequency and magnitude in a glacially conditioned, heterogeneous landscape: testing the importance of land cover and land use31
Robust historical evapotranspiration trends across climate regimes31
Identifying the dynamic evolution and feedback process of water resources nexus system considering socioeconomic development, ecological protection, and food security: A practical tool for sustainable31
Long-term climate-influenced land cover change in discontinuous permafrost peatland complexes31
Technical note: Hydrology modelling R packages – a unified analysis of models and practicalities from a user perspective31
Machine learning deciphers CO2 sequestration and subsurface flowpaths from stream chemistry31
Using Long Short-Term Memory networks to connect water table depth anomalies to precipitation anomalies over Europe31
Ecohydrological responses to solar radiation changes30
Assessing interannual variability in nitrogen sourcing and retention through hybrid Bayesian watershed modeling30
A 10 km North American precipitation and land-surface reanalysis based on the GEM atmospheric model30
Streamflow estimation at partially gaged sites using multiple-dependence conditions via vine copulas30
Effects of different climatic conditions on soil water storage patterns30
Event and seasonal hydrologic connectivity patterns in an agricultural headwater catchment30
Bias-correcting input variables enhances forecasting of reference crop evapotranspiration30
Interaction of soil water and groundwater during the freezing–thawing cycle: field observations and numerical modeling30
A wavelet-based approach to streamflow event identification and modeled timing error evaluation30
Using data assimilation to optimize pedotransfer functions using field-scale in situ soil moisture observations30
Comprehensive evaluation of satellite-based and reanalysis soil moisture products using in situ observations over China30
How well are we able to close the water budget at the global scale?29
Bending of the concentration discharge relationship can inform about in-stream nitrate removal29
Assessing the dependence structure between oceanographic, fluvial, and pluvial flooding drivers along the United States coastline29
Feedback mechanisms between precipitation and dissolution reactions across randomly heterogeneous conductivity fields29
Space variability impacts on hydrological responses of nature-based solutions and the resulting uncertainty: a case study of Guyancourt (France)29
Geophysically based analysis of breakthrough curves and ion exchange processes in soil29
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade29
Extending the utility of space-borne snow water equivalent observations over vegetated areas with data assimilation28
Spatially explicit assessment of water stress and potential mitigating solutions in a large water-limited basin: the Yellow River basin in China28
Effects of aquifer geometry on seawater intrusion in annulus segment island aquifers28
Past and future climate change effects on the thermal regime and oxygen solubility of four peri-alpine lakes28
Early hypogenic carbonic acid speleogenesis in unconfined limestone aquifers by upwelling deep-seated waters with high CO2 concentration: a modelling approach28
Point-scale multi-objective calibration of the Community Land Model (version 5.0) using in situ observations of water and energy fluxes and variables28
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?28
Modelling the artificial forest (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) root–soil water interactions in the Loess Plateau, China28
Quantitative rainfall analysis of the 2021 mid-July flood event in Belgium27
Water and energy budgets over hydrological basins on short and long timescales27
Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling27
Evolution of river regimes in the Mekong River basin over 8 decades and the role of dams in recent hydrological extremes27
Dye-tracer-aided investigation of xylem water transport velocity distributions27
Evaluation of hydrological models on small mountainous catchments: impact of the meteorological forcings27
Estimating spatiotemporally continuous snow water equivalent from intermittent satellite observations: an evaluation using synthetic data27
A hydrogeological conceptual model of aquifers in catchments headed by temperate glaciers26
Assimilation of transformed water surface elevation to improve river discharge estimation in a continental-scale river26
Impacts of hydrofacies geometry designed from seismic refraction tomography on estimated hydrogeophysical variables26
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 basi26
Multi-objective calibration and evaluation of the ORCHIDEE land surface model over France at high resolution26
Drainage assessment of irrigation districts: on the precision and accuracy of four parsimonious models26
Forecasting estuarine salt intrusion in the Rhine–Meuse delta using an LSTM model26
Seasonal shifts in depth-to-water uptake by young thinned and overstocked lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests under drought conditions in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada26
Global dryland aridity changes indicated by atmospheric, hydrological, and vegetation observations at meteorological stations25
Methodology for constructing a flood-hazard map for a future climate25
Projecting sediment export from two highly glacierized alpine catchments under climate change: exploring non-parametric regression as an analysis tool25
Technical note: Seamless extraction and analysis of river networks in R25
Rapid spatio-temporal flood modelling via hydraulics-based graph neural networks25
Comment on “Are soils overrated in hydrology?” by Gao et al. (2023)25
HESS Opinions: Are soils overrated in hydrology?25
Identification of compound drought and heatwave events on a daily scale and across four seasons24
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France24
Seasonal and interannual dissolved organic carbon transport process dynamics in a subarctic headwater catchment revealed by high-resolution measurements24
Levee system transformation in coevolution between humans and water systems along the Kiso River, Japan24
Young and new water fractions in soil and hillslope waters24
Groundwater flow paths drive longitudinal patterns of stream dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations in boreal landscapes23
The origin of hydrological responses following earthquakes in a confined aquifer: insight from water level, flow rate, and temperature observations23
Characterizing groundwater heat transport in a complex lowland aquifer using paleo-temperature reconstruction, satellite data, temperature–depth profiles, and numerical models23
Significant regime shifts in historical water yield in the Upper Brahmaputra River basin23
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?23
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations23
Accuracy of five ground heat flux empirical simulation methods in the surface-energy-balance-based remote-sensing evapotranspiration models23
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations23
Technical note: The CREDIBLE Uncertainty Estimation (CURE) toolbox: facilitating the communication of epistemic uncertainty22
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components22
Diagnosing modeling errors in global terrestrial water storage interannual variability22
A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments – case study for the Naryn River, central Asia22
Impact of spatial distribution information of rainfall in runoff simulation using deep learning method22
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa22
A comprehensive assessment of in situ and remote sensing soil moisture data assimilation in the APSIM model for improving agricultural forecasting across the US Midwest22
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data22
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data22
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation22
Hydrological response to climate change and human activities in the Three-River Source Region22
Impact of urban geology on model simulations of shallow groundwater levels and flow paths22
A framework for irrigation performance assessment using WaPOR data: the case of a sugarcane estate in Mozambique22
On the links between sub-seasonal clustering of extreme precipitation and high discharge in Switzerland and Europe21
Effects of spatial and temporal variability in surface water inputs on streamflow generation and cessation in the rain–snow transition zone21
Advances in the hydraulic interpretation of water wells using flowmeter logs21
Influences of land use changes on the dynamics of water quantity and quality in the German lowland catchment of the Stör21
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves21
Development of a national 7-day ensemble streamflow forecasting service for Australia20
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates20
Subsurface flow paths in a chronosequence of calcareous soils: impact of soil age and rainfall intensities on preferential flow occurrence20
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-198020
Flood forecasting with machine learning models in an operational framework20
Monitoring the combined effects of drought and salinity stress on crops using remote sensing in the Netherlands20
Present and future thermal regimes of intertidal groundwater springs in a threatened coastal ecosystem20
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods20
A system dynamic model to quantify the impacts of water resources allocation on water–energy–food–society (WEFS) nexus20
Recent hydrological response of glaciers in the Canadian Rockies to changing climate and glacier configuration20
Technical note: Do different projections matter for the Budyko framework?20
Extreme precipitation events induce high fluxes of groundwater and associated nutrients to coastal ocean20
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams20
Xylem water in riparian willow trees (Salix alba) reveals shallow sources of root water uptake by in situ monitoring of stable water isotopes20
Projection of irrigation water demand based on the simulation of synthetic crop coefficients and climate change19
Sigmoidal water retention function with improved behaviour in dry and wet soils19
Determination of vadose zone and saturated zone nitrate lag times using long-term groundwater monitoring data and statistical machine learning19
Learning about precipitation lapse rates from snow course data improves water balance modeling19
Space–time variability in soil moisture droughts in the Himalayan region19
Environmental DNA simultaneously informs hydrological and biodiversity characterization of an Alpine catchment19
Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium19
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-driven hypersedimentation in the Poechos Reservoir, northern Peru19
Using soil water isotopes to infer the influence of contrasting urban green space on ecohydrological partitioning19
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?19
Climate change impacts model parameter sensitivity – implications for calibration strategy and model diagnostic evaluation19
Skill of seasonal flow forecasts at catchment scale: an assessment across South Korea19
High-resolution automated detection of headwater streambeds for large watersheds18
Inferring heavy tails of flood distributions through hydrograph recession analysis18
Differentiating between crop and soil effects on soil moisture dynamics18
Numerical assessment of morphological and hydraulic properties of moss, lichen and peat from a permafrost peatland18
The Wetland Intrinsic Potential tool: mapping wetland intrinsic potential through machine learning of multi-scale remote sensing proxies of wetland indicators18
Bias-blind and bias-aware assimilation of leaf area index into the Noah-MP land surface model over Europe18
Using the classical model for structured expert judgment to estimate extremes: a case study of discharges in the Meuse River18
Assessing the impact of climate change on high return levels of peak flows in Bavaria applying the CRCM5 large ensemble18
Flow recession behavior of preferential subsurface flow patterns with minimum energy dissipation17
Reframing water demand management: a new co-governance framework coupling supply-side and demand-side solutions toward sustainability17
Coupled hydrogeophysical inversion of an artificial infiltration experiment monitored with ground-penetrating radar: synthetic demonstration17
Bayesian parameter inference in hydrological modelling using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approach with a stochastic rain model17
A network approach for multiscale catchment classification using traits17
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs17
Hydrologic implications of projected changes in rain-on-snow melt for Great Lakes Basin watersheds17
A high-resolution map of diffuse groundwater recharge rates for Australia17
On understanding mountainous carbonate basins of the Mediterranean using parsimonious modeling solutions17
Historical rainfall data in northern Italy predict larger meteorological drought hazard than climate projections17
River hydraulic modeling with ICESat-2 land and water surface elevation17
Hydro-pedotransfer functions: a roadmap for future development17
Semi-continuum modeling of unsaturated porous media flow to explain Bauters' paradox17
Assessment of pluri-annual and decadal changes in terrestrial water storage predicted by global hydrological models in comparison with the GRACE satellite gravity mission17
A comprehensive open-source course for teaching applied hydrological modelling in Central Asia17
The interprovincial green water flow in China and its teleconnected effects on the social economy17
Adaptively monitoring streamflow using a stereo computer vision system17
A storm-centered multivariate modeling of extreme precipitation frequency based on atmospheric water balance17
Simulation of long-term spatiotemporal variations in regional-scale groundwater recharge: contributions of a water budget approach in cold and humid climates16
In-stream Escherichia coli modeling using high-temporal-resolution data with deep learning and process-based models16
AI-based techniques for multi-step streamflow forecasts: application for multi-objective reservoir operation optimization and performance assessment16
Numerical daemons of hydrological models are summoned by extreme precipitation16
Spatiotemporal and cross-scale interactions in hydroclimate variability: a case-study in France16
An algorithm for deriving the topology of belowground urban stormwater networks16
Advanced sensitivity analysis of the impact of the temporal distribution and intensity of rainfall on hydrograph parameters in urban catchments16
Barriers to mainstream adoption of catchment-wide natural flood management: a transdisciplinary problem-framing study of delivery practice16
Quantifying the impacts of land cover change on hydrological responses in the Mahanadi river basin in India16
Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models16
Multi-model approach in a variable spatial framework for streamflow simulation16
Links between seasonal suprapermafrost groundwater, the hydrothermal change of the active layer, and river runoff in alpine permafrost watersheds16
Developing water supply reservoir operating rules for large-scale hydrological modelling16
Evaluating different machine learning methods to simulate runoff from extensive green roofs16
Small-scale topography explains patterns and dynamics of dissolved organic carbon exports from the riparian zone of a temperate, forested catchment16
Attributing correlation skill of dynamical GCM precipitation forecasts to statistical ENSO teleconnection using a set-theory-based approach16
A deep learning hybrid predictive modeling (HPM) approach for estimating evapotranspiration and ecosystem respiration16
Characteristics and process controls of statistical flood moments in Europe – a data-based analysis16
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy16
Assessing groundwater level modelling using a 1-D convolutional neural network (CNN): linking model performances to geospatial and time series features16
Land use and climate change effects on water yield from East African forested water towers16
A new fractal-theory-based criterion for hydrological model calibration15
Implications of variations in stream specific conductivity for estimating baseflow using chemical mass balance and calibrated hydrograph techniques15
CABra: a novel large-sample dataset for Brazilian catchments15
Technical note: Monitoring discharge of mountain streams by retrieving image features with deep learning15
Using high-frequency solute synchronies to determine simple two-end-member mixing in catchments during storm events15
Changes in mean evapotranspiration dominate groundwater recharge in semi-arid regions15
Interannual variations of terrestrial water storage in the East African Rift region15
Uncertainty of gridded precipitation and temperature reference datasets in climate change impact studies15
The value of water isotope data on improving process understanding in a glacierized catchment on the Tibetan Plateau15
Parsimonious statistical learning models for low-flow estimation15
Technical Note: Temporal disaggregation of spatial rainfall fields with generative adversarial networks15
Development and evaluation of 0.05° terrestrial water storage estimates using Community Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange (CABLE) land surface model and assimilation of GRACE data15
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model15
Phosphorus supply and floodplain design govern phosphorus reduction capacity in remediated agricultural streams15
Impacts of different types of El Niño events on water quality over the Corn Belt, United States15
Accounting for precipitation asymmetry in a multiplicative random cascade disaggregation model15
A climatological benchmark for operational radar rainfall bias reduction15
Probabilistic modeling of field-scale CO2 generation by carbonate–clay reactions in sedimentary basins15
Comment on “A comparison of catchment travel times and storage deduced from deuterium and tritium tracers using StorAge Selection functions” by Rodriguez et al. (2021)15
Calibrating 1D hydrodynamic river models in the absence of cross-section geometry using satellite observations of water surface elevation and river width15
Mass balance and hydrological modeling of the Hardangerjøkulen ice cap in south-central Norway15
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves15
Can the combining of wetlands with reservoir operation reduce the risk of future floods and droughts?15
Snowmelt-mediated isotopic homogenization of shallow till soil15
Time lags of nitrate, chloride, and tritium in streams assessed by dynamic groundwater flow tracking in a lowland landscape15
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