Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 6. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evaluation of the ERA5 reanalysis as a potential reference dataset for hydrological modelling over North America271
Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors135
Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling120
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade104
Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management100
Rainfall–runoff prediction at multiple timescales with a single Long Short-Term Memory network98
Groundwater level forecasting with artificial neural networks: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and non-linear autoregressive networks with exoge98
Impact of revegetation of the Loess Plateau of China on the regional growing season water balance85
Revisiting the global hydrological cycle: is it intensifying?81
Urban surface water flood modelling – a comprehensive review of current models and future challenges81
A standardized index for assessing sub-monthly compound dry and hot conditions with application in China79
Concentration–discharge relationships vary among hydrological events, reflecting differences in event characteristics79
Can we trust remote sensing evapotranspiration products over Africa?74
Global catchment modelling using World-Wide HYPE (WWH), open data, and stepwise parameter estimation68
Progressive water deficits during multiyear droughts in basins with long hydrological memory in Chile65
Rainfall Estimates on a Gridded Network (REGEN) – a global land-based gridded dataset of daily precipitation from 1950 to 201663
Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models63
Temperature controls production but hydrology regulates export of dissolved organic carbon at the catchment scale62
The 2018 northern European hydrological drought and its drivers in a historical perspective59
Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study56
Deep learning methods for flood mapping: a review of existing applications and future research directions55
Machine-learning methods for stream water temperature prediction51
Technical Note: Flow velocity and discharge measurement in rivers using terrestrial and unmanned-aerial-vehicle imagery50
Flood trends in Europe: are changes in small and big floods different?50
Hydrologically informed machine learning for rainfall–runoff modelling: towards distributed modelling50
A history of TOPMODEL48
Rapid reduction in ecosystem productivity caused by flash droughts based on decade-long FLUXNET observations48
Deep learning rainfall–runoff predictions of extreme events46
Technical Note: Improved partial wavelet coherency for understanding scale-specific and localized bivariate relationships in geosciences46
Comparative analysis of kernel-based versus ANN and deep learning methods in monthly reference evapotranspiration estimation46
Future streamflow regime changes in the United States: assessment using functional classification45
Suitability of 17 gridded rainfall and temperature datasets for large-scale hydrological modelling in West Africa45
Comparing Palmer Drought Severity Index drought assessments using the traditional offline approach with direct climate model outputs45
Using hydrological and climatic catchment clusters to explore drivers of catchment behavior44
Rainfall estimation from a German-wide commercial microwave link network: optimized processing and validation for 1 year of data43
A review of the complementary principle of evaporation: from the original linear relationship to generalized nonlinear functions43
Time-lapse cross-hole electrical resistivity tomography (CHERT) for monitoring seawater intrusion dynamics in a Mediterranean aquifer43
Flash drought onset over the contiguous United States: sensitivity of inventories and trends to quantitative definitions42
Flood forecasting with machine learning models in an operational framework42
Quantifying the impacts of compound extremes on agriculture42
A history of the concept of time of concentration41
Lake thermal structure drives interannual variability in summer anoxia dynamics in a eutrophic lake over 37 years41
A daily 25 km short-latency rainfall product for data-scarce regions based on the integration of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission rainfall and multiple-satellite soil moisture products40
The accuracy of weather radar in heavy rain: a comparative study for Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden40
Sentinel-3 radar altimetry for river monitoring – a catchment-scale evaluation of satellite water surface elevation from Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B40
Quantifying the effects of land use and model scale on water partitioning and water ages using tracer-aided ecohydrological models40
In situ measurements of soil and plant water isotopes: a review of approaches, practical considerations and a vision for the future40
Two-stage variational mode decomposition and support vector regression for streamflow forecasting40
Why does a conceptual hydrological model fail to correctly predict discharge changes in response to climate change?40
Quantifying the impacts of human water use and climate variations on recent drying of Lake Urmia basin: the value of different sets of spaceborne and in situ data for calibrating a global hydrologi38
Global cotton production under climate change – Implications for yield and water consumption37
Do small and large floods have the same drivers of change? A regional attribution analysis in Europe37
High-resolution fully coupled atmospheric–hydrological modeling: a cross-compartment regional water and energy cycle evaluation37
Climate elasticity of evapotranspiration shifts the water balance of Mediterranean climates during multi-year droughts37
Comparison of statistical downscaling methods for climate change impact analysis on precipitation-driven drought36
Evaluation of random forests for short-term daily streamflow forecasting in rainfall- and snowmelt-driven watersheds36
Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude – evidence from a model–observation investigation36
Changing global cropping patterns to minimize national blue water scarcity36
Compound flood potential from storm surge and heavy precipitation in coastal China: dependence, drivers, and impacts36
Using water stable isotopes to understand evaporation, moisture stress, and re-wetting in catchment forest and grassland soils of the summer drought of 201835
Long-term changes in central European river discharge for 1869–2016: impact of changing snow covers, reservoir constructions and an intensified hydrological cycle35
Ensemble streamflow forecasting over a cascade reservoir catchment with integrated hydrometeorological modeling and machine learning35
Hydrological evaluation of open-access precipitation data using SWAT at multiple temporal and spatial scales34
Tracking the global flows of atmospheric moisture and associated uncertainties33
Hydrological concept formation inside long short-term memory (LSTM) networks33
Uncertainty estimation with deep learning for rainfall–runoff modeling33
Towards hybrid modeling of the global hydrological cycle33
Beyond binary baseflow separation: a delayed-flow index for multiple streamflow contributions33
Coffee and shade trees show complementary use of soil water in a traditional agroforestry ecosystem31
Recession analysis revisited: impacts of climate on parameter estimation31
Changing suspended sediment in United States rivers and streams: linking sediment trends to changes in land use/cover, hydrology and climate31
Optimal design of hydrometric station networks based on complex network analysis31
Inferred inflow forecast horizons guiding reservoir release decisions across the United States31
Multistep-ahead daily inflow forecasting using the ERA-Interim reanalysis data set based on gradient-boosting regression trees30
Understanding the mass, momentum, and energy transfer in the frozen soil with three levels of model complexities29
Easy-to-use spatial random-forest-based downscaling-calibration method for producing precipitation data with high resolution and high accuracy29
A note on leveraging synergy in multiple meteorological data sets with deep learning for rainfall–runoff modeling29
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States29
Systematic comparison of five machine-learning models in classification and interpolation of soil particle size fractions using different transformed data29
Evapotranspiration in the Amazon: spatial patterns, seasonality, and recent trends in observations, reanalysis, and climate models28
Uncertainty of gridded precipitation and temperature reference datasets in climate change impact studies28
Uncertainties and their interaction in flood hazard assessment with climate change28
Which rainfall score is more informative about the performance in river discharge simulation? A comprehensive assessment on 1318 basins over Europe28
Assimilation of vegetation optical depth retrievals from passive microwave radiometry28
Anatomy of the 2018 agricultural drought in the Netherlands using in situ soil moisture and satellite vegetation indices28
Simulations of future changes in thermal structure of Lake Erken: proof of concept for ISIMIP2b lake sector local simulation strategy27
Sensitivity of snow models to the accuracy of meteorological forcings in mountain environments27
Revisiting extreme precipitation amounts over southern South America and implications for the Patagonian Icefields27
A retrospective on hydrological catchment modelling based on half a century with the HBV model27
Hydrograph separation: an impartial parametrisation for an imperfect method26
Trends and variability in snowmelt in China under climate change26
Identifying the optimal spatial distribution of tracers for optical sensing of stream surface flow26
The Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project Phase 4: the Great Lakes (GRIP-GL)26
Global distribution of hydrologic controls on forest growth26
Last-decade progress in understanding and modeling the land surface processes on the Tibetan Plateau25
Importance of snowmelt contribution to seasonal runoff and summer low flows in Czechia25
Impact of the quality of hydrological forecasts on the management and revenue of hydroelectric reservoirs – a conceptual approach25
A two-stage blending approach for merging multiple satellite precipitation estimates and rain gauge observations: an experiment in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau25
Canopy temperature and heat stress are increased by compound high air temperature and water stress and reduced by irrigation – a modeling analysis25
A novel causal structure-based framework for comparing a basin-wide water–energy–food–ecology nexus applied to the data-limited Amu Darya and Syr Darya river basins25
Variability in epilimnion depth estimations in lakes25
How well are we able to close the water budget at the global scale?25
Climate change impacts on the Water Highway project in Morocco25
Development of a revised method for indicators of hydrologic alteration for analyzing the cumulative impacts of cascading reservoirs on flow regime25
Quantifying the effects of urban green space on water partitioning and ages using an isotope-based ecohydrological model25
A universal multifractal approach to assessment of spatiotemporal extreme precipitation over the Loess Plateau of China25
Evaluation of the WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment (SPICE) transfer functions for adjusting the wind bias in solid precipitation measurements24
A systematic assessment of uncertainties in large-scale soil loss estimation from different representations of USLE input factors – a case study for Kenya and Uganda24
Sequential data assimilation for real-time probabilistic flood inundation mapping24
A 10 km North American precipitation and land-surface reanalysis based on the GEM atmospheric model24
Diagnosis of future changes in hydrology for a Canadian Rockies headwater basin24
River runoff in Switzerland in a changing climate – runoff regime changes and their time of emergence24
Asymmetric impact of groundwater use on groundwater droughts24
Drought onset and propagation into soil moisture and grassland vegetation responses during the 2012–2019 major drought in Southern California24
Socio-hydrologic modeling of the dynamics of cooperation in the transboundary Lancang–Mekong River24
Technical note: Precipitation-phase partitioning at landscape scales to regional scales24
Global ecosystem-scale plant hydraulic traits retrieved using model–data fusion23
Comparison of generalized non-data-driven lake and reservoir routing models for global-scale hydrologic forecasting of reservoir outflow at diurnal time steps23
Continuous streamflow prediction in ungauged basins: long short-term memory neural networks clearly outperform traditional hydrological models23
Estimation of hydrological drought recovery based on precipitation and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) water storage deficit23
Statistical modelling and climate variability of compound surge and precipitation events in a managed water system: a case study in the Netherlands23
Triple oxygen isotope systematics of evaporation and mixing processes in a dynamic desert lake system23
From skill to value: isolating the influence of end user behavior on seasonal forecast assessment23
Development and validation of a new MODIS snow-cover-extent product over China23
Assessment of extreme flows and uncertainty under climate change: disentangling the uncertainty contribution of representative concentration pathways, global climate models and internal climate var23
Evaluation of historic and operational satellite radar altimetry missions for constructing consistent long-term lake water level records23
A data-based predictive model for spatiotemporal variability in stream water quality23
Understanding the effects of climate warming on streamflow and active groundwater storage in an alpine catchment: the upper Lhasa River22
Deep learning for automated river-level monitoring through river-camera images: an approach based on water segmentation and transfer learning22
Simultaneously determining global sensitivities of model parameters and model structure22
Are dissolved organic carbon concentrations in riparian groundwater linked to hydrological pathways in the boreal forest?22
Basin-scale multi-objective simulation-optimization modeling for conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater in northwest China22
A universal Standardized Precipitation Index candidate distribution function for observations and simulations22
Behind the scenes of streamflow model performance22
A comparison of catchment travel times and storage deduced from deuterium and tritium tracers using StorAge Selection functions22
Contrasting seasonal changes in total and intense precipitation in the European Alps from 1903 to 201022
Analysis of high streamflow extremes in climate change studies: how do we calibrate hydrological models?22
Assessing the dependence structure between oceanographic, fluvial, and pluvial flooding drivers along the United States coastline22
Benchmarking an operational hydrological model for providing seasonal forecasts in Sweden21
Long-term relative decline in evapotranspiration with increasing runoff on fractional land surfaces21
An evapotranspiration model self-calibrated from remotely sensed surface soil moisture, land surface temperature and vegetation cover fraction: application to disaggregated SMOS and MODIS data21
Global component analysis of errors in three satellite-only global precipitation estimates21
The pulse of a montane ecosystem: coupling between daily cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, transpiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen Creek and Independence Creek, Sierra Nevada, USA21
Exploring the possible role of satellite-based rainfall data in estimating inter- and intra-annual global rainfall erosivity21
Assessing the factors governing the ability to predict late-spring flooding in cold-region mountain basins21
Worldwide lake level trends and responses to background climate variation21
BESS-STAIR: a framework to estimate daily, 30 m, and all-weather crop evapotranspiration using multi-source satellite data for the US Corn Belt21
Dynamic mechanism of an extremely severe saltwater intrusion in the Changjiang estuary in February 201420
Assimilation of probabilistic flood maps from SAR data into a coupled hydrologic–hydraulic forecasting model: a proof of concept20
Using multiple methods to investigate the effects of land-use changes on groundwater recharge in a semi-arid area20
Estimating the probability of compound floods in estuarine regions20
The value of ASCAT soil moisture and MODIS snow cover data for calibrating a conceptual hydrologic model20
Comprehensive evaluation of satellite-based and reanalysis soil moisture products using in situ observations over China20
Assessing the degree of detail of temperature-based snow routines for runoff modelling in mountainous areas in central Europe20
On the assimilation of environmental tracer observations for model-based decision support20
Assessing global water mass transfers from continents to oceans over the period 1948–201620
Streamflow drought: implication of drought definitions and its application for drought forecasting20
Preprocessing approaches in machine-learning-based groundwater potential mapping: an application to the Koulikoro and Bamako regions, Mali20
Improving soil moisture prediction of a high-resolution land surface model by parameterising pedotransfer functions through assimilation of SMAP satellite data20
Modeling groundwater responses to climate change in the Prairie Pothole Region20
Hydrological signatures describing the translation of climate seasonality into streamflow seasonality20
Partitioning growing season water balance within a forested boreal catchment using sap flux, eddy covariance, and a process-based model20
A Fast-Response Automated Gas Equilibrator (FaRAGE) for continuous in situ measurement of CH<sub>4</sub> and CO<sub>2</sub> dissolved in water20
Field-scale soil moisture bridges the spatial-scale gap between drought monitoring and agricultural yields20
HESS Opinions: Beyond the long-term water balance: evolving Budyko's supply–demand framework for the Anthropocene towards a global synthesis of land-surface fluxes under natural and human-altered wate20
A Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach for conducting trade-off analysis: Morocco's phosphate industry in the Khouribga region19
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data19
Multimodel simulation of vertical gas transfer in a temperate lake19
Soil moisture: variable in space but redundant in time19
Hydrological response to warm and dry weather: do glaciers compensate?19
GRAINet: mapping grain size distributions in river beds from UAV images with convolutional neural networks19
A hydrologist's guide to open science19
Sensitivity of meteorological-forcing resolution on hydrologic variables19
Importance of the informative content in the study area when regionalising rainfall-runoff model parameters: the role of nested catchments and gauging station density19
Hydrologic regimes drive nitrate export behavior in human-impacted watersheds19
Microphysical features of typhoon and non-typhoon rainfall observed in Taiwan, an island in the northwestern Pacific19
Insights into the isotopic mismatch between bulk soil water and <i>Salix matsudana</i> Koidz trunk water from root water stable isotope measurements19
Data-driven estimates of evapotranspiration and its controls in the Congo Basin19
Interaction of soil water and groundwater during the freezing–thawing cycle: field observations and numerical modeling19
A two-step merging strategy for incorporating multi-source precipitation products and gauge observations using machine learning classification and regression over China19
The use of personal weather station observations to improve precipitation estimation and interpolation19
Rainfall interception and redistribution by a common North American understory and pasture forb, <i>Eupatorium capillifolium</i> (Lam. dogfennel)19
Calibration of a lumped karst system model and application to the Qachqouch karst spring (Lebanon) under climate change conditions19
The 63-year changes in annual streamflow volumes across Europe with a focus on the Mediterranean basin18
Impact of detention dams on the probability distribution of floods18
CABra: a novel large-sample dataset for Brazilian catchments18
A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models18
An uncertainty partition approach for inferring interactive hydrologic risks18
A combination of soil water extraction methods quantifies the isotopic mixing of waters held at separate tensions in soil18
Ecohydrological travel times derived from in situ stable water isotope measurements in trees during a semi-controlled pot experiment18
Satellite rainfall products outperform ground observations for landslide prediction in India18
Projected changes in Rhine River flood seasonality under global warming18
Untangling irrigation effects on maize water and heat stress alleviation using satellite data18
Radar-based characterisation of heavy precipitation in the eastern Mediterranean and its representation in a convection-permitting model18
Identifying uncertainties in hydrologic fluxes and seasonality from hydrologic model components for climate change impact assessments18
Catchment-scale drought: capturing the whole drought cycle using multiple indicators18
Diverging hydrological drought traits over Europe with global warming18
Understanding dominant controls on streamflow spatial variability to set up a semi-distributed hydrological model: the case study of the Thur catchment18
Learning from satellite observations: increased understanding of catchment processes through stepwise model improvement18
Reduction of vegetation-accessible water storage capacity after deforestation affects catchment travel time distributions and increases young water fractions in a headwater catchment18
Accelerated hydrological cycle over the Sanjiangyuan region induces more streamflow extremes at different global warming levels18
Land use and climate change effects on water yield from East African forested water towers18
Data assimilation for continuous global assessment of severe conditions over terrestrial surfaces18
Performance of automated methods for flash flood inundation mapping: a comparison of a digital terrain model (DTM) filling and two hydrodynamic methods18
Irrigation, damming, and streamflow fluctuations of the Yellow River17
Characteristics of droughts in Argentina's core crop region17
Widespread decline in terrestrial water storage and its link to teleconnections across Asia and eastern Europe17
Improved understanding of regional groundwater drought development through time series modelling: the 2018–2019 drought in the Netherlands17
Stochastic simulation of streamflow and spatial extremes: a continuous, wavelet-based approach17
Learning about precipitation lapse rates from snow course data improves water balance modeling17
Response of global evaporation to major climate modes in historical and future Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 simulations17
Signatures of human intervention – or not? Downstream intensification of hydrological drought along a large Central Asian river: the individual roles of climate variability and land use change17
Water resources management and dynamic changes in water politics in the transboundary river basins of Central Asia17
Low hydrological connectivity after summer drought inhibits DOC export in a forested headwater catchment17
Mapping groundwater abstractions from irrigated agriculture: big data, inverse modeling, and a satellite–model fusion approach17
Estimation of subsurface soil moisture from surface soil moisture in cold mountainous areas17
Multi-objective calibration by combination of stochastic and gradient-like parameter generation rules – the caRamel algorithm17
Responses of soil water storage and crop water use efficiency to changing climatic conditions: a lysimeter-based space-for-time approach17
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments17
Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above- and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions17
A coupled atmospheric–hydrologic modeling system with variable grid sizes for rainfall–runoff simulation in semi-humid and semi-arid watersheds: how does the coupling scale affects the results?17
Improved representation of agricultural land use and crop management for large-scale hydrological impact simulation in Africa using SWAT+17
Modelling rainfall with a Bartlett–Lewis process: new developments17
Summary and synthesis of Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) research in the interior of western Canada – Part 2: Future change in cryosphere, vegetation, and hydrology17
Technical note: Hydrology modelling R packages – a unified analysis of models and practicalities from a user perspective17
Using soil water isotopes to infer the influence of contrasting urban green space on ecohydrological partitioning17
Evaporation enhancement drives the European water-budget deficit during multi-year droughts16
Hydrology and water resources management in ancient India16
The AquiFR hydrometeorological modelling platform as a tool for improving groundwater resource monitoring over France: evaluation over a 60-year period16
Event selection and two-stage approach for calibrating models of green urban drainage systems16
Surface water and groundwater: unifying conceptualization and quantification of the two “water worlds”16
Comparing Bayesian and traditional end-member mixing approaches for hydrograph separation in a glacierized basin16
How catchment characteristics influence hydrological pathways and travel times in a boreal landscape16
A novel regional irrigation water productivity model coupling irrigation- and drainage-driven soil hydrology and salinity dynamics and shallow groundwater movement in arid regions in China16
Accretion, retreat and transgression of coastal wetlands experiencing sea-level rise16
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation16
Advances in soil moisture retrieval from multispectral remote sensing using unoccupied aircraft systems and machine learning techniques16
Flexible vector-based spatial configurations in land models16
Future changes in annual, seasonal and monthly runoff signatures in contrasting Alpine catchments in Austria16
Intra-catchment variability of surface saturation – insights from physically based simulations in comparison with biweekly thermal infrared image observations16
Assessment and projection of the water budget over western Canada using convection-permitting weather research and forecasting simulations16
Snow water equivalents exclusively from snow depths and their temporal changes: the Δsnow model16
The role of flood wave superposition in the severity of large floods16
Rivers in the sky, flooding on the ground: the role of atmospheric rivers in inland flooding in central Europe16
New flood frequency estimates for the largest river in Norway based on the combination of short and long time series16
Regional, multi-decadal analysis on the Loire River basin reveals that stream temperature increases faster than air temperature16
Calibration of hydrological models for ecologically relevant streamflow predictions: a trade-off between fitting well to data and estimating consistent parameter sets?16
Bias in dynamically downscaled rainfall characteristics for hydroclimatic projections16
Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models16
The value of citizen science for flood risk reduction: cost–benefit analysis of a citizen observatory in the Brenta-Bacchiglione catchment16
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