Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 13. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed202
Feedback mechanisms between precipitation and dissolution reactions across randomly heterogeneous conductivity fields170
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps155
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed150
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient123
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert121
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations96
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa96
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities92
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France83
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods73
A wavelet-based approach to streamflow event identification and modeled timing error evaluation73
Bias-correcting input variables enhances forecasting of reference crop evapotranspiration72
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?70
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?70
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations69
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?67
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams62
Assessing the dependence structure between oceanographic, fluvial, and pluvial flooding drivers along the United States coastline59
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components58
Space variability impacts on hydrological responses of nature-based solutions and the resulting uncertainty: a case study of Guyancourt (France)56
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations52
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation52
Early hypogenic carbonic acid speleogenesis in unconfined limestone aquifers by upwelling deep-seated waters with high CO2 concentration: a modelling approach50
A hydrologist's guide to open science50
Technical note: Introduction of a superconducting gravimeter as novel hydrological sensor for the Alpine research catchment Zugspitze50
Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations50
Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium48
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data45
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves43
Using Long Short-Term Memory networks to connect water table depth anomalies to precipitation anomalies over Europe43
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?43
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective42
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data42
How is Baseflow Index (BFI) impacted by water resource management practices?41
Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates41
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment40
Effect of the spatial resolution of digital terrain data obtained by drone on urban fluvial flood modeling of mountainous regions39
Use of streamflow indices to identify the catchment drivers of hydrographs39
Can the combining of wetlands with reservoir operation reduce the risk of future floods and droughts?39
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure39
Links between seasonal suprapermafrost groundwater, the hydrothermal change of the active layer, and river runoff in alpine permafrost watersheds38
Simulating sub-hourly rainfall data for current and future periods using two statistical disaggregation models: case studies from Germany and South Korea38
The role of morphology in the spatial distribution of short-duration rainfall extremes in Italy38
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy37
Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling37
Data worth analysis within a model-free data assimilation framework for soil moisture flow37
Hydrological regime of Sahelian small waterbodies from combined Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter data37
Bayesian parameter inference in hydrological modelling using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approach with a stochastic rain model36
Snowmelt-mediated isotopic homogenization of shallow till soil36
Flood frequency analysis using mean daily flows vs. instantaneous peak flows36
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model36
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models36
Short high-accuracy tritium data time series for assessing groundwater mean transit times in the vadose and saturated zones of the Luxembourg Sandstone aquifer35
Probabilistic modeling of field-scale CO2 generation by carbonate–clay reactions in sedimentary basins35
Towards understanding the influence of seasons on low-groundwater periods based on explainable machine learning35
Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling35
Spatial distribution of groundwater recharge, based on regionalised soil moisture models in Wadi Natuf karst aquifers, Palestine34
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs34
Barriers to mainstream adoption of catchment-wide natural flood management: a transdisciplinary problem-framing study of delivery practice33
Cooperation under conflict: participatory hydrological modeling for science policy dialogues for the Aculeo Lake33
CABra: a novel large-sample dataset for Brazilian catchments33
Enhancing generalizability of data-driven urban flood models by incorporating contextual information33
Adaptively monitoring streamflow using a stereo computer vision system33
Improved understanding of regional groundwater drought development through time series modelling: the 2018–2019 drought in the Netherlands33
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves33
Skill of seasonal flow forecasts at catchment scale: an assessment across South Korea33
Advance prediction of coastal groundwater levels with temporal convolutional and long short-term memory networks33
Exploring the possible role of satellite-based rainfall data in estimating inter- and intra-annual global rainfall erosivity32
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States32
Historical simulation of maize water footprints with a new global gridded crop model ACEA32
The suitability of differentiable, physics-informed machine learning hydrologic models for ungauged regions and climate change impact assessment32
Contribution of cryosphere to runoff in the transition zone between the Tibetan Plateau and arid region based on environmental isotopes31
Deep learning for monthly rainfall–runoff modelling: a large-sample comparison with conceptual models across Australia31
Combining passive and active distributed temperature sensing measurements to locate and quantify groundwater discharge variability into a headwater stream31
Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models31
Long-term reconstruction of satellite-based precipitation, soil moisture, and snow water equivalent in China31
Insights into the isotopic mismatch between bulk soil water and Salix matsudana Koidz trunk water from root water stable isotope measurements30
A comprehensive study of deep learning for soil moisture prediction30
Seasonal dynamics and spatial patterns of soil moisture in a loess catchment30
Warming of the Willamette River, 1850–present: the effects of climate change and river system alterations30
Controls on leaf water hydrogen and oxygen isotopes: a local investigation across seasons and altitude30
Sensitivity of the pseudo-global warming method under flood conditions: a case study from the northeastern US30
Choosing between post-processing precipitation forecasts or chaining several uncertainty quantification tools in hydrological forecasting systems30
Performance of the Global Forecast System's medium-range precipitation forecasts in the Niger river basin using multiple satellite-based products30
Flood generation: process patterns from the raindrop to the ocean29
Analysis of high streamflow extremes in climate change studies: how do we calibrate hydrological models?29
Novel statistical analysis illustrates the importance of flow source for extreme variation in dissolved organic carbon in a eutrophic reservoir in the Great Plains29
Global evaluation of the “dry gets drier, and wet gets wetter” paradigm from a terrestrial water storage change perspective29
Machine-learning methods to assess the effects of a non-linear damage spectrum taking into account soil moisture on winter wheat yields in Germany28
On the importance of discharge observation uncertainty when interpreting hydrological model performance28
Improvement of the KarstMod modelling platform for a better assessment of karst groundwater resources28
Improving runoff simulation in the Western United States with Noah-MP and VIC models27
Widespread flooding dynamics under climate change: characterising floods using grid-based hydrological modelling and regional climate projections27
On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India27
Interactions between thresholds and spatial discretizations of snow: insights from estimates of wolverine denning habitat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains27
Soil moisture modeling with ERA5-Land retrievals, topographic indices, and in situ measurements and its use for predicting ruts27
Using machine learning to predict optimal electromagnetic induction instrument configurations for characterizing the shallow subsurface27
Technical Note: Combining undisturbed soil monoliths for hydrological indoor experiments27
Technical note: Isotopic fractionation of evaporating waters: effect of sub-daily atmospheric variations and eventual depletion of heavy isotopes27
Technical note: An assessment of the relative contribution of the Soret effect to open-water evaporation26
Aquifer recharge in the Piedmont Alpine zone: historical trends and future scenarios26
Estimation of groundwater recharge from groundwater levels using nonlinear transfer function noise models and comparison to lysimeter data26
HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories26
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
A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change25
On the visual detection of non-natural records in streamflow time series: challenges and impacts25
A novel method to identify sub-seasonal clustering episodes of extreme precipitation events and their contributions to large accumulation periods25
On the need for physical constraints in deep learning rainfall–runoff projections under climate change: a sensitivity analysis to warming and shifts in potential evapotranspiration25
Forecasting green roof detention performance by temporal downscaling of precipitation time-series projections24
A Bayesian approach to understanding the key factors influencing temporal variability in stream water quality – a case study in the Great Barrier Reef catchments24
Technical note: Modeling spatial fields of extreme precipitation – a hierarchical Bayesian approach24
Shannon entropy of transport self-organization due to dissolution–precipitation reaction at varying Peclet numbers in initially homogeneous porous media24
Technical note: Conservative storage of water vapour – practical in situ sampling of stable isotopes in tree stems23
Pitfalls and a feasible solution for using KGE as an informal likelihood function in MCMC methods: DREAM(ZS) as an example23
Technical note: PMR – a proxy metric to assess hydrological model robustness in a changing climate23
How economically and environmentally viable are multiple dams in the upper Cauvery Basin, India? A hydro-economic analysis using a landscape-based hydrological model23
HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a “Day Zero”23
Reconstructing five decades of sediment export from two glacierized high-alpine catchments in Tyrol, Austria, using nonparametric regression23
Inferring sediment-discharge event types in an Alpine catchment from sub-daily time series22
Exploring hydrologic post-processing of ensemble streamflow forecasts based on affine kernel dressing and non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II22
Microphysical features of typhoon and non-typhoon rainfall observed in Taiwan, an island in the northwestern Pacific22
Technical note: Two-component electrical-conductivity-based hydrograph separation employing an exponential mixing model (EXPECT) provides reliable high-temporal-resolution young water fraction estimat22
Downscaling the probability of heavy rainfall over the Nordic countries22
Discharge of groundwater flow to Potter Cove on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula22
Social dilemmas and poor water quality in household water systems22
The value of satellite soil moisture and snow cover data for the transfer of hydrological model parameters to ungauged sites22
Dynamical forcings in heavy precipitation events over Italy: lessons from the HyMeX SOP1 campaign22
Quantifying the effects of urban green space on water partitioning and ages using an isotope-based ecohydrological model22
Technical note: A fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements22
A signal-processing-based interpretation of the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency21
On the value of satellite remote sensing to reduce uncertainties of regional simulations of the Colorado River21
Drivers of global irrigation expansion: the role of discrete global grid choice21
Towards reducing the high cost of parameter sensitivity analysis in hydrologic modeling: a regional parameter sensitivity analysis approach21
Projected changes in droughts and extreme droughts in Great Britain strongly influenced by the choice of drought index21
Evaluation of reanalysis soil moisture products using cosmic ray neutron sensor observations across the globe21
Isotopic evaluation of the National Water Model reveals missing agricultural irrigation contributions to streamflow across the western United States21
Exploring the provenance of information across Canadian hydrometric stations: implications for discharge estimation and uncertainty quantification21
How to account for irrigation withdrawals in a watershed model21
A gridded multi-site precipitation generator for complex terrain: an evaluation in the Austrian Alps20
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)20
Joint optimal operation of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project considering the evenness of water deficit20
Flow intermittence prediction using a hybrid hydrological modelling approach: influence of observed intermittence data on the training of a random forest model20
Comparison between canonical vine copulas and a meta-Gaussian model for forecasting agricultural drought over China20
Optimizing a backscatter forward operator using Sentinel-1 data over irrigated land20
Estimating the probability of compound floods in estuarine regions20
High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy19
Effects of boundary conditions and aquifer parameters on salinity distribution and mixing-controlled reactions in high-energy beach aquifers19
Machine-learning-constrained projection of bivariate hydrological drought magnitudes and socioeconomic risks over China19
A Bayesian updating framework for calibrating the hydrological parameters of road networks using taxi GPS data19
Variations in surface roughness of heterogeneous surfaces in the Nagqu area of the Tibetan Plateau19
The influence of human activities on streamflow reductions during the megadrought in central Chile19
Land surface modeling over the Dry Chaco: the impact of model structures, and soil, vegetation and land cover parameters19
Elucidating the role of soil hydraulic properties on aspect-dependent landslide initiation19
Structural gaps of water resources knowledge in global river basins19
Routing stemflow water through the soil via preferential flow: a dual-labelling approach with artificial tracers19
Disentangling sources of future uncertainties for water management in sub-Saharan river basins19
Feature scale and identifiability: how much information do point hydraulic measurements provide about heterogeneous head and conductivity fields?19
All models are wrong, but are they useful? Assessing reliability across multiple sites to build trust in urban drainage modelling19
A Bayesian model for quantifying errors in citizen science data: application to rainfall observations from Nepal19
Assimilation of probabilistic flood maps from SAR data into a coupled hydrologic–hydraulic forecasting model: a proof of concept19
A graph neural network (GNN) approach to basin-scale river network learning: the role of physics-based connectivity and data fusion18
Technical note: Testing the connection between hillslope-scale runoff fluctuations and streamflow hydrographs at the outlet of large river basins18
Uncertainties and their interaction in flood hazard assessment with climate change18
Spatiotemporal responses of the crop water footprint and its associated benchmarks under different irrigation regimes to climate change scenarios in China18
Drought research priorities, trends, and geographic patterns18
Combining statistical and hydrodynamic models to assess compound flood hazards from rainfall and storm surge: a case study of Shanghai18
The effects of rain and evapotranspiration statistics on groundwater recharge estimations for semi-arid environments18
Uncertainty estimation of regionalised depth–duration–frequency curves in Germany18
Combined impacts of uncertainty in precipitation and air temperature on simulated mountain system recharge from an integrated hydrologic model18
Technical note: Evaluation and bias correction of an observation-based global runoff dataset using streamflow observations from small tropical catchments in the Philippines18
Divergent future drought projections in UK river flows and groundwater levels18
Regionalisation of rainfall depth–duration–frequency curves with different data types in Germany18
Improved representation of soil moisture processes through incorporation of cosmic-ray neutron count measurements in a large-scale hydrologic model18
Projected future changes in the cryosphere and hydrology of a mountainous catchment in the upper Heihe River, China18
Technical note: Efficient imaging of hydrological units below lakes and fjords with a floating, transient electromagnetic (FloaTEM) system18
Inter- and intra-event rainfall partitioning dynamics of two typical xerophytic shrubs in the Loess Plateau of China18
Machine-learning methods for stream water temperature prediction17
Satellite rainfall products outperform ground observations for landslide prediction in India17
Assimilating ESA CCI land surface temperature into the ORCHIDEE land surface model: insights from a multi-site study across Europe17
Relative humidity gradients as a key constraint on terrestrial water and energy fluxes17
Assessing hydrological sensitivity of grassland basins in the Canadian Prairies to climate using a basin classification-based virtual modelling approach17
A change in perspective: downhole cosmic-ray neutron sensing for the estimation of soil moisture17
Bridging the scale gap: obtaining high-resolution stochastic simulations of gridded daily precipitation in a future climate17
Contribution of rock glacier discharge to late summer and fall streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA17
Future projections of High Atlas snowpack and runoff under climate change17
Development of an integrated socio-hydrological modeling framework for assessing the impacts of shelter location arrangement and human behaviors on flood evacuation processes17
Soil moisture estimation in South Asia via assimilation of SMAP retrievals17
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
Soil moisture estimates at 1 km resolution making a synergistic use of Sentinel data17
Spatially distributed impacts of climate change and groundwater demand on the water resources in a wadi system17
High-resolution long-term average groundwater recharge in Africa estimated using random forest regression and residual interpolation17
Response of active catchment water storage capacity to a prolonged meteorological drought and asymptotic climate variation17
A D-vine copula-based quantile regression towards merging satellite precipitation products over rugged topography: a case study in the upper Tekeze–Atbara Basin17
How seasonal hydroclimate variability drives the triple oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of small lake systems in semiarid environments17
Remotely sensed reservoir water storage dynamics (1984–2015) and the influence of climate variability and management at a global scale17
Changes in the simulation of atmospheric instability over the Iberian Peninsula due to the use of 3DVAR data assimilation17
Evaporation from a large lowland reservoir – observed dynamics and drivers during a warm summer17
Characterizing basin-scale precipitation gradients in the Third Pole region using a high-resolution atmospheric simulation-based dataset17
Technical note: Investigating the potential for smartphone-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and land surface energy-balance partitioning17
To bucket or not to bucket? Analyzing the performance and interpretability of hybrid hydrological models with dynamic parameterization16
Climate-warming-driven changes in the cryosphere and their impact on groundwater–surface-water interactions in the Heihe River basin16
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments16
Comparison of statistical downscaling methods for climate change impact analysis on precipitation-driven drought16
Comparison of artificial neural networks and reservoir models for simulating karst spring discharge on five test sites in the Alpine and Mediterranean regions16
Effects of spatial and temporal variability in surface water inputs on streamflow generation and cessation in the rain–snow transition zone16
Robustness of a parsimonious subsurface drainage model at the French national scale16
Contrasting hydrological and thermal intensities determine seasonal lake-level variations – a case study at Paiku Co on the southern Tibetan Plateau16
Root zone in the Earth system16
Mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems using a high-resolution global groundwater model16
Hydrologically informed machine learning for rainfall–runoff modelling: towards distributed modelling16
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective16
Calibration of groundwater seepage against the spatial distribution of the stream network to assess catchment-scale hydraulic properties16
Quantifying overlapping and differing information of global precipitation for GCM forecasts and El Niño–Southern Oscillation16
Study on a mother wavelet optimization framework based on change-point detection of hydrological time series16
An increase in the spatial extent of European floods over the last 70 years16
Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management16
How well does a convection-permitting regional climate model represent the reverse orographic effect of extreme hourly precipitation?16
On the links between sub-seasonal clustering of extreme precipitation and high discharge in Switzerland and Europe16
Quantitative rainfall analysis of the 2021 mid-July flood event in Belgium15
Pluvial and potential compound flooding in a coupled coastal modeling framework: New York City during post-tropical Cyclone Ida (2021)15
From hydraulic root architecture models to efficient macroscopic sink terms including perirhizal resistance: quantifying accuracy and computational speed15
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events15
Monitoring the combined effects of drought and salinity stress on crops using remote sensing in the Netherlands15
Characterizing groundwater heat transport in a complex lowland aquifer using paleo-temperature reconstruction, satellite data, temperature–depth profiles, and numerical models15
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
Present and future thermal regimes of intertidal groundwater springs in a threatened coastal ecosystem15
Technical note: Analyzing river network dynamics and the active length–discharge relationship using water presence sensors15
A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments – case study for the Naryn River, central Asia15
Impact of urban geology on model simulations of shallow groundwater levels and flow paths15
The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways15
Spatially explicit assessment of water stress and potential mitigating solutions in a large water-limited basin: the Yellow River basin in China15
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates15
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
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
Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling15
Estimating spatiotemporally continuous snow water equivalent from intermittent satellite observations: an evaluation using synthetic data15
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-198015
Drivers of drought-induced shifts in the water balance through a Budyko approach15
The role of multi-criteria decision analysis in a transdisciplinary process: co-developing a flood forecasting system in western Africa15
A climatological benchmark for operational radar rainfall bias reduction14
Probabilistic downscaling of EURO-CORDEX precipitation data for the assessment of future areal precipitation extremes for hourly to daily durations14
Parsimonious statistical learning models for low-flow estimation14
Influence of initial soil moisture in a regional climate model study over West Africa – Part 2: Impact on the climate extremes14
Evaporation enhancement drives the European water-budget deficit during multi-year droughts14
A statistical–dynamical approach for probabilistic prediction of sub-seasonal precipitation anomalies over 17 hydroclimatic regions in China14
Spatiotemporal and cross-scale interactions in hydroclimate variability: a case-study in France14
Scaling methods of leakage correction in GRACE mass change estimates revisited for the complex hydro-climatic setting of the Indus Basin14
Deducing land–atmosphere coupling regimes from SMAP soil moisture14
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