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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evaluation of the ERA5 reanalysis as a potential reference dataset for hydrological modelling over North America282
Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors146
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade114
Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management109
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 exoge108
Rainfall–runoff prediction at multiple timescales with a single Long Short-Term Memory network105
Urban surface water flood modelling – a comprehensive review of current models and future challenges88
Revisiting the global hydrological cycle: is it intensifying?85
A standardized index for assessing sub-monthly compound dry and hot conditions with application in China82
Concentration–discharge relationships vary among hydrological events, reflecting differences in event characteristics82
Can we trust remote sensing evapotranspiration products over Africa?75
Deep learning methods for flood mapping: a review of existing applications and future research directions69
Progressive water deficits during multiyear droughts in basins with long hydrological memory in Chile68
Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models67
The 2018 northern European hydrological drought and its drivers in a historical perspective63
Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study62
Deep learning rainfall–runoff predictions of extreme events57
Machine-learning methods for stream water temperature prediction55
Rapid reduction in ecosystem productivity caused by flash droughts based on decade-long FLUXNET observations55
Hydrologically informed machine learning for rainfall–runoff modelling: towards distributed modelling54
Flood trends in Europe: are changes in small and big floods different?53
A history of TOPMODEL53
Technical Note: Improved partial wavelet coherency for understanding scale-specific and localized bivariate relationships in geosciences52
Flood forecasting with machine learning models in an operational framework51
Comparative analysis of kernel-based versus ANN and deep learning methods in monthly reference evapotranspiration estimation49
Suitability of 17 gridded rainfall and temperature datasets for large-scale hydrological modelling in West Africa48
Quantifying the impacts of compound extremes on agriculture47
Lake thermal structure drives interannual variability in summer anoxia dynamics in a eutrophic lake over 37 years46
Comparing Palmer Drought Severity Index drought assessments using the traditional offline approach with direct climate model outputs46
Future streamflow regime changes in the United States: assessment using functional classification45
A review of the complementary principle of evaporation: from the original linear relationship to generalized nonlinear functions45
Time-lapse cross-hole electrical resistivity tomography (CHERT) for monitoring seawater intrusion dynamics in a Mediterranean aquifer45
Rainfall estimation from a German-wide commercial microwave link network: optimized processing and validation for 1 year of data45
Flash drought onset over the contiguous United States: sensitivity of inventories and trends to quantitative definitions44
Global cotton production under climate change – Implications for yield and water consumption44
Sentinel-3 radar altimetry for river monitoring – a catchment-scale evaluation of satellite water surface elevation from Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B44
In situ measurements of soil and plant water isotopes: a review of approaches, practical considerations and a vision for the future44
A history of the concept of time of concentration42
Why does a conceptual hydrological model fail to correctly predict discharge changes in response to climate change?42
Two-stage variational mode decomposition and support vector regression for streamflow forecasting42
Do small and large floods have the same drivers of change? A regional attribution analysis in Europe41
The accuracy of weather radar in heavy rain: a comparative study for Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden41
Quantifying the effects of land use and model scale on water partitioning and water ages using tracer-aided ecohydrological models41
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
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 hydrologi40
High-resolution fully coupled atmospheric–hydrological modeling: a cross-compartment regional water and energy cycle evaluation40
Comparison of statistical downscaling methods for climate change impact analysis on precipitation-driven drought39
Climate elasticity of evapotranspiration shifts the water balance of Mediterranean climates during multi-year droughts39
Compound flood potential from storm surge and heavy precipitation in coastal China: dependence, drivers, and impacts39
Towards hybrid modeling of the global hydrological cycle39
Uncertainty estimation with deep learning for rainfall–runoff modeling39
Ensemble streamflow forecasting over a cascade reservoir catchment with integrated hydrometeorological modeling and machine learning37
Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude – evidence from a model–observation investigation37
Changing global cropping patterns to minimize national blue water scarcity37
Using water stable isotopes to understand evaporation, moisture stress, and re-wetting in catchment forest and grassland soils of the summer drought of 201837
Evaluation of random forests for short-term daily streamflow forecasting in rainfall- and snowmelt-driven watersheds36
Long-term changes in central European river discharge for 1869–2016: impact of changing snow covers, reservoir constructions and an intensified hydrological cycle36
Hydrological concept formation inside long short-term memory (LSTM) networks35
Easy-to-use spatial random-forest-based downscaling-calibration method for producing precipitation data with high resolution and high accuracy34
Hydrological evaluation of open-access precipitation data using SWAT at multiple temporal and spatial scales34
Tracking the global flows of atmospheric moisture and associated uncertainties34
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States34
A note on leveraging synergy in multiple meteorological data sets with deep learning for rainfall–runoff modeling34
Coffee and shade trees show complementary use of soil water in a traditional agroforestry ecosystem34
Systematic comparison of five machine-learning models in classification and interpolation of soil particle size fractions using different transformed data33
Optimal design of hydrometric station networks based on complex network analysis33
Uncertainty of gridded precipitation and temperature reference datasets in climate change impact studies31
Which rainfall score is more informative about the performance in river discharge simulation? A comprehensive assessment on 1318 basins over Europe31
Canopy temperature and heat stress are increased by compound high air temperature and water stress and reduced by irrigation – a modeling analysis31
Multistep-ahead daily inflow forecasting using the ERA-Interim reanalysis data set based on gradient-boosting regression trees30
A retrospective on hydrological catchment modelling based on half a century with the HBV model30
Evapotranspiration in the Amazon: spatial patterns, seasonality, and recent trends in observations, reanalysis, and climate models30
Understanding the mass, momentum, and energy transfer in the frozen soil with three levels of model complexities29
Revisiting extreme precipitation amounts over southern South America and implications for the Patagonian Icefields29
Importance of snowmelt contribution to seasonal runoff and summer low flows in Czechia29
Continuous streamflow prediction in ungauged basins: long short-term memory neural networks clearly outperform traditional hydrological models29
The Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project Phase 4: the Great Lakes (GRIP-GL)29
Assimilation of vegetation optical depth retrievals from passive microwave radiometry29
Uncertainties and their interaction in flood hazard assessment with climate change28
Simulations of future changes in thermal structure of Lake Erken: proof of concept for ISIMIP2b lake sector local simulation strategy28
Quantifying the effects of urban green space on water partitioning and ages using an isotope-based ecohydrological model28
Anatomy of the 2018 agricultural drought in the Netherlands using in situ soil moisture and satellite vegetation indices28
Development of a revised method for indicators of hydrologic alteration for analyzing the cumulative impacts of cascading reservoirs on flow regime28
Last-decade progress in understanding and modeling the land surface processes on the Tibetan Plateau27
A systematic assessment of uncertainties in large-scale soil loss estimation from different representations of USLE input factors – a case study for Kenya and Uganda27
Sensitivity of snow models to the accuracy of meteorological forcings in mountain environments27
Variability in epilimnion depth estimations in lakes27
How well are we able to close the water budget at the global scale?27
Impact of the quality of hydrological forecasts on the management and revenue of hydroelectric reservoirs – a conceptual approach27
Drought onset and propagation into soil moisture and grassland vegetation responses during the 2012–2019 major drought in Southern California26
Analysis of high streamflow extremes in climate change studies: how do we calibrate hydrological models?26
Sequential data assimilation for real-time probabilistic flood inundation mapping26
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 basins26
Identifying the optimal spatial distribution of tracers for optical sensing of stream surface flow26
Global distribution of hydrologic controls on forest growth26
Socio-hydrologic modeling of the dynamics of cooperation in the transboundary Lancang–Mekong River26
Technical note: Precipitation-phase partitioning at landscape scales to regional scales26
Trends and variability in snowmelt in China under climate change26
Deep learning for automated river-level monitoring through river-camera images: an approach based on water segmentation and transfer learning25
Development and validation of a new MODIS snow-cover-extent product over China25
Estimation of hydrological drought recovery based on precipitation and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) water storage deficit25
A two-stage blending approach for merging multiple satellite precipitation estimates and rain gauge observations: an experiment in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau25
Global ecosystem-scale plant hydraulic traits retrieved using model–data fusion25
River runoff in Switzerland in a changing climate – runoff regime changes and their time of emergence25
A 10 km North American precipitation and land-surface reanalysis based on the GEM atmospheric model25
Global component analysis of errors in three satellite-only global precipitation estimates25
Evaluation of the WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment (SPICE) transfer functions for adjusting the wind bias in solid precipitation measurements24
Worldwide lake level trends and responses to background climate variation24
Comparison of generalized non-data-driven lake and reservoir routing models for global-scale hydrologic forecasting of reservoir outflow at diurnal time steps24
Evaluation of historic and operational satellite radar altimetry missions for constructing consistent long-term lake water level records24
Statistical modelling and climate variability of compound surge and precipitation events in a managed water system: a case study in the Netherlands24
Assessment of extreme flows and uncertainty under climate change: disentangling the uncertainty contribution of representative concentration pathways, global climate models and internal climate var24
From skill to value: isolating the influence of end user behavior on seasonal forecast assessment24
Assessing the dependence structure between oceanographic, fluvial, and pluvial flooding drivers along the United States coastline24
Benchmarking an operational hydrological model for providing seasonal forecasts in Sweden24
Diagnosis of future changes in hydrology for a Canadian Rockies headwater basin24
Triple oxygen isotope systematics of evaporation and mixing processes in a dynamic desert lake system24
Asymmetric impact of groundwater use on groundwater droughts24
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data24
Basin-scale multi-objective simulation-optimization modeling for conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater in northwest China23
Contrasting seasonal changes in total and intense precipitation in the European Alps from 1903 to 201023
Preprocessing approaches in machine-learning-based groundwater potential mapping: an application to the Koulikoro and Bamako regions, Mali23
The value of ASCAT soil moisture and MODIS snow cover data for calibrating a conceptual hydrologic model23
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, USA23
Using multiple methods to investigate the effects of land-use changes on groundwater recharge in a semi-arid area23
Behind the scenes of streamflow model performance23
Improving soil moisture prediction of a high-resolution land surface model by parameterising pedotransfer functions through assimilation of SMAP satellite data23
A comparison of catchment travel times and storage deduced from deuterium and tritium tracers using StorAge Selection functions23
Streamflow drought: implication of drought definitions and its application for drought forecasting23
A universal Standardized Precipitation Index candidate distribution function for observations and simulations23
Field-scale soil moisture bridges the spatial-scale gap between drought monitoring and agricultural yields23
Are dissolved organic carbon concentrations in riparian groundwater linked to hydrological pathways in the boreal forest?22
The use of personal weather station observations to improve precipitation estimation and interpolation22
Insights into the isotopic mismatch between bulk soil water and <i>Salix matsudana</i> Koidz trunk water from root water stable isotope measurements22
Simultaneously determining global sensitivities of model parameters and model structure22
An evapotranspiration model self-calibrated from remotely sensed surface soil moisture, land surface temperature and vegetation cover fraction: application to disaggregated SMOS and MODIS data22
Dynamic mechanism of an extremely severe saltwater intrusion in the Changjiang estuary in February 201422
Estimating the probability of compound floods in estuarine regions22
Exploring the possible role of satellite-based rainfall data in estimating inter- and intra-annual global rainfall erosivity22
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation22
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments22
Long-term relative decline in evapotranspiration with increasing runoff on fractional land surfaces22
Land use and climate change effects on water yield from East African forested water towers22
Assessing the degree of detail of temperature-based snow routines for runoff modelling in mountainous areas in central Europe21
Assessing the factors governing the ability to predict late-spring flooding in cold-region mountain basins21
Assessing global water mass transfers from continents to oceans over the period 1948–201621
Improved representation of agricultural land use and crop management for large-scale hydrological impact simulation in Africa using SWAT+21
A hydrologist's guide to open science21
Ecohydrological travel times derived from in situ stable water isotope measurements in trees during a semi-controlled pot experiment21
Partitioning growing season water balance within a forested boreal catchment using sap flux, eddy covariance, and a process-based model21
Hydrologic regimes drive nitrate export behavior in human-impacted watersheds21
Accelerated hydrological cycle over the Sanjiangyuan region induces more streamflow extremes at different global warming levels21
A two-step merging strategy for incorporating multi-source precipitation products and gauge observations using machine learning classification and regression over China21
Assimilation of probabilistic flood maps from SAR data into a coupled hydrologic–hydraulic forecasting model: a proof of concept21
A Fast-Response Automated Gas Equilibrator (FaRAGE) for continuous in situ measurement of CH<sub>4</sub> and CO<sub>2</sub> dissolved in water21
Comprehensive evaluation of satellite-based and reanalysis soil moisture products using in situ observations over China21
Evaporation, infiltration and storage of soil water in different vegetation zones in the Qilian Mountains: a stable isotope perspective20
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 region20
Importance of the informative content in the study area when regionalising rainfall-runoff model parameters: the role of nested catchments and gauging station density20
On the assimilation of environmental tracer observations for model-based decision support20
Rainfall interception and redistribution by a common North American understory and pasture forb, <i>Eupatorium capillifolium</i> (Lam. dogfennel)20
Hydrological response to warm and dry weather: do glaciers compensate?20
GRAINet: mapping grain size distributions in river beds from UAV images with convolutional neural networks20
A combination of soil water extraction methods quantifies the isotopic mixing of waters held at separate tensions in soil20
Sensitivity of meteorological-forcing resolution on hydrologic variables20
Performance of automated methods for flash flood inundation mapping: a comparison of a digital terrain model (DTM) filling and two hydrodynamic methods20
Untangling irrigation effects on maize water and heat stress alleviation using satellite data20
Data-driven estimates of evapotranspiration and its controls in the Congo Basin20
A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models20
Interaction of soil water and groundwater during the freezing–thawing cycle: field observations and numerical modeling20
Diverging hydrological drought traits over Europe with global warming20
The 63-year changes in annual streamflow volumes across Europe with a focus on the Mediterranean basin20
Irrigation, damming, and streamflow fluctuations of the Yellow River19
Modeling and interpreting hydrological responses of sustainable urban drainage systems with explainable machine learning methods19
CABra: a novel large-sample dataset for Brazilian catchments19
Characteristics of droughts in Argentina's core crop region19
Reduction of vegetation-accessible water storage capacity after deforestation affects catchment travel time distributions and increases young water fractions in a headwater catchment19
Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above- and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions19
Satellite rainfall products outperform ground observations for landslide prediction in India19
Catchment-scale drought: capturing the whole drought cycle using multiple indicators19
Projected changes in Rhine River flood seasonality under global warming19
Improved understanding of regional groundwater drought development through time series modelling: the 2018–2019 drought in the Netherlands19
Hybrid forecasting: blending climate predictions with AI models19
Soil moisture: variable in space but redundant in time19
Low hydrological connectivity after summer drought inhibits DOC export in a forested headwater catchment19
Multi-objective calibration by combination of stochastic and gradient-like parameter generation rules – the caRamel algorithm19
Microphysical features of typhoon and non-typhoon rainfall observed in Taiwan, an island in the northwestern Pacific19
Calibration of a lumped karst system model and application to the Qachqouch karst spring (Lebanon) under climate change conditions19
Impact of detention dams on the probability distribution of floods18
Evaporation enhancement drives the European water-budget deficit during multi-year droughts18
Stochastic simulation of streamflow and spatial extremes: a continuous, wavelet-based approach18
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data18
Data assimilation for continuous global assessment of severe conditions over terrestrial surfaces18
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 change18
Hydrological and runoff formation processes based on isotope tracing during ablation period in the source regions of Yangtze River18
Water resources management and dynamic changes in water politics in the transboundary river basins of Central Asia18
The value of citizen science for flood risk reduction: cost–benefit analysis of a citizen observatory in the Brenta-Bacchiglione catchment18
Mapping groundwater abstractions from irrigated agriculture: big data, inverse modeling, and a satellite–model fusion approach18
Summary and synthesis of Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) research in the interior of western Canada – Part 2: Future change in cryosphere, vegetation, and hydrology18
An uncertainty partition approach for inferring interactive hydrologic risks18
Using soil water isotopes to infer the influence of contrasting urban green space on ecohydrological partitioning18
Advances in soil moisture retrieval from multispectral remote sensing using unoccupied aircraft systems and machine learning techniques18
Estimating propagation probability from meteorological to ecological droughts using a hybrid machine learning copula method18
Learning from satellite observations: increased understanding of catchment processes through stepwise model improvement18
Modelling rainfall with a Bartlett–Lewis process: new developments18
Hydrology and water resources management in ancient India18
Identifying uncertainties in hydrologic fluxes and seasonality from hydrologic model components for climate change impact assessments18
Learning about precipitation lapse rates from snow course data improves water balance modeling18
On the selection of precipitation products for the regionalisation of hydrological model parameters18
High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy18
Vegetation greening weakened the capacity of water supply to China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project17
Widespread decline in terrestrial water storage and its link to teleconnections across Asia and eastern Europe17
The value of water isotope data on improving process understanding in a glacierized catchment on the Tibetan Plateau17
Estimation of subsurface soil moisture from surface soil moisture in cold mountainous areas17
New flood frequency estimates for the largest river in Norway based on the combination of short and long time series17
Bias in dynamically downscaled rainfall characteristics for hydroclimatic projections17
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
A comparative study of plant water extraction methods for isotopic analyses: Scholander-type pressure chamber vs. cryogenic vacuum distillation17
Accretion, retreat and transgression of coastal wetlands experiencing sea-level rise17
Extreme floods in Europe: going beyond observations using reforecast ensemble pooling17
Comparing Bayesian and traditional end-member mixing approaches for hydrograph separation in a glacierized basin17
Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models17
The role of flood wave superposition in the severity of large floods17
Technical note: Hydrology modelling R packages – a unified analysis of models and practicalities from a user perspective17
The role and value of distributed precipitation data in hydrological models16
Snow water equivalents exclusively from snow depths and their temporal changes: the Δsnow model16
How catchment characteristics influence hydrological pathways and travel times in a boreal landscape16
Should altitudinal gradients of temperature and precipitation inputs be inferred from key parameters in snow-hydrological models?16
Using altimetry observations combined with GRACE to select parameter sets of a hydrological model in a data-scarce region16
Future changes in annual, seasonal and monthly runoff signatures in contrasting Alpine catchments in Austria16
Future upstream water consumption and its impact on downstream water availability in the transboundary Indus Basin16
Surface water and groundwater: unifying conceptualization and quantification of the two “water worlds”16
Improving hydrologic models for predictions and process understanding using neural ODEs16
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
Evaluating different machine learning methods to simulate runoff from extensive green roofs16
A time-varying parameter estimation approach using split-sample calibration based on dynamic programming16
Flexible vector-based spatial configurations in land models16
Hydrodynamic and environmental characteristics of a tributary bay influenced by backwater jacking and intrusions from a main reservoir16
Assessment and projection of the water budget over western Canada using convection-permitting weather research and forecasting simulations16
Snowpack dynamics in the Lebanese mountains from quasi-dynamically downscaled ERA5 reanalysis updated by assimilating remotely sensed fractional snow-covered area16
Flood spatial coherence, triggers, and performance in hydrological simulations: large-sample evaluation of four streamflow-calibrated models16
Rivers in the sky, flooding on the ground: the role of atmospheric rivers in inland flooding in central Europe16
Regional, multi-decadal analysis on the Loire River basin reveals that stream temperature increases faster than air temperature16
Modeling inorganic carbon dynamics in the Seine River continuum in France16
Combining resistivity and frequency domain electromagnetic methods to investigate submarine groundwater discharge in the littoral zone16
Investigating unproductive water losses from irrigated agricultural crops in the humid tropics through analyses of stable isotopes of water15
Long-term climate-influenced land cover change in discontinuous permafrost peatland complexes15
Space–time variability in soil moisture droughts in the Himalayan region15
A methodology to estimate flow duration curves at partially ungauged basins15
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