Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 12. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Implementation of global soil databases in the Noah-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes323
Evaluating the feasibility of scaling the FIER framework for large-scale flood inundation prediction243
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components197
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps196
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations191
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France144
Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities130
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations106
A novel method for correcting water budget components and reducing their uncertainties by optimally distributing the imbalance residual without full closure103
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation99
When physics gets in the way: an entropy-based evaluation of conceptual constraints in hybrid hydrological models93
What can hydrological modelling gain from spatially explicit parameterization and multi-gauge calibration?90
Revealing the influence of topography and vegetation on hydrological processes using a stepwise modelling approach in cold alpine basins of the Mongolian Plateau87
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert86
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?85
Impact of rainfall variability on sedimentary and hydropower dynamics in a dam reservoir of southern France85
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data80
Regionalization of IDF curves for mainland China: a comparative evaluation of machine learning versus spatial interpolation techniques79
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations77
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed75
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?68
Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment67
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams64
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed63
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient62
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?62
Two-dimensional differential form of distributed Xinanjiang model61
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities58
Drought dynamics across the hydrological cycle – an extensive validation of the National Hydrological Model of Denmark57
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?56
Historical trends of seasonal droughts in Australia53
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa51
Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts50
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods49
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models48
Hydrological regime index for non-perennial rivers47
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective47
Adaptively monitoring streamflow using a stereo computer vision system46
Alleviating interpretational ambiguity in hydrogeology through clustering-based analysis of transient electromagnetic and surface nuclear magnetic resonance data46
Enhancing generalizability of data-driven urban flood models by incorporating contextual information45
Sensitivities of mean and extreme streamflow to climate variability across Europe45
Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling45
The potential of green infrastructure in urban pluvial flood mitigation – a scenario-based modelling study in Berlin43
Increasing daily precipitation extremes despite declining annual totals in southern Europe: a modeling study on the effects of Mediterranean Sea warming43
Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates43
Reinforce lake water balance component estimations by integrating water isotope compositions with a hydrological model43
Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich, temperate environment43
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model42
Advance prediction of coastal groundwater levels with temporal convolutional and long short-term memory networks42
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves42
Skill of seasonal flow forecasts at catchment scale: an assessment across South Korea41
Simulating sub-hourly rainfall data for current and future periods using two statistical disaggregation models: case studies from Germany and South Korea41
Flood frequency analysis using mean daily flows vs. instantaneous peak flows41
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment40
Mechanisms and scenarios of the unprecedent flooding event in South Brazil 202439
Bayesian parameter inference in hydrological modelling using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approach with a stochastic rain model39
Can the combining of wetlands with reservoir operation reduce the risk of future floods and droughts?38
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure37
Effect of the spatial resolution of digital terrain data obtained by drone on urban fluvial flood modeling of mountainous regions37
Towards understanding the influence of seasons on low-groundwater periods based on explainable machine learning36
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy35
High-resolution soil moisture mapping in northern boreal forests using SMAP data and downscaling techniques35
Links between seasonal suprapermafrost groundwater, the hydrothermal change of the active layer, and river runoff in alpine permafrost watersheds35
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States35
Data worth analysis within a model-free data assimilation framework for soil moisture flow35
Short high-accuracy tritium data time series for assessing groundwater mean transit times in the vadose and saturated zones of the Luxembourg Sandstone aquifer35
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs34
Deep learning for monthly rainfall–runoff modelling: a large-sample comparison with conceptual models across Australia34
Hydrological regime of Sahelian small waterbodies from combined Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter data34
Better continental-scale streamflow predictions for Australia: LSTM as a land surface model post-processor and standalone hydrological model34
The suitability of differentiable, physics-informed machine learning hydrologic models for ungauged regions and climate change impact assessment34
Snowmelt-mediated isotopic homogenization of shallow till soil34
Cooperation under conflict: participatory hydrological modeling for science policy dialogues for the Aculeo Lake33
Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling33
Rapid flood mapping from aerial imagery using fine-tuned SAM and ResNet-backboned U-Net32
Hydrological regime shifts in Sahelian watersheds: an investigation with a simple dynamical model driven by annual precipitation32
HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories32
Warming of the Willamette River, 1850–present: the effects of climate change and river system alterations31
Interactions between thresholds and spatial discretizations of snow: insights from estimates of wolverine denning habitat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains31
Continuum modeling of bioclogging of soil aquifer treatment systems segregating active and inactive biomass31
Technical Note: Combining undisturbed soil monoliths for hydrological indoor experiments31
Technical note: An assessment of the relative contribution of the Soret effect to open-water evaporation31
Analysis of high streamflow extremes in climate change studies: how do we calibrate hydrological models?31
Evaluation of the Dual Gamma Generalized Extreme Value distribution for flood events in Poland30
Enhancing evapotranspiration estimates under climate change: the role of CO 2 physiological feedback and CMIP6 scenarios30
Widespread flooding dynamics under climate change: characterising floods using grid-based hydrological modelling and regional climate projections30
On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India29
A simplified model to investigate the hydrological regimes of temporary wetlands: the case study of Doñana marshland (Spain)29
On the visual detection of non-natural records in streamflow time series: challenges and impacts29
A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change29
Can streamflow observations constrain snow mass reconstructions? Lessons from two synthetic numerical experiments29
Seasonal dynamics and spatial patterns of soil moisture in a loess catchment29
Improvement of the KarstMod modelling platform for a better assessment of karst groundwater resources29
Sensitivity of the pseudo-global warming method under flood conditions: a case study from the northeastern US28
On the importance of discharge observation uncertainty when interpreting hydrological model performance28
Controls on leaf water hydrogen and oxygen isotopes: a local investigation across seasons and altitude28
Novel statistical analysis illustrates the importance of flow source for extreme variation in dissolved organic carbon in a eutrophic reservoir in the Great Plains27
Quantification of delayed recharge by soil surface and riverbed infiltration in a deep groundwater depression zone in the North China Plain27
Improving runoff simulation in the Western United States with Noah-MP and VIC models27
Explicit simulation of microbial transport with a dual-permeability, two-site kinetic deposition formulation using the integrated surface–subsurface hydrological model HydroGeoSphere27
On the need for physical constraints in deep learning rainfall–runoff projections under climate change: a sensitivity analysis to warming and shifts in potential evapotranspiration27
Long-term reconstruction of satellite-based precipitation, soil moisture, and snow water equivalent in China27
Contribution of cryosphere to runoff in the transition zone between the Tibetan Plateau and arid region based on environmental isotopes27
A comprehensive study of deep learning for soil moisture prediction27
Technical note: Isotopic fractionation of evaporating waters: effect of sub-daily atmospheric variations and eventual depletion of heavy isotopes26
Soil moisture modeling with ERA5-Land retrievals, topographic indices, and in situ measurements and its use for predicting ruts26
Global evaluation of the “dry gets drier, and wet gets wetter” paradigm from a terrestrial water storage change perspective26
Topothermohaline convection – from synthetic simulations to reveal processes in a thick geothermal system26
How economically and environmentally viable are multiple dams in the upper Cauvery Basin, India? A hydro-economic analysis using a landscape-based hydrological model26
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)26
Technical note: Modeling spatial fields of extreme precipitation – a hierarchical Bayesian approach25
Technical note: Conservative storage of water vapour – practical in situ sampling of stable isotopes in tree stems25
On the value of satellite remote sensing to reduce uncertainties of regional simulations of the Colorado River25
Technical note: A fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements25
Technical note: Two-component electrical-conductivity-based hydrograph separation employing an exponential mixing model (EXPECT) provides reliable high-temporal-resolution young water fraction estimat25
A gridded multi-site precipitation generator for complex terrain: an evaluation in the Austrian Alps25
Technical note: Operational calibration and performance improvement for a 1D hydrodynamic model in a data-scarce coastal area25
Development of a land–river–ocean coupled model for compound floods jointly caused by heavy rainfall and storm surges in large river delta regions24
Exploring the provenance of information across Canadian hydrometric stations: implications for discharge estimation and uncertainty quantification24
Towards a global spatial machine learning model for seasonal groundwater level predictions in Germany24
Shannon entropy of transport self-organization due to dissolution–precipitation reaction at varying Peclet numbers in initially homogeneous porous media24
Joint optimal operation of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project considering the evenness of water deficit24
Flow intermittence prediction using a hybrid hydrological modelling approach: influence of observed intermittence data on the training of a random forest model24
Reconstructing five decades of sediment export from two glacierized high-alpine catchments in Tyrol, Austria, using nonparametric regression24
The influence of human activities on streamflow reductions during the megadrought in central Chile24
User priorities for hydrological monitoring infrastructures supporting research and innovation24
A signal-processing-based interpretation of the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency24
Assessment of uncertainties in stage–discharge rating curves: a large-scale application to Quebec hydrometric network23
The role of catchment characteristics, discharge, and active- layer thaw in seasonal stream chemistry across 10 permafrost catchments23
Technical note: A low-cost approach to monitoring relative streamflow dynamics in small headwater streams using time lapse imagery and a deep learning model23
Drivers of global irrigation expansion: the role of discrete global grid choice23
Inferring sediment-discharge event types in an Alpine catchment from sub-daily time series23
HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a “Day Zero”23
How to account for irrigation withdrawals in a watershed model23
Isotopic evaluation of the National Water Model reveals missing agricultural irrigation contributions to streamflow across the western United States23
The general formulation for mean annual runoff components estimation and their change attribution22
Evaluation of reanalysis soil moisture products using cosmic ray neutron sensor observations across the globe22
Tracing near-surface runoff in a pre-Alpine headwater catchment22
Comparison between canonical vine copulas and a meta-Gaussian model for forecasting agricultural drought over China22
Downscaling the probability of heavy rainfall over the Nordic countries22
High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy22
Projected changes in droughts and extreme droughts in Great Britain strongly influenced by the choice of drought index22
Introducing the Model Fidelity Metric (MFM) for robust and diagnostic land surface model evaluation22
Pitfalls and a feasible solution for using KGE as an informal likelihood function in MCMC methods: DREAM (ZS) as an example22
Interrogating process deficiencies in large-scale hydrologic models with interpretable machine learning22
Reframing gullies as recharge zones in dryland landscapes of the Loess Plateau, China22
Bias-corrected UKCP18 Convection-permitting model projections for England22
Towards reducing the high cost of parameter sensitivity analysis in hydrologic modeling: a regional parameter sensitivity analysis approach22
Exploring future water resources and uses considering water demand scenarios and climate change for the French Sèvre Nantaise basin22
A 60-year drought analysis of meteorological data in the western Po River basin22
CONCN: a high-resolution, integrated surface water–groundwater ParFlow modeling platform of continental China22
How well do hydrological models simulate streamflow extremes and drought-to-flood transitions?21
Technical note: Testing the connection between hillslope-scale runoff fluctuations and streamflow hydrographs at the outlet of large river basins21
Uncertainty estimation of regionalised depth–duration–frequency curves in Germany21
Inter- and intra-event rainfall partitioning dynamics of two typical xerophytic shrubs in the Loess Plateau of China21
All models are wrong, but are they useful? Assessing reliability across multiple sites to build trust in urban drainage modelling21
Feature scale and identifiability: how much information do point hydraulic measurements provide about heterogeneous head and conductivity fields?21
A Bayesian model for quantifying errors in citizen science data: application to rainfall observations from Nepal21
Evaporation measurements using commercial microwave links as scintillometers21
Regionalisation of rainfall depth–duration–frequency curves with different data types in Germany21
The effects of rain and evapotranspiration statistics on groundwater recharge estimations for semi-arid environments21
Improved representation of soil moisture processes through incorporation of cosmic-ray neutron count measurements in a large-scale hydrologic model21
Combining statistical and hydrodynamic models to assess compound flood hazards from rainfall and storm surge: a case study of Shanghai21
An original approach combining biogeochemical signatures and a mixing model to discriminate spatial runoff-generating sources in a peri-urban catchment20
A graph neural network (GNN) approach to basin-scale river network learning: the role of physics-based connectivity and data fusion20
Elucidating the role of soil hydraulic properties on aspect-dependent landslide initiation20
Scale-dependent biases in Alpine sub-daily areal precipitation extremes: added value of convection permitting models20
Climate change and irrigation expansion reshape the water pressure and upstream–downstream interactions in the Lancang–Mekong River Basin20
A novel framework for accurately quantifying wetland depression water storage capacity with coarse-resolution terrain data20
Machine-learning-constrained projection of bivariate hydrological drought magnitudes and socioeconomic risks over China20
Projected future changes in the cryosphere and hydrology of a mountainous catchment in the upper Heihe River, China20
Spatiotemporal responses of the crop water footprint and its associated benchmarks under different irrigation regimes to climate change scenarios in China20
Routing stemflow water through the soil via preferential flow: a dual-labelling approach with artificial tracers20
Multivariate calibration can increase simulated discharge uncertainty and model equifinality20
A Bayesian updating framework for calibrating the hydrological parameters of road networks using taxi GPS data20
Evapotranspiration stress intensifies with enhanced sensitivity to soil moisture deficits in a rapidly greening China19
High-resolution long-term average groundwater recharge in Africa estimated using random forest regression and residual interpolation19
Quantifying overlapping and differing information of global precipitation for GCM forecasts and El Niño–Southern Oscillation19
Characterizing the spatial distribution of field-scale snowpack using unpiloted aerial system (UAS) lidar and structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry19
Rain-on-wet-soil compound floods in lowlands: the combined effect of large rain events and shallow groundwater on discharge peaks in a changing climate19
A change in perspective: downhole cosmic-ray neutron sensing for the estimation of soil moisture19
Effects of boundary conditions and aquifer parameters on salinity distribution and mixing-controlled reactions in high-energy beach aquifers19
The influence of a rock glacier on the riverbed hydrological system19
Drought research priorities, trends, and geographic patterns19
Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-Sample SPATially distributed analysis (CAMELS-SPAT): streamflow observations, forcing data and geospatial data for hydrologic studies across North Americ19
Delayed stormflow generation in a semi-humid forested watershed controlled by soil water storage and groundwater dynamics19
Divergent future drought projections in UK river flows and groundwater levels19
Technical note: Investigating the potential for smartphone-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and land surface energy-balance partitioning19
The impact of convection-permitting model rainfall on the dryland water balance19
Shifting water scarcities: irrigation alleviates agricultural green water deficits while increasing blue water scarcity18
Enhanced Markov-type Categorical Prediction with geophysical soft constraints for hydrostratigraphic modeling18
Exploring controls on solute export mechanisms in anthropogenically impacted catchments in Southern Germany in climatically different periods18
Comparison of artificial neural networks and reservoir models for simulating karst spring discharge on five test sites in the Alpine and Mediterranean regions18
Response of active catchment water storage capacity to a prolonged meteorological drought and asymptotic climate variation18
Eddy-driven effects on solute transport in porous media18
Climate-warming-driven changes in the cryosphere and their impact on groundwater–surface-water interactions in the Heihe River basin18
Cause-effect discovery in hydrometeorological systems: evaluation of causal discovery methods18
A D-vine copula-based quantile regression towards merging satellite precipitation products over rugged topography: a case study in the upper Tekeze–Atbara Basin18
Leveraging 20 years of remote sensing to characterize surface phytoplankton seasonality and long-term trends in lake Tanganyika18
A hybrid Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks-based model with attention for predicting Arctic river streamflow18
Derivation and validation of estimation model of rainfall kinetic energy under the canopy18
Do convection-permitting regional climate models have added value for hydroclimatic simulations? A test case over small and medium-sized catchments in Germany17
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments17
Interpretable soil moisture prediction with a knowledge-guided deep learning approach17
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 estimates at 1 km resolution making a synergistic use of Sentinel data17
Contribution of rock glacier discharge to late summer and fall streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA17
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
Comparison of BARRA and ERA5 in replicating mean and extreme precipitation over Australia17
Mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems using a high-resolution global groundwater model17
To bucket or not to bucket? Analyzing the performance and interpretability of hybrid hydrological models with dynamic parameterization17
Identifying dominant parameters in SWAT across subbasin and HRU scales using a two-step deep learning-assisted spatial sensitivity analysis17
Study on a mother wavelet optimization framework based on change-point detection of hydrological time series17
Remotely sensed reservoir water storage dynamics (1984–2015) and the influence of climate variability and management at a global scale17
Root zone in the Earth system17
Soil water sources and their implications for vegetation restoration in the Three-Rivers Headwater Region during different ablation periods17
Assimilating ESA CCI land surface temperature into the ORCHIDEE land surface model: insights from a multi-site study across Europe17
Technical note: Image processing for continuous river turbidity monitoring – full-scale tests and potential applications17
An increase in the spatial extent of European floods over the last 70 years17
How well does a convection-permitting regional climate model represent the reverse orographic effect of extreme hourly precipitation?17
How seasonal hydroclimate variability drives the triple oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of small lake systems in semiarid environments17
Barriers to urban hydrometeorological simulation: a review16
From hydraulic root architecture models to efficient macroscopic sink terms including perirhizal resistance: quantifying accuracy and computational speed16
Comparison of ensemble assimilation methods in a hydrological model dedicated to agricultural best management practices16
Calibration of groundwater seepage against the spatial distribution of the stream network to assess catchment-scale hydraulic properties16
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-198016
Estimating spatiotemporally continuous snow water equivalent from intermittent satellite observations: an evaluation using synthetic data16
A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments – case study for the Naryn River, central Asia16
Characterizing groundwater heat transport in a complex lowland aquifer using paleo-temperature reconstruction, satellite data, temperature–depth profiles, and numerical models16
Present and future thermal regimes of intertidal groundwater springs in a threatened coastal ecosystem16
Quantitative rainfall analysis of the 2021 mid-July flood event in Belgium16
Thirsty Earth : a game-based approach to interdisciplinary water resource education16
Characterizing basin-scale precipitation gradients in the Third Pole region using a high-resolution atmospheric simulation-based dataset16
Soil oxygen dynamics: a key mediator of tile drainage impacts on coupled hydrological, biogeochemical, and crop systems16
Sensitivities of subgrid-scale physics schemes, meteorological forcing, and topographic radiation in atmosphere-through-bedrock integrated process models: a case study in the Upper Colorado River basi16
Integrating topographic continuity and lake recession dynamics for improved bathymetry mapping from DEMs16
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective16
Increasing glacier runoff in northwestern Greenland simulated from 1950 to 202315
Uncertainty, temporal variability, and influencing factors of empirical streamflow sensitivities15
Scale-dependent transition in soil moisture memory and its environmental controls in complex mountain terrain15
A GNN routing module is all you need for LSTM Rainfall–Runoff models15
Reducing hydrological uncertainty in large mountainous basins: the role of isotope, snow cover, and glacier dynamics in capturing streamflow seasonality15
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: Analyzing river network dynamics and the active length–discharge relationship using water presence sensors15
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events15
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates15
Technical note: An innovative monitoring approach to measure spatio-temporal throughfall patterns in forests15
Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer worlds – how anthropogenic aerosols change the story15
Deep learning of flood forecasting by considering interpretability and physical constraints15
Impact of urban geology on model simulations of shallow groundwater levels and flow paths15
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