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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment305
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams230
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities188
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?186
Implementation of global soil databases in the Noah-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes185
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed139
Evaluating the feasibility of scaling the FIER framework for large-scale flood inundation prediction114
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components112
Two-dimensional differential form of distributed Xinanjiang model103
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert97
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa88
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps88
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations86
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France85
Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities84
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations81
A novel method for correcting water budget components and reducing their uncertainties by optimally distributing the imbalance residual without full closure80
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient80
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation76
What can hydrological modelling gain from spatially explicit parameterization and multi-gauge calibration?73
When physics gets in the way: an entropy-based evaluation of conceptual constraints in hybrid hydrological models73
Revealing the influence of topography and vegetation on hydrological processes using a stepwise modelling approach in cold alpine basins of the Mongolian Plateau72
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data64
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods63
Regionalization of IDF curves for mainland China: a comparative evaluation of machine learning versus spatial interpolation techniques60
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations60
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed59
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?59
Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts59
Impact of rainfall variability on sedimentary and hydropower dynamics in a dam reservoir of southern France55
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?54
Historical trends of seasonal droughts in Australia52
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?50
Cooperation under conflict: participatory hydrological modeling for science policy dialogues for the Aculeo Lake49
Data worth analysis within a model-free data assimilation framework for soil moisture flow47
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective44
Alleviating interpretational ambiguity in hydrogeology through clustering-based analysis of transient electromagnetic and surface nuclear magnetic resonance data44
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models44
Hydrological regime index for non-perennial rivers44
Simulating sub-hourly rainfall data for current and future periods using two statistical disaggregation models: case studies from Germany and South Korea44
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure44
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy43
Towards understanding the influence of seasons on low-groundwater periods based on explainable machine learning42
Better continental-scale streamflow predictions for Australia: LSTM as a land surface model post-processor and standalone hydrological model42
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs42
Adaptively monitoring streamflow using a stereo computer vision system41
Enhancing generalizability of data-driven urban flood models by incorporating contextual information40
Sensitivities of mean and extreme streamflow to climate variability across Europe40
Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling40
Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich, temperate environment39
Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates39
Mechanisms and scenarios of the unprecedent flooding event in South Brazil 202438
Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling38
Flood frequency analysis using mean daily flows vs. instantaneous peak flows38
The potential of green infrastructure in urban pluvial flood mitigation – a scenario-based modelling study in Berlin38
High-resolution soil moisture mapping in northern boreal forests using SMAP data and downscaling techniques38
Deep learning for monthly rainfall–runoff modelling: a large-sample comparison with conceptual models across Australia37
Short high-accuracy tritium data time series for assessing groundwater mean transit times in the vadose and saturated zones of the Luxembourg Sandstone aquifer37
Links between seasonal suprapermafrost groundwater, the hydrothermal change of the active layer, and river runoff in alpine permafrost watersheds36
Hydrological regime of Sahelian small waterbodies from combined Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter data36
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves34
Reinforce lake water balance component estimations by integrating water isotope compositions with a hydrological model34
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model34
Increasing daily precipitation extremes despite declining annual totals in southern Europe: a modeling study on the effects of Mediterranean Sea warming34
Effect of the spatial resolution of digital terrain data obtained by drone on urban fluvial flood modeling of mountainous regions34
Can the combining of wetlands with reservoir operation reduce the risk of future floods and droughts?33
Bayesian parameter inference in hydrological modelling using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approach with a stochastic rain model33
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
The suitability of differentiable, physics-informed machine learning hydrologic models for ungauged regions and climate change impact assessment32
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment32
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States32
Soil moisture modeling with ERA5-Land retrievals, topographic indices, and in situ measurements and its use for predicting ruts31
Contribution of cryosphere to runoff in the transition zone between the Tibetan Plateau and arid region based on environmental isotopes31
Snowmelt-mediated isotopic homogenization of shallow till soil31
Enhancing evapotranspiration estimates under climate change: the role of CO 2 physiological feedback and CMIP6 scenarios30
Sensitivity of the pseudo-global warming method under flood conditions: a case study from the northeastern US30
Widespread flooding dynamics under climate change: characterising floods using grid-based hydrological modelling and regional climate projections30
Explicit simulation of microbial transport with a dual-permeability, two-site kinetic deposition formulation using the integrated surface–subsurface hydrological model HydroGeoSphere30
On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India30
Evaluation of the Dual Gamma Generalized Extreme Value distribution for flood events in Poland30
Can streamflow observations constrain snow mass reconstructions? Lessons from two synthetic numerical experiments29
Long-term reconstruction of satellite-based precipitation, soil moisture, and snow water equivalent in China29
A simplified model to investigate the hydrological regimes of temporary wetlands: the case study of Doñana marshland (Spain)29
Technical note: Isotopic fractionation of evaporating waters: effect of sub-daily atmospheric variations and eventual depletion of heavy isotopes28
Interactions between thresholds and spatial discretizations of snow: insights from estimates of wolverine denning habitat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains28
Improving runoff simulation in the Western United States with Noah-MP and VIC models28
Warming of the Willamette River, 1850–present: the effects of climate change and river system alterations28
Technical note: An assessment of the relative contribution of the Soret effect to open-water evaporation28
Seasonal dynamics and spatial patterns of soil moisture in a loess catchment28
Novel statistical analysis illustrates the importance of flow source for extreme variation in dissolved organic carbon in a eutrophic reservoir in the Great Plains27
Continuum modeling of bioclogging of soil aquifer treatment systems segregating active and inactive biomass27
Technical Note: Combining undisturbed soil monoliths for hydrological indoor experiments27
On the importance of discharge observation uncertainty when interpreting hydrological model performance27
Analysis of high streamflow extremes in climate change studies: how do we calibrate hydrological models?27
HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories27
Controls on leaf water hydrogen and oxygen isotopes: a local investigation across seasons and altitude26
Global evaluation of the “dry gets drier, and wet gets wetter” paradigm from a terrestrial water storage change perspective26
A comprehensive study of deep learning for soil moisture prediction26
Hydrological regime shifts in Sahelian watersheds: an investigation with a simple dynamical model driven by annual precipitation26
Rapid flood mapping from aerial imagery using fine-tuned SAM and ResNet-backboned U-Net26
On the need for physical constraints in deep learning rainfall–runoff projections under climate change: a sensitivity analysis to warming and shifts in potential evapotranspiration26
A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change26
On the visual detection of non-natural records in streamflow time series: challenges and impacts26
Improvement of the KarstMod modelling platform for a better assessment of karst groundwater resources26
Technical note: Conservative storage of water vapour – practical in situ sampling of stable isotopes in tree stems25
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)25
Technical note: Operational calibration and performance improvement for a 1D hydrodynamic model in a data-scarce coastal area25
Technical note: A fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements25
Exploring the provenance of information across Canadian hydrometric stations: implications for discharge estimation and uncertainty quantification25
Pitfalls and a feasible solution for using KGE as an informal likelihood function in MCMC methods: DREAM (ZS) as an example25
Topothermohaline convection – from synthetic simulations to reveal processes in a thick geothermal system25
How economically and environmentally viable are multiple dams in the upper Cauvery Basin, India? A hydro-economic analysis using a landscape-based hydrological model25
Technical note: Modeling spatial fields of extreme precipitation – a hierarchical Bayesian approach24
Technical note: A low-cost approach to monitoring relative streamflow dynamics in small headwater streams using time lapse imagery and a deep learning model24
High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy24
Shannon entropy of transport self-organization due to dissolution–precipitation reaction at varying Peclet numbers in initially homogeneous porous media24
A gridded multi-site precipitation generator for complex terrain: an evaluation in the Austrian Alps24
A 60-year drought analysis of meteorological data in the western Po River basin24
Joint optimal operation of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project considering the evenness of water deficit24
On the value of satellite remote sensing to reduce uncertainties of regional simulations of the Colorado River24
HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a “Day Zero”24
Technical note: Two-component electrical-conductivity-based hydrograph separation employing an exponential mixing model (EXPECT) provides reliable high-temporal-resolution young water fraction estimat24
Comparison between canonical vine copulas and a meta-Gaussian model for forecasting agricultural drought over China24
Towards reducing the high cost of parameter sensitivity analysis in hydrologic modeling: a regional parameter sensitivity analysis approach23
The general formulation for mean annual runoff components estimation and their change attribution23
Introducing the Model Fidelity Metric (MFM) for robust and diagnostic land surface model evaluation23
Reframing gullies as recharge zones in dryland landscapes of the Loess Plateau, China23
Bias-corrected UKCP18 Convection-permitting model projections for England23
Exploring future water resources and uses considering water demand scenarios and climate change for the French Sèvre Nantaise basin23
Tracing near-surface runoff in a pre-Alpine headwater catchment23
Projected changes in droughts and extreme droughts in Great Britain strongly influenced by the choice of drought index22
Reconstructing five decades of sediment export from two glacierized high-alpine catchments in Tyrol, Austria, using nonparametric regression22
A signal-processing-based interpretation of the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency22
Development of a land–river–ocean coupled model for compound floods jointly caused by heavy rainfall and storm surges in large river delta regions22
Inferring sediment-discharge event types in an Alpine catchment from sub-daily time series22
Flow intermittence prediction using a hybrid hydrological modelling approach: influence of observed intermittence data on the training of a random forest model22
Drivers of global irrigation expansion: the role of discrete global grid choice22
The influence of human activities on streamflow reductions during the megadrought in central Chile22
Interrogating process deficiencies in large-scale hydrologic models with interpretable machine learning21
The role of catchment characteristics, discharge, and active- layer thaw in seasonal stream chemistry across 10 permafrost catchments21
A Bayesian updating framework for calibrating the hydrological parameters of road networks using taxi GPS data21
Downscaling the probability of heavy rainfall over the Nordic countries21
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
A novel framework for accurately quantifying wetland depression water storage capacity with coarse-resolution terrain data21
Towards a global spatial machine learning model for seasonal groundwater level predictions in Germany21
Assessment of uncertainties in stage–discharge rating curves: a large-scale application to Quebec hydrometric network21
How to account for irrigation withdrawals in a watershed model21
User priorities for hydrological monitoring infrastructures supporting research and innovation21
CONCN: a high-resolution, integrated surface water–groundwater ParFlow modeling platform of continental China21
Forecasting green roof detention performance by temporal downscaling of precipitation time-series projections21
Feature scale and identifiability: how much information do point hydraulic measurements provide about heterogeneous head and conductivity fields?20
Evaporation measurements using commercial microwave links as scintillometers20
Inter- and intra-event rainfall partitioning dynamics of two typical xerophytic shrubs in the Loess Plateau of China20
Uncertainty estimation of regionalised depth–duration–frequency curves in Germany20
Spatiotemporal responses of the crop water footprint and its associated benchmarks under different irrigation regimes to climate change scenarios in China20
Technical note: Testing the connection between hillslope-scale runoff fluctuations and streamflow hydrographs at the outlet of large river basins20
Improved representation of soil moisture processes through incorporation of cosmic-ray neutron count measurements in a large-scale hydrologic model20
Regionalisation of rainfall depth–duration–frequency curves with different data types in Germany20
Technical note: Efficient imaging of hydrological units below lakes and fjords with a floating, transient electromagnetic (FloaTEM) system20
Delayed stormflow generation in a semi-humid forested watershed controlled by soil water storage and groundwater dynamics20
Drought research priorities, trends, and geographic patterns20
A Bayesian model for quantifying errors in citizen science data: application to rainfall observations from Nepal20
Routing stemflow water through the soil via preferential flow: a dual-labelling approach with artificial tracers20
Machine-learning-constrained projection of bivariate hydrological drought magnitudes and socioeconomic risks over China19
An original approach combining biogeochemical signatures and a mixing model to discriminate spatial runoff-generating sources in a peri-urban catchment19
Projected future changes in the cryosphere and hydrology of a mountainous catchment in the upper Heihe River, China19
Climate change and irrigation expansion reshape the water pressure and upstream–downstream interactions in the Lancang–Mekong River Basin19
Effects of boundary conditions and aquifer parameters on salinity distribution and mixing-controlled reactions in high-energy beach aquifers19
Divergent future drought projections in UK river flows and groundwater levels19
Elucidating the role of soil hydraulic properties on aspect-dependent landslide initiation19
A graph neural network (GNN) approach to basin-scale river network learning: the role of physics-based connectivity and data fusion19
How well do hydrological models simulate streamflow extremes and drought-to-flood transitions?19
Combining statistical and hydrodynamic models to assess compound flood hazards from rainfall and storm surge: a case study of Shanghai19
Multivariate calibration can increase simulated discharge uncertainty and model equifinality19
The effects of rain and evapotranspiration statistics on groundwater recharge estimations for semi-arid environments19
High-resolution long-term average groundwater recharge in Africa estimated using random forest regression and residual interpolation19
Mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems using a high-resolution global groundwater model18
Quantifying overlapping and differing information of global precipitation for GCM forecasts and El Niño–Southern Oscillation18
Technical note: Investigating the potential for smartphone-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and land surface energy-balance partitioning18
Characterizing the spatial distribution of field-scale snowpack using unpiloted aerial system (UAS) lidar and structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry18
All models are wrong, but are they useful? Assessing reliability across multiple sites to build trust in urban drainage modelling18
Characterizing basin-scale precipitation gradients in the Third Pole region using a high-resolution atmospheric simulation-based dataset18
A change in perspective: downhole cosmic-ray neutron sensing for the estimation of soil moisture18
How seasonal hydroclimate variability drives the triple oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of small lake systems in semiarid environments18
Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-Sample SPATially distributed analysis (CAMELS-SPAT): streamflow observations, forcing data and geospatial data for hydrologic studies across North Americ18
The influence of a rock glacier on the riverbed hydrological system18
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments18
Evapotranspiration stress intensifies with enhanced sensitivity to soil moisture deficits in a rapidly greening China18
Comparison of BARRA and ERA5 in replicating mean and extreme precipitation over Australia18
Contribution of rock glacier discharge to late summer and fall streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA18
To bucket or not to bucket? Analyzing the performance and interpretability of hybrid hydrological models with dynamic parameterization17
An increase in the spatial extent of European floods over the last 70 years17
Evaporation from a large lowland reservoir – observed dynamics and drivers during a warm summer17
Remotely sensed reservoir water storage dynamics (1984–2015) and the influence of climate variability and management at a global scale17
Response of active catchment water storage capacity to a prolonged meteorological drought and asymptotic climate variation17
Enhanced Markov-type Categorical Prediction with geophysical soft constraints for hydrostratigraphic modeling17
Exploring controls on solute export mechanisms in anthropogenically impacted catchments in Southern Germany in climatically different periods17
Climate-warming-driven changes in the cryosphere and their impact on groundwater–surface-water interactions in the Heihe River basin17
The impact of convection-permitting model rainfall on the dryland water balance17
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
Development of an integrated socio-hydrological modeling framework for assessing the impacts of shelter location arrangement and human behaviors on flood evacuation processes17
A D-vine copula-based quantile regression towards merging satellite precipitation products over rugged topography: a case study in the upper Tekeze–Atbara Basin17
Eddy-driven effects on solute transport in porous media17
How well does a convection-permitting regional climate model represent the reverse orographic effect of extreme hourly precipitation?17
Technical note: Image processing for continuous river turbidity monitoring – full-scale tests and potential applications17
Soil moisture estimates at 1 km resolution making a synergistic use of Sentinel data17
Rain-on-wet-soil compound floods in lowlands: the combined effect of large rain events and shallow groundwater on discharge peaks in a changing climate17
Soil water sources and their implications for vegetation restoration in the Three-Rivers Headwater Region during different ablation periods17
Root zone in the Earth system17
Leveraging 20 years of remote sensing to characterize surface phytoplankton seasonality and long-term trends in lake Tanganyika17
Study on a mother wavelet optimization framework based on change-point detection of hydrological time series16
Comparison of artificial neural networks and reservoir models for simulating karst spring discharge on five test sites in the Alpine and Mediterranean regions16
Pluvial and potential compound flooding in a coupled coastal modeling framework: New York City during post-tropical Cyclone Ida (2021)16
Effects of spatial and temporal variability in surface water inputs on streamflow generation and cessation in the rain–snow transition zone16
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events16
Shifting water scarcities: irrigation alleviates agricultural green water deficits while increasing blue water scarcity16
Interpretable soil moisture prediction with a knowledge-guided deep learning approach16
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 basin16
From hydraulic root architecture models to efficient macroscopic sink terms including perirhizal resistance: quantifying accuracy and computational speed16
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-198016
A hybrid Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks-based model with attention for predicting Arctic river streamflow16
Assimilating ESA CCI land surface temperature into the ORCHIDEE land surface model: insights from a multi-site study across Europe16
Estimating spatiotemporally continuous snow water equivalent from intermittent satellite observations: an evaluation using synthetic data16
Thirsty Earth : a game-based approach to interdisciplinary water resource education16
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective16
Derivation and validation of estimation model of rainfall kinetic energy under the canopy16
The role of multi-criteria decision analysis in a transdisciplinary process: co-developing a flood forecasting system in western Africa15
Quantitative rainfall analysis of the 2021 mid-July flood event in Belgium15
Barriers to urban hydrometeorological simulation: a review15
A GNN routing module is all you need for LSTM Rainfall–Runoff models15
Deep learning of flood forecasting by considering interpretability and physical constraints15
Calibration of groundwater seepage against the spatial distribution of the stream network to assess catchment-scale hydraulic properties15
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
Methodology for constructing a flood-hazard map for a future climate15
Comparison of ensemble assimilation methods in a hydrological model dedicated to agricultural best management practices15
Impact of urban geology on model simulations of shallow groundwater levels and flow paths15
Present and future thermal regimes of intertidal groundwater springs in a threatened coastal ecosystem15
Integrating topographic continuity and lake recession dynamics for improved bathymetry mapping from DEMs15
Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer worlds – how anthropogenic aerosols change the story15
Spatially explicit assessment of water stress and potential mitigating solutions in a large water-limited basin: the Yellow River basin in China15
Characterizing groundwater heat transport in a complex lowland aquifer using paleo-temperature reconstruction, satellite data, temperature–depth profiles, and numerical models15
Soil oxygen dynamics: a key mediator of tile drainage impacts on coupled hydrological, biogeochemical, and crop systems15
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 basi15
Seasonal and interannual dissolved organic carbon transport process dynamics in a subarctic headwater catchment revealed by high-resolution measurements14
Rainfall recharge thresholds decrease after an intense fire over a near-surface cave at Wombeyan, Australia14
Technical note: An innovative monitoring approach to measure spatio-temporal throughfall patterns in forests14
High-resolution downscaled CMIP6 drought projections for Australia14
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