OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 40. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Feedback mechanisms between precipitation and dissolution reactions across randomly heterogeneous conductivity fields	216
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps	190
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed	166
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations	136
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France	131
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods	114
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations	105
A hydrologist's guide to open science	100
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa	83
Implementation of global soil databases in the Noah-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes	80
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?	78
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations	74
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?	73
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components	67
Technical note: Introduction of a superconducting gravimeter as novel hydrological sensor for the Alpine research catchment Zugspitze	63
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?	61
Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts	60
Bias-correcting input variables enhances forecasting of reference crop evapotranspiration	57
Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations	55
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient	54
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams	54
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities	52
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed	51
Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium	49
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves	49

Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?	46
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation	45
Assessing the dependence structure between oceanographic, fluvial, and pluvial flooding drivers along the United States coastline	44
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data	44
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert	43
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective	42
Simulating sub-hourly rainfall data for current and future periods using two statistical disaggregation models: case studies from Germany and South Korea	42
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure	42
Hydrological regime of Sahelian small waterbodies from combined Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter data	42
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data	42
Effect of the spatial resolution of digital terrain data obtained by drone on urban fluvial flood modeling of mountainous regions	42
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy	41
Data worth analysis within a model-free data assimilation framework for soil moisture flow	40
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models	40
Flood frequency analysis using mean daily flows vs. instantaneous peak flows	40