OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 41. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations	245
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?	216
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps	153
Feedback mechanisms between precipitation and dissolution reactions across randomly heterogeneous conductivity fields	142
Implementation of global soil databases in the Noah-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes	129
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa	129
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves	108
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert	95
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations	91
Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations	85
A hydrologist's guide to open science	77
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?	76
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?	67
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams	67
Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts	65
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France	62
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed	62
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?	60
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods	59
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient	59
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities	56
Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium	55
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation	52
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components	51
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data	51

A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations	51
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed	50
Assessing the dependence structure between oceanographic, fluvial, and pluvial flooding drivers along the United States coastline	49
A novel method for correcting water budget components and reducing their uncertainties by optimally distributing the imbalance residual without full closure	49
Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment	49
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data	47
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective	46
Skill of seasonal flow forecasts at catchment scale: an assessment across South Korea	45
Short high-accuracy tritium data time series for assessing groundwater mean transit times in the vadose and saturated zones of the Luxembourg Sandstone aquifer	45
Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich, temperate environment	44
The role of morphology in the spatial distribution of short-duration rainfall extremes in Italy	44
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves	43
Towards understanding the influence of seasons on low-groundwater periods based on explainable machine learning	42
Hydrological regime index for non-perennial rivers	42
Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling	41
Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling	41
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment	41
Enhancing generalizability of data-driven urban flood models by incorporating contextual information	41