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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A comprehensive assessment of in situ and remote sensing soil moisture data assimilation in the APSIM model for improving agricultural forecasting across the US Midwest	198
Modeling water balance components of conifer species using the Noah-MP model in an eastern Mediterranean ecosystem	183
Using Long Short-Term Memory networks to connect water table depth anomalies to precipitation anomalies over Europe	164
Early hypogenic carbonic acid speleogenesis in unconfined limestone aquifers by upwelling deep-seated waters with high CO₂ concentration: a modelling approach	164
Spatially explicit assessment of water stress and potential mitigating solutions in a large water-limited basin: the Yellow River basin in China	151
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?	143
A framework for irrigation performance assessment using WaPOR data: the case of a sugarcane estate in Mozambique	119
Impact of spatial distribution information of rainfall in runoff simulation using deep learning method	116
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves	93
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates	91
Xylem water in riparian willow trees (Salix alba) reveals shallow sources of root water uptake by in situ monitoring of stable water isotopes	86
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?	80
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?	74
Runoff component quantification and future streamflow projection in a large mountainous basin based on a multidata-constrained cryospheric–hydrological model	72
Accelerated soil moisture drought onset link to high temperatures and asymmetric responses associated with hit timing	71
Critical soil moisture detection and water–energy limit shift attribution using satellite-based water and carbon fluxes over China	70
Annual memory in the terrestrial water cycle	69
Assimilation of transformed water surface elevation to improve river discharge estimation in a continental-scale river	69
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?	68
A hydrologist's guide to open science	64
A system dynamic model to quantify the impacts of water resources allocation on water–energy–food–society (WEFS) nexus	61
Streamflow estimation at partially gaged sites using multiple-dependence conditions via vine copulas	57
Learning about precipitation lapse rates from snow course data improves water balance modeling	56
Modeling Lake Titicaca's water balance: the dominant roles of precipitation and evaporation	54
Assessing recovery time of ecosystems in China: insights into flash drought impacts on gross primary productivity	52

Effects of different climatic conditions on soil water storage patterns	51
Enhancing the usability of weather radar data for the statistical analysis of extreme precipitation events	49
Estimating response times, flow velocities, and roughness coefficients of Canadian Prairie basins	48
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps	47
Observation-driven model for calculating water-harvesting potential from advective fog in (semi-)arid coastal regions	45
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed	44
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations	43
Characterizing nonlinear, nonstationary, and heterogeneous hydrologic behavior using ensemble rainfall–runoff analysis (ERRA): proof of concept	42
Calibrating macroscale hydrological models in poorly gauged and heavily regulated basins	42
Actionable human–water system modelling under uncertainty	42
Technical Note: The divide and measure nonconformity – how metrics can mislead when we evaluate on different data partitions	41
A national-scale hybrid model for enhanced streamflow estimation – consolidating a physically based hydrological model with long short-term memory (LSTM) networks	41
High-resolution operational soil moisture monitoring for forests in central Germany	41
Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer worlds – how anthropogenic aerosols change the story	40
Impact of urban geology on model simulations of shallow groundwater levels and flow paths	40
Ecohydrological responses to solar radiation changes	40