Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?237
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?176
A novel method for correcting water budget components and reducing their uncertainties by optimally distributing the imbalance residual without full closure156
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France147
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed139
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations112
Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment106
Impact of rainfall variability on sedimentary and hydropower dynamics in a dam reservoir of southern France90
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves86
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient84
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations78
A hydrologist's guide to open science75
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities74
Historical trends of seasonal droughts in Australia69
Implementation of global soil databases in the Noah-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes69
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations68
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?67
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa66
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data64
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams64
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?64
Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations61
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps60
Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium59
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert58
Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts58
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation58
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed55
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components54
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods51
High-resolution soil moisture mapping in northern boreal forests using SMAP data and downscaling techniques50
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data50
The role of morphology in the spatial distribution of short-duration rainfall extremes in Italy50
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective50
Reinforce lake water balance component estimations by integrating water isotope compositions with a hydrological model49
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves48
Enhancing generalizability of data-driven urban flood models by incorporating contextual information47
Bayesian parameter inference in hydrological modelling using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approach with a stochastic rain model47
Exploring the possible role of satellite-based rainfall data in estimating inter- and intra-annual global rainfall erosivity46
Use of streamflow indices to identify the catchment drivers of hydrographs46
Hydrological regime of Sahelian small waterbodies from combined Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter data46
Towards understanding the influence of seasons on low-groundwater periods based on explainable machine learning43
Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling43
Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling42
Advance prediction of coastal groundwater levels with temporal convolutional and long short-term memory networks41
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model41
Historical simulation of maize water footprints with a new global gridded crop model ACEA41
Flood frequency analysis using mean daily flows vs. instantaneous peak flows40
Data worth analysis within a model-free data assimilation framework for soil moisture flow38
Simulating sub-hourly rainfall data for current and future periods using two statistical disaggregation models: case studies from Germany and South Korea38
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy38
Cooperation under conflict: participatory hydrological modeling for science policy dialogues for the Aculeo Lake38
Spatial distribution of groundwater recharge, based on regionalised soil moisture models in Wadi Natuf karst aquifers, Palestine38
Alleviating interpretational ambiguity in hydrogeology through clustering-based analysis of transient electromagnetic and surface nuclear magnetic resonance data37
Hydrological regime index for non-perennial rivers37
Snowmelt-mediated isotopic homogenization of shallow till soil36
Short high-accuracy tritium data time series for assessing groundwater mean transit times in the vadose and saturated zones of the Luxembourg Sandstone aquifer36
Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich, temperate environment35
Skill of seasonal flow forecasts at catchment scale: an assessment across South Korea35
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs35
Effect of the spatial resolution of digital terrain data obtained by drone on urban fluvial flood modeling of mountainous regions34
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models34
Adaptively monitoring streamflow using a stereo computer vision system33
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure33
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment33
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States33
Improved understanding of regional groundwater drought development through time series modelling: the 2018–2019 drought in the Netherlands32
The suitability of differentiable, physics-informed machine learning hydrologic models for ungauged regions and climate change impact assessment31
Can the combining of wetlands with reservoir operation reduce the risk of future floods and droughts?31
Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates31
Choosing between post-processing precipitation forecasts or chaining several uncertainty quantification tools in hydrological forecasting systems31
Deep learning for monthly rainfall–runoff modelling: a large-sample comparison with conceptual models across Australia31
Links between seasonal suprapermafrost groundwater, the hydrothermal change of the active layer, and river runoff in alpine permafrost watersheds31
Seasonal dynamics and spatial patterns of soil moisture in a loess catchment30
Aquifer recharge in the Piedmont Alpine zone: historical trends and future scenarios30
Warming of the Willamette River, 1850–present: the effects of climate change and river system alterations30
A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change29
Novel statistical analysis illustrates the importance of flow source for extreme variation in dissolved organic carbon in a eutrophic reservoir in the Great Plains29
Continuum modeling of bioclogging of soil aquifer treatment systems segregating active and inactive biomass29
Using machine learning to predict optimal electromagnetic induction instrument configurations for characterizing the shallow subsurface29
Improvement of the KarstMod modelling platform for a better assessment of karst groundwater resources29
Explicit simulation of microbial transport with a dual-permeability, two-site kinetic deposition formulation using the integrated surface–subsurface hydrological model HydroGeoSphere29
On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India28
Interactions between thresholds and spatial discretizations of snow: insights from estimates of wolverine denning habitat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains28
Soil moisture modeling with ERA5-Land retrievals, topographic indices, and in situ measurements and its use for predicting ruts28
Improving runoff simulation in the Western United States with Noah-MP and VIC models28
Technical Note: Combining undisturbed soil monoliths for hydrological indoor experiments28
Technical note: An assessment of the relative contribution of the Soret effect to open-water evaporation28
Long-term reconstruction of satellite-based precipitation, soil moisture, and snow water equivalent in China28
Performance of the Global Forecast System's medium-range precipitation forecasts in the Niger river basin using multiple satellite-based products27
Combining passive and active distributed temperature sensing measurements to locate and quantify groundwater discharge variability into a headwater stream27
Widespread flooding dynamics under climate change: characterising floods using grid-based hydrological modelling and regional climate projections26
Evaluation of the Dual Gamma Generalized Extreme Value distribution for flood events in Poland26
Controls on leaf water hydrogen and oxygen isotopes: a local investigation across seasons and altitude26
Analysis of high streamflow extremes in climate change studies: how do we calibrate hydrological models?26
On the visual detection of non-natural records in streamflow time series: challenges and impacts26
On the importance of discharge observation uncertainty when interpreting hydrological model performance26
HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories26
Enhancing evapotranspiration estimates under climate change: the role of CO 2 physiological feedback and CMIP6 scenarios26
Flood generation: process patterns from the raindrop to the ocean26
Sensitivity of the pseudo-global warming method under flood conditions: a case study from the northeastern US26
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
Forecasting green roof detention performance by temporal downscaling of precipitation time-series projections25
Contribution of cryosphere to runoff in the transition zone between the Tibetan Plateau and arid region based on environmental isotopes25
Global evaluation of the “dry gets drier, and wet gets wetter” paradigm from a terrestrial water storage change perspective25
Joint optimal operation of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project considering the evenness of water deficit25
A comprehensive study of deep learning for soil moisture prediction25
HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a “Day Zero”25
Technical note: Isotopic fractionation of evaporating waters: effect of sub-daily atmospheric variations and eventual depletion of heavy isotopes25
Towards reducing the high cost of parameter sensitivity analysis in hydrologic modeling: a regional parameter sensitivity analysis approach24
A gridded multi-site precipitation generator for complex terrain: an evaluation in the Austrian Alps24
User priorities for hydrological monitoring infrastructures supporting research and innovation24
Technical note: Conservative storage of water vapour – practical in situ sampling of stable isotopes in tree stems24
Exploring the provenance of information across Canadian hydrometric stations: implications for discharge estimation and uncertainty quantification24
Exploring hydrologic post-processing of ensemble streamflow forecasts based on affine kernel dressing and non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II24
Inferring sediment-discharge event types in an Alpine catchment from sub-daily time series24
Technical note: A low-cost approach to monitoring relative streamflow dynamics in small headwater streams using time lapse imagery and a deep learning model24
Disentangling sources of future uncertainties for water management in sub-Saharan river basins23
How to account for irrigation withdrawals in a watershed model23
Social dilemmas and poor water quality in household water systems23
Downscaling the probability of heavy rainfall over the Nordic countries23
Technical note: Modeling spatial fields of extreme precipitation – a hierarchical Bayesian approach23
Technical note: Two-component electrical-conductivity-based hydrograph separation employing an exponential mixing model (EXPECT) provides reliable high-temporal-resolution young water fraction estimat23
Technical note: Operational calibration and performance improvement for a 1D hydrodynamic model in a data-scarce coastal area23
The role of catchment characteristics, discharge, and active- layer thaw in seasonal stream chemistry across 10 permafrost catchments23
Drivers of global irrigation expansion: the role of discrete global grid choice23
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)23
How economically and environmentally viable are multiple dams in the upper Cauvery Basin, India? A hydro-economic analysis using a landscape-based hydrological model23
Reconstructing five decades of sediment export from two glacierized high-alpine catchments in Tyrol, Austria, using nonparametric regression23
Interrogating process deficiencies in large-scale hydrologic models with interpretable machine learning23
Topothermohaline convection – from synthetic simulations to reveal processes in a thick geothermal system23
Towards a global spatial machine learning model for seasonal groundwater level predictions in Germany23
Development of a land–river–ocean coupled model for compound floods jointly caused by heavy rainfall and storm surges in large river delta regions22
Pitfalls and a feasible solution for using KGE as an informal likelihood function in MCMC methods: DREAM (ZS) as an example22
Isotopic evaluation of the National Water Model reveals missing agricultural irrigation contributions to streamflow across the western United States22
Comparison between canonical vine copulas and a meta-Gaussian model for forecasting agricultural drought over China22
On the value of satellite remote sensing to reduce uncertainties of regional simulations of the Colorado River22
High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy22
Shannon entropy of transport self-organization due to dissolution–precipitation reaction at varying Peclet numbers in initially homogeneous porous media22
Assessment of uncertainties in stage–discharge rating curves: a large-scale application to Quebec hydrometric network22
Technical note: A fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements22
Evaporation measurements using commercial microwave links as scintillometers21
Technical note: Efficient imaging of hydrological units below lakes and fjords with a floating, transient electromagnetic (FloaTEM) system21
The value of satellite soil moisture and snow cover data for the transfer of hydrological model parameters to ungauged sites21
Projected changes in droughts and extreme droughts in Great Britain strongly influenced by the choice of drought index21
Inter- and intra-event rainfall partitioning dynamics of two typical xerophytic shrubs in the Loess Plateau of China21
A Bayesian updating framework for calibrating the hydrological parameters of road networks using taxi GPS data21
Feature scale and identifiability: how much information do point hydraulic measurements provide about heterogeneous head and conductivity fields?21
Flow intermittence prediction using a hybrid hydrological modelling approach: influence of observed intermittence data on the training of a random forest model21
Evaluation of reanalysis soil moisture products using cosmic ray neutron sensor observations across the globe21
The influence of human activities on streamflow reductions during the megadrought in central Chile21
CONCN: a high-resolution, integrated surface water–groundwater ParFlow modeling platform of continental China21
All models are wrong, but are they useful? Assessing reliability across multiple sites to build trust in urban drainage modelling21
Uncertainty estimation of regionalised depth–duration–frequency curves in Germany21
Dynamical forcings in heavy precipitation events over Italy: lessons from the HyMeX SOP1 campaign21
A signal-processing-based interpretation of the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency21
A 60-year drought analysis of meteorological data in the western Po River basin21
A Bayesian model for quantifying errors in citizen science data: application to rainfall observations from Nepal20
Combined impacts of uncertainty in precipitation and air temperature on simulated mountain system recharge from an integrated hydrologic model20
Improved representation of soil moisture processes through incorporation of cosmic-ray neutron count measurements in a large-scale hydrologic model20
Combining statistical and hydrodynamic models to assess compound flood hazards from rainfall and storm surge: a case study of Shanghai20
Regionalisation of rainfall depth–duration–frequency curves with different data types in Germany20
Elucidating the role of soil hydraulic properties on aspect-dependent landslide initiation20
Future projections of High Atlas snowpack and runoff under climate change20
Machine-learning-constrained projection of bivariate hydrological drought magnitudes and socioeconomic risks over China20
Effects of boundary conditions and aquifer parameters on salinity distribution and mixing-controlled reactions in high-energy beach aquifers20
Projected future changes in the cryosphere and hydrology of a mountainous catchment in the upper Heihe River, China20
Drought research priorities, trends, and geographic patterns20
Spatiotemporal responses of the crop water footprint and its associated benchmarks under different irrigation regimes to climate change scenarios in China19
Evapotranspiration stress intensifies with enhanced sensitivity to soil moisture deficits in a rapidly greening China19
A change in perspective: downhole cosmic-ray neutron sensing for the estimation of soil moisture19
Divergent future drought projections in UK river flows and groundwater levels19
High-resolution long-term average groundwater recharge in Africa estimated using random forest regression and residual interpolation19
A novel framework for accurately quantifying wetland depression water storage capacity with coarse-resolution terrain data19
Soil moisture estimation in South Asia via assimilation of SMAP retrievals19
Study on a mother wavelet optimization framework based on change-point detection of hydrological time series19
Technical note: Testing the connection between hillslope-scale runoff fluctuations and streamflow hydrographs at the outlet of large river basins19
The effects of rain and evapotranspiration statistics on groundwater recharge estimations for semi-arid environments19
Routing stemflow water through the soil via preferential flow: a dual-labelling approach with artificial tracers19
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
A graph neural network (GNN) approach to basin-scale river network learning: the role of physics-based connectivity and data fusion19
Technical note: Image processing for continuous river turbidity monitoring – full-scale tests and potential applications18
Assessing hydrological sensitivity of grassland basins in the Canadian Prairies to climate using a basin classification-based virtual modelling approach18
A D-vine copula-based quantile regression towards merging satellite precipitation products over rugged topography: a case study in the upper Tekeze–Atbara Basin18
Technical note: Investigating the potential for smartphone-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and land surface energy-balance partitioning18
Response of active catchment water storage capacity to a prolonged meteorological drought and asymptotic climate variation18
Assimilating ESA CCI land surface temperature into the ORCHIDEE land surface model: insights from a multi-site study across Europe18
Evaporation from a large lowland reservoir – observed dynamics and drivers during a warm summer18
To bucket or not to bucket? Analyzing the performance and interpretability of hybrid hydrological models with dynamic parameterization18
Characterizing the spatial distribution of field-scale snowpack using unpiloted aerial system (UAS) lidar and structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry18
Characterizing basin-scale precipitation gradients in the Third Pole region using a high-resolution atmospheric simulation-based dataset18
The influence of a rock glacier on the riverbed hydrological system18
Quantifying overlapping and differing information of global precipitation for GCM forecasts and El Niño–Southern Oscillation18
Comparison of BARRA and ERA5 in replicating mean and extreme precipitation over Australia18
How seasonal hydroclimate variability drives the triple oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of small lake systems in semiarid environments18
How well does a convection-permitting regional climate model represent the reverse orographic effect of extreme hourly precipitation?17
Contribution of rock glacier discharge to late summer and fall streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA17
Comparison of artificial neural networks and reservoir models for simulating karst spring discharge on five test sites in the Alpine and Mediterranean regions17
Remotely sensed reservoir water storage dynamics (1984–2015) and the influence of climate variability and management at a global scale17
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
An increase in the spatial extent of European floods over the last 70 years17
Development of an integrated socio-hydrological modeling framework for assessing the impacts of shelter location arrangement and human behaviors on flood evacuation processes17
The impact of convection-permitting model rainfall on the dryland water balance17
Soil moisture estimates at 1 km resolution making a synergistic use of Sentinel data17
Climate-warming-driven changes in the cryosphere and their impact on groundwater–surface-water interactions in the Heihe River basin17
Soil water sources and their implications for vegetation restoration in the Three-Rivers Headwater Region during different ablation periods17
Mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems using a high-resolution global groundwater model17
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments17
From hydraulic root architecture models to efficient macroscopic sink terms including perirhizal resistance: quantifying accuracy and computational speed16
Impact of urban geology on model simulations of shallow groundwater levels and flow paths16
Root zone in the Earth system16
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
The role of multi-criteria decision analysis in a transdisciplinary process: co-developing a flood forecasting system in western Africa16
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates16
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-198016
High-resolution downscaled CMIP6 drought projections for Australia16
Reducing hydrological uncertainty in large mountainous basins: the role of isotope, snow cover, and glacier dynamics in capturing streamflow seasonality16
On the links between sub-seasonal clustering of extreme precipitation and high discharge in Switzerland and Europe16
Technical note: Analyzing river network dynamics and the active length–discharge relationship using water presence sensors16
Present and future thermal regimes of intertidal groundwater springs in a threatened coastal ecosystem16
Monitoring the combined effects of drought and salinity stress on crops using remote sensing in the Netherlands16
Calibration of groundwater seepage against the spatial distribution of the stream network to assess catchment-scale hydraulic properties16
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events16
Thirsty Earth : a game-based approach to interdisciplinary water resource education16
Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling16
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
Pluvial and potential compound flooding in a coupled coastal modeling framework: New York City during post-tropical Cyclone Ida (2021)16
Deep learning of flood forecasting by considering interpretability and physical constraints16
The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways16
A comprehensive assessment of in situ and remote sensing soil moisture data assimilation in the APSIM model for improving agricultural forecasting across the US Midwest16
Estimating spatiotemporally continuous snow water equivalent from intermittent satellite observations: an evaluation using synthetic data16
Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer worlds – how anthropogenic aerosols change the story15
Seasonal and interannual dissolved organic carbon transport process dynamics in a subarctic headwater catchment revealed by high-resolution measurements15
Quantitative rainfall analysis of the 2021 mid-July flood event in Belgium15
Characterizing groundwater heat transport in a complex lowland aquifer using paleo-temperature reconstruction, satellite data, temperature–depth profiles, and numerical models15
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective15
Drastic decline of flood pulse in the Cambodian floodplains (Mekong River and Tonle Sap system)15
Compound flood impact forecasting: integrating fluvial and flash flood impact assessments into a unified system15
Soil oxygen dynamics: a key mediator of tile drainage impacts on coupled hydrological, biogeochemical, and crop systems15
Rainfall recharge thresholds decrease after an intense fire over a near-surface cave at Wombeyan, Australia15
Effects of spatial and temporal variability in surface water inputs on streamflow generation and cessation in the rain–snow transition zone15
Theoretical and empirical evidence against the Budyko catchment trajectory conjecture15
Methodology for constructing a flood-hazard map for a future climate15
High-resolution snow water equivalent estimation: a data-driven method for localized downscaling of climate data15
Divergent water balance trajectories under two dominant tree species in montane forest catchment shifting from energy- to water-limitation15
Barriers to urban hydrometeorological simulation: a review15
Spatially explicit assessment of water stress and potential mitigating solutions in a large water-limited basin: the Yellow River basin in China15
A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments – case study for the Naryn River, central Asia15
Drivers of drought-induced shifts in the water balance through a Budyko approach15
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