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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations255
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?223
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps165
Implementation of global soil databases in the Noah-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes140
Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium136
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations121
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa105
A novel method for correcting water budget components and reducing their uncertainties by optimally distributing the imbalance residual without full closure96
Historical trends of seasonal droughts in Australia87
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams83
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?80
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components71
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods71
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation70
Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts64
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?64
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed63
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France62
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves60
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient60
Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment59
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed58
Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations55
A hydrologist's guide to open science55
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?54
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations53
Feedback mechanisms between precipitation and dissolution reactions across randomly heterogeneous conductivity fields53
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities52
Assessing the dependence structure between oceanographic, fluvial, and pluvial flooding drivers along the United States coastline52
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data52
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert49
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data47
Short high-accuracy tritium data time series for assessing groundwater mean transit times in the vadose and saturated zones of the Luxembourg Sandstone aquifer46
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective46
Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich, temperate environment46
Hydrological regime index for non-perennial rivers45
Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling44
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment44
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs43
Advance prediction of coastal groundwater levels with temporal convolutional and long short-term memory networks43
Data worth analysis within a model-free data assimilation framework for soil moisture flow43
Bayesian parameter inference in hydrological modelling using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approach with a stochastic rain model42
Snowmelt-mediated isotopic homogenization of shallow till soil42
Adaptively monitoring streamflow using a stereo computer vision system41
Cooperation under conflict: participatory hydrological modeling for science policy dialogues for the Aculeo Lake41
Historical simulation of maize water footprints with a new global gridded crop model ACEA41
Links between seasonal suprapermafrost groundwater, the hydrothermal change of the active layer, and river runoff in alpine permafrost watersheds39
Barriers to mainstream adoption of catchment-wide natural flood management: a transdisciplinary problem-framing study of delivery practice39
Use of streamflow indices to identify the catchment drivers of hydrographs39
Skill of seasonal flow forecasts at catchment scale: an assessment across South Korea38
Effect of the spatial resolution of digital terrain data obtained by drone on urban fluvial flood modeling of mountainous regions38
Improved understanding of regional groundwater drought development through time series modelling: the 2018–2019 drought in the Netherlands38
Flood frequency analysis using mean daily flows vs. instantaneous peak flows38
Can the combining of wetlands with reservoir operation reduce the risk of future floods and droughts?37
Spatial distribution of groundwater recharge, based on regionalised soil moisture models in Wadi Natuf karst aquifers, Palestine36
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves36
Alleviating interpretational ambiguity in hydrogeology through clustering-based analysis of transient electromagnetic and surface nuclear magnetic resonance data35
Exploring the possible role of satellite-based rainfall data in estimating inter- and intra-annual global rainfall erosivity35
Hydrological regime of Sahelian small waterbodies from combined Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter data35
Reinforce lake water balance component estimations by integrating water isotope compositions with a hydrological model34
Simulating sub-hourly rainfall data for current and future periods using two statistical disaggregation models: case studies from Germany and South Korea33
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models33
The role of morphology in the spatial distribution of short-duration rainfall extremes in Italy33
Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates33
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure32
Deep learning for monthly rainfall–runoff modelling: a large-sample comparison with conceptual models across Australia32
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model31
The suitability of differentiable, physics-informed machine learning hydrologic models for ungauged regions and climate change impact assessment31
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy31
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States30
Enhancing generalizability of data-driven urban flood models by incorporating contextual information30
Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling30
Flood generation: process patterns from the raindrop to the ocean29
Towards understanding the influence of seasons on low-groundwater periods based on explainable machine learning29
Controls on leaf water hydrogen and oxygen isotopes: a local investigation across seasons and altitude29
Improving runoff simulation in the Western United States with Noah-MP and VIC models28
Using machine learning to predict optimal electromagnetic induction instrument configurations for characterizing the shallow subsurface27
A comprehensive study of deep learning for soil moisture prediction27
HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories27
Interactions between thresholds and spatial discretizations of snow: insights from estimates of wolverine denning habitat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains27
Long-term reconstruction of satellite-based precipitation, soil moisture, and snow water equivalent in China27
Technical note: An assessment of the relative contribution of the Soret effect to open-water evaporation27
Novel statistical analysis illustrates the importance of flow source for extreme variation in dissolved organic carbon in a eutrophic reservoir in the Great Plains27
Simulating sediment discharge at water treatment plants under different land use scenarios using cascade modelling with an expert-based erosion-runoff model and a deep neural network26
Performance of the Global Forecast System's medium-range precipitation forecasts in the Niger river basin using multiple satellite-based products26
On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India26
Technical Note: Combining undisturbed soil monoliths for hydrological indoor experiments26
Improvement of the KarstMod modelling platform for a better assessment of karst groundwater resources26
Aquifer recharge in the Piedmont Alpine zone: historical trends and future scenarios25
Seasonal dynamics and spatial patterns of soil moisture in a loess catchment25
Soil moisture modeling with ERA5-Land retrievals, topographic indices, and in situ measurements and its use for predicting ruts25
Evaluation of the Dual Gamma Generalized Extreme Value distribution for flood events in Poland25
A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change25
Explicit simulation of microbial transport with a dual-permeability, two-site kinetic deposition formulation using the integrated surface–subsurface hydrological model HydroGeoSphere25
Enhancing evapotranspiration estimates under climate change: the role of CO 2 physiological feedback and CMIP6 scenarios25
Warming of the Willamette River, 1850–present: the effects of climate change and river system alterations25
Choosing between post-processing precipitation forecasts or chaining several uncertainty quantification tools in hydrological forecasting systems25
Widespread flooding dynamics under climate change: characterising floods using grid-based hydrological modelling and regional climate projections25
Contribution of cryosphere to runoff in the transition zone between the Tibetan Plateau and arid region based on environmental isotopes25
Machine-learning methods to assess the effects of a non-linear damage spectrum taking into account soil moisture on winter wheat yields in Germany25
On the visual detection of non-natural records in streamflow time series: challenges and impacts24
On the importance of discharge observation uncertainty when interpreting hydrological model performance24
Global evaluation of the “dry gets drier, and wet gets wetter” paradigm from a terrestrial water storage change perspective24
On the need for physical constraints in deep learning rainfall–runoff projections under climate change: a sensitivity analysis to warming and shifts in potential evapotranspiration24
Sensitivity of the pseudo-global warming method under flood conditions: a case study from the northeastern US24
Analysis of high streamflow extremes in climate change studies: how do we calibrate hydrological models?24
Combining passive and active distributed temperature sensing measurements to locate and quantify groundwater discharge variability into a headwater stream23
Pitfalls and a feasible solution for using KGE as an informal likelihood function in MCMC methods: DREAM(ZS) as an example23
Social dilemmas and poor water quality in household water systems23
Technical note: Operational calibration and performance improvement for a 1D hydrodynamic model in a data-scarce coastal area23
Technical note: Isotopic fractionation of evaporating waters: effect of sub-daily atmospheric variations and eventual depletion of heavy isotopes23
A gridded multi-site precipitation generator for complex terrain: an evaluation in the Austrian Alps23
Inferring sediment-discharge event types in an Alpine catchment from sub-daily time series23
The role of catchment characteristics, discharge, and active- layer thaw in seasonal stream chemistry across 10 permafrost catchments23
How economically and environmentally viable are multiple dams in the upper Cauvery Basin, India? A hydro-economic analysis using a landscape-based hydrological model23
Topothermohaline convection – from synthetic simulations to reveal processes in a thick geothermal system23
Interrogating process deficiencies in large-scale hydrologic models with interpretable machine learning23
Downscaling the probability of heavy rainfall over the Nordic countries22
Comparison between canonical vine copulas and a meta-Gaussian model for forecasting agricultural drought over China22
Towards a global spatial machine learning model for seasonal groundwater level predictions in Germany22
Technical note: PMR – a proxy metric to assess hydrological model robustness in a changing climate22
Exploring the provenance of information across Canadian hydrometric stations: implications for discharge estimation and uncertainty quantification22
Projected changes in droughts and extreme droughts in Great Britain strongly influenced by the choice of drought index22
Technical note: Two-component electrical-conductivity-based hydrograph separation employing an exponential mixing model (EXPECT) provides reliable high-temporal-resolution young water fraction estimat22
Assessment of uncertainties in stage–discharge rating curves: a large-scale application to Quebec hydrometric network22
The value of satellite soil moisture and snow cover data for the transfer of hydrological model parameters to ungauged sites22
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
Towards reducing the high cost of parameter sensitivity analysis in hydrologic modeling: a regional parameter sensitivity analysis approach21
Technical note: A fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements21
Disentangling sources of future uncertainties for water management in sub-Saharan river basins21
Flow intermittence prediction using a hybrid hydrological modelling approach: influence of observed intermittence data on the training of a random forest model21
Technical note: Conservative storage of water vapour – practical in situ sampling of stable isotopes in tree stems21
How to account for irrigation withdrawals in a watershed model21
Technical note: Modeling spatial fields of extreme precipitation – a hierarchical Bayesian approach21
Optimizing a backscatter forward operator using Sentinel-1 data over irrigated land21
Exploring hydrologic post-processing of ensemble streamflow forecasts based on affine kernel dressing and non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II21
The influence of human activities on streamflow reductions during the megadrought in central Chile21
Drivers of global irrigation expansion: the role of discrete global grid choice21
Reconstructing five decades of sediment export from two glacierized high-alpine catchments in Tyrol, Austria, using nonparametric regression21
Evaluation of reanalysis soil moisture products using cosmic ray neutron sensor observations across the globe21
On the value of satellite remote sensing to reduce uncertainties of regional simulations of the Colorado River21
Joint optimal operation of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project considering the evenness of water deficit20
Forecasting green roof detention performance by temporal downscaling of precipitation time-series projections20
Dynamical forcings in heavy precipitation events over Italy: lessons from the HyMeX SOP1 campaign20
A Bayesian updating framework for calibrating the hydrological parameters of road networks using taxi GPS data20
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)20
A 60-year drought analysis of meteorological data in the western Po River basin20
Isotopic evaluation of the National Water Model reveals missing agricultural irrigation contributions to streamflow across the western United States20
HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a “Day Zero”20
Spatiotemporal responses of the crop water footprint and its associated benchmarks under different irrigation regimes to climate change scenarios in China20
Shannon entropy of transport self-organization due to dissolution–precipitation reaction at varying Peclet numbers in initially homogeneous porous media20
High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy20
Feature scale and identifiability: how much information do point hydraulic measurements provide about heterogeneous head and conductivity fields?20
Effects of boundary conditions and aquifer parameters on salinity distribution and mixing-controlled reactions in high-energy beach aquifers20
CONCN: a high-resolution, integrated surface water–groundwater ParFlow modeling platform of continental China19
Improved representation of soil moisture processes through incorporation of cosmic-ray neutron count measurements in a large-scale hydrologic model19
Drought research priorities, trends, and geographic patterns19
Uncertainty estimation of regionalised depth–duration–frequency curves in Germany19
Routing stemflow water through the soil via preferential flow: a dual-labelling approach with artificial tracers19
Regionalisation of rainfall depth–duration–frequency curves with different data types in Germany19
High-resolution long-term average groundwater recharge in Africa estimated using random forest regression and residual interpolation19
Technical note: Efficient imaging of hydrological units below lakes and fjords with a floating, transient electromagnetic (FloaTEM) system19
Divergent future drought projections in UK river flows and groundwater levels19
Delayed stormflow generation in a semi-humid forested watershed controlled by soil water storage and groundwater dynamics19
Inter- and intra-event rainfall partitioning dynamics of two typical xerophytic shrubs in the Loess Plateau of China19
Elucidating the role of soil hydraulic properties on aspect-dependent landslide initiation19
Technical note: Testing the connection between hillslope-scale runoff fluctuations and streamflow hydrographs at the outlet of large river basins19
A Bayesian model for quantifying errors in citizen science data: application to rainfall observations from Nepal19
Future projections of High Atlas snowpack and runoff under climate change19
A graph neural network (GNN) approach to basin-scale river network learning: the role of physics-based connectivity and data fusion19
Projected future changes in the cryosphere and hydrology of a mountainous catchment in the upper Heihe River, China19
Combining statistical and hydrodynamic models to assess compound flood hazards from rainfall and storm surge: a case study of Shanghai19
Machine-learning-constrained projection of bivariate hydrological drought magnitudes and socioeconomic risks over China19
Combined impacts of uncertainty in precipitation and air temperature on simulated mountain system recharge from an integrated hydrologic model18
Assimilating ESA CCI land surface temperature into the ORCHIDEE land surface model: insights from a multi-site study across Europe18
Quantifying overlapping and differing information of global precipitation for GCM forecasts and El Niño–Southern Oscillation18
Evaporation from a large lowland reservoir – observed dynamics and drivers during a warm summer18
Soil moisture estimates at 1 km resolution making a synergistic use of Sentinel data18
How well does a convection-permitting regional climate model represent the reverse orographic effect of extreme hourly precipitation?18
All models are wrong, but are they useful? Assessing reliability across multiple sites to build trust in urban drainage modelling18
A change in perspective: downhole cosmic-ray neutron sensing for the estimation of soil moisture18
Comparison of BARRA and ERA5 in replicating mean and extreme precipitation over Australia18
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 learnin18
Mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems using a high-resolution global groundwater model18
The effects of rain and evapotranspiration statistics on groundwater recharge estimations for semi-arid environments18
Evapotranspiration stress intensifies with enhanced sensitivity to soil moisture deficits in a rapidly greening China18
Assessing hydrological sensitivity of grassland basins in the Canadian Prairies to climate using a basin classification-based virtual modelling approach18
Characterizing the spatial distribution of field-scale snowpack using unpiloted aerial system (UAS) lidar and structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry18
Technical note: Investigating the potential for smartphone-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and land surface energy-balance partitioning18
Comparison of artificial neural networks and reservoir models for simulating karst spring discharge on five test sites in the Alpine and Mediterranean regions18
How seasonal hydroclimate variability drives the triple oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of small lake systems in semiarid environments18
Characterizing basin-scale precipitation gradients in the Third Pole region using a high-resolution atmospheric simulation-based dataset17
Study on a mother wavelet optimization framework based on change-point detection of hydrological time series17
Remotely sensed reservoir water storage dynamics (1984–2015) and the influence of climate variability and management at a global scale17
A D-vine copula-based quantile regression towards merging satellite precipitation products over rugged topography: a case study in the upper Tekeze–Atbara Basin17
Development of an integrated socio-hydrological modeling framework for assessing the impacts of shelter location arrangement and human behaviors on flood evacuation processes17
Soil moisture estimation in South Asia via assimilation of SMAP retrievals17
Climate-warming-driven changes in the cryosphere and their impact on groundwater–surface-water interactions in the Heihe River basin17
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments17
Response of active catchment water storage capacity to a prolonged meteorological drought and asymptotic climate variation17
Technical note: Image processing for continuous river turbidity monitoring – full-scale tests and potential applications17
Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-Sample SPATially distributed analysis (CAMELS-SPAT): streamflow observations, forcing data and geospatial data for hydrologic studies across North Americ17
An increase in the spatial extent of European floods over the last 70 years17
Soil water sources and their implications for vegetation restoration in the Three-Rivers Headwater Region during different ablation periods17
Barriers to urban hydrometeorological simulation: a review16
Root zone in the Earth system16
Thirsty Earth: a game-based approach to interdisciplinary water resource education16
Technical note: Analyzing river network dynamics and the active length–discharge relationship using water presence sensors16
Identifying the dynamic evolution and feedback process of water resources nexus system considering socioeconomic development, ecological protection, and food security: A practical tool for sustainable16
Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling16
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events16
Pluvial and potential compound flooding in a coupled coastal modeling framework: New York City during post-tropical Cyclone Ida (2021)16
To bucket or not to bucket? Analyzing the performance and interpretability of hybrid hydrological models with dynamic parameterization16
Characterizing groundwater heat transport in a complex lowland aquifer using paleo-temperature reconstruction, satellite data, temperature–depth profiles, and numerical models16
A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments – case study for the Naryn River, central Asia16
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective16
Rainfall recharge thresholds decrease after an intense fire over a near-surface cave at Wombeyan, Australia16
Spatially explicit assessment of water stress and potential mitigating solutions in a large water-limited basin: the Yellow River basin in China16
Contribution of rock glacier discharge to late summer and fall streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA16
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-198016
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
Effects of spatial and temporal variability in surface water inputs on streamflow generation and cessation in the rain–snow transition zone16
Compound flood impact forecasting: integrating fluvial and flash flood impact assessments into a unified system16
Methodology for constructing a flood-hazard map for a future climate16
The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways16
From hydraulic root architecture models to efficient macroscopic sink terms including perirhizal resistance: quantifying accuracy and computational speed16
Reducing hydrological uncertainty in large mountainous basins: the role of isotope, snow cover, and glacier dynamics in capturing streamflow seasonality15
Present and future thermal regimes of intertidal groundwater springs in a threatened coastal ecosystem15
High-resolution downscaled CMIP6 drought projections for Australia15
Calibration of groundwater seepage against the spatial distribution of the stream network to assess catchment-scale hydraulic properties15
Impact of urban geology on model simulations of shallow groundwater levels and flow paths15
Drivers of drought-induced shifts in the water balance through a Budyko approach15
Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer worlds – how anthropogenic aerosols change the story15
The role of multi-criteria decision analysis in a transdisciplinary process: co-developing a flood forecasting system in western Africa15
On the links between sub-seasonal clustering of extreme precipitation and high discharge in Switzerland and Europe15
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates15
Monitoring the combined effects of drought and salinity stress on crops using remote sensing in the Netherlands15
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 basin15
Drastic decline of flood pulse in the Cambodian floodplains (Mekong River and Tonle Sap system)15
Quantitative rainfall analysis of the 2021 mid-July flood event in Belgium15
Estimating spatiotemporally continuous snow water equivalent from intermittent satellite observations: an evaluation using synthetic data15
Seasonal and interannual dissolved organic carbon transport process dynamics in a subarctic headwater catchment revealed by high-resolution measurements15
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
Theoretical and empirical evidence against the Budyko catchment trajectory conjecture15
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade15
A study of the dependence between soil moisture and precipitation in different ecoregions of the Northern Hemisphere14
Improving regional climate simulations based on a hybrid data assimilation and machine learning method14
Hydrologic implications of projected changes in rain-on-snow melt for Great Lakes Basin watersheds14
Deducing land–atmosphere coupling regimes from SMAP soil moisture14
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