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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment291
Revealing the influence of topography and vegetation on hydrological processes using a stepwise modelling approach in cold alpine basins of the Mongolian Plateau224
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams187
A novel method for correcting water budget components and reducing their uncertainties by optimally distributing the imbalance residual without full closure178
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities177
Two-dimensional differential form of distributed Xinanjiang model135
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?108
Skilful probabilistic predictions of UK flood risk months ahead using a large-sample machine learning model trained on multimodel ensemble climate forecasts106
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?101
Historical trends of seasonal droughts in Australia92
When physics gets in the way: an entropy-based evaluation of conceptual constraints in hybrid hydrological models87
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert83
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient83
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa80
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps79
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations78
Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities77
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France77
Impact of rainfall variability on sedimentary and hydropower dynamics in a dam reservoir of southern France73
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations71
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed70
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods68
Evaluating the feasibility of scaling the FIER framework for large-scale flood inundation prediction60
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves59
Implementation of global soil databases in the Noah-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes58
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed58
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation56
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations56
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components55
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data53
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?52
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?50
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data50
Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium49
What can hydrological modelling gain from spatially explicit parameterization and multi-gauge calibration?46
Bayesian parameter inference in hydrological modelling using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approach with a stochastic rain model44
Cooperation under conflict: participatory hydrological modeling for science policy dialogues for the Aculeo Lake44
Data worth analysis within a model-free data assimilation framework for soil moisture flow43
Simulating sub-hourly rainfall data for current and future periods using two statistical disaggregation models: case studies from Germany and South Korea42
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models42
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective41
Snowmelt-mediated isotopic homogenization of shallow till soil41
Reinforce lake water balance component estimations by integrating water isotope compositions with a hydrological model40
Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates40
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure40
Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich, temperate environment39
Alleviating interpretational ambiguity in hydrogeology through clustering-based analysis of transient electromagnetic and surface nuclear magnetic resonance data39
Hydrological regime index for non-perennial rivers39
Towards understanding the influence of seasons on low-groundwater periods based on explainable machine learning38
Mechanisms and scenarios of the unprecedent flooding event in South Brazil 202438
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy38
Can the combining of wetlands with reservoir operation reduce the risk of future floods and droughts?38
Better continental-scale streamflow predictions for Australia: LSTM as a land surface model post-processor and standalone hydrological model38
Enhancing generalizability of data-driven urban flood models by incorporating contextual information37
Hydrological regime of Sahelian small waterbodies from combined Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter data37
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model36
Effect of the spatial resolution of digital terrain data obtained by drone on urban fluvial flood modeling of mountainous regions36
High-resolution soil moisture mapping in northern boreal forests using SMAP data and downscaling techniques36
Links between seasonal suprapermafrost groundwater, the hydrothermal change of the active layer, and river runoff in alpine permafrost watersheds35
Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling35
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves35
Adaptively monitoring streamflow using a stereo computer vision system35
Skill of seasonal flow forecasts at catchment scale: an assessment across South Korea35
Short high-accuracy tritium data time series for assessing groundwater mean transit times in the vadose and saturated zones of the Luxembourg Sandstone aquifer34
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment34
Deep learning for monthly rainfall–runoff modelling: a large-sample comparison with conceptual models across Australia34
The suitability of differentiable, physics-informed machine learning hydrologic models for ungauged regions and climate change impact assessment34
Advance prediction of coastal groundwater levels with temporal convolutional and long short-term memory networks33
Flood frequency analysis using mean daily flows vs. instantaneous peak flows33
Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling32
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs32
Long-term reconstruction of satellite-based precipitation, soil moisture, and snow water equivalent in China31
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States31
Interactions between thresholds and spatial discretizations of snow: insights from estimates of wolverine denning habitat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains30
Warming of the Willamette River, 1850–present: the effects of climate change and river system alterations30
Improving runoff simulation in the Western United States with Noah-MP and VIC models29
Continuum modeling of bioclogging of soil aquifer treatment systems segregating active and inactive biomass29
Technical note: Isotopic fractionation of evaporating waters: effect of sub-daily atmospheric variations and eventual depletion of heavy isotopes29
Technical note: An assessment of the relative contribution of the Soret effect to open-water evaporation29
Rapid flood mapping from aerial imagery using fine-tuned SAM and ResNet-backboned U-Net29
Seasonal dynamics and spatial patterns of soil moisture in a loess catchment29
Hydrological regime shifts in Sahelian watersheds: an investigation with a simple dynamical model driven by annual precipitation29
Novel statistical analysis illustrates the importance of flow source for extreme variation in dissolved organic carbon in a eutrophic reservoir in the Great Plains29
A comprehensive study of deep learning for soil moisture prediction28
Analysis of high streamflow extremes in climate change studies: how do we calibrate hydrological models?28
Global evaluation of the “dry gets drier, and wet gets wetter” paradigm from a terrestrial water storage change perspective28
Widespread flooding dynamics under climate change: characterising floods using grid-based hydrological modelling and regional climate projections28
Improvement of the KarstMod modelling platform for a better assessment of karst groundwater resources28
Technical Note: Combining undisturbed soil monoliths for hydrological indoor experiments28
Sensitivity of the pseudo-global warming method under flood conditions: a case study from the northeastern US28
Explicit simulation of microbial transport with a dual-permeability, two-site kinetic deposition formulation using the integrated surface–subsurface hydrological model HydroGeoSphere27
Soil moisture modeling with ERA5-Land retrievals, topographic indices, and in situ measurements and its use for predicting ruts27
Evaluation of the Dual Gamma Generalized Extreme Value distribution for flood events in Poland27
Flood generation: process patterns from the raindrop to the ocean27
On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India27
Controls on leaf water hydrogen and oxygen isotopes: a local investigation across seasons and altitude27
Enhancing evapotranspiration estimates under climate change: the role of CO 2 physiological feedback and CMIP6 scenarios27
Contribution of cryosphere to runoff in the transition zone between the Tibetan Plateau and arid region based on environmental isotopes27
Reconstructing five decades of sediment export from two glacierized high-alpine catchments in Tyrol, Austria, using nonparametric regression26
HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories26
A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change26
A gridded multi-site precipitation generator for complex terrain: an evaluation in the Austrian Alps26
On the importance of discharge observation uncertainty when interpreting hydrological model performance26
On the visual detection of non-natural records in streamflow time series: challenges and impacts26
Shannon entropy of transport self-organization due to dissolution–precipitation reaction at varying Peclet numbers in initially homogeneous porous media26
Assessment of uncertainties in stage–discharge rating curves: a large-scale application to Quebec hydrometric network26
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
Inferring sediment-discharge event types in an Alpine catchment from sub-daily time series25
How economically and environmentally viable are multiple dams in the upper Cauvery Basin, India? A hydro-economic analysis using a landscape-based hydrological model25
How to account for irrigation withdrawals in a watershed model25
Exploring the provenance of information across Canadian hydrometric stations: implications for discharge estimation and uncertainty quantification25
Topothermohaline convection – from synthetic simulations to reveal processes in a thick geothermal system25
Technical note: Operational calibration and performance improvement for a 1D hydrodynamic model in a data-scarce coastal area25
Drivers of global irrigation expansion: the role of discrete global grid choice25
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)25
Technical note: Two-component electrical-conductivity-based hydrograph separation employing an exponential mixing model (EXPECT) provides reliable high-temporal-resolution young water fraction estimat24
Technical note: Conservative storage of water vapour – practical in situ sampling of stable isotopes in tree stems24
Technical note: A fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements24
HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a “Day Zero”24
Tracing near-surface runoff in a pre-Alpine headwater catchment24
User priorities for hydrological monitoring infrastructures supporting research and innovation24
Pitfalls and a feasible solution for using KGE as an informal likelihood function in MCMC methods: DREAM (ZS) as an example24
The general formulation for mean annual runoff components estimation and their change attribution24
Technical note: Modeling spatial fields of extreme precipitation – a hierarchical Bayesian approach23
Comparison between canonical vine copulas and a meta-Gaussian model for forecasting agricultural drought over China23
Flow intermittence prediction using a hybrid hydrological modelling approach: influence of observed intermittence data on the training of a random forest model23
Technical note: A low-cost approach to monitoring relative streamflow dynamics in small headwater streams using time lapse imagery and a deep learning model23
Reframing gullies as recharge zones in dryland landscapes of the Loess Plateau, China23
Isotopic evaluation of the National Water Model reveals missing agricultural irrigation contributions to streamflow across the western United States23
Downscaling the probability of heavy rainfall over the Nordic countries23
Exploring future water resources and uses considering water demand scenarios and climate change for the French Sèvre Nantaise basin23
Towards reducing the high cost of parameter sensitivity analysis in hydrologic modeling: a regional parameter sensitivity analysis approach23
A 60-year drought analysis of meteorological data in the western Po River basin23
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
The role of catchment characteristics, discharge, and active- layer thaw in seasonal stream chemistry across 10 permafrost catchments22
High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy22
Forecasting green roof detention performance by temporal downscaling of precipitation time-series projections22
The influence of human activities on streamflow reductions during the megadrought in central Chile22
On the value of satellite remote sensing to reduce uncertainties of regional simulations of the Colorado River22
Interrogating process deficiencies in large-scale hydrologic models with interpretable machine learning22
Joint optimal operation of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project considering the evenness of water deficit22
Evaluation of reanalysis soil moisture products using cosmic ray neutron sensor observations across the globe22
Bias-corrected UKCP18 Convection-permitting model projections for England21
CONCN: a high-resolution, integrated surface water–groundwater ParFlow modeling platform of continental China21
Towards a global spatial machine learning model for seasonal groundwater level predictions in Germany21
All models are wrong, but are they useful? Assessing reliability across multiple sites to build trust in urban drainage modelling21
Projected changes in droughts and extreme droughts in Great Britain strongly influenced by the choice of drought index21
Regionalisation of rainfall depth–duration–frequency curves with different data types in Germany21
A novel framework for accurately quantifying wetland depression water storage capacity with coarse-resolution terrain data20
Elucidating the role of soil hydraulic properties on aspect-dependent landslide initiation20
Projected future changes in the cryosphere and hydrology of a mountainous catchment in the upper Heihe River, China20
Delayed stormflow generation in a semi-humid forested watershed controlled by soil water storage and groundwater dynamics20
Combining statistical and hydrodynamic models to assess compound flood hazards from rainfall and storm surge: a case study of Shanghai20
A Bayesian updating framework for calibrating the hydrological parameters of road networks using taxi GPS data20
Technical note: Testing the connection between hillslope-scale runoff fluctuations and streamflow hydrographs at the outlet of large river basins20
Feature scale and identifiability: how much information do point hydraulic measurements provide about heterogeneous head and conductivity fields?20
Divergent future drought projections in UK river flows and groundwater levels20
A graph neural network (GNN) approach to basin-scale river network learning: the role of physics-based connectivity and data fusion20
Machine-learning-constrained projection of bivariate hydrological drought magnitudes and socioeconomic risks over China20
A Bayesian model for quantifying errors in citizen science data: application to rainfall observations from Nepal20
The effects of rain and evapotranspiration statistics on groundwater recharge estimations for semi-arid environments19
Climate change and irrigation expansion reshape the water pressure and upstream–downstream interactions in the Lancang–Mekong River Basin19
Technical note: Efficient imaging of hydrological units below lakes and fjords with a floating, transient electromagnetic (FloaTEM) system19
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments19
A change in perspective: downhole cosmic-ray neutron sensing for the estimation of soil moisture19
Evaporation measurements using commercial microwave links as scintillometers19
Spatiotemporal responses of the crop water footprint and its associated benchmarks under different irrigation regimes to climate change scenarios in China19
Effects of boundary conditions and aquifer parameters on salinity distribution and mixing-controlled reactions in high-energy beach aquifers19
Evapotranspiration stress intensifies with enhanced sensitivity to soil moisture deficits in a rapidly greening China19
Routing stemflow water through the soil via preferential flow: a dual-labelling approach with artificial tracers19
Quantifying overlapping and differing information of global precipitation for GCM forecasts and El Niño–Southern Oscillation19
Study on a mother wavelet optimization framework based on change-point detection of hydrological time series19
How well do hydrological models simulate streamflow extremes and drought-to-flood transitions?19
Uncertainty estimation of regionalised depth–duration–frequency curves in Germany19
Improved representation of soil moisture processes through incorporation of cosmic-ray neutron count measurements in a large-scale hydrologic model19
Inter- and intra-event rainfall partitioning dynamics of two typical xerophytic shrubs in the Loess Plateau of China19
Comparison of artificial neural networks and reservoir models for simulating karst spring discharge on five test sites in the Alpine and Mediterranean regions19
Drought research priorities, trends, and geographic patterns19
High-resolution long-term average groundwater recharge in Africa estimated using random forest regression and residual interpolation19
An original approach combining biogeochemical signatures and a mixing model to discriminate spatial runoff-generating sources in a peri-urban catchment19
Contribution of rock glacier discharge to late summer and fall streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA18
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
How well does a convection-permitting regional climate model represent the reverse orographic effect of extreme hourly precipitation?18
Technical note: Investigating the potential for smartphone-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and land surface energy-balance partitioning18
The impact of convection-permitting model rainfall on the dryland water balance18
The influence of a rock glacier on the riverbed hydrological system18
Rain-on-wet-soil compound floods in lowlands: the combined effect of large rain events and shallow groundwater on discharge peaks in a changing climate18
Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-Sample SPATially distributed analysis (CAMELS-SPAT): streamflow observations, forcing data and geospatial data for hydrologic studies across North Americ18
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
Mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems using a high-resolution global groundwater model18
Barriers to urban hydrometeorological simulation: a review17
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
A D-vine copula-based quantile regression towards merging satellite precipitation products over rugged topography: a case study in the upper Tekeze–Atbara Basin17
Assimilating ESA CCI land surface temperature into the ORCHIDEE land surface model: insights from a multi-site study across Europe17
Enhanced Markov-type Categorical Prediction with geophysical soft constraints for hydrostratigraphic modeling17
Climate-warming-driven changes in the cryosphere and their impact on groundwater–surface-water interactions in the Heihe River basin17
Increasing glacier runoff in northwestern Greenland simulated from 1950 to 202317
To bucket or not to bucket? Analyzing the performance and interpretability of hybrid hydrological models with dynamic parameterization17
Exploring controls on solute export mechanisms in anthropogenically impacted catchments in Southern Germany in climatically different periods17
Remotely sensed reservoir water storage dynamics (1984–2015) and the influence of climate variability and management at a global scale17
Evaporation from a large lowland reservoir – observed dynamics and drivers during a warm summer17
An increase in the spatial extent of European floods over the last 70 years17
Response of active catchment water storage capacity to a prolonged meteorological drought and asymptotic climate variation17
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates17
Soil water sources and their implications for vegetation restoration in the Three-Rivers Headwater Region during different ablation periods17
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 estimates at 1 km resolution making a synergistic use of Sentinel data17
Root zone in the Earth system17
Technical note: Image processing for continuous river turbidity monitoring – full-scale tests and potential applications17
Uncertainty, temporal variability, and influencing factors of empirical streamflow sensitivities17
Effects of spatial and temporal variability in surface water inputs on streamflow generation and cessation in the rain–snow transition zone16
Pluvial and potential compound flooding in a coupled coastal modeling framework: New York City during post-tropical Cyclone Ida (2021)16
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective16
Methodology for constructing a flood-hazard map for a future climate16
Modeling surface water and groundwater mixing and mixing-dependent denitrification with bedform dynamics16
Thirsty Earth : a game-based approach to interdisciplinary water resource education16
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
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-198016
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events16
Technical note: Analyzing river network dynamics and the active length–discharge relationship using water presence sensors16
Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer worlds – how anthropogenic aerosols change the story16
Divergent water balance trajectories under two dominant tree species in montane forest catchment shifting from energy- to water-limitation16
From hydraulic root architecture models to efficient macroscopic sink terms including perirhizal resistance: quantifying accuracy and computational speed16
Estimating spatiotemporally continuous snow water equivalent from intermittent satellite observations: an evaluation using synthetic data16
On the links between sub-seasonal clustering of extreme precipitation and high discharge in Switzerland and Europe16
The role of multi-criteria decision analysis in a transdisciplinary process: co-developing a flood forecasting system in western Africa16
Seasonal and interannual dissolved organic carbon transport process dynamics in a subarctic headwater catchment revealed by high-resolution measurements16
Rainfall recharge thresholds decrease after an intense fire over a near-surface cave at Wombeyan, Australia16
Quantitative rainfall analysis of the 2021 mid-July flood event in Belgium15
Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling15
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
Calibration of groundwater seepage against the spatial distribution of the stream network to assess catchment-scale hydraulic properties15
Climate adaptation-aware flood prediction for coastal cities using Deep Learning15
A comprehensive assessment of in situ and remote sensing soil moisture data assimilation in the APSIM model for improving agricultural forecasting across the US Midwest15
Characterizing groundwater heat transport in a complex lowland aquifer using paleo-temperature reconstruction, satellite data, temperature–depth profiles, and numerical models15
Monitoring the combined effects of drought and salinity stress on crops using remote sensing in the Netherlands15
A GNN routing module is all you need for LSTM Rainfall–Runoff models15
Comparison of ensemble assimilation methods in a hydrological model dedicated to agricultural best management practices15
On the relevance of molecular diffusion for travel time distributions inferred from different water isotopes15
Spatially explicit assessment of water stress and potential mitigating solutions in a large water-limited basin: the Yellow River basin in China15
High-resolution downscaled CMIP6 drought projections for Australia15
Present and future thermal regimes of intertidal groundwater springs in a threatened coastal ecosystem15
Reducing hydrological uncertainty in large mountainous basins: the role of isotope, snow cover, and glacier dynamics in capturing streamflow seasonality15
Soil oxygen dynamics: a key mediator of tile drainage impacts on coupled hydrological, biogeochemical, and crop systems15
Impact of urban geology on model simulations of shallow groundwater levels and flow paths15
A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments – case study for the Naryn River, central Asia15
Storyline analytical framework for understanding future severe low-water episodes and their consequences15
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