Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 13. 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.)
ArticleCitations
A comprehensive assessment of in situ and remote sensing soil moisture data assimilation in the APSIM model for improving agricultural forecasting across the US Midwest198
Modeling water balance components of conifer species using the Noah-MP model in an eastern Mediterranean ecosystem183
Using Long Short-Term Memory networks to connect water table depth anomalies to precipitation anomalies over Europe164
Early hypogenic carbonic acid speleogenesis in unconfined limestone aquifers by upwelling deep-seated waters with high CO2 concentration: a modelling approach164
Spatially explicit assessment of water stress and potential mitigating solutions in a large water-limited basin: the Yellow River basin in China151
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 Mozambique119
Impact of spatial distribution information of rainfall in runoff simulation using deep learning method116
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves93
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates91
Xylem water in riparian willow trees (Salix alba) reveals shallow sources of root water uptake by in situ monitoring of stable water isotopes86
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 model72
Accelerated soil moisture drought onset link to high temperatures and asymmetric responses associated with hit timing71
Critical soil moisture detection and water–energy limit shift attribution using satellite-based water and carbon fluxes over China70
Annual memory in the terrestrial water cycle69
Assimilation of transformed water surface elevation to improve river discharge estimation in a continental-scale river69
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?68
A hydrologist's guide to open science64
A system dynamic model to quantify the impacts of water resources allocation on water–energy–food–society (WEFS) nexus61
Streamflow estimation at partially gaged sites using multiple-dependence conditions via vine copulas57
Learning about precipitation lapse rates from snow course data improves water balance modeling56
Modeling Lake Titicaca's water balance: the dominant roles of precipitation and evaporation54
Assessing recovery time of ecosystems in China: insights into flash drought impacts on gross primary productivity52
Effects of different climatic conditions on soil water storage patterns51
Enhancing the usability of weather radar data for the statistical analysis of extreme precipitation events49
Estimating response times, flow velocities, and roughness coefficients of Canadian Prairie basins48
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps47
Observation-driven model for calculating water-harvesting potential from advective fog in (semi-)arid coastal regions45
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed44
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations43
Actionable human–water system modelling under uncertainty42
Characterizing nonlinear, nonstationary, and heterogeneous hydrologic behavior using ensemble rainfall–runoff analysis (ERRA): proof of concept42
Calibrating macroscale hydrological models in poorly gauged and heavily regulated basins42
Technical Note: The divide and measure nonconformity – how metrics can mislead when we evaluate on different data partitions41
A national-scale hybrid model for enhanced streamflow estimation – consolidating a physically based hydrological model with long short-term memory (LSTM) networks41
High-resolution operational soil moisture monitoring for forests in central Germany41
Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer worlds – how anthropogenic aerosols change the story40
Impact of urban geology on model simulations of shallow groundwater levels and flow paths40
Ecohydrological responses to solar radiation changes40
Dye-tracer-aided investigation of xylem water transport velocity distributions39
A robust upwind mixed hybrid finite element method for transport in variably saturated porous media39
Water and energy budgets over hydrological basins on short and long timescales38
Space–time variability in soil moisture droughts in the Himalayan region37
How well are we able to close the water budget at the global scale?36
Technical note: Seamless extraction and analysis of river networks in R36
Increased nonstationarity of stormflow threshold behaviors in a forested watershed due to abrupt earthquake disturbance36
Methodology for constructing a flood-hazard map for a future climate36
Drivers of drought-induced shifts in the water balance through a Budyko approach36
Creating a national urban flood dataset for China from news texts (2000–2022) at the county level36
Comment on “Are soils overrated in hydrology?” by Gao et al. (2023)36
Spatiotemporal responses of runoff to climate change in the southern Tibetan Plateau36
Young and new water fractions in soil and hillslope waters35
Point-scale multi-objective calibration of the Community Land Model (version 5.0) using in situ observations of water and energy fluxes and variables35
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa35
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations35
Modelling flood frequency and magnitude in a glacially conditioned, heterogeneous landscape: testing the importance of land cover and land use34
On the optimal level of complexity for the representation of groundwater-dependent wetland systems in land surface models34
Calibration of groundwater seepage against the spatial distribution of the stream network to assess catchment-scale hydraulic properties34
HESS Opinions: Drought impacts as failed prospects34
Estimation of groundwater age distributions from hydrochemistry: comparison of two metamodelling algorithms in the Heretaunga Plains aquifer system, New Zealand33
Glaciers determine the sensitivity of hydrological processes to perturbed climate in a large mountainous basin on the Tibetan Plateau33
Evaluation of hydrological models on small mountainous catchments: impact of the meteorological forcings33
Forecasting estuarine salt intrusion in the Rhine–Meuse delta using an LSTM model33
Synoptic weather patterns conducive to compound extreme rainfall–wave events in the NW Mediterranean33
Impacts of hydrofacies geometry designed from seismic refraction tomography on estimated hydrogeophysical variables32
An ensemble-based approach for pumping optimization in an island aquifer considering parameter, observation and climate uncertainty32
Using data assimilation to optimize pedotransfer functions using field-scale in situ soil moisture observations32
Projecting sediment export from two highly glacierized alpine catchments under climate change: exploring non-parametric regression as an analysis tool32
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France32
Global dryland aridity changes indicated by atmospheric, hydrological, and vegetation observations at meteorological stations32
Robust historical evapotranspiration trends across climate regimes31
Geophysically based analysis of breakthrough curves and ion exchange processes in soil31
Future response of ecosystem water use efficiency to CO2 effects in the Yellow River Basin, China31
Long-term climate-influenced land cover change in discontinuous permafrost peatland complexes31
The significance of the leaf area index for evapotranspiration estimation in SWAT-T for characteristic land cover types of West Africa31
Drastic decline of flood pulse in the Cambodian floodplains (Mekong River and Tonle Sap system)30
Identifying the dynamic evolution and feedback process of water resources nexus system considering socioeconomic development, ecological protection, and food security: A practical tool for sustainable30
Bias-correcting input variables enhances forecasting of reference crop evapotranspiration30
Hydrology without dimensions30
Effects of aquifer geometry on seawater intrusion in annulus segment island aquifers30
A scaling procedure for straightforward computation of sorptivity30
Modelling the artificial forest (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) root–soil water interactions in the Loess Plateau, China30
Feedback mechanisms between precipitation and dissolution reactions across randomly heterogeneous conductivity fields30
Advances in the hydraulic interpretation of water wells using flowmeter logs29
Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations29
A combined use of in situ and satellite-derived observations to characterize surface hydrology and its variability in the Congo River basin29
The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways29
Impact of correcting sub-daily climate model biases for hydrological studies29
Rainfall–runoff relationships at event scale in western Mediterranean ephemeral streams29
On the links between sub-seasonal clustering of extreme precipitation and high discharge in Switzerland and Europe28
Integrating process-related information into an artificial neural network for root-zone soil moisture prediction28
Effects of spatial and temporal variability in surface water inputs on streamflow generation and cessation in the rain–snow transition zone28
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert28
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient28
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed28
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations27
Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium27
Accuracy of five ground heat flux empirical simulation methods in the surface-energy-balance-based remote-sensing evapotranspiration models27
Investigation of the functional relationship between antecedent rainfall and the probability of debris flow occurrence in Jiangjia Gully, China26
Global total precipitable water variations and trends over the period 1958–202126
Significant regime shifts in historical water yield in the Upper Brahmaputra River basin26
The influence of hillslope topography on beech water use: a comparative study in two different climates26
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities26
The origin of hydrological responses following earthquakes in a confined aquifer: insight from water level, flow rate, and temperature observations26
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 basin26
A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments – case study for the Naryn River, central Asia26
Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling25
Evolution of river regimes in the Mekong River basin over 8 decades and the role of dams in recent hydrological extremes25
Seasonal and interannual dissolved organic carbon transport process dynamics in a subarctic headwater catchment revealed by high-resolution measurements25
Drainage assessment of irrigation districts: on the precision and accuracy of four parsimonious models25
Technical note: Do different projections matter for the Budyko framework?24
Spatiotemporal variation of modern lake, stream, and soil water isotopes in Iceland24
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-198024
A hydrogeological conceptual model of aquifers in catchments headed by temperate glaciers24
The influence of vegetation water dynamics on the ASCAT backscatter–incidence angle relationship in the Amazon24
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods24
Subsurface flow paths in a chronosequence of calcareous soils: impact of soil age and rainfall intensities on preferential flow occurrence23
Monitoring the combined effects of drought and salinity stress on crops using remote sensing in the Netherlands23
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events23
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation23
Technical note: Analyzing river network dynamics and the active length–discharge relationship using water presence sensors23
Multi-objective calibration and evaluation of the ORCHIDEE land surface model over France at high resolution22
The role of multi-criteria decision analysis in a transdisciplinary process: co-developing a flood forecasting system in western Africa22
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components22
Seasonal shifts in depth-to-water uptake by young thinned and overstocked lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests under drought conditions in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada22
Comprehensive evaluation of satellite-based and reanalysis soil moisture products using in situ observations over China22
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective22
Estimating spatiotemporally continuous snow water equivalent from intermittent satellite observations: an evaluation using synthetic data22
Hydrological response to climate change and human activities in the Three-River Source Region22
Technical note: Introduction of a superconducting gravimeter as novel hydrological sensor for the Alpine research catchment Zugspitze22
A wavelet-based approach to streamflow event identification and modeled timing error evaluation22
Machine learning deciphers CO2 sequestration and subsurface flowpaths from stream chemistry21
Trends and variability in snowmelt in China under climate change21
Inferring reservoir filling strategies under limited-data-availability conditions using hydrological modeling and Earth observations: the case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)21
Influences of land use changes on the dynamics of water quantity and quality in the German lowland catchment of the Stör21
Space variability impacts on hydrological responses of nature-based solutions and the resulting uncertainty: a case study of Guyancourt (France)21
Groundwater flow paths drive longitudinal patterns of stream dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations in boreal landscapes21
Recent decrease in summer precipitation over the Iberian Peninsula closely links to reduction in local moisture recycling21
Quantitative rainfall analysis of the 2021 mid-July flood event in Belgium21
Effect of tides on river water behavior over the eastern shelf seas of China21
Extreme precipitation events induce high fluxes of groundwater and associated nutrients to coastal ocean20
Multi-decadal fluctuations in root zone storage capacity through vegetation adaptation to hydro-climatic variability have minor effects on the hydrological response in the Neckar River basin, Germany20
Evaluating the impact of post-processing medium-range ensemble streamflow forecasts from the European Flood Awareness System20
Levee system transformation in coevolution between humans and water systems along the Kiso River, Japan20
Evaporation and sublimation measurement and modeling of an alpine saline lake influenced by freeze–thaw on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau20
Ensemble streamflow prediction considering the influence of reservoirs in Narmada River Basin, India20
Recent hydrological response of glaciers in the Canadian Rockies to changing climate and glacier configuration20
Past and future climate change effects on the thermal regime and oxygen solubility of four peri-alpine lakes20
Theoretical and empirical evidence against the Budyko catchment trajectory conjecture20
HESS Opinions: Are soils overrated in hydrology?20
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data20
Effects of urbanization on the water cycle in the Shiyang River basin: based on a stable isotope method19
Compound flood impact forecasting: integrating fluvial and flash flood impact assessments into a unified system19
Present and future thermal regimes of intertidal groundwater springs in a threatened coastal ecosystem19
Assessing the dependence structure between oceanographic, fluvial, and pluvial flooding drivers along the United States coastline19
A 10 km North American precipitation and land-surface reanalysis based on the GEM atmospheric model19
Meteorological ingredients of heavy precipitation and subsequent lake-filling episodes in the northwestern Sahara19
Technical note: The CREDIBLE Uncertainty Estimation (CURE) toolbox: facilitating the communication of epistemic uncertainty19
Technical note: An approach for handling multiple temporal frequencies with different input dimensions using a single LSTM cell19
Rapid spatio-temporal flood modelling via hydraulics-based graph neural networks19
Diagnosing modeling errors in global terrestrial water storage interannual variability19
Event and seasonal hydrologic connectivity patterns in an agricultural headwater catchment19
Bending of the concentration discharge relationship can inform about in-stream nitrate removal19
Technical note: Hydrology modelling R packages – a unified analysis of models and practicalities from a user perspective19
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 basi18
Interaction of soil water and groundwater during the freezing–thawing cycle: field observations and numerical modeling18
Identification of compound drought and heatwave events on a daily scale and across four seasons18
Towards hybrid modeling of the global hydrological cycle18
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data18
Extending the utility of space-borne snow water equivalent observations over vegetated areas with data assimilation18
Flood forecasting with machine learning models in an operational framework18
Agricultural intensification vs. climate change: what drives long-term changes in sediment load?18
Uncertainty in water transit time estimation with StorAge Selection functions and tracer data interpolation18
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams18
From hydraulic root architecture models to efficient macroscopic sink terms including perirhizal resistance: quantifying accuracy and computational speed18
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade18
Development of a national 7-day ensemble streamflow forecasting service for Australia18
Multi-model approach in a variable spatial framework for streamflow simulation17
Impact of runoff schemes on global flow discharge: a comprehensive analysis using the Noah-MP and CaMa-Flood models17
Distribution, trends, and drivers of flash droughts in the United Kingdom17
Laboratory heat transport experiments reveal grain-size- and flow-velocity-dependent local thermal non-equilibrium effects17
A comparative study of plant water extraction methods for isotopic analyses: Scholander-type pressure chamber vs. cryogenic vacuum distillation17
High-resolution automated detection of headwater streambeds for large watersheds17
On understanding mountainous carbonate basins of the Mediterranean using parsimonious modeling solutions17
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs17
Using the classical model for structured expert judgment to estimate extremes: a case study of discharges in the Meuse River17
Regional patterns and drivers of modelled water flows along environmental, functional, and stand structure gradients in Spanish forests17
Assessing interannual variability in nitrogen sourcing and retention through hybrid Bayesian watershed modeling17
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective17
Hydrologic implications of projected changes in rain-on-snow melt for Great Lakes Basin watersheds17
The interprovincial green water flow in China and its teleconnected effects on the social economy17
Numerical daemons of hydrological models are summoned by extreme precipitation17
Declining water resources in response to global warming and changes in atmospheric circulation patterns over southern Mediterranean France17
Characterizing groundwater heat transport in a complex lowland aquifer using paleo-temperature reconstruction, satellite data, temperature–depth profiles, and numerical models17
Leveraging a radar-based disdrometer network to develop a probabilistic precipitation phase model in eastern Canada17
Are dependencies of extreme rainfall on humidity more reliable in convection-permitting climate models?17
A deep-learning-technique-based data-driven model for accurate and rapid flood predictions in temporal and spatial dimensions17
Comment on “A comparison of catchment travel times and storage deduced from deuterium and tritium tracers using StorAge Selection functions” by Rodriguez et al. (2021)16
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves16
Elasticity curves describe streamflow sensitivity to precipitation across the entire flow distribution16
Disentangling coastal groundwater level dynamics in a global dataset16
Skill of seasonal flow forecasts at catchment scale: an assessment across South Korea16
Evaluation of water flux predictive models developed using eddy-covariance observations and machine learning: a meta-analysis16
A deep learning hybrid predictive modeling (HPM) approach for estimating evapotranspiration and ecosystem respiration16
Probabilistic modeling of field-scale CO2 generation by carbonate–clay reactions in sedimentary basins16
Using high-frequency solute synchronies to determine simple two-end-member mixing in catchments during storm events16
Mass balance and hydrological modeling of the Hardangerjøkulen ice cap in south-central Norway16
An algorithm for deriving the topology of belowground urban stormwater networks16
A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models16
Changes in mean evapotranspiration dominate groundwater recharge in semi-arid regions16
Technical Note: Temporal disaggregation of spatial rainfall fields with generative adversarial networks16
A climatological benchmark for operational radar rainfall bias reduction16
Ensemble streamflow forecasting over a cascade reservoir catchment with integrated hydrometeorological modeling and machine learning16
How is Baseflow Index (BFI) impacted by water resource management practices?16
Assessing groundwater level modelling using a 1-D convolutional neural network (CNN): linking model performances to geospatial and time series features16
Quantifying the uncertainty of precipitation forecasting using probabilistic deep learning16
Spatiotemporal and cross-scale interactions in hydroclimate variability: a case-study in France16
Resolving seasonal and diel dynamics of non-rainfall water inputs in a Mediterranean ecosystem using lysimeters15
Does non-stationarity induced by multiyear drought invalidate the paired-catchment method?15
A storm-centered multivariate modeling of extreme precipitation frequency based on atmospheric water balance15
In situ estimation of soil hydraulic and hydrodispersive properties by inversion of electromagnetic induction measurements and soil hydrological modeling15
Numerical assessment of morphological and hydraulic properties of moss, lichen and peat from a permafrost peatland15
A statistical–dynamical approach for probabilistic prediction of sub-seasonal precipitation anomalies over 17 hydroclimatic regions in China15
Phosphorus supply and floodplain design govern phosphorus reduction capacity in remediated agricultural streams15
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model15
Inferring heavy tails of flood distributions through hydrograph recession analysis15
Coupled hydrogeophysical inversion of an artificial infiltration experiment monitored with ground-penetrating radar: synthetic demonstration15
Flow recession behavior of preferential subsurface flow patterns with minimum energy dissipation15
Characterization of the highly fractured zone at the Grimsel Test Site based on hydraulic tomography15
River flooding mechanisms and their changes in Europe revealed by explainable machine learning15
Impacts of different types of El Niño events on water quality over the Corn Belt, United States15
Advancing stream classification and hydrologic modeling of ungaged basins for environmental flow management in coastal southern California15
Accounting for precipitation asymmetry in a multiplicative random cascade disaggregation model15
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models15
Differentiating between crop and soil effects on soil moisture dynamics15
Bias-blind and bias-aware assimilation of leaf area index into the Noah-MP land surface model over Europe15
A comprehensive open-source course for teaching applied hydrological modelling in Central Asia15
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment15
Assessing the influence of lake and watershed attributes on snowmelt bypass at thermokarst lakes15
Scaling methods of leakage correction in GRACE mass change estimates revisited for the complex hydro-climatic setting of the Indus Basin15
A principal-component-based strategy for regionalisation of precipitation intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) statistics15
Reframing water demand management: a new co-governance framework coupling supply-side and demand-side solutions toward sustainability15
Bayesian parameter inference in hydrological modelling using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approach with a stochastic rain model15
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-driven hypersedimentation in the Poechos Reservoir, northern Peru15
Understanding the compound flood risk along the coast of the contiguous United States15
Multi-decadal floodplain classification and trend analysis in the Upper Columbia River valley, British Columbia14
A new fractal-theory-based criterion for hydrological model calibration14
Quantifying cascading uncertainty in compound flood modeling with linked process-based and machine learning models14
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