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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Feedback mechanisms between precipitation and dissolution reactions across randomly heterogeneous conductivity fields210
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps180
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed163
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations130
Spatial variability in the seasonal precipitation lapse rates in complex topographical regions – application in France124
Spatiotemporal optimization of groundwater monitoring networks using data-driven sparse sensing methods101
Non-asymptotic distributions of water extremes: much ado about what?99
A scalable and modular reservoir implementation for large-scale integrated hydrologic simulations97
Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory?76
Space variability impacts on hydrological responses of nature-based solutions and the resulting uncertainty: a case study of Guyancourt (France)75
Karst spring recession and classification: efficient, automated methods for both fast- and slow-flow components75
Using Long Short-Term Memory networks to connect water table depth anomalies to precipitation anomalies over Europe74
Quantifying multi-year hydrological memory with Catchment Forgetting Curves73
Technical note: Introduction of a superconducting gravimeter as novel hydrological sensor for the Alpine research catchment Zugspitze72
How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?69
Bias-correcting input variables enhances forecasting of reference crop evapotranspiration66
Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa61
Assessing the dependence structure between oceanographic, fluvial, and pluvial flooding drivers along the United States coastline59
A hydrologist's guide to open science54
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient54
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert54
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams53
Technical note: On uncertainties in plant water isotopic composition following extraction by cryogenic vacuum distillation52
Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium50
Machine-learning- and deep-learning-based streamflow prediction in a hilly catchment for future scenarios using CMIP6 GCM data48
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities48
Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations47
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?45
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed45
Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations44
Karst spring discharge modeling based on deep learning using spatially distributed input data44
Evaluating an Earth system model from a water manager perspective42
Use of streamflow indices to identify the catchment drivers of hydrographs41
Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment41
Can system dynamics explain long-term hydrological behaviors? The role of endogenous linking structure41
How is Baseflow Index (BFI) impacted by water resource management practices?41
Effect of the spatial resolution of digital terrain data obtained by drone on urban fluvial flood modeling of mountainous regions41
Links between seasonal suprapermafrost groundwater, the hydrothermal change of the active layer, and river runoff in alpine permafrost watersheds40
Hydrological regime of Sahelian small waterbodies from combined Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter data40
The role of morphology in the spatial distribution of short-duration rainfall extremes in Italy40
Root zone soil moisture in over 25 % of global land permanently beyond pre-industrial variability as early as 2050 without climate policy39
Bayesian parameter inference in hydrological modelling using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approach with a stochastic rain model39
CABra: a novel large-sample dataset for Brazilian catchments39
Data worth analysis within a model-free data assimilation framework for soil moisture flow38
Flood frequency analysis using mean daily flows vs. instantaneous peak flows38
Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models38
Towards understanding the influence of seasons on low-groundwater periods based on explainable machine learning38
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model38
Snowmelt-mediated isotopic homogenization of shallow till soil38
Probabilistic modeling of field-scale CO2 generation by carbonate–clay reactions in sedimentary basins37
Short high-accuracy tritium data time series for assessing groundwater mean transit times in the vadose and saturated zones of the Luxembourg Sandstone aquifer37
Barriers to mainstream adoption of catchment-wide natural flood management: a transdisciplinary problem-framing study of delivery practice36
Enhancing generalizability of data-driven urban flood models by incorporating contextual information36
Spatial distribution of groundwater recharge, based on regionalised soil moisture models in Wadi Natuf karst aquifers, Palestine36
Cooperation under conflict: participatory hydrological modeling for science policy dialogues for the Aculeo Lake36
Skill of seasonal flow forecasts at catchment scale: an assessment across South Korea36
Technical note: Statistical generation of climate-perturbed flow duration curves35
Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling34
Adaptively monitoring streamflow using a stereo computer vision system34
Historical simulation of maize water footprints with a new global gridded crop model ACEA34
Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling34
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States34
Changing snow water storage in natural snow reservoirs34
Advance prediction of coastal groundwater levels with temporal convolutional and long short-term memory networks33
Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates33
Can the combining of wetlands with reservoir operation reduce the risk of future floods and droughts?33
Deep learning for monthly rainfall–runoff modelling: a large-sample comparison with conceptual models across Australia32
Simulating sub-hourly rainfall data for current and future periods using two statistical disaggregation models: case studies from Germany and South Korea32
The suitability of differentiable, physics-informed machine learning hydrologic models for ungauged regions and climate change impact assessment32
Exploring the possible role of satellite-based rainfall data in estimating inter- and intra-annual global rainfall erosivity32
Seasonal dynamics and spatial patterns of soil moisture in a loess catchment31
Improved understanding of regional groundwater drought development through time series modelling: the 2018–2019 drought in the Netherlands31
Combining passive and active distributed temperature sensing measurements to locate and quantify groundwater discharge variability into a headwater stream31
Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models31
Long-term reconstruction of satellite-based precipitation, soil moisture, and snow water equivalent in China31
Technical note: An assessment of the relative contribution of the Soret effect to open-water evaporation30
On the importance of discharge observation uncertainty when interpreting hydrological model performance30
Performance of the Global Forecast System's medium-range precipitation forecasts in the Niger river basin using multiple satellite-based products30
Flood generation: process patterns from the raindrop to the ocean30
Machine-learning methods to assess the effects of a non-linear damage spectrum taking into account soil moisture on winter wheat yields in Germany30
Warming of the Willamette River, 1850–present: the effects of climate change and river system alterations30
Novel statistical analysis illustrates the importance of flow source for extreme variation in dissolved organic carbon in a eutrophic reservoir in the Great Plains30
Improvement of the KarstMod modelling platform for a better assessment of karst groundwater resources30
On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India29
Technical Note: Combining undisturbed soil monoliths for hydrological indoor experiments29
Using machine learning to predict optimal electromagnetic induction instrument configurations for characterizing the shallow subsurface29
Widespread flooding dynamics under climate change: characterising floods using grid-based hydrological modelling and regional climate projections28
Choosing between post-processing precipitation forecasts or chaining several uncertainty quantification tools in hydrological forecasting systems28
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 network28
Interactions between thresholds and spatial discretizations of snow: insights from estimates of wolverine denning habitat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains28
Aquifer recharge in the Piedmont Alpine zone: historical trends and future scenarios28
Improving runoff simulation in the Western United States with Noah-MP and VIC models28
Insights into the isotopic mismatch between bulk soil water and Salix matsudana Koidz trunk water from root water stable isotope measurements27
Analysis of high streamflow extremes in climate change studies: how do we calibrate hydrological models?27
On the visual detection of non-natural records in streamflow time series: challenges and impacts26
A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change26
Technical note: Isotopic fractionation of evaporating waters: effect of sub-daily atmospheric variations and eventual depletion of heavy isotopes25
Global evaluation of the “dry gets drier, and wet gets wetter” paradigm from a terrestrial water storage change perspective25
Controls on leaf water hydrogen and oxygen isotopes: a local investigation across seasons and altitude25
Soil moisture modeling with ERA5-Land retrievals, topographic indices, and in situ measurements and its use for predicting ruts25
HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories24
Shannon entropy of transport self-organization due to dissolution–precipitation reaction at varying Peclet numbers in initially homogeneous porous media24
Technical note: Conservative storage of water vapour – practical in situ sampling of stable isotopes in tree stems24
A comprehensive study of deep learning for soil moisture prediction24
Contribution of cryosphere to runoff in the transition zone between the Tibetan Plateau and arid region based on environmental isotopes24
A novel method to identify sub-seasonal clustering episodes of extreme precipitation events and their contributions to large accumulation periods24
Sensitivity of the pseudo-global warming method under flood conditions: a case study from the northeastern US24
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
Technical note: Modeling spatial fields of extreme precipitation – a hierarchical Bayesian approach24
Technical note: PMR – a proxy metric to assess hydrological model robustness in a changing climate23
Pitfalls and a feasible solution for using KGE as an informal likelihood function in MCMC methods: DREAM(ZS) as an example23
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
Downscaling the probability of heavy rainfall over the Nordic countries22
Discharge of groundwater flow to Potter Cove on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula22
Exploring the provenance of information across Canadian hydrometric stations: implications for discharge estimation and uncertainty quantification22
Dynamical forcings in heavy precipitation events over Italy: lessons from the HyMeX SOP1 campaign22
Exploring hydrologic post-processing of ensemble streamflow forecasts based on affine kernel dressing and non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II22
On the value of satellite remote sensing to reduce uncertainties of regional simulations of the Colorado River22
Isotopic evaluation of the National Water Model reveals missing agricultural irrigation contributions to streamflow across the western United States22
The value of satellite soil moisture and snow cover data for the transfer of hydrological model parameters to ungauged sites22
Technical note: A fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements22
Drivers of global irrigation expansion: the role of discrete global grid choice22
Social dilemmas and poor water quality in household water systems22
Towards reducing the high cost of parameter sensitivity analysis in hydrologic modeling: a regional parameter sensitivity analysis approach21
Joint optimal operation of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project considering the evenness of water deficit21
A gridded multi-site precipitation generator for complex terrain: an evaluation in the Austrian Alps21
Projected changes in droughts and extreme droughts in Great Britain strongly influenced by the choice of drought index21
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)21
Disentangling sources of future uncertainties for water management in sub-Saharan river basins21
How to account for irrigation withdrawals in a watershed model21
Optimizing a backscatter forward operator using Sentinel-1 data over irrigated land21
Microphysical features of typhoon and non-typhoon rainfall observed in Taiwan, an island in the northwestern Pacific20
A 60-year drought analysis of meteorological data in the western Po River basin20
Comparison between canonical vine copulas and a meta-Gaussian model for forecasting agricultural drought over China20
Flow intermittence prediction using a hybrid hydrological modelling approach: influence of observed intermittence data on the training of a random forest model20
Forecasting green roof detention performance by temporal downscaling of precipitation time-series projections20
High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy20
The influence of human activities on streamflow reductions during the megadrought in central Chile20
Inferring sediment-discharge event types in an Alpine catchment from sub-daily time series20
A signal-processing-based interpretation of the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency20
HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a “Day Zero”20
Quantifying the effects of urban green space on water partitioning and ages using an isotope-based ecohydrological model20
Evaluation of reanalysis soil moisture products using cosmic ray neutron sensor observations across the globe20
Technical note: Two-component electrical-conductivity-based hydrograph separation employing an exponential mixing model (EXPECT) provides reliable high-temporal-resolution young water fraction estimat20
Feature scale and identifiability: how much information do point hydraulic measurements provide about heterogeneous head and conductivity fields?19
Elucidating the role of soil hydraulic properties on aspect-dependent landslide initiation19
Structural gaps of water resources knowledge in global river basins19
Uncertainty estimation of regionalised depth–duration–frequency curves in Germany19
Effects of boundary conditions and aquifer parameters on salinity distribution and mixing-controlled reactions in high-energy beach aquifers19
A Bayesian model for quantifying errors in citizen science data: application to rainfall observations from Nepal19
Drought research priorities, trends, and geographic patterns19
Combined impacts of uncertainty in precipitation and air temperature on simulated mountain system recharge from an integrated hydrologic model19
Machine-learning-constrained projection of bivariate hydrological drought magnitudes and socioeconomic risks over China19
A Bayesian updating framework for calibrating the hydrological parameters of road networks using taxi GPS data19
Technical note: Testing the connection between hillslope-scale runoff fluctuations and streamflow hydrographs at the outlet of large river basins19
Assimilation of probabilistic flood maps from SAR data into a coupled hydrologic–hydraulic forecasting model: a proof of concept19
All models are wrong, but are they useful? Assessing reliability across multiple sites to build trust in urban drainage modelling18
Combining statistical and hydrodynamic models to assess compound flood hazards from rainfall and storm surge: a case study of Shanghai18
CONCN: a high-resolution, integrated surface water–groundwater ParFlow modeling platform of continental China18
Spatiotemporal responses of the crop water footprint and its associated benchmarks under different irrigation regimes to climate change scenarios in China18
Improved representation of soil moisture processes through incorporation of cosmic-ray neutron count measurements in a large-scale hydrologic model18
Routing stemflow water through the soil via preferential flow: a dual-labelling approach with artificial tracers18
Divergent future drought projections in UK river flows and groundwater levels18
Future projections of High Atlas snowpack and runoff under climate change18
The effects of rain and evapotranspiration statistics on groundwater recharge estimations for semi-arid environments18
A graph neural network (GNN) approach to basin-scale river network learning: the role of physics-based connectivity and data fusion18
Technical note: Efficient imaging of hydrological units below lakes and fjords with a floating, transient electromagnetic (FloaTEM) system18
Projected future changes in the cryosphere and hydrology of a mountainous catchment in the upper Heihe River, China18
Delayed stormflow generation in a semi-humid forested watershed controlled by soil water storage and groundwater dynamics18
Regionalisation of rainfall depth–duration–frequency curves with different data types in Germany18
Inter- and intra-event rainfall partitioning dynamics of two typical xerophytic shrubs in the Loess Plateau of China18
Satellite rainfall products outperform ground observations for landslide prediction in India18
Land surface modeling over the Dry Chaco: the impact of model structures, and soil, vegetation and land cover parameters18
Evaporation from a large lowland reservoir – observed dynamics and drivers during a warm summer17
Soil water sources and their implications for vegetation restoration in the Three-Rivers Headwater Region during different ablation periods17
Technical note: Investigating the potential for smartphone-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and land surface energy-balance partitioning17
Soil moisture estimates at 1 km resolution making a synergistic use of Sentinel data17
Response of active catchment water storage capacity to a prolonged meteorological drought and asymptotic climate variation17
Spatially distributed impacts of climate change and groundwater demand on the water resources in a wadi system17
Bridging the scale gap: obtaining high-resolution stochastic simulations of gridded daily precipitation in a future climate17
Quantifying overlapping and differing information of global precipitation for GCM forecasts and El Niño–Southern Oscillation17
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
Robustness of a parsimonious subsurface drainage model at the French national scale17
Soil moisture estimation in South Asia via assimilation of SMAP retrievals17
Characterizing basin-scale precipitation gradients in the Third Pole region using a high-resolution atmospheric simulation-based dataset17
Uncertainties and their interaction in flood hazard assessment with climate change17
Changes in the simulation of atmospheric instability over the Iberian Peninsula due to the use of 3DVAR data assimilation17
Study on a mother wavelet optimization framework based on change-point detection of hydrological time series17
Assessing hydrological sensitivity of grassland basins in the Canadian Prairies to climate using a basin classification-based virtual modelling approach17
Mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems using a high-resolution global groundwater model17
How seasonal hydroclimate variability drives the triple oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of small lake systems in semiarid environments17
Assimilating ESA CCI land surface temperature into the ORCHIDEE land surface model: insights from a multi-site study across Europe17
High-resolution long-term average groundwater recharge in Africa estimated using random forest regression and residual interpolation17
A change in perspective: downhole cosmic-ray neutron sensing for the estimation of soil moisture17
Development of an integrated socio-hydrological modeling framework for assessing the impacts of shelter location arrangement and human behaviors on flood evacuation processes16
Comparison of statistical downscaling methods for climate change impact analysis on precipitation-driven drought16
Relative humidity gradients as a key constraint on terrestrial water and energy fluxes16
A D-vine copula-based quantile regression towards merging satellite precipitation products over rugged topography: a case study in the upper Tekeze–Atbara Basin16
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective16
Calibration of groundwater seepage against the spatial distribution of the stream network to assess catchment-scale hydraulic properties16
Monitoring the combined effects of drought and salinity stress on crops using remote sensing in the Netherlands16
Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management16
Comparison of artificial neural networks and reservoir models for simulating karst spring discharge on five test sites in the Alpine and Mediterranean regions16
How well does a convection-permitting regional climate model represent the reverse orographic effect of extreme hourly precipitation?16
To bucket or not to bucket? Analyzing the performance and interpretability of hybrid hydrological models with dynamic parameterization16
Climate-warming-driven changes in the cryosphere and their impact on groundwater–surface-water interactions in the Heihe River basin16
On the links between sub-seasonal clustering of extreme precipitation and high discharge in Switzerland and Europe16
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events16
The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways16
An increase in the spatial extent of European floods over the last 70 years16
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments16
Hydrologically informed machine learning for rainfall–runoff modelling: towards distributed modelling16
Contrasting hydrological and thermal intensities determine seasonal lake-level variations – a case study at Paiku Co on the southern Tibetan Plateau16
Contribution of rock glacier discharge to late summer and fall streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA16
Effects of spatial and temporal variability in surface water inputs on streamflow generation and cessation in the rain–snow transition zone16
Estimating spatiotemporally continuous snow water equivalent from intermittent satellite observations: an evaluation using synthetic data16
Root zone in the Earth system16
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-198015
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates15
Identifying the dynamic evolution and feedback process of water resources nexus system considering socioeconomic development, ecological protection, and food security: A practical tool for sustainable15
Seasonal and interannual dissolved organic carbon transport process dynamics in a subarctic headwater catchment revealed by high-resolution measurements15
Present and future thermal regimes of intertidal groundwater springs in a threatened coastal ecosystem15
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
Spatially explicit assessment of water stress and potential mitigating solutions in a large water-limited basin: the Yellow River basin in China15
Technical note: Analyzing river network dynamics and the active length–discharge relationship using water presence sensors15
A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments – case study for the Naryn River, central Asia15
Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling15
Methodology for constructing a flood-hazard map for a future climate15
The role of multi-criteria decision analysis in a transdisciplinary process: co-developing a flood forecasting system in western Africa15
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
From hydraulic root architecture models to efficient macroscopic sink terms including perirhizal resistance: quantifying accuracy and computational speed15
Pluvial and potential compound flooding in a coupled coastal modeling framework: New York City during post-tropical Cyclone Ida (2021)15
Theoretical and empirical evidence against the Budyko catchment trajectory conjecture15
Drastic decline of flood pulse in the Cambodian floodplains (Mekong River and Tonle Sap system)15
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
Uncertainty of gridded precipitation and temperature reference datasets in climate change impact studies14
Time lags of nitrate, chloride, and tritium in streams assessed by dynamic groundwater flow tracking in a lowland landscape14
Hydrologic implications of projected changes in rain-on-snow melt for Great Lakes Basin watersheds14
AI-based techniques for multi-step streamflow forecasts: application for multi-objective reservoir operation optimization and performance assessment14
Simultaneous assimilation of water levels from river gauges and satellite flood maps for near-real-time flood mapping14
Technical note: A weighing forest floor grid lysimeter14
Resolving seasonal and diel dynamics of non-rainfall water inputs in a Mediterranean ecosystem using lysimeters14
On understanding mountainous carbonate basins of the Mediterranean using parsimonious modeling solutions14
Reframing water demand management: a new co-governance framework coupling supply-side and demand-side solutions toward sustainability14
Characterization of the highly fractured zone at the Grimsel Test Site based on hydraulic tomography14
Evaluating different machine learning methods to simulate runoff from extensive green roofs14
Three hypotheses on changing river flood hazards14
A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models14
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