08 Oct 2024
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Characterizing nonlinear, nonstationary, and heterogeneous hydrologic behavior using ensemble rainfall–runoff analysis (ERRA): proof of concept
James W. Kirchner
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4427–4454, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4427-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4427-2024, 2024 | 5,546 views
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14 Aug 2025
Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities
Matthew T. Perks, Borbála Hortobágyi, Nick Everard, Susan Manson, Juliet Rowland, Andrew Large, and Andrew J. Russell
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3727–3743, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3727-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3727-2025, 2025 | 5,218 views
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30 Jun 2025
Understanding ecohydrology and biodiversity in aquatic nature-based solutions in urban streams and ponds through an integrative multi-tracer approach
Maria Magdalena Warter, Dörthe Tetzlaff, Chris Soulsby, Tobias Goldhammer, Daniel Gebler, Kati Vierikko, and Michael T. Monaghan
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2707–2725, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2707-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2707-2025, 2025 | 5,094 views
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14 Oct 2024
Root zone in the Earth system
Hongkai Gao, Markus Hrachowitz, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Fabrizio Fenicia, Qiaojuan Xi, Jianyang Xia, Wei Shao, Ge Sun, and Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4477–4499, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4477-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4477-2024, 2024 | 4,925 views
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17 Mar 2025
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Meteorological ingredients of heavy precipitation and subsequent lake-filling episodes in the northwestern Sahara
Joëlle C. Rieder, Franziska Aemisegger, Elad Dente, and Moshe Armon
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 1395–1427, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1395-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1395-2025, 2025 | 4,900 views
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27 Nov 2024
Deducing land–atmosphere coupling regimes from SMAP soil moisture
Payal R. Makhasana, Joseph A. Santanello, Patricia M. Lawston-Parker, and Joshua K. Roundy
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 5087–5106, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-5087-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-5087-2024, 2024 | 4,598 views
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13 Feb 2025
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Creating a national urban flood dataset for China from news texts (2000–2022) at the county level
Shengnan Fu, David M. Schultz, Heng Lyu, Zhonghua Zheng, and Chi Zhang
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 767–783, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-767-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-767-2025, 2025 | 4,502 views
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25 Mar 2025
Optimising ensemble streamflow predictions with bias correction and data assimilation techniques
Maliko Tanguy, Michael Eastman, Amulya Chevuturi, Eugene Magee, Elizabeth Cooper, Robert H. B. Johnson, Katie Facer-Childs, and Jamie Hannaford
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 1587–1614, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1587-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1587-2025, 2025 | 4,356 views
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04 Dec 2024
Data-driven modelling of hydraulic-head time series: results and lessons learned from the 2022 Groundwater Time Series Modelling Challenge
Raoul A. Collenteur, Ezra Haaf, Mark Bakker, Tanja Liesch, Andreas Wunsch, Jenny Soonthornrangsan, Jeremy White, Nick Martin, Rui Hugman, Ed de Sousa, Didier Vanden Berghe, Xinyang Fan, Tim J. Peterson, Jānis Bikše, Antoine Di Ciacca, Xinyue Wang, Yang Zheng, Maximilian Nölscher, Julian Koch, Raphael Schneider, Nikolas Benavides Höglund, Sivarama Krishna Reddy Chidepudi, Abel Henriot, Nicolas Massei, Abderrahim Jardani, Max Gustav Rudolph, Amir Rouhani, J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández, Seifeddine Jomaa, Anna Pölz, Tim Franken, Morteza Behbooei, Jimmy Lin, and Rojin Meysami
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 5193–5208, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-5193-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-5193-2024, 2024 | 4,286 views
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20 Sep 2024
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Young and new water fractions in soil and hillslope waters
Marius G. Floriancic, Scott T. Allen, and James W. Kirchner
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4295–4308, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4295-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4295-2024, 2024 | 4,251 views
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27 Feb 2025
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CH-RUN: a deep-learning-based spatially contiguous runoff reconstruction for Switzerland
Basil Kraft, Michael Schirmer, William H. Aeberhard, Massimiliano Zappa, Sonia I. Seneviratne, and Lukas Gudmundsson
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 1061–1082, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1061-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1061-2025, 2025 | 4,164 views
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29 Oct 2024
Technical note: A guide to using three open-source quality control algorithms for rainfall data from personal weather stations
Abbas El Hachem, Jochen Seidel, Tess O'Hara, Roberto Villalobos Herrera, Aart Overeem, Remko Uijlenhoet, András Bárdossy, and Lotte de Vos
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4715–4731, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4715-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4715-2024, 2024 | 3,979 views
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13 Mar 2025
Drought research priorities, trends, and geographic patterns
Roland Baatz, Gohar Ghazaryan, Michael Hagenlocher, Claas Nendel, Andrea Toreti, and Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 1379–1393, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1379-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1379-2025, 2025 | 3,701 views
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10 Jan 2025
Review of gridded climate products and their use in hydrological analyses reveals overlaps, gaps, and the need for a more objective approach to selecting model forcing datasets
Kyle R. Mankin, Sushant Mehan, Timothy R. Green, and David M. Barnard
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 85–108, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-85-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-85-2025, 2025 | 3,662 views
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28 Apr 2025
Technical note: An assessment of the relative contribution of the Soret effect to open-water evaporation
Michael L. Roderick and Callum J. Shakespeare
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2097–2108, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2097-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2097-2025, 2025 | 3,573 views
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22 Apr 2025
Technical note: What does the Standardized Streamflow Index actually reflect? Insights and implications for hydrological drought analysis
Fabián Lema, Pablo A. Mendoza, Nicolás A. Vásquez, Naoki Mizukami, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, and Ximena Vargas
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 1981–2002, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1981-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1981-2025, 2025 | 3,412 views
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17 Jun 2025
Machine learning in stream and river water temperature modeling: a review and metrics for evaluation
Claudia Rebecca Corona and Terri Sue Hogue
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2521–2549, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2521-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2521-2025, 2025 | 3,302 views
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08 May 2025
HESS Opinions: Floods and droughts – are land use, soil management, and landscape hydrology more significant drivers than increasing CO2?
Karl Auerswald, Juergen Geist, John N. Quinton, and Peter Fiener
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2185–2200, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2185-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2185-2025, 2025 | 3,184 views
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16 Oct 2024
Hybrid hydrological modeling for large alpine basins: a semi-distributed approach
Bu Li, Ting Sun, Fuqiang Tian, Mahmut Tudaji, Li Qin, and Guangheng Ni
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4521–4538, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4521-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4521-2024, 2024 | 3,162 views
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20 Aug 2025
Soil moisture product consistency for operational drought monitoring in Europe
Jaime Gaona, Davide Bavera, Guido Fioravanti, Sebastian Hahn, Pietro Stradiotti, Paolo Filippucci, Stefania Camici, Luca Ciabatta, Hamidreza Mosaffa, Silvia Puca, Nicoletta Roberto, and Luca Brocca
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3865–3888, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3865-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3865-2025, 2025 | 2,985 views
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01 Oct 2024
Exploring the provenance of information across Canadian hydrometric stations: implications for discharge estimation and uncertainty quantification
Shervan Gharari, Paul H. Whitfield, Alain Pietroniro, Jim Freer, Hongli Liu, and Martyn P. Clark
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4383–4405, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4383-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4383-2024, 2024 | 2,885 views
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23 Jan 2025
HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories
Paolo Nasta, Günter Blöschl, Heye R. Bogena, Steffen Zacharias, Roland Baatz, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Karsten H. Jensen, Salvatore Manfreda, Laurent Pfister, Ana M. Tarquis, Ilja van Meerveld, Marc Voltz, Yijian Zeng, William Kustas, Xin Li, Harry Vereecken, and Nunzio Romano
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 465–483, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-465-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-465-2025, 2025 | 2,808 views
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24 Oct 2024
Multi-scale soil moisture data and process-based modeling reveal the importance of lateral groundwater flow in a subarctic catchment
Jari-Pekka Nousu, Kersti Leppä, Hannu Marttila, Pertti Ala-aho, Giulia Mazzotti, Terhikki Manninen, Mika Korkiakoski, Mika Aurela, Annalea Lohila, and Samuli Launiainen
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4643–4666, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4643-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4643-2024, 2024 | 2,766 views
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08 Sep 2025
Technical note: Image processing for continuous river turbidity monitoring – full-scale tests and potential applications
Domenico Miglino, Seifeddine Jomaa, Michael Rode, Khim Cathleen Saddi, Francesco Isgrò, and Salvatore Manfreda
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 4133–4151, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4133-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4133-2025, 2025 | 2,732 views
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04 Jun 2025
Technical note: How many models do we need to simulate hydrologic processes across large geographical domains?
Wouter J. M. Knoben, Ashwin Raman, Gaby J. Gründemann, Mukesh Kumar, Alain Pietroniro, Chaopeng Shen, Yalan Song, Cyril Thébault, Katie van Werkhoven, Andrew W. Wood, and Martyn P. Clark
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2361–2375, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2361-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2361-2025, 2025 | 2,730 views
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24 Mar 2025
Economic valuation of subsurface water contributions to watershed ecosystem services using a fully integrated groundwater–surface-water model
Tariq Aziz, Steven K. Frey, David R. Lapen, Susan Preston, Hazen A. J. Russell, Omar Khader, Andre R. Erler, and Edward A. Sudicky
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 1549–1568, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1549-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1549-2025, 2025 | 2,666 views
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22 Apr 2025
Deep-learning-based sub-seasonal precipitation and streamflow ensemble forecasting over the source region of the Yangtze River
Ningpeng Dong, Haoran Hao, Mingxiang Yang, Jianhui Wei, Shiqin Xu, and Harald Kunstmann
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2023–2042, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2023-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2023-2025, 2025 | 2,653 views
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03 Jul 2025
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Is drought protection possible without compromising flood protection? Estimating the potential dual-use benefit of small flood reservoirs in southern Germany
Sarah Quỳnh-Giang Ho and Uwe Ehret
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2785–2810, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2785-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2785-2025, 2025 | 2,606 views
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18 Jul 2025
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The value of hydroclimatic teleconnections for snow-based seasonal streamflow forecasting in central Asia
Atabek Umirbekov, Mayra Daniela Peña-Guerrero, Iulii Didovets, Heiko Apel, Abror Gafurov, and Daniel Müller
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3055–3071, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3055-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3055-2025, 2025 | 2,605 views
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25 Mar 2025
Projections of streamflow intermittence under climate change in European drying river networks
Louise Mimeau, Annika Künne, Alexandre Devers, Flora Branger, Sven Kralisch, Claire Lauvernet, Jean-Philippe Vidal, Núria Bonada, Zoltán Csabai, Heikki Mykrä, Petr Pařil, Luka Polović, and Thibault Datry
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 1615–1636, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1615-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1615-2025, 2025 | 2,577 views
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07 Nov 2024
On the use of streamflow transformations for hydrological model calibration
Guillaume Thirel, Léonard Santos, Olivier Delaigue, and Charles Perrin
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4837–4860, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4837-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4837-2024, 2024 | 2,554 views
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26 Aug 2025
Mapping mining-affected water pollution in China: status, patterns, risks, and implications
Ziyue Yin, Jian Song, Dianguang Liu, Jianfeng Wu, Yun Yang, Yuanyuan Sun, and Jichun Wu
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3957–3973, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3957-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3957-2025, 2025 | 2,553 views
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08 Jul 2025
Technical note: A new laboratory approach to extract soil water for stable isotope analysis from large soil samples
Jiri Kocum, Jan Haidl, Ondrej Gebousky, Kristyna Falatkova, Vaclav Sipek, Martin Sanda, Natalie Orlowski, and Lukas Vlcek
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2863–2880, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2863-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2863-2025, 2025 | 2,535 views
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07 Oct 2024
Assessing groundwater level modelling using a 1-D convolutional neural network (CNN): linking model performances to geospatial and time series features
Mariana Gomez, Maximilian Nölscher, Andreas Hartmann, and Stefan Broda
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4407–4425, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4407-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4407-2024, 2024 | 2,477 views
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11 Mar 2025
Analyzing the generalization capabilities of a hybrid hydrological model for extrapolation to extreme events
Eduardo Acuña Espinoza, Ralf Loritz, Frederik Kratzert, Daniel Klotz, Martin Gauch, Manuel Álvarez Chaves, and Uwe Ehret
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 1277–1294, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1277-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1277-2025, 2025 | 2,477 views
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26 Nov 2024
On the importance of discharge observation uncertainty when interpreting hydrological model performance
Jerom P. M. Aerts, Jannis M. Hoch, Gemma Coxon, Nick C. van de Giesen, and Rolf W. Hut
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 5011–5030, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-5011-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-5011-2024, 2024 | 2,465 views
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26 Mar 2025
Technical note: An approach for handling multiple temporal frequencies with different input dimensions using a single LSTM cell
Eduardo Acuña Espinoza, Frederik Kratzert, Daniel Klotz, Martin Gauch, Manuel Álvarez Chaves, Ralf Loritz, and Uwe Ehret
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 1749–1758, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1749-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1749-2025, 2025 | 2,459 views
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16 Sep 2025
Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich, temperate environment
Jamie Hannaford, Stephen Turner, Amulya Chevuturi, Wilson Chan, Lucy J. Barker, Maliko Tanguy, Simon Parry, and Stuart Allen
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 4371–4394, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4371-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4371-2025, 2025 | 2,458 views
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08 Sep 2025
Comparison of high-resolution climate reanalysis datasets for hydro-climatic impact studies
Raul R. Wood, Joren Janzing, Amber van Hamel, Jonas Götte, Dominik L. Schumacher, and Manuela I. Brunner
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 4153–4178, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4153-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4153-2025, 2025 | 2,451 views
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24 Oct 2024
Identification, mapping, and eco-hydrological signal analysis for groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs) in Langxi River basin, north China
Mingyang Li, Fulin Li, Shidong Fu, Huawei Chen, Kairan Wang, Xuequn Chen, and Jiwen Huang
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4623–4642, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4623-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4623-2024, 2024 | 2,434 views
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07 Aug 2025
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Consequences of the Aral Sea restoration for its present physical state: temperature, mixing, and oxygen regime
Georgiy B. Kirillin, Tom Shatwell, and Alexander S. Izhitskiy
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3569–3588, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3569-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3569-2025, 2025 | 2,432 views
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29 Nov 2024
Technical note: A simple feedforward artificial neural network for high-temporal-resolution rain event detection using signal attenuation from commercial microwave links
Erlend Øydvin, Maximilian Graf, Christian Chwala, Mareile Astrid Wolff, Nils-Otto Kitterød, and Vegard Nilsen
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 5163–5171, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-5163-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-5163-2024, 2024 | 2,406 views
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13 Jan 2025
Observation-driven model for calculating water-harvesting potential from advective fog in (semi-)arid coastal regions
Felipe Lobos-Roco, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, and Camilo del Río
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 109–125, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-109-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-109-2025, 2025 | 2,402 views
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21 Nov 2024
Learning landscape features from streamflow with autoencoders
Alberto Bassi, Marvin Höge, Antonietta Mira, Fabrizio Fenicia, and Carlo Albert
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4971–4988, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4971-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4971-2024, 2024 | 2,401 views
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24 Jan 2025
Technical note: A fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements
Jonas Pyschik, Stefan Seeger, Barbara Herbstritt, and Markus Weiler
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 525–534, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-525-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-525-2025, 2025 | 2,396 views
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04 Jul 2025
Assessing the adequacy of traditional hydrological models for climate change impact studies: a case for long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks
Jean-Luc Martel, François Brissette, Richard Arsenault, Richard Turcotte, Mariana Castañeda-Gonzalez, William Armstrong, Edouard Mailhot, Jasmine Pelletier-Dumont, Gabriel Rondeau-Genesse, and Louis-Philippe Caron
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2811–2836, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2811-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2811-2025, 2025 | 2,376 views
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15 Aug 2025
Droughts and media: when and how do the newspapers talk about the droughts in England?
Inhye Kong, Jan Seibert, and Ross S. Purves
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3795–3808, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3795-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3795-2025, 2025 | 2,372 views
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17 Dec 2024
Improved representation of soil moisture processes through incorporation of cosmic-ray neutron count measurements in a large-scale hydrologic model
Eshrat Fatima, Rohini Kumar, Sabine Attinger, Maren Kaluza, Oldrich Rakovec, Corinna Rebmann, Rafael Rosolem, Sascha E. Oswald, Luis Samaniego, Steffen Zacharias, and Martin Schrön
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 5419–5441, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-5419-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-5419-2024, 2024 | 2,361 views
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06 Nov 2024
Mapping soil moisture across the UK: assimilating cosmic-ray neutron sensors, remotely sensed indices, rainfall radar and catchment water balance data in a Bayesian hierarchical model
Peter E. Levy and the COSMOS-UK team
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4819–4836, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4819-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4819-2024, 2024 | 2,355 views
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08 Jul 2025
Technical note: Streamflow seasonality using directional statistics
Wouter R. Berghuijs, Kate Hale, and Harsh Beria
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2851–2862, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2851-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2851-2025, 2025 | 2,349 views
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