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21 Nov 2025
Changing European hydroclimate under a collapsed AMOC in the Community Earth System Model
René M. van Westen, Karin van der Wiel, Swinda K. J. Falkena, and Frank Selten
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 6607–6630, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6607-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6607-2025, 2025 | 17,814 views
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19 Feb 2026
A review of current best practices and future directions in assimilating GRACE/-FO terrestrial water storage data into numerical models
Anne Springer, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Matthew Rodell, Yorck Ewerdwalbesloh, Helena Gerdener, Mehdi Khaki, Bailing Li, Fupeng Li, Maike Schumacher, Natthachet Tangdamrongsub, Mohammad J. Tourian, Wanshu Nie, and Jürgen Kusche
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 985–1022, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-985-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-985-2026, 2026 | 12,289 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 | 10,629 views
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19 May 2025
Substantial root-zone water storage capacity observed by GRACE and GRACE/FO
Meng Zhao, Erica L. McCormick, Geruo A, Alexandra G. Konings, and Bailing Li
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2293–2307, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2293-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2293-2025, 2025 | 10,590 views
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15 Oct 2025
Increasing water stress in Chile revealed by novel datasets of water availability, land use and water use
Juan Pablo Boisier, Camila Alvarez-Garreton, Rodrigo Marinao, and Mauricio Galleguillos
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 5185–5212, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5185-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5185-2025, 2025 | 9,852 views
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20 Feb 2026
Uncertainty sources in a large ensemble of hydrological projections: Regional Climate Models and Internal Variability matter
Guillaume Evin, Benoit Hingray, Guillaume Thirel, Agnès Ducharne, Laurent Strohmenger, Lola Corre, Yves Tramblay, Jean-Philippe Vidal, Jérémie Bonneau, François Colleoni, Joël Gailhard, Florence Habets, Frédéric Hendrickx, Louis Héraut, Peng Huang, Matthieu Le Lay, Claire Magand, Paola Marson, Céline Monteil, Simon Munier, Alix Reverdy, Jean-Michel Soubeyroux, Yoann Robin, Jean-Pierre Vergnes, Mathieu Vrac, and Eric Sauquet
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 1023–1051, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1023-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1023-2026, 2026 | 9,709 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 | 9,389 views
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08 Oct 2025
Saudi Rainfall (SaRa): hourly 0.1° gridded rainfall (1979–present) for Saudi Arabia via machine learning fusion of satellite and model data
Xuetong Wang, Raied S. Alharbi, Oscar M. Baez-Villanueva, Amy Green, Matthew F. McCabe, Yoshihide Wada, Albert I. J. M. Van Dijk, Muhammad A. Abid, and Hylke E. Beck
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 4983–5003, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4983-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4983-2025, 2025 | 9,166 views
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16 Mar 2026
Technical note: Analysis of concentration-discharge hysteresis loops using Self-Organizing Maps
Arlex Marin-Ramirez, David Tyler Mahoney, and Grace McDaniel
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 1359–1379, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1359-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1359-2026, 2026 | 9,150 views
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03 Dec 2025
Technical note: GRACE-compatible filtering of water storage data sets via spatial autocorrelation analysis
Ehsan Sharifi, Julian Haas, Eva Boergens, Henryk Dobslaw, and Andreas Güntner
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 6985–6998, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6985-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6985-2025, 2025 | 8,934 views
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02 Dec 2025
CoSWAT Model v1: A high-resolution global SWAT+ hydrological model
Celray James Chawanda, Ann van Griensven, Albert Nkwasa, Jose Pablo Teran Orsini, Jaehak Jeong, Soon-Kun Choi, Raghavan Srinivasan, and Jeffrey G. Arnold
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 6901–6916, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6901-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6901-2025, 2025 | 8,910 views
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01 Dec 2025
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From RNNs to Transformers: benchmarking deep learning architectures for hydrologic prediction
Jiangtao Liu, Chaopeng Shen, Fearghal O'Donncha, Yalan Song, Wei Zhi, Hylke E. Beck, Tadd Bindas, Nicholas Kraabel, and Kathryn Lawson
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 6811–6828, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6811-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6811-2025, 2025 | 8,874 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 | 8,813 views
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25 Nov 2025
Technical note: Extending the SWAT2012 and SWAT+ models to simulate pesticide plant uptake processes
Hendrik Rathjens, Jens Kiesel, Jeffrey Arnold, Gerald Reinken, and Robin Sur
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 6703–6714, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6703-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6703-2025, 2025 | 8,733 views
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07 Nov 2025
What is a drought-to-flood transition? Pitfalls and recommendations for defining consecutive hydrological extreme events
Bailey J. Anderson, Eduardo Muñoz-Castro, Lena M. Tallaksen, Alessia Matano, Jonas Götte, Rachael Armitage, Eugene Magee, and Manuela I. Brunner
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 6069–6092, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6069-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6069-2025, 2025 | 8,682 views
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12 Jan 2026
Developing Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves using sub-daily gridded and in situ datasets: characterising precipitation extremes in a drying climate
Cristóbal Soto-Escobar, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, Violeta Tolorza, and René Garreaud
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 91–117, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-91-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-91-2026, 2026 | 8,561 views
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01 Apr 2026
Technical note: Efficiency of various evaporation barriers for use in automated water samplers for subsequent water isotope analysis
Christin Mueller, Tim Giorgio Pekarev, and Kay Knoeller
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 1801–1812, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1801-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1801-2026, 2026 | 8,531 views
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07 Aug 2025
A distributed hybrid physics–AI framework for learning corrections of internal hydrological fluxes and enhancing high-resolution regionalized flood modeling
Ngo Nghi Truyen Huynh, Pierre-André Garambois, Benjamin Renard, François Colleoni, Jérôme Monnier, and Hélène Roux
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3589–3613, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3589-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3589-2025, 2025 | 8,520 views
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05 Feb 2026
Technical note: Literature based approach to estimate future snow
Bettina Richter and Christoph Marty
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 659–670, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-659-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-659-2026, 2026 | 8,338 views
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28 Jan 2026
Technical note: Including hydrologic impact definition in climate projection uncertainty partitioning: a case study of the Central American mid-summer drought
Edwin P. Maurer and Iris T. Stewart
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 421–432, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-421-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-421-2026, 2026 | 8,319 views
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28 Jan 2026
Questioning the Endorheic Paradigm: water balance dynamics in the Salar del Huasco basin, Chile
Francisca Aguirre-Correa, Oscar Hartogensis, Pedro Bonacic-Vera, and Francisco Suárez
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 433–457, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-433-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-433-2026, 2026 | 8,230 views
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23 Sep 2025
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Assessment of source regions of the Zambezi River: implications for regional water security
Mauro Lourenco, Rutledge S. Boyes, Fenton P. D. Cotterill, Tyrel Flügel, Frank C. Nyoni, Goabaone J. Ramatlapeng, and Rainer von Brandis
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 4557–4583, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4557-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4557-2025, 2025 | 8,210 views
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20 Oct 2025
Hyperdroughts in central Chile: drivers, impacts, and projections
René Garreaud, Juan Pablo Boisier, Camila Alvarez-Garreton, Duncan A. Christie, Tomás Carrasco-Escaff, Iván Vergara, Roberto O. Chávez, Paulina Aldunce, Pablo Camus, Manuel Suazo-Álvarez, Mariano Masiokas, Gabriel Castro, Ariel Muñoz, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, Rodrigo Fuster, and Lintsiee Godoy
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 5347–5369, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5347-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5347-2025, 2025 | 8,203 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 | 8,124 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 | 7,966 views
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03 Nov 2025
Unveiling the limits of deep learning models in hydrological extrapolation tasks
Sanika Baste, Daniel Klotz, Eduardo Acuña Espinoza, Andras Bardossy, and Ralf Loritz
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 5871–5891, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5871-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5871-2025, 2025 | 7,959 views
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13 Jan 2026
Evaluating E-OBS forcing data for large-sample hydrology using model performance diagnostics
Franziska Clerc-Schwarzenbach and Thiago V. M. do Nascimento
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 119–140, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-119-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-119-2026, 2026 | 7,735 views
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01 Aug 2025
Barriers to urban hydrometeorological simulation: a review
Xuan Chen, Job Augustijn van der Werf, Arjan Droste, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, and Remko Uijlenhoet
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3447–3480, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3447-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3447-2025, 2025 | 7,641 views
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06 Feb 2026
Image-based classification of stream stage to support ephemeral stream monitoring
Sarah E. Ogle, Garrett McGurk, Anahita Jensen, Fred Martin Ralph, and Morgan C. Levy
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 709–742, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-709-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-709-2026, 2026 | 7,554 views
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13 Nov 2025
Fully differentiable, fully distributed rainfall-runoff modeling
Fedor Scholz, Manuel Traub, Christiane Zarfl, Thomas Scholten, and Martin V. Butz
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 6257–6283, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6257-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6257-2025, 2025 | 7,480 views
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17 Feb 2026
Hotspots and hot moments of metal mobilization: dynamic connectivity in legacy mine waters
Anita Alexandra Sanchez, Maximilian P. Lau, Sean Adam, Sabrina Hedrich, and Conrad Jackisch
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 945–963, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-945-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-945-2026, 2026 | 7,465 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 | 7,269 views
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03 Nov 2025
Towards efficient management of riverbank filtration sites: new insights on river–groundwater interactions from environmental tracers and high-resolution monitoring
Krzysztof Janik, Arno Rein, and Sławomir Sitek
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 5893–5911, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5893-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5893-2025, 2025 | 7,250 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 | 7,199 views
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26 Nov 2025
Torrential rainfall in Valencia, Spain, recorded by personal weather stations preceding and during the 29 October 2024 floods
Nathalie Rombeek, Markus Hrachowitz, and Remko Uijlenhoet
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 6715–6733, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6715-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6715-2025, 2025 | 7,105 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 | 7,099 views
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22 Sep 2025
Calibrating a large-domain land/hydrology process model in the age of AI: the SUMMA CAMELS emulator experiments
Mozhgan A. Farahani, Andrew W. Wood, Guoqiang Tang, and Naoki Mizukami
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 4515–4537, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4515-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4515-2025, 2025 | 7,090 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 | 7,032 views
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01 Aug 2025
Towards a global spatial machine learning model for seasonal groundwater level predictions in Germany
Stefan Kunz, Alexander Schulz, Maria Wetzel, Maximilian Nölscher, Teodor Chiaburu, Felix Biessmann, and Stefan Broda
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3405–3433, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3405-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3405-2025, 2025 | 7,012 views
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10 Apr 2026
Exploring future water resources and uses considering water demand scenarios and climate change for the French Sèvre Nantaise basin
Léonard Santos, Anthony Thomas, Gaëlle Tallec, Laurent Mounereau, Aaron Bluche, Bruno J. Lemaire, Rania Louafi, and Guillaume Thirel
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 1915–1949, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1915-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1915-2026, 2026 | 6,990 views
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28 Oct 2025
Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-Sample SPATially distributed analysis (CAMELS-SPAT): streamflow observations, forcing data and geospatial data for hydrologic studies across North America
Wouter J. M. Knoben, Cyril Thébault, Kasra Keshavarz, Laura Torres-Rojas, Nathaniel W. Chaney, Alain Pietroniro, and Martyn P. Clark
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 5791–5833, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5791-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5791-2025, 2025 | 6,944 views
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13 Jan 2026
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Global projections of aridity index for mid and long-term future based on CMIP6 scenarios
Camille Crapart, Sandrine Anquetin, Juliette Blanchet, and Arona Diedhiou
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 163–181, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-163-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-163-2026, 2026 | 6,891 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 | 6,859 views
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04 Sep 2025
Multi-instrumental monitoring of snowmelt infiltration in Vallon de Nant, Swiss Alps
Judith Eeckman, Brian De Grenus, Floreana Marie Miesen, James Thornton, Philip Brunner, and Nadav Peleg
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 4093–4107, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4093-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4093-2025, 2025 | 6,793 views
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31 Mar 2026
Leveraging normalized data to improve point-scale estimates of precipitation–temperature scaling rates
Matthew Switanek, Jakob Abermann, Wolfgang Schöner, and Michael L. Anderson
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 1719–1734, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1719-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1719-2026, 2026 | 6,790 views
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08 Oct 2025
How well do process-based and data-driven hydrological models learn from limited discharge data?
Maria Staudinger, Anna Herzog, Ralf Loritz, Tobias Houska, Sandra Pool, Diana Spieler, Paul D. Wagner, Juliane Mai, Jens Kiesel, Stephan Thober, Björn Guse, and Uwe Ehret
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 5005–5029, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5005-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5005-2025, 2025 | 6,678 views
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17 Jul 2025
Trends in long-term hydrological data from European karst areas: insights for groundwater recharge evaluation
Markus Giese, Yvan Caballero, Andreas Hartmann, and Jean-Baptiste Charlier
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3037–3054, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3037-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3037-2025, 2025 | 6,644 views
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28 Oct 2025
Historical trends of seasonal droughts in Australia
Matthew O. Grant, Anna M. Ukkola, Elisabeth Vogel, Sanaa Hobeichi, Andy J. Pitman, Alex Raymond Borowiak, and Keirnan Fowler
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 5555–5573, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5555-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5555-2025, 2025 | 6,636 views
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12 Feb 2026
AI image-based method for a robust automatic real-time water level monitoring: a long-term application case
Xabier Blanch, Jens Grundmann, Ralf Hedel, and Anette Eltner
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 30, 797–824, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-797-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-797-2026, 2026 | 6,632 views
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08 Dec 2025
Hyper-resolution large-scale hydrological modelling benefits from improved process representation in mountain regions
Joren Janzing, Niko Wanders, Marit van Tiel, Barry van Jaarsveld, Dirk N. Karger, and Manuela I. Brunner
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 7041–7071, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-7041-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-7041-2025, 2025 | 6,589 views
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