Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
HESS

Preprints

The following lists only preprints without a corresponding final revised paper.
03 Jun 2026
Evaluation of sub-daily precipitation variability and its diurnal characteristics in satellite and reanalysis datasets against ground-based observations
Gyuyeon Choi, Eunkyo Seo, and Paul A. Dirmeyer
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2867, 2026
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02 Jun 2026
Assessing the prevalence, timing, and rapidity of transitions between hydrological extremes and their relation to meteorological extremes in the conterminous United States
Caelan E. Simeone and John C. Hammond
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2731, 2026
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02 Jun 2026
A Hierarchical Hydrological Knowledge-guided Attention Network for Groundwater Depth Prediction: Insights from Multi-regional Model Interpretation
Jing Xu, Yuming Mo, Senlin Zhu, Chengji Shen, Xinli Zhu, Chenming Zhang, Qihao Jiang, and Ling Li
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2379, 2026
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26 May 2026
Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Flow Velocity on the Size Exclusion Transport of Colloids in Saturated Porous Media
Changxi Wang, Zhaofei Duan, Xinlin Li, Ziyu Zhou, Jirka Šimůnek, and Renkuan Liao
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2442, 2026
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22 May 2026
Hydrological spatial coupling within an abandoned Mediterranean terraced microcatchment
Jaume Company, Francisco Cuello-Llobell, Julián García-Comendador, Josep Fortesa, Miquel Tomàs-Burguera, Miquel Mir-Gual, Laura Turnbull, John Wainwright, Mariano Moreno-de-las-Heras, Jordi Cristóbal, Adolfo Calvo-Cases, and Joan Estrany
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2711, 2026
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22 May 2026
Assessing spatially distributed snow simulations with MEB-Crocus in subalpine forests through modelling experiments
Giulia Mazzotti, Félix Vaccaro, Antoine Courteaud, Mathieu Fructus, Jan Magnusson, Isabelle Gouttevin, Jari-Pekka Nousu, and Matthieu Lafaysse
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1464, 2026
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21 May 2026
Identifying the underpinnings of δ2H discrepancies between plant stem and soil water: extraction-induced methodological artifacts versus biological fractionation effects
Wei Wen, Chao Yue, Bingming Chen, Xianhui Tang, Yabo Wang, Wajid Ali Khattak, and Xin Song
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2605, 2026
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21 May 2026
Technical note: Method effects on isotope-based inference of apple tree water sources
Ying Zhao, Tianze Pang, Maria Poca, Haolin Yang, and Qiuli Hu
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2258, 2026
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20 May 2026
Technical note: Evaluation of snow water equivalent from large-scale land-surface products over Italy
Gökhan Sarigil, Mattia Neri, Francesco Avanzi, and Elena Toth
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2484, 2026
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20 May 2026
Extracting Interpretable Representation of Catchment Hydrological Processes with Deep Learning
Che-You Liu, Jun-Hao Chen, Sung-Ching Lee, Shijie Jiang, Hsing-Jui Wang, and Shao-Yiu Hsu
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2483, 2026
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18 May 2026
Using satellite observations to validate and improve reservoir storage simulations in global hydrological models
Emmanuel Okiria, Naota Hanasaki, Simon N. Gosling, Emmanuel Nyenah, Peter Burek, Yusuke Satoh, Sebastian Ostberg, Kedar Otta, and Luca Guillaumot
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2043, 2026
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18 May 2026
Radar-Derived Intensity-Duration-Area-Frequency Relations for Assessing Hydrological Hazards in Complex Terrain
Talia Rosin, Francesco Marra, Marco Gabella, Urs Germann, Daniel Wolfensberger, and Efrat Morin
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1800, 2026
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18 May 2026
A data assimilation scheme to improve groundwater state estimation in the Aqui-FR modelling platform
Adrien Manlay, Jean-Pierre Vergnes, Simon Munier, and Florence Habets
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1504, 2026
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13 May 2026
A Physically Integrated GNN Surrogate for Microbially-Mediated Kinetic Reactive Transport: PHYGNET
Jinbo Wang, Kunfeng Zhang, Walter Illman, Shuai Chen, and Mingzhu Liu
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2509, 2026
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12 May 2026
Permafrost conditions in peatlands govern riverine flushing of dissolved organic carbon, methylmercury, and nutrients
Fares Mandour, Jazmin Greyeyes-Howell, Renae Shewan, Lauren Thompson, Irene Graham, Mike Low, Matthew Munson, Ryan Connon, Christopher Cunada, Craig Emmerton, and David Olefeldt
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2199, 2026
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12 May 2026
Physically Anchored Multi-Resolution Neural Operator Framework for Flood Inundation Prediction
Abdolmehdi Behroozi, Kathryn Lawson, and Chaopeng Shen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1982, 2026
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12 May 2026
Streamflow prediction in data-scarce regions with semi-supervised deep learning
Tianlong Jia, Guoding Chen, Yao Li, Xinyu Chang, and Uwe Ehret
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1637, 2026
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11 May 2026
High-resolution mapping of pluvial flooding in ungauged agricultural catchments
Matthieu Herpoel, Pierre Baert, Charles Bielders, Gilles Swerts, and Aurore Degré
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2511, 2026
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08 May 2026
Assessing Terrestrial Water Storage Change Since the 1980s
Franklin Robertson, Michael Bosilovich, Matthew Rodell, Richard Allan, Bryant Loomis, Hiroko Beaudoing, Joaquin Munoz-Sabater, and Jason Roberts
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2539, 2026
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08 May 2026
Linking hydrological responses in forest ecosystems to atmospheric forcing
Stefano Martientti, James Kirchner, Peter Molnar, and Marius Floriancic
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2481, 2026
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04 May 2026
Hydrological implications of vegetation-associated precipitation recycling during peak growing season over the Loess Plateau
Jiaxiang Deng, Quan Quan, Shuangcheng Tang, Hanbo Yang, and Xiaoyu Song
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2206, 2026
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04 May 2026
Barometric Pumping as a Driver of Subsurface CO2 Emissions: A Comparative Study of Vadose Zone vs. Groundwater Wells
Ehud Lavner, Avner Gross, Uri Nachshon, Lior Netzer, and Elad Levintal
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1910, 2026
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04 May 2026
Soil hydrological modelling as a tool to scale EMI-estimations to direct measurements of soil water content distributions in an infiltration experiment
Antonio Coppola, Andrea Vacca, Gian Piero Deidda, Francesca Lobina, Alessandro Comegna, Stefania Da Pelo, Faiza Souid, and Shawkat Basel Mostafa Hassan
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1414, 2026
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30 Apr 2026
Hydrological and hydrochemical drought responses across ten solutes in a pre-alpine headwater catchment
Carolin Winter, Julia L. A. Knapp, and James W. Kirchner
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2218, 2026
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30 Apr 2026
Fusing Satellite Embeddings to Improve Streamflow Reconstruction Across River Networks
Haomei Lin, Peirong Lin, Fenghe Zhang, Louise Slater, Yuan Yang, Ming Pan, Qiming Qin, and Aizhong Hou
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1834, 2026
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29 Apr 2026
Antagonism or synergy: Divergent surface water dynamics at the southern margin of the Eurasian permafrost
Bo Zhang, Tiantian Liao, Haitian Lu, Jianuo Li, Ziyan Huang, Jiuhui Li, and Meng Guo
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1772, 2026
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29 Apr 2026
Root-Type-Specific Water Uptake in Maize across Soil Texture and Moisture Gradients
Ruth Adamczewski, Anders Kaestner, Johanna Pausch, Maire Holz, and Mohsen Zarebanadkouki
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1740, 2026
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28 Apr 2026
How precipitation lapse rates shape runoff simulations and flood frequency estimates in mountainous regions
Eleni Kritidou, Martina Kauzlaric, Maria Staudinger, Guillaume Evin, Marc Vis, and Daniel Viviroli
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2338, 2026
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28 Apr 2026
Seasonal dynamics of eutrophication in human-impacted rivers
Alexander Hubig, Pia Ebeling, Daniel Graeber, Ulrike Scharfenberger, and Andreas Musolff
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-830, 2026
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27 Apr 2026
Accelerated Hydrological Wet-to-Dry Transitions and Their Driving Mechanisms over Africa
Megersa Adugna Gurara, Gang Zhao, Xingcai Liu, Ximeng Xu, Paul P. J. Gaffney, and Qiuhong Tang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1969, 2026
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24 Apr 2026
Bayesian Joint Retrieval of Soil Moisture from UAV L-Band Radiometry by Integrating RGB-TIR Priors and Footprint-Scale Texture
Zixi Li, Yan Li, Rui Tong, Peizhe Cheng, Fuqiang Tian, and Yao Zhuang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2193, 2026
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24 Apr 2026
A Basin-Aware Global Framework for Computationally Efficient Surface Water Inundation Prediction
Arik M. Tashie, Isaac D. Gerg, Evan Koester, Carlos D. Hoyos, Eduardo Galindo, and David J. Farnham
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1527, 2026
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23 Apr 2026
Quantifying key parameter sensitivities for water table depth in hydrological schemes of CoLM-PSUADE
Tingting Wu, Shupeng Zhang, Xiaofan Yang, and Yongjiu Dai
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2275, 2026
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22 Apr 2026
Technical Note: A Visual Diagnostic Framework for Identifying Non-Stationarity and Mixed Populations in Flood Series
Paul Whitfield and Donald Burn
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2067, 2026
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20 Apr 2026
Better data or better architecture? Improving deep-learning-based prediction in ungauged basins
Benedikt Heudorfer, Hoshin Gupta, Alexander Dolich, and Ralf Loritz
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1965, 2026
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20 Apr 2026
Non-stationary low-flow frequency analysis with mixed Weibull components and Copula-based dependence framework
Farhana Sweeta Fitriana, Svenja Fischer, Gabriele Weigelhofer, Johannes Laimighofer, and Gregor Laaha
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1820, 2026
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17 Apr 2026
Spatial pattern regression for meteorological fields interpolation
Vihotogbé Houssou and Julie Carreau
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1702, 2026
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17 Apr 2026
Same Streamflow, Different Water Stories: The Hidden Impacts of Streamflow-Only Calibration in Distributed Hydrological Modeling
Nicolás A. Vásquez, Pablo A. Mendoza, Wouter Knoben, Martyn Clark, Tricia Stadnyk, and Naoki Mizukami
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1363, 2026
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17 Apr 2026
Towards the development of a national drought monitoring framework for India: Reconstruction of historical droughts using CLM5
Devavat Chiru Naik, Chandrika Thulaseedharan Dhanya, and Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1296, 2026
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17 Apr 2026
The Canadian Surface Reanalysis (CaSR) v3.2 precipitation dataset: A 45-year high-resolution analysis for North America (1980–2024)
Dikraa Khedhaouiria, Nicolas Gasset, Vincent Fortin, Milena Dimitrijevic, Maxim Bulat, and Xihong Wang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-620, 2026
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17 Apr 2026
From basin-scale variability to regional coherence: emergence of a dominant common mode in reservoir storage dynamics in Catalonia
Carles Serrat
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-384, 2026
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16 Apr 2026
From cold-water refuge to thermal stress: projected warming of Czech rivers and implications for brown trout
Matěj Orság, Radovan Kopp, Jan Balek, Daniela Semerádová, Adam Vizina, Milan Fischer, Petr Skalák, Petr Štěpánek, Pavel Zahradníček, Jan Mareš, and Miroslav Trnka
External preprint server, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19493262, 2026
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16 Apr 2026
Technical note: A Water Analysis Trailer for Environmental Research (WATER)
Aaron James Neill, David Windhorst, Philipp Kraft, Amir Sahraei, and Lutz Breuer
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-576, 2026
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14 Apr 2026
Scale dependence of precipitation structure using Tweedie Poisson–Gamma scaling: an Estonian case study from radar composites and gauges
Yee Chun Tsoi, Aarne Männik, and Sander Rikka
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2031, 2026
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14 Apr 2026
Technical note: Machine learning metamodelling for global sensitivity analysis
Patricio Yeste, Lieke A. Melsen, João Paulo L. F. Brêda, Nicolás Tacoronte, Andrea Saltelli, Giulia Vannucci, Roberta Siciliano, and Axel Bronstert
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1787, 2026
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13 Apr 2026
On the validity of Richards' equation under dynamic flow conditions
Efstathios Diamantopoulos and Sascha Christian Iden
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1738, 2026
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13 Apr 2026
A dynamic socio-hydrology model for the assessment of time-variant feedbacks between irrigators’ adaptive responses and basin hydrology
Osama Hassan, Francesco Sapino, Héctor González-López, and C. Dionisio Pérez-Blanco
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1502, 2026
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10 Apr 2026
Incorporating irrigation effects into high-resolution daily land evaporation estimates over the Iberian Peninsula
Oscar M. Baez-Villanueva, Alfredo Crespo-Otero, Sara Modanesi, Pierre Laluet, Sergio Vicente-Serrano, Jaap Schellekens, Jacopo Dari, Hylke E. Beck, Wouter Dorigo, Christian Massari, Chiara Corbari, Joppe Massant, Kwint Delbare, Olivier Bonte, Aaron Boone, Diego Fernández-Prieto, and Diego G. Miralles
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1856, 2026
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09 Apr 2026
HESS Opinions: Operationalizing sociohydrology from systems thinking to systems doing for sustainable and resilient water management
Fuqiang Tian, Murugesu Sivapalan, Sondoss El Sawah, Melissa Haeffner, Anthony Jakeman, Heidi Kreibich, Leyang Liu, Haoyang Lyu, Ana Mijic, Jiale Wang, Jing Wei, and Günter Blöschl
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1727, 2026
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09 Apr 2026
Elucidating the interplay between catchment and in-stream processes using high frequency multivariate and multisite data
Kenneth Gutiérrez‑García, Gunnar Lischeid, and Michael Rode
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1203, 2026
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09 Apr 2026
Evaporative Moisture Sources of Colorado’s Front Range: A Case Study of the Exceptionally Wet May–July Season of 2023
Katherine V. Humphreys, Patrick W. Keys, Russ S. Schumacher, Jacob Escobedo, and Peter Goble
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-796, 2026
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08 Apr 2026
Beneath the tide: Sediment-controlled groundwater and salinity stratification across an estuarine wetland transect
Christopher J. Owers, Rachel McGivern, Warren Brown, and Gabriel C. Rau
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1398, 2026
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08 Apr 2026
Maximum Certainty Principle applied to rainfall modelling and regionalisation in Ecuador
Franklin Aparicio Beltrán Vega and Jhoan Alexander Beltrán Valarezo
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1317, 2026
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07 Apr 2026
Assessment of prediction skill of SEAS5 forecast using ERA5 soil moisture data and relation to crop production
Padmavathi Bevara and Ehud Strobach
External preprint server, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8796665/v2, 2026
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07 Apr 2026
UK-Flow15-QC: A quality control framework for better river flow data in hydrological research
Felipe Fileni, Hayley J. Fowler, Elizabeth Lewis, Fiona McLay, Gemma Coxon, David Archer, Emma Bruce, Longzhi Yang, Matt Fry, Hollie Cooper, and Ollie Swain
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-277, 2026
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02 Apr 2026
First insights into CMIP6-based hydrological projections for Central European rivers – using a small ensemble of convection-permitting climate simulations for +2 and +3 °C global warming levels
Julianna Regenauer, Enno Nilson, Claudius Fleischer, and Caroline S. Gasten
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1630, 2026
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02 Apr 2026
Typology of flood trends across West Africa
Gabrielle Sorini, Juliette Blanchet, Gérémy Panthou, Théo Vischel, and Yves Tramblay
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1176, 2026
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02 Apr 2026
Earth observation constrained calibration improves soil moisture drought representation: a multi-model analysis in the Rhine River basin
Ehsan Modiri, Oldrich Rakovec, Pallav Kumar Shrestha, Almudena García-García, Leandro Avila, Katie Blackford, Elizabeth Cooper, Bram Droppers, Paolo Filippucci, Milan Fischer, Matěj Orság, Pietro Stradiotti, Luca Brocca, Douglas B. Clark, Wouter Dorigo, Stefan Kollet, Jian Peng, Niko Wanders, and Luis Samaniego
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1012, 2026
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02 Apr 2026
Evaluation of NDVI-Based downscaled precipitation datasets in the Peruvian Andes
Jose P. Terán, Jhon Vila, Juan García-Quijano, and Anne Gobin
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-604, 2026
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31 Mar 2026
From salinity to nanoplastics: redefining safe yield in strip-island aquifers under emerging contaminant threats
Tianyuan Zheng, Chunxiang Ma, Shaobo Gao, and Jian Luo
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1601, 2026
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31 Mar 2026
Changes in groundwater-surface water interactions following two centuries of irrigation practices and groundwater use in the Upper Ganges-Yamuna interfluve, North India.
Frank J. G. van Broekhoven, Stefan C. Dekker, Jasper Griffioen, Anjali Bhagwat, and Paul P. Schot
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1584, 2026
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31 Mar 2026
Online xylem water isotope monitoring and soil water content profiling reveal spatial root water uptake dynamics in sunflower
Youri Rothfuss, Samuel Le Gall, Nicolas Brüggemann, Sharmin Jahan, Mathieu Javaux, Julian Klaus, Harry Vereecken, and Dagmar van Dusschoten
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1518, 2026
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31 Mar 2026
A dual-phase ensemble framework for enhancing reservoir inflow forecasting
Mihretab Gebretsadik Tedla, Sandhya Dhakal, and Hua Zhang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-416, 2026
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30 Mar 2026
Progressive groundwater decoupling may drive a shift toward shallower and faster terrestrial water cycling
Aoqi Sun, Wenjie Xu, Enze Ma, Hua Yuan, and Chen Yang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1102, 2026
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27 Mar 2026
Water storage trends derived from the GRACE/-FO global gravity-based groundwater product (G3P)
Roland Hohensinn, Junyang Gou, Ulrich Meyer, Vincent Humphrey, Wouter Dorigo, Eva Boergens, Benedikt Soja, Alexander Gruber, Laura Jensen, Annette Eicker, Michael Rast, and Andreas Güntner
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-975, 2026
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25 Mar 2026
Scale-dependent biases in Alpine sub-daily areal precipitation extremes: added value of convection permitting models
Rashid Akbary, Eleonora Dallan, Paul C. Astagneau, Raul R. Wood, Francesco Marra, Manuela I. Brunner, and Marco Borga
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1079, 2026
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24 Mar 2026
Validation of VIIRS snow cover in Central European Highlands
Patrik Sleziak, Michal Danko, Martin Jančo, Ladislav Holko, and Juraj Parajka
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1120, 2026
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23 Mar 2026
The rise of stratification – Climate-induced changes in the thermal structure of a shallow polymictic lake until 2100
Sebestyén Dániel Török, Márk Honti, and Péter Torma
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-708, 2026
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23 Mar 2026
WaterSoftHack Cybertraining: Reproducible Data Science, Machine Learning, and Cloud and Edge Computing Training for Collaborative Water Science Research
Krishna Panthi, Vidya Samadi, Nima Zafarmomen, Mostafa Saberian, Adarsha Neupane, Carlos Erazo Ramirez, Bijaya Adhikari, Anthony Castronova, and Ibrahim Demir
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-491, 2026
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20 Mar 2026
The complex effect of climate change and urbanization on streamflow in small–medium Mediterranean catchments
Yair Rinat, Moshe Armon, and Efrat Morin
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-972, 2026
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19 Mar 2026
A non-explicit representation of macropores in the SVS land surface model improves streamflow simulations under frozen soil conditions
Benjamin Bouchard, Vincent Vionnet, Étienne Gaborit, and Vincent Fortin
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-928, 2026
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16 Mar 2026
Effectiveness of Multivariate Bias Correction in Hydrology and Agriculture: A Systematic Review
Bhuwan P. Shah, Ryan P. McGehee, and William J. Gutowski
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-529, 2026
Preprint under review for HESS (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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12 Mar 2026
Runoff thresholds as state-dependent connectivity transitions: A global synthesis across diverse catchments
Zhen Cui and Fuqiang Tian
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1265, 2026
Revised manuscript under review for HESS (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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11 Mar 2026
Testing the Temporal and Spatial Transferability of a Water Balance Model using a Parameter Learning Approach
Antoine Degenne, François Bourgin, Charles Perrin, and Vazken Andréassian
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1197, 2026
Revised manuscript under review for HESS (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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09 Mar 2026
Climatology and trends of extreme precipitation in France: evaluation of an explicit-convection regional climate model
Nicolas Decoopman, Juliette Blanchet, Antoine Blanc, and Cécile Caillaud
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1202, 2026
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06 Mar 2026
Soil–atmosphere water vapor exchange in semi-arid Northwest China: New insights from fiber-optic relative humidity sensing
Junyi Guo, Mengya Sun, Chengcheng Zhang, Jie Liu, Qingnan Lou, Qiyu Xu, and Bin Shi
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1143, 2026
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06 Mar 2026
Unified Patterns of Topological Structure of Hydrological Characteristics in Global River Networks
Chensong Zhao, Qihua Ke, Yuan Cao, Shutong Liu, Randongfang Wei, Di Xie, Jinqiang Wang, Jingwei Huang, Qingqing Zhang, Jiahui Gao, Jing Li, Guangqian Wang, and Deyu Zhong
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1128, 2026
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06 Mar 2026
Heavy Precipitation Events of Various Durations Across Germany: A Station-Based Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Variability Using the Block Maxima Method
Angelika Palarz, Thomas Junghänel, Jennifer Ostermöller, Thomas Deutschländer, and Frank Kaspar
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1067, 2026
Preprint under review for HESS (discussion: final response, 7 comments)
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06 Mar 2026
Impacts of Cascading Check Dams on Sediment Yield in the Middle Yellow River Basin: Insights from 50 Years of Grid-cell-level Simulation
Yanzhang Huang, Guangyao Gao, Lishan Ran, Yue Wang, and Mingguo Zheng
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1058, 2026
Revised manuscript under review for HESS (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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06 Mar 2026
The ability of LSTM to model snowmelt versus rainfall generated floods
Sigrid Jørgensen Bakke, Danielle Marie Barna, Kolbjørn Engeland, Sjur Anders Kolberg, and Sunniva Nordeide
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1056, 2026
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06 Mar 2026
Multi-sectorial impacts of Mediterranean snow droughts on mountain socio-ecohydrology
Francesco Avanzi, Stefano Terzi, Mariapina Castelli, Francesca Munerol, Margherita Andreaggi, Marta Galvagno, Andrea Galletti, Tessa Maurer, Christian Massari, Grace Carlson, Manuela Girotto, Giacomo Bertoldi, Edoardo Cremonese, Simone Gabellani, Umberto Morra di Cella, Marco Altamura, Lauro Rossi, and Luca Ferraris
External preprint server, https://doi.org/10.22541/au.176055865.50800695/v2, 2026
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06 Mar 2026
Simulated temporal scaling dependencies in sub-daily precipitation
Andreas Dobler, Rasmus Benestad, Julia Lutz, and Kajsa Maria Parding
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-207, 2026
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05 Mar 2026
Country-wide rainfall estimates from a commercial microwave link network in Belgium
Kwinten Van Weverberg, Nina Neutens, Simon De Corte, Armani Passtoors, Stephan Calderan, Nicolas Ghilain, Ricardo Reinoso-Rondinel, Maarten Reyniers, Aart Overeem, Hans Van de Vyver, Bert Van Schaeybroeck, Bart De Wit, and Remko Uijlenhoet
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-457, 2026
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05 Mar 2026
Suspended sediment dynamics in an urban, mountain catchment in Nepal
Rajaram Prajapati, Saroj Karki, Saraswati Thapa, Hanik Lakhe, Daniel Bain, and John Gardner
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5026, 2026
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04 Mar 2026
Beyond Runoff Coefficient: Revealing Global Patterns of Process Connectivity in Runoff Generation through Intensity Integration
Hanxu Liang, Dedi Liu, Jiayu Zhang, Feng Yue, and Yuling Zhang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1006, 2026
Revised manuscript under review for HESS (discussion: final response, 6 comments)
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04 Mar 2026
European runoff drought event types: From historical classification to projected future changes
Sadaf Nasreen, Oldrich Rakovec, Rohini Kumar, Manuela I. Brunner, Ujjwal Singh, Petr Maca, Yannis Markonis, and Martin Hanel
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-973, 2026
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27 Feb 2026
Technical note: HydroModPy – a Python toolbox for deploying catchment-scale shallow groundwater models
Alexandre Gauvain, Ronan Abhervé, Bastien Boivin, Clément Roques, Martin Le Mesnil, Alexandre Coche, Tristan Babey, Jean Marçais, Camille Bouchez, Sarah Leray, Etienne Marti, Etienne Bresciani, Ronny Figueroa, Mathias Pélissier, Luca Guillaumot, Théa Touzeau, Imene Issolah, Enzo Maugan, Rock S. Bagagnan, Camille Vautier, June Sallou, Johan Bourcier, Benoit Combemale, Philip Brunner, Laurent Longuevergne, Luc Aquilina, and Jean-Raynald de Dreuzy
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-868, 2026
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26 Feb 2026
Shifts in the Dominance of Climatic, Anthropogenic, and Landscape Drivers Explain the Spatial Variation in the Budyko-type Equation Parameter
Bingbing Ding, Dandan Wang, Guodong Jia, Xinxiao Yu, and Yan Li
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-969, 2026
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26 Feb 2026
Exploring Nature-based Solutions in Mountain Regions: A Review of Their Hydrological Functions
Michell Andree Fernández Velarde, Jan Cools, Jan Staes, and Santiago Yepez
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-744, 2026
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25 Feb 2026
Integrating a global glacier model into local hydrological modeling: Impacts on melt contributions
Justine Berg, Pascal Horton, Martina Kauzlaric, Alexandra von der Esch, and Bettina Schaefli
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-439, 2026
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25 Feb 2026
Technical note: Quantifying System Limits: Flood Oriented Operational Stress Testing under Intensified Precipitation Regimes in Central Europe
Jens Reinert, Elena-Maria Klopries, Paul Hassenjürgen, Alexander Menz, Julian Hofmann, Catrina Brüll, Angela Klein, and Holger Schüttrumpf
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6378, 2026
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24 Feb 2026
Benchmarking reservoir operation schemes for large-scale hydrological models
Jesús Casado-Rodríguez, Juliana Disperati, Stefania Grimaldi, and Peter Salamon
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-904, 2026
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24 Feb 2026
Modeling the long-term fate of injected CO2 in saline aquifers: An integrated framework coupling multiphase flow, dissolution, reaction, and ripening
Ruiqi Chen, Wenjie Xu, Yunmin Chen, Qingping Li, Tianyuan Zheng, and Bo Guo
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-715, 2026
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24 Feb 2026
Human-Driven Runoff Decline and Hydrological Drought Intensification in Semi-arid Regions in the Last 40 Years Revealed by a Hybrid Physics-Deep Learning Framework
Zhicheng Qu, Dongwei Liu, and Entao Yu
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6227, 2026
Preprint under review for HESS (discussion: final response, 6 comments)
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23 Feb 2026
Evidence of Vertical Soil Hydraulic Heterogeneity Regulating Hydrothermal Simulations in Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau Wetlands
Rong Liu, Xin Wang, Zuoliang Wang, Yongjie Pan, and Yan Song
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5814, 2026
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20 Feb 2026
Rating Surfaces for Quantifying Compound Flooding at Points of Interest
Mark Wang, Paola Passalacqua, Hamed Moftakhari, and Bailley Hardage
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-577, 2026
Preprint under review for HESS (discussion: final response, 2 comments)
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20 Feb 2026
Four decades of full-depth profiles reveal layer-resolved drivers of reservoir thermal regimes and event-scale hypolimnetic warming
Chenxi Mi, Bo Gai, Xiangzhen Kong, Yuzhe Jiang, Chun Ngai Chan, and Karsten Rinke
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6442, 2026
Revised manuscript under review for HESS (discussion: final response, 10 comments)
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19 Feb 2026
HESS Opinions: Applied hydrologic models in the era of machine learning – retain, revamp, reconcile, or replace?
Delanie Williams, Mukesh Kumar, Katie van Werkhoven, Martyn Clark, Christopher Wilson, and Paul Miller
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-583, 2026
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19 Feb 2026
Spatially variable wildfire impacts on sediment mobilization: event-scale evidence from eastern Australian catchments
Danlu Guo, Qian Wang, and Peter Hairsine
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6244, 2026
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18 Feb 2026
Sensitivity-Aware Gradient Estimation (SAGE) for Rapid Continental-Scale Training of Hydrologic Models
Jasper Alexander Vrugt and Jonathan Martin Frame
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-693, 2026
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