A review of hydrologic signatures and their applications

HK McMillan - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrologic signatures are quantitative metrics or indices that describe statistical or
dynamical properties of hydrologic data series, primarily streamflow. Hydrologic signatures …

Hydrological data uncertainty and its implications

HK McMillan, IK Westerberg… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrologic data are at the core of our understanding of physical hydrologic processes, our
simulation models and forecasts of water resources and hazards, and our monitoring of …

Combined modeling of US fluvial, pluvial, and coastal flood hazard under current and future climates

PD Bates, N Quinn, C Sampson, A Smith… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study reports a new and significantly enhanced analysis of US flood hazard at 30 m
spatial resolution. Specific improvements include updated hydrography data, new methods …

[HTML][HTML] The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2. 2d: Model description and evaluation

H Müller Schmied, D Cáceres, S Eisner… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021 - gmd.copernicus.org
WaterGAP is a global hydrological model that quantifies human use of groundwater and
surface water as well as water flows and water storage and thus water resources on all land …

The abuse of popular performance metrics in hydrologic modeling

MP Clark, RM Vogel, JR Lamontagne… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of this commentary is to critically evaluate the use of popular performance metrics
in hydrologic modeling. We focus on the Nash‐Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) and the Kling …

Flood hazard potential reveals global floodplain settlement patterns

L Devitt, J Neal, G Coxon, J Savage… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Flooding is one of the most common natural hazards, causing disastrous impacts worldwide.
Stress-testing the global human-Earth system to understand the sensitivity of floodplains and …

The CAMELS data set: catchment attributes and meteorology for large-sample studies

N Addor, AJ Newman, N Mizukami… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
We present a new data set of attributes for 671 catchments in the contiguous United States
(CONUS) minimally impacted by human activities. This complements the daily time series of …

[HTML][HTML] Using hysteresis analysis of high-resolution water quality monitoring data, including uncertainty, to infer controls on nutrient and sediment transfer in …

CEM Lloyd, JE Freer, PJ Johnes, AL Collins - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
A large proportion of nutrients and sediment is mobilised in catchments during storm events.
Therefore understanding a catchment's hydrological behaviour during storms and how this …

Transferring hydrologic data across continents–leveraging data‐rich regions to improve hydrologic prediction in data‐sparse regions

K Ma, D Feng, K Lawson, WP Tsai… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is a drastic geographic imbalance in available global streamflow gauge and
catchment property data, with additional large variations in data characteristics. As a result …

HESS Opinions: The complementary merits of competing modelling philosophies in hydrology

M Hrachowitz, MP Clark - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
In hydrology, two somewhat competing philosophies form the basis of most process-based
models. At one endpoint of this continuum are detailed, high-resolution descriptions of small …