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View article: Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for scaling: An application for deducing hydrologic connectivity at watershed scale
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for scaling: An application for deducing hydrologic connectivity at watershed scale Open
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods have been applied to interpret deep learning model results. However, applications that integrate XAI with established hydrologic knowledge for process understanding remain limited. Here we …
View article: Advancing water security in semi-arid Brazil: expansion of water storage infrastructure and human-water system co-evolution
Advancing water security in semi-arid Brazil: expansion of water storage infrastructure and human-water system co-evolution Open
The study focuses on the history of expansion of water infrastructure and drought mitigation measures, through construction of a large network of reservoirs over a 100-year period in the Jaguaribe River Basin, in the state of Ceará, Brazil…
View article: Expanding and mainstreaming sociohydrology toward transdisciplinary praxis
Expanding and mainstreaming sociohydrology toward transdisciplinary praxis Open
Since its development in the early 2010s, sociohydrology has deepened our understanding of the long-term coevolution of humans and water by integrating insights from both the natural and social sciences, while also fostering an interdiscip…
View article: Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society
Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society Open
To better understand the increasing human impact on the water cycle and the feedbacks between hydrology and society, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) organized the scientific decade “Panta Rhei–Everything Flows…
View article: A Unified Framework to Reconcile Different Approaches of Modeling Transpiration Response to Water Stress: Plant Hydraulics, Supply Demand Balance, and Empirical Soil Water Stress Function
A Unified Framework to Reconcile Different Approaches of Modeling Transpiration Response to Water Stress: Plant Hydraulics, Supply Demand Balance, and Empirical Soil Water Stress Function Open
Plant responses to water stress is a major uncertainty to predicting terrestrial ecosystem sensitivity to drought. Different approaches have been developed to represent plant water stress. Empirical approaches (the empirical soil water str…
View article: Supplementary material to "Impacts of tile drainage on hydrology, soil biogeochemistry, and crop yield in the U.S. Midwestern agroecosystems"
Supplementary material to "Impacts of tile drainage on hydrology, soil biogeochemistry, and crop yield in the U.S. Midwestern agroecosystems" Open
View article: Impacts of tile drainage on hydrology, soil biogeochemistry, and crop yield in the U.S. Midwestern agroecosystems
Impacts of tile drainage on hydrology, soil biogeochemistry, and crop yield in the U.S. Midwestern agroecosystems Open
Tile drainage removes excess water and is an essential, widely adopted management practice to enhance crop productivity in the U.S. Midwest. Tile drainage has been shown to significantly change hydrological and biogeochemical cycles by low…
View article: Evolution of Drought Mitigation and Water Security Through 100 Years of Reservoir Expansion in Semi‐Arid Brazil
Evolution of Drought Mitigation and Water Security Through 100 Years of Reservoir Expansion in Semi‐Arid Brazil Open
Brazil's Northeast region (BRN), especially the state of Ceará (CE), has dealt historically with severe drought events since the late 1800s, which commonly led to catastrophic impacts of mass migration and deaths of thousands of people. Th…
View article: Editorial: Scale issues in human-water systems
Editorial: Scale issues in human-water systems Open
View article: On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India
On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India Open
Peninsular India is a unique region with major mountain ranges that govern regional atmospheric circulation and precipitation variability, the monsoons, and regional geology at range of timescales and process scales. However, the landscape…
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View article: Groundwater Vulnerability in a Megacity Under Climate and Economic Changes: A Coupled Sociohydrological Analysis
Groundwater Vulnerability in a Megacity Under Climate and Economic Changes: A Coupled Sociohydrological Analysis Open
Groundwater depletion has become increasingly challenging, and many cities worldwide have adopted drastic policies to relieve water stress due to socioeconomic growth. Located on the declining aquifer of the North China Plain, Beijing, for…
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View article: Evolution of Drought Mitigation and Water Security through 100 Years of Reservoir Expansion in Semi-Arid Brazil
Evolution of Drought Mitigation and Water Security through 100 Years of Reservoir Expansion in Semi-Arid Brazil Open
Early peopling of Brazil’s Northeast region (BRN) took place under an intimate relationship between humans and water scarcity, as the region, especially the state of Ceará (CE), has dealt historically with severe drought events since the 1…
View article: Comment on hess-2023-178
Comment on hess-2023-178 Open
Abstract. As each catchment responds uniquely, even if they appear similar, formulating generalizable hypotheses and using routinely used signatures of catchment similarity to examine streamflow variability can be difficul…
View article: On the regional-scale streamflow variability using flow duration curve
On the regional-scale streamflow variability using flow duration curve Open
As each catchment responds uniquely, even if they appear similar, formulating generalizable hypotheses and using routinely used signatures of catchment similarity to examine streamflow variability can be difficult. Flow Duration Curve (FDC…
View article: Supplementary material to "On the regional-scale streamflow variability using flow duration curve"
Supplementary material to "On the regional-scale streamflow variability using flow duration curve" Open
View article: Water security, participatory governance, and dialogue spaces for change in Northern Sri Lanka
Water security, participatory governance, and dialogue spaces for change in Northern Sri Lanka Open
Water Security through Participatory Action Research in the Northern Province (WASPAR) is a project driven by the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, since March 2020. The project itself and some of the significant outcomes over the 3‐year fi…
View article: Comment on hess-2023-136: opinion paper: drought impacts as failed prospects
Comment on hess-2023-136: opinion paper: drought impacts as failed prospects Open
Abstract. Human actions induce and modify droughts. Yet, there remain scientific gaps regarding how anthropogenic dynamics and hydrological processes are intrinsically entangled in drought evolution. This poses the challen…
View article: Water Security, Participatory Governance, and Dialogue Spaces for Change in Northern Sri Lanka
Water Security, Participatory Governance, and Dialogue Spaces for Change in Northern Sri Lanka Open
Water Security through Participatory Action Research in the Northern Province (WASPAR) is a project driven by the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, since March 2020. The project itself and some of the significant outcomes over the 3‐year fi…
View article: Comment on hess-2022-286
Comment on hess-2022-286 Open
Abstract. As each catchment responds uniquely, even if they appear similar, formulating generalizable hypotheses and using routinely used signatures of catchment similarity to examine streamflow variability can be difficul…
View article: Supplementary material to "On the regional-scale streamflow variability using flow duration curve"
Supplementary material to "On the regional-scale streamflow variability using flow duration curve" Open
View article: On the regional-scale streamflow variability using flow duration curve
On the regional-scale streamflow variability using flow duration curve Open
As each catchment responds uniquely, even if they appear similar, formulating generalizable hypotheses and using routinely used signatures of catchment similarity to examine streamflow variability can be difficult. Flow Duration Curve (FDC…
View article: Cooperation in a transboundary river basin: a large-scale socio-hydrological model of the Eastern Nile
Cooperation in a transboundary river basin: a large-scale socio-hydrological model of the Eastern Nile Open
While conflict-and-cooperation phenomena in transboundary basins have been widely studied, much less work has been devoted to representing the process interactions in a quantitative way. This paper identifies the main factors in the ripari…
View article: Place for sociohydrology in sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture: Review and ways forward
Place for sociohydrology in sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture: Review and ways forward Open
Given the increasing demand for high-quality food and protein, global food security remains a challenge, particularly in the face of global change. However, since agriculture, food and water security are inextricably linked, they need to b…
View article: On capturing human agency and methodological interdisciplinarity in socio-hydrology research
On capturing human agency and methodological interdisciplinarity in socio-hydrology research Open
Socio-hydrology has expanded and been effective in exposing the hydrological community to ideas and approaches from other scientific disciplines, and social sciences in particular. Yet it still has much to explore regarding how to capture …
View article: Data‐Guided Exploration of the Energy Partitioning at Land Surface in the Contiguous US
Data‐Guided Exploration of the Energy Partitioning at Land Surface in the Contiguous US Open
This study explores the climatic controls of the long‐term energy partitioning of net radiation into sensible heat and latent heat at watershed scale, by following a data‐guided approach. Collected data shows that the relationship between …
View article: Cooperation in a Transboundary River Basin: a Large Scale Socio-hydrological Model of the Eastern Nile
Cooperation in a Transboundary River Basin: a Large Scale Socio-hydrological Model of the Eastern Nile Open
While conflict-and-cooperation phenomena in transboundary basins have been widely studied, much less work has been devoted to representing the process interactions in a quantitative way. This paper identifies the main factors in the ripari…
View article: Comment on hess-2022-172
Comment on hess-2022-172 Open
While conflict-and-cooperation phenomena in transboundary basins have been widely studied, much less work has been devoted to representing the process interactions in a quantitative way. This paper identifies the main factors in the ripari…
View article: A socio-hydrological framework for understanding conflict and cooperation with respect to transboundary rivers
A socio-hydrological framework for understanding conflict and cooperation with respect to transboundary rivers Open
Increasing hydrological variability, accelerating population growth and urbanisation, and the resurgence of water resources development projects have all indicated increasing tension among the riparian countries of transboundary rivers. Wh…