Large‐scale controls of the surface water balance over land: Insights from a systematic review and meta‐analysis

RS Padrón, L Gudmundsson, P Greve… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term surface water balance over land is described by the partitioning of
precipitation (P) into runoff and evapotranspiration (ET), and is commonly characterized by …

Global patterns in base flow index and recession based on streamflow observations from 3394 catchments

HE Beck, AIJM Van Dijk, DG Miralles… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous previous studies have constructed models to estimate base flow characteristics
from climatic and physiographic characteristics of catchments and applied these to …

Patterns of similarity of seasonal water balances: A window into streamflow variability over a range of time scales

WR Berghuijs, M Sivapalan, RA Woods… - Water Resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent hydrologic synthesis efforts have presented evidence that the seasonal water
balance is at the core of overall catchment responses, and understanding it will assist in …

[HTML][HTML] Global maps of streamflow characteristics based on observations from several thousand catchments

HE Beck, A De Roo… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Balsamo, G., Beljaars A., Scipal K., Viterbo P., van den Hurk B., Hirschi M., and Betts AK,
2009: A revised hydrology for the ECMWF model: Verification from field site to terrestrial …

Impacts of urbanization on watershed water balances across the conterminous United States

C Li, G Sun, PV Caldwell, E Cohen… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization impacts ecosystem functions and services by fundamentally altering the
balances between precipitation, water yield (Q), and evapotranspiration (ET) in watersheds …

Changing runoff due to temperature and precipitation variations in the dammed Jinsha River

Y Wu, H Fang, L Huang, W Ouyang - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Impacts of climatic variations and human activities on water discharge in the lower streams
of dammed rivers have been widely studied due to the rich water resources and hydropower …

Urbanization impacts on evapotranspiration across various spatio‐temporal scales

A Mazrooei, M Reitz, D Wang… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization has been shown to locally increase the nighttime temperatures creating urban
heat islands, which partly arise due to evapotranspiration (ET) reduction. It is unclear how …

The sensitivity of water availability to changes in the aridity index and other factors—A probabilistic analysis in the Budyko space

L Gudmundsson, P Greve… - Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
One of the pending questions in the context of global change is whether climatic drivers or
other factors have stronger influences on water availability. Here we present an approach …

Urban hydrological responses to climate change and urbanization in cold climates

X Pang, Y Gu, S Launiainen, M Guan - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
This study explores hydrological response of urban catchment in Southern Finland to
climate change and urbanization. Process-based urban hydrological modelling and …

A satellite-based monitoring system for quantifying surface water and mesic vegetation dynamics in a semi-arid region

NE Kolarik, A Roopsind, A Pickens, JS Brandt - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Semi-arid and arid systems cover one third of the earth's land surface, and are becoming
increasingly drier, but existing datasets do not capture all of the types of water resources that …