Key factors influencing differences in stream water quality across space

A Lintern, JA Webb, D Ryu, S Liu… - Wiley …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, many rivers are experiencing declining water quality, for example, with altered
levels of sediments, salts, and nutrients. Effective water quality management requires a …

A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

M Hrachowitz, HHG Savenije, G Blöschl… - Hydrological sciences …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB) initiative of the International Association
of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), launched in 2003 and concluded by the PUB Symposium …

Fill‐and‐spill: A process description of runoff generation at the scale of the beholder

JJ McDonnell, C Spence, DJ Karran… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Descriptions of runoff generation processes continue to grow, helping to reveal complexities
and hydrologic behavior across a wide range of environments and scales. But to date, there …

Uncertainty in hydrological signatures

IK Westerberg, HK McMillan - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2015 - hess.copernicus.org
Information about rainfall–runoff processes is essential for hydrological analyses, modelling
and water-management applications. A hydrological, or diagnostic, signature quantifies …

Whither field hydrology? The need for discovery science and outrageous hydrological hypotheses

TP Burt, JJ McDonnell - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Field hydrology is on the decline. Meanwhile, the need for new field‐derived insight into the
age, origin and pathway of water in the headwaters, where most runoff is generated, is more …

Rainfall-runoff characteristics and their threshold behaviors on a karst hillslope in a peak-cluster depression region

S Wang, Y Yan, Z Fu, H Chen - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Water balance characteristics and rainfall-runoff relationships of karst slope, are poorly
understood worldwide, even though karst landscapes occupy 10–15% the planet's land …

Linking hydrologic signatures to hydrologic processes: A review

H McMillan - Hydrological Processes, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrologic signatures are metrics that quantify aspects of streamflow response. Linking
signatures to underlying processes enables multiple applications, such as selecting …

Changing rainfall patterns over the Western Lake Erie Basin (1975–2017): Effects on tributary discharge and phosphorus load

MR Williams, KW King - Water Resources Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In agricultural watersheds, shifting climate and hydrologic patterns present an immediate
and future risk to both farm productivity and downstream aquatic ecosystems. Here, our …

Beyond the SCS‐CN method: A theoretical framework for spatially lumped rainfall‐runoff response

MS Bartlett, AJ Parolari, JJ McDonnell… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Since its introduction in 1954, the Soil Conservation Service curve number (SCS‐CN)
method has become the standard tool, in practice, for estimating an event‐based rainfall …

The relative role of soil type and tree cover on water storage and transmission in northern headwater catchments

J Geris, D Tetzlaff, J McDonnell… - Hydrological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Soil water storage and stable isotopes dynamics were investigated in dominant soil–
vegetation assemblages of a wet northern headwater catchment (3.2 km2) with limited …