Linking landscape organisation and hydrological functioning: from hypotheses and observations to concepts, models and understanding (HESS/ESSD inter-journal SI)(HESS/ESSD inter-journal SI)
Linking landscape organisation and hydrological functioning: from hypotheses and observations to concepts, models and understanding (HESS/ESSD inter-journal SI)(HESS/ESSD inter-journal SI)
Editor(s): L. van Schaik, T. Hohenbrink, C. Jackisch, H. Laudon, L. Pfister, S. K. Hassler, M. Renner, and A. Gelfan Special issue jointly organized between Hydrology and Earth System Sciences and Earth System Science Data
The current form and functioning of landscapes are the result of the landscape-scale co-evolution of biological, physical and chemical processes in the past, constrained increasingly by anthropogenic activity. Hydrological functioning is a fundamental part of these complex interactions across spatio-temporal scales. Thus, studies linking system organisation (e.g. emerging spatial structures of vegetation, geology, topography) with hydrological processes can provide important insights to advance our understanding of the flow and storage of energy, water and solutes at different scales. In order to allow for scaling and transfer of concepts in space and time, a critical analysis of the information in our data and the concepts behind our experiments and models is required. An improved understanding of the basic principles controlling soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions and landscape co-evolution is necessary in order to produce reliable predictions of hydrological processes under non-stationary system conditions.

The availability, consistency and transparency of measurement data form the very foundation for building this understanding. Open access to these datasets ensures reproducibility of the published findings, adds visibility to the datasets and facilitates tests for theory development. Besides access to the data, methods to combine diverse datasets for integral analyses are essential.

This is a joint special issue in HESS and ESSD. We encourage submission of contributions to both journals as companion papers (data paper in ESSD and analyses of these data in HESS) or to either one. The special issue is open for all submissions within the previously described scope. As such we invite contributions which e.g. cover • hypothesis-driven design of multiscale and interdisciplinary measurements, • organisation, analysis and sharing of such observational data and metadata, • theoretical considerations of spatio-temporal organisation of hydrological functioning from plot to landscape scale, • physiographic controls on fundamental hydrological catchment functions (i.e. water collection, storage, mixing and release), • identifying controls and feedbacks of water and energy exchange and storage, • juxtaposition of concurrent conceptualisations of hydrological processes, • anthropogenic constraints on the hydrological functioning of landscapes, • identification of dominant processes, effective scales and representative ensembles, and • hydrological functioning under non-stationary system conditions.

Download citations of all papers

28 Sep 2021
Preface: Linking landscape organisation and hydrological functioning: from hypotheses and observations to concepts, models and understanding
Conrad Jackisch, Sibylle K. Hassler, Tobias L. Hohenbrink, Theresa Blume, Hjalmar Laudon, Hilary McMillan, Patricia Saco, and Loes van Schaik
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 5277–5285, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5277-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5277-2021, 2021
20 Apr 2021
How catchment characteristics influence hydrological pathways and travel times in a boreal landscape
Elin Jutebring Sterte, Fredrik Lidman, Emma Lindborg, Ylva Sjöberg, and Hjalmar Laudon
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2133–2158, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-2133-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-2133-2021, 2021
Short summary
20 Jan 2021
EstSoil-EH: a high-resolution eco-hydrological modelling parameters dataset for Estonia
Alexander Kmoch, Arno Kanal, Alar Astover, Ain Kull, Holger Virro, Aveliina Helm, Meelis Pärtel, Ivika Ostonen, and Evelyn Uuemaa
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 83–97, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-83-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-83-2021, 2021
Short summary
04 Dec 2020
The impact of landscape evolution on soil physics: evolution of soil physical and hydraulic properties along two chronosequences of proglacial moraines
Anne Hartmann, Markus Weiler, and Theresa Blume
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 3189–3204, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3189-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3189-2020, 2020
Short summary
30 Nov 2020
Characterising hillslope–stream connectivity with a joint event analysis of stream and groundwater levels
Daniel Beiter, Markus Weiler, and Theresa Blume
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 5713–5744, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5713-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5713-2020, 2020
Short summary
20 Nov 2020
Predicting probabilities of streamflow intermittency across a temperate mesoscale catchment
Nils Hinrich Kaplan, Theresa Blume, and Markus Weiler
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 5453–5472, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5453-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5453-2020, 2020
Short summary
23 Sep 2020
Global distribution of hydrologic controls on forest growth
Caspar T. J. Roebroek, Lieke A. Melsen, Anne J. Hoek van Dijke, Ying Fan, and Adriaan J. Teuling
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 4625–4639, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4625-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4625-2020, 2020
Short summary
09 Sep 2020
Adaptive clustering: reducing the computational costs of distributed (hydrological) modelling by exploiting time-variable similarity among model elements
Uwe Ehret, Rik van Pruijssen, Marina Bortoli, Ralf Loritz, Elnaz Azmi, and Erwin Zehe
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 4389–4411, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4389-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4389-2020, 2020
Short summary
25 Jun 2020
Field observations of soil hydrological flow path evolution over 10 millennia
Anne Hartmann, Ekaterina Semenova, Markus Weiler, and Theresa Blume
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 3271–3288, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-3271-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-3271-2020, 2020
Short summary
09 Apr 2020
Are dissolved organic carbon concentrations in riparian groundwater linked to hydrological pathways in the boreal forest?
Stefan W. Ploum, Hjalmar Laudon, Andrés Peralta-Tapia, and Lenka Kuglerová
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 1709–1720, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1709-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1709-2020, 2020
Short summary
03 Apr 2020
Evaluation of soil moisture from CCAM-CABLE simulation, satellite-based models estimates and satellite observations: a case study of Skukuza and Malopeni flux towers
Floyd Vukosi Khosa, Mohau Jacob Mateyisi, Martina Reynita van der Merwe, Gregor Timothy Feig, Francois Alwyn Engelbrecht, and Michael John Savage
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 1587–1609, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1587-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1587-2020, 2020
Short summary
20 Mar 2020
Understanding dominant controls on streamflow spatial variability to set up a semi-distributed hydrological model: the case study of the Thur catchment
Marco Dal Molin, Mario Schirmer, Massimiliano Zappa, and Fabrizio Fenicia
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 1319–1345, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1319-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1319-2020, 2020
20 Dec 2019
Spatial and temporal variation in river corridor exchange across a 5th-order mountain stream network
Adam S. Ward, Steven M. Wondzell, Noah M. Schmadel, Skuyler Herzog, Jay P. Zarnetske, Viktor Baranov, Phillip J. Blaen, Nicolai Brekenfeld, Rosalie Chu, Romain Derelle, Jennifer Drummond, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Vanessa Garayburu-Caruso, Emily Graham, David Hannah, Ciaran J. Harman, Jase Hixson, Julia L. A. Knapp, Stefan Krause, Marie J. Kurz, Jörg Lewandowski, Angang Li, Eugènia Martí, Melinda Miller, Alexander M. Milner, Kerry Neil, Luisa Orsini, Aaron I. Packman, Stephen Plont, Lupita Renteria, Kevin Roche, Todd Royer, Catalina Segura, James Stegen, Jason Toyoda, Jacqueline Hager, and Nathan I. Wisnoski
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 5199–5225, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-5199-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-5199-2019, 2019
Short summary
28 Nov 2019
Spatio-temporal relevance and controls of preferential flow at the landscape scale
Dominic Demand, Theresa Blume, and Markus Weiler
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 4869–4889, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4869-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4869-2019, 2019
Short summary
22 Oct 2019
Co-located contemporaneous mapping of morphological, hydrological, chemical, and biological conditions in a 5th-order mountain stream network, Oregon, USA
Adam S. Ward, Jay P. Zarnetske, Viktor Baranov, Phillip J. Blaen, Nicolai Brekenfeld, Rosalie Chu, Romain Derelle, Jennifer Drummond, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Vanessa Garayburu-Caruso, Emily Graham, David Hannah, Ciaran J. Harman, Skuyler Herzog, Jase Hixson, Julia L. A. Knapp, Stefan Krause, Marie J. Kurz, Jörg Lewandowski, Angang Li, Eugènia Martí, Melinda Miller, Alexander M. Milner, Kerry Neil, Luisa Orsini, Aaron I. Packman, Stephen Plont, Lupita Renteria, Kevin Roche, Todd Royer, Noah M. Schmadel, Catalina Segura, James Stegen, Jason Toyoda, Jacqueline Hager, Nathan I. Wisnoski, and Steven M. Wondzell
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1567–1581, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1567-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1567-2019, 2019
Short summary
16 Sep 2019
Quantitative precipitation estimation with weather radar using a data- and information-based approach
Malte Neuper and Uwe Ehret
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 3711–3733, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3711-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3711-2019, 2019
Short summary
04 Sep 2019
Monitoring ephemeral, intermittent and perennial streamflow: a dataset from 182 sites in the Attert catchment, Luxembourg
Nils Hinrich Kaplan, Ernestine Sohrt, Theresa Blume, and Markus Weiler
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1363–1374, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1363-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1363-2019, 2019
Short summary
08 Jul 2019
Hydromorphological attributes for all Australian river reaches derived from Landsat dynamic inundation remote sensing
Jiawei Hou, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Luigi J. Renzullo, Robert A. Vertessy, and Norman Mueller
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1003–1015, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1003-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1003-2019, 2019
Short summary
25 Apr 2019
Does the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index explain spatial and temporal variability in sap velocity in temperate forest ecosystems?
Anne J. Hoek van Dijke, Kaniska Mallick, Adriaan J. Teuling, Martin Schlerf, Miriam Machwitz, Sibylle K. Hassler, Theresa Blume, and Martin Herold
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 2077–2091, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2077-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2077-2019, 2019
Short summary
28 Jan 2019
Using phase lags to evaluate model biases in simulating the diurnal cycle of evapotranspiration: a case study in Luxembourg
Maik Renner, Claire Brenner, Kaniska Mallick, Hans-Dieter Wizemann, Luigi Conte, Ivonne Trebs, Jianhui Wei, Volker Wulfmeyer, Karsten Schulz, and Axel Kleidon
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 515–535, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-515-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-515-2019, 2019
Short summary
CC BY 4.0