Frozen ground and precipitation seasonality may strongly affect hydrological processes in a cold alpine basin, but the calibration of a hydrological model rarely considers their impacts on model parameters, likely leading to considerable simulation b...
Alpine wetlands in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) play a crucial role in the regional hydrological cycle due to their strong influence on surface ecohydrological processes; therefore, understanding how TP wetlands respond to climate change is essential for...
This study investigates the hydrology of Castle River in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. Temperature and precipitation data are analyzed regarding a climate trend between 1960 and 2010 and a general warming is identified. Observed streamflow...
Climate change in the European Alps during recent years has led to decreased snow cover duration as well as increases in the frequency and intensity of summer heat waves. The risk of drought for alpine wetlands and temporary pools, which rely on wate...
To find the adequate spatial model discretization scheme, which balances the models capabilities and the demand for representing key features in reality, is a challenging task. It becomes even more challenging in high alpine catchments, where the var...
Gauges modify wind fields, producing important systematic errors (undercatching) in the measurement of solid precipitation (Ps), especially under windy conditions. A methodology that combines geostatistical techniques and hydrological models to perfo...
Understanding evapotranspiration (ET) dynamics under community composition transitions in grasslands is crucial for interpreting alpine ecosystem responses to climate change. We investigated variations in ET and its components during the growing seas...
Several trend studies have shown that hydrological conditions are changing considerably in the Alpine region. However, the reasons for these changes are only partially understood and trend analyses alone are not able to shed much light. Hydrological...
Water isotope studies in alpine wetlands have revealed the dynamic characteristics of the hydrological cycle and evapotranspiration processes in the Zoige region through hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios. However, the hydrological continuity between...
Glaciers have an important hydrological buffering effect, but their current rapid reduction raises concerns about future water availability and management. This work presents a hydrological sensitivity analysis to different climatic and glacier cover...
The evaluation of sediment yield by water erosion taking into consideration the possible impact of climate change is the object of this work, concerning the use of the Modified Universal Soil Loss Equation (MUSLE) in an Italian case study. This empir...
The aim of the presented study is to assess the impacts of climate change on hydropower production of the Toce Alpine river basin in Italy. For the meteorological forcing of future scenarios, time series were generated by applying a quantile-based er...
Watershed management requires reliable information about hydrologic ecosystem services (HESs) to support decision-making. In cold alpine regions, the hydrology regime is largely affected by frozen ground and snow cover. However, existing special mode...
Dew, a key component of Non-Rainfall Water Inputs (NRWIs), plays a disproportionately significant role in land–atmosphere interactions. This review synthesizes advances in understanding its ecological, hydrological, and environmental effects, q...
In the 21st century, climate change and its consequences are getting more serious. The changes in temperature and precipitation alter the run-off conditions, subsequently influencing the channel processes of rivers. The study aims to analyse the hydr...
Condensation and desublimation are important processes of nocturnal land–atmosphere interactions, energy transfer, and the water cycle, and have important ecological and hydrological roles in mitigating physiological water deficits caused by lo...
Understanding rainfall partitioning by shrub canopies is essential for assessing water balance and improving hydrological models in cold regions. From 2010 to 2012, field experiments were conducted in the Hulu catchment of the Qilian Mountains, focus...
As an essential data-driven model, machine learning can simulate runoff based on meteorological data at the watershed level. It has been widely used in the simulation of hydrological runoff. Considering the impact of snow cover on runoff in high-alti...
Moraine-talus zone (hereafter referred to as MTZ) refers to the non-glacial area (including glacier mass supply area) above the upper boundary of alpine meadow in high mountains, where vegetation is sparsely distributed and coarse fragment (diameter...
This study investigates precipitation, snow, groundwater, glaciers and frozen soil in different landscape zones using isotopic and hydrogeochemical tracers. The aim of this study is to identify temporal and spatial variations, as well as hydrological...
Perennial snowfields in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve (GAAR) in the central Brooks Range of Alaska are a critical component of the cryosphere. They serve as habitat for an array of wildlife, including caribou, a species that is cruci...
The Heihe River is the second largest inland basin in China; runoff in the upper reach greatly affects the socio-economic development in the downstream area. The relationship between spatial vegetation patterns and catchment hydrological processes in...
Seasonal streamflow predictability in alpine catchments is governed by the interplay between initial hydrological conditions (IC) and climate forcing (CF), with catchment geology exerting a modulating influence. This study applied the Ensemble Stream...
The hydrology of alpine and subalpine areas in the Colorado Front Range (USA) is evolving, driven by warming and by the alteration of precipitation patterns, the timing of snowmelt, and other components of the hydrologic budget. Field measurements of...
The alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau function as critical reservoirs for regional water resources, yet face severe degradation driven by climate warming and overgrazing. Although establishing Poa pratensis artificial grasslands is a comm...
In this work, we present two datasets for specific areas located on the Alpine arc that can be exploited to monitor and understand water resource dynamics in mountain regions. The idea is to provide the reader with information about the different sou...
As climate change increasingly impacts the water cycle across the Alpine region, monitoring surface soil moisture is essential for hydrological models and drought early warning. Yet operational products either mask steep terrain, or lack the spatial...
The hydrological information derived from a digital elevation model is very important in distributed hydrological modeling. As part of alpine hydrological research on stream network modeling using remote sensing data in the northeast of the Tibetan P...
Runoff simulation is essential for effective water resource management and plays a pivotal role in hydrological forecasting. Improving the quality of runoff simulation and forecasting continues to be a highly relevant research area. The complexity of...
Soil moisture is a vital factor affecting the hydrological cycle and the evolution of soil and geomorphology, determining the formation and development of the vegetation ecosystem. The previous studies mainly focused on the effects of different land...
The melting of alpine snow and glaciers is an important hydrologic process on Mount Gongga, China. The relevance of ice-snow melt to the groundwater recharge in the glacierized Hailuogou watershed is so far not well known. To better understand the or...
Glacial retreat is a widely recognised phenomenon, and yet the processes of glaciofluvial bedload in high-alpine river systems remain largely unobserved. This study investigates the impact of hydrological and climatic changes on bedload and water dis...
The sub-alpine and alpine Sphagnum peatlands in Australia are geographically constrained to poorly drained areas c. 1000 m a.s.l. Sphagnum is an important contributor to the resilience of peatlands; however, it is also very sensitive to fire and ofte...
The Alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris) is sensitive to habitat destruction and alteration, and as a result there has been a decline in their populations across Europe. Due to historical landscape changes, the populations of Alpine newts drawn from...
Water availability is a crucial factor for the hydrological balance of sub-alpine shallow lakes and for their ecosystems. This is the first study on water balance and water management of Lake Candia, a small sub-alpine, shallow morainic lake. The aim...
Quantification of the water budget of an arid inland river ecosystem is essential but still a challenge for the sustainable development of water resources. In situ observed data were used to analyze the monthly and annual water budgets and the soil h...
Evapotranspiration is a key variable of the hydrological cycle but poorly studied in Alpine ecosystems. The current study aimed to characterise the impact of topography and temporal variability on actual evapotranspiration (ETa) and its environmental...
The Qinghai Lake Basin (QLB) serves as a crucial ecological barrier on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, making high-precision mapping of land use/land cover (LULC) essential for eco-hydrological research within the basin. In this study, multitemporal...
Based on the bibliometric and data visualization analysis software Citespace, this study carried out document statistics and information mining on the Web of Science database and characterized the distributed hydrological model knowledge system from...
Land-use–cover change (LUCC)/vegetation cover plays a critical role in Earth system science and is a reflection of human activities and environmental changes. LUCC will affect the structure and function of ecosystems and a series of other terre...
Runoff simulation and forecasting is of great significance for flood control, disaster mitigation, and water resource management. Alpine regions are characterized by complex terrain, diverse precipitation patterns, and strong snow-and-ice melt influe...
Land use systems are closely coupled with socioeconomic activities. To explore the interactions between land use and socioeconomic activities in Bazhong City, clarify the characteristics, drivers, and future trends of land use change, and provide sci...
Warming is expected to intensify hydrological processes and reshape precipitation regimes, which is closely related to water availability for terrestrial ecosystems. Effects of the inter-annual precipitation changes on plant growth are widely concern...
Soil freeze depth variations greatly affect energy exchange, carbon exchange, ecosystem diversity, and the water cycle. Given the importance of these processes, obtaining freeze depth data over large scales is an important focus of research. This pap...
Many extreme meteorological events are closely related to the strength of land–atmosphere interactions. In this study, the heat exchange regime between the shallow soil layer and the atmosphere over the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP) was i...
The Food and Agriculture Organization has proposed the current version of the Penman–Monteith method (FAO56-PM) as the standard for calculating reference evapotranspiration (ET0); however, high meteorological data requirements limit its applica...
Compound extreme events pose more grave threats to human health, the natural environment, and socioeconomic systems than do individual extreme events. However, the drivers and spatiotemporal change characteristics of compound extreme events under cli...
The monitoring of both cold and warm season hydrologic processes in headwater watersheds is critical for accurate water resource monitoring in many alpine regions. This work presents a new method that explores the simultaneous use of remotely sensed...
Soil seepage is an important component used for quantifying hydrological processes that remains unclear in high-altitude alpine meadows. Shallow soil seepage was continuously measured using an auto-logged micro-lysimeter (diameter = 30 cm, depth = 30...
In alpine environments, many plants, bacteria, and fungi contain ice nuclei (IN) that control freezing events, providing survival benefits. Once airborne, IN could trigger ice nucleation in cloud droplets, influencing the radiation budget and the hyd...
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