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James Kirchner

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ETH Zürich

Switzerland

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James Kirchner is a Professor at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. His research focuses on hydrology, specifically the interactions between precipitation, groundwater recharge, and streamflow, as well as soil water dynamics and conservation measures. His recent publications examine the effects of tree planting on storm runoff, soil moisture recharge in deep soils, and methodologies for estimating debris-flow velocities. Through his work, Professor Kirchner contributes to understanding complex hydrological behaviors and their implications for environmental management.

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Julia L.A. Knapp

Chair of Hydrology

University of Bayreuth

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More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation

Data‐Driven Estimation of Time‐Variable Catchment Transit Time Distributions

Rivers in motion: a wavelet-based remote sensing approach to spatio-temporal hydro-geomorphic analysis

Quantifying Deep Groundwater Contributions to Streamflow With Inequality‐Constrained EEMMA From Sparse Isotope Series in Alpine Permafrost Basins

Declining Runoff Sensitivity to Precipitation Following Permafrost Degradation: Insights From Event‐Scale Runoff Response in the Yellow River Source Region

Quantifying the Rapid Propagation of Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Signals Into Soils

Forest Impacts on Peak Runoff Revealed by Accounting for the Effects of Climate

Controls on magnitude and timing of peak runoff response to rainfall across the continental US

Climate’s influence on topography encoded in stream network topology and geometry

Bedrock geology controls on new water fractions and catchment functioning in contrasted nested catchments

Catchment hydrological response and transport are affected differently by precipitation intensity and antecedent wetness

Tree planting and soil conservation measures have strongly attenuated storm runoff responses on the Chinese Loess Plateau

New Precipitation Is Scarce in Deep Soils: Findings From 47 Forest Plots Spanning Switzerland

Limited Soil Water Recharge in Summer Affects Seasonal Isotopic Signatures of Tree Xylem Water

Variability of flowing stream network length across the US

Quantifying Dynamic Linkages Between Precipitation, Groundwater Recharge, and Streamflow Using Ensemble Rainfall‐Runoff Analysis

Data-driven estimation of the hydrologic response using generalized additive models

Quantifying controls on rapid and delayed runoff response in double-peak hydrographs using ensemble rainfall-runoff analysis (ERRA)

Climatic, topographic, and groundwater controls on runoff response to precipitation: evidence from a large-sample data set

Young and new water fractions in soil and hillslope waters

Isotopic evidence for seasonal water sources in tree xylem and forest soils

Monthly new water fractions and their relationships with climate and catchment properties across Alpine rivers

Global Analysis of Topographic and Climatic Controls on Drainage Basin Shapes

Isotopic offsets in throughfall and stemflow may have small effects on estimates of winter precipitation fractions

Mg, Ca and Sr isotope dynamics in a small forested catchment underlain by paragneiss: The role of geogenic, atmospheric, and biogenic sources of base cations

Seasonal dynamics and spatial patterns of soil moisture in a loess catchment

Field Validation of the Superelevation Method for Debris‐Flow Velocity Estimation Using High‐Resolution Lidar and UAV Data

Characterizing nonlinear, nonstationary, and heterogeneous hydrologic behavior using ensemble rainfall–runoff analysis (ERRA): proof of concept

A solar rotation signature in cosmic dust: Frequency analysis of dust particle impacts on the Wind spacecraft

The Role of Anomalous Transport in Long-Term, Stream Water Chemistry Variability

Interaction Between Tectonics and Climate Encoded in the Planform Geometry of Stream Networks on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau

Mixing Models With Multiple, Overlapping, or Incomplete End‐Members, Quantified Using Time Series of a Single Tracer

Potential for significant precipitation cycling by forest‐floor litter and deadwood

Groundwater's Fingerprint in Stream Network Branching Angles

Climate versus tectonics as controls on river profiles

Diel streamflow cycles suggest more sensitive snowmelt-driven streamflow to climate change than land surface modeling does

Toward a general calibration of the Swiss plate geophone system for fractional bedload transport

Climatic Influences on Summer Use of Winter Precipitation by Trees

Improving the Calibration of the Swiss Plate Geophone Bedload Monitoring System by Filtering Out Seismic Signals From Extraneous Particle Impacts

Impulse Response Functions for Nonlinear, Nonstationary, and Heterogeneous Systems, Estimated by Deconvolution and Demixing of Noisy Time Series

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Julia L.A. Knapp

Paolo D'Odorico

Elham Freund

Luke Parsons

Scott T. Allen

Laurent Pfister

H.J. van Meerveld

Julia Allen Jones

Erwin Zehe

Yuting Yang

Sabine Braun

Adrian Harpold

Thales A. P. West

Marysa Lague

Thomas Crowther

Jacob Hirschberg

Harsh Beria

Louise Slater

Marius G Floriancic

Paolo Benettin

Kabir G Peay

Wouter Berghuijs

Richard F Keim

Brian McArdell

Gregory Goldsmith

Václav Kachlík

Jordan Aaron

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