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| 2 | Evaluating the use of “goodness-of-fit” Measures in hydrologic and hydroclimatic model validation | Water Resources Research | 1999 | 3,336 |
| 3 | Electromagnetic determination of soil water content: Measurements in coaxial transmission lines | Water Resources Research | 1980 | 3,264 |
| 4 | Effective and efficient global optimization for conceptual rainfall-runoff models | Water Resources Research | 1992 | 2,334 |
| 5 | Techniques of trend analysis for monthly water quality data | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 2,025 |
| 6 | Response of mean annual evapotranspiration to vegetation changes at catchment scale | Water Resources Research | 2001 | 1,910 |
| 7 | Macropores and water flow in soils | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 1,829 |
| 8 | Empirical equations for some soil hydraulic properties | Water Resources Research | 1978 | 1,711 |
| 9 | Validity of Cubic Law for fluid flow in a deformable rock fracture | Water Resources Research | 1980 | 1,695 |
| 10 | Developing joint probability distributions of soil water retention characteristics | Water Resources Research | 1988 | 1,648 |
| 11 | A new method for the determination of flow directions and upslope areas in grid digital elevation models | Water Resources Research | 1997 | 1,600 |
| 12 | Model for predicting evaporation from a row crop with incomplete cover | Water Resources Research | 1972 | 1,536 |
| 13 | A critical review of data on field-scale dispersion in aquifers | Water Resources Research | 1992 | 1,357 |
| 14 | Landslide triggering by rain infiltration | Water Resources Research | 2000 | 1,349 |
| 15 | Canopy temperature as a crop water stress indicator | Water Resources Research | 1981 | 1,263 |
| 16 | Reliability, resiliency, and vulnerability criteria for water resource system performance evaluation | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 1,210 |
| 17 | Three‐dimensional stochastic analysis of macrodispersion in aquifers | Water Resources Research | 1983 | 1,196 |
| 18 | A general mass‐conservative numerical solution for the unsaturated flow equation | Water Resources Research | 1990 | 1,173 |
| 19 | A Statistical Exploration of the Relationships of Soil Moisture Characteristics to the Physical Properties of Soils | Water Resources Research | 1984 | 1,133 |
| 20 | A Nonparametric Trend Test for Seasonal Data With Serial Dependence | Water Resources Research | 1984 | 1,128 |
| 21 | A physically based model for the topographic control on shallow landsliding | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 1,039 |
| 22 | Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates | Water Resources Research | 2012 | 1,027 |
| 23 | Toward improved calibration of hydrologic models: Multiple and noncommensurable measures of information | Water Resources Research | 1998 | 1,016 |
| 24 | Artificial Neural Network Modeling of the Rainfall-Runoff Process | Water Resources Research | 1995 | 1,007 |
| 25 | The Millennium Drought in southeast Australia (2001–2009): Natural and human causes and implications for water resources, ecosystems, economy, and society | Water Resources Research | 2013 | 971 |
| 26 | Drag, turbulence, and diffusion in flow through emergent vegetation | Water Resources Research | 1999 | 970 |
| 27 | Interpolating the isotopic composition of modern meteoric precipitation | Water Resources Research | 2003 | 964 |
| 28 | Floods, channel change, and the hyporheic zone | Water Resources Research | 1999 | 963 |
| 29 | Reservoir Management and Operations Models: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review | Water Resources Research | 1985 | 948 |
| 30 | A distributed hydrology-vegetation model for complex terrain | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 941 |
| 31 | Application of a fractional advection-dispersion equation | Water Resources Research | 2000 | 927 |
| 32 | A detachment-limited model of drainage basin evolution | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 906 |
| 33 | A natural gradient experiment on solute transport in a sand aquifer: Spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity and its role in the dispersion process | Water Resources Research | 1986 | 884 |
| 34 | A dual-porosity model for simulating the preferential movement of water and solutes in structured porous media | Water Resources Research | 1993 | 882 |
| 35 | Mountains of the world, water towers for humanity: Typology, mapping, and global significance | Water Resources Research | 2007 | 850 |
| 36 | Stochastic simulation of daily precipitation, temperature, and solar radiation | Water Resources Research | 1981 | 844 |
| 37 | Evaluation of automated techniques for base flow and recession analyses | Water Resources Research | 1990 | 838 |
| 38 | Probability weighted moments: Definition and relation to parameters of several distributions expressable in inverse form | Water Resources Research | 1979 | 821 |
| 39 | Review of Parameter Identification Procedures in Groundwater Hydrology: The Inverse Problem | Water Resources Research | 1986 | 817 |
| 40 | Getting the right answers for the right reasons: Linking measurements, analyses, and models to advance the science of hydrology | Water Resources Research | 2006 | 813 |
| 41 | A Shuffled Complex Evolution Metropolis algorithm for optimization and uncertainty assessment of hydrologic model parameters | Water Resources Research | 2003 | 811 |
| 42 | The WFDEI meteorological forcing data set: WATCH Forcing Data methodology applied to ERA‐Interim reanalysis data | Water Resources Research | 2014 | 811 |
| 43 | Hydraulic conductivity estimation for soils with heterogeneous pore structure | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 792 |
| 44 | How much complexity is warranted in a rainfall-runoff model? | Water Resources Research | 1993 | 767 |
| 45 | A Transdisciplinary Review of Deep Learning Research and Its Relevance for Water Resources Scientists | Water Resources Research | 2018 | 762 |
| 46 | Settling velocity of natural particles | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 735 |
| 47 | Partial Area Contributions to Storm Runoff in a Small New England Watershed | Water Resources Research | 1970 | 731 |
| 48 | Stream gradient as a function of order, magnitude, and discharge | Water Resources Research | 1974 | 727 |
| 49 | The geomorphologic structure of hydrologic response | Water Resources Research | 1979 | 727 |
| 50 | A rational function approach for estimating mean annual evapotranspiration | Water Resources Research | 2004 | 723 |