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| 1 | GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture | Geoscientific Model Development | 2017 | 1,500 |
| 2 | MSWEP: 3-hourly 0.25° global gridded precipitation (1979–2015) by merging gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2017 | 791 |
| 3 | Mega-heatwave temperatures due to combined soil desiccation and atmospheric heat accumulation | Nature Geoscience | 2014 | 741 |
| 4 | Perspectives for Remote Sensing with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Precision Agriculture | Trends in Plant Science | 2019 | 566 |
| 5 | A review of spatial downscaling of satellite remotely sensed soil moisture | Reviews of Geophysics | 2017 | 474 |
| 6 | Assessment and Enhancement of MERRA Land Surface Hydrology Estimates | Journal of Climate | 2011 | 418 |
| 7 | Multi-decadal trends in global terrestrial evapotranspiration and its components | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 409 |
| 8 | Revisiting the contribution of transpiration to global terrestrial evapotranspiration | Geophysical Research Letters | 2017 | 340 |
| 9 | The future of Earth observation in hydrology | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2017 | 329 |
| 10 | Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling | Water Resources Research | 2019 | 310 |
| 11 | Reconciling spatial and temporal soil moisture effects on afternoon rainfall | Nature Communications | 2015 | 294 |
| 12 | On the Soil Roughness Parameterization Problem in Soil Moisture Retrieval of Bare Surfaces from Synthetic Aperture Radar | Sensors | 2008 | 279 |
| 13 | The WACMOS-ET project – Part 2: Evaluation of global terrestrial evaporation data sets | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2016 | 277 |
| 14 | El Niño–La Niña cycle and recent trends in continental evaporation | Nature Climate Change | 2014 | 269 |
| 15 | Global‐scale regionalization of hydrologic model parameters | Water Resources Research | 2016 | 256 |
| 16 | Multivariate return periods in hydrology: a critical and practical review focusing on synthetic design hydrograph estimation | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2013 | 240 |
| 17 | Soil moisture‐temperature coupling: A multiscale observational analysis | Geophysical Research Letters | 2012 | 226 |
| 18 | Rainfall partitioning into throughfall, stemflow, and interception within a single beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) canopy: influence of foliation, rain event characteristics, and meteorology | Hydrological Processes | 2008 | 219 |
| 19 | Assimilation of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals | Geophysical Research Letters | 2012 | 214 |
| 20 | Recent advances in (soil moisture) triple collocation analysis | International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation | 2016 | 214 |
| 21 | Recent increases in terrestrial carbon uptake at little cost to the water cycle | Nature Communications | 2017 | 202 |
| 22 | Snow depth variability in the Northern Hemisphere mountains observed from space | Nature Communications | 2019 | 201 |
| 23 | Amplification of mega-heatwaves through heat torrents fuelled by upwind drought | Nature Geoscience | 2019 | 190 |
| 24 | Climate and vegetation water use efficiency at catchment scales | Hydrological Processes | 2009 | 177 |
| 25 | The WACMOS-ET project – Part 1: Tower-scale evaluation of four remote-sensing-based evapotranspiration algorithms | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2016 | 169 |
| 26 | Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities | Biogeosciences | 2019 | 165 |
| 27 | For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests! | Conservation Letters | 2022 | 163 |
| 28 | Satellite-Scale Snow Water Equivalent Assimilation into a High-Resolution Land Surface Model | Journal of Hydrometeorology | 2010 | 161 |
| 29 | A test of an optimal stomatal conductance scheme within the CABLE land surface model | Geoscientific Model Development | 2015 | 161 |
| 30 | Multiscale assimilation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–EOS snow water equivalent and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer snow cover fraction observations in northern Colorado | Water Resources Research | 2012 | 149 |
| 31 | Improvement of Modeled Soil Wetness Conditions and Turbulent Fluxes through the Assimilation of Observed Discharge | Journal of Hydrometeorology | 2006 | 147 |
| 32 | Towards the sequential assimilation of SAR-derived water stages into hydraulic models using the Particle Filter: proof of concept | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2010 | 136 |
| 33 | The Contributions of Precipitation and Soil Moisture Observations to the Skill of Soil Moisture Estimates in a Land Data Assimilation System | Journal of Hydrometeorology | 2011 | 136 |
| 34 | Unraveling the influence of atmospheric evaporative demand on drought and its response to climate change | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change | 2020 | 136 |
| 35 | Heat stress increase under climate change twice as large in cities as in rural areas: A study for a densely populated midlatitude maritime region | Geophysical Research Letters | 2017 | 134 |
| 36 | Assimilating SAR-derived water level data into a hydraulic model: a case study | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2011 | 131 |
| 37 | Vegetation anomalies caused by antecedent precipitation in most of the world | Environmental Research Letters | 2017 | 130 |
| 38 | Correcting for forecast bias in soil moisture assimilation with the ensemble Kalman filter | Water Resources Research | 2007 | 121 |
| 39 | Joint Sentinel‐1 and SMAP data assimilation to improve soil moisture estimates | Geophysical Research Letters | 2017 | 121 |
| 40 | Crop Classification Using Short-Revisit Multitemporal SAR Data | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing | 2011 | 118 |
| 41 | The importance of hydraulic groundwater theory in catchment hydrology: The legacy of Wilfried Brutsaert and Jean-Yves Parlange | Water Resources Research | 2013 | 117 |
| 42 | A non-linear Granger-causality framework to investigate climate–vegetation dynamics | Geoscientific Model Development | 2017 | 116 |
| 43 | Observational evidence for cloud cover enhancement over western European forests | Nature Communications | 2017 | 114 |
| 44 | Improvement of TOPLATS-based discharge predictions through assimilation of ERS-based remotely sensed soil moisture values | Hydrological Processes | 2002 | 112 |
| 45 | Global Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product Using Assimilation Diagnostics | Journal of Hydrometeorology | 2017 | 110 |
| 46 | An improved approach for estimating observation and model error parameters in soil moisture data assimilation | Water Resources Research | 2010 | 107 |
| 47 | Assessment of GCMs simulation performance for precipitation and temperature from CMIP5 to CMIP6 over the Tibetan Plateau | International Journal of Climatology | 2021 | 106 |
| 48 | Optimization of a coupled hydrology-crop growth model through the assimilation of observed soil moisture and leaf area index values using an ensemble Kalman filter | Water Resources Research | 2007 | 104 |
| 49 | A comparative copula‐based bivariate frequency analysis of observed and simulated storm events: A case study on Bartlett‐Lewis modeled rainfall | Water Resources Research | 2011 | 103 |
| 50 | Water, Energy, and Carbon with Artificial Neural Networks (WECANN): a statistically based estimate of global surface turbulent fluxes and gross primary productivity using solar-induced fluorescence | Biogeosciences | 2017 | 103 |
