The demographics of water: A review of water ages in the critical zone

M Sprenger, C Stumpp, M Weiler… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The time that water takes to travel through the terrestrial hydrological cycle and the critical
zone is of great interest in Earth system sciences with broad implications for water quality …

Global isotope hydrogeology―Review

S Jasechko - Reviews of Geophysics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Groundwater 18O/16O, 2H/1H, 13C/12C, 3H, and 14C data can help quantify
molecular movements and chemical reactions governing groundwater recharge, quality …

Prolonged drought in a northern California coastal region suppresses wildfire impacts on hydrology

ME Newcomer, J Underwood… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires naturally occur in many landscapes, however they are undergoing rapid regime
shifts. Despite the emphasis in the literature on the most severe hydrological responses to …

Transit time estimation in catchments: Recent developments and future directions

P Benettin, NB Rodriguez, M Sprenger… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water transit time is now a standard measure in catchment hydrological and ecohydrological
research. The last comprehensive review of transit time modeling approaches was …

Quantifying new water fractions and transit time distributions using ensemble hydrograph separation: theory and benchmark tests

JW Kirchner - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
Decades of hydrograph separation studies have estimated the proportions of recent
precipitation in streamflow using end-member mixing of chemical or isotopic tracers. Here I …

Drought in a warmer, CO2-rich climate restricts grassland water use and soil water mixing

J Radolinski, M Vremec, H Wachter, S Birk… - Science, 2025 - science.org
Soil water sustains terrestrial life, yet its fate is uncertain under a changing climate. We
conducted a deuterium labeling experiment to determine whether elevated atmospheric …

Critical zone storage controls on the water ages of ecohydrological outputs

S Kuppel, D Tetzlaff, MP Maneta… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Spatially explicit knowledge of the origins of water resources for ecosystems and rivers is
challenging when using tracer data alone. We use simulations from a spatially distributed …

Modeling nitrate export from a mesoscale catchment using storage selection functions

TV Nguyen, R Kumar, SR Lutz, A Musolff… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
StorAge Selection (SAS) functions describe how catchments selectively remove water of
different ages in storage via discharge, thus controlling the transit time distribution (TTD) and …

[HTML][HTML] Transit time tracing using wetness-adaptive StorAge Selection functions—application to a Mediterranean catchment

N Hachgenei, G Nord, L Spadini, P Ginot, C Voiron… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Not just the quantities but also the transit times are of crucial importance for understanding
the transfer of water through a catchment. This information is essential, for example, for …

Using StorAge selection (SAS) functions to understand flow paths and age distributions in contrasting karst groundwater systems

Z Zhang, X Chen, Q Cheng, C Soulsby - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Karst catchments have complex flow paths dynamics due to the unique, marked spatial
heterogeneity of karst groundwater systems. We used the StorAge Selection (SAS) function …