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 …

Transit times—The link between hydrology and water quality at the catchment scale

M Hrachowitz, P Benettin… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In spite of trying to understand processes in the same spatial domain, the catchment
hydrology and water quality scientific communities are relatively disconnected and so are …

Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes

A Rinaldo, P Benettin, CJ Harman… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss a recent theoretical approach combining catchment‐scale flow and transport
processes into a unified framework. The approach is designed to characterize the …

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 …

Instructive surprises in the hydrological functioning of landscapes

JW Kirchner, P Benettin… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Landscapes receive water from precipitation and then transport, store, mix, and release it,
both downward to streams and upward to vegetation. How they do this shapes floods …

Using SAS functions and high‐resolution isotope data to unravel travel time distributions in headwater catchments

P Benettin, C Soulsby, C Birkel… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We use high‐resolution tracer data from an experimental site to test theoretical approaches
that integrate catchment‐scale flow and transport processes in a unified framework centered …

Travel times in the vadose zone: Variability in space and time

M Sprenger, S Seeger, T Blume… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Water travel times reflect hydrological processes, yet we know little about how travel times in
the unsaturated zone vary with time. Using the soil physical model HYDRUS‐1D, we derived …

Strong hydroclimatic controls on vulnerability to subsurface nitrate contamination across Europe

R Kumar, F Hesse, PSC Rao, A Musolff… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Subsurface contamination due to excessive nutrient surpluses is a persistent and
widespread problem in agricultural areas across Europe. The vulnerability of a particular …

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

JW Kirchner - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2024 - hess.copernicus.org
A classical approach to understanding hydrological behavior is the unit hydrograph and its
many variants, but these often assume linearity (runoff response is proportional to effective …

Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the H ubbard B rook E xperimental F orest, NH, USA

P Benettin, SW Bailey, JL Campbell… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We combine experimental and modeling results from a headwater catchment at the Hubbard
Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), New Hampshire, USA, to explore the link between …