JK
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James W. Kirchner
Professor, ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Global Analysis of Topographic and Climatic Controls on Drainage Basin Shapes
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
20 april 2024
Minhui Li, Hansjoerg F. Seybold, Baosheng Wu, Yi C...
Drainage basins are fundamental units of Earth's surface, describing how flows accumulate across landscapes. They are direct expressions of how tec...
Explaining the Drought Paradox in the European Alps using Remote sensing, Flux measurements and Stable Water Isotopes
STABLE ISOTOPES IN THE CRITICAL ZONE: METHODS, APPLICATIONS, AND PROCESS INTERPRETATIONS II POSTER
hydrology | 15 december 2023
Harsh Beria, James W. Kirchner
In a warming climate, snow water resources in the European Alps are undergoing significant changes such as shrinkage in seasonal snowpacks, earlier sn...
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Seasonality and water origins across the forest water cycle
STABLE ISOTOPES IN THE CRITICAL ZONE: METHODS, APPLICATIONS, AND PROCESS INTERPRETATIONS I ORAL
hydrology | 15 december 2023
Marius Floriancic, Scott T. Allen, James W. Kirchn...
Water cycling in forests is controlled by vegetation-mediated processes, such as interception, infiltration, and transpiration, that greatly impact th...
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Impact of Antecedent Wetness and Precipitation Intensity on Catchment Response and Travel Times
ADVANCES IN TRACER METHODS AND MODELING OF HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES, CHEMICAL WEATHERING, AND HYDROCHRONOLOGY II ORAL
hydrology | 14 december 2023
Julia L. Knapp, Wouter Berghuijs, James W. Kirchne...
The time a molecule of rain takes to reach the stream is normally substantially longer than the time for discharge to respond to rainfall. This differ...
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Topographic and Climatic Controls on Global Patterns in Drainage Basin Shape
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TECTONICS AND SURFACE PROCESSES: FROM OROGENS TO SEDIMENTARY BASINS II ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Minhui Li, Hansjörg Seybold, Baosheng Wu, Yi Chen,...
Drainage basins are fundamental units of Earths topography that describe how flows accumulate across landscapes. Together with their river networks, d...
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Forecasting extreme flow rates from precipitation data in Switzerland: a Dense feed-forward Neural Network approach
HYDROMETEOROLOGIC EXTREMES: PREDICTION, SIMULATION, AND CHANGE I POSTER
hydrology | 11 december 2023
Maria Grazia Zanoni, Marius Floriancic, Hansjörg S...
Switzerland, renowned for its pristine landscapes and abundant water resources, is heavily reliant on sustainable water management to meet the diverse...
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Runoff response of permafrost rivers to rainfall and heatwaves
CHANGING PERMAFROST LANDSCAPES I ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 11 december 2023
Cansu Culha, Sarah Godsey, Jim P. McNamara, James ...
Catchment runoff response to precipitation may be substantially altered by the presence or absence of permafrost, a perennially frozen soil layer bene...
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Modeling the Co-Benefits of Mechanical Thinning on Forest Structure, Fire Effects, Biodiversity, and Hydrological Refugia
CATCHMENT AND CRITICAL ZONE SCIENCE: UNDERSTANDING ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH MONITORING, ANALYSIS, AND EXPERIMENTATION I POSTER
hydrology | 11 december 2023
Louis Graup, Christina (Naomi) Tague, Adrian A. Ha...
In the Sierra Nevada, CA, forest management is the primary tool to combat catastrophic wildfires. Thinning out overly-dense stands and removing unders...
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