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Overview

Ciaran J. Harman is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with emphases on water-related processes and technological applications within the field.

Their work spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, Harman's publications cover a range of subfields, notably:

  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Geophysics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology

The principal research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI

Harman has contributed extensively to academic journals, particularly in venues such as:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Recent publications by Harman include:

  • "Differentiable modelling to unify machine learning and physical models for geosciences" (2023) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Fill-and-Spill: A Process Description of Runoff Generation at the Scale of the Beholder" (2021) in Water Resources Research
  • "Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions" (2022) in Water Resources Research
  • "Using Particle Tracking to Understand Flow Paths, Age Distributions, and the Paradoxical Origins of the Inverse Storage Effect in an Experimental Catchment" (2020) in Water Resources Research
  • "Signatures of Hydrologic Function Across the Critical Zone Observatory Network" (2020) in Water Resources Research

Collaborations form a significant part of Harman's research efforts. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Li Li
  • Markus Hrachowitz
  • David G. Litwin
  • Miriam Coenders-Gerrits
  • Martyn Clark

Best Publications

  • “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022

    A. Montanari;G. Young;H.H.G. Savenije;D.A. Hughes

  • The future of hydrology: an evolving science for a changing world.

    Thorsten Wagener;Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan;Peter A. Troch;Brian L. McGlynn

  • Time-variable transit time distributions and transport: Theory and application to storage-dependent transport of chloride in a watershed

    Ciaran J. Harman

  • Geophysical imaging reveals topographic stress control of bedrock weathering

    J. St. Clair;S. Moon;W. S. Holbrook;J. T. Perron

  • Differentiable modelling to unify machine learning and physical models for geosciences

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  • Vegetation-infiltration relationships across climatic and soil type gradients

    S. E. Thompson;C. J. Harman;P. Heine;G. G. Katul

  • Climate and vegetation water use efficiency at catchment scales

    Peter A. Troch;Guillermo F. Martinez;Valentijn R. N. Pauwels;Matej Durcik

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

    Andrea Rinaldo;Paolo Benettin;Ciaran J. Harman;Markus Hrachowitz

  • Spatial scale dependence of ecohydrologically mediated water balance partitioning: A synthesis framework for catchment ecohydrology

    Sally E. Thompson;Sally E. Thompson;Ciaran J. Harman;Peter A. Troch;Paul D. Brooks

  • Comparative hydrology across AmeriFlux sites: The variable roles of climate, vegetation, and groundwater

    S. E. Thompson;C. J. Harman;A. G. Konings;Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan

  • Functional model of water balance variability at the catchment scale: 1. Evidence of hydrologic similarity and space-time symmetry

    Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan;Mary A. Yaeger;Ciaran J. Harman;Xiangyu Xu;Xiangyu Xu

  • Power law catchment‐scale recessions arising from heterogeneous linear small‐scale dynamics

    C. J. Harman;M. Sivapalan;M. Sivapalan;P. Kumar

  • The importance of hydraulic groundwater theory in catchment hydrology: The legacy of Wilfried Brutsaert and Jean‐Yves Parlange

    Peter A. Troch;Alexis Berne;Patrick Bogaart;Ciaran Harman

  • Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions

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  • Catchment classification: hydrological analysis of catchment behavior through process-based modeling along a climate gradient

    G. Carrillo;P. A. Troch;M. Sivapalan;Thorsten Wagener

  • Fill-and-Spill: A Process Description of Runoff Generation at the Scale of the Beholder

    Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Christopher Spence;Daniel J. Karran;H. J. (Ilja) van Meerveld

  • Developing predictive insight into changing water systems: use-inspired hydrologic science for the Anthropocene

    S.E. Thompson;M. Sivapalan;C.J. Harman;V. Srinivasan

  • Variability and uncertainty in reach bankfull hydraulic geometry

    Ciaran Harman;Ciaran Harman;Ciaran Harman;Michael Stewardson;Michael Stewardson;Ronald DeRose

  • Advancing catchment hydrology to deal with predictions under change

    U. Ehret;H. V. Gupta;M. Sivapalan;S. V. Weijs

  • Optimizing dam release rules to meet environmental flow targets

    Ciaran Harman;Michael Stewardson

  • Spatiotemporal scaling of hydrological and agrochemical export dynamics in a tile-drained Midwestern watershed

    K. Guan;Sally E. Thompson;Sally E. Thompson;C. J. Harman;N. B. Basu

  • Characterizing the Fluxes and Age Distribution of Soil Water, Plant Water, and Deep Percolation in a Model Tropical Ecosystem

    Jaivime Evaristo;Jaivime Evaristo;Minseok Kim;Minseok Kim;Joost van Haren;Luke A. Pangle

  • Coevolution of nonlinear trends in vegetation, soils, and topography with elevation and slope aspect: A case study in the sky islands of southern Arizona

    Jon D. Pelletier;Greg A. Barron-Gafford;David D. Breshears;Paul D. Brooks

Frequent Co-Authors

Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Troch
Peter Troch University of Arizona
William P. Ball
William P. Ball Johns Hopkins University
Sally E. Thompson
Sally E. Thompson University of Western Australia
Adam S. Ward
Adam S. Ward Oregon State University
Aaron I. Packman
Aaron I. Packman Northwestern University
Steven M. Wondzell
Steven M. Wondzell US Forest Service
Nandita B. Basu
Nandita B. Basu University of Waterloo
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
David M. Hannah
David M. Hannah University of Birmingham

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