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Doerthe Tetzlaff

Doerthe Tetzlaff

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Earth Science

D-Index
81
Citations
19119
World Ranking
512
National Ranking
24

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America

Overview

Doerthe Tetzlaff is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science with a focus on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics primarily in hydrology and watershed management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, flood risk assessment and management, soil and water nutrient dynamics, urban stormwater management solutions, and groundwater and isotope geochemistry. There is also work related to urban heat island mitigation.

Recent publications by Doerthe Tetzlaff include:

  • "Stable isotopes of water reveal differences in plant - soil water relationships across northern environments," 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • "Soil ecological stoichiometry synchronously regulates stream nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and ratios," 2023, CATENA
  • "Using water stable isotopes to understand evaporation, moisture stress, and re-wetting in catchment forest and grassland soils of the summer drought of 2018," 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Among several key papers in the field, there are relevant studies authored by others frequently associated with related research that contribute to understanding terrestrial water cycles, ecohydrologic modeling, and nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in soils and streams.

Doerthe Tetzlaff has collaborated extensively with other researchers, including:

  • Chris Soulsby
  • Aaron Smith
  • Christian Birkel
  • Marco Maneta
  • Songjun Wu

The most common journals and venues in which Tetzlaff publishes include:

  • Hydrological Processes
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Water Resources Research
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Doerthe Tetzlaff is recognized in the scientific community with several distinctions, including being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2018 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017. The scientist is also a recipient of the GSA Honorary Fellow Award from The Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

    M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

  • Concepts of hydrological connectivity: Research approaches, pathways and future agendas

    L.J. Bracken;J. Wainwright;G.A. Ali;D. Tetzlaff

  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

  • What can flux tracking teach us about water age distribution patterns and their temporal dynamics

    Markus Hrachowitz;H. Savenije;H. Savenije;T. A. Bogaard;T. A. Bogaard;D. Tetzlaff

  • How does landscape structure influence catchment transit time across different geomorphic provinces

    D. Tetzlaff;J. Seibert;K.J. McGuire;H. Laudon

  • Runoff processes, stream water residence times and controlling landscape characteristics in a mesoscale catchment: An initial evaluation

    Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;P. Rodgers;S. Dunn

  • Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle

    Delphis F. Levia;Irena F. Creed;David M. Hannah;Kazuki Nanko

  • Storage dynamics in hydropedological units control hillslope connectivity, runoff generation, and the evolution of catchment transit time distributions.

    Doerthe Tetzlaff;Christian Birkel;Jonathan James Dick;Josie Geris

  • Connectivity between landscapes and riverscapes—a unifying theme in integrating hydrology and ecology in catchment science?

    D. Tetzlaff;C. Soulsby;P. J. Bacon;A. F. Youngson

  • Soil water stable isotopes reveal evaporation dynamics at the soil–plant–atmosphere interface of the critical zone

    Matthias Sprenger;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Chris Soulsby

  • Tracer-based assessment of flow paths, storage and runoff generation in northern catchments: a review

    Doerthe Tetzlaff;Jim Buttle;Sean K. Carey;Kevin McGuire

  • Gamma distribution models for transit time estimation in catchments: Physical interpretation of parameters and implications for time-variant transit time assessment

    M. Hrachowitz;M. Hrachowitz;C. Soulsby;D. Tetzlaff;I. A. Malcolm

  • Conceptualization of runoff processes using a geographical information system and tracers in a nested mesoscale catchment

    Doerthe Tetzlaff;Christopher Soulsby;S. Waldron;I. A. Malcolm

  • Potential effects of climate change on streambed scour and risks to salmonid survival in snow-dominated mountain basins

    Jaime R. Goode;Jaime R. Goode;John M. Buffington;Daniele Tonina;Daniel J. Isaak

  • Influence of hydrology and seasonality on DOC exports from three contrasting upland catchments

    J. J. C. Dawson;C. Soulsby;D. Tetzlaff;M. Hrachowitz

  • Storage as a Metric of Catchment Comparison

    James P. McNamara;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Kevin Bishop;Christopher Soulsby

  • Stream water age distributions controlled by storage dynamics and nonlinear hydrologic connectivity: Modeling with high-resolution isotope data.

    C Soulsby;C Birkel;J Geris;J Dick

  • Using stable isotope tracers to assess hydrological flow paths, residence times and landscape influences in a nested mesoscale catchment

    P. Rodgers;P. Rodgers;Christopher Soulsby;S. Waldron;Doerthe Tetzlaff

  • Regionalization of transit time estimates in montane catchments by integrating landscape controls

    Markus Hrachowitz;Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Julian James Charles Dawson

  • Using long-term data sets to understand transit times in contrasting headwater catchments

    Markus Hrachowitz;Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Julian James Charles Dawson

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

    Paolo Benettin;Chris Soulsby;Christian Birkel;Doerthe Tetzlaff

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Soulsby
Chris Soulsby University of Aberdeen
Christian Birkel
Christian Birkel University of Costa Rica
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sean K. Carey
Sean K. Carey McMaster University
Jim Buttle
Jim Buttle Trent University
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Markus Hrachowitz
Markus Hrachowitz Delft University of Technology
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert University of Zurich
Sarah M. Dunn
Sarah M. Dunn James Hutton Institute
James P. McNamara
James P. McNamara Boise State University

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