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Erwin Zehe is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics related to hydrology and watershed management studies, groundwater flow and contamination studies, soil and unsaturated flow, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, flood risk assessment and management, hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence, and soil moisture and remote sensing.

Notable recent papers authored by Erwin Zehe include:

  • "Surface water and groundwater: unifying conceptualization and quantification of the two 'water worlds'" (2020), published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Soil moisture: variable in space but redundant in time" (2020), published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "A comparison of catchment travel times and storage deduced from deuterium and tritium tracers using StorAge Selection functions" (2021), published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "The role and value of distributed precipitation data in hydrological models" (2021), published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Estimates of tree root water uptake from soil moisture profile dynamics" (2020), published in Biogeosciences

The researcher's frequent co-authors include:

  • Ralf Loritz
  • Brian Berkowitz
  • Sibylle K. Haßler
  • Laurent Pfister
  • Mirko Mälicke

Erwin Zehe publishes predominantly in scientific journals such as:

  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • IAHS Decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB), 2003–2012: Shaping an exciting future for the hydrological sciences

    M. Sivapalan;K. Takeuchi;S. W. Franks;V. K. Gupta

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

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

  • HESS Opinions "Should we apply bias correction to global and regional climate model data?"

    Uwe Ehret;Erwin Zehe;V. Wulfmeyer;K. Warrach-Sagi

  • Rainfall—runoff response, event-based runoff coefficients and hydrograph separation

    Theresa Blume;Erwin Zehe;Axel Bronstert

  • A review of regionalisation for continuous streamflow simulation

    Y. He;A. Bárdossy;E. Zehe

  • Predictability of hydrologic response at the plot and catchment scales: Role of initial conditions

    Erwin Zehe;Günter Blöschl

  • Threshold behaviour in hydrological systems as (human) geo-ecosystems: Manifestations, controls, implications

    E. Zehe;M. Sivapalan;M. Sivapalan

  • Groundwater-surface water interactions in a North German lowland floodplain : Implications for the river discharge dynamics and riparian water balance

    Stefan Krause;Axel Bronstert;Erwin Zehe

  • Uncertainty of simulated catchment runoff response in the presence of threshold processes: Role of initial soil moisture and precipitation

    Erwin Zehe;Rolf Becker;András Bárdossy;Erich Plate

  • Should we apply bias correction to global and regional climate model data

    U. Ehret;E. Zehe;V. Wulfmeyer;K. Warrach-Sagi

  • Plot and field scale soil moisture dynamics and subsurface wetness control on runoff generation in a headwater in the Ore Mountains

    Erwin Zehe;Thomas Graeff;Markus Morgner;Andreas Bauer

  • Comparison of conceptual model performance using different representations of spatial variability

    Tapash Das;András Bárdossy;Erwin Zehe;Yi He

  • Temporal dynamics of model parameter sensitivity for computationally expensive models with the Fourier amplitude sensitivity test

    Dominik E. Reusser;Dominik E. Reusser;W. Buytaert;Erwin Zehe

  • Preferential transport of isoproturon at a plot scale and a field scale tile-drained site

    Erwin Zehe;Hannes Flühler

  • Macropore flow of old water revisited: experimental insights from a tile-drained hillslope

    J. Klaus;E. Zehe;M. Elsner;C. Külls

  • Modeling water flow and mass transport in a loess catchment

    E. Zehe;T. Maurer;J. Ihringer;E. Plate

  • Patterns of predictability in hydrological threshold systems

    Erwin Zehe;Helmut Elsenbeer;Falk Lindenmaier;K. Schulz

  • Effects of climate change on the coupled dynamics of water and vegetation in drylands

    Britta Tietjen;Britta Tietjen;Florian Jeltsch;Erwin Zehe;Nikolaus Classen

  • Analysing the temporal dynamics of model performance for hydrological models

    Dominik Reusser;Theresa Blume;Bettina Schaefli;Erwin Zehe

  • Use of soil moisture dynamics and patterns at different spatio-temporal scales for the investigation of subsurface flow processes

    T. Blume;E. Zehe;A. Bronstert

  • The principle of 'maximum energy dissipation': a novel thermodynamic perspective on rapid water flow in connected soil structures.

    Erwin Zehe;Theresa Blume;Günter Blöschl

Frequent Co-Authors

Theresa Blume
Theresa Blume Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart
Axel Kleidon
Axel Kleidon Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Axel Bronstert
Axel Bronstert University of Potsdam
Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
Julian Klaus
Julian Klaus University of Bonn
Ross Woods
Ross Woods University of Bristol
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan

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