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Markus Hrachowitz is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and has an extensive publication record in the field of Environmental Science, contributing to 133 publications.

Their research focuses on several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography

The main topics of their work encompass multiple areas of hydrology and environmental processes:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

The scientist has published frequently in several key journals. The most common publication venues include:

  • Hydrology and earth system sciences (22 publications)
  • Water Resources Research (13 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (3 publications)
  • Water Resources Management (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Water (2 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Markus Hrachowitz reflect diverse topics within hydrology and environmental systems:

  • "Improving the Predictive Skill of a Distributed Hydrological Model by Calibration on Spatial Patterns With Multiple Satellite Data Sets," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions," 2022, Water Resources Research
  • "Future changes in annual, seasonal and monthly runoff signatures in contrasting Alpine catchments in Austria," 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • "Behind the scenes of streamflow model performance," 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • "Reduction of vegetation-accessible water storage capacity after deforestation affects catchment travel time distributions and increases young water fractions in a headwater catchment," 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences

Collaborations appear consistent, with frequent co-authors including:

  • H. H. G. Savenije
  • Miriam Coenders-Gerrits
  • C. J. Harman
  • Attilio Castellarin
  • Juliane Mai

Best Publications

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

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

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • A precipitation shift from snow towards rain leads to a decrease in streamflow

    W. R. Berghuijs;W. R. Berghuijs;R. A. Woods;M. Hrachowitz

  • 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

  • Transit times – the link between hydrology and water quality at the catchment scale

    Markus Hrachowitz;Paolo Benettin;Boris M. van Breukelen;Ophelie Fovet

  • The demographics of water: A review of water ages in the critical zone

    Matthias Sprenger;Matthias Sprenger;Matthias Sprenger;Christine Stumpp;Markus Weiler;Werner Aeschbach

  • A framework to assess the realism of model structures using hydrological signatures

    T. Euser;H. C. Winsemius;M. Hrachowitz;F. Fenicia

  • HESS Opinions: The complementary merits of competing modelling philosophies in hydrology

    Markus Hrachowitz;Martyn P. Clark

  • Climate controls how ecosystems size the root zone storage capacity at catchment scale

    H. Gao;M. Hrachowitz;S.J. Schymanski;F.F. Fenicia;F.F. Fenicia

  • 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

  • Process Consistency in Models: the Importance of System Signatures, Expert Knowledge and Process Complexity

    M. Hrachowitz;O. Fovet;O. Fovet;L. Ruiz;L. Ruiz;T. Euser

  • Uncertainties in transpiration estimates

    A. M. J. Coenders-Gerrits;R. J. van der Ent;T. A. Bogaard;L. Wang-Erlandsson;L. Wang-Erlandsson

  • 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

  • Improving the Predictive Skill of a Distributed Hydrological Model by Calibration on Spatial Patterns With Multiple Satellite Data Sets

    Moctar Dembélé;Moctar Dembélé;Markus Hrachowitz;Hubert H. G. Savenije;Grégoire Mariéthoz

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

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

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

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

  • Hydrological landscape classification: Investigating the performance of HAND based landscape classifications in a central European meso-scale catchment

    S. Gharari;M. Hrachowitz;F. Fenicia;H. H. G. Savenije

  • Testing the realism of a topography driven model (FLEX-Topo) in the nested catchments of the Upper Heihe, China

    H. Gao;M. Hrachowitz;F.F. Fenicia;F.F. Fenicia;S. Gharari

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

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

  • Constraining Conceptual Hydrological Models With Multiple Information Sources

    R.C. Nijzink;S. Almeida;S. Almeida;I. G. Pechlivanidis;R. Capell

  • Using expert knowledge to increase realism in environmental system models can dramatically reduce the need for calibration

    S. Gharari;M. Hrachowitz;F. Fenicia;F. Fenicia;H. Gao

Frequent Co-Authors

Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
Doerthe Tetzlaff
Doerthe Tetzlaff Leibniz Association
Chris Soulsby
Chris Soulsby University of Aberdeen
Hessel Winsemius
Hessel Winsemius Delft University of Technology
Laurent Ruiz
Laurent Ruiz Indian Institute of Science
Berit Arheimer
Berit Arheimer Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Jim Freer
Jim Freer University of Bristol
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam
Chantal Gascuel-Odoux
Chantal Gascuel-Odoux University of Rennes
Dawei Han
Dawei Han University of Bristol

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