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Markus Weiler is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 103 and 35 publications respectively. Within these areas, their work delves into subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Landslides and Related Hazards, and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

Markus Weiler has contributed to multiple research articles published in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water Resources Research
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Biogeosciences
  • Tree Physiology

Among recent papers, notable works are:

  • "Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers," 2021, New Phytologist
  • "Large-Scale Assessment of Delayed Groundwater Responses to Drought," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Temporal dynamics of tree xylem water isotopes: in situ monitoring and modeling," 2021, Biogeosciences
  • "Beyond binary baseflow separation: a delayed-flow index for multiple streamflow contributions," 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Soil moisture: variable in space but redundant in time," 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include Stefan Seeger, Kerstin Stahl, Barbara Herbstritt, Theresa Blume, and Michael Stoelzle. This collaboration indicates a network of researchers consistently contributing to overlapping scientific topics.

Best Publications

  • Karst water resources in a changing world: Review of hydrological modeling approaches

    Andreas J Hartmann;N. Goldscheider;Thorsten Wagener;J. Lange

  • Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology

    J J McDonnell;J J McDonnell;M Sivapalan;K Vache;S Dunn

  • The role of topography on catchment-scale water residence time

    K.J. McGuire;K.J. McGuire;Jeffery J. McDonnell;M. Weiler;C. Kendall

  • Illuminating hydrological processes at the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interface with water stable isotopes

    Matthias Sprenger;Matthias Sprenger;Hannes Leistert;Katharina Gimbel;Markus Weiler

  • Floods and climate: emerging perspectives for flood risk assessment and management

    B. Merz;J. Aerts;K. Arnbjerg-Nielsen;M. Baldi

  • Forest canopy effects on snow accumulation and ablation: an integrative review of empirical results.

    Andrés Varhola;Nicholas C. Coops;Markus Weiler;R. Dan Moore

  • Virtual experiments: a new approach for improving process conceptualization in hillslope hydrology

    Markus Weiler;Jeff McDonnell

  • 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

  • An experimental tracer study of the role of macropores in infiltration in grassland soils

    Markus Weiler;Felix Naef

  • Ecohydrological consequences of drought- and infestation- triggered tree die-off: insights and hypotheses

    Henry D. Adams;Charles H. Luce;David D. Breshears;Craig D. Allen

  • Inferring flow types from dye patterns in macroporous soils

    Markus Weiler;Hannes Flühler

  • 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

  • The influence of forest and topography on snow accumulation and melt at the watershed-scale

    Georg Jost;Markus Weiler;David R. Gluns;Younes Alila

  • Storage of water on vegetation under simulated rainfall of varying intensity

    R.F. Keim;A.E. Skaugset;M. Weiler

  • Temporal persistence of spatial patterns in throughfall

    R.F. Keim;A.E. Skaugset;M. Weiler

  • Conceptualizing lateral preferential flow and flow networks and simulating the effects on gauged and ungauged hillslopes

    Markus Weiler;J. J. McDonnell

  • How does rainfall become runoff? A combined tracer and runoff transfer function approach

    Markus Weiler;Markus Weiler;Brian L. McGlynn;Kevin J. McGuire;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Recovery of trees from drought depends on belowground sink control

    Frank Hagedorn;Jobin Joseph;Jobin Joseph;Martina Peter;Jörg Luster

  • Integrating tracer experiments with modeling to assess runoff processes and water transit times

    K.J. McGuire;M. Weiler;J.J. McDonnell

  • High-resolution isotope measurements resolve rapid ecohydrological dynamics at the soil-plant interface.

    Till H. M. Volkmann;Kristine Haberer;Arthur Gessler;Markus Weiler

  • A process based assessment of the potential to reduce flood runoff by land use change

    Felix Naef;Simon Scherrer;Markus Weiler

Frequent Co-Authors

Theresa Blume
Theresa Blume Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Kerstin Stahl
Kerstin Stahl University of Freiburg
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert University of Zurich
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam
Laurent Pfister
Laurent Pfister Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Kevin J. McGuire
Kevin J. McGuire Virginia Tech
Julian Klaus
Julian Klaus University of Bonn

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