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Theresa Blume is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to atmospheric science, environmental engineering, water science and technology, global and planetary change, and civil and structural engineering.

Their work extensively covers topics including hydrology and watershed management studies, soil moisture and remote sensing, soil and unsaturated flow, cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, landslides and related hazards, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Theresa Blume has several recent publications, notably:

  • "COSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sensors", 2022, Earth system science data
  • "A dense network of cosmic-ray neutron sensors for soil moisture observation in a highly instrumented pre-Alpine headwater catchment in Germany", 2020, Earth system science data
  • "Soil moisture: variable in space but redundant in time", 2020, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • "Estimates of tree root water uptake from soil moisture profile dynamics", 2020, Biogeosciences
  • "Characterising hillslope-stream connectivity with a joint event analysis of stream and groundwater levels", 2020, Hydrology and earth system sciences

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Andreas Güntner
  • Markus Weiler
  • Martin Schrön
  • Daniel Rasche
  • Anne Hartmann

Theresa Blume publishes regularly in several venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Earth system science data
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Water Resources Research
  • Biogeosciences

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

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

    Theresa Blume;Erwin Zehe;Axel Bronstert

  • Measurements and Observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle

    Flavia Tauro;John Selker;Nick van de Giesen;Tommaso Abrate

  • Investigating patterns and controls of groundwater up-welling in a lowland river by combining Fibre-optic Distributed Temperature Sensing with observations of vertical hydraulic gradients

    S. Krause;T. Blume;N. J. Cassidy

  • Travel times in the vadose zone: Variability in space and time

    Matthias Sprenger;Stefan Seeger;Theresa Blume;Markus Weiler

  • From hillslope to stream: methods to investigate subsurface connectivity

    Theresa Blume;H.J. (Ilja) van Meerveld

  • Analysing the temporal dynamics of model performance for hydrological models

    Dominik Reusser;Theresa Blume;Bettina Schaefli;Erwin Zehe

  • The value of satellite-derived snow cover images for calibrating a hydrological model in snow-dominated catchments in Central Asia

    Doris Duethmann;Juliane Peters;Theresa Blume;Sergiy Vorogushyn

  • 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

  • Comparative predictions of discharge from an artificial catchment (Chicken Creek) using sparse data

    H. M. Holländer;T. Blume;H. Bormann;W. Buytaert;W. Buytaert

  • HESS Opinions: From response units to functional units: a thermodynamic reinterpretation of the HRU concept to link spatial organization and functioning of intermediate scale catchments

    E. Zehe;U. Ehret;L. Pfister;T. Blume

  • A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of flood management measures based on the concept of "retaining water in the landscape" in different European hydro-climatic regions

    S. Salazar;F. Frances;J. Komma;Theresa Blume

  • Estimating flow and transport parameters in the unsaturated zone with pore water stable isotopes

    Matthias Sprenger;Till H.M. Volkmann;Theresa Blume;Markus Weiler

  • Use of cosmic-ray neutron sensors for soil moisture monitoring in forests

    Ingo Heidbüchel;Andreas Güntner;Theresa Blume

  • Spatio-temporal relevance and controls of preferential flow at the landscape scale

    Dominic Demand;Theresa Blume;Markus Weiler

  • Investigation of runoff generation in a pristine, poorly gauged catchment in the Chilean Andes II: Qualitative and quantitative use of tracers at three spatial scales

    Theresa Blume;Erwin Zehe;Axel Bronstert

  • Long-term soil moisture dynamics derived from GNSS interferometric reflectometry: a case study for Sutherland, South Africa

    Sibylle Vey;Andreas Guntner;Jens Wickert;Theresa Blume

  • Investigation of runoff generation in a pristine, poorly gauged catchment in the Chilean Andes I: A multi‐method experimental study

    Theresa Blume;Erwin Zehe;Dominik E. Reusser;Andrés Iroumé

  • Upscaling lacustrine groundwater discharge rates by fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing

    Theresa Blume;Stefan Krause;Karin Meinikmann;Jörg Lewandowski

  • A dense network of cosmic-ray neutron sensors for soil moisture observation in a highly instrumented pre-Alpine headwater catchment in Germany

    Benjamin Fersch;Till Francke;Maik Heistermann;Martin Schrön

  • A thermodynamic approach to link self-organization, preferential flow and rainfall-runoff behaviour

    E. Zehe;U. Ehret;T. Blume;A. Kleidon

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Weiler
Markus Weiler University of Freiburg
Andreas Güntner
Andreas Güntner University of Potsdam
Erwin Zehe
Erwin Zehe Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Stefan Krause
Stefan Krause University of Birmingham
David M. Hannah
David M. Hannah University of Birmingham
Axel Bronstert
Axel Bronstert University of Potsdam
Axel Kleidon
Axel Kleidon Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Harald Kunstmann
Harald Kunstmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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