Category Archives: Research “Hylight”

Beyond one-size-fits-all: a path toward region-specific flash drought monitoring and management by Gesualdo & Hadjimichael (2025)

Posted on May 5, 2026 by Young Hydrologic Society

At the end of 2025, PhDs Gabriela Gesualdo and Antonia Hadjimichael, researchers from Pennsylvania State University, published an interesting paper regarding flash drought detection in  Environmental Research Water. We had the pleasure of discussing this research with Gabriela, the lead author. … Continue reading →

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Toward Improved Simulations of Disruptive Reservoirs in Global Hydrological Modeling by Shrestha et al. (2024)

Posted on May 20, 2024 by Young Hydrologic Society

This April (2024), a paper in Water Resources Research caught the attention of our Blog Committee. Intrigued by its innovative findings using a mesoscale hydrology model, we couldn’t resist going deeper. We had the pleasure of discussing this research with … Continue reading →

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Evaluating model performance: towards a non-parametric variant of the Kling-Gupta efficiency by Pool, Vis & Seibert (2018)

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Young Hydrologic Society

Last year, Sandra Pool and colleagues published a technical paper in Hydrological Sciences Journal that proposing a modification of the Kling-Gupta efficiency towards a non-parametric metric. We thought it was an interesting choice of topic and went to ask her … Continue reading →

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Social and structural patterns of drought-related water conservation and rebound by Gonzales & Ajami (2017)

Posted on April 12, 2018 by tvanemmerik

By Natasha Krell In December 2017, Patricia Gonzalez and her colleagues published a paper on a novel water demand system dynamics model that integrates social and structural drivers of water conservation in WRR. We asked her a couple of questions.

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Hydrological response characteristics of Mediterranean catchments at different time scales: a meta-analysis by Merheb et al.

Posted on August 8, 2017 by tvanemmerik

In January 2016, Mohammad Merheb and colleagues published a paper on comparative Mediterranean hydrology in Hydrological Sciences Journal. At the 2017 IAHS General Assembly, Mohammad was awarded the Tison award for this paper, and we decided to ask him a … Continue reading →

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