List of works - James Kirchner

A Budyko framework for estimating how spatial heterogeneity and lateral moisture redistribution affect average evapotranspiration rates as seen from the atmosphere

article

A Budyko framework for estimating how spatial heterogeneity and lateral moisture redistribution affect average evapotranspiration rates as seen from the atmosphere

scientific article

A double paradox in catchment hydrology and geochemistry

scholarly article by James Kirchner published 2003 in Hydrological Processes

A lab in the field: high-frequency analysis of water quality and stable isotopes in stream water and precipitation

A study of solute redistribution and transport in seasonal snowpack using natural and artificial tracers

A study of solute transport mechanisms using rare earth element tracers and artificial rainstorms on snow

Aliasing in 1/f(alpha) noise spectra: origins, consequences, and remedies.

scientific article

Applicability of bed load transport models for mixed-size sediments in steep streams considering macro-roughness

Assessing water quality impacts and cleanup effectiveness in streams dominated by episodic mercury discharges.

scientific article published on October 2000

Averaging over spatiotemporal heterogeneity substantially biases evapotranspiration rates in a mechanistic large-scale land evaporation model

scientific article published in 2020

Base Cation Depletion and Potential Long-Term Acidification of Norwegian Catchments ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

Bed load transport in a very steep mountain stream (Riedbach, Switzerland): Measurement and prediction

article

Biodiversity: fossils make waves

scientific article

Branching geometry of valley networks on Mars and Earth and its implications for early Martian climate.

scientific article

Catchment-scale advection and dispersion as a mechanism for fractal scaling in stream tracer concentrations

Catchments as simple dynamical systems: Catchment characterization, rainfall-runoff modeling, and doing hydrology backward

article

Characterizing structural and lithologic controls on deep-seated landsliding: Implications for topographic relief and landscape evolution in the Oregon Coast Range, USA

article

Climate models can correctly simulate the continuum of global-average temperature variability

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Climate's watermark in the geometry of stream networks

scholarly article by Hansjörg Seybold et al published 4 March 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Controls on the spacing of first-order valleys

scholarly article

Cosmogenic nuclide methods for measuring long-term rates of physical erosion and chemical weathering

article

Debates-Hypothesis testing in hydrology: Theory and practice

scholarly article by Laurent Pfister & James Kirchner published March 2017 in Water Resources Research

DebrisInterMixing-2.3: a finite volume solver for three-dimensional debris-flow simulations with two calibration parameters – Part 1: Model description

article

DebrisInterMixing-2.3: a finite volume solver for three-dimensional debris-flow simulations with two calibration parameters – Part 2: Model validation

article

DebrisInterMixing-2.3: a finite volume solver for three-dimensional debris-flow simulations with two calibration parameters – Part 2: Model validation with experiments

scientific article published in 2017

Delayed biological recovery from extinctions throughout the fossil record

scientific article

Diel streamflow cycles suggest more sensitive snowmelt-driven streamflow to climate change than land surface modeling does

scientific article published in 2022

Diversity on the rebound

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Do changes in soil properties after rooting by wild boars (Sus scrofa) affect understory vegetation in Swiss hardwood forests?

article

Earth science: Mainly in the plain

scientific article published in March 2013

Effects of climatic seasonality on the isotopic composition of evaporating soil waters

article

Effects of physical erosion on chemical denudation rates: A numerical modeling study of soil-mantled hillslopes

scholarly article

Erosion rates over millennial and decadal timescales at Caspar Creek and Redwood Creek, Northern California Coast Ranges

article

Erosional and climatic effects on long-term chemical weathering rates in granitic landscapes spanning diverse climate regimes

article

Erosional equilibrium and disequilibrium in the Sierra Nevada, inferred from cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be in alluvial sediment

scientific article published in 2000

Estimating millennial-scale rates of dust incorporation into eroding hillslope regolith using cosmogenic nuclides and immobile weathering tracers

scholarly article

Evaluation of bedload transport predictions using flow resistance equations to account for macro-roughness in steep mountain streams

Evidence for nonlinear, diffusive sediment transport on hillslopes and implications for landscape morphology

scientific article (publication date: March 1999)

Evolutionary speed limits inferred from the fossil record

scientific article

Extrapolation methods for climate time series revisited – Spatial correlations in climatic fluctuations influence simulated tree species abundance and migration

scientific article published in 2014

Formation of evenly spaced ridges and valleys

scientific article published in Nature

Fractal water quality fluctuations spanning the periodic table in an intensively farmed watershed

scientific article published on 7 January 2014

Friction angle measurements on a naturally formed gravel streambed: Implications for critical boundary shear stress

article

Functional relationships between denudation and hillslope form and relief

Getting the right answers for the right reasons: Linking measurements, analyses, and models to advance the science of hydrology

article

Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination

Global assessment of how averaging over spatial heterogeneity in precipitation and potential evapotranspiration affects modeled evapotranspiration rates

scientific article published in 2020

Graffiti for science – Erosion painting reveals spatially variable erosivity of sediment-laden flows

Graffiti for science – erosion painting reveals spatially variable erosivity of sediment-laden flows

scholarly article by Alexander R. Beer et al published 15 December 2016 in Earth Surface Dynamics

Groundwater level observations in 250,000 coastal US wells reveal scope of potential seawater intrusion

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Growing Spatial Scales of Synchronous River Flooding in Europe

scientific article published on 9 February 2019

Heterogeneous geochemistry of catchment acidification

scholarly article by James Kirchner published June 1992 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

High-frequency water quality time series in precipitation and streamflow: from fragmentary signals to scientific challenge

scientific article

How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

article

Hydrologic versus geomorphic drivers of trends in flood hazard

article

Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes – challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary perspective

scientific article published in 2018

Insensitivity of Tree-Ring Growth to Temperature and Precipitation Sharpens the Puzzle of Enhanced Pre-Eruption NDVI on Mt. Etna (Italy)

scientific article

Intensity, frequency and spatial configuration of winter temperature inversions in the closed La Brevine valley, Switzerland

article

Interpreting the temperature of water at cold springs and the importance of gravitational potential energy

article

Isotopic evidence for processes of sulfur retention/release in 13 forested catchments spanning a strong pollution gradient (Czech Republic, central Europe)

article

Isotopic evolution of a seasonal snowcover and its melt by isotopic exchange between liquid water and ice

scholarly article

Isotopic evolution of a seasonal snowpack and its melt

Isotopic evolution of snowmelt 1. A physically based one-dimensional model

article

Isotopic evolution of snowmelt 2. Verification and parameterization of a one-dimensional model using laboratory experiments

article

Isotopic evolution of snowmelt: A new model incorporating mobile and immobile water

article

Landscape response to tipping points in granite weathering: The case of stepped topography in the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory

article

Long-term rates of chemical weathering and physical erosion from cosmogenic nuclides and geochemical mass balance

article

Marine Primary Productivity as a Potential Indirect Source of Selenium and Other Trace Elements in Atmospheric Deposition.

scientific article published on 13 December 2016

Measuring catchment-scale chemical retardation using spectral analysis of reactive and passive chemical tracer time series

article

Melt water driven stream and groundwater stage fluctuations on a glacier forefield (Dammagletscher, Switzerland)

article

Mineral-specific chemical weathering rates over millennial timescales: Measurements at Rio Icacos, Puerto Rico

scholarly article

Modeling chloride transport using travel time distributions at Plynlimon, Wales

article

Modeling of solute transport in snow using conservative tracers and artificial rain-on-snow experiments

Modulation of erosion on steep granitic slopes by boulder armoring, as revealed by cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be

article

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

scholarly article by J. J. McDonnell et al published July 2007 in Water Resources Research

Near-surface turbulence as a missing link in modeling evapotranspiration-soil moisture relationships

No fractals in fossil extinction statistics

scientific article published in Nature

Potential for significant precipitation cycling by forest‐floor litter and deadwood

scientific article published in 2022

Predictability of geochemical buffering and runoff acidification in spatially heterogeneous catchments

article published in 1993

Predicted response of stream chemistry to acid loading tested in Canadian catchments

scientific article published in Nature

Predicting Spatial Patterns in Precipitation Isotope (δ 2 H and δ 18 O) Seasonality Using Sinusoidal Isoscapes

scholarly article by Scott T. Allen et al published 19 May 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Publisher's Note: Aliasing in1∕fαnoise spectra: Origins, consequences, and remedies [Phys. Rev. E71, 066110 (2005)]

Quantifying new water fractions and transit time distributions using ensemble hydrograph separation: theory and benchmark tests

Quantifying quartz enrichment and its consequences for cosmogenic measurements of erosion rates from alluvial sediment and regolith

Quantifying remediation effectiveness under variable external forcing using contaminant rating curves

scientific article published on 29 August 2011

Quaternary downcutting rate of the New River, Virginia, measured from differential decay of cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be in cave-deposited alluvium

scholarly article

Range imaging: a new method for high-resolution topographic measurements in small- and medium-scale field sites

scientific article published in 2012

Response of bed surface patchiness to reductions in sediment supply

scholarly article

Scaling and similarity of a stream-power incision and linear diffusion landscape evolution model

scholarly article by Nikos Theodoratos et al published 25 September 2018 in Earth Surface Dynamics

Scaling and similarity of a stream-power incision and linear diffusion landscape evolution model

Scaling relationships between bed load volumes, transport distances, and stream power in steep mountain channels

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 119 no. 3, March 2014

Science, politics, and rationality in a partisan era

Seasonal origins of soil water used by trees

Seasonal partitioning of precipitation between streamflow and evapotranspiration, inferred from end-member splitting analysis

scientific article published in 2020

Sediment supply and the development of the coarse surface layer in gravel-bedded rivers

scientific article published in Nature

Self-adjustment of stream bed roughness and flow velocity in a steep mountain channel

Sensitivity of young water fractions to hydro-climatic forcing and landscape properties across 22 Swiss catchments

Sensors in the Stream: The High-Frequency Wave of the Present

scientific article published on 29 August 2016

Separating hydrological and geochemical influences on runoff acidification in spatially heterogeneous catchments

Shaking water out of soil

scholarly article

Sharp decrease in long-term chemical weathering rates along an altitudinal transect

article

Spatial patterns of erosion in a bedrock gorge

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 122 no. 1, January 2017

Spectral signatures of characteristic spatial scales and nonfractal structure in landscapes

scholarly article

Statistical inevitability of Horton's laws and the apparent randomness of stream channel networks

scholarly article

Statistical inevitability of Horton's laws and the apparent randomness of stream channel networks: Comment and Reply

scientific article

Streamflow response to forest management

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Studying catchment storm response using event and pre-event water volumes as fractions of precipitation rather than discharge

article by Jana von Freyberg et al published 27 July 2018 in Hydrology and earth system sciences discussions

Studying catchment storm response using event- and pre-event-water volumes as fractions of precipitation rather than discharge

article by Jana von Freyberg et al published 13 November 2018 in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Substantial proportion of global streamflow less than three months old

article by Scott Jasechko et al published 18 January 2016 in Nature Geoscience

Sulfur isotope dynamics in two central european watersheds affected by high atmospheric deposition of SOx

article

Temperature dynamics of a proglacial stream: Identifying dominant energy balance components and inferring spatially integrated hydraulic geometry

article

The Demographics of Water: A Review of Water Ages in the Critical Zone

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

The Evolutionary Advantages of Dying Young: Epidemiological Implications of Longevity in Metapopulations

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

The Gaia Hypothesis: Conjectures and Refutations

The Gaia Hypothesis: Fact, Theory, and Wishful Thinking

The Gaia hypothesis: Can it be tested?

article

The Relative Importance of Different Flood‐Generating Mechanisms Across Europe

scientific article published on 5 June 2019

The relationship between contrasting ages of groundwater and streamflow

scholarly article

Tracing ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes: challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary perspective

Universal fractal scaling in stream chemistry and its implications for solute transport and water quality trend detection

scientific article published on 10 July 2013

Water Flux Tracking With a Distributed Hydrological Model to Quantify Controls on the Spatiotemporal Variability of Transit Time Distributions

Weak influences of climate and mineral supply rates on chemical erosion rates: Measurements along two altitudinal transects in the Idaho Batholith

scholarly article

Widespread potential loss of streamflow into underlying aquifers across the USA

scientific article

List of works by James Kirchner

A Budyko framework for estimating how spatial heterogeneity and lateral moisture redistribution affect average evapotranspiration rates as seen from the atmosphere

A Budyko framework for estimating how spatial heterogeneity and lateral moisture redistribution affect average evapotranspiration rates as seen from the atmosphere

A double paradox in catchment hydrology and geochemistry

A lab in the field: high-frequency analysis of water quality and stable isotopes in stream water and precipitation

A study of solute redistribution and transport in seasonal snowpack using natural and artificial tracers

A study of solute transport mechanisms using rare earth element tracers and artificial rainstorms on snow

Aliasing in 1/f(alpha) noise spectra: origins, consequences, and remedies.

Applicability of bed load transport models for mixed-size sediments in steep streams considering macro-roughness

Assessing water quality impacts and cleanup effectiveness in streams dominated by episodic mercury discharges.

Averaging over spatiotemporal heterogeneity substantially biases evapotranspiration rates in a mechanistic large-scale land evaporation model

Base Cation Depletion and Potential Long-Term Acidification of Norwegian Catchments ⬇️

Bed load transport in a very steep mountain stream (Riedbach, Switzerland): Measurement and prediction

Biodiversity: fossils make waves

Branching geometry of valley networks on Mars and Earth and its implications for early Martian climate.

Catchment-scale advection and dispersion as a mechanism for fractal scaling in stream tracer concentrations

Catchments as simple dynamical systems: Catchment characterization, rainfall-runoff modeling, and doing hydrology backward

Characterizing structural and lithologic controls on deep-seated landsliding: Implications for topographic relief and landscape evolution in the Oregon Coast Range, USA

Climate models can correctly simulate the continuum of global-average temperature variability

Climate's watermark in the geometry of stream networks

Controls on the spacing of first-order valleys

Cosmogenic nuclide methods for measuring long-term rates of physical erosion and chemical weathering

Debates-Hypothesis testing in hydrology: Theory and practice

DebrisInterMixing-2.3: a finite volume solver for three-dimensional debris-flow simulations with two calibration parameters – Part 1: Model description

DebrisInterMixing-2.3: a finite volume solver for three-dimensional debris-flow simulations with two calibration parameters – Part 2: Model validation

DebrisInterMixing-2.3: a finite volume solver for three-dimensional debris-flow simulations with two calibration parameters – Part 2: Model validation with experiments

Delayed biological recovery from extinctions throughout the fossil record

Diel streamflow cycles suggest more sensitive snowmelt-driven streamflow to climate change than land surface modeling does

Diversity on the rebound

Do changes in soil properties after rooting by wild boars (Sus scrofa) affect understory vegetation in Swiss hardwood forests?

Earth science: Mainly in the plain

Effects of climatic seasonality on the isotopic composition of evaporating soil waters

Effects of climatic seasonality on the isotopic composition of evaporating soil waters

Effects of physical erosion on chemical denudation rates: A numerical modeling study of soil-mantled hillslopes

Erosion rates over millennial and decadal timescales at Caspar Creek and Redwood Creek, Northern California Coast Ranges

Erosional and climatic effects on long-term chemical weathering rates in granitic landscapes spanning diverse climate regimes

Erosional equilibrium and disequilibrium in the Sierra Nevada, inferred from cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be in alluvial sediment

Estimating millennial-scale rates of dust incorporation into eroding hillslope regolith using cosmogenic nuclides and immobile weathering tracers

Evaluation of bedload transport predictions using flow resistance equations to account for macro-roughness in steep mountain streams

Evidence for nonlinear, diffusive sediment transport on hillslopes and implications for landscape morphology

Evolutionary speed limits inferred from the fossil record

Extrapolation methods for climate time series revisited – Spatial correlations in climatic fluctuations influence simulated tree species abundance and migration

Formation of evenly spaced ridges and valleys

Fractal water quality fluctuations spanning the periodic table in an intensively farmed watershed

Friction angle measurements on a naturally formed gravel streambed: Implications for critical boundary shear stress

Functional relationships between denudation and hillslope form and relief

Getting the right answers for the right reasons: Linking measurements, analyses, and models to advance the science of hydrology

Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination

Global assessment of how averaging over spatial heterogeneity in precipitation and potential evapotranspiration affects modeled evapotranspiration rates

Graffiti for science – Erosion painting reveals spatially variable erosivity of sediment-laden flows

Graffiti for science – erosion painting reveals spatially variable erosivity of sediment-laden flows

Groundwater level observations in 250,000 coastal US wells reveal scope of potential seawater intrusion

Growing Spatial Scales of Synchronous River Flooding in Europe

Heterogeneous geochemistry of catchment acidification

High-frequency water quality time series in precipitation and streamflow: from fragmentary signals to scientific challenge

How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

Hydrologic versus geomorphic drivers of trends in flood hazard

Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes – challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary perspective

Insensitivity of Tree-Ring Growth to Temperature and Precipitation Sharpens the Puzzle of Enhanced Pre-Eruption NDVI on Mt. Etna (Italy)

Intensity, frequency and spatial configuration of winter temperature inversions in the closed La Brevine valley, Switzerland

Interpreting the temperature of water at cold springs and the importance of gravitational potential energy

Isotopic evidence for processes of sulfur retention/release in 13 forested catchments spanning a strong pollution gradient (Czech Republic, central Europe)

Isotopic evolution of a seasonal snowcover and its melt by isotopic exchange between liquid water and ice

Isotopic evolution of a seasonal snowpack and its melt

Isotopic evolution of snowmelt 1. A physically based one-dimensional model

Isotopic evolution of snowmelt 2. Verification and parameterization of a one-dimensional model using laboratory experiments

Isotopic evolution of snowmelt: A new model incorporating mobile and immobile water

Landscape response to tipping points in granite weathering: The case of stepped topography in the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory

Long-term rates of chemical weathering and physical erosion from cosmogenic nuclides and geochemical mass balance

Marine Primary Productivity as a Potential Indirect Source of Selenium and Other Trace Elements in Atmospheric Deposition.

Measuring catchment-scale chemical retardation using spectral analysis of reactive and passive chemical tracer time series

Melt water driven stream and groundwater stage fluctuations on a glacier forefield (Dammagletscher, Switzerland)

Mineral-specific chemical weathering rates over millennial timescales: Measurements at Rio Icacos, Puerto Rico

Modeling chloride transport using travel time distributions at Plynlimon, Wales

Modeling of solute transport in snow using conservative tracers and artificial rain-on-snow experiments

Modulation of erosion on steep granitic slopes by boulder armoring, as revealed by cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be

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

Near-surface turbulence as a missing link in modeling evapotranspiration-soil moisture relationships

No fractals in fossil extinction statistics

Potential for significant precipitation cycling by forest‐floor litter and deadwood