Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles are listed below in reverse chronological order. I publish under Johanna R. Thomson and Johanna R. Blöcher. For the latest record, see ORCID.

2026

Thomson, J. R., Markonis, Y., Dutta, R., Fatichi, S., Hanel, M., Koppa, A., Máca, P., Thakur, V., Vargas Godoy, M. R., Paschalis, A. Agreement, opposition, and dataset influence in global evapotranspiration trends. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 1–29. Preprint · Dataset · Code

Ziveh, A. R., Vargas Godoy, M. R., Thakur, V., Thomson, J. R., Hanel, M., Markonis, Y. evapoRe: An R-based application for exploratory data analysis of evapotranspiration. Environmental Modelling & Software, 198, 106884. Article · R package

2025

Vargas Godoy, M. R., Markonis, Y., Thomson, J. R., Ballarin, A. S., Perri, S., Miao, C., Sun, Q., Hanel, M., Papalexiou, S. M., Kummerow, C., Oki, T., Molini, A. Which precipitation dataset to choose for hydrological studies of the terrestrial water cycle? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106, E2000–E2016. Article · Code · pRecipe

Thakur, V., Markonis, Y., Kumar, R., Thomson, J. R., Vargas Godoy, M. R., Hanel, M., Rakovec, O. Unveiling the impact of potential evapotranspiration method selection on trends in hydrological cycle components across Europe. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29, 4395–4416. Article · Data and code

2024

Blöcher, J. R., Kuraz, M. A regularization strategy for discontinuity when modelling coupled water and heat flow in freezing unsaturated soil. Computers & Fluids, 277, 106299.

Markonis, Y., Vargas Godoy, M. R., Pradhan, R. K., Pratap, S., Thomson, J. R., Hanel, M., Paschalis, A., Nikolopoulos, E., Papalexiou, S. M. Spatial partitioning of terrestrial precipitation reveals varying dataset agreement across different environments. Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 217. Article · Data

Asare, M. O., Pellegrini, E., Száková, J., Blöcher, J. R., Najmanová, J., Tlustoš, P., Contin, M. Organic amendments to short rotation coppice (SRC) plantation affect species richness and metal accumulation of spontaneously growing herbaceous plants. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 24, 1474–1488.

2023

Blöcher, J. R., Diamantopoulos, E., Durner, W., Iden, S. C. Validating coupled flow theory for bare-soil evaporation under different boundary conditions. Vadose Zone Journal, e20277. Article · Laboratory data

Valtera, M., Jačka, L., Juras, R., Blöcher, J. R., Juřička, D., Deutscher, J., Pavlásek, J. Pit-mound microrelief on a forested slope drives infiltration and preferential flow after heavy rainfall—experiments with soil resistance monitoring and dye tracing. Catena, 229, 107231.

Singh, U., Maca, P., Hanel, M., Markonis, Y., Nidamanuri, R. R., Nasreen, S., Blöcher, J. R., Strnad, F., Vorel, J., Riha, L. Hybrid multi-model ensemble learning for reconstructing gridded runoff of Europe for 500 years. Information Fusion, 97, 101807.

2022

Součková, M., Juras, R., Dytrt, K., Moravec, V., Blöcher, J. R., Hanel, M. What weather variables are important for wet and slab avalanches under a changing climate in a low-altitude mountain range in Czechia? Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22, 3501–3525.

Kuraz, M., Jačka, L., Blöcher, J. R., Lepš, M. Automated calibration methodology to avoid convergence issues during inverse identification of soil hydraulic properties. Advances in Engineering Software, 173, 103278.

Biney, J. K. M., Vašát, R., Blöcher, J. R., Borůvka, L., Němeček, K. Using an ensemble model coupled with portable X-ray fluorescence and visible near-infrared spectroscopy to explore the viability of mapping and estimating arsenic in an agricultural soil. Science of the Total Environment, 818, 151805.

Biney, J. K. M., Blöcher, J. R., Bell, S. M., Borůvka, L., Vašát, R. Can in situ spectral measurements under disturbance-reduced environmental conditions help improve soil organic carbon estimation? Science of the Total Environment, 838, 156304.

2021

Juras, R., Blöcher, J. R., Jeníček, M., Hotový, O., Markonis, Y. What affects the hydrological response of rain-on-snow events in low-altitude mountain ranges in Central Europe? Journal of Hydrology, 603, 127002.

Iden, S. C., Blöcher, J. R., Diamantopoulos, E., Durner, W. Capillary, film, and vapor flow in transient bare soil evaporation (1): Identifiability analysis of hydraulic conductivity in the medium to dry moisture range. Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR028513. Data

Biney, J. K. M., Blöcher, J. R., Borůvka, L., Vašát, R. Does the limited use of orthogonal signal correction pre-treatment approach to improve the prediction accuracy of soil organic carbon need attention? Geoderma, 388, 114945.

Balvín, P., Vizina, A., Nesládková, M., Blöcher, J. R., et al. Minimum residual flows for catchments in the Czech Republic. Water, 13, 689.

2020

Blöcher, J. R., Ward, M. R., Matthaei, C. D., Piggott, J. J. Multiple stressors and stream macroinvertebrate community dynamics: Interactions between fine sediment grain size and flow velocity. Science of the Total Environment, 717, 137070.

2019

Heinze, T., Blöcher, J. R. A model of local thermal non-equilibrium during infiltration. Advances in Water Resources, 132, 103394.

Iden, S. C., Blöcher, J. R., Diamantopoulos, E., Peters, A., Durner, W. Numerical test of the laboratory evaporation method using coupled water, vapor and heat flow modelling. Journal of Hydrology, 570, 574–583.