About HydroSense
HydroSense is an automated literature monitoring system designed specifically for researchers in hydrology, water resources, and Earth system science.
How It Works
Two-Mode Operation
Daily Harvest scans 11 top-tier journals via CrossRef, enriches papers with Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex, and applies deterministic filters (keywords, field classification, peer-review status). Claude provides LLM relevance filtering and summary generation.
Weekly Literature Review searches by keyword across Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex (no journal limits), deduplicates results, and Claude synthesizes findings into thematic reviews.
Data Sources
- CrossRef API - Journal-based paper metadata (daily harvest)
- Semantic Scholar - Field classification, abstracts, and keyword search
- OpenAlex - Keyword search and fallback abstracts
- Claude - LLM relevance filtering and thematic synthesis
Paper Registry
A central registry tracks all DOIs across runs. Papers discovered by multiple pathways (daily + weekly, or multiple search topics) are flagged as “important” — a strong relevance signal.
Tracked Topics
- Hydrology and hydrologic modeling
- River systems and streamflow
- Reservoirs and water management
- Floods and droughts
- Climate change impacts on water
- Land surface modeling
- Seasonal forecasting
- Hydropower and irrigation
- Earth system models
Research Focus
This system is optimized for researchers working on:
- E3SM (Energy Exascale Earth System Model)
- MOSART river routing model
- Land-river coupling and connectivity
- Reservoir operations and management
- Large-scale hydrologic modeling
Tracked Journals
Top-Tier (11 journals)
- Nature
- Science
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
- Geophysical Research Letters (GRL)
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
- Nature Climate Change
- Nature Geoscience
- Nature Water
- Reviews of Geophysics
- Nature Communications
- Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
High-Impact Specialized (18 journals)
- Water Resources Research (WRR)
- Journal of Hydrology (JoH)
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)
- Advances in Water Resources (AWR)
- Journal of Climate
- Earth System Dynamics
- Global Change Biology
- Environmental Research Letters
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
- Journal of Hydrometeorology
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES)
- Earth-Science Reviews
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation
- Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)
- Earth’s Future
- Scientific Data
- Scientific Reports
- Hydrological Processes
- Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA)
Technology Stack
- Harvesting: Python 3.7+ with requests library
- APIs: CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex
- LLM: Claude (via scheduled triggers)
- Website: Jekyll with Just the Docs theme
- Search: Full-text search including abstracts
- Hosting: GitHub Pages
Contributing
This is an open-source project. The harvest script and website code are available in the HydroSense GitHub repository.
Contact
For questions or suggestions:
- Email: hydro.luna.bot@gmail.com
- GitHub Issues: HydroSense Issues
Last updated: March 2026