Journal of Hydrologic Engineering: Recent submissions
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Enhancing NWP-Based Reference Evapotranspiration Forecasts: Role of ETo Approaches and Temperature Postprocessing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) forecasts are essential for estimating irrigation water demand and agricultural water management. However, studies have not examined numerical weather prediction (NWP)–based ETo forecast ... -
A Streamlined Model-Based Strategy for Screening Wildfire Impact Scenarios Related to Peak Flood Flows: Hazard Prevention in Data-Limited Regions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The recent surge in the frequency, severity, and extent of wildfires, along with the increased risk of wildfire-induced flooding, highlights the need to quantify the potential impacts of wildfires on peak flood flows. ... -
A Simple and Efficient Method with Godunov-Type Schemes for Flow Simulation at Junctions of Open Channel Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents a numerical model for simulating flows in open channel networks by discretizing the Saint-Venant equations via a Godunov-type scheme. The methodology integrates the Harten Lax van Leer (HLL) approximate ... -
Coupling Coastal and Hydrologic Models through Next Generation National Water Model Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)It is important to understand flooding in highly populated coastal regions, especially as the severity of extreme flood events is projected to increase. The integration of inland and coastal models offers an improved ... -
Unveiling Future Landscapes: Predicting 2075’s Transformative Changes Using Advanced Hybrid Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Currently, land use and land cover change (LULCC) dynamics are critical in the sustainability of global environmental change. In this study, we performed a comprehensive intercomparison of different hybrid models, employing ... -
Temporal Evaluation of Scour Hole Dimensions due to Plain Wall Jets in Noncohesive Sediments Using a Soft Computing Approach: White-Box versus Black-Box Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Jet scour presents a significant challenge for hydrological analysis and hydraulic design of river structures, with the temporal dynamics of scour hole dimensions posing a critical concern. This study analyzed the effectiveness ... -
Assessment of Nonstationary Drought Frequency under Climate Change Using Copula and Bayesian Hierarchical Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Characterization of nonstationarity in drought metrics due to the effects of combined forcings of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change are critical to effective adaptive management of future droughts. ... -
SWMM Simulation of the Stormwater Volume Control Performance of Rainwater Harvesting Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)EPA’s stormwater management model (SWMM) has been widely used in the planning and design of stormwater management facilities. SWMM is capable of simulating the hydrologic performance of low-impact development (LID) practices. ... -
Spatial Dependence of Extreme Rainfall and Development of Intensity–Duration–Frequency Curves Using Max-Stable Process Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The effective management of flood risk and urban drainage design hinges on a comprehensive understanding and accurate modeling of extreme rainfall variations, particularly in vulnerable areas. The study proposes to model ... -
Simulation of Vertical Water Temperature Distribution in a Megareservoir: Study of the Xiaowan Reservoir Using a Hybrid Artificial Neural Network Modeling Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)When reservoirs are constructed on rivers, river velocity decreases and the river system gradually evolves into a reservoir system. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced in the case of megareservoirs. Previous studies ... -
Quantification of Curve Numbers for Arid Watersheds
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Although the curve number (CN) method has been widely used in rainfall and runoff models, the physical interpretation of the CN method is still challenging, for instance how to estimate the potential maximum retention. ... -
Hybrid Multivariate Machine Learning Models for Streamflow Forecasting: A Two-Stage Decomposition–Reconstruction Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Robust and accurate streamflow forecasting holds significant importance for flood mitigation, drought warning and water resource management. On account of the intricate nonlinear and nonstationary nature of streamflow time ... -
Advancement of a Blended Hydrologic Model for Robust Model Performance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)A blended model structure has emerged as an alternative to the traditional representation of model structure in a hydrologic model, in which multiple algorithmic choices are used to represent some hydrologic process within ... -
Extracting the Event Characteristics of Rainfall
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)A method is proposed and demonstrated for extracting the spatial and temporal characteristics of individual rainfall events using hourly rainfall measurements at an array of rain gauges. The method is based on identifying ... -
Maximum Lateral Expansion of Wetting Bulbs from Buried and Surface Point Sources: Implications for Drip Irrigation Design
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In surface and subsurface drip irrigation systems, predicting the size expansion of the wetting bulb and the irrigation time is mandatory for water saving, and helps drive their design and scheduling, which cannot ignore ... -
Modeling High Pan Evaporation Losses Using Support Vector Machine, Gaussian Processes, and Regression Tree Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Evaporation is considered to be one of the most influential hydrological processes, contributing significantly to water loss within the hydrological cycle. This study aimed to address the challenge of modeling daily pan ... -
Machine Learning–Based Early-Warning Systems for Salinity Intrusion in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The Mekong Delta is renowned as one of the world’s most productive regions for rice cultivation. However, it faces significant challenges due to salinity intrusion, where seawater from the South China Sea flows upstream ... -
Quantification of the Escalating Influence of Anthropogenic Factors in Suspended-Sediment Concentration Regimes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)River systems act as conveyor belts carrying sediments in huge quantities from upstream to downstream regions of the basins. Suspended sediment (SS) is a vital element in a river system due to its importance in the planning, ... -
Enhancing the Evaporation Method for Accurately Determining Unsaturated Soil Properties in the Wet Range
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The evaporation (EV) method is a widely used experimental approach to determine unsaturated hydraulic conductivity (UHC) and soil water retention (SWR) functions. However, the EV method has some limitations in evaluating ... -
Contributions of Climate Change and Human Activities to Changes in Base Flow and Direct Runoff in the Huai River Basin, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Neglecting the changes in runoff components, i.e., base flow (Qb) and direct runoff (Qd), may lead to inaccurate estimations of the relative influence of climate change and human activities on total runoff (Q). To ...