Hydrological Impacts on Geological Hazards: Mechanisms, Modeling, and Early Warning
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 11
Special Issue Editors
Interests: landslide early warning; pore water pressure; soil moisture dynamics; preferential flow; dual-permeability model
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Interests: landslide; monitoring and early warning; hydro-mechanical behaviours; risk assessment; landslide surface process
Interests: engineering geology; dam tailings; rainfall-eroded soil
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydrological processes play a fundamental role in the initiation and evolution of geological hazards such as landslides, debris flows, permafrost degradation, and land subsidence. Under the influence of increasingly significant climate change and more severe extreme weather events, the hydrological impacts of precipitation, snowmelt, and groundwater dynamics directly affect the mechanical behavior of soil. Understanding these interactions is crucial for improving hazard prediction and risk assessment.
This Special Issue aims to gather innovative research that explores the hydrological mechanisms underlying geological hazards, advances in modeling and monitoring technologies, and applications of data-driven or coupled hydro-mechanical approaches for hazard forecasting and mitigation. Contributions combining field observations, laboratory experiments, remote sensing, and numerical simulations are particularly encouraged.
Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Hydrological triggers and thresholds of rainfall-induced landslides and debris flows;
- Coupled hydro-mechanical modeling of slope instability;
- Impacts of permafrost thaw and freeze–thaw processes on geohazards;
- Groundwater and pore pressure dynamics in hazard-prone terrains;
- Data assimilation and machine learning applications in hydro-geohazard prediction;
- Multi-scale monitoring of soil moisture, infiltration, and subsurface flow;
- Impacts of climate change on hydrology-driven geological hazards;
- Development of integrated hydrological–geotechnical early-warning systems.
Prof. Dr. Wei Shao
Prof. Dr. Zongji Yang
Prof. Dr. Wen Nie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrology–geohazard interactions
- rainfall-induced landslides
- pore water pressure
- permafrost degradation
- hydro-mechanical coupling
- early warning
- data assimilation
- climate change
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