Advancing Sustainable Hydrological Modelling and Smart Water Resource Management
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable development; management and utilisation of water resources; hydro-logical regime; ecological and environmental systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: hydrological model; machine learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue centres on the advancement of sustainable hydrological modelling and smart water resource management in the context of climate change. It aims to explore cutting-edge methodologies that integrate machine learning, data assimilation, and hybrid modelling frameworks to improve the accuracy, robustness, and adaptability of hydrological predictions. Emphasis is placed on the development of intelligent scheduling and allocation strategies that can dynamically respond to spatiotemporal variability and uncertainty in water systems. This Special Issue seeks to bridge the methodological gap between physical models and data-driven techniques, providing novel insights into model fusion, scenario-based regulation, and real-time decision making. By highlighting interdisciplinary research at the intersection of hydrology, climate science, and artificial intelligence, this collection will complement the existing literature with forward-looking approaches and contribute to building resilient and adaptive water systems for a changing world.
Prof. Dr. Zengchuan Dong
Dr. Wenzhuo Wang
Guest Editors
Dr. Jitao Zhang
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- climate change
- sustainable hydrological modelling
- smart water resource management
- machine learning
- model integration
- real-time decision making
- data-driven approaches
- adaptive basin management
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