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  • Open Access
2 Citations
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11 April 2025

The accurate estimation of low flow is necessary for effective water resource management, especially in regions with limited hydrological data. This study aims to enhance low-flow prediction by developing regional regression models based on climatolo...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,877 Views
20 Pages

23 May 2022

Regression-based frameworks for streamflow regionalization are built around catchment attributes that traditionally originate from catchment hydrology, flood frequency analysis and their interplay. In this work, we deviated from this traditional path...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Using Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms for Big Data Applications in Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,202 Views
19 Pages

15 May 2024

Limited availability of hydrometeorological data and lack of data sharing practices have added to the challenge of hydrological modelling of large and transboundary catchments. This research evaluates the suitability of latest near real-time global p...

(This article belongs to the Topic Hydrology and Water Resources Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,128 Views
20 Pages

Explanation and Probabilistic Prediction of Hydrological Signatures with Statistical Boosting Algorithms

  • Hristos Tyralis,
  • Georgia Papacharalampous,
  • Andreas Langousis and
  • Simon Michael Papalexiou

20 January 2021

Hydrological signatures, i.e., statistical features of streamflow time series, are used to characterize the hydrology of a region. A relevant problem is the prediction of hydrological signatures in ungauged regions using the attributes obtained from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,348 Views
21 Pages

Enhancing Physical Similarity Approach to Predict Runoff in Ungauged Watersheds in Sub-Tropical Regions

  • Santiago Narbondo,
  • Angela Gorgoglione,
  • Magdalena Crisci and
  • Christian Chreties

13 February 2020

Regionalization techniques have been comprehensively discussed as the solution for runoff predictions in ungauged basins (PUB). Several types of regionalization approach have been proposed during the years. Among these, the physical similarity one wa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Study for Ungauged Catchments—Data, Models and Uncertainties)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,839 Views
19 Pages

20 July 2023

This paper describes the modelling of suspended sediment yield in a plains region in the European part of Russia (EPR) and its prediction for ungauged catchments. The studied plains area, excluding the Caucasus and Ural Mountains, covers 3.5 ×...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
169 Citations
19,710 Views
28 Pages

31 March 2020

Remote sensing of river discharge (RSQ) is a burgeoning field rife with innovation. This innovation has resulted in a highly non-cohesive subfield of hydrology advancing at a rapid pace, and as a result misconceptions, mis-citations, and confusion ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Flow Velocity, Channel Bathymetry, and River Discharge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,676 Views
24 Pages

Evaluating the Spatial and Temporal Transferability of Model Parameters of a Distributed Soil Conservation Service–Soil Moisture Antecedent–Simple Lag and Route Model for South Mediterranean Catchments

  • Ahlem Gara,
  • Khouloud Gader,
  • Slaheddine Khlifi,
  • Christophe Bouvier,
  • Mohamed Ouessar,
  • Marnik Vanclooster,
  • Nadhir Al-Ansari,
  • Salah El-Hendawy and
  • Mohamed A. Mattar

16 February 2025

Accurately predicting the impacts of climate change on hydrological fluxes in ungauged basins continues to be a complex task. In this study, we investigated the transferability of the model parameters SCS-SMA-LR, available in the ATHYS platform, to s...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,855 Views
23 Pages

13 August 2021

Lake area, water level, and water storage changes of terminal lakes are vital for regional water resource management and for understanding local hydrological processes. Nevertheless, due to the complex geographical conditions, it is difficult to inve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Lake Properties and Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,824 Views
22 Pages

27 January 2018

Quantitative flood frequency investigation in a large estuary is somewhat challenging by numerical modelling, because the model optimization depends on the appropriate physical and hydrodynamic properties of the estuarine river. This study attempts t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
520 Views
22 Pages

12 June 2026

Interest in Natural Water Retention Measures (NWRMs) for large river basins is growing rapidly as a result of a wide range of benefits, including improved water retention capacity and regulation of ecosystem services. However, suitable site-specific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,511 Views
20 Pages

Characterization of a Flood Event through a Sediment Analysis: The Tescio River Case Study

  • Silvia Di Francesco,
  • Chiara Biscarini and
  • Piergiorgio Manciola

22 July 2016

This paper presents the hydrological analysis and grain size characteristics of fluvial sediments in a river basin and their combination to characterize a flood event. The overall objective of the research is the development of a practical methodolog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Watershed Sediment Process)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,742 Views
19 Pages

Estimating River Discharges in Ungauged Catchments Using the Slope–Area Method and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  • Shengtian Yang,
  • Pengfei Wang,
  • Hezhen Lou,
  • Juan Wang,
  • Changsen Zhao and
  • Tongliang Gong

11 November 2019

River discharge is of great significance in the development of water resources and ecological protection. There are several large ungauged catchments around the word still lacking sufficient hydrological data. Obtaining accurate hydrological informat...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
13,874 Views
19 Pages

Water Level Fluctuations in the Congo Basin Derived from ENVISAT Satellite Altimetry

  • Mélanie Becker,
  • Joecila Santos Da Silva,
  • Stéphane Calmant,
  • Vivien Robinet,
  • Laurent Linguet and
  • Frédérique Seyler

29 September 2014

In the Congo Basin, the elevated vulnerability of food security and the water supply implies that sustainable development strategies must incorporate the effects of climate change on hydrological regimes. However, the lack of observational hydro-clim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earth Observation for Water Resource Management in Africa)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,187 Views
6 Pages

A Unified Hydrologic Framework for Flood Design Estimation in Ungauged Basins

  • Lampros Vasiliades,
  • George Papaioannou and
  • Athanasios Loukas

Design flood hydrograph estimation is a key problem in hydrology and is necessary for a variety of applications from the design of hydraulic structures to flood risk mapping processes. Furthermore, in large ungauged basins (>1000 km2), design floo...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 7th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,816 Views
15 Pages

Despite the fact that streamflow occurs mainly due to depletion of storage, our knowledge on how a drainage basin stores and releases water is very limited due to measurement limitations. A window of opportunity, however, is provided to us by GRACE (...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,959 Views
11 Pages

29 March 2024

The climatic warming-induced shrinking of permafrost currently encompasses 65% of alpine areas in North China, where a large population relies on its water and land resources. With increasing recognition of the economic and ecological impacts of perm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Management in Arid and Semi-arid Regions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,055 Views
19 Pages

Evaluation of Three Long-Term Remotely Sensed Precipitation Estimates for Meteorological Drought Monitoring over China

  • Yanzhong Li,
  • Jiacheng Zhuang,
  • Peng Bai,
  • Wenjun Yu,
  • Lin Zhao,
  • Manjie Huang and
  • Yincong Xing

23 December 2022

Remotely sensed precipitation estimates (RSPEs) play an essential role in monitoring drought, especially in ungauged or sparsely gauged areas. In this study, we evaluated the ability of three popular long-term RSPEs (PERSIANN, CHIRPS, and MSWEP) in c...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,382 Views
24 Pages

Enhancing GEOGLOWS River Forecast System with a High-Resolution Pre-Processing Approach for Runoff Bias Correction

  • Juseth E. Chancay,
  • Jorge Luis Sánchez-Lozano,
  • Bryan G. Valencia,
  • Mario Germán Trujillo-Vela,
  • E. James Nelson,
  • Riley C. Hales and
  • Angélica L. Gutiérrez

Accurate streamflow information is critical for early flood and drought warning. However, global hydrological forecasting systems are affected by residual errors in meteorological forcing, model structure, and routing, which propagate into simulated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,817 Views
23 Pages

1 March 2019

Sustainable water management is one of the important priorities set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, which calls for efficient use of natural resources. Efficient water management nowadays depends a lot upon simu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Flood Mapping and Monitoring of Flood Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
111 Citations
9,466 Views
31 Pages

12 January 2019

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and its successor, Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM), have provided hydrologists with important precipitation data sources for hydrological applications in sparsely gauged or ungauged basins. This study...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Streamflow Simulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
14,283 Views
18 Pages

Monitoring Water Levels and Discharges Using Radar Altimetry in an Ungauged River Basin: The Case of the Ogooué

  • Sakaros Bogning,
  • Frédéric Frappart,
  • Fabien Blarel,
  • Fernando Niño,
  • Gil Mahé,
  • Jean-Pierre Bricquet,
  • Frédérique Seyler,
  • Raphaël Onguéné,
  • Jacques Etamé and
  • Jean-Jacques Braun
  • + 1 author

24 February 2018

Radar altimetry is now commonly used for the monitoring of water levels in large river basins. In this study, an altimetry-based network of virtual stations was defined in the quasi ungauged Ogooué river basin, located in Gabon, Central Africa, using...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite Altimetry for Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,258 Views
22 Pages

Sensitivity Analysis in Mean Annual Sediment Yield Modeling with Respect to Rainfall Probability Distribution Functions

  • César Antonio Rodríguez González,
  • Ángel Mariano Rodríguez-Pérez,
  • Raúl López,
  • José Antonio Hernández-Torres and
  • Julio José Caparrós-Mancera

22 December 2022

An accurate estimation of the mean annual sediment yield from basins contributes to optimizing water resources planning and management. More specifically, both reservoir sedimentation and the damage caused to infrastructures fall within its field of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantification of Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport in Basins)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,710 Views
22 Pages

25 January 2025

Regional rainfall-runoff modeling is a classic and significant research topic in hydrological sciences. Currently, the predominant modeling approach is developing data-driven models. This study proposes a rainfall-runoff model named ED-TimesNet (Enco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Citations
11,499 Views
23 Pages

Assessment of GPM and TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Products in Streamflow Simulations in a Data-Sparse Mountainous Watershed in Myanmar

  • Fei Yuan,
  • Limin Zhang,
  • Khin Wah Wah Win,
  • Liliang Ren,
  • Chongxu Zhao,
  • Yonghua Zhu,
  • Shanhu Jiang and
  • Yi Liu

22 March 2017

Satellite precipitation products from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission and its predecessor the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) are a critical data source for hydrological applications in ungauged basins. This study conduc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Precipitation Measurement, Validation, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
14,938 Views
29 Pages

Earth Observation Based Assessment of the Water Production and Water Consumption of Nile Basin Agro-Ecosystems

  • Wim G.M. Bastiaanssen,
  • Poolad Karimi,
  • Lisa-Maria Rebelo,
  • Zheng Duan,
  • Gabriel Senay,
  • Lal Muthuwatte and
  • Vladimir Smakhtin

24 October 2014

The increasing competition for water resources requires a better understanding of flows, fluxes, stocks, and the services and benefits related to water consumption. This paper explains how public domain Earth Observation data based on Moderate Resolu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earth Observation for Water Resource Management in Africa)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,590 Views
29 Pages

2 October 2024

This study explored the impacts of various rainfall input types on short-term runoff simulations using the Cell2Flood model in the Waryong Reservoir Basin, South Korea. Six types of rainfall data were assessed: on-site gauge measurements, spatially i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,802 Views
16 Pages

Assimilation of Satellite-Based Data for Hydrological Mapping of Precipitation and Direct Runoff Coefficient for the Lake Urmia Basin in Iran

  • Mahdi Akbari,
  • Ali Torabi Haghighi,
  • Mohammad Mahdi Aghayi,
  • Mostafa Javadian,
  • Masoud Tajrishy and
  • Bjørn Kløve

6 August 2019

Water management in arid basins often lacks sufficient hydro-climatological data because, e.g., rain gauges are typically absent at high elevations and inflow to ungauged areas around large closed lakes is difficult to estimate. We sought to improve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Hydrology II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,970 Views
21 Pages

11 August 2024

Flood frequency analysis at large scales, essential for the development of flood risk maps, is hindered by the scarcity of gauge flow data. Suitable methods are thus required to predict flooding in ungauged basins, a notoriously complex problem in hy...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources and Risk Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,510 Views
37 Pages

A systems-oriented review of machine learning (ML) over the entire flood management spectrum, encompassing fluvial flood control, pluvial flood management, and resiliency-risk characterization was undertaken. Deep learners like long short-term memory...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrological Modeling and Sustainable Water Resources Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,374 Views
24 Pages

7 October 2013

Collection and investigation of flood information are essential to understand the nature of floods, but this has proved difficult in data-poor environments, or in developing or under-developed countries due to economic and technological limitations....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Remote Sensing of Flooding)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,457 Views
21 Pages

4 July 2018

Lake Tana is the largest lake in Ethiopia, and its lake outflow is the source of the Blue Nile River that provides vital water resources for many livelihoods and downstream/international stakeholders. Therefore, it is essential to quantify and monito...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
12,168 Views
21 Pages

16 February 2018

In this paper, evapotranspiration (ET) and leaf area index (LAI) were used to calibrate the SWAT model, whereas remotely sensed precipitation and other climatic parameters were used as forcing data for the 6300 km2 Day Basin, a tributary of the Red R...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,168 Views
27 Pages

An Advanced Ensemble Machine Learning Framework for Estimating Long-Term Average Discharge at Hydrological Stations Using Global Metadata

  • Alexandr Neftissov,
  • Andrii Biloshchytskyi,
  • Ilyas Kazambayev,
  • Serhii Dolhopolov and
  • Tetyana Honcharenko

14 July 2025

Accurate estimation of long-term average (LTA) discharge is fundamental for water resource assessment, infrastructure planning, and hydrological modeling, yet it remains a significant challenge, particularly in data-scarce or ungauged basins. This st...

(This article belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,964 Views
10 Pages

22 September 2021

Hydrologic/hydraulic models for flood risk assessment, forecasting and hindcasting have been greatly supported by the rising availability of increasingly accurate and high-resolution Earth Observation (EO) data. EO-based topographic and hydrologic op...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Source Data Assimilation for the Improvement of Hydrological Modeling Predictions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,145 Views
26 Pages

Evaluation of the TRMM Product for Monitoring Drought over Paraíba State, Northeastern Brazil: A Statistical Analysis

  • Reginaldo Moura Brasil Neto,
  • Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos,
  • Thiago Victor Medeiros do Nascimento,
  • Richarde Marques da Silva and
  • Carlos Antonio Costa dos Santos

8 July 2020

Drought is a natural phenomenon that originates from the absence of precipitation over a certain period and is capable of causing damage to societal development. With the advent of orbital remote sensing, rainfall estimates from satellites have appea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Modelling in Water Resources Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,721 Views
28 Pages

26 March 2021

One of the benefits of training a process-based, land surface model is the capacity to use it in ungauged sites as a complement to standard weather stations for predicting energy fluxes, evapotranspiration, and surface and root-zone soil temperature...

(This article belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,118 Views
21 Pages

15 September 2022

The parameters of hydrological models should be determined before applying those models to estimate or predict hydrological processes. The Xin’anjiang (XAJ) hydrological model is widely used throughout China. Since the prediction in ungauged ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Floods: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,838 Views
29 Pages

6 December 2024

Groundwater discharge is critical for maintaining river flow during dry seasons, especially in lowland areas. Despite its significance, groundwater resources have often been overlooked highlighting the need for comprehensive studies amidst growing pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,053 Views
13 Pages

30 July 2018

Modelling flow duration curves (FDCs) has long been a topic of interest since it is widely used in various hydrological applications. Most studies related to the estimation of FDCs in ungauged or partial gauged basins focus primarily on using climate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adaptive Catchment Management and Reservoir Operation)