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  • Open Access
8 Citations
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24 Pages

30 June 2019

Various uncertainty analysis methods have been used in various studies to analyze the uncertainty of rainfall-runoff models; however, these methods are difficult to apply immediately as they require a long learning time. In this study, we propose a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,243 Views
20 Pages

2 August 2021

Rainfall–runoff models are not perfect, and the suitability of a model structure depends on catchment characteristics and data. It is important to investigate the pros and cons of a rainfall–runoff model to improve both its high- and low-flow simulat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,317 Views
27 Pages

Multi-Site Calibration of Linear Reservoir Based Geomorphologic Rainfall-Runoff Models

  • Bahram Saeidifarzad,
  • Vahid Nourani,
  • Mohammad Taghi Aalami and
  • Kwok-Wing Chau

10 September 2014

Multi-site optimization of two adapted event-based geomorphologic rainfall-runoff models was presented using Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) method for the South Fork Eel River watershed, California. The first model was developed ba...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,752 Views
18 Pages

Event-based models focus on modelling of peak runoff from rainfall data. Conceptual models indicate simplified models that provide reasonably accurate answers despite their crude nature. Rainfall-runoff models are used to transform a rainfall event i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,630 Views
17 Pages

20 May 2020

The aim of the study was to analyze the possibility of using selected rainfall-runoff models to determine the design hydrograph and the related peak flow in a mountainous catchment. The basis for the study was the observed series of hydrometeorologic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,285 Views
21 Pages

2 June 2020

Understanding catchment response to rainfall events is important for accurate runoff estimation in many water-related applications, including water resources management. This study introduced a hybrid model, the Tank-least squared support vector mach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,317 Views
22 Pages

29 December 2018

The learning algorithms in many of conventional Neuro-Fuzzy Systems (NFS) are based on batch or global learning where all parameters of the fuzzy system are optimized off-line. Although these models have frequently been used, they suffer from a reduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,503 Views
17 Pages

8 February 2020

Different approaches for flow-direction determination have been continuously proposed to perform a more realistic simulation of surface runoff, yet the diversity of the existing methods causes significant differences in the extractions of geomorphic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,392 Views
26 Pages

Optimization of the Multi-Start Strategy of a Direct-Search Algorithm for the Calibration of Rainfall–Runoff Models for Water-Resource Assessment

  • Liliana García-Romero,
  • Javier Paredes-Arquiola,
  • Abel Solera,
  • Edgar Belda,
  • Joaquín Andreu and
  • Sonia T. Sánchez-Quispe

9 September 2019

Calibration of conceptual rainfall–runoff models (CRRM) for water-resource assessment (WRA) is a complicated task that contributes to the reliability of results obtained from catchments. In recent decades, the application of automatic calibrati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Citations
19,036 Views
17 Pages

Comprehensive Review: Advancements in Rainfall-Runoff Modelling for Flood Mitigation

  • Muhammad Jehanzaib,
  • Muhammad Ajmal,
  • Mohammed Achite and
  • Tae-Woong Kim

10 October 2022

Runoff plays an essential part in the hydrological cycle, as it regulates the quantity of water which flows into streams and returns surplus water into the oceans. Runoff modelling may assist in understanding, controlling, and monitoring the quality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,997 Views
22 Pages

1 February 2019

In this contribution, the authors present their preliminary investigations into modeling the rainfall–runoff generation relation in a large subtropical catchment (Jiulong River catchment) on the southeast coast of China. Previous studies have m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,752 Views
22 Pages

Hydraulic Geometry, GIS and Remote Sensing, Techniques against Rainfall-Runoff Models for Estimating Flood Magnitude in Ephemeral Fluvial Systems

  • Carmelo Conesa-Garcia,
  • Vicente Caselles-Miralles,
  • Juan M. Sanchez Tomas and
  • Rafael Garcia-Lorenzo

23 November 2010

This paper shows the combined use of remotely sensed data and hydraulic geometry methods as an alternative to rainfall-runoff models. Hydraulic geometric data and boolean images of water sheets obtained from satellite images after storm events were i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,940 Views
16 Pages

12 December 2018

This study aimed to assess the suitability of the parameters of a physically based, distributed, grid-based rainfall-runoff model. We analyzed parameter sensitivity with a dataset of eight rainfall events that occurred in two catchments of South Kore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,573 Views
16 Pages

29 June 2022

The research into rainfall-runoff plays a very important role in water resource management. However, runoff simulation is a challenging task due to its complex formation mechanism, time-varying characteristics and nonlinear hydrological dynamic proce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,948 Views
14 Pages

13 November 2020

Conceptual rainfall-runoff models besides precipitation and discharge data generally require estimates of the mean daily air temperature as input data. For the estimation of the mean daily air temperature, there are different methods available. The p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,961 Views
18 Pages

29 September 2018

Conventional landslide susceptibility analysis adopted rainfall depth or maximum rainfall intensity as the hydrological factor. However, using these factors cannot delineate temporal variations of landslide in a rainfall event. In the hydrological cy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,398 Views
19 Pages

A New Rainfall-Runoff Model Using Improved LSTM with Attentive Long and Short Lag-Time

  • Xi Chen,
  • Jiaxu Huang,
  • Sheng Wang,
  • Gongjian Zhou,
  • Hongkai Gao,
  • Min Liu,
  • Ye Yuan,
  • Laiwen Zheng,
  • Qingli Li and
  • Honggang Qi

23 February 2022

It is important to improve the forecasting performance of rainfall-runoff models due to the high complexity of basin response and frequent data limitations. Recently, many studies have been carried out based on deep learning and have achieved signifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,293 Views
24 Pages

2 August 2024

Machine learning models’ performance in simulating monthly rainfall–runoff in subtropical regions has not been sufficiently investigated. In this study, we evaluate the performance of six widely used machine learning models, including Lon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,037 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
27 Citations
7,702 Views
22 Pages

11 April 2017

Rainfall-runoff modelling is a useful tool for water resources management. This study presents a simple daily rainfall-runoff model, based on the water balance equation, which we apply to the 11,630 km2 Lesser Zab catchment in northeast Iraq. The mod...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
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1,072 Views
23 Pages

A Cell Model for Pollutant Transport Quantification in Rainfall–Runoff Watershed Events

  • Orjuwan Salfety,
  • Ofek Sarne,
  • Sriman Pankaj Boindala,
  • Gopinathan R. Abhijith and
  • Avi Ostfeld

3 June 2025

Accurate modeling of pollutant transport during storm events is critical for watershed management and pollution mitigation. This study extends Diskin’s Cell Model, originally developed for rainfall–runoff simulations, to incorporate pollu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,185 Views
19 Pages

9 March 2023

Runoff information can be used for establishing watershed water management plans. However, hydrological models with complex parameters make it difficult to quickly estimate runoff. This study developed a one-parameter new exponential (ONE) model for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,748 Views
21 Pages

Regionalization of a Rainfall-Runoff Model: Limitations and Potentials

  • Jung-Hun Song,
  • Younggu Her,
  • Kyo Suh,
  • Moon-Seong Kang and
  • Hakkwan Kim

28 October 2019

Regionalized lumped rainfall-runoff (RR) models have been widely employed as a means of predicting the streamflow of an ungauged watershed because of their simple yet effective simulation strategies. Parameter regionalization techniques relate the pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,028 Views
16 Pages

11 January 2016

Watershed characteristics such as patterns of land use and land cover (LULC), soil structure and river systems, have substantially changed due to natural and anthropogenic factors. To adapt hydrological models to the changing characteristics of water...

  • Article
  • Open Access
152 Citations
12,494 Views
13 Pages

24 February 2016

Rainfall-runoff models can be classified into three types: physically based models, conceptual models, and empirical models. In this latter class of models, the catchment is considered as a black box, without any reference to the internal processes t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,713 Views
21 Pages

A Comparative Evaluation of Conceptual Rainfall–Runoff Models for a Catchment in Victoria Australia Using eWater Source

  • Najibullah Zafari,
  • Ashok Sharma,
  • Dimuth Navaratna,
  • Varuni M. Jayasooriya,
  • Craig McTaggart and
  • Shobha Muthukumaran

16 August 2022

Hydrological modelling at a catchment scale was conducted to investigate the impact of climate change and land-use change individually and in combination with the available streamflow in the Painkalac catchment using an eWater Source hydrological mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,912 Views
24 Pages

Modeling of Monthly Rainfall–Runoff Using Various Machine Learning Techniques in Wadi Ouahrane Basin, Algeria

  • Mahdi Valikhan Anaraki,
  • Mohammed Achite,
  • Saeed Farzin,
  • Nehal Elshaboury,
  • Nadhir Al-Ansari and
  • Ismail Elkhrachy

12 October 2023

Rainfall–runoff modeling has been the core of hydrological research studies for decades. To comprehend this phenomenon, many machine learning algorithms have been widely used. Nevertheless, a thorough comparison of machine learning algorithms a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,619 Views
22 Pages

Feasibility Study Regarding the Use of a Conformer Model for Rainfall-Runoff Modeling

  • WeiCheng Lo,
  • Wei-Jin Wang,
  • Hsin-Yu Chen,
  • Jhe-Wei Lee and
  • Zoran Vojinovic

1 November 2024

Flood disasters often result in significant losses of life and property, making them among the most devastating natural hazards. Therefore, reliable and accurate water level forecasting is critically important. Rainfall-runoff modeling, which is a co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,089 Views
20 Pages

27 January 2017

Runoff prediction in limited-data areas is vital for hydrological applications, such as the design of infrastructure and flood defenses, runoff forecasting, and water management. Rainfall–runoff models may be useful for simulation of runoff generatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,873 Views
13 Pages

18 September 2018

The choice of the computational time step (dt) value and the method for setting dt can have a bearing on the accuracy and performance of a simulation, and this effect has not been comprehensively researched across different simulation conditions. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,195 Views
8 Pages

Hydrological Modeling of Rainfall-Runoff of the Semi-Arid Aguibat Ezziar Watershed Through the GR4J Model

  • Fatima-Zehrae Elhallaoui Oueldkaddour,
  • Fatima Wariaghli,
  • Hassane Brirhet and
  • Ahmed Yahyaoui

22 December 2021

The management of water resources requires as a first step the modeling of rainfall-runoff. It allows simulating the hydrological behavior of the basin for a good evaluation of the potentiality of this in terms of water production. There are differen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,553 Views
18 Pages

19 October 2024

This work presents a novel approach to rainfall–runoff modeling. We incorporate GAN-based data compaction into a spatial-attention-enhanced transductive long short-term memory (TLSTM) network. The GAN component reduces data dimensions while ret...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,912 Views
13 Pages

31 December 2019

Rainfall-runoff modeling is nowadays applied for water resources management, water system design, real-time forecasting, flood design and can be carried out by using different types of hydrological models. In this study, we focused on lumped conceptu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,169 Views
18 Pages

Performance Evaluation of a Two-Parameters Monthly Rainfall-Runoff Model in the Southern Basin of Thailand

  • Pakorn Ditthakit,
  • Sirimon Pinthong,
  • Nureehan Salaeh,
  • Fadilah Binnui,
  • Laksanara Khwanchum,
  • Alban Kuriqi,
  • Khaled Mohamed Khedher and
  • Quoc Bao Pham

28 April 2021

Accurate monthly runoff estimation is crucial in water resources management, planning, and development, preventing and reducing water-related problems, such as flooding and droughts. This article evaluates the monthly hydrological rainfall-runoff mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
7,453 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2019

The input selection process for data-driven rainfall-runoff models is critical because input vectors determine the structure of the model and, hence, can influence model results. Here, hydro-geomorphic and biophysical time series inputs, including No...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,109 Views
26 Pages

5 August 2014

The increasing availability of digital databases (e.g., of climatology, topography, soils and land use) has enabled research into the generalisation of hydrological model parameter values from physical properties and the development of grid-based mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
117 Citations
19,161 Views
17 Pages

It has become necessary to estimate the quantities of runoff by knowing the amount of rainfall to calculate the required quantities of water storage in reservoirs and to determine the likelihood of flooding. The present study deals with the developme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,271 Views
13 Pages

5 December 2024

Hydrological modeling plays a crucial role in water resource management, flood prediction, and environmental planning, with widespread usage in predicting the behavior of catchment systems. However, these models often face significant uncertainties,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,187 Views
20 Pages

Sensitivity Analysis of the Rainfall–Runoff Modeling Parameters in Data-Scarce Urban Catchment

  • Héctor A. Ballinas-González,
  • Víctor H. Alcocer-Yamanaka,
  • Javier J. Canto-Rios and
  • Roel Simuta-Champo

Rainfall–runoff phenomena are among the main processes within the hydrological cycle. In urban zones, the increases in imperviousness cause increased runoff, originating floods. It is fundamental to know the sensitivity of parameters in the mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,813 Views
24 Pages

1 April 2021

A variety of hydrological models is currently available. Many of those employ physically based formulations to account for the complexity and spatial heterogeneity of natural processes. In turn, they require a substantial amount of spatial data, whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,130 Views
16 Pages

29 August 2023

This study aims to correct and assess the SCS-CN model. In this research, the 3RM model (written by Shamohammadi) has been modified in such a way that the maximum primary retention (I), maximum secondary retention (Fmax), and basin potential retentio...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,433 Views
8 Pages

15 November 2018

A flow regime can be broadly categorized as either perennial, intermittent, or ephemeral, depending on whether the streamflow is continuous all year round, or ceasing for weeks or months each year. Various conceptual models are needed to capture the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,013 Views
33 Pages

Intercomparison and Assessment of Stand-Alone and Wavelet-Coupled Machine Learning Models for Simulating Rainfall-Runoff Process in Four Basins of Pothohar Region, Pakistan

  • Muhammad Tariq Khan,
  • Muhammad Shoaib,
  • Raffaele Albano,
  • Muhammad Azhar Inam,
  • Hamza Salahudin,
  • Muhammad Hammad,
  • Shakil Ahmad,
  • Muhammad Usman Ali,
  • Sarfraz Hashim and
  • Muhammad Kaleem Ullah

24 February 2023

The science of hydrological modeling has continuously evolved under the influence of rapid advancements in software and hardware technologies. Starting from simple rational formulae for estimating peak discharge and developing into sophisticated univ...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,341 Views
8 Pages

The present study examines the rainfall-runoff-based model development by using artificial neural networks (ANNs) models in the Yerli sub-catchment of the upper Tapi basin for a period of 36 years, i.e., from 1981 to 2016. The created ANN models were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
454 Views
34 Pages

29 November 2025

Precise rainfall-runoff modeling (RRM) is vital for disaster management, resource conservation, and mitigation. Recent deep learning-based methods, such as long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, often struggle with major challenges, including tempor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,603 Views
25 Pages

17 December 2021

Typically, hydrological problems require approaches capable of describing and simulating part of the hydrological system, or the environmental consequences of natural or anthropic actions. Tools such as Multiagent System (MAS) and Rainfall-Runoff Mod...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,875 Views
27 Pages

Development of Rainfall-Runoff Models for Sustainable Stormwater Management in Urbanized Catchments

  • Bartosz Szeląg,
  • Grzegorz Łagód,
  • Anna Musz-Pomorska,
  • Marcin K. Widomski,
  • David Stránský,
  • Marek Sokáč,
  • Jozefína Pokrývková and
  • Roman Babko

22 June 2022

Modelling of stormwater networks and the related object (combined sewer overflows, diversion chambers, retention tanks) is a complex task requiring colleting of data with appropriate time and spatial resolution as well as application of adequate mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
9,899 Views
23 Pages

15 November 2018

Precipitation is one of the essential variables in rainfall-runoff modeling. For hydrological purposes, the most commonly used data sources of precipitation are rain gauges and weather radars. Recently, multi-satellite precipitation estimates have ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,746 Views
15 Pages

28 September 2019

A flow regime is influenced by the degree of hydrologic connection between surface water and groundwater. As this connection becomes more transient and the basin’s runoff response more non-linear, such as for intermittent streams, the need for...

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