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3 Citations
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28 July 2023

The partition of surface runoff and infiltration is crucial in hydrologic modeling. To improve the flood prediction, we designed four strategies to explore the influences of the runoff partition method on the flexible hybrid runoff generation model....

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,038 Views
21 Pages

26 November 2021

Quantifying the impact of climate change on hydrologic features is essential for the scientific planning, management and sustainable use of water resources in Northwest China. Based on hydrometeorological data and glacier inventory data, the Spatial...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,155 Views
16 Pages

1 June 2022

Source facilities can manage stormwater runoff pollutants while also limiting runoff volume in China’s sponge city construction. However, there is no apparent link between source volume control and runoff pollution reduction. This research uses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,212 Views
19 Pages

26 April 2021

The rising global temperature is shifting the runoff patterns of snowmelt-dominated alpine watersheds, resulting in increased cold season flows, earlier spring peak flows, and reduced summer runoff. Projections of future runoff are beneficial in prep...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,135 Views
12 Pages

5 February 2018

Urbanization causes an increase in the flood discharge because of the infiltration capacity. Furthermore, extreme precipitation events have been an increasing concern for many regions worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the influence of differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,437 Views
16 Pages

Snowmelt Runoff in the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin and Runoff Change in the Future

  • Haoyu Ji,
  • Dingzhi Peng,
  • Yu Gu,
  • Xiaoyu Luo,
  • Bo Pang and
  • Zhongfan Zhu

22 December 2022

Comprehending the impacts of climate change on regional hydrology and future projections of water supplies is of great value to manage the water resources in the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin (YZRB). However, large uncertainties from both input data and...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,179 Views
18 Pages

26 January 2023

The Curve Number (CN) rainfall–runoff model is a widely used method for estimating the amount of rainfall and runoff, but its accuracy in predicting runoff has been questioned globally due to its failure to produce precise predictions. The mode...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
589 Views
14 Pages

Runoff and Sediment Response to Rainfall Events in China’s North-South Transitional Zone: Insights from Runoff Plot Observations

  • Zhijia Gu,
  • Keke Ji,
  • Gaohan Xu,
  • Maidinamu Reheman,
  • Detai Feng,
  • Yi Shen,
  • Qiang Yi,
  • Jiayi Kang,
  • Xinmiao Zhang and
  • Sitong Pan

18 October 2025

China’s North-South Transition Zone is a critical ecological transition region, marked by complex environments, climatic sensitivity, and transitional characteristics. To investigate the effects of individual rainfall events on runoff generatio...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,314 Views
22 Pages

7 November 2022

Quantitative analysis of changes in Lhasa River runoff components was significant to local water resources management. This study constructed the spatial processes in hydrology (SPHY) model in the Lhasa River Basin and optimized the model’s par...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,809 Views
26 Pages

A Statistical Vertically Mixed Runoff Model for Regions Featured by Complex Runoff Generation Process

  • Peng Lin,
  • Pengfei Shi,
  • Tao Yang,
  • Chong-Yu Xu,
  • Zhenya Li and
  • Xiaoyan Wang

19 August 2020

Hydrological models for regions characterized by complex runoff generation process been suffer from a great weakness. A delicate hydrological balance triggered by prolonged wet or dry underlying condition and variable extreme rainfall makes the rainf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,236 Views
18 Pages

29 April 2024

Climate change and human activities exert significant impact on the mechanism of runoff generation and confluence. Comprehending the reasons of runoff change is crucial for the sustainable development of water resources. Taking the Upper Shule River...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,097 Views
13 Pages

Research on Multi-Factor Effects of Nitrogen Loss in Slope Runoff

  • Lei Wang,
  • Na Wang,
  • Qing Zhang,
  • Jiajun Wu,
  • Shilei Wang,
  • Min Pang,
  • Jifeng Wang,
  • Chao Zhou,
  • Yehui Han and
  • Liang Jin
  • + 1 author

17 May 2024

To study the characteristics of nitrogen (N) loss on slopes, different vegetation (bare soil, alfalfa), slopes (5°, 10°, 15°), and rainfall intensities (40, 60, 80 mm/h) were set as variable factors in simulated rainfall experiments. Surface runoff a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,253 Views
19 Pages

21 December 2023

This study aims to investigate the impact of spatial rainfall distribution scenarios from ground observation stations on runoff simulation using hydrological modeling specific to the Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation (RRI) model. The RRI model was applied w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,116 Views
24 Pages

26 September 2019

The runoff levels of the major hydrological stations in the Weihe river basin (WRB) have been found to present decreasing trends. However, the conspicuous spatial differences in the hydro-meteorological conditions have led to variations in the rainfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,087 Views
20 Pages

Rapid suburbanization can alter catchment flow regime and increase stormwater runoff, posing threats to sensitive ecosystems. Applications of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have increasingly been adopted as part of integrated water management efforts t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,056 Views
13 Pages

16 May 2012

This paper presents a novel framework for the complexity analysis of rainfall, runoff, and runoff coefficient (RC) time series using multiscale entropy (MSE). The MSE analysis of RC time series was used to investigate changes in the complexity of rai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
7,981 Views
30 Pages

An Integrated Statistical-Machine Learning Approach for Runoff Prediction

  • Abhinav Kumar Singh,
  • Pankaj Kumar,
  • Rawshan Ali,
  • Nadhir Al-Ansari,
  • Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma,
  • Kuldeep Singh Kushwaha,
  • Kanhu Charan Panda,
  • Atish Sagar,
  • Ehsan Mirzania and
  • Salim Heddam
  • + 2 authors

5 July 2022

Nowadays, great attention has been attributed to the study of runoff and its fluctuation over space and time. There is a crucial need for a good soil and water management system to overcome the challenges of water scarcity and other natural adverse e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,494 Views
18 Pages

Effects of Microtopography on Runoff Generation in Plain Farmland: New Insights from an Event-Based Rainfall–Runoff Model

  • Hai Yang,
  • Yuehua Jiang,
  • Quanping Zhou,
  • Hui Yang,
  • Qingshan Ma,
  • Chengcheng Zhang and
  • Chuanhai Wang

30 August 2022

Plain farmland areas without significant topographic slope exhibit microtopographic features of different scales. Quantitative assessment of the effects of microtopography at different scales on runoff generation in typical farmland areas is of great...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,143 Views
17 Pages

30 October 2020

Storm runoff in basins is comprised of various runoff processes with widely disparate infiltration and storage capacities, such as Hortonian overland flow (HOF), saturated overland flow (SOF), sub-surface flow (SSF), and deep percolation (DP). Areas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,011 Views
15 Pages

Impacts of Climate Change on Runoff in the Heihe River Basin, China

  • Qin Liu,
  • Peng Cheng,
  • Meixia Lyu,
  • Xinyang Yan,
  • Qingping Xiao,
  • Xiaoqin Li,
  • Lei Wang and
  • Lili Bao

23 April 2024

Located in the central part of the arid regions of Northwest China, the Heihe River Basin (HRB) plays an important role in wind prevention, sand fixation, and soil and water conservation as the second largest inland river basin. In the context of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,771 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2022

The spatial distribution of water storage capacity has always been the critical content of the study of saturation-excess runoff. Xin’anjiang model uses the water storage capacity curve (WSCC) to characterize the distribution of water storage c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,355 Views
15 Pages

26 August 2021

Total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorous (TP) are the main pollutants affecting the water quality of the Miyun Reservoir, Beijing. However, few studies have been conducted on their responses to implemented soil conservation measures at a slope scale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,395 Views
14 Pages

7 August 2022

Runoff complexity is an important indicator reflecting the sustainability of a watershed ecosystem. In order to explore the multiscale characteristics of runoff complexity and analyze its variation and influencing factors in the Yanhe watershed in Ch...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,088 Views
21 Pages

Rivers’ Temporal Sustainability through the Evaluation of Predictive Runoff Methods

  • José-Luis Molina,
  • Santiago Zazo,
  • Ana-María Martín-Casado and
  • María-Carmen Patino-Alonso

25 February 2020

The concept of sustainability is assumed for this research from a temporal perspective. Rivers represent natural systems with an inherent internal memory on their runoff and, by extension, to their hydrological behavior, that should be identified, ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,944 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Thaw Depth on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loss in Runoff of Loess Slope

  • Feichao Wang,
  • Zhanbin Li,
  • Yuting Cheng,
  • Peng Li,
  • Bin Wang and
  • Hui Zhang

28 January 2022

Seasonal freeze-thaw erosion is a form of soil erosion caused by the topographical characteristics and climatic factors of the hilly and gully loess regions. Seasonal freeze-thaw can damage the soil pores and cause its bulk density to change. The eff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,874 Views
18 Pages

Runoff Decline Is Dominated by Human Activities

  • Ping Miao,
  • Dagula,
  • Xiaojie Li,
  • Shahid Naeem,
  • Amit Kumar,
  • Hongli Ma,
  • Yenong Ding,
  • Ruidong Wang and
  • Jinkai Luan

18 November 2023

Investigations into runoff change and its influencing factors hold immense significance for promoting sustainable development, efficient water resource utilization, and the improvement of the ecological environment. To reduce methodological uncertain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,911 Views
24 Pages

4 April 2023

This study presents a revised and calibrated Soil Conservation Service (SCS) curve number (CN) rainfall runoff model for predicting runoff in Malaysia using a new power correlation Ia = SL, where L represents the initial abstraction coefficient ratio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,531 Views
16 Pages

Impact of the Construction of Water Conservation Projects on Runoff from the Weigan River

  • Jingwen Su,
  • Aihua Long,
  • Fulong Chen,
  • Cai Ren,
  • Pei Zhang,
  • Ji Zhang,
  • Xinchen Gu and
  • Xiaoya Deng

30 June 2023

In order to use water resources more efficiently, the construction of water conservation projects in dryland watersheds has changed the natural water cycle processes. This study used the SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model coupled with the gl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,661 Views
17 Pages

Long-Term Rainfall–Runoff Relationships During Fallow Seasons in a Humid Region

  • Rui Peng,
  • Gary Feng,
  • Ying Ouyang,
  • Guihong Bi and
  • John Brooks

16 July 2025

The hydrological processes of agricultural fields during the fallow season in east-central Mississippi remain poorly understood, due to the region’s unique rainfall patterns. This study utilized long-term rainfall records from 1924 to 2023 to e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,936 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
6 Citations
4,004 Views
23 Pages

Rainfall–Runoff Processes and Modelling in Regions Characterized by Deficiency in Soil Water Storage

  • Pengfei Shi,
  • Tao Yang,
  • Chong-Yu Xu,
  • Bin Yong,
  • Ching-Sheng Huang,
  • Zhenya Li,
  • Youwei Qin,
  • Xiaoyan Wang,
  • Xudong Zhou and
  • Shu Li

6 September 2019

The partial runoff is complicated in semi-arid and some semi-humid zones in terms of what the runoff generates in partial vertical positions. The partial runoff is highlighted by horizontal soil heterogeneity as well. How to identify the partial runo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,099 Views
16 Pages

Extensive Green Roofs: Different Time Approaches to Runoff Coefficient Determination

  • Cristina M. Monteiro,
  • Cristina Santos and
  • Paula M. L. Castro

13 May 2023

Stormwater runoff in green roofs (GRs) is represented by the runoff coefficient, which is fundamental to assess their hydraulic performance and to design the drainage systems downstream. Runoff coefficient values in newly installed GR systems should...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
598 Views
12 Pages

25 January 2019

The research results of runoff changes in the River Viliya at 3 stations (Steshitsy Village, Vileyka Town and Mihalishki village) during the period 1946–2014 for the average annual, maximum, minimum summer-autumn and winter runoff are presented. It h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,445 Views
16 Pages

9 March 2023

The implementation of measures such as check dams and terraces in the Loess Plateau of China has had a groundbreaking impact on water and sediment conditions. The question of how to accurately simulate the runoff–sediment process under complex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,919 Views
24 Pages

Application of SWAT Model for Assessment of Surface Runoff in Flash Flood Areas

  • Lakkana Suwannachai,
  • Krit Sriworamas,
  • Ounla Sivanpheng and
  • Anongrit Kangrang

3 February 2024

In addition to changes in the amount of rain, changes in land use upstream are considered a factor that directly affects the maximum runoff flow in a basin, especially in areas that have experienced floods and flash floods. This research article pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,253 Views
21 Pages

Runoff Prediction Method Based on Pangu-Weather

  • Wentao Yang,
  • Hui Qin,
  • Yongsheng Jie,
  • Yuhua Qu,
  • Taiheng Zhang,
  • Chenghong Li and
  • Li Tan

7 May 2025

Runoff prediction is a complex hydrological, nonlinear time-series problem. Many machine learning methods have been put forth in recent years to predict runoff. A sliding window method is typically used to preprocess the data in order to rebuild the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,312 Views
15 Pages

19 February 2019

Runoff erosion capacity has significant effects on the spatial distribution of soil erosion and soil losses. But few studies have been conducted to evaluate these effects in the Loess Plateau. In this study, an adjusted SWAT model was used to simulat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,291 Views
15 Pages

Rainfall Runoff and Nitrogen Loss Characteristics on the Miyun Reservoir Slope

  • Na Wang,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Liang Jin,
  • Jiajun Wu,
  • Min Pang,
  • Dan Wei,
  • Yan Li,
  • Junqiang Wang,
  • Ting Xu and
  • Jianzhi Xie
  • + 1 author

6 March 2024

Rainfall intensity and slope gradient are the main drivers of slope surface runoff and nitrogen loss. To explore the distribution of rainfall runoff and nitrogen loss on the Miyun Reservoir slopes, we used artificial indoor simulated rainfall experim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,872 Views
20 Pages

A Generalized Automated Framework for Urban Runoff Modeling and Its Application at a Citywide Landscape

  • Hossein Hosseiny,
  • Michael Crimmins,
  • Virginia B. Smith and
  • Peleg Kremer

28 January 2020

This research presents a fully automated framework for runoff estimation, applied to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a major urban area. Trends in global urbanization are exacerbating stormwater runoff, making it an increasingly critical challenge in urb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,946 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Climate and Geology on Event Runoff Characteristics at the Regional Scale

  • Xiaofei Chen,
  • Juraj Parajka,
  • Borbála Széles,
  • Peter Valent,
  • Alberto Viglione and
  • Günter Blöschl

9 December 2020

The dynamics of flood event characteristics, such as the runoff coefficient and the recession time constant, differ in time and space, due to differences in climate, geology, and runoff generation mechanisms. This study examines the variability of ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,974 Views
22 Pages

18 November 2019

The impacts of climate change on water resources in snow- and glacier-dominated basins are of great importance for water resource management. The Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM) was developed to simulate and predict daily streamflow for high mountain bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,205 Views
17 Pages

Attribution Analysis of Runoff in the Upper Reaches of Jinsha River, China

  • Le Wang,
  • Hui Cao,
  • Yurong Li,
  • Baofei Feng,
  • Hui Qiu and
  • Hairong Zhang

5 September 2022

The upper Jinsha River is an important ecological reserve and hydropower energy base in China. This paper uses relative importance analysis to analyze the causes of runoff changes from the perspectives of early runoff, rainfall, snowfall, evaporation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,166 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,665 Views
19 Pages

Impacts of Climatic Variation and Human Activity on Runoff in Western China

  • Yinge Liu,
  • Keke Yu,
  • Yaqian Zhao and
  • Jiangchuan Bao

14 January 2022

Hydrological cycle is sensitively affected by climatic variation and human activity. Taking the upper- and middle-stream of the Weihe River in western China as an example, using multiple meteorological and hydrological elements, as well as land-use/l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,888 Views
24 Pages

8 April 2021

Flood related disasters continue to threaten mankind despite preventative efforts in technological advancement. Since 1954, the Soil Conservation Services (SCS) Curve Number (CN0.2) rainfall-runoff model has been widely used but reportedly produced i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,041 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2022

Stormwater runoff from metal roofs has been a significant subject of discussion, especially when it comes to its treatment and the target concentrations that need to be achieved prior to discharge into the aquatic environment. To raise further awaren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,833 Views
14 Pages

Random Forest Model Has the Potential for Runoff Simulation and Attribution

  • Xia Liu,
  • Xiaolong Zhang,
  • Xiaole Kong and
  • Yan-Jun Shen

27 June 2022

Quantifying the impact of climate change and human activities on runoff changes is beneficial for developing sustainable water-management strategies within the local ecosystem. Machine-learning models were widely used in scientific research; yet, whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
744 Views
24 Pages

Rainfall and Runoff Characteristics of Alluvial Gullies in the Upper Burdekin Catchment

  • Phuntsho Pelgay,
  • Jack Koci,
  • Ben Jarihani,
  • Scott Smithers and
  • Luke Francis Buono

27 October 2025

Gully erosion is a major driver of land degradation globally, particularly in semi-arid regions where it is fundamentally controlled by rainfall and runoff dynamics. Understanding how rainfall translates into runoff in gullied landscapes is crucial f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,741 Views
32 Pages

Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Runoff in a Sub-Regional Basin

  • Ndifon M. Agbiji,
  • Jonah C. Agunwamba and
  • Kenneth Imo-Imo Israel Eshiet

This study focuses on developing a climate-flood model to investigate and interpret the relationship and impact of climate on runoff/flooding at a sub-regional scale using multiple linear regression (MLR) with 30 years of hydro-climatic data for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,600 Views
19 Pages

Effect of Rainfall, Runoff and Infiltration Processes on the Stability of Footslopes

  • Hung-En Chen,
  • Yen-Yu Chiu,
  • Tung-Lin Tsai and
  • Jinn-Chuang Yang

25 April 2020

To analyze the effect of runoff on shallow landslides, a model coupling one-dimensional rainfall–runoff and two-dimensional infiltration was established to simulate rainfall, infiltration, and runoff processes. Based on Bishop’s limit equ...

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