Rainfall characteristics, differences in catchment storage, soil moisture dynamics, and geophysical properties influence spatial and temporal variability of runoff generation thresholds. This study addresses two questions: (1) Are there nonlinear thr...
Research on the runoff and sediment reduction effects of soil and water conservation measures has always been a topic of interest, which is of great significance for carrying out sustainable strategies for soil and water conservation in the Yellow Ri...
Initial soil moisture (ISM) represents the soil moisture condition before a rainfall event and is an important factor associated with rainfall and runoff responses in forested catchments. However, it remains unclear whether this nonlinearity can be c...
Accurate runoff estimation in ungauged basins is critical for water resource management but often relies on static parameters like the runoff threshold (P0), derived from the Soil Conservation Service Curve Number method, which fail to capture spatio...
Satellite observations (Copernicus Sentinell-1) can supply antecedent soil moisture data, which helps to predict thresholds triggering runoff and runoff volume. In the paper, we developed a runoff correction factor to the USLE, using rainfall and sat...
Few studies have been conducted to simulate watersheds with insufficient meteorological and hydrological information. The Jiyun River watershed was selected as the study area. A suitable catchment area threshold was determined by combining the river...
Theoretically derived distributions allow the detection of dominant runoff generation mechanisms as key signatures of hydrologic similarity. We used two theoretically derived distributions of flood peak annual maxima: the first is the “IF” distributi...
In recent years, Korea has seen abnormal changes in precipitation and temperature driven by climate change. These changes highlight the increased risks of climate disasters and rainfall damage. Even with weather forecasts providing quantitative rainf...
The rainfall in loess hilly and gully area is concentrated, and mostly comes in the form of rainstorms. The runoff on the slope caused by rainstorms is the main cause of serious soil and water loss in the loess hilly area, and the grassland vegetatio...
Many ephemeral Mediterranean watercourses are affected by the growth of tourism and the demand for holiday homes. Calculating the runoff threshold in these small basins is vital for understanding the impact generated by urban growth and its incidence...
Flood hazards are intensifying across Africa due to rapid urban expansion and hydro-climatic variability. This study develops a multi-metric geospatial framework combining extreme value analysis, hydrograph-based metrics, and dependence modelling to...
The effects of global warming, coupled with the continuing expansion of urbanization, have significantly increased vulnerability to urban flooding, widespread erosion risks, and related phenomena such as shallow landslides and mudflows. These challen...
Gully erosion is one of the most extreme land degradation processes that exhibit spatial and temporal variation depending on topography, soil, climate, and land use and management characteristics. This study investigated the impact of changes in rain...
Niamey, the capital of Niger, is particularly prone to floods, since it is on the banks of the Niger River, which in its middle basin has two flood peaks: one in summer (the red flood) and one in winter (the black flood). In 2020, the Niger River in...
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...
This study presents the application of a set pair analysis-based similarity forecast (SPA-SF) model and wavelet denoising to forecast annual runoff. The SPA-SF model was built from identical, discrepant and contrary viewpoints. The similarity between...
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...
Water shortages in Pakistan are among the most severe in the world, and its water resources are decreasing significantly due to the prevailing hydro-meteorological conditions. We assessed variations in meteorological and hydrological variables using...
Quantifying the water budget in the Great Salt Lake (GSL) basin is a nontrivial task, especially under a changing climate that contributes to increasing temperatures and a shift towards more rainfall and less snowfall. This study examines the potenti...
Changing the water permeability ratio of urban underlying surface helps alleviate urban flood. This paper designs the swale identification experiment to modify the flood-submerging simulation experiment based on the SCS-CN model and proves that the r...
Rainfall runoff and topography are among the major factors controlling the accuracy of modelled riverine inundation extents. We have evaluated the sensitivity of both these variables on a novel 1-D conceptual flood inundation model employing Height A...
The SWAT model has been widely used to simulate snowmelt runoff in cold regions thanks to its ability of representing the effects of snowmelt and permafrost on runoff generation and confluence. However, a core method used in the SWAT model, the tempe...
Faced with both global climate change and rapid urbanization, understanding how the built environment affects surface runoff is essential for strengthening urban hydrological resilience. However, elucidating the nonlinear and interactive effects of t...
A proposed method for analyzing the effectiveness of rainwater storage tanks (RWSTs) based on various enabling rule scenarios has been proposed to address the issue of incomplete strategies and measures for controlling excessive rainwater runoff. Thr...
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology provides flood forecasting and warning services across Australia for most major rivers in Australia, in cooperation with other government, local agencies and emergency services. As part of this service, the Bureau...
A smart, flexible, fuzzy-based regression is proposed in order to describe non-constant behavior of runoff as a function of precipitation. Hence, for high precipitation, beyond a fuzzy threshold, a conventional linear (precise) relation between preci...
An experimental soil tank (12 m long × 1.5 m wide × 1.5 m deep) equipped with a spatially distributed instrument network was designed to conduct the artificial rainfall-runoff experiments. Soil moisture (SM), precipitation, surface runoff...
Climate change has intensified extreme hydrological risks, particularly in basins characterized by frequent seasonal streamflow interruptions and discontinuous hydrological records, where traditional process-based models exhibit limited capability fo...
Soil erosion in the purple soil region presents severe challenges with complex driving mechanisms. At the same time, evaluation and prediction of runoff and sediment dynamics are lacking for natural vegetation restoration in bare areas. The Mann&ndas...
The ecological restoration projects in the Loess Plateau (LP) has significantly altered the underlying surface conditions, coupled with a warming–wetting climate, which has profoundly affected the regional water cycle. Evaluating the response o...
High-precision monthly runoff prediction results are of great significance to regional water resource management. However, with the changes in human activity, climate, and underlying surface conditions, the runoff sequence presents highly nonlinear a...
The gully erosion process is influenced by both natural conditions and human activities on the tableland region, the Chinese Loess Plateau, which is a densely populated agricultural area with unique topography. For the purpose of assessing long-term...
To understand the intricate runoff-sediment relationship in the middle Yellow River basin (MYRB), the Toudaoguai, Longmen, Tongguan and Huayuankou sites in the MYRB were selected to analyze the deterministic equilibrium and uncertainty relations of r...
Transporting water to supply livestock is one of the great challenges of the drylands. Ranchers usually make impoundments, filled by runoff, to access freshwater for cattle supply in flat rangelands. The aim of this study was to understand rainfall-r...
Karst yellow soil is one of the most important cultivated soils in southwest China. At present, only a few studies have dealt with rainfall erosivity and erosive rainfall thresholds in the karst yellow soil region. This paper utilizes statistical met...
Soil erosion seriously affects vineyards. In this study, the influence of two vegetation covers on topsoil moisture and the effect of different physiographic conditions on runoff and sediment yields were evaluated in a rainfed vineyard formed by four...
Identification and estimation of groundwater runoff components in karst groundwater systems to improve understanding of karst water circulation and water-rock interactions is essential for water resources assessment and development. A Gaussian mixtur...
Over the past decade, the Punjab plains of Northern India have experienced recurrent flooding driven by hydroclimatic variability, specifically shifts in western disturbances that have intensified monsoon precipitation. Following a devastating flood...
Water erosion is a major driver of soil degradation in the Brazilian Cerrado, intensified by the conversion of natural vegetation into agricultural land. The excessive runoff and sediment generated in poorly covered karst slopes impact the hydrologic...
Terrain feature points, such as the peaks and saddles, are the basic framework of surface topography and its undulations, which significantly affect the spatial distribution of surface topography. In the past, terrain feature points were extracted se...
The high sensitivity of loess slopes to water has been emphasized in many studies. However, it is still limited in terms of the understanding of slope morphological differentiation on the overall and local failure patterns in slopes, as well as on th...
Drought is a water deficit state caused by large-scale climate change that cannot be avoided by a water resource management system. Water scarcity refers to the unsustainable utilization of water resources over a long time, which is the result of wat...
The lower Yellow River, characterized by high sediment concentration and complex channel evolution, faces a persistent challenge of maintaining erosion–deposition balance. Using long-term hydrological and cross-sectional data (1950–2022)...
Accurate daily runoff forecasting is of great significance for the operation control of hydropower station and power grid. Conventional methods including rainfall-runoff models and statistical techniques usually rely on a number of assumptions, leadi...
Urban waterways degradation due to runoff from residential areas can be reduced by adopting best management practices (BMPs) for irrigation, fertilizer, and pesticide use. Although stormwater runoff from urban areas has been studied extensively, we f...
Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of runoff and its drivers is essential for water resources management in mid–high latitude basins. This study investigates runoff changes in the Songhua River Basin, Northeast China, during 1980–2...
Green roofs are used in urban areas to mitigate the adverse effects of stormwater. Through numerical modeling, this study evaluates the impacts of design parameters on green roof hydrological performance under different rainfall characteristics. A ca...
The purpose of the study was to analyze the formation conditions of catastrophic floods in the Iya River basin over the observation period, as well as a long-term forecast of the impacts of future climate change on the characteristics of the high flo...
While mountain runoff provides great potential for the development and life quality of downstream populations, it also frequently causes seasonal disasters. The accurate modeling of hydrological processes in mountainous areas, as well as the amount o...
Stream network extension and contraction depend on landscape features and the characteristics of precipitation events. Although this dependency is widely recognized, the interaction among overland-flow generation processes, drainage active length, an...
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