Journal of Hydrology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Hydrology is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Publisher’s note240
A method for modeling the lateral distributions of depth-averaged velocities behind an emergent vegetation patch207
DFEAT: A multifaceted yearly Drought FEature Assessment Tool from daily soil water content197
Real-time integrated water availability – Salt intrusion modelling and management during droughts190
An integrated approach to obtain high-precision regional root water uptake maps175
Multi-layer flow field mapping in a small-scale shallow water reservoir by coastal acoustic tomography154
Corrigendum to “Development and evaluation of temperature-induced variable source area runoff generation model” [J. Hydrol. 610 (2022) 127894]152
A novel rapid flood mapping model based on social media and GF-3 satellite imagery145
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Evaluation of spatial downscaling for satellite retrieval of evapotranspiration from the nonparametric approach in an arid area131
Automated calibration of Noah-MP land surface model for improved irrigation representation in the North China Plain129
Quantification of solute transport in a fracture-matrix system using geoelectrical monitoring127
Using tritium and radiocarbon activities to constrain regional modern and fossil groundwater mixing in Southern Africa126
Exploring the influence of training sampling strategies on time-series deep learning model in hydrology124
Improved estimation of extreme floods with data pooling and mixed probability distribution117
Integrating hydraulic profiling tool pressure logs and hydraulic tomography for improved high-resolution characterization of subsurface heterogeneity116
Contrasting effects of increasing irrigation efficiency on hydrological drought based on hydrological scenario simulations116
An improved sharp interface model for characterizing the transport and extraction of subsurface LNAPL115
Forecasting regional water demand using multi-fidelity data and harris hawks optimization of generalized regression neural network models – A case study of Heilongjiang Province, China113
Error modeling and hierarchical Bayesian fusion for spaceborne and ground radar rainfall data113
Development of a method to assess synergy and competition for water use among water-energy-food nexus in the Yellow River basin: Water quantity-quality dimensions112
Revealing aquifer responses to glaciations using residential water-well data110
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A transition zone boundary determining method based on MIKE21: A case study of Baiyangdian Lake, North China107
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Investigating multiple causes of time-varying SMAP soil moisture biases based on core validation sites data102
Water diplomacy paths – An approach to recognise water diplomacy actions in shared waters100
Unraveling the nexus: exploring river-groundwater interaction as the primary driver of eutrophication in river ecosystems98
Increasingly frequent co-occurrence of drought or pluvial in multiple tributaries of the Yangtze River basin98
Predicting future well performance for environmental remediation design using deep learning95
Dominant factors determining the hydraulic conductivity of sedimentary aquitards: A random forest approach94
Stable isotope composition of surface waters across the Pamir, Central Asia: Implications of precipitation seasonality92
Developing a cost-effective emulator for groundwater flow modeling using deep neural operators91
An integrated study of the spatiotemporal character, pollution assessment, and migration mechanism of heavy metals in the groundwater of a subtropical mangrove wetland91
Evaluation of cloud seeding on the securement of additional water resources in the Boryeong Dam Basin, Korea91
Influence of meteorological elements and inflow pollution loads on cyanobacterial blooms trends: An integrated environmental fluid dynamics code model and comprehensive trend detection method91
Optimizing groundwater radium end-members in submarine groundwater discharge estimation by incorporating groundwater flow information90
Unraveling atmospheric moisture transport linkages to extreme precipitation events and associated synoptic features over India90
Prediction of flood risk levels of urban flooded points though using machine learning with unbalanced data89
Differences in watershed evaporation indicated by hydrogen and oxygen single and dual isotopes: Evidence from controlled simulation tests under different land uses89
Patterns of long-term variations of nitrate concentration – Stream discharge relationships for a drained agricultural watershed in Mid-western USA87
Machine learning-assisted check dam planning on the Chinese Loess Plateau87
Evolution of spatiotemporal variations in snow in the Tianshan Mountains and Pamir, Central Asia: An investigation by historical and projected dynamic downscaling simulations87
Divergent nonlinear trends of global drought and its multivariate characteristics86
Stream restoration strategies often designed to perform in baseflow may be ineffective in stormflow regarding nonpoint pollution abatement86
Combining a statistical model with machine learning to predict groundwater flooding (or infiltration) into sewer networks86
Using biodiversity response for prioritizing participants and service provisions in a payment-for-water-storage program in the Everglades basin85
Combining 14CDOC and 81Kr with hydrochemical data to identify recharge processes in the South German Molasse Basin85
A novel semi-numerical infiltration model combining conceptual and physically based approaches84
Hydro-climatological drivers of the unprecedented flooding in August 2022 along the Tarim River, China84
Improved subsurface soil moisture prediction from surface soil moisture through the integration of the (de)coupling effect83
An integrative analytical framework of water-energy-food security for sustainable development at the country scale: A case study of five Central Asian countries83
Application of the extreme gradient boosting method to quantitatively analyze the mechanism of radon anomalous change in Banglazhang hot spring before the Lijiang Mw 7.0 earthquake83
Unsupervised anomaly detection in hourly water demand data using an asymmetric encoder–decoder model83
Hydrogeochemical and health implications of rare earth elements in groundwater: A review81
Assessment of water policies contributions for sustainable water resources management under climate change scenarios81
Estimation of water required to recover from agricultural drought: Perspective from regression and probabilistic analysis methods81
Rare bacterial taxa drive the ecosystem multifunctionality in lake water-level-fluctuating zone during seasonal water level fluctuations81
Seasonal wet–dry transition and denitrifying communities contributed to nitrous oxide emissions in the water-level fluctuating zone of the largest freshwater lake in China79
Application of weather post-processing methods for operational ensemble hydrological forecasting on multiple catchments in Canada79
Characterization of periods of high and low hydrological activity in the Loire River, France, between the 14th and mid-19th centuries76
Combining signal decomposition and deep learning model to predict noisy runoff coefficient76
Quantifying changes and trends of NO3 concentrations and concentration-discharge relationships in a complex, heavily managed, drought-sensitive river system75
Evaluating the effects of water exchange between surface rivers and karst aquifers on surface flood simulations at different watershed scales75
The subreach effect: Multi-scale analysis reveals climate and irrigation infrastructure effects on flow intermittency in a regulated desert river75
Pore-scale observations of CO2 thermodynamic properties and dissolution trapping in porous media74
Partitioning evapotranspiration in a tallgrass prairie using micrometeorological and water use efficiency approaches under contrasting rainfall regimes74
A low-cost model for slug tests in a confined aquifer with skin-zone effect74
Controls on the stable isotope composition of daily precipitation in Sydney Australia: 9 years of daily data, including Radon-22273
Characterizing soil water content variability across spatial scales from optimized high-resolution distributed temperature sensing technique73
Investigation of rainfall disaggregation with flexible timescales based on point process models73
Uncertainties in discharge predictions based on microwave link rainfall estimates in a small urban catchment73
The impact of complex terrain on urban flood resilience under extreme rainfall events73
Improved identification and monitoring of meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological droughts using the modified nonstationary drought indices in the Yellow River Basin of China72
Multiscale gravity measurements to characterize 2020 flood events and their spatio-temporal evolution in Yangtze river of China72
Pay-for-practice or Pay-for-performance? A coupled agent-based evaluation tool for assessing sediment management incentive policies70
A time-varying autoregressive model for groundwater depth prediction70
Characterizing nitrogen dynamics and their response to sediment dredging in a lowland rural river70
An integrated distributed robust optimization framework for agricultural water-food-energy management integrating ecological impact and dynamic water cycle processes70
Error characterization of global land evapotranspiration products: Collocation-based approach70
Evaluation of ECOSTRESS evapotranspiration estimates over heterogeneous landscapes in the continental US69
Weathered bedrock converts hydrological processes in loess hilly-gully critical zone69
Identifying the influence of episodic events on groundwater recharge in semi-arid environments using environmental tracers69
Inter-comparison and integration of different soil moisture downscaling methods over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau68
Machine learning unravels controls on river water temperature regime dynamics68
Subtropical mangroves poleward shift to the Yangtze Estuary under different carbon emission scenarios68
Assimilation of surface reflectance in snow simulations: Impact on bulk snow variables68
Investigating flood processes in karst catchments by combining concentration-discharge relationship analysis and lateral flow simulation68
Hydrogeochemical processes of critical zone developed in Tégulines Clay, Paris Basin: Hydrogeochemical and multi-isotopic approach (δ13C, δD, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr and 14C)68
Transport and retention of nanobubbles in saturated porous media: Overlooked role of grain size and shape68
Environmental changes promoted vegetation growth and reduced water yield over the temperate semi-arid grassland of China during 1901–201667
Merging Landsat and airborne LiDAR observations for continuous monitoring of floodplain water extent, depth and volume66
A new probability-embodied model for simulating variable contributing areas and hydrologic processes dominated by surface depressions66
Probabilistic urban water demand forecasting using wavelet-based machine learning models65
Dissolved inorganic carbon export from rivers of Great Britain: Spatial distribution and potential catchment-scale controls65
Model-based evaluation of reduction strategies for point and nonpoint source Cd pollution in a large river system65
Field, plant, to leaf: A meta-analysis on crop water use efficiency response to potassium fertilization65
Impact of Three Gorges Dam construction on spatiotemporal variations in the hydrodynamic regime of Poyang Lake (China)65
Enrichment mechanisms of lithium for the geothermal springs in the southern Tibet, China64
A distributed hydrodynamic model for urban storm flood risk assessment64
A framework for identifying propagation from meteorological to ecological drought events64
Flood control in transboundary river basins through joint operation of key riparian reservoirs64
Identification of compound flood-heatwave extremes in the Yangtze River Basin and their socio-economic exposure64
Near-infrared surveillance video-based rain gauge64
Nutritional status of the reservoir tributary backwater area and implications for nutrient control64
A superior soil–water characteristic curve for correcting the Arya-Paris model based on particle size distribution64
Future climate change exacerbates streamflow depletion in the Wei River Basin, China63
An integrated approach for reducing spatially coupled water-shortage risks of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration in China63
Assessing compound flood hazards in the Pearl river Delta: A Scenario-Based Integration of trivariate fluvial conditions and extreme storm events63
TPE-CatBoost: An adaptive model for soil moisture spatial estimation in the main maize-producing areas of China with multiple environment covariates63
Effects of rainfall on the karst-related carbon cycle due to carbonate rock weathering induced by H2SO4 and/or HNO363
Field experiment on the spatiotemporal evolution of soil moisture in a rainfall-induced loess landslide: Implications for early warning62
A composite drought index developed for detecting large-scale drought characteristics62
Verifying model performance using validation of Pareto solutions62
Contribution of summer net precipitation to winter river discharge in permafrost zone of the Lena River basin62
Untangling the effects of climate change and land use/cover change on spatiotemporal variation of evapotranspiration over China61
Improving daily precipitation estimation in the data scarce area by merging rain gauge and TRMM data with a transfer learning framework61
Potential of ground-penetrating radar to calibrate electromagnetic induction for shallow soil water content estimation61
Modeling spatial distribution of flow depth in fluvial systems using a hybrid two-dimensional hydraulic-multigene genetic programming approach61
Examining the performance of precipitation products in characterizing the Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) using triple collocation61
Linking soils and streams: Chemical composition and sources of eroded organic matter during rainfall events in a Loess hilly-gully region of China61
Assessment of spatiotemporal trend of precipitation indices and meteorological drought characteristics in the Mahi River basin, India60
Divergent rainfall infiltration patterns on the Chinese Loess Plateau between growing and non-growing seasons after long-term revegetation60
Ecohydrological implications of the variability of soil hydrophysical properties between two Sphagnum moss microforms and the impact of different sample heights60
Hydrogeochemical characteristics and processes of groundwater in an over 2260 year irrigation district: A comparison between irrigated and nonirrigated areas60
Satellite-informed simulation of irrigation in South Asia: Opportunities and uncertainties60
Investigating the effects of spatial heterogeneity of multi-source profile soil moisture on spatial–temporal processes of high-resolution floods60
Repeating patterns in runoff time series: A basis for exploring hydrologic similarity of precipitation and catchment wetness conditions60
Energy conversion for water surface evaporation in evaporation ponds with different depths and improvement of Dalton model60
Future hydrological drought changes over the upper Yellow River basin: The role of climate change, land cover change and reservoir operation60
The intercomparison of six 0.1°×0.1° spatial resolution evapotranspiration products across mainland China59
Image analysis technique for quantifying fluorescein concentration profiles in clays59
Modeling competitive-cooperative relationship between flood control and hydropower generation within hierarchical gaming structure of reservoir operation59
Assessing bed shear stress effects on flow resistance of vegetated channel beds through Leaf Area Index (58
Effects of multi-year droughts on the precipitation-runoff relationship: An integrated analysis of meteorological, hydrological, and compound droughts58
Evaluation of NASA POWER and ERA5-Land for estimating tropical precipitation and temperature extremes58
Modeling the effects of vegetation dynamics on the hydrological performance of a bioretention system58
Source identification of groundwater phosphorus under different geological settings in the central Yangtze River basin58
Improved soil moisture estimation and detection of irrigation signal by incorporating SMAP soil moisture into the Indian Land Data Assimilation System (ILDAS)58
The importance of incorporating rain intensity profiles in rainfall simulation studies of infiltration, runoff production, soil erosion, and related landsurface processes58
Large-scale atmospheric teleconnections and spatiotemporal variability of extreme rainfall indices across India58
Assessing the influence of green stormwater infrastructure implemented for combined sewer overflow control on urban streamflows58
Scenario analysis of local storylines to represent uncertainty in complex human-water systems58
Quantifying and understanding the source of recharge for alluvial systems in arid environments through the development of a seepage model58
Direct, geodetic and simulated mass balance studies of the Kolahoi Glacier in the Kashmir Himalaya, India57
Estimation of seasonal base flow contribution to a tropical river using stable isotope analysis57
Daily suspended sediment concentration forecast in the upper reach of Yellow River using a comprehensive integrated deep learning model57
Modified Kozeny-Carman equation for estimating hydraulic conductivity in nanoscale pores of clayey soils with active surfaces57
Effects of multiple future environmental changes on flooding in coastal area: Case study in Qianshan River Basin, South China57
Investigating different timescales of terrestrial water storage changes in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau57
Spatiotemporal characteristics of agricultural droughts based on soil moisture data in Inner Mongolia from 1981 to 201957
Fuzzy composite risk assessment of water-energy-food-carbon nexus in the dispark pumped irrigation system57
A runoff prediction approach based on machine learning, ensemble forecasting and error correction: A case study of source area of Yellow River56
Multiscale fractures integrated equivalent porous media method for simulating flow and solute transport in fracture-matrix system56
Improved non-stationary SPEI and its application in drought monitoring in China56
A new approach of coupled long-range forecasts for streamflow and groundwater level55
Predicting multiphase flow behavior of methane in shallow unconfined aquifers using conditional deep convolutional generative adversarial network55
Hydrogeochemical analysis and paleo-hydrogeological modeling of shallow groundwater salinization processes in North China Plain55
Predicting the interrill erosion rate on hillslopes incorporating soil aggregate stability on the Loess Plateau of China55
Miscellaneous methods for determination of unfrozen water content in frozen soils55
A novel efficient and robust treatment of the friction source term in 2D shallow water inundation models55
Assessing the long-term hydrologic responses of river catchments in Taiwan using a multiple-component hydrograph approach55
Assessing the characteristics of recent drought events in South Korea using WRF-Hydro55
Assessing the potential of temperature/vegetation index space to infer soil moisture over Ganga Basin55
Evaluation of the benefits of improved permeability estimation on high-resolution characterization of DNAPL distribution in aquifers with low-permeability lenses54
Spatio-temporal variations in global surface soil moisture based on multiple datasets: Intercomparison and climate drivers54
New framework for nonpoint source pollution management based on downscaling priority management areas54
Prediction of estuarine water quality using interpretable machine learning approach54
Geographic heterogeneity of activation functions in urban real-time flood forecasting: Based on seasonal trend decomposition using Loess-Temporal Convolutional Network-Gated Recurrent Unit model54
Local scour around bridge abutments: Assessment of accuracy and conservatism54
A novel Bayesian maximum entropy-based approach for optimal design of water quality monitoring networks in rivers54
Quantifying the superimposed effects of drought-flood abrupt alternation stress on vegetation dynamics of the Wei River Basin in China54
EKLT: Kolmogorov-Arnold attention-driven LSTM with Transformer model for river water level prediction54
Permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau is degrading: Historical and projected trends54
Unveiling an Environmental Drought Index and its applicability in the perspective of drought recognition amidst climate change54
Deep learning in hydrology and water resources disciplines: concepts, methods, applications, and research directions54
Reconstruction of continuous GRACE/GRACE-FO terrestrial water storage anomalies based on time series decomposition53
Long-term Reservoir Inflow Forecasts: Enhanced Water Supply and Inflow Volume Accuracy Using Deep Learning53
Heavy metals in the water-level-fluctuation zone soil of the three Gorges Reservoir, China: Remobilization and catchment-wide transportation53
Characteristics of water vapor isotopes and moisture sources for short-duration heavy rainfall events in Nanjing, eastern China52
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How different soil surface treatments in urban areas affect soil pore structure and associated soil properties and processes52
Corrigendum to “Enhancing Hydro-climatic and land parameter forecasting using Transformer networks” [J. Hydrol. 655 (2025) 132906]52
Evaluating the applicability of the generalized power-law rating curve model52
A real-time monitoring temperature-dependent risk index for predicting mine water inrush from collapse columns through a coupled thermal–hydraulic-mechanical model52
Improving estimates of phosphorus loads using hierarchical models52
More severe drought detected by the assimilation of brightness temperature and terrestrial water storage anomalies in Texas during 2010–201352
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High-dimensional inverse modeling of hydraulic tomography by physics informed neural network (HT-PINN)52
A novel four phase slug single-well push–pull test with regional flux: forward modeling and parameter estimation52
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Seasonal variation and controlling factors of evapotranspiration over a “floating blanket” wetland in southwest China52
Time-guided convolutional neural networks for spatiotemporal urban flood modelling52
Identifying the distribution of groundwater discharge in a curved river51
Where the water goes: Partitioning surface flow and streambed infiltration in an ephemeral river laboratory experiment51
KarstNSim: A graph-based method for 3D geologically-driven simulation of karst networks51
Impact of sediment size, channel velocity and plant density on sediment deposition inside Phragmites australis canopies51
DRSTF: A hybrid-approach framework for reservoir water temperature forecasting considering operation response51
Spatio-temporal variations in stable isotopes in peri-urban catchments: A preliminary assessment of potential and challenges in assessing streamflow sources51
Parsimonious streamflow forecasting system based on a dynamical systems approach51
Identifying river ice on the Tibetan Plateau based on the relative difference in spectral bands51
Refining snow-streamflow dynamics in a Tibetan Plateau basin by incorporating snow depth and topography51
Downscaling SMAP soil moisture using a wide & deep learning method over the Continental United States51
Exploring future trends of precipitation and runoff in arid regions under different scenarios based on a bias-corrected CMIP6 model51
Rapid surface water expansion due to increasing artificial reservoirs and aquaculture ponds in North China Plain50
Variation in riverine dissolved organic matter (DOM) optical quality during snowmelt- and rainfall-driven events in a forested wetland watershed50
Integrating Euclidean and non-Euclidean spatial information for deep learning-based spatiotemporal hydrological simulation50
Extreme precipitation return levels for multiple durations on a global scale50
A cellular automata model for dynamically describing the overland flow and sediment transport50
Prediction of the outflow temperature of large-scale hydropower using theory-guided machine learning surrogate models of a high-fidelity hydrodynamics model50
Reexamination of the permeability-aperture relationship for rough fractures with mismatched self-affine surfaces49
Towards the continuous monitoring of the extreme events through satellite radar altimetry observations49
Climate change effects on rainfall extreme value distribution: the role of skewness48
Evaluation of multiple gridded snowfall datasets using gauge observations over high mountain Asia48
Detailed attribution of long-term water exchange in the Yangtze-Poyang system at multiple time scales48
Enhancing flood verification using Signal Detection Theory (SDT) and IoT Sensors: A spatial scale evaluation48
On the tensorial nature of the hydraulic aperture of rough fractures48
Infrared precipitation estimation using convolutional neural network for FengYun satellites48
Sources and compositional characterization of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in a Hainan tropical mangrove-estuary48
Runoff predictions in ungauged basins using sequence-to-sequence models48
Dispersion and recovery of solutes and heat under cyclic radial advection48
Seasonal and spatial variations of water recharging in the Yangtze River using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes48
Incorporating rain-on-snow into the SWAT model results in more accurate simulations of hydrologic extremes47
Rainfall estimation from surface soil moisture using SM2RAIN in cold mountainous areas47
Comparing spatial and temporal scales of hydrologic model parameter transfer: A guide to four climates of Iran47
Spatiotemporal variability of ecosystem water use efficiency in northern Ethiopia during 1982–201447
Improving the efficiency of in situ uranium leaching (remediation) with periodic injection and extraction: Insight from reactive transport modeling and field test47
Rainfall extremes on the rise: Observations during 1951–2020 and bias-corrected CMIP6 projections for near- and late 21st century over Indian landmass47
Prediction of river discharges at confluences based on Entropy theory and surface-velocity measurements47
Deciphering the hydroclimatic significance of dripwater δ13CDIC variations in monsoonal China based on modern cave monitoring47
An integrated framework for simultaneously modeling primary and secondary salinity at a watershed scale46
Assessing a transitional and turbulent overland flow resistance law for surfaces with different roughness46
Analyzing urban form influence on pluvial flooding via numerical experiments using random slices of actual city data46
Accelerated glacier mass loss with atmospheric changes on Mt. Yulong, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau46
An inverse-problem approach to detect outliers in rainfall measurements of ground gauges for robust reservoir flood control operation46
Processing pathways of organic matter under methanogenic conditions and its influence on arsenic mobilization in aquifers46
A WRF/WRF-Hydro coupling system with an improved structure for rainfall-runoff simulation with mixed runoff generation mechanism46
Two-stage meta-ensembling machine learning model for enhanced water quality forecasting46
Enhancing streamflow predictions with machine learning and Copula-Embedded Bayesian model averaging46
Theory of transient confined-unconfined flow in a confined aquifer considering delayed responses of water table46
Unravelling the influence of teleconnection patterns on monsoon extreme precipitation indices over the Sikkim Himalayas and West Bengal46
Changes in the surface and atmospheric water budget due to projected Amazon deforestation: Lessons from a fully coupled model simulation46
The influence of rainfall interception on the erosive power of raindrops under the birch tree46
Temporal shift of hydroclimatic regime and its influence on migration of a high latitude meandering river46
Deep dive into predictive excellence: Transformer's impact on groundwater level prediction46
Spatial and seasonal variations of carbon emissions in an urban lake: Flux sensitivity and sampling optimization based on high-resolution measurements46
Developing an integrated investment decision-support framework for water-sensitive urban design projects45
Predicting the hydraulic conductivity of frozen coarse-grained soils45
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