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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Publisher’s note258
What is the current state and potential for hydrologic models to simulate vegetation dynamically?226
Evaluating and modeling rill detachment and resistance in different rates and particle sizes of biochar application on the Loess Plateau of China214
Simulating vertical soil nitrate migration induced by freeze–thaw cycles205
Flood control in transboundary river basins through joint operation of key riparian reservoirs190
Editorial Board171
DFEAT: A multifaceted yearly Drought FEature Assessment Tool from daily soil water content152
An integrated approach to obtain high-precision regional root water uptake maps139
A method for modeling the lateral distributions of depth-averaged velocities behind an emergent vegetation patch135
Automated calibration of Noah-MP land surface model for improved irrigation representation in the North China Plain133
The impact of complex terrain on urban flood resilience under extreme rainfall events125
A novel rapid flood mapping model based on social media and GF-3 satellite imagery125
Exploring the influence of training sampling strategies on time-series deep learning model in hydrology124
Forecasting regional water demand using multi-fidelity data and harris hawks optimization of generalized regression neural network models – A case study of Heilongjiang Province, China123
Contrasting effects of increasing irrigation efficiency on hydrological drought based on hydrological scenario simulations120
Stable isotope composition of surface waters across the Pamir, Central Asia: Implications of precipitation seasonality116
Merging Landsat and airborne LiDAR observations for continuous monitoring of floodplain water extent, depth and volume115
Modeling the effects of vegetation dynamics on the hydrological performance of a bioretention system114
A model for predicting permeability evolution of organic-contaminated clays capturing corrosion effect113
Seawater intrusion in river delta systems. Inter-annual dynamics and drivers of salinity variations in the southern Mekong Delta, Vietnam111
Integrating Landsat and MODIS data to assess long-term inundation patterns and vegetation response in wetland ecosystems111
Dissolved inorganic carbon export from rivers of Great Britain: Spatial distribution and potential catchment-scale controls109
Pay-for-practice or Pay-for-performance? A coupled agent-based evaluation tool for assessing sediment management incentive policies108
A physically-informed long short-term memory-based tool for predicting extensive droughts in the distant future104
Source identification of groundwater phosphorus under different geological settings in the central Yangtze River basin103
A low-cost model for slug tests in a confined aquifer with skin-zone effect101
High-dimensional inverse modeling of hydraulic tomography by physics informed neural network (HT-PINN)99
A framework for identifying propagation from meteorological to ecological drought events99
Evaluation of cloud seeding on the securement of additional water resources in the Boryeong Dam Basin, Korea98
Ecohydrological implications of the variability of soil hydrophysical properties between two Sphagnum moss microforms and the impact of different sample heights98
Machine learning unravels controls on river water temperature regime dynamics97
A novel Bayesian maximum entropy-based approach for optimal design of water quality monitoring networks in rivers97
Integrating hydraulic profiling tool pressure logs and hydraulic tomography for improved high-resolution characterization of subsurface heterogeneity96
Evaluating the effects of water exchange between surface rivers and karst aquifers on surface flood simulations at different watershed scales95
Enrichment mechanisms of lithium for the geothermal springs in the southern Tibet, China95
Heavy metals in the water-level-fluctuation zone soil of the three Gorges Reservoir, China: Remobilization and catchment-wide transportation93
Uncertainties in discharge predictions based on microwave link rainfall estimates in a small urban catchment92
Assessing bed shear stress effects on flow resistance of vegetated channel beds through Leaf Area Index (92
Prediction of flood risk levels of urban flooded points though using machine learning with unbalanced data92
Future hydrological drought changes over the upper Yellow River basin: The role of climate change, land cover change and reservoir operation91
Permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau is degrading: Historical and projected trends91
A new approach of coupled long-range forecasts for streamflow and groundwater level91
Application of weather post-processing methods for operational ensemble hydrological forecasting on multiple catchments in Canada90
Developing a cost-effective emulator for groundwater flow modeling using deep neural operators89
Verifying model performance using validation of Pareto solutions89
Multiscale gravity measurements to characterize 2020 flood events and their spatio-temporal evolution in Yangtze river of China87
An integrated study of the spatiotemporal character, pollution assessment, and migration mechanism of heavy metals in the groundwater of a subtropical mangrove wetland87
Assimilation of surface reflectance in snow simulations: Impact on bulk snow variables86
Improved non-stationary SPEI and its application in drought monitoring in China86
Assessing the potential of temperature/vegetation index space to infer soil moisture over Ganga Basin86
Improved soil moisture estimation and detection of irrigation signal by incorporating SMAP soil moisture into the Indian Land Data Assimilation System (ILDAS)85
Real-time integrated water availability – Salt intrusion modelling and management during droughts81
Predicting multiphase flow behavior of methane in shallow unconfined aquifers using conditional deep convolutional generative adversarial network81
Contribution of summer net precipitation to winter river discharge in permafrost zone of the Lena River basin80
Local scour around bridge abutments: Assessment of accuracy and conservatism79
Near-infrared surveillance video-based rain gauge78
Differences in watershed evaporation indicated by hydrogen and oxygen single and dual isotopes: Evidence from controlled simulation tests under different land uses78
Characterizing soil water content variability across spatial scales from optimized high-resolution distributed temperature sensing technique77
Divergent nonlinear trends of global drought and its multivariate characteristics77
Inter-comparison and integration of different soil moisture downscaling methods over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau77
Predicting the interrill erosion rate on hillslopes incorporating soil aggregate stability on the Loess Plateau of China77
Daily suspended sediment concentration forecast in the upper reach of Yellow River using a comprehensive integrated deep learning model77
The importance of incorporating rain intensity profiles in rainfall simulation studies of infiltration, runoff production, soil erosion, and related landsurface processes76
The intercomparison of six 0.1°×0.1° spatial resolution evapotranspiration products across mainland China75
Evaluation of spatial downscaling for satellite retrieval of evapotranspiration from the nonparametric approach in an arid area75
Improved identification and monitoring of meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological droughts using the modified nonstationary drought indices in the Yellow River Basin of China75
Untangling the effects of climate change and land use/cover change on spatiotemporal variation of evapotranspiration over China75
Hydro-climatological drivers of the unprecedented flooding in August 2022 along the Tarim River, China75
New framework for nonpoint source pollution management based on downscaling priority management areas74
Environmental changes promoted vegetation growth and reduced water yield over the temperate semi-arid grassland of China during 1901–201674
Scenario analysis of local storylines to represent uncertainty in complex human-water systems74
Controls on the stable isotope composition of daily precipitation in Sydney Australia: 9 years of daily data, including Radon-22274
Fuzzy composite risk assessment of water-energy-food-carbon nexus in the dispark pumped irrigation system74
Assessing the long-term hydrologic responses of river catchments in Taiwan using a multiple-component hydrograph approach73
Miscellaneous methods for determination of unfrozen water content in frozen soils73
Subtropical mangroves poleward shift to the Yangtze Estuary under different carbon emission scenarios73
Rare bacterial taxa drive the ecosystem multifunctionality in lake water-level-fluctuating zone during seasonal water level fluctuations73
Revealing aquifer responses to glaciations using residential water-well data72
Quantification of solute transport in a fracture-matrix system using geoelectrical monitoring72
A time-varying autoregressive model for groundwater depth prediction72
Combining 14CDOC and 81Kr with hydrochemical data to identify recharge processes in the South German Molasse Basin72
Using biodiversity response for prioritizing participants and service provisions in a payment-for-water-storage program in the Everglades basin71
Patterns of long-term variations of nitrate concentration – Stream discharge relationships for a drained agricultural watershed in Mid-western USA71
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Identifying the influence of episodic events on groundwater recharge in semi-arid environments using environmental tracers70
Increasingly frequent co-occurrence of drought or pluvial in multiple tributaries of the Yangtze River basin70
Weathered bedrock converts hydrological processes in loess hilly-gully critical zone69
Characterization of periods of high and low hydrological activity in the Loire River, France, between the 14th and mid-19th centuries69
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Investigating multiple causes of time-varying SMAP soil moisture biases based on core validation sites data69
Error modeling and hierarchical Bayesian fusion for spaceborne and ground radar rainfall data68
An improved sharp interface model for characterizing the transport and extraction of subsurface LNAPL68
Improved estimation of extreme floods with data pooling and mixed probability distribution67
Corrigendum to “Development and evaluation of temperature-induced variable source area runoff generation model” [J. Hydrol. 610 (2022) 127894]67
Using tritium and radiocarbon activities to constrain regional modern and fossil groundwater mixing in Southern Africa67
Pore-scale observations of CO2 thermodynamic properties and dissolution trapping in porous media67
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 earthquake67
Optimizing groundwater radium end-members in submarine groundwater discharge estimation by incorporating groundwater flow information67
U-RNN high-resolution spatiotemporal nowcasting of urban flooding67
Unsupervised anomaly detection in hourly water demand data using an asymmetric encoder–decoder model67
A comparative study of physics-informed neural network strategies for modeling water and nitrogen transport in unsaturated soils66
High-resolution snow water equivalent estimation derived from downscaled snow depth and non-constant snow density in Chinese Altai Mountains66
Unraveling the nexus: exploring river-groundwater interaction as the primary driver of eutrophication in river ecosystems66
Effects of multi-year droughts on the precipitation-runoff relationship: An integrated analysis of meteorological, hydrological, and compound droughts66
Dominant factors determining the hydraulic conductivity of sedimentary aquitards: A random forest approach66
Image analysis technique for quantifying fluorescein concentration profiles in clays65
Potential of ground-penetrating radar to calibrate electromagnetic induction for shallow soil water content estimation65
A novel efficient and robust treatment of the friction source term in 2D shallow water inundation models65
A novel semi-numerical infiltration model combining conceptual and physically based approaches65
Unraveling atmospheric moisture transport linkages to extreme precipitation events and associated synoptic features over India64
Investigating the effects of spatial heterogeneity of multi-source profile soil moisture on spatial–temporal processes of high-resolution floods64
Field, plant, to leaf: A meta-analysis on crop water use efficiency response to potassium fertilization64
Evolution of spatiotemporal variations in snow in the Tianshan Mountains and Pamir, Central Asia: An investigation by historical and projected dynamic downscaling simulations63
Improving terrestrial evapotranspiration estimation using physics-guided machine learning model driven by solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence63
Machine learning-assisted check dam planning on the Chinese Loess Plateau63
Stream restoration strategies often designed to perform in baseflow may be ineffective in stormflow regarding nonpoint pollution abatement63
The subreach effect: Multi-scale analysis reveals climate and irrigation infrastructure effects on flow intermittency in a regulated desert river63
Manifold embedding in geostatistical inversion: Redefining optimality in subsurface characterization63
Critical source areas identification and reduction plan of non-point source pollution in a typical community in a plain river network city, China62
Energy conversion for water surface evaporation in evaporation ponds with different depths and improvement of Dalton model62
Enrichment effects of vegetation patches on soil water content depend on precipitation and vegetation conditions: A global meta-analysis62
Impact analysis of short-term heavy rainfall on eolian sand slope stability by visualized experiments62
Improving daily precipitation estimation in the data scarce area by merging rain gauge and TRMM data with a transfer learning framework62
A regional assessment of the operational National Water Model in the San Francisco Bay area for the 2018–2019 water year62
Influence of meteorological elements and inflow pollution loads on cyanobacterial blooms trends: An integrated environmental fluid dynamics code model and comprehensive trend detection method62
Multi-layer flow field mapping in a small-scale shallow water reservoir by coastal acoustic tomography61
Seasonal wet–dry transition and denitrifying communities contributed to nitrous oxide emissions in the water-level fluctuating zone of the largest freshwater lake in China61
A runoff prediction approach based on machine learning, ensemble forecasting and error correction: A case study of source area of Yellow River61
Modified Kozeny-Carman equation for estimating hydraulic conductivity in nanoscale pores of clayey soils with active surfaces61
Characteristics of water vapor isotopes and moisture sources for short-duration heavy rainfall events in Nanjing, eastern China61
Improved subsurface soil moisture prediction from surface soil moisture through the integration of the (de)coupling effect61
Impact of Three Gorges Dam construction on spatiotemporal variations in the hydrodynamic regime of Poyang Lake (China)61
Examining the performance of precipitation products in characterizing the Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) using triple collocation61
Model-based evaluation of reduction strategies for point and nonpoint source Cd pollution in a large river system60
A new probability-embodied model for simulating variable contributing areas and hydrologic processes dominated by surface depressions60
Predicting future well performance for environmental remediation design using deep learning60
Repeating patterns in runoff time series: A basis for exploring hydrologic similarity of precipitation and catchment wetness conditions60
Hydrogeochemical analysis and paleo-hydrogeological modeling of shallow groundwater salinization processes in North China Plain60
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 dimensions60
A formula for quantifying the overflow discharge capacity of street inlet in a surcharged urban drainage system59
Unveiling an Environmental Drought Index and its applicability in the perspective of drought recognition amidst climate change59
Investigation of rainfall disaggregation with flexible timescales based on point process models59
Field experiment on the spatiotemporal evolution of soil moisture in a rainfall-induced loess landslide: Implications for early warning59
Investigating flood processes in karst catchments by combining concentration-discharge relationship analysis and lateral flow simulation59
Assessing the influence of green stormwater infrastructure implemented for combined sewer overflow control on urban streamflows59
Partitioning evapotranspiration in a tallgrass prairie using micrometeorological and water use efficiency approaches under contrasting rainfall regimes59
Large-scale atmospheric teleconnections and spatiotemporal variability of extreme rainfall indices across India59
Characterizing nitrogen dynamics and their response to sediment dredging in a lowland rural river59
An integrated distributed robust optimization framework for agricultural water-food-energy management integrating ecological impact and dynamic water cycle processes59
Evaluation of the benefits of improved permeability estimation on high-resolution characterization of DNAPL distribution in aquifers with low-permeability lenses59
TPE-CatBoost: An adaptive model for soil moisture spatial estimation in the main maize-producing areas of China with multiple environment covariates58
A superior soil–water characteristic curve for correcting the Arya-Paris model based on particle size distribution58
Towards more accurate estimation of methane emissions from urban lakes: Unraveling the impact of diel variation58
Transport and retention of nanobubbles in saturated porous media: Overlooked role of grain size and shape58
A transition zone boundary determining method based on MIKE21: A case study of Baiyangdian Lake, North China58
Direct, geodetic and simulated mass balance studies of the Kolahoi Glacier in the Kashmir Himalaya, India58
Quantifying changes and trends of NO3 concentrations and concentration-discharge relationships in a complex, heavily managed, drought-sensitive river system58
Evaluation of ECOSTRESS evapotranspiration estimates over heterogeneous landscapes in the continental US58
Effects of multiple future environmental changes on flooding in coastal area: Case study in Qianshan River Basin, South China58
Multiscale fractures integrated equivalent porous media method for simulating flow and solute transport in fracture-matrix system58
Hydrogeochemical processes of critical zone developed in Tégulines Clay, Paris Basin: Hydrogeochemical and multi-isotopic approach (δ13C, δD, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr and 14C)57
Effects of rainfall on the karst-related carbon cycle due to carbonate rock weathering induced by H2SO4 and/or HNO357
Combining signal decomposition and deep learning model to predict noisy runoff coefficient57
Temporal dynamics and potential driving mechanisms of bacterioplankton communities in lake ecosystems: Insights from water diversion events57
Assessing compound flood hazards in the Pearl river Delta: A Scenario-Based Integration of trivariate fluvial conditions and extreme storm events57
Enhanced submarine groundwater discharge and freshening of a subterranean estuary from rain57
Quantifying the superimposed effects of drought-flood abrupt alternation stress on vegetation dynamics of the Wei River Basin in China56
Hydrogeochemical characteristics and processes of groundwater in an over 2260 year irrigation district: A comparison between irrigated and nonirrigated areas56
Investigating different timescales of terrestrial water storage changes in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau56
Hydrological response to land use change under low carbon- optimal economic scenario56
Satellite-informed simulation of irrigation in South Asia: Opportunities and uncertainties56
EKLT: Kolmogorov-Arnold attention-driven LSTM with Transformer model for river water level prediction56
Modeling competitive-cooperative relationship between flood control and hydropower generation within hierarchical gaming structure of reservoir operation55
Geographic heterogeneity of activation functions in urban real-time flood forecasting: Based on seasonal trend decomposition using Loess-Temporal Convolutional Network-Gated Recurrent Unit model55
Water diplomacy paths – An approach to recognise water diplomacy actions in shared waters55
Assessment of spatiotemporal trend of precipitation indices and meteorological drought characteristics in the Mahi River basin, India55
Combining a statistical model with machine learning to predict groundwater flooding (or infiltration) into sewer networks55
Nutritional status of the reservoir tributary backwater area and implications for nutrient control55
Hydrogeochemical and health implications of rare earth elements in groundwater: A review55
Spatio-temporal variations in global surface soil moisture based on multiple datasets: Intercomparison and climate drivers54
Urban flood modeling and forecasting with deep neural operator and transfer learning54
Reconstruction of continuous GRACE/GRACE-FO terrestrial water storage anomalies based on time series decomposition54
Identification of compound flood-heatwave extremes in the Yangtze River Basin and their socio-economic exposure54
An integrated approach for reducing spatially coupled water-shortage risks of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration in China54
Spatiotemporal characteristics of agricultural droughts based on soil moisture data in Inner Mongolia from 1981 to 201954
Divergent rainfall infiltration patterns on the Chinese Loess Plateau between growing and non-growing seasons after long-term revegetation54
Deep learning in hydrology and water resources disciplines: concepts, methods, applications, and research directions54
Assessing the characteristics of recent drought events in South Korea using WRF-Hydro54
A composite drought index developed for detecting large-scale drought characteristics54
Prediction of estuarine water quality using interpretable machine learning approach53
Error characterization of global land evapotranspiration products: Collocation-based approach53
Evaluating the use of structure-from-motion photogrammetry to monitor eroding banks of the black vermillion river in northeast Kansas53
Assessment of water policies contributions for sustainable water resources management under climate change scenarios53
Evaluating the applicability of the generalized power-law rating curve model53
Evaluation of NASA POWER and ERA5-Land for estimating tropical precipitation and temperature extremes53
An integrative analytical framework of water-energy-food security for sustainable development at the country scale: A case study of five Central Asian countries53
Estimation of water required to recover from agricultural drought: Perspective from regression and probabilistic analysis methods53
Numerical evaluation of photosensitive tracers as a strategy for separating surface and subsurface transient storage in streams53
Quantifying uncertainty in groundwater recharge due to spatiotemporal rainfall and temporal evapotranspiration variability52
Corrigendum to “Intensifying heatwave events affect snow phenology over the Tibetan Plateau” [J. Hydrol. 659 (2025) 133293]52
Greenhouse gases, organic carbon, major and trace elements in ultra-small water bodies (<100 m2) of permafrost peatlands: Assessment across seasons and permafrost gradient52
A simple analytical method to estimate runoff generation and accumulation52
Causes for overestimation of the moisture recycling in an alpine meadow ecosystem of the Shule River Basin, Tibetan Plateau, China52
Low hyporheic denitrification in headwater streams revealed by nutrient injections and in situ gas measurements52
An integrated framework for simultaneously modeling primary and secondary salinity at a watershed scale52
Theory of transient confined-unconfined flow in a confined aquifer considering delayed responses of water table52
Derivation of spatially detailed lentic habitat map and inventory at a basin scale by integrating multispectral Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and USGS Digital Elevation Models51
Parametrization and model development for simulating redox reactions related to degradation of natural organic matter in managed aquifer recharge51
Impacts of dams on fish habitat connectivity greatly outweigh climate change in the Jinsha river basin, China51
Leveraging multi-source satellite imagery for improving daily reservoir water storage and inflow estimation in a catchment hydrological model51
Dynamic succession of bacterioplankton communities in Changjiang (Yangtze River) estuary, China from a hydrodynamic perspective51
Climatic a priori information for the GEV distribution’s shape parameter of annual maximum flow series51
DRSTF: A hybrid-approach framework for reservoir water temperature forecasting considering operation response50
Corrigendum to “Enhancing Hydro-climatic and land parameter forecasting using Transformer networks” [J. Hydrol. 655 (2025) 132906]50
Evaluation of multiple gridded snowfall datasets using gauge observations over high mountain Asia50
How different soil surface treatments in urban areas affect soil pore structure and associated soil properties and processes50
Parsimonious streamflow forecasting system based on a dynamical systems approach50
Refining snow-streamflow dynamics in a Tibetan Plateau basin by incorporating snow depth and topography50
Time-guided convolutional neural networks for spatiotemporal urban flood modelling50
How the choice of model calibration procedure affects projections of lake surface water temperatures for future climatic conditions50
A framework for space–time modelling of rainfall events for hydrological applications of weather radar49
A cellular automata model for dynamically describing the overland flow and sediment transport49
A modified approach to determine mean sediment load and related discharge indices for suspended sediment transport49
Understanding groundwater storage and drainage dynamics of a high mountain catchment with complex geology using a semi-distributed process-based modelling approach49
Temporal shift of hydroclimatic regime and its influence on migration of a high latitude meandering river49
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Simultaneous identification of a non-point contaminant source with Gaussian spatially distributed release and heterogeneous hydraulic conductivity in an aquifer using the LES-MDA method49
The impact of heterogeneity at various spatial locations on dune-induced hyporheic exchange49
A WRF/WRF-Hydro coupling system with an improved structure for rainfall-runoff simulation with mixed runoff generation mechanism48
A thermodynamics-based coupled model for multi-phase flowback in deformable dual-porosity shale gas reservoirs48
Characterizing reservoir boundaries using the shallow strain tensor measured during well tests48
Stochastic simulation and characteristic dependence analysis of urban short-duration rainstorms48
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Seasonal variation and controlling factors of evapotranspiration over a “floating blanket” wetland in southwest China48
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Gully transforms the loss pattern of runoff, sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus in agricultural catchment of Northeast China48
Using knowledge graph and RippleNet algorithms to fulfill smart recommendation of water use policies during shale resources development48
A real-time monitoring temperature-dependent risk index for predicting mine water inrush from collapse columns through a coupled thermal–hydraulic-mechanical model48
Unravelling the influence of teleconnection patterns on monsoon extreme precipitation indices over the Sikkim Himalayas and West Bengal48
Integral delay inspired deep learning model for single pool water level prediction48
Response of nitrogen removal performance of bioretention cells to rainfall based on Chicago method48
Investigation of the gridded flash flood Guidance in a Peri-Urban basin in greater Athens area, Greece48
An integrated hydrodynamic and multicriteria evaluation Cellular Automata–Markov model to assess the effects of a water resource project on waterbird habitat in wetlands47
Corrigendum to: “Monitoring irrigation using landsat observations and climate data over regional scales in the Murray-Darling Basin” [J. Hydrol. 590 (2020) 125356]47
Impacts of GCM credibility on hydropower production robustness under climate change: CMIP5 vs CMIP647
Towards the continuous monitoring of the extreme events through satellite radar altimetry observations47
Machine learning predictions of mean ages of shallow well samples in the Great Lakes Basin, USA47
On the tensorial nature of the hydraulic aperture of rough fractures47
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