hydrology

Over time, rivers naturally curve and meander. As water accelerates around a river bend’s curve, it creates a secondary flow that carves sediment away from the outer bank and deposits it on the inner one. That, in turn, makes the river bend sharper until it eventually cuts part of the river off into an oxbow […]

_Frontier Energy System and Power Engineering_ 8 (1):1-12. 2026Water is an essential resource for domestic, agricultural and industrial activities, especially in areas where surface water supply is scarce. But growing population, climate change and inadequate subsurface information has resulted in borehole failures and ineHicient use of groundwater resources in places like Obukpa watershed, Enugu…

Scientific Data, Published online: 02 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07352-7 Caravan-Qual: A global scale integration of stream water quality observations into a large-sample hydrology dataset

Flow and Turbulence Due To Wood Contribute to Declogging of Gravel Bed Schalko, I; Ponce, M; Lassar, S; Schwindt, S; Haun, S; Nepf, H The placement of wood in rivers is a common restoration method used to locally affect hydraulic and morphologic conditions to create habitat. Laboratory experiments demonstrated that wood placements can also promote surface declogging, that is, removal of fine sedi…

Scott DeNeale studies in-conduit hydropower, a type of largely unutilized energy production that harnesses the water flowing through water pipes in municipal settings and industrial plants to make energy, no dam required.

Current theories of saturation-excess and infiltration-excess runoff fail to comprehensively and accurately elucidate the intricate runoff generation process in the Loess Plateau. It is imperative to examine the impact of preferred flow and plug flow on river runoff dynamics. This study elucidated the structural composition of runoff components by examining the literature on runoff formation mech…

Three-dimensional modeling of canopy tree interception of wind-driven rainfallHerwitz, S., and R. E. Slye (1995), Three-dimensional modeling of canopy tree interception of wind-driven rainfall, J. of Hydrology, 168, 205–226. Global patterns of carbon dioxide emissions from soilsRaich, J. W., and C. Potter (1995), Global patterns of carbon dioxide emissions from soils, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 9…

Floods have become more unpredictable and erratic due to the influence of extreme hydroclimatic events. Therefore, obtaining near-real-time, accurate flood inundation maps for such events is essential for effective flood emergency response, which can be achieved by leveraging remotely sensed data. This study integrated high-resolution remote sensing data to enhance flood inundation mapping in a d…

Google’s local water consumption around its The Dalles, Ore., data center jumped 26% in 2005. Credit: Google Earth

A practical Journal of Hydrology submission guide for hydrology researchers evaluating their work against the journal's process-understanding bar.

Scientific Reports, Published online: 27 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-49028-7 Improving streamflow predictions in data-scarce nested basins through residual transfer and post-processing

Scientific Reports, Published online: 27 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-50568-1 Comparison of GRNN-MC and RF models for predicting soil hydrogeological and geotechnical profile using borehole data

A Florida State University researcher has earned a major grant to research local waterways that affect the everyday lives of Tallahassee residents. Ming Ye, a professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, has been awarded more than $2.5 million from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to research groundwater sources in the Wakulla Springs basin and map the ba…

Speaker/Affiliation: Zach Perzan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Title: Integrating Hydrogeophysics and Hydrologic Modeling to Understand Groundwater Recharge Processes Across Scales When: Wednesday, April 29th 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: Effective subsurface characterization is essential for addressing diverse environmental challenges, from remediating contaminated aqui…

Speaker/Affiliation: Zach Perzan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Title: Integrating Hydrogeophysics and Hydrologic Modeling to Understand Groundwater Recharge Processes Across Scales When: Wednesday, April 29th 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: Effective subsurface characterization is essential for addressing diverse environmental challenges, from remediating contaminated aqui…

This study reconstructs the fluvial dynamics of the Bras de Fer distributary in the Rhône Delta (France) during the Little Ice Age (LIA) in response to short-term climatic forcing. A multiproxy approach combining historical cartography, sedimentology, geochemistry, magnetic susceptibility, and hydrological archives reveals accelerated meander migration and extensive overbank accretion between the…

The Department of Defense, under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), recently announced the award of $43 million across 64 universities to purchase equipment for defense-related research. The University of Notre Dame Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory is one of those…

This study presents the first application of gamma quantile mapping to bias-correct ensemble precipitation forecasts from seven global NWP models (ECMWF, NCEP, UKMO, CMA, JMA, ECCC, NCMRWF) in the data-scarce Saliyan Basin, Iran. The integration of these models with advanced bias correction techniques significantly improves flood forecasting accuracy. To address systematic biases in the raw forec…

Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Can Capture Dynamics Relevant to Plant Water Uptake Feldman, Andrew F; Short Gianotti, Daniel J; Dong, Jianzhi; Akbar, Ruzbeh; Crow, Wade T; McColl, Kaighin A; Konings, Alexandra G; Nippert, Jesse B; Tumber‐Dávila, Shersingh Joseph; Holbrook, Noel M; Rockwell, Fulton E; Scott, Russell L; Reichle, Rolf H; Chatterjee, Abhishek; Joiner, Joanna; Poulter, Benjamin; Entekh…

Deep beneath the Grand Canyon’s rugged surface, scientists have stumbled upon something they didn’t expect. Hidden from view, a complex underground world is quietly shaping the landscape above.