A review of hydrologic signatures and their applications

HK McMillan - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrologic signatures are quantitative metrics or indices that describe statistical or
dynamical properties of hydrologic data series, primarily streamflow. Hydrologic signatures …

Understanding heavy tails of flood peak distributions

B Merz, S Basso, S Fischer, D Lun… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical distributions of flood peak discharge often show heavy tail behavior, that is,
extreme floods are more likely to occur than would be predicted by commonly used …

Enhancing streamflow forecast and extracting insights using long‐short term memory networks with data integration at continental scales

D Feng, K Fang, C Shen - Water Resources Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent observations with varied schedules and types (moving average, snapshot, or
regularly spaced) can help to improve streamflow forecasts, but it is challenging to integrate …

The CAMELS data set: catchment attributes and meteorology for large-sample studies

N Addor, AJ Newman, N Mizukami… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
We present a new data set of attributes for 671 catchments in the contiguous United States
(CONUS) minimally impacted by human activities. This complements the daily time series of …

A novel attention-based LSTM cell post-processor coupled with bayesian optimization for streamflow prediction

B Alizadeh, AG Bafti, H Kamangir, Y Zhang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Streamflow forecasting is critical for real-time water resources management and flood early
warning. In this study, we introduce a novel attention-based Long-Short Term Memory …

[HTML][HTML] The CAMELS-CL dataset: catchment attributes and meteorology for large sample studies–Chile dataset

C Alvarez-Garreton, PA Mendoza… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
We introduce the first catchment dataset for large sample studies in Chile. This dataset
includes 516 catchments; it covers particularly wide latitude (17.8 to 55.0∘ S) and elevation …

Dominant flood generating mechanisms across the United States

WR Berghuijs, RA Woods, CJ Hutton… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
River flooding can have severe societal, economic, and environmental consequences.
However, limited understanding of the regional differences in flood‐generating mechanisms …

A ranking of hydrological signatures based on their predictability in space

N Addor, G Nearing, C Prieto… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrological signatures are now used for a wide range of purposes, including catchment
classification, process exploration, and hydrological model calibration. The recent boost in …

A brief analysis of conceptual model structure uncertainty using 36 models and 559 catchments

WJM Knoben, JE Freer, MC Peel… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The choice of hydrological model structure, that is, a model's selection of states and fluxes
and the equations used to describe them, strongly controls model performance and realism …

Determining the hydrological responses to climate variability and land use/cover change in the Loess Plateau with the Budyko framework

G Gao, B Fu, S Wang, W Liang, X Jiang - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Understanding and quantifying the impacts of land use/cover change and climate variability
on hydrological responses are important to the design of water resources and land use …