Hydrological models represent water movement in natural systems, and they are important for water resource planning and ...

When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect infrastructure and communities from 50- and 100-year floods. But as climate change ...

Southeast Alaska represents a highly variable hydrologic environment. Headwaters are dominated by alpine glaciers and larger river basins envelop significant glacier area. Daily estimates of ...

Floods account for up to 40% of weather-related disasters worldwide, and their frequency has more than doubled since 2000, according to a recent report from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk ...

While some parts of the world suffer extreme heat and persistent drought, others are being flooded. Overall, continental water volumes vary so much over time that global sea levels fluctuate ...

This study employs advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) and Dynamic Topic Modeling to quantitatively analyze nearly 290,000 ...

In many countries, hydropower provides a dominant share of the electricity supply. This dependence brings environmental ...

Process-based hydrologic models are valuable tools to understand physical mechanism of hydrologic impact under climate change. However, such models require extensive meteorological forcing data, ...

In hydro-dependent power systems, water availability varies due to droughts and climate variability, increasing the risk of ...

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