Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-24DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106895
Wenyu Ouyang , Shuolong Xu , Yikai Chai , Laihong Zhuang , Zhihong Liu , Lei Ye , Xinzhuo Wu , Yong Peng , Chi Zhang
This study introduces a Python-based framework for constructing differentiable hydrological models with a modular design to streamline research workflows. The framework integrates five key modules: hydrodataset and hydrodatasource for data preprocessing, hydromodel and torchhydro for traditional and differentiable modeling, and HydroDHM for orchestrating integrated workflows. The data modules automate preparation of diverse datasets, including open-access and proprietary resources. Hydromodel supports process-based model calibration and evaluation, while torchhydro enables neural network integration for differentiable models. HydroDHM coordinates these components through a unified interface for configuring and executing end-to-end modeling pipelines. Case studies in CAMELS basins demonstrate that differentiable models achieve comparable streamflow simulation performance to traditional approaches. By decoupling data handling from model development and providing uv-installable (and pip-compatible) modules, the framework ensures reproducibility, scalability, and adaptability across diverse hydrological contexts.
{"title":"A python framework for differentiable hydrological modeling and research workflow automation","authors":"Wenyu Ouyang , Shuolong Xu , Yikai Chai , Laihong Zhuang , Zhihong Liu , Lei Ye , Xinzhuo Wu , Yong Peng , Chi Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106895","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106895","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study introduces a Python-based framework for constructing differentiable hydrological models with a modular design to streamline research workflows. The framework integrates five key modules: hydrodataset and hydrodatasource for data preprocessing, hydromodel and torchhydro for traditional and differentiable modeling, and HydroDHM for orchestrating integrated workflows. The data modules automate preparation of diverse datasets, including open-access and proprietary resources. Hydromodel supports process-based model calibration and evaluation, while torchhydro enables neural network integration for differentiable models. HydroDHM coordinates these components through a unified interface for configuring and executing end-to-end modeling pipelines. Case studies in CAMELS basins demonstrate that differentiable models achieve comparable streamflow simulation performance to traditional approaches. By decoupling data handling from model development and providing uv-installable (and pip-compatible) modules, the framework ensures reproducibility, scalability, and adaptability across diverse hydrological contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"198 ","pages":"Article 106895"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146047987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-24DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106896
Hyunwoo Kang , Cameron E. Naficy , Kevin D. Bladon
The 2020 Labor Day fires in the Western Cascades of Oregon, USA, burned extensive forested areas, which altered hydrologic processes, water quality, aquatic ecosystems, and drinking water resources. Understanding wildfire severity effects on hydrologic processes is crucial for improved water resource management. Our study assessed wildfire severity impacts on hydrology using a modified calibration method for the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model. Calibration incorporated evapotranspiration and leaf area index to represent vegetation loss and hydrologic impacts. We also integrated a wildfire module to simulate fire effects on soil and vegetation parameters. This improved modeling approach effectively captured post-fire hydrologic behavior, especially increased high streamflows and reduced evapotranspiration, with greater changes linked to higher burn severity. These findings emphasize the importance of considering fire severity in hydrologic modeling, aiding proactive management and mitigation strategies to protect water supply and enhance ecosystem resilience in wildfire-prone regions.
{"title":"Modeling hydrologic response to wildfires in the Pacific Northwest with a modified calibration technique","authors":"Hyunwoo Kang , Cameron E. Naficy , Kevin D. Bladon","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The 2020 Labor Day fires in the Western Cascades of Oregon, USA, burned extensive forested areas, which altered hydrologic processes, water quality, aquatic ecosystems, and drinking water resources. Understanding wildfire severity effects on hydrologic processes is crucial for improved water resource management. Our study assessed wildfire severity impacts on hydrology using a modified calibration method for the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model. Calibration incorporated evapotranspiration and leaf area index to represent vegetation loss and hydrologic impacts. We also integrated a wildfire module to simulate fire effects on soil and vegetation parameters. This improved modeling approach effectively captured post-fire hydrologic behavior, especially increased high streamflows and reduced evapotranspiration, with greater changes linked to higher burn severity. These findings emphasize the importance of considering fire severity in hydrologic modeling, aiding proactive management and mitigation strategies to protect water supply and enhance ecosystem resilience in wildfire-prone regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"198 ","pages":"Article 106896"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146047988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106908
Dany A. Hernandez , Jorge A. Guzman , Sandra R. Villamizar , Maria L. Chu , Camila Ribeiro , Carlos R. de Mello
This study addresses how spatial and temporal uncertainties in precipitation limit calibration of hydrological models. Adjusting model parameters alone cannot compensate for poorly represented precipitation at the model's lower resolution. A reanalysis framework that integrates traditional calibration with a stepwise precipitation back correction approach was introduced. Using a composite exponential error function, the method derives precipitation correction factors from mismatches between observed and simulated streamflow. The approach was tested with three hydrological models—SWAT, MIKE-SHE, and MHD—across watersheds in the United States and Brazil. The workflow involved an initial standard calibration, followed by iterative precipitation correction without altering model parameters, and a final recalibration incorporating the corrected precipitation. Results showed 10–18% improvements in KGE while maintaining PBIAS below 10% at most stations. The study highlights the value of constraining water balance to avoid unrealistic corrections and demonstrates how addressing precipitation uncertainties enhances model performance across diverse hydrological settings.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106838
Niels M. Welsch, Jord J. Warmink, Suzanne J.M.H. Hulscher, Denie C.M. Augustijn
Climate change affects river deltas worldwide. Hydrodynamic models are used to study these effects. However, choosing the spatial scale and boundary conditions for these models is complex due to interconnectivity within river deltas. We study how boundary conditions of a model covering only part of such systems are impacted by changing conditions outside of the domain. We couple different components of the Dutch river delta into a model covering the complete delta, and force it with a range of river discharges and sea levels. Results show that the impact depends on the distance to the boundaries, as well as the relative (upstream) discharge in the considered rivers. As these differences are found to propagate far upstream, these findings underline the importance of choosing appropriate downstream boundaries when modelling water levels in parts of interconnected systems influenced by changing conditions outside the modelled domain (e.g. sea level rise or changing hydrographs).
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106899
SangHyun Lee, Taeil Jang
Accurate and scalable water level forecasting is essential for effective water resources management, particularly in regions with limited long-term records. We present a clustering-based framework for one- and three-day-ahead water level prediction in the Saemangeum Watershed, South Korea. Twenty-five monitoring stations were grouped into six hydrologically similar clusters using k-means clustering with wavelet-entropy features. Within each cluster, multilayer perceptron (MLP) models were trained using two strategies: (1) training only at the centroid station and (2) training at the station with the longest record in each cluster. The longest-record strategy showed strong agreement with observations, achieving mean Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency and root-mean-square error values of 0.97 and 0.06 for one-day-ahead forecasts, and 0.83 and 0.14 for three-day-ahead forecasts across all stations. By training one MLP per cluster and transferring it to all member stations, the framework reduces computational cost and provides a practical solution for large-scale water level forecasting in data-scarce environments.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-12DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106874
Diksha Gupta, C.T. Dhanya
Triple collocation (TC) has been widely used to overcome the rarity of “ground truth” in geophysical measurements. While TC assumes all systems observe the same underlying geophysical variable, it does not inherently correct for spatial representativeness errors due to different spatial measurement systems. To address this, we propose the Spatially Representative Triple Collocation (SPAR-TC), which accounts for the spatial variability of the “ground truth” across different spatial scales. A synthetic soil moisture experiment assessed SPAR-TC sensitivity to spatial heterogeneity and sample size, followed by a real-world application with remotely sensed precipitation data. Results showed that SPAR-TC provides more reliable estimates of “true” error variance compared with traditional TC, especially in spatially heterogeneous regions. Both methods yield comparable dataset rankings; however, SPAR-TC provides error variance estimates more consistent with ground-based observations. Hence, SPAR-TC offers robust framework for addressing spatial representativeness errors and improves error quantification for datasets with differing spatial support.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106882
Mingzhuang Sun , Zhili Li , Guangtao Fu , Haifeng Jia
Water quality models often suffer from performance degradation due to parameter obsolescence caused by external environmental changes. To address this, this study proposes a novel framework named Analytical Data Assimilation via Phase-space Tuning (ADAPT). Unlike traditional data assimilation methods that directly update state variables, ADAPT dynamically calibrates model parameters by establishing a robust link between parameters and water quality dynamics using Aquaformer, a Transformer-based deep learning model driven by phase-space reconstruction. The method was validated through digital-twin and real-world experiments on the Diannong River, China. Results demonstrate that ADAPT significantly outperforms the Ensemble Kalman Filter, reducing prediction errors by 36.26 % at monitored sites and 54.66 % at unmonitored sites. ADAPT exhibits superior transferability and stable error control, effectively overcoming the limitations of traditional methods in spatial generalization. This study provides a reliable, physics-informed solution for high-frequency auto-calibration in smart water management systems.
{"title":"ADAPT: A novel IoT-driven analytical data assimilation method based on phase-space tuning for long-sequence water quality forecasting","authors":"Mingzhuang Sun , Zhili Li , Guangtao Fu , Haifeng Jia","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106882","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106882","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Water quality models often suffer from performance degradation due to parameter obsolescence caused by external environmental changes. To address this, this study proposes a novel framework named Analytical Data Assimilation via Phase-space Tuning (ADAPT). Unlike traditional data assimilation methods that directly update state variables, ADAPT dynamically calibrates model parameters by establishing a robust link between parameters and water quality dynamics using Aquaformer, a Transformer-based deep learning model driven by phase-space reconstruction. The method was validated through digital-twin and real-world experiments on the Diannong River, China. Results demonstrate that ADAPT significantly outperforms the Ensemble Kalman Filter, reducing prediction errors by 36.26 % at monitored sites and 54.66 % at unmonitored sites. ADAPT exhibits superior transferability and stable error control, effectively overcoming the limitations of traditional methods in spatial generalization. This study provides a reliable, physics-informed solution for high-frequency auto-calibration in smart water management systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"198 ","pages":"Article 106882"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146014634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106906
Lena Reimann , Dirk Eilander , Timothy Tiggeloven , Milana Vuckovic , Matti Kummu , Andrea Vajda , Jeremy S. Pal , Maurizio Mazzoleni , Fredrik Wetterhall , Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts
Climate risks are increasing globally due to climate change, driven by intensifying climate hazards and changes in socioeconomic conditions that drive exposure and vulnerability. Climate Risk Assessments (CRAs) constitute a tool to understand such risks based on the analysis of geospatial datasets. However, CRA data are often scattered across different platforms, thereby inhibiting their Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR). To make CRA data FAIR, we develop Climate Risk STAC, a living metadata catalog of open-access geospatial datasets that is hosted in a collaborative environment for continuous development. Climate Risk STAC (version 1.0) currently includes 214 metadata entries from nine different hazards, five types of exposed elements, and seven vulnerability categories. All data entries can be explored in a user-friendly browser which eases data selection. We encourage contributions of new datasets to maintain a growing, community-led catalog that reflects state-of-the-art CRA concepts and data.
{"title":"Climate Risk STAC: A living metadata catalog of geospatial data for climate risk assessments","authors":"Lena Reimann , Dirk Eilander , Timothy Tiggeloven , Milana Vuckovic , Matti Kummu , Andrea Vajda , Jeremy S. Pal , Maurizio Mazzoleni , Fredrik Wetterhall , Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106906","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106906","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate risks are increasing globally due to climate change, driven by intensifying climate hazards and changes in socioeconomic conditions that drive exposure and vulnerability. Climate Risk Assessments (CRAs) constitute a tool to understand such risks based on the analysis of geospatial datasets. However, CRA data are often scattered across different platforms, thereby inhibiting their Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR). To make CRA data FAIR, we develop Climate Risk STAC, a living metadata catalog of open-access geospatial datasets that is hosted in a collaborative environment for continuous development. Climate Risk STAC (version 1.0) currently includes 214 metadata entries from nine different hazards, five types of exposed elements, and seven vulnerability categories. All data entries can be explored in a user-friendly browser which eases data selection. We encourage contributions of new datasets to maintain a growing, community-led catalog that reflects state-of-the-art CRA concepts and data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"198 ","pages":"Article 106906"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106876
Dawei Xiao , Binjie Yuan , Zhengxu Guo , Wanhong Yang , Jingchao Jiang , Min Chen , Guonian Lv , Junzhi Liu
To address the growing risk of floods under global climate change, management agencies need flood inundation modeling to support decision-making and emergency response. However, traditional desktop-based modeling remains a complex and time-consuming process, making it difficult for users to perform rapid flood simulations. To overcome this limitation, this study developed a web-based rapid flood modeling tool based on the LISFLOOD-FP model. Each key step involved in the modeling process—such as data preparation, preprocessing, model run and calibration, and postprocessing— was encapsulated into an automated executable workflow. These workflows were deployed on servers, published as web services, and invoked from a web-based interface, significantly streamlining and simplifying the modeling process. Four flood events in the upper Missouri River Basin were successfully simulated to showcase the tool's capability. This user-friendly web-based tool enables users to conduct flood inundation modeling quickly, thereby lowering user barriers and facilitating timely flood risk mitigation.
{"title":"Development of a web-based tool for rapid flood inundation modeling","authors":"Dawei Xiao , Binjie Yuan , Zhengxu Guo , Wanhong Yang , Jingchao Jiang , Min Chen , Guonian Lv , Junzhi Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106876","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106876","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To address the growing risk of floods under global climate change, management agencies need flood inundation modeling to support decision-making and emergency response. However, traditional desktop-based modeling remains a complex and time-consuming process, making it difficult for users to perform rapid flood simulations. To overcome this limitation, this study developed a web-based rapid flood modeling tool based on the LISFLOOD-FP model. Each key step involved in the modeling process—such as data preparation, preprocessing, model run and calibration, and postprocessing— was encapsulated into an automated executable workflow. These workflows were deployed on servers, published as web services, and invoked from a web-based interface, significantly streamlining and simplifying the modeling process. Four flood events in the upper Missouri River Basin were successfully simulated to showcase the tool's capability. This user-friendly web-based tool enables users to conduct flood inundation modeling quickly, thereby lowering user barriers and facilitating timely flood risk mitigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"198 ","pages":"Article 106876"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145961785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-15DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106878
P. Reina-Jiménez , M.J. Jiménez-Navarro , G. Asencio-Cortés , F. Martínez-Álvarez , M. Martínez-Ballesteros
Air pollution is a growing threat, especially in low- and middle-income countries, causing over 4 million premature deaths annually. Ground-level ozone is a major concern, demanding accurate and interpretable prediction systems for effective public health management. However, existing time-series forecasting methods struggle to capture both linear and nonlinear dependencies in atmospheric data. This study introduces ResSelNet, a novel Residual Selection Network that integrates masked residual connections and embedded feature selection within a unified deep learning architecture. The model dynamically determines the optimal processing depth for each feature, allowing linear relationships to bypass nonlinear transformations while capturing complex patterns when necessary. Applied to five monitoring stations across Andalusia (Spain), ResSelNet consistently outperformed state-of-the-art baselines, achieving 8%–12% lower RMSE and MAE than LSTM and Transformer models. Beyond accuracy, the framework improves interpretability and robustness, revealing the hierarchical relevance of meteorological and pollutant variables. ResSelNet therefore offers an effective and explainable solution for multi-horizon environmental time-series forecasting.
{"title":"A novel interpretable ozone forecasting approach based on deep learning with masked residual connections","authors":"P. Reina-Jiménez , M.J. Jiménez-Navarro , G. Asencio-Cortés , F. Martínez-Álvarez , M. Martínez-Ballesteros","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106878","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106878","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Air pollution is a growing threat, especially in low- and middle-income countries, causing over 4 million premature deaths annually. Ground-level ozone is a major concern, demanding accurate and interpretable prediction systems for effective public health management. However, existing time-series forecasting methods struggle to capture both linear and nonlinear dependencies in atmospheric data. This study introduces ResSelNet, a novel Residual Selection Network that integrates masked residual connections and embedded feature selection within a unified deep learning architecture. The model dynamically determines the optimal processing depth for each feature, allowing linear relationships to bypass nonlinear transformations while capturing complex patterns when necessary. Applied to five monitoring stations across Andalusia (Spain), ResSelNet consistently outperformed state-of-the-art baselines, achieving 8%–12% lower RMSE and MAE than LSTM and Transformer models. Beyond accuracy, the framework improves interpretability and robustness, revealing the hierarchical relevance of meteorological and pollutant variables. ResSelNet therefore offers an effective and explainable solution for multi-horizon environmental time-series forecasting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"198 ","pages":"Article 106878"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145995200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}