Journal of Hydrology has an open access mirror journal Journal of Hydrology X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.
Journal of Hydrology publishes original research papers and comprehensive reviews in all the subfields of the hydrological sciences, including water based management and policy issues that impact on economics and society. These comprise, but are not limited to the physical, chemical, biogeochemical, stochastic and systems aspects of surface and groundwater hydrology, hydrometeorology, hydrogeology and hydrogeophysics. Relevant topics incorporating the insights and methodologies of disciplines such as climatology, water resource systems, ecohydrology, geomorphology, soil science, instrumentation and remote sensing, data and information sciences, civil and environmental engineering are within scope. Social science perspectives on hydrological problems such as resource and ecological economics, sociology, psychology and behavioural science, management and policy analysis are also invited. Multi-and interdisciplinary analyses of hydrological problems are within scope. The science published in the Journal of Hydrology is relevant to catchment scales rather than exclusively to a local scale or site. Studies focused on urban hydrological issues are included.
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Editorial board
Editors-in-Chief
- Professor Emmanouil Anagnostou
University of Connecticut, Dept. of Civil and Environ. Eng., Storrs, Connecticut, United States - Professor András Bárdossy
University of Stuttgart Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, Stuttgart, Germany - Professor Marco Borga
University of Padova Department of Land Environment Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro PD, Italy - Professor Corrado Corradini
University of Perugia Department of Engineering, Perugia, Italy - Professor Huaming Guo
China University of Geosciences Beijing, School of Water Resources and Environment, Beijing, China - Professor Peter Kitanidis
Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, California, United States - Professor Geoff Syme
Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia
Associate Editors
Working with Emmanouil Anagnostou
- Dr. Zoi Dokou
University of Connecticut, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Storrs, Connecticut, United States - Professor Yang Hong
University of Oklahoma School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, Oklahoma, United States - Dr. Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter
National Weather Center, Norman, Oklahoma, United States - Dr. Viviana Maggioni
George Mason University, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering - Sid and Reva Dewberry, Fairfax, Virginia, United States - Dr. Yiwen Mei
George Mason University, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering - Sid and Reva Dewberry, Fairfax, Virginia, United States - Professor Hamid Moradkhani
Portland State University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, Oregon, United States - Dr. Efthymios Nikolopoulos
University of Connecticut, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Storrs, Connecticut, United States - Dr. Guy Schumann
University of Bristol School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom - Dr. Xinyi Shen
University of Connecticut, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Storrs, Connecticut, United States - Dr. Prashant Srivastava
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India - Dr. Tao Yang
Hohai University College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China - Professor Qiang Zhang
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China - Professor Yongqiang Zhang
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - Dr. Yu Zhang
National Weather Service, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Working with Andras Bardossy
- Dr. Vazken Andréassian
Biotechnological Processes for the Environment, Antony, France - Professor Axel Bronstert
Universität Potsdam, Lehrstuhl Hydrologie und Klimatologie, Potsdam-Golm, Germany - Dr. Antonio Cancelliere
University of Catania Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Catania, Italy - Professor Fi-John Chang
National Taiwan University Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan - Professor Fateh Chebana
INRS Water Earth and Environment, Quebec, Quebec, Canada - Professor Ji Chen
The University of Hong Kong, Environmental Materials Research Group, Hong Kong, China - Professor Anne-Catherine Favre
National School of Energy Water and Environment, Grenoble, France - Professor Félix Francés
Universitat Politècnica de València, GIMHA (IIAMA-UPV), Valencia, Spain - Prof. Dr. Uwe Haberlandt
Leibniz University Hanover Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, Hannover, Germany - Dr. Andreas Langousis
University of Patras, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Patras, Greece - Professor Qiuhua Liang
Newcastle University School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Dr. Shreedhar Maskey
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Water Science and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands - Dr. Roger Moussa
Laboratory of Interactions between Sol-Agrosysteme-Hydrosysteme, Montpellier Cedex 2, France - Dr. Purna Nayak
National Institute of Hydrology Deltaic Regional Centre, Kakinada, India - Assist. Prof. Saman Razavi
University of Saskatchewan, Department of Civil and Geological Engineering, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada - Professor Niels Schütze
TU Dresden Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, Tharandt, Germany - Dr. Ashish Sharma
University of New South Wales School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Dr. Jozsef Szilagyi
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States - Dr. Sheng Yue
South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States - Dr. Ke Zhang
Hohai University College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China
Working with Marco Borga
- Dr. Luca Brocca PhD
Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection Research National Research Council, Perugia, Italy - Professor Michael Bruen
University College Dublin, School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering, Belfield, Ireland - Professor George Constantinescu
University of Iowa College of Engineering, Iowa City, Iowa, United States - Dr. Edoardo Daly
Monash University, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Dr. Jennifer Duan
University of Arizona Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Tucson, Arizona, United States - Dr. Doris Duethmann
TU Wien Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Wien, Austria - Dr. Baptiste François
University of Massachusetts, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States - Dr. Huade Guan
Flinders University School of the Environment, Adelaide, Australia - Dr. Kelly Kibler
University of Central Florida, Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Orlando, Florida, United States - Professor Di Long
Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Beijing, China - Dr. Francesco Marra
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel - Dr. Christian Massari
Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection Research National Research Council, Perugia, Italy - Professor Stefano Orlandini PhD
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Department of Engineering Enzo Ferrari, Modena, Italy - Dr. Francesca Pellicciotti
Northumbria University, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Dr. Daniele Penna
University of Florence Department of Agrarian Management Systems Food and Forestry, Firenze, Italy - Assist. Prof. Yadu Pokhrel PhD
Michigan State University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, Michigan, United States - Dr. Maria-Helena Ramos
Irstea Scientific and Technical Information, UR HYCAR, Antony, France - Dr. Eylon Shamir
Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, California, United States - Professor Yasuto Tachikawa
Kyoto University Faculty of Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto, Japan - Assoc. Professor Sally E. Thompson PhD
University of Western Australia Department of Civil Environmental and Mining Engineering, Perth, Australia - Dr. Fuqiang Tian
Tsinghua University, Dept. of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China - Professor Marco Toffolon
University of Trento Department of Civil Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Trento, Italy - Dr. Sergio Vicente-Serrano
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, Zaragoza, Spain - Assoc. Professor Lixin Wang PhD
Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis Department of Earth Sciences, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States - Dr. Shengping Wang
North China Electric Power University Key Laboratory of Regional Energy System Optimization, Beijing, China - Dr. Hanbo Yang PhD
Tsinghua University, Dept. of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China - Dr. Yuting Yang
CSIRO Black Mountain Laboratories, Canberra, Australia - Dr. Massimiliano Zappa
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Working with Corrado Corradini
- Dr. Felipe de Barros
University of Southern California, The Sonny Astani Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, California, United States - Professor Okke Batelaan
Flinders University College of Science and Engineering, Adelaide, Australia - Professor Philip Brunner
University of Neuchatel Hydrogeology and Geothermal Center, Neuchatel, Switzerland - Dr. Weiping Chen
Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - Professor Subashisa Dutta
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, Dept. of Civil Engineering, North Guwahati, India - Professor Juan Vicente Giraldez
Universidad de Cordoba, Dept. of Agronomy, Córdoba, Spain - Professor Rao Govindaraju
Purdue University Lyles School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States - Assoc. Professor Dongmei Han
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle & Related Land Surface Processes Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - Dr. Wei Hu
New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research, Soil, Water & Environment Group, Christchurch, New Zealand - Professor Frédéric Huneau
Environmental Sciences, Corte, France - Professor Magdeline Laba
Cornell University Institute for Resource Information Sciences, Ithaca, New York, United States - Dr. Patrick Lachassagne
Bundesanstalt, Water Resources & Sustainability Dpt., Evian-les-Bains, France - Dr. Zhiming Lu
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Computational Earth Science Group, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States - Dr. Barbara Mahler
US Geological Survey Texas Water Science Center, Austin, Texas, United States - Professor Renato Morbidelli
University of Perugia Department of Engineering, Perugia, Italy - Professor Vahid Nourani
University of Tabriz Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tabriz, Iran, Islamic Republic of - Dr. Vincent Post
Geo Centre Hannover, Hannover, Germany - Professor Mohsen Sherif
UAE University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates - Professor Gokmen Tayfur
Izmir Institute of Technology Faculty of Engineering, İzmir, Turkey - Dr. Karl Vanderlinden
Instituto de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA), Córdoba, Spain - Dr. Stephen Worthington
Worthington Groundwater, Dundas, Ontario, Canada - Professor Ming Ye
Florida State University Department of Scientific Computing, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Working with Huaming Guo
- Professor Prosun Bhattacharya
KTH Royal Institute of Technology Department of Sustainable Development Environmental Science and Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden - Dr. Kenneth Carroll PhD
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States - Dr. Mingjie Chen
Sultan Qaboos University, Water Research Center, Al-Khod, Oman - Professor Pedro Depetris
National University of Cordoba Centre for Geochemical and Surface Processes Research, Cordoba, Argentina - Professor Georgia Destouni
University of Stockholm Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden - Professor Jiin-Shuh Jean
National Cheng Kung University Department of Earth Sciences, Tainan City, Taiwan - Prof. Dr. Kangjoo Kim
Kunsan National University Department of Environmental Engineering, Kunsan, Korea, Republic of - Professor Tamotsu Kozaki
Hokkaido University Faculty of Engineering Laboratory of Nuclear and Environmental Materials, Sapporo, Japan - Dr. Patrick Lane
The University of Melbourne School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Carlton, Victoria, Australia - Dr. David Le Maitre
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Natural Resources and the Environment, Pretoria, South Africa - Professor Xiaohui Lei PhD
China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research Department of Water Resources, Beijing, China - Professor Wei Cheng Lo
National Cheng Kung University Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, Tainan, Taiwan - Dr. Federico Maggi
The University of Sydney School of Civil Engineering, Sydney, Australia - Dr. Louise Maurice
British Geological Survey - Wallingford Office, Wallingford, United Kingdom - Professor Philippe Negrel
Bureau for Geological and Mining Research, Orleans, France - Dr. Harald Neidhardt
Eberhard Karls University Tubingen Faculty of Geo Sciences, Tubingen, Germany - Professor Rafael Pérez López
University of Huelva Department of Geology, Huelva, Spain - Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad
University of Waterloo Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Dr. Jianzhong Wang
California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, California, United States - Prof. Dr. Wenke Wang
Chang'an University, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Xi'an, China - Professor Xu-Sheng Wang PhD
China University of Geosciences Beijing, School of Water Resources and Environment, Beijing, China - Professor Chong-yu Xu
University of Oslo Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway - Professor Seong-Taek Yun
Korea University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seongbuk-gu, Korea, Republic of
Working with Peter Kitanidis
- Dr. Habib A. Basha
American University of Beirut (AUB), Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Beirut, Lebanon - Dr. Weiping Chen
Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - Professor Juan Vicente Giraldez
Universidad de Cordoba, Dept. of Agronomy, Córdoba, Spain - Professor Magdeline Laba
Cornell University Institute for Resource Information Sciences, Ithaca, New York, United States - Dr. Patrick Lachassagne
Bundesanstalt, Water Resources & Sustainability Dpt., Evian-les-Bains, France - Dr. John W. Lane
US Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States - Assist. Prof. Jonghyun Harry Lee
University of Hawaii at Mãnoa, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States - Professor Chunhui Lu
Hohai University, State Key Lab. of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Nanjing, China - Professor Jian Luo
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Dr. Barbara Mahler
US Geological Survey Texas Water Science Center, Austin, Texas, United States - Dr. Simon Mathias
Durham University Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom - Professor Vahid Nourani
University of Tabriz Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tabriz, Iran, Islamic Republic of - Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Nowak
University of Stuttgart Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, Stuttgart, Germany - Professor Todd Rasmussen
University of Georgia Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Athens, Georgia, United States - Assoc. Professor Massimo Rolle
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Lyngby, Denmark - Dr. Delphine Roubinet
Montpellier Geosciences, Montpellier, France - Professor Jirka Simunek
University of California Riverside Department of Environmental Sciences, Riverside, California, United States - Dr. Martin Thullner
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Dept. of Environmental Microbiology, Leipzig, Germany - Dr. Karl Vanderlinden
Instituto de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA), Córdoba, Spain - Dr. Hund-Der Yeh
National Chiao Tung University Institute of Environmental Engineering, Hsinchu, Taiwan - Dr. Ye Zhang
University of Wyoming, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Laramie, Wyoming, United States
Working with Geoff Syme
- Professor Hazi Mohammad Azamathulla
The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago - Prof. Dr. Helge Bormann
Jade University of Applied Sciences - Oldenburg Campus, Oldenburg, Germany - Professor Ji Chen
The University of Hong Kong, Environmental Materials Research Group, Hong Kong, China - Professor Saeid Eslamian
Isfahan University of Technology College of Agriculture, Isfahan, Iran, Islamic Republic of - Dr. Joseph Guillaume
Aalto University, Water & Development Research Group, Espoo, Finland - Professor Li He
North China Electric Power University, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety at Tianjin University, Beijing, China - Dr. Adam Loch PhD
The University of Adelaide, Centre for Global Food and Resources, Adelaide, Australia - Professor Giorgio Mannina PhD
University of Palermo Department of Civil Environmental Aerospace Materials Engineering, Palermo, Italy - Dr. Jesús Mateo Lázaro
University of Zaragoza Department of Earth Sciences, Zaragoza, Spain - Dr. Ashok Mishra
Clemson University, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Clemson, South Carolina, United States - Professor José-Luis Molina PhD
University of Salamanca Department of Cartographic and Land Engineering, Ávila, Spain - Professor Craig Simmons
Flinders University, School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Assoc. Professor Bellie Sivakumar
University of New South Wales School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Dr. Dingbao Wang
University of Central Florida, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Orlando, Florida, United States - Assist. Prof. Shuo S. Wang (852) 3400-3896
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dept. of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Kowloon, China - Dr. Xiaodong Zhang
Shandong University School of Environmental Science and Engineering Sciences, Jinan, China