A Stepwise Clustered Hydrological Model for Addressing the Temporal Autocorrelation of Daily Streamflows in Irrigated Watersheds

Abstract Streamflow simulations at daily time steps are vital to water resources management, especially in arid regions. Previously, data‐driven models have been used as an effective tool for daily streamflow simulation. However, the accuracy of conventional data‐driven approaches is affected by the temporal autocorrelation of daily streamflow, especially in irrigated watersheds where the persistence of saturated flows dominates irrigation …