“…In recent years, intelligent models have been used extensively in modeling and predicting hydraulic and hydrological phenomena. For example, use of support vector machine to predict flood sensitivity (Choubin et al, 2018, Karami et al, 2022, using LSSVM, a new method for correcting runoff prediction error (Liu et al, 2021), using variational mode decomposition and the least squares support vector machine optimized by the sparrow search algorithm (VMD-SSA-LSSVM) to predict the water quality of the Yangtze River (Song et al, 2021), using whale optimization algorithm and combining it with LSSVM to subscale rainfall prediction under climate change conditions (Valikhan Anaraki et al, 2021), application of SVM and LSSVM to modeling of evaporation from open water surfaces (Farasat et al, 2021), using Coupling Singular Spectrum Analysis with Least Square Support Vector Machine to improve the accuracy of SPI drought forecast index (Pham et al, 2021), precipitation modeling by optimizing performance and LSSVM (Azad et al, 2021), using complementary ensemble empirical decomposition models and combining it with LSSVM to predict runoff in the medium and long term (Ji et al, 2020), using MSPI and data DRIVEN methods to detect multivariate droughts in the short and long term (Aghelpour et al, 2021), comparison of SVM and ANFIS performance for daily dam water level forecasting (Hipni et al, 2013), using Extreme Learning Machine in SVM Composition to Predict Hydrological Flow Series (Atiquzzaman and Kandasamy 2018), using SVM to predict long-term flow (Lin et al, 2006), evaluation of SVM and ANN performance in runoff modeling (Behzad et al, 2009), using SVM to estimate soil moisture (Gill et al, 2007), using SVM to estimate and predict evaporation rate (Moghaddaminia et al, 2009), investigation of statistical subscales on daily rainfall using SVM (Chen et al, 2010), using SVM to simulate and analyze runoff and sediment (Misra et al, 2009), using SVM to predict scour on control grade structures (Goel and Pal., 2009), a comparative study between ANN and SVM performance for groundwater level prediction in coastal aquifers (Yoon et al, 2011), monthly forecast of evaporation using ANN and SVM (Tezel and Buyukyildiz, 2015), using ANFIS and SVM to predict the relationship between runoff-precipitation (Tasar et al, 2019), combining improved GOA and SVM algorithms to predict water levels in streams in coastal areas (Tao et al, 2021), combination of SVR and GOA for spatial prediction of flood occurrence in Qazvin plain…”