The invention discloses a method for evaluating the influence of a water
system structure on a
river network hydrological process. The method comprises the following steps: calculating water
system structure indexes; a hydrological model and a
river network hydrodynamic model of the research area are constructed, and under the same typical annual rainfall condition, hydrological process parameters under
river network water systems in different historical periods are obtained through
simulation of the hydrological hydrodynamic model; and constructing a
machine learning model fused with physical constraints, analyzing the relationship between the water
system structure change and the hydrological process response based on the water
system structure index and the hydrological process parameter, and identifying the water
system structure index having a key driving effect on the hydrological process through a feature importance
analysis method. According to the method, a hydrological hydrodynamic model is coupled through a
control variable method, and the independent influence of river
network structure change on the hydrological process is accurately quantified; meanwhile, a complex nonlinear response relationship between a water
system structure and a hydrological process is deeply analyzed by utilizing a
machine learning model and feature importance analysis, and key water system structure indexes for regulating and controlling the hydrological process are identified.