Download or read book Climatic Characteristics and Water Balance written by Lalita Devi and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hydrology and Global Environmental Change written by Nigel W. Arnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hydrology and Global Environmental Change presents the hydrological contribution to, and consequences of, global environmental change. Assuming little or no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, the book looks at the main processes of global environmental change - global scale processes, large regional processes, repetitive processes - and how the hydrological cycle, processes and regimes impact on GEC and vice-versa.
Download or read book Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change written by Sven Rannow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an overview of data and concepts developed in the EU-project HABIT-CHANGE, this book addresses the need for sharing knowledge and experience in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. There is an urgent need to build capacity in protected areas to monitor, assess, manage and report the effects of climate change and their interaction with other pressures. The contributors identify barriers to the adaptation of conservation management, such as the mismatch between planning reality and the decision context at site level. Short and vivid descriptions of case studies, drawn from investigation areas all over Central and Eastern Europe, illustrate both the local impacts of climate change and their consequences for future management. These focus on ecosystems most vulnerable to changes in climatic conditions, including alpine areas, wetlands, forests, lowland grasslands and coastal areas. The case studies demonstrate the application of adaptation strategies in protected areas like National Parks, Biosphere Reserves and Natural Parks, and reflect the potential benefits as well as existing obstacles. A general section provides the necessary background information on climate trends and their effects on abiotic and biotic components. Often, the parties to policy change and conservation management, including managers, land users and stakeholders, lack both expertise and incentives to undertake adaptation activities. The authors recognise that achieving the needed changes in behavior – habit – is as much a social learning process as a matter of science-based procedure. They describe the implementation of modeling, impact assessment and monitoring of climate conditions, and show how the results can support efforts to increase stakeholder involvement in local adaptation strategies. The book concludes by pointing out the need for more work to communicate the cross-sectoral nature of biodiversity protection, the value of well-informed planning in the long-term process of adaptation, the definition of acceptable change, and the motivational value of exchanging experience and examples of good practice.
Download or read book DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A PARSIMONIOUS WATER BALANCE MODEL FOR MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE CONDITIONS written by Thomas C. Moran and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual water balance is an important indicator of the hydrologic function and utility of a watershed, and yet there has been relatively sparse research of the special considerations that control the yearly partition of precipitation in a Mediterranean climate (MC) like that of California. In particular, there is a gap in empirical characterization of the annual water balance over a broad collection of watersheds spanning the diverse climate and landscape conditions of the state. This research develops and applies a top-down, parsimonious, physically interpretable water balance model that explicitly accounts for seasonality, a critical climate factor for MC regions. The research was motivated by the observation of a straightforward, linear relationship between total annual precipitation and streamflow for watersheds in the Russian River Basin of northern California. A dataset of monthly water balance variables was developed to meet the criteria of accurate estimations, geographic contiguity, and temporal longevity, continuity, and consistency. Inspection of the long-term water balance for 159 watersheds in the state led to a more general form of the precipitation-streamflow relationship, a segmented linear model. Model parameters were estimated for each watershed via regression of water balance observations using a structural probabilistic model that was resilient to uncertainties in the input data. Model parameter estimates displayed aggregate clustering by prevailing wetness conditions, as well as geographic regionalization. The average predictive uncertainty for gaged watersheds ranged from 50 to 125 mm per year in terms of area-normalized streamflow. Modeled streamflow residuals were used to evaluate historical changes in the water balance, revealing a decreasing trend in the streamflow of most California watersheds during the onset of the climate change era, controlling for precipitation. Sensitivity analysis showed that changes in the seasonality of precipitation and potential evapotranspiration have an order-of-magnitude larger impact on the water balance relative to other climate drivers. Spatial proximity correlation and watershed feature regression both showed promise as methods for estimation of model parameters in ungaged watersheds. The model was also contextualized with regards to the influential Budyko curve. This research demonstrated that a parsimonious and interpretable model was capable of describing the annual water balance for the diverse hydrologic conditions across California. By focusing on the analysis of many watersheds over long timeframes it was possible to characterize and interpret broad trends and patterns that influence the water balance in MC regions.
Download or read book The Influence of the Climatic Water Balance on Conditions in the Estuarine Environment written by John Russell Mather and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate and Hydrology of Mountain Areas written by Carmen de Jong and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of interaction of the major hydrological and meteorological processes in mountain areas ie Cryosphere and Climatic Change, Snow Melt and Soil Water, Run-off and Floods, Water fluxes and Water Balance, Hydro-meteorological Coupling and Modelling. Each section will review recent research in the field and illustrate key interactions with case studies from mountainous regions in Europe, The Americas and Central Asia.
Download or read book USDAHL 70 Model of Watershed Hydrology written by H. N. Holtan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geohydrology and Possible Transport Routes of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Haiku Valley Oahu Hawaii written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Balance Computation Methods for Evaluation of Remote Watersheds Within the Great Basin written by Dirk S. Doorenbos and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hydrology Handbook written by American Society of Civil Engineers and published by Amer Society of Civil Engineers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOP 28 serves as a basic reference, providing a thorough, up-to-date guide for hydrologists.
Download or read book Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability written by Assefa M. Melesse and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability: Monitoring, Modelling, Adaptation and Mitigation is a compilation of contributions by experts from around the world who discuss extreme hydrology topics, from monitoring, to modeling and management. With extreme climatic and hydrologic events becoming so frequent, this book is a critical source, adding knowledge to the science of extreme hydrology. Topics covered include hydrometeorology monitoring, climate variability and trends, hydrological variability and trends, landscape dynamics, droughts, flood processes, and extreme events management, adaptation and mitigation. Each of the book's chapters provide background and theoretical foundations followed by approaches used and results of the applied studies. This book will be highly used by water resource managers and extreme event researchers who are interested in understanding the processes and teleconnectivity of large-scale climate dynamics and extreme events, predictability, simulation and intervention measures. Presents datasets used and methods followed to support the findings included, allowing readers to follow these steps in their own research Provides variable methodological approaches, thus giving the reader multiple hydrological modeling information to use in their work Includes a variety of case studies, thus making the context of the book relatable to everyday working situations for those studying extreme hydrology Discusses extreme event management, including adaption and mitigation
Download or read book Water Resources Management in the Face of Climatic Hydrologic Uncertainties written by Zdzislaw Kaczmarek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is the first international and comprehensive discussion of the impacts of climatic fluctuations and climate change on water resources management. The book presents an overview of the impacts of climatic change/fluctuations on a wide variety of water resources sectors including river runoff, water quality, water temperature, water use and demand, reservoir management and water resource planning and management. The book is unique in that it then presents a series of case studies to both demonstrate the application of climate change impact assessment methodologies and to provide insights to catchment, river basin, and national scale impacts of climate change/fluctuations on the water resources of Africa, Europe, and North America. Audience: Researchers, scholars and students of hydrology and water management who are concerned with the issues of climate change as well as the climate change impact assessment community.
Download or read book Urban Climates written by T. R. Oke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and surface classification as key constructs. It explains the physical principles governing the creation of distinct urban climates, such as airflow around buildings, the heat island, precipitation modification and air pollution, and it then illustrates how this knowledge can be applied to moderate the undesirable consequences of urban development and help create more sustainable and resilient cities. With urban climate science now a fully-fledged field, this timely book fulfills the need to bring together the disparate parts of climate research on cities into a coherent framework. It is an ideal resource for students and researchers in fields such as climatology, urban hydrology, air quality, environmental engineering and urban design.
Download or read book Landscape Dynamics Soils and Hydrological Processes in Varied Climates written by Assefa M. Melesse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents the processes governing the dynamics of landscapes, soils and sediments, water and energy under different climatic regions using studies conducted in varied climatic zones including arid, semi-arid, humid and wet regions. The spatiotemporal availability of the processes and fluxes and their linkage to the environment, land, soil and water management are presented at various scales. Spatial scales including laboratory, field, watershed, river basin and regions are represented. The effect of tillage operations and land management on soil physical characteristics and soil moisture is discussed. The book has 35 chapters in seven sections: 1) Landscape and Land Cover Dynamics, 2) Rainfall-Runoff Processes, 3) Floods and Hydrological Processes 4) Groundwater Flow and Aquifer Management, 5) Sediment Dynamics and Soil Management, 6) Climate change impact on vegetation, sediment and water dynamics, and 7) Water and Watershed Management.
Download or read book Agro Climatic Analysis Using Water Balance written by Tammi Naidu Guntreddi and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water balance is one of the techniques in modern climatic and hydrological studies, in which the climatic elements such as solar radiation, temperature and rainfall are used to evaluate various hydrological elements namely water need, water supply, soil moisture storage, water surplus and water deficit of a region. These water balance elements enable to evaluate a proper agricultural planning of that area. In addition, water balance is a single tool with multiple applications which helps in assessing normal climate of a particular region and its stability, identification of extreme wet and dry years, identification of drought years based on their intensity, duration and spatial spread and assessment of crop suitability of the region. Water balance is a useful tool for the preparation of crop calendar of a particular region and suggestive changes in cropping pattern based on the existing moisture status conditions.
Download or read book Climate and Landscape Controls on Seasonal Water Balance at the Watershed Scale written by Chen, Xi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furthermore, the connection between the seasonal parameters of the developed model and a variety of physical factors in the study watersheds is investigated. For the extended Budyko model, vegetation is identified as an important physical factor that related to the seasonal model parameters. However, the relationship is only strong in water-limited seasons, due to the seasonality of the vegetation coverage. In the seasonal runoff model, the key controlling factors for wetting capacity and initial wetting are soil hydraulic conductivity and maximum rainfall intensity respectively. As for initial evaporation, vegetation is identified as the strongest controlling factor. Besides long-term climate, this research identifies the key controlling factors on seasonal water balance: the effects of soil water storage, vegetation, soil hydraulic conductivity, and storminess. The developed model is applied to the Chipola River watershed and the Apalachicola River basin in Florida for assessing potential climate change impact on the seasonal water balance. The developed model performance is compared with a physically-based distributed hydrologic model of the Soil Water Assessment Tool, showing a good performance for seasonal runoff, evaporation and storage change.
Download or read book Hydrological Drought written by Lena M. Tallaksen and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of the examples are taken from regions where the rivers run most of the year.
