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WetSpa Model Application for Assessing Reforestation Impacts on Floods in Margecany–Hornad Watershed, Slovakia
Bahremand, A.; Smedt, F.; Corluy, J.; Liu, Y.; Poorova, J. - In: Water Resources Management 21 (2007) 8, pp. 1373-1391
landuse data within GIS, to predict flood hydrographs and spatial distribution of hydrologic characteristics in a watershed … prepared in GIS form, using 100×100 m cell size. Results of the simulations show good agreement between calculated and measured …
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The Contribution of Conservation Practices in Reducing Runoff, Soil Loss, and Transport of Nutrients at the Watershed Level
Rocha, Everton; Calijuri, Maria; Santiago, Aníbal; … - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 13, pp. 3831-3852
runoff, soil loss, and nutrient transport, which compromise the environmental quality in a watershed, especially the water … resources. The objective of this study was to assess the contribution of conservation practices in reducing runoff and soil and … watershed in Brazil. The modeling allowed us to identify critical areas regarding sediment yield, runoff, and nutrient loss …
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A Distributed Hydrological Model Driven by Multi-Source Spatial Data and Its Application in the Ili River Basin of Central Asia
Cai, Mingyong; Yang, Shengtian; Zeng, Hongjuan; Zhao, … - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 10, pp. 2851-2866
be used for a longer time-scale water resource analysis; and (3) daily runoff generation correlated strongly with …
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Hydrological Prediction in a Tropical Watershed Dominated by Oxisols Using a Distributed Hydrological Model
Beskow, Samuel; Norton, Lloyd; Mello, Carlos - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 2, pp. 341-363
Hydrological models have been used in many places of the world in order to support practitioners with respect to watershed management actions. The goal of this research was to apply the Lavras Simulation of Hydrology (LASH model) to a Brazilian tropical watershed dominated by Oxisols, to...
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Assessing the Economic and Political Impacts of Climate Change on International River Basins using Surface Wetness in the Zambezi and Mekong Basins
Blankespoor, Brian; Basist, Alan; Dinar, Ariel; Dinar, … - 2014
Many river basins will likely face higher hydrologic variability, including extreme floods and droughts, due to climate change, with economic and political consequences. Water treaties that govern international basins could face non-compliance among riparians and inter-state tensions as...
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Assessing the economic and political impacts of climate change on international river basins using surface wetness in the Zambezi and Mekong basins
Blankespoor, Brian; Basist, Alan; Dinar, Ariel; Dinar, … - 2014
Many river basins will likely face higher hydrologic variability, including extreme floods and droughts, due to climate change, with economic and political consequences. Water treaties that govern international basins could face non-compliance among riparians and inter-state tensions as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226971
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Impact of Declining Trend of Flow on Harike Wetland, India
Jain, Sanjay; Sarkar, Archana; Garg, Vaibhav - In: Water Resources Management 22 (2008) 4, pp. 409-421
few years. In this study, the analysis of rainfall/runoff data has been carried out to see the effect of decreasing trend … of runoff on wetland area. Wetland area has been delineated using remote sensing technique. The analysis of rainfall …
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Assessing the Economic and Political Impacts of Climate Change on International River Basins using Surface Wetness in the Zambezi and Mekong Basins
Blankespoor, Brian; Basist, Alan; Dinar, Ariel; Dinar, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Many river basins will likely face higher hydrologic variability, including extreme floods and droughts, due to climate change, with economic and political consequences. Water treaties that govern international basins could face non-compliance among riparians and inter-state tensions as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255792
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Identifying Potential Rainwater Harvesting Sites of a Semi-arid, Basaltic Region of Western India, Using SCS-CN Method
Kadam, Ajaykumar; Kale, Sanjay; Pande, Nagesh; Pawar, N.; … - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 9, pp. 2537-2554
, soil, drainage and runoff from Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery and other collateral data. Subsequently, these layers were … processed to derive runoff from Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) method using Arc-CN runoff tool. The SCS …-CN method shows that the high runoff potential is from water-body, agriculture land (including harvested land) and followed by …
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Improvement to the Thornthwaite Method to Study the Runoff at a Basin Scale Using Temporal Remote Sensing Data
Rao, K. Durga; Rao, Vala; Dadhwal, Vinay - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 6, pp. 1567-1578
Most of the popular hydrological models are intensive data driven hence, it has become a constraint in computing runoff … of river basins where the meteorological data availability is scant. Studying environmental impact assessment on runoff … temporal satellite remote sensing data to compute runoff at basin scale. Godavari Basin, India was selected as study basin to …
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