Soil moisture governs the surface fluxes of mass and energy and is a major influence on floods and drought. Existing techniques measure soil moisture either at a point or over a large area many kilometers across. To bridge these two scales we used the cosmic-ray rover, an instrument similar to the recently developed COSMOS probe, but bigger and mobile. This paper explores the challenges and opp...

[1] Potential climate change effects on aspects of conjunctive management of water resources can be evaluated by linking climate models with fully integrated groundwater– surface water models. The objective of this study is to develop a modeling system that links global climate models with regional hydrologic models, using the California Central Valley as a case study. The new method is a suppl...

Climate change is likely to affect the generation of energy from California’s high-elevation hydropower systems. To investigate these impacts, this study formulates a linear programming model of an 11-reservoir hydroelectric system operated by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in the Upper American River basin. Four sets of hydrologic scenarios are developed using the Variable Infiltrat...

Human use of freshwater resources has altered the dynamics of hydrologic regimes in rivers around the world. Frequency, timing, and periodicity of extreme fluctuations in water flow have been modified, disrupting the flow regimes to which lotic biota have adapted over evolutionary time. The goal of the proposed research is to increase our understanding of how the hydrologic regime modulates lin...

The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was used to assess the implications of long-term climate trends for the hydroclimatology of the Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed (RCEW) in the Owyhee Mountains, Idaho of the Intermountain West over a 40year period (1967-2006). Calibration and validation of the macroscale hydrology model in this highly monitored watershed is key to address the...

With regard to the importance of instantaneous peak discharge estimation for watershed management study, and due to the lack of and unqualified climatic and hydrologic data for estimation and measurement in countries such as Iran, researchers were obliged to establish a link between constant parameters (geomorphologic) and variables (hydrologic) to present models with minimum dependence on clim...

hydrologists have always tried to classify atmospheric and hydrologic events in order to simplify the hydrologic convolutions and the observations or to save the time and the budget. most of these methods are used for the regionalization of hydrologic phenomena like rainfall,streamflow and other components of water cycle.multivariate techniques have been underlined as suitableand powerful tools...