Distributed watershed hydrological and erosion modeling is gaining popularity in recent years due to increased computing power and availability of detailed spatial hydrological data. Models of this type are widely believed to provide greatest opportunities to examine hydrologic impact of land use change and climate change (Sharika et al. 2000); they also have immense utility to forecast the mov...

The paper presents applications and models which are beneficial to watershed management in various areas. The intention is to inform about the current capabilities of soft computing, hydrologic analysis modules, and distributed hydrologic models, and to provide an initial guide on implementing soft computing. Watershed is not simply the hydrological unit but also socio-political-ecological enti...

After the disastrous flood event of 1997 in Poland, the main concern was to upgrade and modernize the existing System of Hydrological Forecasting. The new System of Hydrology (SH) that had to be developed for entire Poland was implemented as an important component of the Emergency Flood Recovery Project, financed by the World Bank. A detailed design was worked out in 2000 and a new SH was elabo...

There is growing recognition that a synergistic integration of data, knowledge, and methods from a variety of water-allied disciplines is needed to study, engineer for, or manage water resources. This integrated approach is necessary if we are to consider all components of the water cycle and their complex interactions with ecological, biogeochemical and human systems at a watershed-scale. The ...