19 The relationship between meroplankton distribution and spatio-temporal variability of coastal 20 mesoscale hydrological structure was investigated in the northern Bay of Biscay, North-East 21 Atlantic. For the three coastal polychaetes studied, i.e., Pectinaria koreni, Owenia fusiformis, 22 Sabellaria alveolata, the highest larval abundances were sampled in low salinity, low density and 23 h...

The main motivation for this special issue of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is the IAHS decadal research initiative “Predictions in Ungauged Basins” (Sivapalan et al., 2003), and more specifically the need to develop hydrological models that work for the “right reasons” (Kirchner, 2006). This means that a model shall “work” because its structure is based on appropriate representation of t...

The availability of water at or near the surface determines the way incident radiative energy is partitioned at the ground surface. The goal of this thesis is to determine if better hydrological representation in the MIT Integrated Global System Model will improve its climate prediction capability. This thesis compares the performances of the hydrological modules in the MIT Climate Model and th...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Full Screen / Esc Printer-friendly Version Interactive Discussion EGU Abstract A data mining, regression tree algorithm M5 was used to review the understanding of mutual hydrolo...

Land use change and climate variability are two key factors impacting watershed hydrology, which is strongly related to the availability of water resources and the sustainability of local ecosystems. This study assessed separate and combined hydrological impacts of land use change and climate variability in the headwater region of a typical arid inland river basin, known as the Heihe River Basi...

Numerical models are being used to simulate the response of hydrological basins to meteorological events both for decision making process in case of severe weather, as well as for the management of water resources and the environment. Nevertheless, it appears increasingly important to understand the possible effects of observed climate changes on the hydrological system, and in order to simulat...

AMerIcAN MeteOrOLOGIcAL SOcIetY | 1357 AffiliAtions: Hazeleger, SeverijnS, Wang, Bintanja, van den Hurk, van noije, Selten, and Sterl—Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The Netherlands; Semmler and mcgratH—Met Éireann, Dublin, Ireland; Ştefănescu—European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom; Yang, cHriStenSen, and ScHmitH—Danish Meteorological In...

The Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is a matrix decomposition technique that has been successfully applied for the recovery of blocks of missing values in time series. In order to perform an accurate block recovery, SVD requires the use of highly correlated time series. However, using lowly correlated time series that exhibit shape and/or trend similarities could increase the recovery accura...

Since 2002, within the framework of the Cetemps Centre of Excellence at the University of L’Aquila, a distributed grid-based hydrological model (CHYM) has been developed to provide a general purpose model for operational flood warning activity. This paper presents two new cellular automata (CA) algorithms used respectively for drainage network extraction and rainfall data assimilation. The firs...