At Ensenada de La Paz, a coastal lagoon on the western side of the Gulf of California, nutrient and salinity data before and after rain events were evaluated using a mass balance model to estimate the exchange of conservative and non-conservative variables with the adjacent sea. Surface salinity, nitrogen (N-NO3, N-NO2), and phosphorus (PO4) were used in the model to obtain the hydraulic balanc...

— As demand for broadband service increases in emerging regions, high-capacity wireless links can accelerate and cost-reduce the deployment of new networks (both backhaul and customer site connection). Such links are increasingly common in developed countries, but their reliability in emerging regions is questioned where very heavy tropical rain is present. Here, we investigate the robustness o...

Here, we investigated the impact of assimilating satellite-based product Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation (RO) refractivity profiles data on simulation selected extreme rainfall events in three states southern India: Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Kerala. We assimilated GPS RO into weather research forecasting model using a 3DVar assimilation technique evaluated results against una...

Irrigation accounts for 70% of global water use by humans and 33–40% of global food production comes from irrigated croplands. Accurate and timely information related to global irrigation is therefore needed to manage increasingly scarce water resources and to improve food security in the face of yield gaps, climate change and extreme events such as droughts, floods, and heat waves. Unfortunate...

The use of infiltration trenches has proven to be useful to reduce runoff in urban surfaces. The design of these structures is based on the continuity equation taking into account inflow, outflow and detention water volumes. Basic procedures evaluate entering flow rates and relative volumes directly as a function of rain event characteristics, without taking into account rain-runoff processes o...

The Leeds Africa Climate Hackathon aimed to generate user-relevant narratives of possible future climate in East and West relevant hydroelectric power generation agriculture respectively. Here we discuss how the virtual hackathon was organised, present results, examine lessons learned from running such a hackathon. We found African will need store more water during heavier rain events cope with...

Abstract This study aims to verify the skill of a radar-based surface precipitation type (SPT) product with observations on ground. Social and economic impacts can occur from SPT because it is not well forecast or observed. Observations United Kingdom Meteorological Office’s weather radar network are combined post-processed numerical prediction (NWP) freezing level heights in Boolean logic algo...

-The choice of rain drop size distribution(RDSD) model is essential for adequate estimation and prediction of attenuation due to rain in any geographical location or region. Measurements of drop size distributions at Butare (2.6S, 29.74E); Rwanda is carried out using the Joss-WaldvogelRD-80 disdrometer installed at the National University of Rwanda. Different established distributions are fitte...

The potential of CloudSat W-band radar for observing wintertime storms affecting the West Coast of North America is evaluated. Storms having high hydrological impact often result from landfalls of ‘‘atmospheric rivers’’ (‘‘ARs’’), which are the narrow elongated regions of water vapor transport from the tropics. CloudSat measurements are used for retrievals of rain rate R and cloud ice water pat...