The water cushion depth of stilling basin with shallow-water cushion is a key factor that 13 affects the flow regime of hydraulic jump in the basin. However, the specific depth at which the 14 water cushion is considered as “shallow” has not be stated clearly for now, and only conceptual 15 description is provided. This paper attempts to specify the best water cushion depth based on the 16 flow...

In dynamical systems examples are common in which two or more attractors coexist, and in such cases the basin boundary is nonempty and the basins often have fractal basin boundaries. The purpose of this paper is to describe the structure and properties of unbounded basins and their boundaries for two-dimensional diffeomorphisms. Frequently, if not always, there is a periodic saddle on the bound...

[1] Intensification of the Arctic hydrologic cycle and permafrost melt is expected as concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases increase. Quantifying hydrologic cycle change is difficult in remote northern regions; however, monitoring the stable isotopic composition of water runoff from Arctic rivers provides a means to investigate integrated basin-scale changes. We measured river water an...

Atlantic SST variability in the twentieth century is analyzed factoring the influence of natural SST variability in the Pacific basin and the secular change in global SSTs. The tropical and northern extratropical basins are analyzed together using the extended EOF technique, which permits extraction of the interannual and multidecadal modes in the pan-Atlantic basin in a single step. The leadin...

The parameterization of crop coefficients (kc) is critical for determining a water balance. We used satellite-based and literature-based methods to derive kc values for a distributed hydrologic model. We evaluated the impact of different kc parametrization methods on the water balance and simulated hydrologic response at the basin and sub-basin scale. The hydrological model SPHY was calibrated ...

[1] Simple dynamical models developed for the tropical Pacific surface winds may not be directly applicable in the Atlantic in view of the basin’s different geometry and size and the potential impact of deep heating from over the adjacent African and South American continents. As simple dynamical models generate surface winds from seasurface temperature (SST), it is worth ascertaining the exten...

[1] Among countries with river basin organizations to manage their water resources, Spain’s experience is one of the longest. One of the first basin agencies established in Spain was for the Guadalquivir River in the south. A case study of that river basin and its management indicates how basin management is shaped by political economy factors such as the historical path of the agency’s evoluti...

abstract many researchers have recently considered the use of data obtained from remote sensing (r.s) to reveal changes. in the present study, we have attempted to reveal the morphodynamic changes in taleghan river basin through image satellite and by analyzing the principal component analysis (pca) and fuzzy logic. the final map indicates the intensity of changes through, 15-years interval obs...

Hydrologic response in natural catchments is controlled by a set of complex interactions between storm properties, basin characteristics and antecedent wetness conditions. This study investigates the transient runoff response to spatially-uniform storms of varying properties using a distributed model of the coupled surface-subsurface sys5 tem, which treats heterogeneities in topography, soils a...