Abstract Rapid urbanization has increased impervious areas, leading to a higher flood hazard across cities worldwide. Low Impact Development (LID) practices have shown efficacy in reducing urban runoff; nevertheless, choosing the best combinations terms of implementation cost and performance is great importance. The present study introduces framework based on green infrastructure, multi-objecti...

Hydrological models provide water managers with the available amount of water in the watershed. In this paper, we firstly developed a system dynamics model to calculate the available amount of water in the watershed. Then, we defined two scenarios one of which is the development scenario describing how land use changes can affect water availability in the watershed. Next, we divided the watersh...

15 Soil moisture variability and the depth of water stored in the arable layer of the soil are 16 important topics in agricultural research and rangeland management. In this study we use the 17 Distributed Rainfall-Runoff (DR2) model to perform a detailed mapping of topsoil moisture 18 status (SMS) in a mountain Mediterranean catchment. This model, previously tested in the 19 same study area ag...

Cool season precipitation plays a critical role in regional water resource management the western United States. Throughout twenty-first century, will be impacted by rising temperatures and changing circulation patterns. Changes to magnitude remain challenging project; however, phase is largely dependent on temperature, temperature predictions from global climate models are generally agreement....

SUDPLAN aims at a new and visionary capacity to link existing environmental simulation models, information and sensor infrastructures, SDI’s and climatic scenario databases, providing visualization of long term forecasts of environmental factors for urban subsystems such as building and architecture, traffic and transport, landscape planning and local water runoff. End-users shall be enabled to...