There is an ever increasing need to apply hydrological models to catchments where streamflow data are unavailable or to large geographical regions where calibration is not feasible. Estimation of model parameters from spatial physical data is the key issue in the development and application of hydrological models at various scales. To investigate the suitability of transferring the regression e...

In the past few decades, the quantitative computation of surface roughness has received increasing attention due to its importance in numerical surface study. In this paper, concepts of mathematical morphology are employed to compute and characterize the surface roughness of catchments extracted from a simulated digital elevation model (DEM). Morphological smoothing is implemented on the simula...

The network architecture of streams and rivers constrains evolutionary, demographic and ecological processes of freshwater organisms. This consistent architecture also makes stream networks useful for testing general models of population genetic structure and the scaling of gene flow. We examined genetic structure and gene flow in the facultatively paedomorphic Idaho giant salamander, Dicamptod...

accurate estimate of flood flows at selected return periods is a fundamental step in flood control and design of hydraulic structures. due to the inadequacy or unavailability of flood flow records in several western catchments of iran, traditional regional flood frequency methods lead to remarkable estimate errors, particularly for long return periods. in this research, discriminant analysis is...

The arid zone catchments of the Lake Eyre Basin (LEB, area of 1.2*10km) in central Australia have unregulated, highly variable flow regimes and contain a paucity of gauging stations. In developing hydrological models of these catchments, only limited gauging station data are available for identifying the broad landscape differences influencing runoff and streamflow. The catchments have been div...

Catchments are the first potential barrier to pathogen hazards in the water supply system. Reducing pathogen loads exported from catchments to drinking water reservoirs is thus an important priority in applying a risk-based approach to managing water supplies. Although predictive models are available to estimate sediment and nutrient loads, few models are available to predict either bacterial i...

The U.S. Geological Survey conducted an environmental assessment of 198 catchments in a 54,000-km area of central Colorado, much of which is on Federal land. The Colorado Mineral Belt, a northeast-trending zone of historical baseand precious-metal mining, cuts diagonally across the study area. The investigation was intended to test the hypothesis that degraded water and sediment quality are res...

The objective of this study is to assess the performance of a regional hydrological model in catchments treated as ungauged. The Catchment Resources and Soil Hydrology (CRASH) model is a daily, catchment-scale, rainfall-runoff model that has been previously regionalised for England and Wales. In this paper, the regional CRASH is evaluated in three catchments located in East Anglia – eastern Eng...

[1] Lateral water flow in catchments can produce important patterns in water and nutrient fluxes and stores and also influences the long-term spatial development of forest ecosystems. Specifically, patterns of vegetation type and density along hydrologic flow paths can represent a signal of the redistribution of water and nitrogen mediated by lateral hydrologic flow. This study explores the use...

Knowledge of the hydrochemical dynamics of the trace metal manganese (Mn) in upland catchments is required for water quality management. Stream water Mn and other solutes and flow were monitored in two upland catchments in northern England with different soils: one dominated by peat (HS7), the other by mineral soils (HS4). Maximum Mn concentrations occurred at different times in the two catchme...