This paper describes a generic model for predicting the migration of 137 Cs and 90 Sr through complex catchments and the effects of countermeasures to reduce the contamination levels. The model provides assessments of radionuclide behaviour in water systems comprised of rivers, lakes and reservoirs. It makes use of aggregate, “collective” parameters which summarise the overall effects of compet...

To date it is unknown how pumps in sewer systems influence micropollutant loads at the scale of minutes to hours. This is important to design sampling campaigns: i) collecting representative composite samples, ii) experimentally determining peak loads or iii) dynamically evaluating wastewater treatment plant performance. Hydrodynamic models which could simulate pollutographs become available fo...

Despite being the most important source of pollen and spore input into most lakes and near-shore marine sediments, we know very little about fluvial (waterborne) pollen and spore transport. This paper presents the results of a dedicated monitoring programme conducted over 2 years and at a catchment scale in South West England. The land use of the nine sub-catchments monitored was determined usi...

Distributed hydrological models are valuable tools to derive distributed estimation of water balance components or to study the impact of land-use or climate change on water resources and water quality. In these models, the choice of an appropriate spatial discretization is a crucial issue. It is obviously linked to the available data, their spatial resolution and the dominant hydrological proc...

The present work proposes to improve estimates of snowpack and snowmelt their assessment in the steep Himalayan ranges at sub-catchment scale. Temporal variability streamflow associated distribution accumulated snow catchments with glacier presence Himalayas illustrates how changes can affect water supply for local management. primary objective this study is assess role elevation, temperature l...

Half of the world's forest is in boreal and sub-boreal ecozones, containing large carbon stores and fluxes. Carbon lost from headwater streams in these forests is underestimated. We apply a simple stable carbon isotope idea for quantifying the CO2 loss from these small streams; it is based only on in-stream samples and integrates over a significant distance upstream. We demonstrate that convent...

introduction flood is a natural hazard that its occurrences can be observed more frequently in recent years. for better flood mitigation and control, it is needed to identify flood production factors and determine the high potential flood areas. hydrological model is a simplified representation of natural system and the rainfall-runoff model is one of the most frequently used events for flood s...

The response of hillslope processes to changes in precipitation may drive the observed changes in the solute geochemistry of rivers with discharge. This conjecture is most robust when variations in the key environmental factors that affect hillslope processes (e.g., lithology, erosion rate, and climate) are minimal across a river’s catchment area. For rivers with heterogenous catchments, tempor...

Catchments show a wide range of response behaviour, even if they are adjacent. For many purposes it is necessary to characterise and classify them, e.g. for regionalisation, prediction in ungauged catchments, model parameterisation. In this study, we investigate hydrological similarity of catchments with respect to their response behaviour. We analyse more than 8200 event runoff coefficients (E...