Despite observa onal evidence of lateral preferen al fl ow paths in northeastern U.S. watersheds, their eff ects on the sources of runoff remain unclear. An intense fi eld survey was undertaken during the 2007 growing season to determine the sources of stream runoff from a 2.51 km2 watershed in the Catskill Mountains, New York State. Lateral preferen al fl ow paths are caused by groundwater spr...

Rainfall-Runoff and Signal Separation Problems: The process of converting rainfall into runoff is a highly nonlinear problem due to the soil-water interaction that starts when rainfall reaches the ground. Additional variables to consider are evaporation, transpiration, losses due to vegetation and land use, and the different flow processes that take place in a watershed. For instance, baseflow ...

Despite observa onal evidence of lateral preferen al fl ow paths in northeastern U.S. watersheds, their eff ects on the sources of runoff remain unclear. An intense fi eld survey was undertaken during the 2007 growing season to determine the sources of stream runoff from a 2.51 km2 watershed in the Catskill Mountains, New York State. Lateral preferen al fl ow paths are caused by groundwater spr...

Karst aquifers are often classified as highly heterogeneous systems. Such systems are very complex to assess and model due to the presence of discontinuous porosity, large spatial variability of hydraulic parameters and the difficulties encountered in establishing the fundamental spatial properties of the system. In fact, karst aquifers have been studied and classified into groups based on seve...

We investigate the response of a laboratory aquifer submitted to artificial rainfall, with an emphasis on the early stage of a rain event. In this almost two-dimensional experiment, the infiltrating rainwater forms a groundwater reservoir which exits the aquifer through one side. The resulting outflow resembles a typical stream hydrograph: the water discharge increases rapidly during rainfall a...

Hydrograph recession constants are required in rainfall-runoff models, base flow augmentation studies, geohydrologic investigations and in regional low-flow studies. The recession portion of a streamflow hydrograph is shown to be either an autoregressive process or an integrated moving average process, depending upon the structure of the assumed model errors. Six different estimators of the bas...

r a 200 .007 : +1 302 del.edu Summary The contributions of hillslope and riparian sources of runoff to streamflow were determined for four catchments (1.6–696 ha) in the Point Peter Brook watershed, a glaciated, forested, watershed in Western New York, USA. Investigations were performed for 10 storm events of varying size, intensity, and antecedent moisture conditions. Hydrometric, geochemical,...

[i] Nitrate (NO^~) leakage from forested watersheds due to disturbance is a well documented but not well understood process that can contribute to the degradation of receiving waters through eutrophication. Several studies have shown that large-scale defoliation and deforestation events in small forested watersheds in the eastern United States cause immediate and dramatic increases in NO^ flux ...