Remote sensing provides a means of observing hydrological state variables over large areas. The ones which we will consider in this paper are land surface temperature from thermal infrared data, surface soil moisture from passive microwave data, snow cover using both visible and microwave data, water quality using visible and near-infrared data and estimating landscape surface roughness using l...

Journal of Environmental Hydrology Volume 17 Paper 7 February 2009 1 A parallelized large-scale regional hydrologic soil model (RHSM) is developed as a tool for large-scale unsaturated zone investigations. It is applied to simulate the temporal and spatial responses of the unsaturated zone and the regional water budget under the forcing of realistic precipitation and evaporation scenarios. The ...

Climate induced temporal variation, spatial patterns of vegetation and microenvironments, plant growth forms, soils and geology, and topographic factors influence hydrologicprocesses in rangelandenvironments. In Part I of this study,a gradient analy sis of 13 environmental variables identified temporal and spatial gradients in sagebrush coppice and interspacesoil surface cover types. Spatial co...

Citation: Girard P, Levison J, Parrott L, Larocque M, Ouellet M-A and Green DM (2015) Modeling cross-scale relationships between climate, hydrology, and individual animals: generating scenarios for stream salamanders. Front. Environ. Sci. 3:51. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2015.00051 Modeling cross-scale relationships between climate, hydrology, and individual animals: generating scenarios for stream sal...

Curvature distribution within hillslopes and catchments and its effect on the hydrological response P. W. Bogaart and P. A. Troch Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands now at: Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA Received: 23 March 2006 – Accepted: 26 April 2006 – Published: 20 June 2006 ...

Andrew W. Western1, Rodger B. Grayson1, and Günter Blöschl2 1Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology and Centre for Environmental Applied Hydrology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 2Institut für Hydraulik, Gewässerkunde und Wasserwirtschaft...

The paper addresses the role of the conceptual rainfall-runoff modelling approach in hydrology on a scientific and technological context. From this analysis, suggestions for modelling and further research in this field are proposed. K E Y W O R D S : model development; model use; conceptual rainfall-runoff modelling; epistemology; hydrology.

1 Co-operative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Melbourne ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected]). 2 Co-operative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology and the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne (idruth@unimel...