Inverse distributed hydrological modelling of alpine catchments H. Kunstmann, J. Krause, and S. Mayr Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Kreuzeckbahnstraße 19, 82 467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen,Germany Institute of Geographic Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstraße 74–100, 12 249 Berlin, Germany Received: 6 October 2005 – Accepted: 19 Oc...

A project which sets out to explore alternative methods of regionalisation for prediction of streamflow in ungauged catchments is described. A commonly applied regionalisation methodology estimates model parameters for the ungauged basin from multiple linear regressions between parameters and catchment attributes, calibrated on gauged catchments. Its effectiveness is limited by the availability...

Soil loss expectation and possible relationships among soil erosion, riparian vegetation and water quality were studied in the São José dos Dourados River basin, State of São Paulo, Brazil. Through Geographic Information System (GIS) resources and technology, Soil Loss Expectation (SLE) data obtained using the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) model were analyzed. For the whole catchment area...

This paper examines the potential of scatterometer data from ERS satellites for improving hydrological simulations in both gauged and ungauged catchments. We compare the soil moisture dynamics simulated by a semidistributed hydrologic model in 320 Austrian catchments with the soil moisture dynamics inferred from the satellite data. The most apparent differences occur in the Alpine areas. Assimi...

Experimental results are described to evaluate the diffuse pollution profile according to land use in the catchments and street sweeping as a best management practice (BMP). We studied the variation of pollutant concentrations in outfalls discharging runoff from residential, commercial and high-traffic areas and in street sweeping. Pollution profiles varied with the land use in the catchments a...

Aquatic ecosystems are fuelled by biogeochemical inputs from surrounding lands and within-lake primary production. Disturbances that change these inputs may affect how aquatic ecosystems function and deliver services vital to humans. Here we test, using a forest cover gradient across eight separate catchments, whether disturbances that remove terrestrial biomass lower organic matter inputs into...

The urgent demand of integrated water resources management has drawn attention to the issue of transnational water bodies that comprise exploitable resources for two or more countries. It is estimated that 50% of the global surface is lying on transboundary catchments and this percentage is continually increasing due to the creation of new nations, while around 40% of the earth’s population res...

The development of new hydrological models and the enhancement of the existing models are needed for water management. For instance, increasing rainfall may accelerate water erosion in watersheds and raise the probability of flooding events in the urban areas. The impacts include environmental and social-economic conditions. The hydrologic models SEADS, a physical process based model and GURUH,...

Analysis of hydrochemical behaviour during storm events can provide new insights into the process controls on nutrient transport in catchments. The examination of storm behaviours using hysteresis analysis has increased in recent years, partly due to the increased availability of high temporal resolution data sets for discharge and water quality parameters. A number of these analyses involve th...