Sentences with phrase «for hydrologic»

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Rodenhuis, D.R., A.T. Werner, K.E. Bennett, T.Q. Murdock, 2007: Research Plan for Hydrologic Impacts: Program Definition (2007 — 2010), Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium report, 34 pp.
Overall, DBCCA passed the greatest number of tests for the ClimDEX indices, while BCCAQ, which is designed to more accurately resolve event - scale spatial gradients, passed the greatest number of tests for hydrologic extremes.
Biogeochemical evidence for hydrologic change during the Holocene in a lake sediment record from southeast Greenland., The Holocene, 23, 1428 - 1439.
For the hydrologic projections, the GCM data were downscaled to a 1 / 16 - degree resolution using Bias - Correction Spatial Disaggregation (BCSD)(Wood et al. 2004) following Werner (2011).
The forecasting relies on monthly data for October - April to forecast mass balance for the hydrologic year which ends in October.
They will define Biosphere and explain why it is important For the Hydrologic cycle (water cycle) The Nitrogen cycle The Carbon cycle The oxygen cycle Students will define each one Explain it's importance draw and label a diagram for each cycle.
A model for the hydrologic and climatic behavior of water on Mars.

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«The consequences are both an altered hydrologic regime — which has implications for farming, urban water use and the environment — as well as degradation of streamwater quality,» he says.
Some of the findings in the report also directly contradict longstanding arguments by the drilling industry for why the fracking process is safe: that hydrologic pressure would naturally force fluids down, not up; that deep geologic layers provide a watertight barrier preventing the movement of chemicals towards the surface; and that the problems with the cement and steel barriers around gas wells aren't connected to fracking.
The scientists analyzed 76 years of data (1938 through 2013) collected from six unmanaged, reference watersheds at the SRS Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory located in the southern Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, to determine whether annual water yield from those watersheds has changed over time, and if so, to determine causes for significant changes.
I chose environmental engineering as opposed to environmental science because I wanted a math - and - modeling focus on the hydrologic sciences... and because, quite frankly, more full graduate scholarships were available for women engineers than for women scientists.
The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) hosts the public database with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Bridget Scanlon discusses the use of global hydrologic models for studying changes in water storage worldwide.
Understanding how human water use would respond to global warming and its combined effects on the hydrologic cycle is important for better designing mitigation and adaption strategies to the global change in the future.
Overall, consistent with the findings of Huntington (2006), the evidence for increases in both severe droughts and heavy rains (Section 3.8.2) in many regions of the world makes it likely that hydrologic conditions have become more intense.
The water cycle (or hydrologic cycle) describes the methods of transport for water in the hydrosphere.
He has developed new technologies for conservation assessments, including tropical forest carbon emissions and stocks, hydrologic function and biodiversity.
They have provided a much better understanding of hydrologic responses to climate change, which in turn will provide tremendous guidance for future planning.»
Here's the problem forests and forest managers face under climate change: Increasing global mean temperatures, changes in precipitation, and the hydrologic cycle are expected to lead to temperature and drought stress for many tree species.
After finishing his Ph.D. (University of Extremadura, Spain) on integrated physics - based hydrologic modeling for semiarid rangelands, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis on the interactions between hydrology and agriculture in tropical regions.
What is Irrigation, Necessity of Irrigation, Advantages and disadvantages of Irrigation - Irrigation can be defined as human manipulation of the hydrologic While nanotechnology is seen as the way of the future and is a technology that a lot of people think will bring a lot of benefit for all who will be using it,
Farther along, he proudly points out what he considers the playground's pièce de résistance, another water pump set in a plot of dirt just the right consistency to make dark, viscous mud for castles, mud pies, dams, waterfalls, alluvial floodplains, and other joy - producing, pint - size hydrologic projects.
NOAA's National Weather Service provides weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas, for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy.
I was removed by NOAA NWS for doing research on climate and hydrologic change on July 15, 2005.
Operational hydrologic modeling requires precipitation, temperatures and other meteorological data for input.
I believe that I was harassed by my supervisor and others in NWS for over a year after the suspension, related to my concerns on climate and hydrologic change as that can affect hydrologic modeling which NWS river forecast centers uses for flood and water supply forecasting.
To my mind the more important result of this review paper was in the synthesis of information from many discipines that point towards an ongoing intensification of the hydrologic cycle — not that I did not find evidence for more frequent or intense storms.
... The National Weather Service (NWS) makes observations and measurements of atmospheric phenomena as required for climatological, hydrologic, meteorological, and oceanographic services.
I removed as a federal employee in July of 2005 for objecting to not be able to study or talk about climate and hydrologic change while at the office.
The hydrologic cycle can change because of changes in plant cover — it's a common observation that after a forest fire or logging, streams and springs will flow higher and longer for a period of years.
The material on atmospheric interactions and physics underlying the greenhouse effect, seemed appropriate for my poster development at that time, in relation to my duties at work in hydrologic forecasting and model development.
My studies on climate and hydrologic change in the Upper Midwest, and my operational experience with snowmelt runoff and flooding (1976 - 2000), convinced me to do a poster on hydrologic change in the Upper Midwest for the gathering in 2000 (a later article in 2003 is at http://www.mnforsustain.org).
If so, I think we want to include tightly coupled chemical and biological processes, in that case — for example, the chemical fate of atmospheric methane over time, the effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 on oceanic acid - base chemistry, and the response of the biological components of the carbon cycle to increased temperatures and a changing hydrologic cycle.
It should be an ideal one: global supply is fixed by the hydrologic cycle, trade is severely limited by technical constraints, and, for many uses, no substitute exists.
These methods have been significantly improved by fully coupling the hydrologic cycle among land, lake, and atmosphere.94, 95 Without accounting for that cycle of interactions, a study96 concluded that increases in precipitation would be negated by increases in winter evaporation from less ice cover and by increases in summer evaporation and evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, under a scenario of continued increases in global emissions (SRES A2 scenario).
The pattern of change for the wettest day of the year is projected to roughly follow that of the average precipitation, with both increases and decreases across the U.S. Extreme hydrologic events are projected to increase over most of the U.S.
This would be very useful for studying regional climate and hydrologic within the early portion of the 20th Century.
Corrected the sentence for you — because of course, it is already well known in traditional real world science that the Water Cycle, which you call the «hydrologic cycle», is a negative feedback.
Application of the VIC model and the generation of hydrologic projections for the Peace, Fraser, upper Columbia and Campbell River watersheds are described in Shrestha et al. (2012) and Schnorbus et al. (2011, 2014).
Any mass balance changes occurring before the actual accumulation season begins is a measured mass loss or gain for the next hydrologic year.
With the impact of climate change, sole reliance on historical hydrologic weather patterns is no longer a viable forecast for water authorities.
Wood, A. W., A. Kumar, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2005: A retrospective assessment of National Centers for Environmental Prediction climate model — based ensemble hydrologic forecasting in the western United States.
A retrospective assessment of National Centers for Environmental Prediction climate model — based ensemble hydrologic forecasting in the western United States
Wood, A. W., and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2006: A test bed for new seasonal hydrologic forecasting approaches in the western United States.
Researchers at CIRES» National Snow and Ice Data Center [About NSIDC] investigate the dynamics of Antarctic ice shelves, new techniques for the remote sensing of snow and freeze / thaw cycle of soils, the role of snow in hydrologic modeling, linkages between changes in sea ice extent and weather patterns, large - scale shifts in polar climate, river and lake ice, and the distribution and characteristics of seasonally and permanently frozen ground.
The Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrologic model set - up for the Fraser River basin, British Columbia, Canada was used as a test - bed for the two systems.
Overall, the GCM — BCSD — VIC approach, for now, remains the preferred approach for projecting basin - scale future hydrologic changes, provided that it explicitly accounts for the biases and includes plausible snow and runoff parameterizations.
Hydrologic simulation is performed by driving the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model over the Pacific Northwest region, for historical and future time periods.
Here, we test the ability of gridded downscaling models to replicate historical properties of climate and hydrologic extremes, as measured in terms of temporal sequencing (i.e., correlation tests) and distributional properties (i.e., tests for equality of probability distributions).
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