Sentences with phrase «from hydrology»

This data is critical for everything from hydrology, risk management, construction planning, and telecommunications.

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Terry Marsh from the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology said: «We can expect a longer period with enhanced risk of flooding.

As the lead educational organization in the Hoosick area, continuing research and education on hydrology and geology is vital as the community recovers from the PFOA water contamination crisis.

The water security work of the incoming AAAS Leshner Fellows draws from varied disciplines, including anthropology, civil engineering, biological and environmental sciences, geography, hydrology, political science and economics, plant genetics and horticulture.

The new study covers the entire U.S. West, from the High Plains states to the Pacific coast, and provides the first detailed look at how groundwater recharge may change as the climate changes, said senior author Thomas Meixner, UA professor and associate department head of hydrology and atmospheric sciences.

«Our results show that the hydrology and ecology communities need to collaborate to understand how mountain landscapes will change 50 or a 100 years from now in the Sierra or elsewhere,» Bart said.

The scientists warn that climate change threatens these habitats, not only from rising temperatures increasing peat decomposition, but also via altered rainfall patterns — with summer droughts drastically affecting the blanket bog hydrology.

That fact is scientifically supported and not controversial among scientists who study climate from a broad range of disciplines, including geology, geophysics, geography, paleoclimatology, glaciology, hydrology, ecology, evolutionary biology, environmental studies and oceanography.

One of forest ecology's fundamental undertakings has long focused on how tree growth is influenced by a host of environmental factors ranging from soils and elevation to hydrology and climate.

They pinned more faith on a local system developed for them by the Institute of Hydrology in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, which bases its predictions on rainfall measurements collected electronically from a network of rain gauges.

With the goal of providing basic information to help improve preparedness and mitigation efforts, new University of Iowa - led research published online in September in the Journal of Hydrology examined how accurate current forecasting systems are in predicting rainfall from North Atlantic tropical cyclones that reach land in the United States.

Some $ 76 million of the research increase, however would come from giving NSF control of three research programs now at other agencies: the Sea Grant marine research program controlled by the Department of Commerce, and hydrology and environmental education programs run by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Environmental Protection Agency, respectively.

The ecosystem, encompassing nearly 4 million acres from near Orlando to the Florida Bay, is threatened by a number of disturbances including changes in hydrology and land use.

«Our [eight diesel generators] are protected from the seismic and hydrology hazards expected in the area,» in addition to being buried in hardened facilities, says TVA spokesman, Terry Johnson, which operates three such boiling - water reactors at Browns Ferry.

This has severely damaged the soils and the quality of water in the region,» explains Professor Markus Disse from the Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management at TUM.

Lead author Dr Bethan Purse from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said, «Our new study indicates that environmental factors, particularly habitat, have made some areas of Britain such as cities more vulnerable to rapid invasion of the harlequin ladybird than other areas, even after recording intensity and proximity to initial invasion sites are accounted for.»

«The Clean Air Act is arguably the most important and successful environmental law in the United States, both from a human health standpoint and the environment,» said Sickman, a professor of hydrology and the chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences.

Co-author Dr Helen Roy from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said, «This study demonstrates the value of a citizen science approach for tracking an invasive alien species in both space and time and understanding how environmental conditions may exacerbate spread.»

The new study, led by scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology working with the Universities of Edinburgh, Anglia Ruskin (Cambridge), and Reading, sought to understand the effect of both landscape and climactic factors on the spread of this ladybird.

A large group of government researchers from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Merlewood, Rothamsted Research, and the Scottish Crop Research Institute designed a trial that would pit three GM crops against conventional counterparts in some 60 fields across the country.

The research team led by Professor Richard Bardgett, now at The University of Manchester, and Professor Nick Ostle of Lancaster University, included scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) at Lancaster and Wallingford, Vigo University in Spain, and Landcare in New Zealand.

Co-author Dr Alison Kay from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said: «Our hydrological modelling suggests that the increased likelihood of extreme rainfall arising from human - made climate change gives a more modest increase in extreme flows in the River Thames.

«I welcome the fact that independent expert evidence from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and the wider scientific community, has been taken into consideration by the European Commission and the UK Government with regard to further restrictions proposed on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.

Four of the UK's leading flooding experts from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology came to the SMC to speak to journalists.

From the Prize Council: «If we are going to talk about hydrology in the 21st century, and the challenges hydrologists face, clearly the overwhelming challenge is to understand hydrologic variability, and the likely impact on hydrology of anticipated climate change.

Globalised markets mean that whenever you buy a T - shirt made of Pakistani cotton, eat Thai rice or drink coffee from Central America, you are influencing the hydrology of those regions - taking a share of the river Indus, the Mekong or the Costa Rican rains.

They spent one week at the Historic Lifeboat Station working with staff from Point Reyes National Seashore and the National Park Service, conducting research on ecological projects, including plant species distribution, hydrology profiling, and fish monitoring.

The analyses to date have been limited to the Jason ground track coverage between 66 ° S and 66 ° N, regions where Argo has profiled 900 m or deeper, and areas away from coasts in order to limit potential leakage of land hydrology into the GRACE gravity signals...

After they learn an advanced hydrology from US 6,766,817 we can expect some huge advancement on Fuel Cell systems.

There are around 22,000 issued patents on wick / wicking near worthless coming from lay people not in Hydrology.

So, people playing with hydrology in the patenting affairs, like fuel cell technology, are ignoring an advanced hydrology from text books.

On that front, both a report from a workshop organized by the National Academy of Sciences, «Global Change and Extreme Hydrology,» and an international meeting on «Metrics and methodologies of estimation of extreme climate events» concluded that questions outnumber answers and there's a lot of work to be done.

Experts decry the practice of building levees to shield new construction from risks because water displaced by such barriers must, thanks to gravity and hydrology, go somewhere else.

Regarding posts 4 and 10 from Tim Jones regarding: Huntington, T. G. 2006, Evidence for intensification of the global water cycle: review and synthesis, Journal of Hydrology, 319:83 - 95.

According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province, in the province, approximately 26,000 people died from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine.

To address these global challenges, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) jointly funded a workshop that brought together experts in limnology, aquatic biogeochemistry, atmospheric science, glaciology, and hydrology from the United States and China.

On decadal and longer time scales, global mean sea level change results from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate change, that alter the volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).

The study, led by José Miguel Azañón of the University of Granada and Rosa Maria Mateos from the Spanish Geological Survey, published in the Journal of Hydrology, is based on data that the authors say «are not alarming, and do not imply any risk at the moment.

It is related to changes in the Pacific — so changes in global temperature and hydrology from the «Great Pacific Climate Shift».

This report presents findings from computer modeling of the impacts of potential climate change on hydrology and water availability (changes in runoff, basin yield, and flooding).

These studies investigate everything from the increased risk of birth defects and depression to impacts on biodiversity and hydrology.

He has a Ph.D. in hydrology and climatology from the Australian National University.

The National Hydrological Monitoring Programme study, carried out by scientists from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and the British Hydrological Society, is published today on the anniversary of Storm Desmond − the most destructive of several named storms during three months of «remarkably persistent and exceptionally mild cyclonic» activity.

The US «special report» focuses on climate science talking points — surface temperature (instruments at 2m from the ground and ocean surface temperature), hydrology, climate sensitivity, sea level rise, acidification, etc..

Soil moisture in ERA5 also benefits from other documented changes, including enhanced evaporation over bare soil, the introduction of seasonality for vegetation and a new snow hydrology.

The recent marine biota in the Mediterranean Sea is primarily derived from the Atlantic Ocean, but the wide range of climate and hydrology have contributed to the co-occurrence and survival of both temperate and subtropical organisms [18], [19].

I understood from my studies in hydrology that much of the variation in 20th century floods and drought was quite natural.

Perhaps you could learn from someone who has actually worked on these things — well not mountain mines as we don't have mountains in Queensland — at any rate someone whose scientific speciality is hydrology, sedimentology and biogeochemical cycling in fluvial, marine and hyrogeological systems — but you show little sign of learning anything.

That is, the nations with the least developed economies have experienced the highest rates of soil erosion, according to a team from the University of Basel in Switzerland, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and the UK's Centre for Hydrology and Ecology.

This presentation contains a brief history of the study of the HK pragmaticity, from where it can be seen that the widest use of HK ideas is made in electronic networks and not in hydrology.