Sentences with phrase «groundwater hydrology»

While this research has been underway, GFDL scientists have also embarked on extensive development of the land surface model, including integrated and detailed treatment of surface and groundwater hydrology as well as dynamic vegetation including the carbon cycle and human land use / alteration.

Prerequisites: ESM 202, 203, and 222, or instructor permission; groundwater hydrology strongly recommended.

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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.

The maps obtained are a source of essential and unprecedented information on the spatial and temporal structure of the Amazon groundwater and a major advance for hydrology.

Storm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquifers.

Recent multi-model inter-comparison efforts considered the effect of climate change and irrigation on global hydrology, but lacked the assessment on groundwater resources.

Using an Earth system framework for the future, researchers will explore the combined effects of groundwater pumping, changing irrigated areas, and specific crop types and crop growth on global hydrology.

Now with the rainy season underway Berkeley Lab's research — which seeks to understand how the hydrology and microbiology of the surface and groundwater system respond to extreme events — has become even more critical.