"Hydrological processes" refers to the movement, distribution, and behavior of water on Earth. It includes processes such as rainfall, evaporation, runoff, and groundwater flow.
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The field of conservation biology identifies four objectives that must be achieved to ensure the longterm viability of an ecosystem: 1) all native ecosystem types must be represented in protected areas; 2) populations of all native species must be maintained in natural patterns of abundance and distribution; 3) ecological processes such
as hydrological processes must be maintained; and 4) the resilience to short - term and long - term environmental change must be maintained.
Nijssen, B., et al., 2003: Simulation of high
latitude hydrological processes in the Torne - Kalix basin: PILPS Phase 2 (e) 2: Comparison of model results with observations.
In geology a vein is defined as a sheet of crystallized minerals usually created
by hydrological processes associated with hydrothermal circulation.
The earth then, receives energy via radiation from a heat source but dissipates it via radiation, conduction and convection (gas and
hydrological process for the latter two mediums).
Relatively rapid degradation of ice - rich permafrost is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact
Arctic hydrological process and increase greenhouse gas emissions.
These schemes improve the representation of observed land
hydrological processes such as runoff, evapotranspiration, and soil water storage (Niu and Yang 2007; Oleson et al. 2008).
They help better understand the large - scale
underground hydrological processes involved in the water cycle, carbon cycle, and maintenance of biodiversity in the Amazon.
Relatively rapid degradation of near - surface, ice - rich permafrost caused by atmospheric forcing is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact
arctic hydrological process and increase greenhouse gas emissions.
Whereas precipitation itself has low predictive skill beyond one season (Collins 2002; Alessandri et al. 2011), the soil moisture content is generally predictable for several seasons ahead due to the high persistence associated with the weak damping effect of
soil hydrological processes (Delworth and Manabe 1988; Wu et al. 2002; Arora and Boer 2006).
Variations in
regional hydrological processes and water resources and their response to change in the environment such as the increase of greenhouse gases will be examined.
In a paper published recently in the
journal Hydrological Processes, PCIC hydrologists Markus Schnorbus and Arelia Werner, and coauthor Katrina Bennett, examine the impacts of climate change in the Peace, Campbell and Columbia River watersheds of British Columbia.
In contrast, the regulation of pH in surface coastal waters is far more complex as it depends on the processes affecting pH in the open ocean as well as watershed inputs of Ca2 +, carbonate alkalinity, inorganic and organic carbon and nutrients, and ecosystem metabolism as well
as hydrological processes that dictate the mixing between open ocean and coastal waters (Table 1).
«Future changes
in hydrological processes and precipitation patterns will have direct consequences for species ranges, tropical forest community composition and ecosystem function,» the researchers write in Nature.
DOERR SH, FERREIRA AJD, WALSH RPD, SHAKESBY RA, LEIGHTON - BOYCE G E COELHO COA Soil water repellency as a potential parameter in rainfall - runoff modelling: experimental evidence at point to catchment scales from Portugal (2003)
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The project was presented to the secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, by Puerto Morelos mayor Laura Fernández Piña who explained that this alliance of work with the Federal Government would modernize access roads to the coastal area, according to
the hydrological processes of the wetland, which will help strengthen the municipality as a sustainable site in the Mexican Caribbean.
Hydrological Processes 29: 5397 - 5413.
The spatial and temporal variation of mass balance on North Cascade glaciers.,
Hydrological Processes.
Hydrological Processes 26, 1840 - 1860, doi: 10.1002 / hyp.9283
Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002 / hyp.9661.
Assessment of a hydrologic model's reliability in simulating flow regime alterations in a changing climate,
Hydrological Processes, 30 (15), doi: 10.1002 / hyp.10812.
Hydrological Processes, 28 (14), doi: 10.1002 / hyp.9997.
In sum,
hydrological processes and energy exchange, especially those involving clouds, surface exchanges, and interactions of these with radiation are crucial for further progress in modelling the atmosphere.
This suggests that the main conclusions from our study on the long - term predictability of
hydrological processes are likely to hold for the higher resolution models and the real world.
Such massive industrialization of the landscape is destroying wildlife habitat, upsetting natural ecological and
hydrological processes, and threatening numerous herds of Canada's threatened woodland caribou and the health of the forest ecosystem.
Hydrological Processes 20 (10): 2157 - 2169.