Sentences with phrase «hydrology as»

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.

The piece about the Greenland ice sheet had not a peep about the effect of geothermal activity under the ice sheet and the basal melting that is occurring driving the vigorous subglacial hydrology as outlined in Rogozhina et al, 2016.

They never tried to apply «conductivity» to Hydrology as common knowledge in Soil Physics.

Not exact matches

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 crisiAs 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 crisias the community recovers from the PFOA water contamination crisis.

For the first 5 years of her daughter's life, Katerina Michaelides, a senior lecturer in hydrology at the University of Bristol, had to keep her full - time workload to the standard hours of professional child care so that she could look after her daughter in the mornings and evenings as sole parent while her academic husband spent his weeks working at a university approximately 650 kilometers away.

Projects would be ranked on a scale of one to five according to their likely effects on biodiversity, ecology, hydrology and erosion as well as on broader issues regarding regional planning, cultural heritage and effect on local inhabitants.

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 Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group of Wageningen University & Research together with the Department of Geophysics and Meteorology of Bogor Agricultural University IPB, Indonesia, was investigating the link between drought and wildfires, as part of a joint Indonesian - Dutch project funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

The Hydrology and Earth System Sciences study highlights the need to carefully interpret dripwater cave data, and to also look into changes in its trace metals, as opposed to only δ18O, when analysing it.

The Foundation's remit is to explore these caves on physical and scientific grounds, blending disciplines such as climatology, geology, hydrology, and biology.

«We found that poultry waste processed as hydrochar produced 24 percent higher net energy generation,» says student researcher Vivian Mau and Prof. Amit Gross, chair of the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology at BGU's Zuckerberg Institute.

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.»

Wildlife is greatly affected by other aspects of farm practices, such as crop rotations, says study coordinator Les Firbank of the Centre for Hydrology and Ecology.

In addition, agriculture accounts for at least 85 percent of human water consumption — a growing concern as aquifers diminish and hydrology changes in the face of climate change.

In a study published last month in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Georgescu demonstrated that these effects change with the seasons and have consequences for regional hydrology, as well.

development of a regional scale earth system model that includes coupling WRF with other earth system components such as ocean, sea ice, land surface hydrology, ecosystem, and chemistry; and

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.

Concurrently, Prof. Weisbrod serves as head of BGU's Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology.

If we talk about the basic definition of hydrology, then it is clear that it is a branch of environmental science which is related to the study of water bodies as a whole.

But as Hank also notes, this isn't a global average, maybe as you say changes in hydrology contributed.

It would also mean less support to agriculture, as intact natural ecosystems have important effects on hydrology and on the viability of natural (and possibly semi-domesticated) pollinators, as well as tending to stabilize populations of pest species.

In his office on the fourth floor of the Institute's Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology, and Glaciology, Aellen tugged at the woolly gray beard that framed his face as he recalled watching the subject of a lifetime of research melt away.

Shifts can be relatively minor or can involve major change in surface temperature, hydrology or biology in as little as a decade.

Lofgren, B. M., T. S. Hunter, and J. Wilbarger, 2011: Effects of using air temperature as a proxy for potential evapotranspiration in climate change scenarios of Great Lakes basin hydrology.

The implications are profound — unpredictable shifts in temperature and hydrology every 20 to 30 years and the potential for major climate shifts in as little as a decade being just two.

As noted by Reager (2016) in A Decade of Sea Level Rise Slowed by Climate - Driven Hydrology, researchers had determined the seasonal delay in the return of precipitation to the oceans causes sea levels to oscillate by 17 ± 4 mm [~ 0.7 inches] per year.

The target readers for this publication are hydrologists, hydrogeologists and isotope experts dealing with catchment hydrology and management of water resources, as well as technical cooperation project counterparts in Member States.

This is reproduced as Fig. 15 in Koutsoyiannis (2013) Hydrology and Change.»

Abrupt climate changes have repeatedly affected the planet, including local changes of as much as a 10 °C in a decade and changes in hydrology by a factor of two.

Changes in the climate state can be fast and furious — local changes in temperature of as much as 10 degrees C in as little as a decade and shifts in hydrology by a factor of two.

There are as well dramatic impacts on global hydrology and biology.

«But whether carbon comes out as carbon dioxide or methane is dependent on hydrology and other fine - scale processes that models have a poor ability to resolve.

It is seen in regime changes in cloud, ice, ocean and atmospheric circulation, hydrology and biology that are evident in climate records and that are best described as shifts in state space on the multi-dimensional climate strange attractor at 20 to 30 year intervals.

Such things as drops of 10 degrees in places in as little as a decade and abrupt shifts in hydrology and ocean states.

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.

I can only recommend Bejan's work regarding the Constructal Law, as it has a number of applications in hydrology.

As I said in another comment, this research is new for hydrology (and climatology) and a lot of things have to be investigated.

*» Modern hydrology places nearly all its emphasis on science - as - knowledge, the hypotheses of which are increasingly expressed as physical models, whose predictions are tested by correspondence to quantitative data sets.

It changes surface hydrology, carbon and nutrient — cycling, fire regimes and ecologies — as my reference suggested.

Following the trend in global modelling, RCMs are increasingly coupled interactively with other components of the climate system, such as regional ocean and sea ice (e.g., Bailey and Lynch 2000; Döscher et al., 2002; Rinke et al., 2003; Bailey et al., 2004; Meier et al., 2004; Sasaki et al., 2006a), hydrology, and with interactive vegetation (Gao and Yu, 1998; Xue et al., 2000).

This complex interplay between soil hydrology, fire, and vegetation may have potential predictability on multi-year timescales and will be referred to as a fire cycle.

Also, forcings calculated in this manner are not as easy to compute as conventional radiative forcings, nor are they as comparable among different GCMs because of differences in model dynamics and hydrology.

Research is pursued in the natural sciences, such as microbiology, ecology and the other environmental sciences; earth sciences, such as hydrology, geography, and geomorphology; political science and law as they relate to the environment; environmental economics and other social sciences, and computer science or geo - informatics.

The gate controls were run as if the drought projections were the only side of the equation worth considering, because the policy planners built the hydrology infrastructure as if either one or the other possibility would threaten at the same time.

As a result, studies on glacial melt that describe a basin's hydrology lack direct evidence and sometimes appear to be inconsistent (1, 24).

As an aside, I'd also mention that her paper talks about other land usage issues going on well before the 19th century (farming 2000 years ago, deforestation, stoneage sites, etc. as well as changing hydrologyAs an aside, I'd also mention that her paper talks about other land usage issues going on well before the 19th century (farming 2000 years ago, deforestation, stoneage sites, etc. as well as changing hydrologyas well as changing hydrologyas changing hydrology).

They provide material on the science of climate change assuming that the users already have a basic understanding of geophysical fluid dynamics, and relevant physical processes such as radiation transfer, diffusion, the hydrological cycle, and cloud physics along with some understanding of air chemistry, hydrology, and oceanography.

I admit, I stay out of Australia as much as possible, but every time I do look that way, I'm told with increasing certainty that the Great Barrier Reef is dying rapidly, and more and more blame is being laid at the feet of governments» and businesses» bad hydrology practices with less and less uncertainty.

The studies highlight the challenges for Earth system models to include a more complete representation of irrigation, surface and subsurface hydrology, as well as water management to simulate realistic irrigation effects on climate.

Of course things are not as simple as this with many other factors such as nutrient supply, surface solar insolation and wind speed coming into play as can be seen in the model studies of Herb et al. (Journal of Hydrology (2008) 356, 327 — 343).