Sentences with phrase «hydrology models»

Climate projections were statistically downscaled and used to drive a macro-scale hydrology model at high spatial resolution.

These Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (CMIP3) simulations were statistically downscaled and used to drive the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrology model over several watersheds.

He also recently led the implementation of the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) macro-scale hydrology model to investigate the effects of mountain pine beetle and salvage harvest operations within the Fraser River watershed.

RASM (Kamal et al.), 3.61 (± 0.5), Modeling (fully - coupled) We used the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM), which is a limited - area, fully coupled climate model consisting of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Parallel Ocean Program (POP) and Sea Ice Model (CICE) and the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) land hydrology model (Maslowski et al. 2012; Roberts et al. 2014; DuVivier et al. 2015; Hamman et al. 2016).

Working from a set of projections from eight different global climate models being driven by three different emissions scenarios, the authors used statistical downscaling to drive a hydrology model to determine what changes could be seen to the hydrology of these regions.

Not exact matches

The researchers used over 300 statistical relationships to test if models integrating hydrology (hydroclimate - oriented models, including, e.g. recharge, H - CLIM) would perform better than models using climate only (climate - oriented models, CLIM).

An ensemble of the 13 best performing models was used, both for CLIM and H - CLIM to predict the spatially - distributed mean and maximum area burnt for the period 1950 - 2015 to explore to what extent hydrology adds.

The research team is consulting currently with the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (funded by USAID) to develop similar models for the Caribbean region.

Researchers with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, publishing online Sept. 19 in the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, developed a mathematical model and conducted experiments suggesting these small spills may be a larger issue than previously thought.

Mulukutla, whose research area is in hydrology and water quality, says it could be useful in developing models that simulate sediment transport in rivers and streams.

Although the sites aren't ideal for the tortoises now, detailed modeling of rainfall, temperature, swamp hydrology, and tortoise biology predict they will be in half a century.

The study, called «Modeling the effects of adopting agroforestry on basin scale surface runoff and sediment yield in the Philippines,» uses a computer - based Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to simulate the effects of different land uses on watershed hydrology and the ecosystem services provided by the Gabayan watershed.

Watershed data on basin hydrology, climate, land use and fertilization were factored into the model.

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 also believe that hydrologists and meteorologists should be making efforts to account for climate change in meteorology and hydrology, modeling and predictions.

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.

[Response: My latest research publication is entitled A model of the methane cycle, permafrost, and hydrology of the Siberian continental margin.

Ultimately, it would be nice to see followup forward modeling studies which attempt to use all potentially relevant variables, rather than the simplified model form we use (which is generally justified at treeline — but perhaps only to first order approximation, i.e. some of the details of changing hydrology and solar insolatino might still matter in these environments.).

Promote field and modeling efforts to predict how atmospheric forcings will degrade near - surface permafrost and alter the surface energy balance and hydrology in the Arctic, at local to regional scales.

The package contains rudimentary instructions on how to run the models and sample output and log files with parameter settings for a few model configurations (dry, moist, moist with bucket surface hydrology).

Yeh, X. Fu, and E.A.B. Eltahir, 2015: Uncertainty in modeled and observed climate change impacts on American Midwest hydrology.

Research interests: Nexus of physical climate and human systems, including effects of explicit irrigation on non-local hydrology in climate models, effects of MJO amplification on flood extremes and tropical cyclogenesis.

In this study we examine the impact of SAL effects on ocean mass redistribution under different surface loads (land hydrology, atmospheric pressure, ocean dynamics), using a number of geophysical models and GRACE observations.

ARCTIC-WISE: Bridging Northern Knowledges of Change Subsea Permafrost and the Methane Cycle on the Siberian Continental Shelf: Predictive Modelling for Climate Change David Archer, Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 5 - 6:30 pm A numerical model called SpongeBOB is used to simulate the hydrology and methane cycle on the Siberian continental shelf.

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).

The purpose is to evaluate model ability to get the seasons right, ocean and atmospheric transport right, hydrology and water vapor right, and so on.

«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.

D. Koutsoyiannis, A toy model of climatic variability with scaling behaviour, Journal of Hydrology, 322, 25 — 48, 2006.

ESM 203 - Earth System Science [4 units] Dozier & Dunne Interactions among the atmosphere, oceans, and land and models of Earth's climate and hydrology.

In hydrology and water resources engineering, in real - time simulations that are used for future projections in transient systems (in contrast to steady - state simulations), it is inconceivable to neglect the initial conditions; likewise, it is inconceivable to claim that a model has good prediction skill for half a century ahead but not for a decade ahead.

*» 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.

Dr. DeLonge has a Ph.D. and M.S. in environmental science from the University of Virginia, where she developed expertise in atmospheric science, hydrology, ecosystem science, and numerical modeling.

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).

It appears, however, that a significant level of variance exists among land models, associated with unresolved differences among parametrization details (particularly difficulties in the modelling of soil hydrology) and parameter sets.

Recognition of the importance of land hydrology for the salinity distribution of the oceans is one reason for seeking improvements in models for routing runoff to the oceans (see more precise cites here and in Chapter 7).

And just 10 have specialisms in geophysics, climate science or modelling, or hydrology.

In Land Surface Hydrology, Meteorology, and Climate: Observations and Modeling.

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.

Stieglitz, M., D. Rind, J. Famiglietti, and C. Rosenzweig, 1997: An efficient approach to modeling the topographic control of surface hydrology for regional and global climate modeling.

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.

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.

They're not doing what they should be doing in a time of global crisis... then they fired me for wanting to do what I believed was my job — to evaluate and take account of climate changes on the hydrology within the NC states of the U.S. for modeling and flood prediction purposes.

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).

Climate impacts on the Community Climate System Model (CCSM 3.0) of making the surface hydrology of the Community Land Model (CLM 3.0) consistent with the Simple Biosphere (SiB 2.0).

It would be nice to see the IPCC make projections for atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations over the next 100 years based at least in part on carbon / nitrogen cycle models, hydrology / permafrost models, and so on.