Sentences with phrase «including hydrologic»

Their study will include the hydrologic responses such as runoff and streamflow over land and atmospheric processes above the boundary layer.

Some of the major human activities responsible for the destruction of wetlands in India include hydrologic alteration, agricultural activities, pollution, legal - policy failures, direct deforestation in wetlands, inundation by dammed reservoirs, degradation of water quality, global climate change effects, ground - water depletion and introduced species — extinction of native biota.

Not exact matches

In several other studies, including a number that examined flooding in the Clear Creek watershed, Blessing, Brody, Sebastian and SSPEED colleagues have shown that other approaches, like distributed hydrologic modeling and probabilistic flood plain mapping, can be far more predictive of flood damages and flood risk.

Keiluweit, assistant professor in UMass Amherst's School of Earth and Sustainability, says the team's next steps include quantifying the amount of anaerobic microsites in different soil ecosystems and assessing how carbon stabilization in them is affected by variables such as the soil hydrologic regime, which is expected to change dramatically due to climate change.

He has developed new technologies for conservation assessments, including tropical forest carbon emissions and stocks, hydrologic function and biodiversity.

shallow ice model ice model that explicitly includes latent heat transfer by meltwater (CHW is cryo - hydrologic warming).

This paper briefly reviews the current state of science regarding historical trends in hydrologic variables, including precipitation, runoff, tropospheric water vapor, soil moisture, glacier mass balance, evaporation, evapotranspiration, and growing season length.

If so, I think we want to include tightly coupled chemical and biological processes, in that case — for example, the chemical fate of atmospheric methane over time, the effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 on oceanic acid - base chemistry, and the response of the biological components of the carbon cycle to increased temperatures and a changing hydrologic cycle.

Urban forest ecosystems can provide many benefits to cities and communities including energy conservation, contributing to global biodiversity, and maintaining hydrologic and nutrient cycles.

Water levels: The 2009 NCA93 included predictions of a significant drop in Great Lakes levels by the end of the century, based on methods of linking climate models to hydrologic models.

The school will also teach the importance of understanding the physical mechanisms that produce many of the most impactful extreme events, including «complex» hydrologic extremes such as drought and the role of coupled land - atmosphere feedback mechanisms in amplifying extreme temperature events.

Overall, the GCM — BCSD — VIC approach, for now, remains the preferred approach for projecting basin - scale future hydrologic changes, provided that it explicitly accounts for the biases and includes plausible snow and runoff parameterizations.

Hydrologic modeling is performed by the variable infiltration capacity (VIC) model at a 1/8 ° resolution and the model is driven by climate scenarios provided by the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) including nine regional climate model (RCM) simulations.

Their work involved using a hydrologic model that included a simple representation of glaciers, run by statistically - downscaled output from global climate models, in order to come up with projected changes to evaporation, precipitation, runoff, snow, soil moisture and temperature in the Canadian portion of the Columbia River Basin.

«In large part, the answer is that the basin has become hotter, which modifies several facets of the hydrologic cycle that lie between precipitation and runoff, including evapotranspiration and sublimation rates, the timing of snowmelt and soil moisture characteristics,» according to the paper.

The modular format provides flexibility for numerous types of wetland restoration projects including those that require hydrologic management, as well as allowing Project Proponents to select whether wetland loss will be included in the baseline.

Like any other region of the world, the state is subject to extreme hydrologic events, including both floods and droughts.

Regarding the hydrologic cycle, multiple factors operate, including important changes in atmospheric circulation patterns, as Chris Colose mentioned.

As a people, we share common stories shaped by our reverence of water, by living with a dynamic hydrologic regime, and by the successes and failures of our forebearers to reshape an arid landscape to include water.

He has developed new technologies for conservation assessments, including tropical forest carbon emissions and stocks, hydrologic function and biodiversity.

Coverage spans a wide range of topics, including Ecological Impacts; Advances in Modeling; Sea Level Projections; Extreme Events; Climate Feedback and Sensitivity; Hydrologic Impact; Effects on Human Health; and Economics and Policy Issues.

The latter include damages associated with aerosol - induced hydrologic cycle changes that lead to net climate benefits when reducing cooling aerosols.

I have over 25 years of professional experience in Hydrologic / Hydraulic modeling and analyses of watersheds, bridges / culverts with scour analyses, stormwater management, floodplain mapping, site and roadway drainage design, erosion and sediment control along with excellent report preparation skills including eye - catching Excel worksheets and graphs as well as drawings.