Sentences with phrase «of hydrology»

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«These precise, high - resolution records illustrate that the chemical anomaly observed in the WAIS Divide ice core was the result of a series of eruptions of Mt. Takahe located 350 kilometers to the north,» explained Monica Arienzo, Ph.D., an assistant research professor of hydrology at DRI who runs the mass spectrometers that enable measurement of these elements to as low as parts per quadrillion (the equivalent of 1 gram in 1,000,000,000,000,000 grams).

The research was part of his doctoral work in the UA Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences.

They pinned more faith on a local system developed for them by the Institute of Hydrology in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, which bases its predictions on rainfall measurements collected electronically from a network of rain gauges.

There has been no long - term comprehensive in - situ monitoring of glacial melt contributing to the knowledge of hydrology in the river basins of the Himalayan region.

«Prior to the arrival of the Europeans, the Native Americans of this region applied their knowledge of hydrology, soils, ecology and agriculture to build a highly productive landscape,» Erickson notes, estimating that building the roughly 1,500 linear kilometers of fish weirs in Baures would have required some 300,000 person - days of labor.

«Cotton is the lifeblood of most farmers who live in the Tarim basin,» says Dr. Christian Rumbaur, employee at the Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management and coordinator of the German / Chinese project.

Such Hurst phenomena have been observed in the stochastic processes of nature in the area of hydrology (Hurst) and also in the proxy record of annual mean surface temperature at a millennial time scale (Barnett).

From 2003 to 2009, Dr. Burek worked at the Federal Institute of Hydrology of Germany to maintain and improve the water level forecasting system WAVOS, which is still in use for navigation and flood forecasting at several forecasting centers for the rivers Rhine, Odra and Elbe.

El Niño strength (4 classes) was determined to find out if the influence of hydrology depends on the strength.

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 bread and butter of hydrology is using physical laws to describe water phenomena.

«It is also important to recognize the importance of hydrology and geology with regard to the sampling results in the Pavillion Field.

With the goal of providing basic information to help improve preparedness and mitigation efforts, new University of Iowa - led research published online in September in the Journal of Hydrology examined how accurate current forecasting systems are in predicting rainfall from North Atlantic tropical cyclones that reach land in the United States.

Using sophisticated filtering processes, she whittled down the original dataset of 11,000 stations to 401 that were well distributed across the country and developed a procedure for separating the effects of hydrology and geomorphology on flood hazard.

Since the CERP was launched, a scientific consensus has developed that the Everglades ecosystem contained much more water historically than previously thought, which means recreating that level of hydrology will require more new water and have different ecological outcomes than first anticipated in the planning.

«The long - term goal of this research group is to bridge the disciplines of hydrology, geochemistry and marine biology to help answer pressing questions regarding the source and impact of nutrient pollution in Hawaiian coastal waters,» said Craig Glenn, Henrietta Dulaiova and Celia Smith, the collaborating principal investigators and co-authors of the Hawai'i Sea Grant project.

«The field of hydrology has been investigating the impact of agriculture and building work on the risk of flooding for decades,» says Johanna Grames.

For application within the realm of forensic science more research is required to understand the regionalized contribution of hydrology to a catchment and the potentially confounding contribution of mixed water sources.

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.

I provide academic writing assistance to scholars of hydrology.

International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology 5:51 - 70.

Hydrological characteristics of the Gangotri Glacier, central Himalayas, India.Journal of Hydrology, 327: 55 - 67.

Part IV: «Climate Change and Water: Rights and Runoff» presents Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Corporate Environmental Management Gary Libecap and Assistant Professor of Hydrology Christina Tague in a discussion about the complexities of managing the ever - increasing demands placed on scarce water resources.

I've always thought that it was Linda Nash and Peter Gleick, back in 1991, who first predicted it (Sensitivity of streamflow in the Colorado Basin to climatic changes, Journal of Hydrology Volume 125, Issues 3 - 4, July 1991, Pages 221 - 241).

, 1998: Encyclopedia of Hydrology and Water Resources.

Thomas Dunne conducts field and theoretical research in fluvial geomorphology and in the application of hydrology, sediment transport, and geomorphology to landscape management and hazard analysis.

In spring 2008, the five students — Leslie Abramson, Milli Chennell, Erica Eisch, Alicia Glassco, and Thomas Holley and their advisor, Bren professor of hydrology and geomorphology Thomas Dunne — began a yearlong study of two analogous watersheds.

«It was a really bad earthquake — over 9,000 fatalities in four countries, primarily Nepal,» said lead author Jeffrey Kargel, senior associate research scientist in the University of Arizona department of hydrology and water resources.

This has severely damaged the soils and the quality of water in the region,» explains Professor Markus Disse from the Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management at TUM.

While our attorneys have an in - depth understanding of the complex scientific and technical issues that arise in these types of mattes, we often collaborate with world - renowned experts in the areas of hydrology, hydrogeology, engineering geology, meteorology, biology and marine biology to create the strongest positions for our clients in enforcement actions, as well as in pre-enforcement negotiations with the government.

German researchers at Martin Wagner and Jorg Oehlmann of the Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, and Michael Schlusener and Thomas Ternes of the German Federal Institute of Hydrology have found thatendocrine disrupting chemicals, which could affect development and reproduction, to be contaminated in 18 different bottled water products.

Elfatih Eltahir, a professor of hydrology and climate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied the issue in the Mideast and Asia, said the new study «is an important paper which emphasizes the need to consider both temperature and humidity in defining heat stress.»

«This paper is the first to show the large role that warming temperatures are playing in reducing the flows of the Colorado River,» said Overpeck, UA Regents» Professor of Geosciences and of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences and director of the UA Institute of the Environment.

The results of the study, published in this month's issue of the Journal of Hydrology, have shown it's possible to increase the speed of a highly accurate flood risk prediction by between 100 - 1000 times compared with techniques currently used by researchers to estimate flood risk under climate change.

«The Clean Air Act is arguably the most important and successful environmental law in the United States, both from a human health standpoint and the environment,» said Sickman, a professor of hydrology and the chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences.

A study published this year by Bradley Udall, senior water and climate research scientist with the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University, and Jonathan Overpeck, professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, found that during the drought years of 2000 - 2014, the river surrendered a third of its flow because of higher temperatures in the upper basin.

James Sickman is a professor of hydrology and the chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at UC Riverside.Photo credit: Sickman Lab, UC Riverside.

Journal of Hydrology, volume 282, pages 164 - 176.

Journal of Hydrology 552: 28 - 43.

Journal of Hydrology, Volume 319, Issues 1 - 4, 15 March 2006, Pages 83 - 95 doi: 10.1016 / j.jhydrol.2005.07.003 opyright  © 2005 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.