Sentences with phrase «water hydrology»

Indeed, the design and construction of green roofs and buildings demands an extraordinary range of technical expertise, from understanding storm water hydrology or the flux of ultraviolet radiation to constructing an effective waterproofing system that allows rain to be retained in rooftop soils.

Jay Lehr, BEng (Princeton), PhD (environmental science and ground water hydrology), Science Director, The Heartland Institute, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

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The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office contracted WaterNSW to undertake a short - term monitoring project to monitor the hydrology in the lower Macquarie River during the connection flow.

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 crisis.

Brauman's research integrates hydrology and land use with economics and policy to better understand how water use affects the environment and our ability to live well in it.

The water security work of the incoming AAAS Leshner Fellows draws from varied disciplines, including anthropology, civil engineering, biological and environmental sciences, geography, hydrology, political science and economics, plant genetics and horticulture.

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).

UK rivers are also carrying more water in winter months (Journal of Hydrology, doi.org/rhq).

There are two primary ways to achieve «environmental flows» of water necessary to sustain river ecosystems, write Mike Acreman, of the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and colleagues in a review published this month in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: controlled releases like the recent experiment on the Colorado that are designed with specific objectives for ecology and ecosystem services in mind and hands - off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river.

Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.

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.

«Our [eight diesel generators] are protected from the seismic and hydrology hazards expected in the area,» in addition to being buried in hardened facilities, says TVA spokesman, Terry Johnson, which operates three such boiling - water reactors at Browns Ferry.

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.

Storm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquifers.

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.

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.

«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.

In the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences paper, the team focused on determining the water resources required to grow grain, the staple crop of the Roman civilisation, and how these resources were distributed within the Empire.

«Our methods have relied on traditional, rain - based hydrology: storing water, then moving it to where Mother Nature hasn't provided it.

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 bwater 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 bWater 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.

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.

«Our finding that vegetation plays a key role future in terrestrial hydrologic response and water stress is of utmost importance to properly predict future dryness and water resources,» says Gentine, whose research focuses on the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science, land / atmosphere interaction, and its impact on climate change.

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.

Finally, the team quantified impacts at scales useful for decision - making in eight sectors of the state's economy: hydrology and water resources, energy, agriculture, salmon, forests, coasts, infrastructure, and human health.

The Water chapter describes the basic hydrology of irrigation water supply, but superimposed on that are combined effects of increasing temperatures and dynamic cropping conditWater chapter describes the basic hydrology of irrigation water supply, but superimposed on that are combined effects of increasing temperatures and dynamic cropping conditwater supply, but superimposed on that are combined effects of increasing temperatures and dynamic cropping conditions.

hydrology The scientific study of water, often in relation to land.

They offer better habitats for grizzly bears and play a significant role in managing hydrology of the mountain west by shading snow and regulating the flow of melt water.

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.

The lake and connecting river have rather unique hydrology in significant variations in water level and reverses flows of the Tonle Sap River linking the lake with the Mekong River.

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.

Hydroinformatics deals with the involvement of information technology with the hydrology and water resource applications.

Some of the major hydrology applications involve the use of surface water systems, namely rivers, open - channels, and estuaries.

Although these maps only depict the water shortages over the past five years, there are plenty of places in the United States that have been experiencing non-stop drought conditions for over five years, which affects the area's hydrology and ecosystem.

Brooklyn - based video and performance artist William Lamson explores the relationship between the land and water in his solo exhibition Hydrologies at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.

In Hydrologies Atacama, Lamson — working with the assistance of a Chilean crew — distributed water across a section of the Atacama Desert, the world's oldest and driest continuous desert, in attempts to reactivate plant life there.

Experts decry the practice of building levees to shield new construction from risks because water displaced by such barriers must, thanks to gravity and hydrology, go somewhere else.

«Evidence for intensification of the global water cycle: review and synthesis, Journal of Hydrology,»...

Regarding posts 4 and 10 from Tim Jones regarding: Huntington, T. G. 2006, Evidence for intensification of the global water cycle: review and synthesis, Journal of Hydrology, 319:83 - 95.

On decadal and longer time scales, global mean sea level change results from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate change, that alter the volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).

It's no wonder that in 2014, the University of Florida's Environmental Hydrology Laboratory found that Salt Lake City was at a high level of fresh water vulnerability.

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Prior to joining UCS, Dr. Ekwurzel was on the faculty of the University of Arizona in their department of hydrology and water resources, with a joint appointment in the geosciences department.

D. Koutsoyiannis, C. Makropoulos, A. Langousis, S. Baki, A. Efstratiadis, A. Christofides, G. Karavokiros, and N. Mamassis, Climate, hydrology, energy, water: recognizing uncertainty and seeking sustainability, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 13, 247 — 257, doi: 10.5194 / hess -13-247-20hydrology, energy, water: recognizing uncertainty and seeking sustainability, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 13, 247 — 257, doi: 10.5194 / hess -13-247-20Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 13, 247 — 257, doi: 10.5194 / hess -13-247-2009, 2009.

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.

Leahigh, J. (2017) CA Water Commission: Hydrology and State Water Project operations update, March 20, 2017 Porter, K. Et al. (2011) Overview of the ARkStorm Scenario: U.S. Geological Survey Open - File Report 2010 - 1312, 183 p, and appendixes.

Abstract Accurate quantification of the spatial distribution of precipitation in mountain regions is crucial for assessments of water resources and for the understanding of high - altitude hydrology, yet it is one of the largest unknowns due to the lack of [continue reading...]

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It affects a landscape's hydrology by its water use and its impact on storm water runoff.

Reclamation Releases Literature Synthesis on Climate Change Implications for Reclamation's Water and Environmental Resources (3rd Edition)- A scientific report summarizing recent literature on the past and projected effects of climate change on hydrology and water resources in the western United StWater and Environmental Resources (3rd Edition)- A scientific report summarizing recent literature on the past and projected effects of climate change on hydrology and water resources in the western United Stwater resources in the western United States.

It especially explores links between climate change and hydrology, including impacts of climate change on: ecosystems and biodiversity, agriculture and food security, urbanization, land use and forestry, water supply and sanitation, health, infrastructure, and energy security which, in addition to climate, are strongly influenced by human interventions and actions.