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Hydrology, Volume 6, Issue 1

2019 March - 28 articles

Cover Story: Since 1935, groundwater levels have declined in aquifers of the Palouse River Basin, particularly in the South Fork Palouse River Basin (Basin) in north-central Idaho and eastern Washington. Groundwater provides a primary source for industry and agriculture in the region and is the sole source of municipal water. Extrapolation of the current trend in declining groundwater levels indicates the possibility of insufficient groundwater resources to meet future community needs. Previous studies have suggested that recharge is entering the aquifer system through pathways beginning in sediments along the margin of the Basin. However, attempts to model the aquifers to predict the decline in groundwater levels have produced mixed results due to lack of resolution in recharge sources, subsystem connectivity, and identifiable flow patterns. View this paper.
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Articles (28)

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,937 Views
14 Pages

In this study, the high-resolution polygonal land cover data of EEA Urban Atlas was applied for land-use characterization in the dynamic multi-basin hydrological model, HYPE. The objective of the study was to compare this dedicated urban land cover d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,988 Views
16 Pages

Identification of Source Water Mixing in the Fish Slough Spring Complex, Mono County, California, USA

  • Andy Zdon,
  • Keith Rainville,
  • Nicholas Buckmaster,
  • Steve Parmenter and
  • Adam H. Love

While the desert ecosystem is highly dependent on the water resources that sustain it, the Fish Slough spring complex is an arid, spring-dependent wetland undergoing a multidecadal decline in spring outflow. This evaluation updates the source water f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,929 Views
13 Pages

Real-Time Measurement of Flash-Flood in a Wadi Area by LSPIV and STIV

  • Mahmood M. Al-mamari,
  • Sameh A. Kantoush,
  • Sohei Kobayashi,
  • Tetsuya Sumi and
  • Mohamed Saber

Flash floods in wadi systems discharge large volumes of water to either the sea or the desert areas after high-intensity rainfall events. Recently, wadi flash floods have frequently occurred in arid regions and caused damage to roads, houses, and pro...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,790 Views
18 Pages

Quantification of the Effect of Bridge Pier Encasement on Headwater Elevation Using HEC-RAS

  • Abhijit Sharma Subedi,
  • Suresh Sharma,
  • Anwarul Islam and
  • Niraj Lamichhane

The deterioration of bridge substructure is a serious concern across the United States. The pier encasement is one of the most common practices for repairing and strengthening the bridge substructure. It is a rehabilitation process of existing pile p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
7,645 Views
17 Pages

Total dissolved solids (TDS) and electrical conductivity (EC) are important parameters in determining water quality for drinking and agricultural water, since they are directly associated to the concentration of salt in water and, hence, high values...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,744 Views
11 Pages

The assessment of spatial and temporal distribution of groundwater recharge is required as an input to develop the regional groundwater model in the Drava flood plain for more accurate simulations of different management scenarios. WetSpass-M, a GIS-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,440 Views
12 Pages

Long Term Historic Changes in the Flow of Lesser Zab River, Iraq

  • Rawshan Ali,
  • Arez Ismael,
  • Arien Heryansyah and
  • Nadeem Nawaz

The assessment of trends in river flows has become of interest to the scientific community in order to understand the changing characteristics of flow due to climate change. In this study, the trends in river flow of Dukan Dam located in the northern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
127 Citations
18,848 Views
17 Pages

Understanding the complex relationships between rainfall and runoff processes is necessary for the proper estimation of the quantity of runoff generated in a watershed. The surface runoff was simulated using the Hydrologic Modelling System (HEC-HMS)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,873 Views
24 Pages

Reliable water sources are central to human and environmental health. In south Texas, USA, the Nueces River Basin (NRB) directly or indirectly plays that important role for many counties. Several NRB stream segments are designated as ecologically sig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
7,680 Views
19 Pages

Modeling of GRACE-Derived Groundwater Information in the Colorado River Basin

  • Md Mafuzur Rahaman,
  • Balbhadra Thakur,
  • Ajay Kalra and
  • Sajjad Ahmad

18 February 2019

Groundwater depletion has been one of the major challenges in recent years. Analysis of groundwater levels can be beneficial for groundwater management. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s twin satellite, Gravity Recovery and Climate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,191 Views
27 Pages

Assessment of Terrigenous Nutrient Loading to Coastal Ecosystems along a Human Land-Use Gradient, Tutuila, American Samoa

  • Christopher K. Shuler,
  • Daniel W. Amato,
  • Veronica Gibson,
  • Lydia Baker,
  • Ashley N. Olguin,
  • Henrietta Dulai,
  • Celia M. Smith and
  • Rosanna A. Alegado

16 February 2019

Anthropogenic nutrient loading is well recognized as a stressor to coastal ecosystem health. However, resource managers are often focused on addressing point source or surface water discharge, whereas the impact of submarine groundwater discharge (SG...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,104 Views
23 Pages

Some Challenges in Hydrologic Model Calibration for Large-Scale Studies: A Case Study of SWAT Model Application to Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin

  • Narayanan Kannan,
  • Chinnasamy Santhi,
  • Michael J. White,
  • Sushant Mehan,
  • Jeffrey G. Arnold and
  • Philip W. Gassman

10 February 2019

This study is a part of the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) aimed to quantify the environmental and economic benefits of conservation practices implemented in the cultivated cropland throughout the United States. The Soil and Water Ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,681 Views
21 Pages

Quantifying Thermal Characteristics of Stormwater through Low Impact Development Systems

  • Charlene LeBleu,
  • Mark Dougherty,
  • Keith Rahn,
  • Amy Wright,
  • Ryan Bowen,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Jeisson Andrés Orjuela and
  • Kaylee Britton

5 February 2019

Urbanization causes alteration of the thermal regime (surface, air, and water) of the environment. Heated stormwater runoff flows into lakes, streams, bays, and estuaries, which potentially increases the base temperature of the surface water. The amo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,725 Views
17 Pages

3 February 2019

Groundwater studies in the South Fork Palouse River Basin have been unable to determine recharge sources, subsystem connectivity and flow patterns due to the discontinuity of pathways in the heterogeneous and anisotropic aquifers located in Columbia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
388,031 Views
22 Pages

1 February 2019

Nine digital elevation model (DEM) datasets were used for separate delineations of the Nam Co, Tibet catchment and its subcatchments, and these delineated areas were compared using the highest resolution dataset, TanDEM-X 12 m, as a baseline. The mea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,780 Views
15 Pages

1 February 2019

Ecosystem services (ES) help people understand and deal with current environmental situations and problems, and ES-related research has been increasing recently. However, the quantitative evaluations of ES that can be easily understood by decision ma...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,759 Views
14 Pages

Case Study: Comparative Analysis of Hydrologic Simulations with Areal-Averaging of Moving Rainfall

  • Zheng N. Fang,
  • Michael J. Shultz,
  • Kevin J. Wienhold,
  • Jiaqi Zhang and
  • Shang Gao

31 January 2019

The goal of this investigation is to compare the hydrologic simulations caused by the areal-averaging of dynamic moving rainfall. Two types of synthetic rainfall are developed: spatially varied rainfall (SVR) is the typical input to a distributed mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,020 Views
14 Pages

A Correlation–Scale–Threshold Method for Spatial Variability of Rainfall

  • Bellie Sivakumar,
  • Fitsum M. Woldemeskel,
  • Rajendran Vignesh and
  • Vinayakam Jothiprakash

23 January 2019

Rainfall data at fine spatial resolutions are often required for various studies in hydrology and water resources. However, such data are not widely available, as their collection is normally expensive and time-consuming. A common practice to obtain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,586 Views
13 Pages

21 January 2019

The determination of discharge from stage measurement is an essential procedure in surface hydrology. Due to limited data availability in terms of discharges and rainfalls, a number of non-flood water levels have been used for deriving a rating curve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,529 Views
19 Pages

Understanding the spatiotemporal variability of surface moisture on a beach is a necessity to develop a quantitatively accurate predictive model for aeolian sand transport from the beach into the foredune. Here, we analyze laser-derived surface moist...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,849 Views
13 Pages

This communication explores the use of numerical modelling to simulate the hydro-morphologic response of a laboratory flume subject to sediment overloading. The numerical model calibration was performed by introducing a multiplicative factor in the M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,438 Views
14 Pages

Until recently, stream temperature processes controlled by aquatic macrophyte shading (i.e., the riverine canopy) was an unrecognized phenomenon. This study aims to address the question of the temporal and spatial scale of monitoring and modeling tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,700 Views
16 Pages

The Charged System Search (CSS) metaheuristic algorithm is introduced to the field of water resources management and applied to derive water-supply and hydro-power operating policies for a large-scale real-world reservoir system. The optimum algorith...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,277 Views
11 Pages

Geothermal Linkage between a Hydrothermal Pond and a Deep Lake: Kuttara Volcano, Japan

  • Kazuhisa Chikita,
  • Yasuhiro Ochiai,
  • Hideo Oyagi and
  • Yoshitaka Sakata

Kuttara Volcano, Hokkaido, Japan, consists of temperate Lake Kuttara and the western Noboribetsu geothermal area. In order to explore geothermal relations between Lake Kuttara and the geothermal area, the heat budget of a hydrothermal pond, Okunoyu,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,165 Views
15 Pages

Development of a Potentially Hazardous Pro-Glacial Lake in Aksay Valley, Kyrgyz Range, Northern Tien Shan

  • Vitalii Zaginaev,
  • Kristyna Falatkova,
  • Bohumir Jansky,
  • Miroslav Sobr and
  • Sergey Erokhin

Debris flows caused by glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are common hazards in mountain environments. The risk posed by glacial lake outburst hazards is particularly evaluated where the lower reaches of catchments are populated. A potentially dang...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
10,072 Views
20 Pages

26 December 2018

In the Didessa river basin, which is found in Ethiopia, the human population number is increasing at an alarming rate. The conversion of forests, shrub and grasslands into cropland has increased in parallel with the population increase. The land use/...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,992 Views
22 Pages

23 December 2018

Information on sediment concentration in rivers is important for the design and management of reservoirs. In this paper, river sediment flux and siltation rate of a rift valley lake basin (Lake Ziway, Ethiopia) was modeled using suspended sediment co...

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