Modeling Surface Hydrology for Global Water Cycle Simulations
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چکیده
The role of the river in global water cycles and the modeling of horizontal water transport by rivers in the global scale are discussed. Due to the consolidation of various hydrological information about the planet, it is possible now to monitor and simulate the quantity of water carried by rivers. Land surface models, that were developed originally for giving the boundary condition of the atmospheric and/or climatic models, can be used fairly well for river runoff simulations on at least a monthly scale. This promising approach will be a powerful tool to investigate future water resources management.
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