The rainfall-runoff response of watersheds is affected by the legacy of past hydroclimatic conditions. We examined how variability in precipitation affected streamflow using 21 years of daily streamflow and precipitation data from five watersheds at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in southwestern North Carolina, USA. The gauged watersheds contained both coniferous and deciduous vegetation, do...

The Paddock to Reef Integrated Monitoring, Modelling and Reporting program (P2R) (Department of Premier and Cabinet, 2009) is investigating ways to improve agricultural management practices and the quality of water entering the Great Barrier Reef. One of the major risks to GBR water quality is pesticide runoff from agricultural industries. Direct measurement of pesticide fate and behavior is bo...

Urbanization can result in alteration of a watershed's hydrologic response and water quality. To simulate hydrologic and water quality impacts of land use changes, the Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment (L-THIA) system has been used. The L-THIA system estimates pollutant loading based on direct runoff quantity and land use based pollutant coefficients. The accurate estimation of direct runo...

Abstract The Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) method was applied to calculate the runoff in Khur khur watershed (KHW) based on (GIS and RS) techniques. is located southeast of Iraqi Kurdistan region northeast Iraq foothill zone. total area (106.84) km 2 , fifth order, it meets Sirwan river. study aim speculate annual volume select dam site order harvest water from (KHW). research...

natural ecosystems provide many goods and services for human beings via their multiple functionalities. one of these important functions is the role of natural ecosystems in regulation of hydrologic cycle and increasing the infiltarion and retention of water in soil context and preventing from water runoff which may cause in unfavorable consequences like soil erosion and flooding. quantificatio...

Water conservation becomes essential as the resource scarcer. The most important step in managing water resources is estimating watershed runoff generated from rainfall, and rainfall are key factors determining availability for surface storage groundwater recharge. So, this study mainly focused on three sub-catchments of Karamadai, Tamil Nadu, India, using heavy to extreme daily events received...

Changing of precipitation regime and intensification extreme storms in semi-arid regions because climate change requires the use numerical models to forecast outlet hydrographs. In this paper, HEC-HMS software was applied using a loss method curve number CN estimate excess parametric unit hydrograph model compute transformation into direct runoff over watershed. The Muskingum-Cunge routing used...

Emerging technologies of remote sensing and GIS were integrated to estimate runoff for watershed basins in China Taipei and Florida. Two basins were selected in each region, with each pair representing a static and a developing case. Remotely sensed images from the Landsat 4, 5, and 7 satellites were used to develop land cover maps of the study areas for the years 1990, 1995, and 2000. GIS anal...

Climate variation and human activities are commonly recognized as two major factors affecting basin hydrology. However, quantifying their individual effect on runoff is challenging. In this study, long-term (1960–2009) river discharge and weather data in the Songhua River Basin (SRB, 556,800 km2), Northeast China, were gathered to separate the impacts of climate variation and human activities o...

Estimation of runoff water quality parameters is required to determine appropriate water quality management options. Various models are used to estimate runoff water quality parameters. However, most models provide event-based estimates of water quality parameters for specific sites. The work presented in this paper describes the development of a model that continuously simulates the accumulati...