In this study data of multifrequency, polarimetric and interferometric airborne “Experimental Synthetic Aperture Radar (E-SAR)” were evaluated and analysed to derive land use information, surface soil moisture, vegetation parameters and topographic information after a standardized processing scheme. The experiments were integrated in two projects of hydrologic and solute transport modelling and...

New inclinometers devoted to hydrological studies were set up in the Vosges Mountains (France). Two orthogonal 100-meter base hydrostatic inclinometers were installed in December 2004 as well as a hydrometeorological monitoring system for the 100-km2 hydrological unit around the inclinometer. As inclinometers are very sensitive to environmental influences, this observatory is a test site to con...

Peter Berg Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe Now at Rossby Centre, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden [email protected] Christopher Moseley Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Climate Service Center, Hamburg, Germany [email protected] Jan ...

Over the last few years, the way data and products from the Swedish weather radar network (SWERAD) have been generated and mananged has undergone a significant transformation, from distributed to centralized configuration. New systems have been introduced for these purposes, along with a number of quality enhancements. This contribution attempts to summarize these recent developments, and it al...

Simulation of flow hydrograph at an ungauged site recently has attracted considerable attention. A distributed rainfall-runoff model not only can describe the spatial heterogeneity of physiographical and hydrological characteristics in the catchment, but also can simulate the hydrological processes inside the studied area. If a distributed rainfall-runoff model can be adequately verified based ...

Future hydrological extremes, such as floods and droughts, may pose serious threats for the livelihoods in the upstream domains of the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra. For this reason, the impacts of climate change on future hydrological extremes is investigated in these river basins. We use a fully-distributed cryospheric-hydrological model to simulate current and future hydrological fluxes and for...

For guiding optimal design and interpretation of in situ treatments that strongly perturb subsurface systems, knowledge about the spatial and temporal patterns of mass transport and reaction intensities are important. Here, a procedure was developed and applied to time-lapse concentrations of a conservative tracer (bromide), an injected amendment (acetate) and reactive species (iron(II), uraniu...

In catchment hydrology, it is in practice impossible to measure everything we would like to know about the hydrological system, mainly due to high catchment heterogeneity and the limitations of measurement techniques. These limitations and the need to extrapolate information from the available measurements in both space and time initiated the application of hydrological models. However, hydrolo...