Hydrologic and biogeochemical signatures in intensively managed catchments: data synthesis and development of a passive surfacewater quality sampler." MS ii To Emily iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

networks on surface runoff from agricultural catchments Levavasseur F., Bailly J.S., Lagacherie P., Colin F., Rabotin M. a UMR 1221 LISAH F-34035, INRA, Montpellier, France. b UMR 1221 LISAH F-34035, AgroParisTech, Montpellier, France. c UMR TETIS F-34093, AgroParisTech, Montpellier, France. d UMR 1221 LISAH F-34035, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France. Abstract The study of runoff is a cr...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract Predicting discharge in ungauged catchments requires knowledge on the distribution and spatial heterogeneity of hydrological soil properties. Because hydrological soil information is not available on a European scale, we reclassified the S...

Catchments as space-time filters – a joint spatio-temporal geostatistical analysis of runoff and precipitation J. O. Skøien and G. Blöschl Institute for Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna, Austria Received: 29 March 2006 – Accepted: 21 April 2006 – Published: 12 June 2006 Correspondence to: J. O. Skøien ([email protected])

A new approach to regionalisation for prediction of flow characteristics in ungauged catchments is presented. If flows in ungauged catchments are to be predicted using calibrated rainfall-runoff models, regional relationships between the parameters of such models and catchment attributes must be determined. This is only possible with parsimonious models (fewer than about 7 parameters), and even...

The scaling behaviour of landscape properties, including both morphological and landscape patchiness, is examined using monofractal and multifractal analysis. The study is confined to two neighbouring meso-scale catchments on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The catchments offer a diverse but largely undisturbed landscape with population and development impacts being extremely...

Low-yielding catchments with ephemeral streams provide a stern test of the capability of conceptual catchment models for predicting the hydrologic response of the natural landscape. Sustained periods of little or no flow mean that the information content of the streamflow time-series for parameter estimation is limited. During periods with no streamflow, such ephemeral catchments also offer no ...

Runoff estimation in ungauged catchments is probably one of the most basic and oldest tasks of hydrologists. This long-standing issue has received increased attention recently due to the PUB (Prediction in Ungauged Basins) initiative. Given the challenges of predicting runoff for ungauged catchments one might argue that the best course of action is to take a few runoff measurements. In this stu...

Differences in hydrologic response across the rain-snow transition in the southern Sierra Nevada were studied in eight headwater catchments – the Kings River Experimental Watersheds – using continuous precipitation, snowpack, and streamflow measurements. The annual runoff ratio (discharge divided by precipitation) increased about 0.1 per 300 m of mean catchment elevation over the range 1,800-2,...

Environmental flow assessment frameworks have begun to consider changes to flow regimes resulting from land-use change. Urban stormwater runoff, which degrades streams through altered volume, pattern and quality of flow, presents a problem that challenges dominant approaches to stormwater and water resource management, and to environmental flow assessment. We used evidence of ecological respons...