A modeling framework consisting of a farm-scale model, Agricultural Policy Environmental Extender (APEX); a watershed-scale model, Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT); and databases was used in the Conservation Effects Assessment Project to quantify the environmental benefits of conservation practices on cropland. APEX is used to simulate conservation practices on cultivated cropland and Cons...

background: zayandeh-rood river is the only perennial river in the central basin of iran that has fresh water. water from this source is used for drinking, industrial and agricultural purposes. drinking water is extracted from upstream portion (upstream of chamaseman dam) of zayandeh-rood river and therefore its quality is very important. due to growth of population, industry and other factors,...

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model along with Back Propagation Algorithm (BPA) has been applied in many fields, especially in hydrology and water resources management to simulate or forecast rainfall runoff process, discharge and water level time series, and other hydrological variables. Several researches have recently been focusing to compare the applicability of ANN model with other theor...

The study was to characterize and understand the water quality of the river Yamuna in Delhi (India) prior to an efficient restoration plan. A combination of collection of monitored data, mathematical modeling, sensitivity, and uncertainty analysis has been done using the QUAL2Kw, a river quality model. The model was applied to simulate DO, BOD, total coliform, and total nitrogen at four monitor...

Scale effects exist in the whole process of rainfall―runoff―soil erosion―sediment transport in river basins. The differences of hydrographs and sediment graphs in different positions in a river basin are treated as basic scale effects, which are more complex in the gullied Loess Plateau, a region notorious for high intensity soil erosion and hyper-concentrated sediment-laden flow. The up-scalin...

The advanced monitoring of water quality and performing a real time hazard analysis prior to entering Water Treatment Works (WTW) is very much a necessity nowadays in order to give warning of any contamination and avoid downtime of the WTW. Ultrasonic flow sensors are considered to be the most stable and reliable sensors to be used within the water and wastewater industry, as they are not easil...

rainfall and flow rate are of the most important climatic and hydrologic parameters whose investigation and determination of their behavior are of great importance in water resources management. one of the most suitable methods available for assessment of hydro-climatological conditions in the watershed is trend analysis which is used to examine the changes of a variable during time. current st...