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NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work that was peer reviewed and accepted for publication in the Journal of Hydrology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. A definitive version was subsequently published in JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, VOL 517, DOI http://...

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A wide range of phenomena, natural as well as man-made, in physical, chemical and biological hydrology exhibit characteristics similar to those of kinematic waves. The question we ask is: can these phenomena be described using the theory of kinematic waves? Since the range of phenomena is wide, another question we ask is: how prevalent are kinematic waves? If they are widely pervasive, does tha...

Remote sensing provides a means of observing hydrological state variables over large areas. The ones which we will consider in this paper are land surface temperature from thermal infrared data, surface soil moisture from passive microwave data, snow cover using both visible and microwave data, water quality using visible and near-infrared data and estimating landscape surface roughness using l...

Journal of Environmental Hydrology Volume 17 Paper 7 February 2009 1 A parallelized large-scale regional hydrologic soil model (RHSM) is developed as a tool for large-scale unsaturated zone investigations. It is applied to simulate the temporal and spatial responses of the unsaturated zone and the regional water budget under the forcing of realistic precipitation and evaporation scenarios. The ...

Climate induced temporal variation, spatial patterns of vegetation and microenvironments, plant growth forms, soils and geology, and topographic factors influence hydrologicprocesses in rangelandenvironments. In Part I of this study,a gradient analy sis of 13 environmental variables identified temporal and spatial gradients in sagebrush coppice and interspacesoil surface cover types. Spatial co...