The aim of this paper is to recommend a rapid classification system for sustainable flood retention basins (SFRBs) to control runoff in a temperate climate. The system should improve communication among engineers and scientists, and was developed with a general database (approximately 660 basins) and a very detailed database (56 basins), using the River Rhine catchment in the South of Baden (Ge...

The idea of transferring 'ready-made' Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM) solutions from Australia, North America and Europe to India and other developing countries holds great appeal for policy makers, donors and social researchers. But a review of actual experience suggests that effective solutions need to be tailored to fit the realities of Indian basins.

Soil moisture monitoring and the characterization of the spatial and temporal variability of this hydrologic parameter at scales from small catchments to large river basins continues to receive much attention, reflecting its critical role in subsurface – land surface – atmosphere interactions and its importance to drought analysis, crop yield forecasting, irrigation planning, flood protection, ...

River basins are very complex systems which include both abiotic and biotic elements. Such a high number of components results in a situation that normal functioning of river with adjacent areas depends on a set of hydrological and geological processes. They influence biological diversity observed in river basins (Arscott et al., 2005; Marshall et al., 2006). Proper assessment of a lotic system...

[1] Snow cover strongly interacts with climate through snow albedo feedbacks. However, global climate models still are not adequate in representing snow cover fraction (SCF), i.e., the fraction of a model grid cell covered by snow. Through an analysis of the advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) derived SCF and the Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC) gridded snow depth and snow wate...

Understanding the upstream-downstream linkages in hydrological processes is essential for water resources planning in river basins. Although there are many studies of individual aspects of these processes in the Himalayan region, studies along the length of the basins are limited. This study summarizes the present state of knowledge about linkages in hydrological processes between upstream and ...

e goal of this paper is to pose research questions that may help resolve controversies about the depositional setting of the ~ 5–6 Ma Bouse Formation and paleohydrology of the earliest Colorado River system. We also summarize and update a recent Geosphere paper (Crossey et a., 2015) that discusses the application of multiple geochemical tracers (87Sr/86Sr, [Sr], δ13C, δ18O) for understanding ca...