Climate change is likely to affect the generation of energy from California’s high-elevation hydropower systems. To investigate these impacts, this study formulates a linear programming model of an 11-reservoir hydroelectric system operated by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in the Upper American River basin. Four sets of hydrologic scenarios are developed using the Variable Infiltrat...

Human use of freshwater resources has altered the dynamics of hydrologic regimes in rivers around the world. Frequency, timing, and periodicity of extreme fluctuations in water flow have been modified, disrupting the flow regimes to which lotic biota have adapted over evolutionary time. The goal of the proposed research is to increase our understanding of how the hydrologic regime modulates lin...

With regard to the importance of instantaneous peak discharge estimation for watershed management study, and due to the lack of and unqualified climatic and hydrologic data for estimation and measurement in countries such as Iran, researchers were obliged to establish a link between constant parameters (geomorphologic) and variables (hydrologic) to present models with minimum dependence on clim...

The mechanisms of sediment removal associated with the nivation process suite are underinvestigated, a situation that hinders development unified, coherent theory cryoplanation terrace formation. This study links sorted stripes—a type periglacial patterned ground frequently encountered on treads—to active hydrologic networks capable transporting large quantities fine sediments hillslopes. Tradi...

BACKGROUND The indigenous Nenets reindeer herders in northern Russia annually migrate several hundred kilometers between summer and winter pastures. In the warming climate, ice-rich permafrost and glaciers are being significantly reduced and will eventually disappear from parts of the Arctic. The emergent changes in hydrological cycles have already led to substantial increases in open water tha...

hydrologists have always tried to classify atmospheric and hydrologic events in order to simplify the hydrologic convolutions and the observations or to save the time and the budget. most of these methods are used for the regionalization of hydrologic phenomena like rainfall,streamflow and other components of water cycle.multivariate techniques have been underlined as suitableand powerful tools...

Abstract Frequency of flash floods and droughts in the Mediterranean climate zone is expected to rise coming years due change its climate. The assessment impact at a basin scale essential for developing mitigation adaptation plans. This study analyses variation hydrologic regime small river (the Kalloni Lesvos Island, Greece) by examination possible future scenarios. response was simulated base...