In order to overview the impact of climate change on runoff from forested catchments over Asian countries, we collected water balance data fifteen long-term catchment monitoring stations (total period 1975–2018, not continuous), spanning Sabah, Malaysia (our southernmost site), Hokkaido, Japan northernmost site). We then employed an elasticity analysis dataset examine how annual each responded ...

A global overview of dam-based impacts on large river systems shows that over half (172 out of 292) are affected by dams, including the eight most biogeographically diverse. Dam-impacted catchments experience higher irrigation pressure and about 25 times more economic activity per unit of water than do unaffected catchments. In view of projected changes in climate and water resource use, these ...

Inverse distributed hydrological modelling of alpine catchments H. Kunstmann, J. Krause, and S. Mayr Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Kreuzeckbahnstraße 19, 82 467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen,Germany Institute of Geographic Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstraße 74–100, 12 249 Berlin, Germany Received: 6 October 2005 – Accepted: 19 Oc...

A project which sets out to explore alternative methods of regionalisation for prediction of streamflow in ungauged catchments is described. A commonly applied regionalisation methodology estimates model parameters for the ungauged basin from multiple linear regressions between parameters and catchment attributes, calibrated on gauged catchments. Its effectiveness is limited by the availability...

This paper examines the potential of scatterometer data from ERS satellites for improving hydrological simulations in both gauged and ungauged catchments. We compare the soil moisture dynamics simulated by a semidistributed hydrologic model in 320 Austrian catchments with the soil moisture dynamics inferred from the satellite data. The most apparent differences occur in the Alpine areas. Assimi...

Experimental results are described to evaluate the diffuse pollution profile according to land use in the catchments and street sweeping as a best management practice (BMP). We studied the variation of pollutant concentrations in outfalls discharging runoff from residential, commercial and high-traffic areas and in street sweeping. Pollution profiles varied with the land use in the catchments a...

Aquatic ecosystems are fuelled by biogeochemical inputs from surrounding lands and within-lake primary production. Disturbances that change these inputs may affect how aquatic ecosystems function and deliver services vital to humans. Here we test, using a forest cover gradient across eight separate catchments, whether disturbances that remove terrestrial biomass lower organic matter inputs into...

The urgent demand of integrated water resources management has drawn attention to the issue of transnational water bodies that comprise exploitable resources for two or more countries. It is estimated that 50% of the global surface is lying on transboundary catchments and this percentage is continually increasing due to the creation of new nations, while around 40% of the earth’s population res...