Damage due to flooding has increase in many countries in the last years, and due to the global climate change, which is now recognized as a real threat, an increase in the occurrence of flooding events and especially of flash flooding events is likely to continue into the future. In those conditions and because building new flood defences structures for defending vulnerable areas has serious fi...

For about two decades remote sensing (RS) data in the form of multi-spectral air photography, ground based weather radar as well as geostationary and polar orbiting satellite data have been available for use in hydrology. It is the intention of this paper to advocate the use of RS data in the field of hydrological modelling. It is shown that the main field of application of RS data in hydrologi...

Representation of the hydrological interaction between the land surface and the atmosphere requires considerable improvement, particularly for predicting evapotranspiration feedbacks for use in models of the general circulation (GCMs) of the atmosphere. The predictive model developed here attempts to use a water balance approach that extracts information from the masses of catchment-scale time ...

Runoff constitutes one of the major water losses from agricultural fields in semi-arid areas. However, by adopting appropriate soil management practices, the runoff can be harnessed for improving crop yields. The main objective of this study was to quantify rainfall-runoff relationships under in-field rainwater harvesting (IRWH) using simulated rainfall, and to compare these results to those ob...

The rate of sediment supply from erosional catchment to depositional basin depends primarily upon climate, relief, catchment slope and lithology. It varies in both time and space. Spatial changes in erosion rates due to variations in lithology are illustrated by contrasting rates of drainage divide migration away from faults of known ages. Time variations in relative sediment supply are extreme...

Abstract Rainfall–runoff modelling is crucial for enhancing the effectiveness and sustainability of water resources. Conceptual models can have difficulties, such as coping with nonlinearity needing more data, whereas data-driven be deprived reflecting physical process basin. In this regard, two hybrid model approaches, namely Génie Rural à 4 paramètres Journalier (GR4 J)–wavelet-based (i.e., w...

Soil Conservation Service (SCS) and overland flow models have been used for runoff modeling over major land mass of India. Remote sensing derived daily rainfall data (Climate Prediction Centre), high temporal NDVI data (SPOT VGT), DEM (GTOPO30) and soil texture maps were used as input for the runoff modeling. SCS model setup was done in GIS (Arc GIS) environment. In general the reported and mod...