The arid zone catchments of the Lake Eyre Basin (LEB, area of 1.2*10km) in central Australia have unregulated, highly variable flow regimes and contain a paucity of gauging stations. In developing hydrological models of these catchments, only limited gauging station data are available for identifying the broad landscape differences influencing runoff and streamflow. The catchments have been div...

Gauging the discharge of theTigris River in Baiji is very important, as it reflects final accumulated flows from Mosul Dam, upper and lower Zab tributaries, which send downstream to control system Samarra. The current study aimed evaluate performance gauging station for measuring water levels discharge, thus suggest alternative locations. Large disagreement was found between manually measured t...

Climate change may significantly affect the hydrological cycle and water resource management, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. In this paper, output from the Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) regional climate model were used in conjunction with the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to analyse the effects of climate change on streamflow of the Xiying and Zamu ...

Arid zone, ephemeral rivers are characterised by discharge decreasing downstream in the lower reaches due to transmission losses. Modelling the flow regime of these rivers requires data on the spatial and temporal distribution of transmission losses in these reaches. In this study, a hydrological model is developed for a 330 km reach of the Diamantina River in southwestern Queensland, where the...

Estimation of flood magnitude for a given recurrence interval T (T-year flood) at a specific location is needed for design of hydraulic and civil infrastructure facilities. A key step in the estimation or flood frequency analysis (FFA) is the selection of a suitable distribution. More than one distribution is often found to be adequate for FFA on a given watershed and choosing the best one is o...

This study investigates the capability of high and medium spatial resolution ocean color satellite data to monitor transport suspended particulate matter (SPM) along a continuum from river mouth plume. An existing switching algorithm combining use green, red near-infrared wavebands was improved retrieve SPM concentrations over very wide range (from 1 more than 1000 g.m−3) encountered such conti...

The Lower Mekong River has witnessed extremely low water levels over the past few years. There is speculation that the changes are a consequence of the construction and operation of the Chinese cascade dams in the upper part of the Mekong main stream, the Lancang River. Dam construction on upper streams can produce a series of induced effects downstream, particularly in terms of water, sediment...