It would be greatly helpful to neophytes if knowledge-based system technology incorporating the existing heuristic knowledge about model manipulation can be integrated into the hydrological system. This paper delineates the development and implementation of a prototype knowledgebased system for model manipulation for hydrological processes by employing an expert system shell. The architecture a...

In the distributed hydrological simulations for complex mountain areas, large amounts of meteorological input parameters with high spatial and temporal resolutions are necessary. However, the extreme scarcity and uneven distribution of the traditional meteorological observation stations in cold and arid regions of Northwest China makes it very difficult in meeting the requirements of hydrologic...

The Hydrological Dispersion Module (HDM) of the RODOS (real-time on-line decision support) system for nuclear emergency management in Europe has been is developed at IMMSP, Kiev, Ukraine; NRG, The Netherlands; FZK, Karlsruhe, Germany; SPA “TYPHOON”, Obninsk, Russia; IPEP, Minsk, Belorussia, and NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece. Initial testing and customisation work was performed by NPPRI, Slo...

Water resources management is critical due to its importance for human lives. In this context, we have developed a web-based system for hydrological applications that integrates geospatial processing services and mapping mashups to provide an interactive and user-friendly geoportal interface to the configuration and execution of scientific models. The server side provides hydrological model log...

A spatially distributed hydrological model WetSpa (Water and Energy Transfer between Soil, Plants and Atmosphere) working on an hourly time scale is presented in this paper. The model combines elevation, soil and land use data, and predicts flood hydrograph and the spatial distribution of hydrological characteristics in a watershed. The model is tested on a small catchment in Belgium for which ...

Climate change poses critical threats to waterrelated safety and sustainability in the Mekong River basin. Hydrological impact signals from earlier Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3)-based assessments, however, are highly uncertain and largely ignore hydrological extremes. This paper provides one of the first hydrological impact assessments using the CMIP5 climate projections...

The availability of water at or near the surface determines the way incident radiative energy is partitioned at the ground surface. The goal of this thesis is to determine if better hydrological representation in the MIT Integrated Global System Model will improve its climate prediction capability. This thesis compares the performances of the hydrological modules in the MIT Climate Model and th...