This paper asks a simple question: if humans and their actions co-evolve with hydrological systems (Sivapalan et al., 2012), what is the role of hydrological scientists, who are also humans, within this system? To put it more directly, as traditionally there is a supposed separation of scientists and society, can we maintain this separation as sociohydrologists studying a socio-hydrological wor...

The concept of this research is justified to the integration of landscape components for hydrological modelling within distributed models. Distributed models are based on homogeneous entities which are delineated using landscape parameters such as topography, land use, soil, and geology. In ungauged basins most of these required data are only available on a coarse spatial resolution. In order t...

The development of new hydrological simulation tools allows for the modelling of large hydrological catchments, with the aim of comprehensive management of the water resources, control of diffuse pollution processes, such as the fate of agricultural fertilizants and finally, with purposes of economical optimization of the crop yields as a function of the expected climate, the watershed characte...

The Restionaceae species of the Fynbos biome is part of the Cape Floristic Kingdom is threatened by urbanization, agricultural expansion, groundwater extraction, and climate change. Therefore, it is necessary to assess and monitor the Restionaceae species under the impact of climate change. South Africa is a semi-arid environment, and hydrological factors are the main variables in the determina...

The monitoring of both cold and warm season hydrologic processes in headwater watersheds is critical for accurate water resource monitoring in many alpine regions. This work presents a new method that explores the simultaneous use of remotely sensed surface soil moisture (SM) and snow depth (SD) retrievals to improve hydrological modeling in such areas. In particular, remotely sensed SM and SD ...

The hydrological budget of a region is determined based on the horizontal and vertical water fluxes acting in both inward and outward directions. These integrated water fluxes vary, altering the total water storage and consequently the gravitational force of the region. The time-dependent gravitational field can be observed through the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) gravimetric...

A methodology for programming hydrological processes into watersheds using grid-type digital elevation models (DEMs) is investigated. This methodology is based on the basic configuration of the flow directions structure in the DEM, which is stored in files where information about topological relations and other frequently used features are saved. Some basic functions for managing topological da...

1 Weather and Climate Models 2 JUDITH BERNER 3 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 4 ULRICH ACHATZ 5 Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 6 LAURIANE BATTÉ 7 CNRM-GAME, Météo-France/CNRS, Toulouse, France 8 LISA BENGTSSON 9 Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden 10 ALVARO DE LA CÁMARA 11 National...

We develop a viscous model of plate bending suitable for studying ice-sheet flexure due to subglacial lake filling and draining, and apply this model to determine the area of ice-sheet uplift surrounding a subglacial lake. The choice of a viscous model reflects our interest in Antarctic subglacial lakes, which can fill and drain on time scales of months to decades. Experiments with idealized la...