Unit hydrographs (UH) are either determined from gauged data or derived using empirically-based synthetic unit hydrograph procedures. In Saudi Arabia, the discharge records may not be available either for several locations or for long time scales, and therefore synthetic unit hydrographs are crucial in flood and water resources management. Available metrological, geological, and land use datase...

UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA b Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering...

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[1] In this study we investigate an event-scale transit time distribution (TTD) for a catchment located in the Santa Catalina Mountains northeast of downtown Tucson, Arizona, USA, during a series of extreme rainfall events. Traditionally, TTD studies look at the long time response of a catchment to an input variation in tracer concentration. Few studies have determined the TTD at the scale of a...

Over the last 200 years, streams throughout Australia have been channelised to increase their hydraulic conveyance, and so reduce flood peaks and durations. One of the main channelisation activities has been to remove large woody debris (LWD) and bank vegetation. Ironically, the major stream rehabilitation activity in Australia, and in many countries, over the last two decades, has been to reve...

[1] The responses of karstic aquifers to storms are often used to obtain information about aquifer geometry. In general, spring hydrographs are a function of both system geometry and recharge. However, the majority of prior work on storm pulses through karst has not studied the effect of recharge on spring hydrographs. To examine the relative importance of geometry and recharge, we break karsti...

To estimate the amount of evapotranspiration in a river basin, the "short period water balance method" was formulated. Then, by introducing the "complementary relationship method," the amount of evapotranspiration was estimated seasonally, and with reasonable accuracy, for both small and large areas. Moreover, to accurately estimate river discharge in the low water season, the "weighted statist...