Search Results - "hydrology"

Assessing the impact of climate change on the water balance in semi-arid West Africa: a SWAT application by Verbeeten, E., Barendregt, A.

“…This paper discusses the application of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) in the evaluation of the impacts of climate change on hydrological services provided by dry forests and savannah ecosystems in Burkina Faso, West Africa. …”
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Narmada water for groundwater recharge in North Gujarat by Ranade, Rahul, Kumar, M. Dinesh

“…North Gujarat is naturally endowed with one of the richest alluvial aquifers of India but its uncontrolled exploitation for irrigation has resulted in many undesirable consequences. A major hydrological opportunity for rejuvenation of the aquifer system is provided by the availability of unutilized flows from Narmada basin. …”
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India?s River Linking Project: the state of the debate by Shah, Tushaar, Amarasinghe, Upali A., McCornick, Peter G.

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India?s water supply and demand from 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and issues by Amarasinghe, Upali A., Shah, Tushaar, Anand, B.K.

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Analysis of the Inter-basin Water Transfer Scheme in India: a case study of the Godavari-Krishna link by Bharati, Luna, Anand, B.K., Smakhtin, Vladimir U.

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Converting rain into grain: opportunities for realizing the potential of rain-fed agriculture in India by Sharma, Bharat R., Rao, K.V., Vittal, K.P.R., Amarasinghe, Upali A.

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Accelerating environmental flow implementation to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss by Arthington, A. H., Tickner, D., McClain, M. E., Acreman, M.C., Anderson, E. P., Babu, S., Dickens, Chris W. S., Horne, A. C., Kaushal, N., Monk, W. A., O'Brien, G.C., Olden, J. D., Opperman, J. J., Owusu, Afua, Poff, N. L., Richter, B. D., Salinas-Rodríguez, S. A., Shamboko Mbale, B., Tharme, R. E., Yarnell, S. M.

“…Environmental flows (e-flows) aim to mitigate the threat of altered hydrological regimes in river systems and connected waterbodies and are an important component of integrated strategies to address multiple threats to freshwater biodiversity. …”
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Groundwater management in an agro-industrial school in Argentina by Vuksinic, Evelyn, Rodríguez, Corina Iris, Tabera, Anahí, Cifuentes, Marisol Roxana, Díaz, Adriana Alejandra, Cisneros Basualdo, Nicolás Eloy, Ruiz de Galarreta, Alejandro

“…In addition, we measured a high water demand which is in conflict with groundwater shortage and the complex hydrological conditions of extraction in the studied area. …”
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Comportamiento hidrológico de un paisaje con diferentes estados del pastizal en la Patagonia árida by Aramayo, Maria Valeria Del Lu, Cremona, Maria Victoria, Nosetto, Marcelo Daniel

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Benefits of irrigation water transfers in the National River Linking Project: a case study of Godavari (Polavaram)-Krishna link in Andhra Pradesh by Bhaduri, Anik, Amarasinghe, Upali A., Shah, Tushaar

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Benefit of irrigation water transfers in the National River Linking Project: a case study of the Ken-Betwa link by Amarasinghe, Upali A., Singh, Om Prakash, Shah, Tushaar, Chauhan, R.S.

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Changes in the hydrometeorological conditions for sustainable water resources management in Sudan by Sahoo, Satiprasad, Govind, Ajit

“…We also analyzed the spatiotemporal trends of historical hydrological parameters for sustainable and efficient use of water resources in the era of climate uncertainty. …”
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Developing timely and actionable drought forecasts for the Limpopo River Basin by Montes, Carlo

“…Southern Africa is highly drought-prone, and its agricultural and hydrological systems are vulnerable. Climate forecasts provide tools for decision-making and adaptation to climate extreme events. …”
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Demography, human development and economic conditions by Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Wardak, A., Jan, I.

“…In doing so, the authors illustrate the human realities that overlie the hydrological units. This chapter presents basin-level data by combining and rescaling data for specific administrative units in Afghanistan and Pakistan. …”
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Current climate variability and future climate change: Estimated growth and poverty impacts for Zambia by Thurlow, James, Zhu, Tingju, Diao, Xinshen

“…Economy‐wide and hydrological‐crop models are combined to assess the economic impacts of historical climate variability and future anthropogenic climate change in Zambia. …”
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Basin Focal Project Niger by Charles Clanet, J., Ogilvie, A.

“…Looking at the Niger river basin, we carry out a diagnosis of the hydrologic and agronomic potential, before attempting to identify how good agricultural water management may reduce vulnerability in the region, and preserve local ecosystems. …”
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Spatial and temporal variability of water productivity in the Syr Darya Basin, Central Asia by Abdullaev, Iskandar, David, S.

“…The spatial analysis includes different farm types and basin segments, and the temporal analysis includes 3 hydrological years during 1999-2001. The analysis of temporal data showed that in water-deficient years, water productivity, both in terms of supply and evapotranspiration, is higher than the same in water-abundant years. …”
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From local watershed management to integrated river basin management at national and transboundary levels by Bach, H., Clausen, T.J., Trang, D.T., Emerton, L., Facon, T., Hofer, T., Lazarus, Kate, Muziol, C., Noble, A.D., Schill, P., Sisouvanh, A., Wensley, C., Whiting, L.

“…Although watersheds play a critical role as the basic hydrological unit within a river basin they are often neglected in river basin management. …”
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Design metrics for extreme events in a non-stationary world. [Abstract oly] by Read, L., Vogel, R., Lacombe, Guillaume

“…Traditional probabilistic approaches for defining risk, reliability and return periods under stationary hydrologic conditions assume that extreme events are serially independent with a probability distribution whose moments and associated parameters are fixed. …”
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Vegetation phenology to partition groundwater- from surface water-irrigated areas using MODIS 250-m time-series data for the Krishna River basin by Gumma, Murali K., Thenkabail, Prasad S., Velpuri, Naga Manohar

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