Journal: Water Resources Research

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Water Resour. Res.

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Wiley

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0043-1397
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  • Absolute versus temporal anomaly and percent of saturation soil moisture spatial variability for six networks worldwide
    Item type: Journal Article
    Brocca, L.; Zucco, G.; Mittelbach, H.; et al. (2014)
    Water Resources Research
  • Process‐Level Evaluation of a Hyper‐Resolution Forest Snow Model Using Distributed Multisensor Observations
    Item type: Journal Article
    Mazzotti, Giulia; Essery, Richard; Webster, Clare; et al. (2020)
    Water Resources Research
    The complex dynamics of snow accumulation and melt processes under forest canopies entail major observational and modeling challenges, as they vary strongly in space and time. In this study, we present novel data sets acquired with mobile multisensor platforms in subalpine and boreal forest stands. These data sets include spatially and temporally resolved measurements of shortwave and longwave irradiance, air and snow surface temperatures, wind speed, and snow depth, all coregistered to canopy structure information. We then apply the energy balance snow model FSM2 to obtain concurrent, distributed simulations of the forest snowpack at very high (“hyper”) resolution (2 m). Our data sets allow us to assess the performance of alternative canopy representation strategies within FSM2 at the level of individual snow energy balance components and in a spatially explicit manner. We demonstrate the benefit of accounting for detailed spatial patterns of shortwave and longwave radiation transfer through the canopy and show the importance of describing wind attenuation by the canopy using stand‐scale metrics. With the proposed canopy representation, snowmelt dynamics in discontinuous forest stands were successfully reproduced. Hyper‐resolution simulations resolving these effects provide an optimal basis for assessing the snow‐hydrological impacts of forest disturbances and for validating and improving the representation of forest snow processes in land surface models intended for coarser‐scale applications. © 2020 American Geophysical Union
  • Global‐Scale Prediction of Flood Timing Using Atmospheric Reanalysis
    Item type: Journal Article
    Do, Hong Xuan; Westra, Seth; Leonard, Michael; et al. (2020)
    Water Resources Research
  • Using noble gases to analyze the efficiency of artificial aeration in Lake Hallwil, Switzerland
    Item type: Journal Article
    Holzner, C. P.; Tomonaga, Y.; Stöckli, A.; et al. (2012)
    Water Resources Research
  • Lake Modeling Reveals Management Opportunities for Improving Water Quality Downstream of Transboundary Tropical Dams
    Item type: Journal Article
    Calamita, Elisa; Vanzo, Davide; Wehrli, Bernhard; et al. (2021)
    Water Resources Research
    Water quality in tropical rivers is changing rapidly. The ongoing boom of dam construction for hydropower is one of the drivers for this change. In particular, the stratification in tropical reservoirs induces oxygen deficits in their deep waters and warmer surface water temperatures, which often translate into altered thermal and oxygen regimes of downstream river systems, with cascading consequences for the entire aquatic ecosystem. Operation rules of reservoirs, involving water intakes at different levels, could mitigate the consequences for downstream water quality. However, optimized water management of deep reservoirs relies on predictive models for water quality, but such predictive capability is often lacking for tropical dams. Here we focus on the Zambezi River Basin (southern Africa) to address this gap. Using the one-dimensional General Lake Model, we reproduced the internal dynamics of the transboundary Lake Kariba, the world’s largest artificial lake by volume, created by damming the Zambezi River at the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Through this modeling approach, we assessed and quantified the thermal and oxygen alteration in the Zambezi River downstream of the reservoir. Results suggest that these alterations depend directly on Kariba’s stratification dynamics, its water level and the transboundary policies for water withdrawal from the reservoir. Scenario calculations indicate a large potential for mitigating downstream water quality alterations by implementing a hypothetical selective withdrawal technology. However, we show that a different and cooperative management of the existing infrastructure of Kariba Dam has the potential to mitigate most of the actual water quality alterations.
  • Stochastic convective rain-field simulation using a high-resolution synoptically conditioned weather generator (HiReS-WG)
    Item type: Journal Article
    Peleg, Nadav; Morin, Efrat (2014)
    Water Resources Research
  • Groundwater Buffers Drought Effects and Climate Variability in Urban Reserves
    Item type: Journal Article
    Marchionni, Valentina; Daly, Edoardo; Manoli, Gabriele; et al. (2020)
    Water Resources Research
  • Self-adjustment of stream bed roughness and flow velocity in a steep mountain channel
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schneider, Johannes M.; Rickenmann, Dieter; Turowski, Jens M.; et al. (2015)
    Water Resources Research
  • Mechanisms of heat exchange between water and rock in karst conduits
    Item type: Journal Article
    Covington, M.D.; Luhmann, A.J.; Gabrovšek, F.; et al. (2011)
    Water Resources Research
  • A Global Assessment of Runoff Sensitivity to Changes in Precipitation, Potential Evaporation, and Other Factors
    Item type: Journal Article
    Berghuijs, Wouter Reinier; Larsen, Joshua R.; van Emmerik, Tim H.M.; et al. (2017)
    Water Resources Research
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