Browsing by Subject "hydrology"
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(2017-04-27)Understanding how the climate of the North American Great Plains may change in the future is of tremendous socioeconomic importance, yet the regional response to previous abrupt global climate events, such as the ...
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(2015-12-16)The engineering design discipline of hydrology and hydraulics has, for the past several decades, been largely based on probabilistic design techniques involving recurrence interval storm and flood events. The engineering ...
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(2016-12-01)The semi-arid Texas High Plains (THP) is one of the intensively managed agricultural regions in the United States (US) where cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is a major crop. The THP region produces about a quarter of the ...
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(2014-07-30)Shrub expansion is one of the most recognized components of terrestrial Arctic change and has been documented in studies involving fine-scale experimental manipulations or broad-scale satellite remote sensing. The ...
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(2016-04-26)Soil moisture is an important component in many hydrologic and land– atmosphere interactions. Proper characterization of soil moisture variability is vital for understanding hydrological, ecological and biogeochemical ...
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(2019-02-21)ABSTRACT The Cascadia subduction zone hosts quasi-periodic, large-scale slow slip events which have been shown to be precursors to large, tsunamigenic earthquakes at other active subduction zone margins. Detection of these ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Dam construction has increased exponentially over the past century, primarily in temperate environments. While the impacts of dams in temperate regions have been well-documented, a parallel level of research on dam impacts ...
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(2015-04-29)The population growth in Houston over the last 30 years has been one of the fastest in the nation. Several studies have linked urbanization with increased runoff volume and peak discharges. For the watershed of Sims Bayou ...
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(2017-06-28)The global effects of climate change and policy decisions are simulated, in part, by land surface models; yet, the models often use incomplete soil information that may result in unreliable estimates of soil water storage ...
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(2013-02-04)Understanding the hydrology of a watershed is essential for both water resource management and public safety, especially flood prevention and mitigation. Both climate change and urbanization have been shown to increase ...
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(2014-04-24)Costa Rican tropical premontane rainforests are among the world's most valuable ecosystems in terms of diversity of animals, plants, and natural resources. These environments are dependent on water resources which fluctuate ...
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Hydrology and Larval Fish Dynamics in Texas Rivers: Science to Evaluate Environmental Flow Standards (2015-07-17)Given increasing human demands for freshwater, it is imperative to identify environmental flows that maintain native species, their habitats, and key ecosystem dynamics. A major challenge is determining requirements for ...
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(2014-12-15)Swales in wetland complexes can provide evidence of hydrologic connectivity for wetlands on the Texas Gulf Coast, supporting the idea that many coastal wetlands in Texas are vitally connected to navigable waters covered ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Investigation of infiltration provides insights about the flow of water and transport of contaminants through the vadose zone. Infiltration is governed by prevailing environmental conditions like soil characteristics, plant ...
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(2021-12-10)The Colorado River of Texas no longer provides direct freshwater flows to the wetlands of East Matagorda Bay, and a few small basins, such as that of Big Boggy Creek, provide the only inflowing freshwater. The upstream ...
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(2012-10-19)Chemical dynamics in the vadose zone are poorly understood due to the transient nature of chemical and hydrologic conditions, but are nonetheless critical to understanding contaminant fate and transport. This work explored ...
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(2012-11-28)Forest fires have an enormous impact on biotic and abiotic variables that control runoff and soil properties in watersheds. Because wildfires do not have a uniform effect on the burned area, significant variability occurs ...
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(2009-05-15)We use models to simulate the real world mainly for prediction purposes. However, since any model is a simplification of reality, there remains a great deal of uncertainty even after the calibration of model parameters. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Cultivation and drainage projects associated with livestock production have substantially disturbed resaca wetlands and wet prairie habitats in southern Texas. As a consequence of the anthropogenic disturbances, the area ...
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1960)