HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL Published by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Библиотека кафедры гидрологии суши Оглавление METHODOLOGY IN HYDROLOGY (311) ...................................................................................................................... 4 REMOTE SENSING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND CHANGE DETECTION (316) ................................... 10 GROUNWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION: PROCESS UNDERSTANDING, CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MODELLING (321) .................................................................................................................................................... 13 SEDIMENT TRANSFER THROUGH THE FLUVIAL SYSTEM (288) ................................................................................ 15 HYDROLOGICAL RESEARCH IN CHINA: PROCESS STUDIES, MODELLING APPROACHES AND APLICATIONS (322) .. 19 THE ROLE OF HYDROLOGY IN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (327) .............................................................. 22 HYDROLOGY IN MOUNTAIN REGIONS: OBSERVATIONS, PROCESSES, DYNAMICS (326)......................................... 25 PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS (298) ................................................................................................................... 27 THE HYDROLOGY – GEOMORPHOLOGY INTERFACE: RAINFALL, FLOODS, SEDIMENTATION, LAND USE (261) ...... 29 GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND HUMAN IMPACTS IN RIVER BASINS (299) ............................................... 31 QUANTIFICATION AND REDUCTION OF PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (313) ............................................................................................................................................... 33 WATER QUALITY AND SEDIMENT BEHAVIOUR OF THE FUTURE: PREDICTIONS FOR THE 21st CENTURY (314) ..... 37 GLACIER MASS BALANCE CHANGES AND MELTWATER DISCHARGE (318).............................................................. 40 HYDROLOGY 2020 (300)........................................................................................................................................... 42 AN INTERGRATING SCIENCE TO MEET WORLD WATER CHALLENGES ..................................................................... 42 LARGE SAMPLE BASIN EXPERIMENTS FOR HYDROLOGICAL MODEL PARAMETRIZATION: Results of the Model Parameter Experiment – MOPEX (307) ................................................................................................................... 43 HYDROLOGY IN THE HUMID TROPIC ENVIRONMENT (253) .................................................................................... 45 IMPACT OF HUMAN ACTIVITY ON GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS (269) .................................................................... 48 CLIMATE AND THE HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE .............................................................................................................. 51 NOTHERN RESEARCH BASINS WATER BALANCE (290) ............................................................................................ 52 NOTHERN RESEARCH BASINS WATER BALANCE (290) ............................................................................................ 52 THE BASIS OF CIVILIZATION – WATER SCIENCE ? (286) ........................................................................................... 53 CALIRATION AND RELIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER MODELLING: FROM UNCERTAINTY TO DECISION MAKING (304) ......................................................................................................................................................................... 55 CALIRATION AND RELIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER MODELLING: CREDIBILITY OF MODELLING (320) .................... 58 REGIONAL MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES. (268) ...................................................................................... 62 BRINING GROUNDWATER QUALITY RESEARCH TO THE WATERSHED SCALE (297) ................................................ 64 CALIBRATION AND RELIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER MODELLING: COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY (265) ................ 68 HYDRO-ECOLOGY: LINKING HYDROLOGY AND AQUATIC ECOLOGY (266) .............................................................. 72 GIS AND REMOTE SENSING IN HYDROLOGY, WATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT (289) .............................. 73 REDUCING THE VULNERABILITY OF SOCIETIES TO WATER RELATED RISKS AT THE BASIN SCALE (317) ................. 76 A NEW FOCUS ON GROUNWATER-SEAWATER INTERACTIONS (312) ..................................................................... 81 REGIONAL HYDROLOGY IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE – Impact Assessment and Decision Making (295) ......... 84 HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES: Understanding, Predicting, Mitigating (255).............................................................. 87 INTERACTION BETWEEN THE CRYOSPHERE, CLIMATE AND GREENHOUSE GASES (256) ........................................ 90 Sustainable Reservoir Development and Management (251) ................................................................................. 92 Water Resources Variability in Africa during the XXth Century. (252) .................................................................... 95 Impact of Land-Use Change on Nutrient Loads from Diffuse Sources (257) ........................................................... 99 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Drinking Water Risk Assessment and Management (260) ............................... 101 Debris-Covered Glaciers (264) ............................................................................................................................... 104 Wastewater Re-use and Groundwater Quality (285) ............................................................................................ 106 Scales in Hydrology and Water Management (287) .............................................................................................. 107 Sustainable Water Management Solutions for Large Cities (293) ......................................................................... 108 Changes in Water Resources Systems : Methodologies to Maintain Water Security and Ensure Integrated Management (315) ................................................................................................................................................ 111 SOIL-VEGETATION-ATMOSPHERE TRANSFER SCHEMES AND LARGE-SCALE HYDROLOGICAL MODELS (270) ...... 113 PREDICTIONS IN UNGAUGED BASINS: International Perspectives on the State of the Art and Pathways Forward(301) ......................................................................................................................................................... 116 PREDICTION IN UNGAUGED BASINS: Promise and Progress (303) ........................................................................ 118 IMPACTS OF URBAN GROWTH ON SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATER QUUALITY (259) ............................. 121 METHODOLOGY IN HYDROLOGY (311) Edited by Liliang Ren, Qiongfang Li, Danrong Zhang & Jun Xia, Proceedings of a meeting held at Nanjing (China) in November 2005 Hydrological Modelling and Flood Forecasting Hydro-meteorological monitoring and operational hydro-systems for flood management in China Jianyun Zhang & Zhiyu Liu, 3-9 Water cycle mechanisms on the Loess Plateau, China: the Chabagou catchment case study Jun Xia, Aizhong Ye, Ling Wang & Xuecheng Zhang, 10-17 Large flood prediction in poorly gauged basins: the 2004 largest-ever flood in Fukui, Japan Yasuto Tachikawa , Ryoichi Takubo, Takahiro Sayama & Kaoru Takara, 18-24 Variable isochrones estimate runoff based on digital stream networks Ling Kang, Xueli Wang & Tiebing Jiang, 25-31 Roles of snow, infiltration and saturation excess processes in runoff generation over the Yellow River basin M. C. Zhou, H. Ishidaira, K. Takeuchi, H. Hapuarachchi & M. Georgievsky, 32-45 Application of a bi-directional stage routing model in a tidal reach Weimin Bao, Chao Zhao, Hao Wang & Simin Qu, 45-52 Application of a modified rainfall–runoff model in a small sandy soil catchment Yiqing Guan, Danrong Zhang, Weidong Yu & Pixiang Chen, 53-59 A comparative study of the Xinanjiang model and the Vertical-mixed runoff model Simin Qu, Weimin Bao & Peng Shi, 60-67 A hydrodynamic method used in river basin flood-routing modelling Guangchi Li & Yuqing Lin, 68-74 Hydrological modelling of the Zhalong wetland using a monthly water balance model Daqing Liu & Shiguo Xu, 75-81 Comparison of two grid-based distributed flow routing models Jintao Liu & Jie Feng, 82-87 Real-time flood forecasting in the northwestern semi-arid area of China Li Ren, Zengchuan Dong & Yaqiong Song, 88-92 Flood forecasting practice and new technology applications in the Yishusi basin Congming Wang, Daoqiang Zhan & Zhijian Wang, 93-97 A distributed time variant gain model applied to the Fujiang River of the Yangtze River Wang Miaolin, Jun Xia & Gangsheng Wang, 98-102 Distributed hydrological and erosion model in the Chabagou basin Qin Xu & Xing Chen, 103-110 An improved neural model of groundwater level prediction Lianqing Xue, Zhenchun Hao & Guangbai Cui, 111-117 Distributed runoff and sediment yield modelling of the Chabagou watershed in the middle reach of the Yellow River, China Tao Yang, Xi Chen, Jieren Chen, Wenyi Yao & Xuejian Shi, 118-125 Key technologies for flood forecasting systems in China Silong Zhang, Jianyun Zhang & Jan Li, 126-131 Approaches to developing a distributed hydrological model Jincun Zha, Xiaofang Rui & Fanggui Liu, 132136 A distributed hydrological model for flood forecasting in semi-arid regions Wenming Zhang & Zengchuan Dong, 137-143 Application of three hydrological models in a semi-arid region and analysis of model uncertainty Xuegang Zhang, Zhijia Li & Xiaotao Dong, 144-150 Construction of the basin geomorphological instantaneous unit hydrograph from self-similar networks Peng Shi, Xiaofang Rui & Simin Qu, 151-157 Comparison of hydrological models in the middle reach of the Yellow River Guoqing Wang, Jianyun Zhang & Ruimin He, 158-163 Relating BTOPMC model parameters to physical basin features of the Mekong River basin Xie Shan, Ao Tianqi & Yuan Peng, 164-170 Advances in distributed hydrological modelling in China Yinkang Zhou, Shenmin Wang, Liping Wang, Xiaobin Jin & Du Jinkang, 171-177 Effects of the spatial resolution of digital elevation model data on the performance of TOPMODEL Jing Xu, Liliang Ren, Zhongbo Yu & Fei Yuan, 178-185 Storm runoff simulation based on the spatially distributed runoff curve number and time variant routing methods Jinkang Du, Hua Xie, Yujun Hu, Youpeng Xu, Yinkang Zhou & Chongyu Xu, 186-194 Stochastic Hydrology Selected problems of at-site flood frequency analysis Witold G. Strupczewski, Vijay. P. Singh & Krzysztof Kochanek, 197-203 Regional flood frequency analysis by L-moments for the region of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Yuanfang Chen, Qingrong Wang, Ling Wang, Van Gelder Pieter & Min Chen, 204-209 A real-time flood updating model based on the Bayesian method Shenglian Guo, Gaohong Xu, Honggang Zhang & Chaoqun Li, 210-215 Comparing Bayesian regularization and cross-validated early-stopping for streamflow forecasting with ANN models Wen Wang, Pieter H.A.J.M. Van Gelder & J. K. Vrijling, 216-221 Study on tidal level consistency correction Jiapeng Hua, Yanhong Wu, Yongjin Lu & Xiangcheng Yu, 222226 Application of environmental fuzzy risk analysis in water resources planning Hanqiu Huang, Rongyong Ma & Feiren Huang, 227-231 Defects in current methods of hydrological frequency calculation and proposals for improvement Zhenping Huang, Weiwei Gu, Zhizhong Liu, Xiaoli Lin, Yunqing Hou & Jinbao Hu, 232-239 A method to determine the design tidal discharge of an estuary, Guofang Li, Jiapeng Hua, Lingting Kong & Aping Chen 240-245 River bed variation in flood seasons: a stochastic method Yu Li, Z. B. Wang & H. J. De Vriend, 246-251 Analysis of tidal level and wave composition probability Lishi Liu, Jiapeng Hua, Yongjin Lu & Xiangcheng Yu, 252-256 Flood frequency study in the lower reach of the Yellow River by regional L-moments analysis method Shuguang Liu, Huiling Zhu & Gangfeng Ma, 257-263 The threshold hybrid regressive model and its application to prediction of water table in Jinan City Zongzhi Wang, Juliang Jin & Lingling Zhang, 264-270 Detection of decadal trends in precipitation across the Tibetan Plateau Zongxue Xu, Tongliang Gong & Changming Liu, 271-276 Runoff occurrence frequency analysis of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project (Eastern Route Project)Zhongmin Liang, Bo Lu & Yaqi Ye, 277-284 Study on reservoir substage design flood Jieyou Li, Guofang Li, Fangchi Mu & Xiaoyan Zhang, 285-290 Parameter estimation of IDF models in the urban flood-control planning and designing Baohong Lu, Su Dai, Tingting Sun, Xianglin Zhou & Yeou-Koung Tung, 291-297 Period characteristics of representative hydrological series in the Yellow River using maximum entropy spectra analysis Dong Wang, Jichun Wu, Shaoming Pan & Qingping Zhu, 298-304 Analysis on the characteristics of annual runoff series in the Hetian River basin Yi Wu, Liliang Ren, Weiming Cheng & Fei Yuan, 305-310 Relation between water flow and sediment in the middle reach of the Yellow River Xin Jin, Zhenchun Hao, Jinliang Zhang, Baohong Lu, Wei Ren, Xiang Teng & Zhongbo Yu, 311-316 Water Quality Modelling and Analysis Simulation of atrazine transport in soil with large packed soil column experiment Guan Danrong Zhang & Yiqing, 319-324 Assessing nitrate leaching with the GLEAMS model in an agricultural catchment in southeast China Wenzhi Cao & Jiping Wang, 325-330 Theory and computation method of ecological flow Ziqiang Xia, Qiongfang Li & Zhuqing Chen, 331-336 On evaluating water quality in the intake from the Wangyu River Xing Chen,Guangbai Cui & Zhongbo Yu, 337-344 Main factor selection in Harmful Algal Bloom Prediction with a case study of Western Xiamen Bay Hong Li, Arthur Mynett, Bangqin Huang & Huasheng Hong, 345-351 Investigation of groundwater pollution and prevention measures in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province Zufa Liu, Tao Jiang, Xiaohong Chen, Xiaodan Chen, Haixia Yu, Jun Chen & Luansheng Shi, 352-357 Assessment of groundwater vulnerability to pollution: DRASTIC application in Zhangji, China Yuanyuan Mao, Rui Fang, J. P. Lobo Ferreira, Manuel M. Oliveira & Liansheng Wang, 358-363 Quantitative model of the coupling system of water quantity–water quality–ecology Qiting Zuo & Ge Tan, 364-370 Analysis of ecohydrological characteristics and factors affecting the Zhalong riparian wetland Xingju Wang, Shiguo Xu & Daqing Liu, 371-378 Simulation and control of ammonia nitrogen loss from farmland around Taihu Lake Xiangyang Xu, Xing Xu & Han Xiao, 379-383 Nonparametric grade assessment method for water quality Yuliang Zhou, Guihua Lu, Juliang Jin, Lihua Tang & Ping Zhou, 384-389 Determination of natural desert plant root-zone soil water storage in an arid region Yonghua Zhu, Liliang Ren, Haishen Lü & Xiaoli Yang, China, 390-396 Water Resources Management and Water Economy Assessment model of absolute water security Shengle Cao & Guoxiang Liu, 399-403 Water pricing mechanism and the defects of water pricing in China Qunfang Fan, Zengchuan Dong & Yu Chen, 404-407 Study on the threshold space of water resources carrying capacity Hai He, Guihua Lu & Shenbei Zhou, 408412 Analysis of the principal–agent relations of water resource management of the East Route of the Southto-North Water Transfer Project Zhengyun Hu, Huiming Wang & Guihua Lu, 413-417 Utilization of unconventional water resources in Guangdong province: problems and prospects Tao Jiang, Zufa Liu, Xiaohong Chen, Yang Yang & Zhaoli Wang, 418-423 Evaluation method of artificial recharge potential in the cone of depression in Jining City, China Bo Liu, Longcang Shu, Basil T. Iro Ong’Or & Qingyi Sun, 424-430 Systems analysis on harmonious management of water resources in river basins Jigan Wang & Jie Zhang, 431-437 Optimal irrigation water resources management for water saving and salinity control Zhanyu Zhang, Xiangping Guo & Baoping Feng, 438-444 Institutional framework of water resources assessment and management in Sierra Leone Mohamed Patrick Moiwo Korjie & Danrong Zhang, 445-449 Study on the apportionment coefficient for computing economic benefits of an individual flood-control work in a river network Juqin Shen, Yan Zhao, Xiaorong Du & Fei Yang, 450-456 Benefit analysis of Baozhusi hydropower station and its economic operation rules, Xiuju Zhang & Pingan Zhong 457-462 Interdisciplinary Hydrology Analysis of actual evaporation variability over China during the last half century using the Budyko hypothesis Guangheng Ni, Fubao Sun, Dawen Yang, Zhentao Cong & Zhidong Lei, 465-472 Study and application of a digital hydrological model on the Chabagou basin in the Yellow River, China, Jun Xia & Shan He 473-479 Impact of land use change on runoff using RS and GIS: the case of the Bagmati River, Nepal Raghunath Jha & Binaya Kumar Mishra, 480-484 Estimating pond storage capacity using RS/GIS: a case study in Zhanghe irrigation scheme, Southern China Xueliang Cai, Yuanlai Cui & Bin Dong, 485-490 Spatial distribution and temporal variation of rainfall in Guangdong Province, China Xiaohong Chen & Dedi Liu, 491-497 Study of the hydraulic projects on the Han River and the methods of hydrological measurement Guangyin Feng, 498-503 A promising nondestructive method for characterizing soil macropores Jie Feng, Jintao Liu & Zhenchun Hao, 504-511 Interaction model of the stress-field and seepage-field for a dam and its foundation Chongshi Gu & Huaizhi Su, 512-516 Optimal fuzzy equivalent matrix based fuzzy clustering method for hydrological station classification Juliang Jin, Youfu Zhang & Wensheng Wang, 517-522 SRTM and ASTER global free digital elevation models for hydrological researches Feng Ling, Cheng Wang & Qiuwen Zhang On, 523-529 Modelling of complex virtual scenes in water diversion engineering Huiyi Liu, Yuerong Zhu & Xingguang Wang, 530-535 Analysis of the influence of urbanization on storm and runoff patterns in Tianjin, China Jun Liu & Han Cui, 536-540 Application of BP neural networks to predict rainfall interception loss in an arid land, China Haishen Lü, Yonghua Zhu & Xiaoli Yang, 541-545 Assessment of the hydrological alteration of the Yangtze River Ying Ma, Qiongfang Li, Zhenhua Zou & Ziqiang Xia, 546-551 Application of the extension method to similarity analysis of rainstorms in a river basin Jun Niu, Zengchuan Dong & Zhongmin Liang, 552-559 Matter-element space analysis in isotope hydrology Wang Haibin Tong, Jiansheng Chen & Jiyang, 560-564 Effects of the 2360 BP palaeoflood in the Yellow River on the design flood of the Xiaolangdi Case Yuebo Xie, Shufei Li & Min Chen, 565-570 Impacts of human activities on flood disasters in the Yangtze River basin Ruihong Yu, Youpeng Xu, Zongwei Ma & Tingxi Liu, 571-580 Change detection of watershed impervious surface using multi-temporal remotely-sensed data Youjing Zhang, Xuemei Ma & Liang Chen, 581-587 Gray numerical simulation of groundwater pollution Changjun Zhu, Zhenchun Hao, Dedong Liu, Jihong Zhou & Shuwen Li, 588-593 Determination methods for streambed hydraulic conductivity in the lower reach of the Yellow River Longcang Shu, Zhihua Wang, Basil T. Iro Ong’Or1, Ling Wang, Zhenchun Hao, Yuming Wang, Maomei Wang, Bo Liu & Wei Li, 594-599 A combined tipping bucket/siphon raingauge Daxing Shu, 600-604 Organization of a geodatabase in a water conservancy GIS Hanwei Xu & Xianrong Ding, 605-612 Simulation of storm-tide dyke burst flooding on the coast based on zoning of flooding and water logging characteristics Ru An, Xingnan Zhang, Wentin Zhang & Renzong Ruan, 613-620 A new method of developing flood forecast systems Dingsheng Wan, Xing Huang & Yaqing Shi, 621-627 LAI mapping and scaling over the Heihe River basin using remotely-sensed data Xiuqin Fang, Liliang Ren, Wangchang Zhang & Qiuan Zhu, 628-634 On evaluation of regional ecosystem health Ruimin He, Lanlan Song & Jiangyun Zhang, 635-640 Data mining techniques and their application for the Yellow River Huazhong Kou & Yuguo Niu, 641-650 REMOTE SENSING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND CHANGE DETECTION (316) Edited by Manfred Owe & Christopher Neale Thermal Infrared Spatial distribution and structure of remotely sensed surface water content estimated by a thermal inertia approach Antonio Coppola, Angelo Basile, Massimo Menenti, Maurizio Buonanno, Jerome Colin, Roberto De Mascellis, Marco Esposito, Ugo Lazzaro, Vincenzo Magliulo & Piero Manna, 3 Satellite observations of the land surface emissivity in the 8–12 µm window: effect of soil moisture Thomas Schmugge, Kenta Ogawa & Patricia De Rosnay, 16 Infrared measurements to evaluate groundwater discharge in the coastal zone Makoto Taniguchi, Tomotoshi Ishitobi & Shigeru Kasahara, 22 Vegetation change detection using thermal band emissivities over Jornada, New Mexico, USA Andrew N. French, Thomas J. Schmugge, Jerry C. Ritchie, Ann Hsu, Frederic Jacob & Kenta Ogawa, 27 Microwave and Radar Detecting Bright Band using AI techniques in radar hydrology Daniel R. Mcculloch, Jonathan Lawry, Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez & Ian D. Cluckie, 37 Spatial and seasonal patterns of diurnal differences in ERS Scatterometer soil moisture data in the Volta Basin, West Africa Jan Friesen, Hessel C. Winsemius, Rob Beck, Klaus Scipal, Wolfgang Wagner & Nick van de Giesen, 47 Contribution of Earth observation data supplied by the new satellite sensors in flood risk mapping Gheorghe Stancalie, Vasile Craciunescu & Anisoara Irimescu, 56 Soil moisture retrieval over the Mackenzie River basin using AMSR-E 6.9 GHz brightness temperature Naira Chaouch, Robert Leconte, Ramata Magagi & Marouane Temimi, 64 Probabilistic estimation of precipitation combining geostationary and TRMM satellite data Carlo De Marchi, Aris Georgakakos & Christa Peters-Lidard, 70 Sequential assimilation of remotely sensed water stages in flood inundation models Patrick Matgen, Guy Schumann, Florian Pappenberger & Laurent Pfisterz, 78 Vegetation Monitoring Change detection and hydrological implications in the Lower Ogun flood plain, SW Nigeria Shakirudeen Odunuga & Lekan Oyebande, 91 Mapping and monitoring wetlands using airborne multispectral imagery Christopher M. U. Neale, Dennis Wenger, Harikishan Jayanthi & Fayek Farag, 100 Mapping land degradation and forest resource loss from fused Landsat TM and Nigeriasat-1 images in some parts of the southwest coast of Nigeria Mayowa Fasona, Ademola Omojola & Anthonia Onyeahialam, 110 Study of vegetation evolution in Sicily using time series analysis of remote sensing and climatic data Enrico Bono, Fulvio Capodici, Giuseppe Ciraolo, Goffredo La Loggia, Antonino Maltese & Leonardo V. Noto, 119 A comparative approach for the retrieval of leaf area index from Earth observation data Francesco Vuolo, Guido D’urso & Luigi Dini, 131 Effects of climate and land cover on the relationship of satellite derived vegetation water content and greenness Seungbum Hong, Venkat Lakshmi & Eric Small, 140 Snow and Ice Remote sensing monitoring of the long-term regime of the Pamirs glaciers Vladimir Konovalov & Lev Desinov, 149 Calibration/validation of satellite derived snow products with in situ data over the mountainous eastern part of Turkey Akyurek Zuhal, Sensoy Aynur, Sorman Arda & Sorman A. Unal, 157 Validating gravimetry measurements in Canada with a continental-scale hydrological database Caterina Valeo, W. Van Der Wal & S. Marshall, 169 Evapotranspiration MODIS-based estimates of the regional evapotranspiration Ronglin Tang, Jun Xia, Xiang Zhang & Xiongrui Yin, 181 Estimating evapotranspiration of arid regions using remotely-sensed data Seifeldin H. Abdalla & Christopher Neale, 190 Assessing crop water deficit using MODIS data during winter wheat growing period along the lower reaches of the Yellow River, China Yonghong Yi, Dawen Yang, Huimin Lei & Taikan Oki, 199 Evaluating actual evapotranspiration by means of multi-platform remote sensing data: a case study in Sicily Mario Minacapilli, Giuseppe Ciraolo, Guido D’Urso & Carmelo Cammalleri, 207 Remote sensing estimation of land surface evapotranspiration of typical river basins in China Che-Sheng Zhan, Jun Xia, Zhi Chen, Zhao-Liang Li & Zong-Xue Xu, 220 Towards a continuous monitoring of evapotranspiration based on MSG data Françoise GellensMeulenberghs, Alirio Arboleda & Nicolas Ghilain, 228 Hydrology and GIS Applications Comparison of ASTER, MASTER, and ground-based hyperspectral reflectance measurements Jerry C. Ritchie, Thomas J. Schmugge, Ann Hsu & Albert Rango, 237 Application of GIS in land-use studies in the Osse-Ossiomo River basin, Nigeria Catherine I. Ikhile & Lekan Oyebande, 245 Responses to land use change and water resources in the Tarim River watershed of Central Asia Yan Dou & Xi Chen, 252 Evaluating urbanization and its impacts on local hydrological environment change in hijiazhuang, China, using remote sensing Jie-Ying Xiao, Chun-Ping Chang, Jing-Feng Ge & Yan-Jun Shen, 261 Complex approaches for the study of landslide areas in mountainous pilot areas of Uzbekistan using remote sensing data and GIS techniques Pulat Mavlyanov, Diana zakhidova & Akbar Abdurakhmanov, 269 GROUNWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION: PROCESS UNDERSTANDING, CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MODELLING (321) Edited by Corinna Abesser, Thorsten Wagener & Gunnar Nuetzman. 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M. Petrone, K. J. Devito, U. Silins, C. Mendoza, S. C. Kaufman & J. S. Price, 61-66 Quantify groundwater's role in sustaining Groenvlei, a shallow lake in the Southern Cape region of South Africa Roger Parsons, 67-75 Effect of surface and groundwater interaction on nitrate reduction processes in a small alluvial fan catchment, western Japan Mitsuyo Saito, Shin-Ichi Onodera & Misa Sawano, 76-82 Process Conceptualisation and Modelling Prospecting for freshwater: hydro-meteo-bio-geo-physical controls of surface water-groundwater interactions Ana P. Barros, 85-93 Developing distributed conceptual hydrological models from geospatial databases Yuqiong Liu, Matej Durcik, Hoshin V. Gupta & Thorsten Wagener, 94-102 The role of groundwater recharge and baseflow in integrated models Jens Götzinger, Roland Barthel, Johanna Jagelke & András Bárdossy, 103-109 A simplified model for estimating surface runoff hydrographs at watershed scale Corrado Corradini, Renato Morbidelli, Carla Saltalippi, Alessia Flammini & Rao S. Govindaraju, 110-116 Analysis of thermal stream loadings in a fully-integrated surface/subsurface modelling framework A. E. Brookfield, E. A. Sudicky & Y.-J. Park, 117-123 Effect of a nonlinear runoff response on flood statistical properties: the case of a tile-drained watershed B. Augeard, Y. Nédélec, F. Birgand, C. Chaumont, P. Ansart & C. Kao, 124-133 Discharge of saline groundwater into a freshwater stream - River Murray, Australia Gudrun Massmann, Andrew Love, Craig Simmons, Julianne James-Smith & Andrew Herzceg, 134-138 Anthropogenic Impacts and Water Resource Management - Problems, Solutions and Tools Do downwelling streams have a natural attenuation potential for perfluorinated chemicals? Eduard Hoehn, Megan H. Plumlee & Martin Reinhard, 141-147 Enhanced bio-physical data for an integrated systems model, Angas-Bremer Prescribed Wells Area, South Australia Richard Cresswell, Tony Thomson, Eloise Nation, Kevin Cahill, Andrew Fitzpatrick & Ramesh Raja Segaran, 148-157 Analysis of nutrient losses and parameter uncertainties in soils and surface water systems at the catchment scale P. Groenendijk, R. Bijlsma, D.J.J. Walvoort & L.V. Renaud, 158-163 Coupling of surface water management and groundwater dynamics for mining pit lakes Hagen Koch, Kai Mazur & Uwe Grünewald, 164-170 Optimisation of nature development scenarios for the integrated nature reserve of the Hemmepolder (Belgium) Eric Degand, Roeland Adams, Maurice Hoffmann, Florimond De Smedt, Hannah Van Nieuwenhuyse & Jean-Louis Herrier, 171-180 Coupled modelling of groundwater and surface water for renaturation planning in the National Park Lower Odra Bertram L. Monninkhoff & Stefan O. Kaden, 181-188 Surface water-groundwater interactions in a Yellow River alluvial fan Fadong Li, Changyuan Tang, Qiuying Zhang & Guoying Pan, 189-196 Effect of an irrigation canal network on surface and groundwater connections in an agricultural valley in Central Chile Jose Luis Arumi, Diego Rivera, Eduardo Holzapfel & Alexander Fernal , 197-203 Optimization of land use for sustaining groundwater quality Peter Cepuder, Reinhard Nolz & Volker Aus Der Schmitten, 204-210 SEDIMENT TRANSFER THROUGH THE FLUVIAL SYSTEM (288) Ediyed by Valentin Golosov, Vladimir Belyaev & Des E. Walling 1 Sediment Redistribution Within Small Catchments in Different Environments Climate-induced and local-scale erosion and sedimentation features in small catchments: Holocene history of two small valleys in Central Russia Yuri R. Belyaev, Andrey V. Panin & Vladimir R. Belyaev 3 Episodic sediment pulses generated by forested flood plain stripping: Bruces Creek, Nadgee State Forest, southeastern Australia Ashley A. Webb & D. Dragovich 13 Temporal and spatial interactions of slope and catchment processes in the Central Spanish Pyrenees José M. García-Ruiz, Noemí Lana-Renault, Santiago Beguería, Blas Valero-Garcés, Teodoro Lasanta, José Arnáez, Juan I. López-Moreno, David Regüés & Carlos Martí-Bono 21 The role of pipe erosion and slopewash in sediment redistribution in small rainforest catchments, Sabah, Malaysia A.. M. Sayer, R. P. D. Walsh, M. A. Clarke & K. Bidin 29 Change of fluvial sediment transport rates after a high magnitude debris flow event in a drainage basin in the Northern Limestone Alps, Germany Florian Haas, Tobias Heckmann, Volker Wichmann & Michael Becht 37 Identification of sediment sources in a small rural drainage basin Jean Paolo Gomes Minella, Gustavo Henrique Merten & Robin Thomas Clarke 44 Sediment redistribution following wildfire in the Sydney region, Australia: a mineral magnetic tracing approach William H. Blake, Peter J. Wallbrink, Stefan H. Doerr, Richard A. Shakesby & Geoffrey S. Humphreys 52 Erosion in basin geosystems of the Middle Volga (from a landscape analysis perspective) Oleg Yermolaev 60 Using Cs-137 measurements and reservoir deposits to investigate the effects of ceasing cultivation on sediment yields and sediment sources in a small catchment on the Loess Plateau of China Xinbao Zhang, Mingyi Feng & Anbang Wen 67 Validating the use of caesium-137 measurements to estimate erosion rates in three small catchments in Southern Italy Paolo Porto, Des E. Walling & Giovanni Callegari 75 Process interaction and sediment delivery in the Pleiser Hügelland, Germany N. J. Preston & R. Dikau 84 Applying various methods for assessing soil and sediment redistribution within an intensively cultivated dry valley subcatchment Vladimir R. Belyaev, Maxim V. Markelov, Valentin N. Golosov, Yuri R. Belyaev & Elvira V. Tishkina 93 2 Interaction of Rivers and River Catchments in Undisturbed and Intensively Cultivated Basins Predicting slope–channel connectivity: a national-scale approach D. E. Walling & Y. Zhang 107 Land–ocean sediment transfer in palaeotimes, and implications for present-day natural fluvial fluxes Andrey Panin 115 Recent trends in turbidity and suspended sediment loads in the Murrumbidgee River, NSW, 125 Australia Jon Olley & Peter Wallbrink Investigation of sediment yield of lowland rivers in Ukraine I. P. Kovalchuk & V. I. Vishnevskiy 130 Soil erosion, suspended sediment sources and deposition in the Maw-Ki-Syiem drainage basin, Cherrapunji, northeastern India Wojciech Froehlich 138 A sediment budget for the Herbert River Catchment, North Queensland, Australia Rebecca Bartley, Jon Olley & Anne Henderson 147 The impact of erosion protection work on sediment transport in the River Gråelva, Norway Jim Bogen & Truls E. Bønsnes 155 Sources of fine grained sediment in incised and un-incised channels, Jugiong Creek, NSW, Australia Peter Wallbrink & Jon Olley 165 Relative effects of fluvial processes and historical land use on channel morphology in three subbasins, Napa River basin, California, USA Sarah A. Pearce & Robin M. Grossinger 170 Erosion and fluvial sediment supply in undisturbed and cultivated basins: the case of the Desix and Maury river basins (western Mediterranean area) Pierre Serrat & Wolfgang Ludwig 179 Drainage basin controls on geochemical heterogeneity of modern stream sediments in the Guadalhorce basin (Spain) E. N. Aseyeva, N. S. Kasimov, S. B. Kroonenberg & G. J. Weltje 187 3 Large River System Functioning The relationship between sediment yield and drainage basin area Alexei Dedkov 197 Morphological expressions of river sediment transport and their role in channel processes Roman S. Chalov 205 The relationship between sediment yield and catchment characteristics in the middle Yellow River basin of China Lu Jinfa & Huang Xiuhua 212 Sediment yields and erosion rates in the Napo River Basin: an Ecuadorian Andean Amazon tributary A. Laraque, C. Céron, E. Armijos, R. Pombosa, P. Magat & J.L. Guyot 220 The grain size characteristics of overbank deposits on the flood plains of British lowland rivers D. E. Walling, D. Fang, A. P. Nicholas & R. J. Sweet 226 Decreasing sediment yields in northern California: vestiges of hydraulic gold-mining and reservoir trapping L. Allan James 235 Patterns of erosion and sediment transport in the Murray-Darling Basin Ronald De Rose, Ian Prosser & Martin Weisse 245 The assessment of Ukrainian riverbed deformation Alexandr G. Obodovsky 253 Monitoring of channel processes on the interfluve between the Kama and the Vyatka rivers Ivan Rysin & Larisa Petukhova 261 Analysis of coarse sediment connectivity in semiarid river channels J. M. Hooke 269 Channel adjustments in response to human alteration of sediment fluxes: examples from Italian rivers Nicola Surian & Massimo Rinaldi 276 The settling behaviour of fine sediment particles: some preliminary results from LISST instruments N. D. Williams, D. E. Walling & G. J. L. Leeks 283 In-channel storage of fine sediment in rivers of southwest England A. J. Wilson, D. E. Walling & G. J. L. Leeks 291 Alluvial relief structure and bottom sediments of the lower Volga River V. N. Korotaev, V. V. Ivanov & A. Yu. Sidorchuk 300 Sediment transport and morphodynamics of the Tanaro River, northwestern Italy Annunziato Siviglia, Bianca Federici, Ignazio Becchi & Massimo Rinaldi 308 The stratigraphy, mode of deposition and age of inset flood plains on the Barwon-Darling River, Australia M. C. Thoms & J. M. Olley 316 On sediment transport in the Łososina River in the Polish Carpathians Tadeusz Bednarczyk, Arthur Radecki-Pawlik, Przemysław Baran & Ewa Słowik-Opoka 326 Sedimentological assessment of the Tucuruí Reservoir (Tocantins River, Brazil) Newton De Oliveira Carvalho, Antônio Raimundo Santos Ribeiro Coimbra, Bruno Leonel Payolla, Tarcísio Luiz Coelho De Castro & Anderson Braga Mendes 332 4 Modelling of Erosion and Deposition Processes Soil erosion at the mesoscale: comparison of two erosion models for a pre-alpine Austrian basin G. Wolkerstorfer & P. Strauss 339 Probability distribution function approach in stochastic modelling of soil erosion Aleksey Sidorchuk, Alistair Smith & Vladimir Nikora 345 A model of rill erosion by snowmelt Yuri P. Sukhanovski, Valery V. Demidov & Gregor Ollesch 354 Hydrophysical model of soil erosion: a basic equation and influence of bed load and suspended sediment on soil detachment by shallow water flow G. A. Larionov, N. G. Dobrovolskaya, Z. P. Kiryukhina, S. F. Krasnov & L. F. Litvin 361 Spatial modelling of debris flows in an alpine drainage basin Volker Wichmann & Michael Becht 370 Computation of the regime configuration of a meandering stream D. Termini & M. S. Yalin 377 Using computer modelling for regulation of sediment transport under hydraulic structures on a large river A. A. Zaitsev, V. V. Belikov & A. N. Militeev 386 Movement of bed forms and sediment yield of rivers Nikolay I. Alekseevskiy 395 A particle tracking method to simulate sediment transfer over flood plains Ivo Thonon, Kor De Jong, Marcel Van Der Perk & Hans Middelkoop 404 Monitoring and modelling flow and suspended sediment transport processes in alluvial cutoffs R. I. Sutton, A. P. Nicholas & D. E. Walling 410 5 Implications for Nutrient and Contaminant Transfer Monitoring suspended sediment and associated trace element and nutrient fluxes in large river basins in the USA Arthur J. Horowitz 419 Sediment–contaminant interactions and transport: a new perspective Ian G. Droppo & Gary G. Leppard 429 Transport and retention of copper fungicides in vineyards Marcel Van Der Perk, Victor Jetten, Erik Heskes, Marja Segers & Ingrid Wijntjens 437 The role of soil phosphorus in controlling sediment-associated phosphorus transfers in river catchments Philip N. Owens & Lynda K. Deeks 444 Soil erosion, nutrient migration and surface water pollution in Russia Leonid F. Litvin & Zoya P. Kiryukhina 451 Hydrological and biological event based variability in the fine-grained sediment structure of a small undisturbed catchment J. L. McConnachie & E. L. Petticrew 459 Transport of phosphorus, wash load and suspended sediment in the River Varde Å in southwest Jutland, Denmark Hans Thodsen, Bent Hasholt & Morten Pejrup 466 Nitrogen content of suspended matter in the Kam Tin River, Hong Kong M. R. Peart 474 Spatial distribution of particulate phosphorus forms in the Slave River Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada Michael Stone 481 Implications of nutrient and soil transfer with runoff in the northeastern region of India U. C. Sharma & Vikas Sharma 488 HYDROLOGICAL RESEARCH IN CHINA: PROCESS STUDIES, MODELLING APPROACHES AND APLICATIONS (322) Edited by Dawen Yang, Fuqiang Tian, Lihua Tang & Zhiyu Liu Process studies Zhentao Cong, Dawen Yang, Fubao Sun & Guangheng Ni Evaporation paradox in the Yellow River Basin, China, 3-8 Songjun Han, Heping Hu & Fuqiang Tian Evaluating the advection-aridity model of evaporation using data from field-sized surfaces of HEIFE, 9-14 Yuan Liu & Xiaofeng Wu An improved analytical approach to estimate in situ biodegradation rates, 15-21 Haishen Lü, Yonghua Zhu & Zhongbo Yu Estimating unsaturated soil hydraulic parameters using a generalized Richards equation, 22-27 Peng Shi, Xiaofang Rui, Simin Qu & Xi Chen Computation of grid storage capacity from topographic index in hydrological modelling, 28-32 Lihua Tang, Sicong Zhang & Xiufen Sun A tracer experiment and numerical simulation of potential nitrogen pollution from agricultural fertilization, 33-40 Fengyan Wu & Tiesong Hu Assessing the effects of different cropping patterns on drainage capability of the southern riverine basin, 41-47 Hanbo Yang, Dawen Yang, Pingyun Li & Yafei Wang Possible impact of aerosols on orographic precipitation in eastern China, 48-53 Yonghong Yi, Dawen Yang & Daoyi Chen Estimating dry matter content for winter wheat using MODIS reflectance data, 54-62 Modelling approach Feng Chen & Zhenghui Xie A large-scale routing scheme for stream simulation and its application to river basins in China, 65-72 Hongyi Li & Murugesu Sivapalan Investigation of organized hydrological heterogeneity from a spatial analysis perspective, 73-79 Li Li, Jiahu Wang & Zhenchun Hao Appropriate contributing area threshold of a digital river network extracted from DEM for hydrological simulation, 8087 Zhongmin Liang, Jun Wang, Yang Lei & Ye Shi A statistically-based runoff-yield model, 88-94 Fanggui Liu, Xiaofang Rui, Hehai Xie, Jie Feng & Jiyu Yu Uncertainty estimation for the Xin'anjiang model parameters, 95-101 Guangheng Ni, Lei Wang, Fuqiang Tian & Heping Hu Generation of triangulated irregular networks for distributed hydrological modelling, 102-107 Dingbao Wang & Ximing Cai Scale and resolution effects of topographic index by 2-D continuous wavelet transform, 108-114 Fuqiang Wang & Shiguo Xu A long-term runoff forecast model based on association rules of data mining, 115-120 Zhiyong Yang, Heping Hu & Fuqiang Tian A macro-scale hydrological model based on a spatial averaging approach: model structure and an application, 121-128 Hongli Zhao, Xiaoliu Yang & Yunzhong Jiang Assessment of hydrological model structure based on parameter identifiability, 129-136 Miao Zhou, Fuqiang Tian & Heping Hu Uncertainty of the box-counting method for estimating the fractal dimension of river networks, 137-144 Applications Shouyu Chen, Chunling Chai & Min Li A variable fuzzy-sets assessment model and its application to regional water resources assessment, 147-152 Xing Chen, Zhongbo Yu, Yong Huang, Guangbai Cui, Liliang Ren & Xi Chen Implementation of subgrid-scale spatial variability of parameters in a regional climate-hydrology coupled model, 153160 Hui Gao, Yangwen Jia, Cunwen Niu, Yaqin Qiu & Hao Wang Impacts of climate change on hydrological processes and water resources in the headwater area of the Yellow River, 161-170 Xiaorong Huang, Xinhai Zhang & Caiwang Zhai Ecological water resources requirement of the Ningxia natural oasis using the groundwater level variation amplitude method, 171-177 Shaofeng Jia, Shijun Lin & Yajun Wang Mapping the average annual runoff depth in Huangshui watershed using DEM, 178-185 Chong Li, Jikang Lu & Baisheng Ye 2-D hybrid approach to storm flood modelling in the Shalan catchment, 186-192 Suxia Liu, Xingguo Mo, Jun Xia, Changming Liu & Lina Ji The uncertainty analysis of the wetted perimeter method via axis scaling for setting minimum ecological in-stream flow requirements, 193-198 Baohong Lu, Tingting Sun, Chunyan Wang, Su Dai, Jian Kuang & Jiyang Wang Temporal and spatial variations of δ18O along the main stem of the Yangtze River, China, 199-204 Fang Tong & Zengchuan Dong Genetic algorithm based combined evaluation model for regional water security evaluation: a case study, 205-212 Wen Wang, Xi Chen, Jun Ma & Shiqing Huo Comparing univariate ARMA and ARFIMA model for forecasting daily streamflows, 213-219 Shan Xie, Tianqi Ao, Lingling Wu & Wei Feng Effects of land use changes on hydrological responses of the Mekong River, 220-227 Dawen Yang & Weiwei Shao Analysis of water resources variability in the Yellow River of China using a distributed hydrological model, 228-233 Xiaowei Zhang, Lingmei Huang & Bing Shen Application of the grey self-memory neural network model for annual runoff forecasting, 234-238 Yongming Zhang, Jun Jiang, Bing Shen & Qingling Shen Study on countermeasures for water resources shortage and changes of ecological environment in Shiyang River basin, 239-245 Yonghua Zhu, Liliang Ren, Haishen Lü & T. H. Skaggs Determination of root-zone water storage in a desert woodland using a two-layer moisture balance model, 246-251 Fangfang Zhao, Zongxue Xu & Junxiong Huang Impact of climate change on the streamflow in the headwater catchment of the Yellow River basin, 252-260 THE ROLE OF HYDROLOGY IN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (327) Edited by Hans-Jurgen Liebscher, Robin Clarke, John Rodda, Gert Schultz, Andreas Schumann, Lucio Ubertini & Gordon Young Integrated Water Resources Management Gordon J. Young Challenges for water managers: can science help to solve the problems ? 9-17 Robin T. Clarke On the complementary roles of the hydrological analyst and the decision-maker in water resources management, 18-23 Uwe Haberlandt, Imke Buchwald, Sven Van Der Heijden & Alexander Verworn Requirements for hydrological models to be used as part of decision support systems in integrated water resources management, 29-35 Josef Fürst, Reinhold Godina, Hans Peter Nachtnebel & Franz Nobilis The Hydrological Atlas of Austria – comprehensive transfer of hydrological knowledge and data to engineers, water resources managers and the public, 36-44 A. G. Georgiadi, N. I. Koronkevich, I. P. Milyukova, E. A. Barabanova & A. V. Kislov Integrated scenarios of long-term river runoff changes within large river basins in the 21st century, 45-51 Fabio Castelli, Giovanni Menduni & Bernardo Mazzanti A distributed package for sustainable water management: a case study in the Arno basin, 52-61 Hermann Stadler, Paul Skritek, Christian Kollmitzer, Erich Klock, Wolfgang Zerobin & Andreas Farnleitner Integrated real-time data access and monitoring systems for hydrological investigations and water resources management, 62-71 Michele Bellezza, Stefano Casadei & Arnaldo Pierleoni Hydrological model and WEB-GIS for water resource management at a basin scale, 72-79 B. Aoun-Sebaiti, A. Hani, S. Lallahem, L. Djabri & E. Carlier Characterizing the multi-criteria parameters of an integrated water management model for the Annaba region, Algeria, 80-90 Immacolata Caruso & Tiziana Vitolo An interaction approach to water resource management in Mediterranean countries, 91-101 Crescenzo Violante, Chiara Biscarini, Eliana Esposito, Flavia Molisso, Sabina Porfido & Marco Sacchi The consequences of hydrological events on steep coastal watersheds: the Costa d’Amalfi, eastern Tyrrhenian Sea, 102113 Elisabetta A. Carrara, Walter Ambrosetti & Luigi Barbanti The management of Lake Maggiore water levels: a study of low water episodes, 114-124 Hydrology and Dams A. 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Precipitation distribution and mountain hydrological processes Jan Wienhöfer, Falk Lindenmaier, Jürgen Ihringer & Erwin Zehe Characterization of soil hydraulic properties on a creeping alpine slope, 3-10 Adam Winstral, Danny Marks & Robert Gurney Modelling time-series wind fields over a semi-arid mountain catchment, 11-17 A. M. J. Gerrits, H. H. G. Savenije & L. Pfister Canopy and forest floor interception and transpiration measurements in a mountainous beech forest in Luxembourg, 18-24 Reo Ikawa, Jun Shimada & Takanori Shimizu Model estimation of stemflow contribution during rainfall–runoff process in a mountainous forested area, 25-33 Michele L. Reba, Danny Marks, Tim Link & John Pomeroy Inter-annual comparison of measured turbulent fluxes over snow at a wind-sheltered and a wind-exposed site using eddy covariance, 34-40 Qiuying Zhang, Fadong Li, Changyuan Tang, Yonghui Yang & Wanjun Zhang Effects of maize straw and gravel mulches on soil water content, Taihang Mountains, northern China, 41-46 Hydrological, geochemical and ecohydrological modelling in mountain regions D. Tetzlaff, S. Uhlenbrook, S. Eppert & C. Soulsby Towards minimal calibration of process-based rainfall runoff models in mountainous watersheds – integrating tracer data into geomorphic instantaneous unit hydrographs, 49-55 Massimiliano Zappa & Martin Pfaundler An optimized grid data set of mean monthly and annual runoff for Switzerland: coupling modelled data with robust information derived from observations, 56-62 Fei Yuan & Liliang Ren Application of the Xinanjiang vegetation–hydrology model to streamflow simulation over the Hanjiang River basin, China, 63-69 Keisuke Suzuki, Takayuki Kuramoto & Motoki Tanaka Hydrological and geo-chemical balance in a mountainous catchment, Northern Japan Alps, 70-81 Hermann Stadler, Christian Kollmitzer, Dietmar Pindeus & Paul Skritek Remote quality monitoring of on-line measurements for hydrological investigations, 82-92 Aynur Sensoy, A. Arda Sorman, M. Kemal Yener & A. Unal Sorman HEC-HMS model application in Yuvacık Dam reservoir, Turkey, 93-102 Soil and groundwater hydrology in mountain regions C. Bhuiyan, R. P. Singh & W. A. Flügel Factors controlling groundwater recharge in the mountainous hard-rock Aravalli terrain, 105-111 Stefano Barontini, Alberto Clerici, Roberto Ranzi & Baldassare Bacchi A methodology to map the surface soil hydraulic conductivity at saturation in mesoscale Alpine basins, 112-118 Zoe P. Robinson, Ian J. Fairchild & Carol Arrowsmith Stable isotope tracers of shallow groundwater recharge dynamics and mixing within an Icelandic sandur, Skeiðarársandur, 119-125 James William Roy & Masaki Hayashi Groundwater flow patterns of glacial moraine features in an alpine environment, 126-132 Shin’ya Katsura, Ken’ichirou Kosugi, Suemi Okunaka, Tasuku Mizutani & Takahisa Mizuyama Two different processes of groundwater generation in soil layers observed in a granitic headwater catchment in central Japan, 133-138 Susumu Funada, Chihiro Yoshimura, Hiroshi Ishidaira & Kuniyoshi Takeuchi Observation of leaf-litter movement by using RFID tags, 139-144 Large-scale analyses over mountainous regions Kerstin Verzano & Lucas Menzel Snow conditions in mountains and climate change – a global view, 147-154 Tropical mountain hydrology Han She, Lim, Sukanya Vongtanaboon, Keith Richards & Kuraji Koichiro Investigating the rainfall–runoff response of a small forested mountain catchment in the seasonally humid tropics using a modelling approach, 157-166 Lúcio Flávio Ferreira Moreira, Flaviane De Oliveira Silva, Antonio Marozzi Righetto, Victor Moisés De Araújo Medeiros, João Abner Guimarães Júnior, Arthur Mattos & Ricardo De Aragão Sediment yield in a northeastern Brazil semi-arid experimental plot, 167-173 Sukanya Vongtanaboon & Nick A. Chappell Validation and interpretation of spatial soil-water modelling in the tropical subcatchments of Mae Chaem basin, 174180 PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS (298) Edited by Genevieve A. Boshoff & Brian D. Bone Long-term Performance of PRBs Long-term performance of Fe0-PRBs to treat arsenic and 1,2-DCE(cis) under different geochemical conditions Ralf Köber, Francesca Giarolli, Markus Ebert & Andreas Dahmke 3 Remediation of chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons in groundwater using Fe0 PRB Keith C. K. Lai, Irene M. C. Lo & Peter Kjeldsen 12 Impact of fouling on the long-term hydraulic behaviour of permeable reactive barriers Lin Li & Craig H. Benson 23 The first commercial permeable reactive barrier composed of granular iron: hydraulic and chemical performance at 10 years of operation Scott D. Warner, Bettina L. Longino, Miao Zhang, Peter Bennett, Frank S. Szerdy & Lisa A. Hamilton 32 New Developments in PRB Technology Comparison of different multibarrier concepts designed for treatment of groundwater containing mixed pollutants L. Bastiaens, J. Dries, J. Vos, Q. Simons, M. De Smet & L. Diels 45 The development and use of permeable reactive barrier technologies and potential future applications in the UK B. D. Bone, R. C. Harris, J. W. N. Smith, G. A. Boshoff, R. M. Kalin, R. Thurgood & P. Morgan 52 Cost-effectiveness of in situ treatment of multiple contaminant mixtures in groundwater by means of sequenced units of zero valent iron and granular activated carbon Michael Finkel & Peter Bayer 60 Feasibility study of a polymer based diffusion delivery system for ethanol to promote reducing conditions and enhanced bioremediation of contaminated groundwater Michelle E. Grassi, Bradley M. Patterson, Blair S. Robertson, Greg B. Davis & Allan J. Mckinley 67 Enhanced microbial degradation of chloroethenes and chloroethanes in a bioscreen Nanne Hoekstra, Alette Langenhoff, Theo Verheij, Job Dijkhuis & Hans Slenders 75 Carbon disulphide sources, risks and treatment: an emerging contaminant of environmental concern? Robert M. Kalin, Philip Myles & Karen McGeough 82 Nitrate reduction without ammonium release at circum-neutral pH Seunghak Lee, Kwanghun Lee, Sungsu Rhee, Ahra Lee & Junboum Park 93 Assessment of different carbon sources and delivery techniques to promote an in situ reactive zone for bioprecipitation of metals in groundwater Bradley M. Patterson, Yamin Ma, Michelle E. Grassi, Blair S. Robertson, Greg B. Davis, Mark Lipman, Stuart Rhodes, Allan J. Mckinley & Andrew W. Rate 97 Synthetic zeolites as sorbent material for PRBs at industrially contaminated sites R. Vignola, G. Grillo, R. Sisto, G. Capotorti, P. Cesti & M. Molinari 105 Suitability testing of selected wastes and natural substrates for permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) Janthawan Wantanaphong, Elizabeth Helen Bailey & Sacha Jon Mooney 110 Remediation of acidic colliery spoil leachate in a hybrid passive treatment system comprising a permeable reactive barrier, ponds and a reedbed (Shilbottle, Northumberland, UK) Paul L. Younger & Mahmoud Moustafa 117 Monitoring of PRBs Performance of multiple gate funnel-and-gate systems in three-dimensional, anisotropic, heterogeneous 125 aquifers Claudius Bürger & Michael Finkel Hydrodynamic modelling for coupled free and porous domains while designing permeable reactive barriers Diganta Bhusan Das 136 Evaluation of the hydraulic performance of a full-scale permeable reactive barrier by a tracer study C. K. Lai, Peter Kjeldsen & Irene M. C. Lo 144 Quantification of the effects of pore clogging in potential PRB substrates using image analysis Janthawan Wantanaphong, Sacha Jon Mooney & Elizabeth Helen Bailey 154 THE HYDROLOGY – GEOMORPHOLOGY INTERFACE: RAINFALL, FLOODS, SEDIMENTATION, LAND USE (261) Edited by Marwan A. Hassan, Olav Slaymaker & Simon M. Berkowicz Asher Schick and the Nahal Yael Experimental Watershed A brief summary of a third of a century: Nahal Yael in retrospect, with some ideas for the future of catchment research Asher P. Schick 5 Drainage Basin Precipitation Processes The study of rainfall distributions in small watersheds in Israel: From early observations to model simulations David Sharon, Adina Margalit & Adit Arazi 13 Constructing synthetic time series of rainfall events for a hyperarid environment, southern Arava, Israel Eldad Barzilay, Yehouda Enzel & Rivka Amit 29 Drainage Basin Runoff Non-calibrated arid zone rainfall–runoff modelling Jens Lange & Chris Leibundgut 45 Runoff events in the Negev, Israel Arie Ben-Zvi & Isabela Shentsis 53 Drainage Basin Slope Erosion Runoff, erosion, and the sustainability of ancient irrigation systems in the Central Negev desert Leslie Shanan 75 The two-dimensional upland erosion model CASC2D-SED Billy E. Johnson & Pierre Y. Julien 107 Detection and analysis of soil erodibility patterns using air photographs of the Avisur Highlands, Israel Maxim Shoshany 127 Soil loss and viticulture at Pokolbin, New South Wales, Australia Robert J. Loughran, Gregory L. Elliott, Lucy T. Maliszewski & Bryan L. Campbell 141 Response of a fluvial system to large-scale land use changes: the Jablonka catchment, Slovakia Miloš Stankoviansky, Tomáš Cebecauer, Ján Hanušin, Milan Lehotský, Ľubomír Solín, Marcel Šúri & Ján Urbánek 153 Effects of increasing humidity on slope geomorphology: cuesta scarps on the Colorado Plateau, USA Karl-Heinz Schmidt & Peter Meitz 165 Fluvial Processes Episodes of flash floods and boulder transport in the Upper Jordan River Moshe Inbar 185 Satellite remote sensing of flood related landscape change resulting from hurricanes in Baja California and the southwestern United States Larry Mayer 201 Hurricane floods as extreme geomorphic events Avijit Gupta 215 Urbanizing alluvial fans as flood-conveying and flood-reducing systems: lessons from the October 1997 Eilat flood Tamir Grodek, Judith Lekach & Asher P. Schick 229 Spatial variation in channel morphology and sediment dynamics: Gila River, Safford Valley, Arizona Janet Hooke 251 Lacustrine Sediments Study of sediment dynamics in the Jordan River–Lake Kinneret contact zone using tracer methods Boris Shteinman, David Wynne & Yury Kamenir 275 Event-based deposition in the ever-emptying Yatir Reservoir, Israel Jonathan B. Laronne 285 The formation and disappearance of a delta at the El-Arish river mouth Micha Klein 303 The geomorphic information content of lake sediments in glacially conditioned terrain Olav Slaymaker & Brian Menounos 311 GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND HUMAN IMPACTS IN RIVER BASINS (299) Edited by Ramon J. Batalla & Celso Garcia Slope Processes and Impacts Modelling hillslope connectivity and channel interactions in semiarid areas: implications for hillslope restoration following land abandonment Mike Kirkby & Louise Bracken (keynote lecture) 3 Surface erosion assessment in two Calabrian basins (southern Italy) Loredana Antronico, Roberto Coscarelli & Oreste Terranova 16 Methods for the characterization of areas sensitive to desertification: an application to the Calabrian territory (Italy) Roberto Coscarelli, Ivana Minervino & Marino Sorriso-Valvo 23 Runoff and soil moisture relationships in a small forested basin in the Sistema Central Ranges (Spain) José Martínez-Fernández, Antonio Ceballos, Segismundo Casado, Carlos Morán & Virginia Hernández 31 The effect of wildfire intensity on soil aggregate stability in the Cadiretes Massif, NE Spain Xavier Úbeda & Sara Bernia 37 Sediment delivery from a landslide to a stream in a drainage basin in Hong Kong Mervyn R. Peart, Mark E. Ruse & Lincoln Fok 46 Targetting erosion control in large river systems using spatially distributed sediment budgets Scott N. Wilkinson, Jon M. Olley, Ian P. Prosser & Arthur M. Read 56 Catchment Hydrology and Water Quality The effects over time of an arterial drainage scheme on the flood magnitude–return period relations Keshav P. Bhattarai & Kieran M. O’Connor 67 Modelling the hydraulic regime and the water quality of Sebou River (Morocco): first results Mohammed Igouzal, Jean M. Mouchel, Karim Tamoh & Abdellatif Maslouhi 75 Phosphorus concentrations of brook runoff in a Swiss agricultural catchment: longitudinal variability and subsurface drainage impact Rainer Weisshaidinger, Bernd Hebel, Petra Ogermann, Philipp Schneider, Christian Katterfeld & Randy Koch 81 Suspended Sediment Transport and Yield Comparison of a neural network and a regression model to estimate suspended sediment in a semiarid basin Susanne Schnabel & Marco Maneta 91 Suspended sediment transport and trapping processes in the regulated lower Durance River, southeastern France Emmanuel Ribes & Mireille Provansal 101 Seasonal suspended sediment concentrations and their relationship with discharge in the Anoia river basin, NE Spain Joaquim Farguell & Maria Sala 111 Monitoring suspended sediment fluxes in the Na Borges basin, Mallorca, Spain Joan Estrany & Celso Garcia 117 Assessment of sediment yield of watersheds by means of reservoir survey and simulation modelling in Brazilian semiarid environment José C. de Araújo & Donald W. Knight 124 Patterns of suspended sediment transport in two forested Mediterranean mountainous basins (Ribera Salada, Catalan Pre-Pyrenees, NE Spain) J. Carles Balasch, Ramon J. Batalla, Rosa M. Poch & Damia Vericat 131 Bed load Transport and River–Channel Processes Estimating the transport of bed material at low rate in gravel armoured channels Michael Church & Marwan Hassan (keynote lecture) 141 Geomorphologic units and sediment transport in a very low relief basin: Rio Quequén Grande, Argentina Liliana B. Teruggi, Gustavo A. Martinez, Paolo Billi & Emanuele Preciso 154 Determining the competence of mountainous Mediterranean streams using lichenometric techniques Frederic Gob, Nicolas Jacob, Jean-Paul Bravard & Francois Petit 161 Bed load under low sediment transport in a large regulated river: the lower Ebro, NE Spain Damia Vericat & Ramon J. Batalla 171 A particle-size sediment budget for a Mediterranean river (the lower Tordera, northeastern Spain) Albert Rovira 179 River Dynamics and Impacts Accumulation of sediments within the channelized reach of the Upper Odra River, Poland Czajka Agnieszka 191 Anthropogenic impacts on sediment discharge in the dry-hot valleys of SW China—the example of Longchuanjiang Xi Xi Lu, Yunmei M. Zhu & Yue Zhou 197 The change in flood regime along the Lower Jordan River: its influence on floodplain agricultural land use Micha Klein 205 Downstream effects of river impoundment on hydrological and geomorphological aspects of bedrock rivers (Golan Heights, Israel) Nurit Shtober-Zisu & Moshe Inbar 217 A proposed index of channel sensitivity to riparian disturbance Chad E. Bailey, Robert G. Millar & Michael Miles 223 Channel morphology and sedimentology in mountainous channel: a comparison between disturbed and undisturbed reaches Lea Wittenberg & Noam Greenbaum 231 QUANTIFICATION AND REDUCTION OF PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (313) Edited by Eva Boegh, Harald Kunstmann, Thorsten Wagener, Alan Hall, Luis Bastidas, Stewart Franks, Hoshin Gupta, Dan Rosbjerg &John Schaake. QUANTIFICATION AND REDUCTION OF PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY IN HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL FORCING Meteorological prediction and uncertainty Reducing uncertainty in selecting climate models for hydrological impact assessments A. J. Pitman & S. E. Perkins 3 Multi-model climate change scenarios for southwest Western Australia and potential impacts on streamflow Guobin Fu & Stephen P. Charles 16 Propagation of convection in Africa: implications for predictability of precipitation Arlene Laing, Richard Carbone & Vincenzo Levizzani 24 GPS and satellite meteorology for understanding monsoon dynamics over the Indian sub-continent Anup K. Prasad, Ramesh P. Singh, Shatrughan Singh & Dip S. Nanda 33 Linking the West African monsoon’s onset with atmospheric circulation patterns Patrick Laux, Harald Kunstmann & András Bárdossy 40 A multi-index approach to inflow prediction for water resources management Stewart W. Franks & Adam M. Wyatt 51 Spatial climate data and uncertainty Space–time representativity of precipitation for rainfall–runoff modelling: experience from some case studies Uwe Haberlandt, Anna-Dorothea Ebner von Eschenbach, Aslan Belli & Christian Gattke 61 Uncertainty characterization in a combined IR/microwave scheme for remote sensing of precipitation Carlo De Marchi, Aris Georgakakos & Christa Peters-Lidard 70 Empirically-based generator of synthetic radar-rainfall data Gabriele Villarini, Witold F. Krajewski & Grzegorz J. Ciach 78 Uncertainties in water balance estimations due to scarce meteorological information: a case study for the White Volta catchment in West Africa Sven Wagner, Harald Kunstmann & Andras Bardossy 86 Assessment of rainfall and evaporation input data uncertainties on simulated runoff in southern Africa Tendai Sawunyama & Denis Hughes 98 Hydrological predictions using integrated climate–hydrological modelling GEWEX Hydrology Alan J. Hall, Richard G. Lawford, John O. Roads, John C. Schaake & Eric F. Wood 109 Hydrological predictability investigation of global data sets for high-latitude river basins Yeugeniy M. Gusev, Olga N. Nasonova, Larisa Y. Dzhogan &Yeugeniy E. Kovalev 127 Integrated atmospheric and hydrologic modelling for short-term and basin-scale forecasts in a tropical semi-arid context Ana Cláudia Braga, Carlos O. Galvão, Enio P. Souza, Enilson P. Cavalcanti, 134 Renato Fernandes & Klécia Oliveira Regional climate change in the Middle East and impact on hydrology in the Upper Jordan catchment Harald Kunstmann, Peter Suppan, Andreas Heckl & Alon Rimmer 141 Modelling regional climate change and the impact on surface and sub-surface hydrology in the Volta Basin (West Africa) G. Jung & H. Kunstmann 150 Monthly streamflow forecasts for the State of Ceará, Brazil Dirceu S. Reis Jr, Eduardo S. Martins, Luiz Sérgio V. Nascimento, Alexandre A. Costa & Alan M. B. Alexandre 158 Coupling meteorological and hydrological models for medium-range streamflow forecasts in the Paraná Basin Walter Collischonn, Daniel Allasia, Carlos E. M. Tucci & Adriano R. Paz 167 Uncertainty in hydrological forecasting Experimental hydrometeorological and hydrological ensemble forecasts and their verification in the US 177 National Weather Service Julie Demargne, Limin Wu, Dong-Jun Seo & John Schaake Adjusting ensemble forecast probabilities to reflect several climate forecasts Jery R. Stedinger & Young-Oh Kim 188 “Outlier” catchments: what can we learn from them in terms of prediction uncertainty in rainfall– runoff modelling? Nicolas Le Moine, Vazken Andréassian, Charles Perrin & Claude Michel 195 Understanding sources of uncertainty in flash-flood forecasting for semi-arid regions Thorsten Wagener, Hoshin Gupta, Soni Yatheendradas, David Goodrich, Carl Unkrich & Mike Schaffner 204 Long-term probabilistic forecasting of snowmelt flood characteristics and the forecast uncertainty Lev Kuchment & Alexander Gelfan 213 Predictive uncertainty in climate change impacts on floods Martijn J. Booij, Martijn Huisjes & Arjen Y. Hoekstra 221 MINIMIZING RISKS IN WATER MANAGEMENT DECISIONS BY IMPROVING THE UNDERSTANDING AND SPATIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE COUPLED LAND–ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM Hydrological predictions using spatial data and integrated land surface–atmosphere– hydrology modelling AMMA forcing data for a better understanding of the West African monsoon surface– atmosphere–hydrology interactions A. Boone & P. deRosnay 231 Improved scenario prediction by using coupled hydrological and atmospheric models Jesper Overgaard, Michael B. Butts & Dan Rosbjerg 242 Representativeness of point soil moisture observations, upscaling and assimilation Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy, Valentijn R. N. Pauwels, Paul R. Houser, Timothy Gish & Niko E. C. Verhoest 249 Can a land surface model simulate runoff with the same accuracy as a hydrological model? Olga N. Nasonova & Yeugeniy M. Gusev 258 Water balance evaluation in Denmark using remote sensing-driven land surface modelling and spatially distributed hydrological modelling Eva Boegh, 266 Britt S. B. Christensen & Lars Troldborg Comparing model performance of the HBV and VIC models in the Rhine basin Aline Te Linde, Ruud Hurkmans, Jeroen Aerts & Han Dolman 278 Analysis of water resource variability over the irrigated area along the downstream reach of the Yellow River Huimin Lei, Dawen Yang, Xinbing Liu & Shinjino Kanae 286 Water consumption of Populus euphratica woodlands in an arid region of China Yonghua Zhu, Liliang Ren & Haishen Lü 294 Geographical transferability of methods and predictions in ungauged basins Testing similarity indices to reduce predictive uncertainty in ungauged basins Ludovic Oudin, Vazken Andréassian, Claudia Rojas-Serna, Nicolas Le Moine & Claude Michel 303 The use of physical basin properties and runoff generation concepts as an aid to parameter quantification in conceptual type rainfall–runoff models Denis Hughes & Evison Kapangaziwiri 311 Regionalization of parameters of hydrological models: inclusion of model parameter uncertainty Satish Bastola, Hiroshi Ishidaira & Kuniyoshi Takeuchi 319 Regionalization for uncertainty reduction in flows in ungauged basins Martijn J. Booij, Dave L. E. H. Deckers, Tom H. M. Rientjes & Maarten S. Krol 329 Assessment of the watershed yield of the Sakarya River basin, Turkey Sabahattin Isik & Vijay P. Singh 338 Applicability of the GIUH model to estimate flood peaks from ungauged catchments in arid areas – a case study for the West Bank Ammar Jarrar, Niranjali Jayasuriya, Anan Jayyousi & Maazuza Othman 346 Prediction of rainfall–runoff model parameters in ungauged catchments M. Zvolenský, K. Hlavčová, S. Kohnová & J. Szolgay 357 Multilevel river classification as the methodological basis for analysis of maximum runoff values in different geographical regions Elena Asabina 365 The Xinanjiang model from the perspective of PUB Liliang Ren, Fei Yuan, Zhongbo Yu, Xiaoli Yang, 374 Rulin Ouyang & Xianghu Li Meteorological predictions and data assimilation for flood risk management Integrating meteorological and uncertainty information in flood forecasting: the FLOODRELIEF project Michael B. Butts, Anne Katrine V. Falk, Yunqing Xuan & Ian D. Cluckie 385 Reducing the uncertainty of flood forecasts using multi-objective optimization algorithms for parameter estimation Yan Wang, Christian Gattke & Andreas Schumann 398 Effects of soil moisture parameterization on a real-time flood forecasting system based on rainfall thresholds Giovanni Ravazzani, Marco Mancini, 407 Ilaria Giudici & Paolo Amadio Estimation of extreme flow quantiles and quantile uncertainty for ungauged catchments Donald H. Burn, Taha B. M. J. Ouarda & Chang Shu 417 Peak flow estimation under parameter uncertainty in a real-time flood warning system for ungauged basins Daniela Biondi & Pasquale Versace 425 Integrated water management systems for sustainable water management Demonstrating Integrated Forecast and Reservoir Management (INFORM) for northern California in an operational environment K. P. Georgakakos, N. E. Graham, A. P. Georgakakos & H. Yao 439 Coping with predictive uncertainties in optimization of sustainable water resources Chin Man Mok, Nisai Wanakule, Armen Der Kiureghian, Steven M. Gorelick & Miao Zhang 445 RNN-based inflow forecasting applied to reservoir operation via implicit stochastic optimization Camilo Allyson Simões De Farias, Akihiro Kadota, Alcigeimes B. Celeste & Koichi Suzuki 452 Effect of uncertainties on the real-time operation of a lowland water system in The Netherlands Steven Weijs, Elgard van Leeuwen, Peter-Jules van Overloop & Nick van de Giesen 463 Data assimilation in a large-scale distributed hydrological model for medium-range flow forecasts Adriano Rolim Da Paz, Walter Collischonn, Carlos E. M. Tucci, Robin T. Clarke & Daniel Allasia 471 Predictive models of reservoir storage-yield-reliability functions: inter-comparison of regression and multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network paradigms Adebayo Adeloye 479 Analyse des périodes sèches pour la gestion d’un barrage au nord de la Tunisie / Analysis of dry periods for dam operation in northern Tunisia Mathlouthi Majid & Lebdi Fethi 487 Hydrological simulation and prediction for environmental change Jian Yun Zhang, Zhiyu Liu & Chuanbao Zhu WATER QUALITY AND SEDIMENT BEHAVIOUR OF THE FUTURE: PREDICTIONS FOR THE 21st CENTURY (314) Edited by Bruce W. Webb & Dirk De Boer Sediment and Nutrient Behaviour in Surface Waters Suspended sediment yields in the Amazon basin of Peru: a first estimation Jean Loup Guyot, Hector Bazan, Pascal Fraizy, Juan Julio Ordonez, Elisa Armijos & Alain Laraque, 3 Impacts of human activities on the sediment regime of the Yangtze River Qiongfang Li, Zhenhua Zou, Ziqiang Xia, Wei Zhang & Huiqing Wang, 11 Modelling extreme suspended sediment concentrations in North America: frequency analysis and correlations with watershed characteristics Yves Tramblay, Andrй Saint-Hilaire & Taha B. M. J. Ouarda, 20 Predicting the impact of projected change in agriculture by 2015 on annual mean fluvial suspended sediment concentrations across England and Wales Adrian L. Collins, Steven G. Anthony, Tony Turner & Julia Hawley, 28 Neuroevolution methodologies applied to sediment forecasting Alison J. Heppenstall, Linda M. See & Robert J. Abrahart, 38 Modelling discharge, water chemistry and sediment load from a subarctic river basin: the Tanana River, Alaska Kazuhisa A. Chikita, Tomoyuki Wada, Isao Kudo, Daisaku Kido, Yu-Ichi Narita & Yongwon Kim, 45 Measuring the fluxes of suspended sediment, trace elements and nutrients for the City of Atlanta, USA: insights on the global water quality impacts of increasing urbanization Arthur J. Horowitz, Kent A. Elrick & James J. Smith, 57 Assessing the effects of design and climate change on sediment removal in urban stormwater ponds Catherine T. Morgan, Kate V. Heal, Steve G. Wallis & Rebecca J. Lunn, 71 Scale-related sediment and phosphorus transfers in small agricultural catchments Clare Deasy, Richard E. Brazier, A. Louise Heathwaite & Robin Hodgkinson, 79 Modelling climate change impact on phosphorus load in Swedish rivers Jцrgen Rosberg & Berit Arheimer, 90 Groundwater–surface water exchange fluxes in a Pleistocene lowland and the impacts on riparian zone water balance and nitrate conditions Stefan Krause, Axel Bronstert & Erwin Zehe, 98 Effect of frequent storms on nutrient discharge in a mountainous coastal catchment, western Japan Shin-ichi Onodera, Misa Sawano, Mitsuyo Saito & Hidehiro Takahashi, 108 Evaluation des mйthodes d’estimation de flux йvйnementiels des nitrates et d’atrazine sur un bassin agricole / Evaluation of estimation methods for nitrate and atrazine loads during rainfall events in agricultural catchments Adilson Pinheiro, Flavie Cernesson & Jean Franзois Dubernet, 117 Modelling catchment-scale nitrate transport using a combined process-based and data-driven approach Rajesh Raj Shrestha & Michael Rode, 125 Metals and Other Water Quality Problems Long-term trend of uranium concentrations in Beaverlodge Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, under mine decommissioning Huaxia Yao, Robert Kidd & Michio Hashino, 137 The distribution of heavy metals in a highly regulated river: the River Murray, Australia Martin C. Thoms, 145 Assessing water–sediment processes for metals in rivers polluted by mining to predict environmental impacts in developing countries M. Aurora Armienta, Azucena Dуtor, Flor E. Arcega-Cabrera, Oscar Talavera, Alejandra Aguayo, Nora Ceniceros & Olivia Cruz, 155 The distribution of metals (Co, As and Zn) in a residential urban watershed, typical of the Brazilian suburbs Cristiano Poleto & Gustavo Henrique Merten, 163 Quantifying sediment deposition and the spatial variability of sediment-associated metals in ponds treating urban diffuse pollution Alan J. Jones, Kate V. Heal, Neil Stuart, Steve G. Wallis, Rebecca J. Lunn & Barbara Barbarito, 173 Kohonen self-organising map (KSOM) extracted features for enhancing MLP-ANN prediction models of BOD5 Rabee Rustum, Adebayo Adeloye & Aurore Simala, 181 Simulation by the IPTM-CS model of pesticides found in surface water and groundwater of the Fucino Plain, Italy Eva Pacioni, Marco Petitta & Miguel A. Mariсo, 188 Some reflections on the future of the water quality of the Corumbataн River basin, Sгo Paulo State, Brazil Daniel Marcos Bonotto & Jorge Luis Nepomuceno De Lima, 197 An assessment of water quality changes within the Athi and Nairobi river basins during the last decade Shadrack Mulei Kithiia, 205 Flood flow water quality analysis using low-cost samplers in small rivers Janaнna Bezerra Mesquita Lima & Sйrgio Koide, 213 Community-based monitoring and the science of water quality C. Conrad, 217 Management Issues, Groundwater Contamination and Soil Erosion Future impacts of freshwater resource management: sensitivity of coastal deltas Charles J. Vцrцsmarty, Jason P. Ericson, S. Lawrence Dingman, Larry G. Ward & Michel Meybeck, 231 Appropriate use of catchment models for water-quality target setting and land-use management Bradford S. Sherman, Jon Brodie, Lex Cogle & Chris Carroll, 239 Development and application of a Watershed Information System (WIS) for water quality analyses Conceicao De Maria Albuquerque Alves & Daniel Pete Loucks, 251 Groundwater of the future in the Roussillon flood plain: present-day situation and solutions for the 21st century Pierre Serrat, 261 Nitrate contamination in groundwater of the Yellow River Delta and its effect on the marine environment Mitsuyo Saito, Shin-ichi Onodera, Kunihide Miyaoka, Jianyao Chen, Makoto Taniguchi, Guanqun Liu & Yoshihiro Fukushima, 271 The assessment of groundwater vulnerability in China Tang Lihua, Zhang Sicong & Yao Wenfeng, 278 Hydrogeochemistry of groundwater in a part of the hard rock terrain of central India L. P. Chourasia, 286 Runoff erosion control for a sustainable water supply in Niamey, Niger Republic Issoufou Abdoulkader, 293 The effect of parent material and land use on soil erosion: a case study of the Taleghan drainage basin, Iran Sadat Feiznia & Kazem Nosrati, 300 Sediment yield in the Daryacheh-Namak drainage basin, Iran, and its relation to land-use changes Sadat Feiznia, Abdolhossein Mohammadi & Sepideh Zakikhani, 306 Implications of changes in river sediments during the 21st century for freshwater ecosystems in northeast India U. C. Sharma & Vikas Sharma, 312 GLACIER MASS BALANCE CHANGES AND MELTWATER DISCHARGE (318) Edited by Patrick Ginot & Jean-Emmanuel Sicart Hydrology James William Roy & Masaki Hayashi Groundwater–surface water exchange in alpine and subalpine watersheds: a review of recent field studies, 3-16 Francesca Pellicciotti, Paolo Burlando & Karin Van Vliet Recent trends in precipitation and streamflow in the Aconcagua River basin, central Chile, 17-38 Jaime Lynn Hood, Masaki Hayashi &James W. Roy Preliminary assessment of groundwater contribution to the hydrology of an alpine lake in the Canadian Rockies, 39-48 Takane Matsumoto, Hiroshi Fukami, Fernando Escobar, Satoru Yamaguchi & Renji Naruse Hydrological regime characteristics due to the development of proglacial lakes at Glacier Soler, Northern Patagonia Icefield, Chile, 49-65 Eric Cadier, Marcos Villacнs, Antinea Garcйs, Pierre Lhuissier, Luis Maisincho, Rйmy Laval, Diego Paredes, Bolivar Cбceres & Bernard Francou Variations of a low latitude Andean glacier according to global and local climate variations: first results, 66-74 David N. Collins Changes in quantity and variability of runoff from Alpine basins with climatic fluctuation and glacier decline, 75-85 Tianding Han, Yongjian Ding, Changwei Xie, Baisheng Ye, Yongping Shen & Keqin Jiao Analysis on the facts of runoff increase in the Urumqi River basin, China, 86-94 Gernot Koboltschnig, Wolfgang Schцner & Hubert Holzmann Extensive hydrological monitoring of a small, highly glacierized watershed in the Hohe Tauern region, Austrian Alps, 95104 Mass balance Andreas P. Ahlstrшm, Carl Egede Bшggild, Ole B. Olesen, Dorthe Petersen & Johan J. Mohr Mass balance of the Amitsulфq ice cap, West Greenland, 107-115 Saturo Yamaguchi, Osamu Abe, Sento Nakai & Atsushi Sato Recent snow cover fluctuations in the mountainous areas of Japan, 116-125 Matthias Braun, Thomas V. Schuler, Regine Hock, Ian Brown & Miriam Jackson Comparison of remote sensing derived glacier facies maps with distributed mass balance modelling at Engabreen, northern Norway, 126-134 Rafael R. Ribeiro, Jefferson C. Simхes, Jorge Arigony-Neto & Edson Ramirez Inventory of glacier-front positions using CBERS-2 data: a case study for the Bolivian Andes, 135-142 Francisca Bown, Andrйs Rivera, Cesar Acuсa & Gino Casassa Recent glacier mass balance calculations at Volcбn Mocho-Choshuenco (40єS), Chilean Lake District, 143-152 Rodrigo Zamora, Gino Casassa, Andres Rivera, Fernando Ordenes, Guillermo Neira, Luis Araya, Ronald Mella & Claudio Bunster Crevasse detection in glaciers of southern Chile and Antarctica by means of ground penetrating radar, 153-162 Regine Hock, Dirk-Sytze Kootstra & Carleen Reijmer Deriving glacier mass balance from accumulation area ratio on Storglaciдren, Sweden, 163-170 Meteorology Yves Lejeune, Yann L’Hote, Pierre Etchevers, Patrick Wagnon, Jean-Philippe Chazarin & Pierre Chevallier Constitution d’une base de donnйes mйtйorologiques sur un site andin de haute altitude: Le site du Charquini, 4795 m, Bolivie Meteorological data set build-up on a high Andean site: The Charquini site, 4795 m a.m.s.l., Bolivia, 173-185 Keiko Konya, Regine Hock & Renji Naruse Temperature lapse rates and surface energy balance at Storglaciдren, northern Sweden, 186-194 Tianding Han, Yongjian Ding, Changwei Xie, Baisheng Ye & Yongping Shen Precipitation variations on different slopes of Tien Shan, 195-206 HYDROLOGY 2020 (300) AN INTERGRATING SCIENCE TO MEET WORLD WATER CHALLENGES Edited by Taikan Oki, Caterina Valeo & Kate Heal World Water Resources, Water Use and Water Management Balonishnikova, Heal, Fu, Karambiri & Oki Assesses the availability of current and future global water resources and considers how hydrology can contribute to water resources management from a practical perspective. Hydrology and Water Resources Management for Sustainable Development in the 21st Century Kuylenstierna, Heal & Karambiri Identifies societal problems that are closely related to water issues, thereby providing the rationale for hydrology and hydrological research Hydrological Measurement Valeo, Etchevers, Franks, Heal, Hubbard, Karambiri, Oki & Uhlenbrook Discusses key issues in the measurement of water quantity and quality fluxes for these influence our understanding of hydrological processes and theory, as well as the ability to model and make predictions Hydrological Simulation Modelling Franks, Uhlenbrook & Etchevers Describes current issues and the future of modelling and predictions Intersection of Hydrology and Other Disciplines Heal, Valeo, Oki & Hubbard Considers the interdisciplinary nature of hydrology using selected examples to illustrate the argument Hydrological Challenges: Scientific, Technological and Organizational Bottlenecks Hubbard, Valeo & Uhlenbrook Presents the gaps, obstacles and bottlenecks facing hydrology. Analysis structured around the three types of capability: scientific, technological and organizational, identifies paths that the hydrological community can take to overcome the these gaps, obstacles and bottlenecks Key Messages, Recommendations and Concluding Remarks Uhlenbrook, Franks, Heal, Hubbard, Karambiri, Oki & Valeo LARGE SAMPLE BASIN EXPERIMENTS FOR HYDROLOGICAL MODEL PARAMETRIZATION: Results of the Model Parameter Experiment – MOPEX (307) Edited by Vazken Andreassian, Alan Hall, Nanee Chahinian & John Schaake Introduction The US MOPEX Data Set John Schaake, Shuzheng Cong & Qingyun Duan, 9-28 The MOPEX 2004 French database: main hydrological and morphological characteristics N. Chahinian, T. Mathevet, F. Habets & V. Andrйassian, 29-40 Catalogue of the models used in MOPEX 2004/2005 V. Andreassian, S. Bergstrцm, N. Chahinian, Q. Duan, Y. M. Gusev, I. Littlewood, T. Mathevet, C. Michel, A. Montanari, G. Moretti, R. Moussa, O. N. Nasonova, K. O’Connor, E. Paquet, C. Perrin, A. Rousseau, J. Schaake, T. Wagener & Z. Xie, 4194 Review papers Experience from applications of the HBV hydrological model from the perspective of prediction in ungauged basins Sten Bergstrцm, 97-107 Has basin-scale modelling advanced beyond empiricism? C. Michel, C. Perrin, V. Andrйassian, L. Oudin & T. Mathevet, 108-116 Regionalization methods in rainfall–runoff modelling using large catchment samples Ralf Merz, Gьnter Blцschl & Juraj Parajka, 117-125 A review of Australian model parameterization studies using large basin samples Walter Boughton, 126-132 Model parameterization experiments using the MOPEX databases Distributed hydrological modelling with lumped inputs Vincent Fortin, Nanйe Chahinian, Alberto Montanari, Greta Moretti & Roger Moussa, 135-148 Flow simulation in an ungauged basin: an alternative approach to parameterization of a conceptual model using regional data Monomoy Goswami & Kieran Michael O’Connor, 149-158 Modelling ungauged basins with the Sacramento model Terri Hogue, Koray Yilmaz, Thorsten Wagener & Hoshin Gupta, 159-168 A parameter estimation scheme of the land surface model VIC using the MOPEX databases Zhenghui Xie & Fei Yuan, 169-179 Application of global 1-degree data sets to simulate runoff from MOPEX experimental river basins Olga N. Nasonova & Yeugeniy M. Gusev, 180-187 Simulating runoff from MOPEX experimental river basins using the SWAP land surface model and different parameter estimation techniques Yeugeniy M. Gusev & Olga N. Nasonova, 188-195 Performance comparison of a complex physics-based land surface model and a conceptual, lumped-parameter hydrological model at the basin-scale Thian Yew Gan, Yeugeniy Gusev, Stephen J. Burges & Olga Nasonova, 196-208 Regionalization and parameterization studies based on large basin samples A bounded version of the Nash-Sutcliffe criterion for better model assessment on large sets of basins Thibault Mathevet, Claude Michel, Vazken Andrйassian & Charles Perrin, 211-219 Regionalization of dynamic watershed response behaviour Maitreya Yadav, Thorsten Wagener & Hoshin Gupta, 220-229 Ungauged catchments: how to make the most of a few streamflow measurements? Claudia Rojas-Serna, Claude Michel, Charles Perrin & Vazken Andrйassian, 230-236 Characterization of flow regimes for three French rivers using a 6-parameter continuous simulation rainfall–streamflow model: the importance of the parameter selection procedure Ian G. Littlewood, 237-245 How informative is land-cover for the regionalization of the GR4J rainfall–runoff model? Lessons of a downward approach Ludovic Oudin, Vazken Andrйassian, Cйcile Loumagne & Claude Michel, 246-255 Simulation of streamflow by a regionalized lumped rainfall–runoff model over Luxembourg B. Hingray, F. Guex, D. Guex, S. Pugin, A. Musy, L. Pfister, A. Idrissi, J. F. Iffly & L. Hoffmann, 256-263 Regionalization of a monthly rainfall–runoff model for the southern half of France based on a sample of 880 gauged catchments Nathalie Folton & Jacques Lavabre, 264-277 Modйlisation hydrologique et rйgionalisation en Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale / Hydrological modelling and regionalization in West and Central Africa J. E. Paturel, E. Servat, A. Dezetter, J. F. Boyer, C. Laroche, L. Mounirou, H. Lubes-Niel & G. Mahй, 278-287 Predicting river flow statistics at ungauged locations—a hydrostochastic approach Eric Sauquet, Lars Gottschalk, Irina Krasovskaia & Etienne Leblois, 288-299 Accounting for spatial variability: a way to improve lumped modelling approaches? An assessment on 3300 chimera catchments M. Bourqui, C. Loumagne, N. Chahinian & M. Plantier, 300-310 Perspectives Compilation of the MOPEX 2004 results N. Chahinian, V. Andrйassian, Q. Duan, V. Fortin, H. Gupta, T. Hogue, T. Mathevet, A. Montanari, G. Moretti, R. Moussa, C. Perrin, J. Schaake, T. Wagener & Z. Xie, 313-338 The Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX): Its structure, connection to other international initiatives and future directions Thorsten Wagener, Terri Hogue, John Schaake, Qingyun Duan, Hoshin Gupta, Vazken Andrйassian, Alan Hall & George Leavesley, 339-346 HYDROLOGY IN THE HUMID TROPIC ENVIRONMENT (253) Edited by A. Ivan Johnson & Carlos A. Fernandez-Jauregui. Environmental contamination and impacts Fenda A. Akiwumi Effects of a dredge mining operation on the hydrogeological regime in a humid tropical environment, 3 A. Lundberg Water budget analysis—a tool to minimize leachate production, 15 Julio C. Calvo Suspended sediment yield prediction models for Costa Rican watersheds Julio C. Calvo, 27 Kalu O. Uma Salinization of shallow sandy coastal aquifers: a case study from parts of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, 33 P. Seyler, J. L. Guyot, L. Maurice-Bourgoin, F. Sondag, F. Elbaz-Poulichet, H. Etcheber & J. Quintanilla Origin of trace elements in the Bolivian Amazonian drainage basin, 47 Hydrologic methods and analysis Eric C. Barrett, Michael J. Beaumont, Paul A. Brown & Martin C. Todd Rainfall monitoring in the humid tropics using a multisource method, 61 Li Xingchao A study on soil moisture monitoring by using airborne SAR images, 75 Guyana V. Singhroy Monitoring and mapping areas affected by water control projects in coastal, 81 A. S. R. A. S. Sastri Water balance studies of bunded rice fields in the Chhattisgarh region of Central India and some strategies to improve the low land rainfed rice productivity, 93 Richard Cooke, Terrence Johnson & Joseph Lindsay A program for evaluating rainfall erosivity indices for tropical conditions, 101 Jean Loup Guyot, Naziano Filizola & Valdemar Guimarães Amazon suspended sediment yield measurements using an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP): first results, 109 Leslie A. Wedderburn Environmental monitoring systems in South Florida, USA, 117 Modelling and statistical analysis Helena Molicová, Mike Bonell & Pierre Hubert Identifying and modelling the hydrological patterns within a headwater humid tropical catchment, 129 Michael O. Walters & Herbert Thomas Application of a Linked Watershed Waterbody Model to Kingston Harbour in Jamaica, 137 Alwin L. Hales & Martin A. Burton Incorporation of rainfall into modelling for optimal water allocation on the Rio Cobre Irrigation Scheme, Jamaica, 147 M. Courteaud, B. Robineau, J. L. Join, J. Coudray & E. Rasolomanana A conceptual hydrogeological model for a young basaltic shield volcano: Piton de la Fournaise, Reunion Island, 157 Stephen B. 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Jones 277 Water, civilizations and governance Alain Gioda & Mike Baker 284 Adapting the law of water management to global climate change and other hydropolitical stresses Joseph W. Dellapenna 291 The water balance and the solution of water problems in the central Asian region I. Sh. Normatov 300 Water as a symbol of national identity in Norway Helena Nynäs 315 Freshwater—the basis of an economic development and democracy plan: a case study for Merka (Somalia) Elio Sommavilla & Maria Chiara Turrini 322 CALIRATION AND RELIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER MODELLING: FROM UNCERTAINTY TO DECISION MAKING (304) Edited by M.F.P. Bierkens, J.C. Gehrels & K. Kovar Use of Geophysical and Geochemical Measurements, Remote Sensing, Monitoring and a priori Hydrological Knowledge Reducing uncertainty of hydrogeological parameters by co-conditional stochastic simulation: lessons from practical applications in aquifers and in low permeability layers A. Dassargues, C. Rentier & M. Huysmans 3 A simple procedure for the identification of aquifer parameters based on steady-state pumping tests Giovanni Firmani, Aldo Fiori & Alberto Bellin 10 Reducing ambiguity in fractured-porous media characterization using single-well tracer tests I. Ghergut, C. McDermott, M. Sauter, M. Herfort & O. Kolditz 17 A tomographic approach to identify hydraulic conductivity of a phreatic aquifer by the "differential system method" Mauro Giudici, Giovanni Angelo Meles, Giansilvio Ponzini, Chiara Vassena & Guido Parravicini 25 Inclusion of remote sensing information to improve groundwater flow modelling in the Chobe region (Botswana) H. J. W. M. Hendricks Franssen, P. Brunner, L. Kgothlang & W. Kinzelbach 31 Simulating environmental tracer transport in unsaturated-saturated porous media G. A. Onnis, R. Althaus, S. Klump, H. J. W. M. Hendricks Franssen, F. Stauffer & W. Kinzelbach 38 Identification of chemical reactions and their reaction rate coefficients with push-pull tests A. Vandenbohede & L. Lebbe 46 Towards an upscaled model of aquifer recharge through glacial drift deposits, Shropshire, UK R. Mackay, M. O. Cuthbert, H. Ash & J. H. Tellam 52 Identification of hydrogeological models: application to tracer test analysis in a karst aquifer Carolina Massmann, Steffen Birk, Rudolf Liedl & Tobias Geyer 59 Calibration and Parameter Uncertainty Comparison of parameter estimation algorithms in hydrological modelling R. S. Blasone, H. Madsen & D. Rosbjerg 67 Evaluation of the inverse modelling process for heterogeneous porous media through laboratory air injection tests Kiyoshi Masumoto 73 Parameter estimation for a double continuum transport model for fractured porous media M. Beyer & U. Mohrlok 80 Calibration of hydraulic and tracer tests in fractured media represented by a DFN model Leonardo David Donado, Xavier Sánchez-Vila, Eduardo Ruiz, Francisco Javier Elorza, Carmen Bajos & Antonio VelaGuzman 87 On the use of Pareto optimization for multi-criteria calibration of hydrological models Henrik Madsen & Soon-Thiam Khu 93 Influence of modelling concepts and approaches on the results of field scale reactive transport modelling Sascha E. Oswald, Ian A. Watson, Roger S. Crouch & Steven A. Banwart 100 Using Bayesian inverse modelling in real-world projects: opportunities and challenges J. R. Valstar, B. Minnema, J. J. J. C. Snepvangers & C. B. M. te Stroet 108 Inverse modelling of groundwater flow using model reduction P. T. M. Vermeulen & A. W. Heemink 113 Combined Flow and Transport: Heterogeneity, Parameters, Processes Assessing contaminant mass flow rates obtained by the integral groundwater investigation method by using the Virtual Aquifer approach S. Bauer & O. Kolditz 123 Upscaling retardation factors in 2-D porous media J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández, Jianlin Fu & Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia 130 Stochastic analysis of the effect of spatial variability of diffusion parameters on radionuclide transport in a low permeability clay layer Marijke Huysmans & Alain Dassargues 137 Uncertainties in modelling and parameterization of fluid–rock consumption–production interaction in porous media W. Kessels & S. Wessling 143 Reactive transport codes applied to gypsum dissolution in a laboratory column experiment focusing on the sensitivity of model concepts and data uncertainty Wilfried Pfingsten, Jens Mibus & Roland Kuechler 151 Block-upscaling of transport in heterogeneous aquifers M. Willmann, X. Sánchez-Vila, J. Carrera & A. Guadagnini 158 Reliability of Model Results/Stochastic Forward Modelling Upscaling of solute transport in mildly heterogeneous media: comparison of Fickian and non-Fickian approaches Christophe C. Frippiat & Alain E. Holeyman 167 On the departure from Gaussianity and Fickianity of transport in highly heterogeneous aquifers I. Janković, A. Fiori & G. Dagan 174 Palaeo-evolution and uncertainty analysis of regional groundwater flow in discretely fractured crystalline rock S. D. Normani, J. F. Sykes, E. A. Sudicky & Y. J. Park 180 Modelling of Well Capture Zones State-space first-order estimate of well catchment uncertainty M. I. Bakr, A. P. Butler, A. Guadagnini & M. Riva 189 Integral pumping tests: average concentration and mass flow at the capture zone scale Martí Bayer-Raich & Jerker Jarsjö 196 Comparison of stochastic and regression based methods for quantification of predictive uncertainty of modelsimulated wellhead protection zones in heterogeneous aquifers Steen Christensen, Catherine Moore & John Doherty 202 Upscaling transmissivity in the near-well region Jianlin Fu, J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández & Carl L. Axness 209 Modelling of regional-scale well-flow in heterogeneous aquifers: 2-D or not 2-D? The late P. Indelman & G. Dagan 215 A synthetic study of the worth of transmissivity and head data to delineate groundwater protection zones in braided alluvial aquifers J. Kerrou, P. Renard, I. Lunati & H. J. W. M. Hendricks Franssen 220 A composite medium approach for probabilistic modelling of contaminant travel time distribution to a pumping well in a heterogeneous aquifer M. Riva, L. Guadagnini, A. Guadagnini, E. Martac & T. Ptak 227 Recharge fronts and stagnation areas for pumping wells M. Riva & A. Guadagnini 234 Uncertainty estimation of well catchments: combined effect of inhomogeneous transmissivity and uncertain mean recharge Fritz Stauffer & Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen 240 Delineation of capture zones in transient groundwater flow systems 246 Velimir V. Vesselinov & Bruce A. Robinson Developments in Modelling A random-walk approach for simulating wastewater transport and transformations in the unsaturated zone Cristina Cata & Ulf Mohrlok 255 Simulation of groundwater–seawater interactions in the Aral Sea basin by a coupled water balance model Jerker Jarsjö, Irina Alekseeva, Corinna Schrum & Georgia Destouni 261 Diffuse loading of surface water from groundwater in areas with shallow groundwater tables: quasi-2-D vs 2-D simulation Elisabeth Peters & Jasper Griffioen 268 Modelling thermohaline variable-density flow and solute transport in fractured porous media T. Graf & R. Therrien 275 Complex groundwater whirl systems Kick Hemker & Mark Bakker 281 A numerical assessment of the random walk particle tracking method for heterogeneous aquifers P. Salamon, D. Fernàndez-Garcia & J.J. Gómez-Hernández 288 Decision Making under Uncertainty Los Alamos National Laboratory’s risk-based decision analysis for groundwater remediation and monitoring Paul A. Davis, Diana Hollis, Kay H. Birdsell, Velimir V. Vesselinov, Daniel E. Rives & Sergey Pozdniakov 297 An analysis of different strategies for the prioritization of groundwater quality prediction studies with a sequential numerical game Kees Vink & Paul Schot 303 Risk analysis on groundwater contamination at the megasite Port of Rotterdam Annemieke Marsman, Johan Valstar & Jeroen ter Meer CALIRATION AND RELIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER MODELLING: CREDIBILITY OF MODELLING (320) Edited by J.C. Refsgaard, K. Kovar, E.Haarder & E.Nygaard Development in modelling and uncertainty assessment Shlomo P. Neuman, Monica Riva & Alberto Guadagnini On the geostatistical characterization of hierarchical media, 3 Marco Bianchi, Chunmiao Zheng, Geoffrey R. Tick & Steven M. Gorelick Evaluation of Fickian and non-Fickian models for solute transport in porous media containing decimetre-scale preferential flow paths, 9 Yonas Demissie, Albert Valocchi, Barbara Minsker & Barbara Bailey Bias-corrected groundwater model prediction uncertainty analysis, 15 P. Bayer, C. M. Bürger & M. Finkel Solving computationally demanding reliability based design problems in hydrogeology, 22 E. Bethge & U. Mohrlok Uncertainty assessment for contaminant leaching from flood water retention areas, 27 G. Dagan & S. C. Lessoff Application of stochastic modelling to numerical solution of groundwater flow: transmissivity upscaling, 34 Monica Riva, Alberto Guadagnini & Shlomo P. Neuman Characterizing the spatial variability of transmissivity using stochastic type-curve and numerical inverse analyses of data from a sequence of pumping tests, 39 Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen The potential of data assimilation methods for modelling groundwater flow systems: review and synthetic examples, 45 Jiří Havlíček & Milan Hokr Simulation of fractured rock solute transport with a multidimensional dual-porosity model, 52 K. Masumoto Credibility evaluation of numerically estimated heterogeneous hydraulic property by eigenvalues of Hessian of Lagrange function for constrained groundwater problem, 58 Philip D. Meyer, Ming Ye, Shlomo P. Neuman & Mark L. Rockhold Application of maximum likelihood Bayesian model averaging to groundwater flow and transport at the Hanford Site 300 area, 64 Eric Morales-Casique, Shlomo P. Neuman & Velimir V. Vesselinov Maximum likelihood Bayesian averaging of air flow models in unsaturated fractured tuff, 70 Matthew Tonkin & John Doherty An efficient calibration-constrained Monte Carlo technique for evaluating model predictive error, 76 Credibility in modelling for practical approaches Groundwater vulnerability assessment using physically-based modelling: from challenges to pragmatic solutions, I. C. Popescu, N. Gardin, S. Brouyère & A. Dassargues 83 Gero Bauser, Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen, Wolfgang Kinzelbach & Hans-Peter Kaiser Real time control of a well field, 89 Rolf Farrell, Mark Whiteman & Peter Gijsbers The National Groundwater Modelling System for England and Wales, 95 H. J. Henriksen & A. L. Højberg Model peer reviews and modeller–manager dialogues as an avenue to improved model credibility, 101 MIPWA: Water managers develop their own high-resolution groundwater model toolsJudith Snepvangers, Bennie Minnema, Wilbert Berendrecht, Peter Vermeulen, Aris Lourens, Wim van der Linden, Mike Duijn, Jan van Bakel, WillemJan Zaadnoordijk, Marcel Boerefijn, Margo Meeuwissen & Vera Lagendijk, 108 Auditing as a necessary step for gaining credibility in groundwater modelling Adolfo Chávez, Adán Pinales, Ricardo Ducoing & José L. Cruz, 114 Real-time optimisation of groundwater management H. Madsen, A. K. Falk, D. Rosbjerg, H. Madsen, N. Schrøder, J. Mortensen, B. Mortensen, J. Kristensen, G. Brandt , 120 Modelling to support the assessment of interlinkages between groundwater and surface water in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive D.-I. Müller-Wohlfeil1& S. Mielby, 124 New data types and monitoring systems T. Szocs, Gy. Toth & I. Horvath Using stable isotope data to characterise flow systems in the Pannonian Basin, Hungary, 131 Frans Van Geer, Annemieke Marsman & Gijs M. C. M. Janssen Quantifying the economic benefit of groundwater monitoring: a pilot study, 137 Susie Mielby & Claus Ditlefsen Meeting the future demands for borehole data and hydraulic heads, 142 F. Slama, E. P. Milnes & R. Bouhlila Calibrating unsaturated model parameters using electrical resistivity tomography imaging, 148 B. Tóth, A. Makó, L. Guadagnini, A. Azzellino & A. Guadagnini Grouping of soils according to their soil water retention characteristics, 154 Integrated hydrological modelling Fritz Stauffer, Tobias Doppler & Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen How successful are standard models of groundwater–river interactions, 163 C. Milzow, L. Kgotlhang, V. Burg & W. Kinzelbach Set-up and calibration of a distributed hydrological model of the Okavango Delta using remote sensing data, 169 E. -R. Trübger, H.-J. G. Diersch, Th. Salzmann & K. Miegel An efficient variable storage coefficient (VSC) approach for 3-D groundwater modelling of wetlands, 176 S. Broda, C. Paniconi & M. Larocque Evaluation of the hillslope-storage Boussinesq model with leakage, 182 Reactive and density affected transport K. Jinno, T. Hosokawa, K. Akagi, Y. Hiroshiro & J. Yasumoto Geochemical processes and their modelling at the fresh and salt water mixing zone, 191 Fernando Mazo D’Affonseca, Philipp Blum, Michael Finkel, Reiner Melzer & Peter Grathwohl Modelling the source zone depletion and plume development of a coal-tar contaminated site, 197 M. Van Camp & K. Walraevens A module for the MT3DMS solute transport model for simulating redox processes, 203 G. Llerar-Meza, D. Fernàndez-Garcia & J. J. Gómez-Hernández Upscaling of solute transport based on the concept of the memory function, 210 R. Luyun, Jr, K. Momii, K. Nakagawa & S. Fujiyama Saltwater dynamics due to cut-off wall installation in coastal unconfined aquifers: experimental and numerical studies, 214 Rachida Bouhlila & Ezzeddine Laabidi Impacts of calcite dissolution on seawater intrusion processes in coastal aquifers: density dependent flow and multi species reactive transport modelling, 220 Ate Visser, Joris D. Schaap, Toon Leijnse, Hans Peter Broers & Marc F. P. Bierkens Modelling two-phase transport of 3H/3He, 226 Parameter estimation and model calibration Steen Christensen & John Doherty Using many pilot points and singular value decomposition in groundwater model calibration, 235 Mauro Giudici, Timothy R. Ginn, Chiara Vassena, Hanieh Haeri & Laura Foglia A critical review of the properties of forward and inverse problems in groundwater hydrology, 240 A. Comunian, P. Renard & M. Kisanga wwhypda: A worldwide hydrogeological parameters database, 245 Leonard F. Konikow, George Z. Hornberger, Larry D. Putnam, Allen M. Shapiro & Brendan A. Zinn The use of groundwater age as a calibration target, 250 A. Vandenbohede, A. Louwyck & L. Lebbe Heat transport in a push–pull test: parameter identification and sensitivity analyses, 257 C. Llopis-Albert & J. E. Capilla A new approach for the stochastic inversion of flow and transport data: application to the macrodispersion experiment (MADE-2) site, 262 John Doherty Model predictive error: how it arises and how it can be accommodated, 267 B. Wiese & G. Nützmann Inverse modelling of aquitard structures using pilot points and regularisation, 272 Wilfried Pfingsten The influence of the experimental set-up and the model approach on the determination of diffusion coefficients for radionuclides in laboratory column experiments, 278 Ne-Zheng Sun & William W.-G. Yeh Global upscaling of hydraulic conductivity for modelling contaminant transport in groundwater, 284 H. Madsen, R. -S. Blasone & D. Rosbjerg Recent advances in parameter estimation and uncertainty assessment in integrated hydrological modelling, 289 Mark Bakker, Kees Maas & Jos Von Asmuth Transient calibration of flow to ditches with entry resistance using measured moments of response functions, 295 Jaouher Kerrou, Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen, Philippe Renard & Ivan Lunati Can conditioning to transmissivity data worsen model predictions ? 299 Peter F. Andersen & Gregory W. Council Practical tools for calibration of transient groundwater flow models, 305 I. Berre, F. Clément, M. Lien & T. Mannseth Data-driven reparameterization structure for estimation of fluid conductivity, 310 Mary C. Hill Data error and highly parameterized groundwater models, 316 Damir Jukić & Vesna Denić-Jukić Estimating parameters of groundwater recharge model in frequency domain, 322 Geological models and conceptual model uncertainty Matej Gedeon & Isabelle Wemaere Conceptual uncertainty assessment for a catchment scale model, 331 F. Jørgensen, J. Damgaard & H. Olesen Impact of geological modelling on groundwater models – a case study from an area with distributed, isolated aquifers, 337 Peter B. E. Sandersen Uncertainty assessment of geological models – a qualitative approach, 345 REGIONAL MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES. (268) Edited by A.H. Shumann, M.C. Acreman, R.Davis, M.A. Marino, D. Rosbjerg & Xia Jun Learned from Past Management Practices Measures of sustainability and their utilization in practical water management planning (keynote paper) Slobodan P. Simonovic 3 Sustainable reservoir development—a case study from Zimbabwe Simon Tadiwa Makoni, Thomas Rodding Kjeldsen & Dan Rosbjerg 17 Sustainable regional water management in the Yamuna River basin: case study of the Delhi region (India) R. B. Singh 25 Limpopo River: steps towards sustainable and integrated water resources management R. A. Jean Boroto 33 Enlightenment on sustainable management of water resources from past practices in the Bositeng Lake basin, Xinjiang, China Xia Jun, Zuo Qiting & Pang Jinwu 41 Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana—lessons learnt from past management practices in the Indian arid zone K. D. Sharma 49 Implementation of new tasks for old dams: a non-trivial problem Gert A. Schultz & Andreas H. Schumann 57 Integrated approach for water resources management in the Delhi region: problems and perspective P. S. Datta, S. K. Rohilla & S. K. Tyagi 65 Effects of damming the Hadejia River in semiarid northern Nigeria—lessons learnt for future management B. J. M. Goes 73 Sustainability characterization and modelling of water supply management practices Carlos Oliveira Galvão, Janiro Costa Rêgo, Márcia Maria Rios Ribeiro & José do Patrocínio Tomaz Albuquerque 81 Current understanding of the eutrophication process in Australia J. R. Davis & K. Koop 89 An urban water scenario: a case study of the Bangalore metropolis, Karnataka, India T. S. Suresh 97 Sustainable Regional Water Management for Conflicting Interests A framework for assessing the sustainability of a water resources system Thomas Rodding Kjeldsen & Dan Rosbjerg 107 Development of methodologies for setting integrated water quantity and quality objectives for the protection of aquatic ecosystems Heather MacKay 115 Towards the sustainable management of groundwater-fed catchments in Europe Mike Acreman 123 Variation des ressources souterraines du Dobrogea du Sud (Roumanie), effet conjugué des causes climatiques et anthropiques Augustin Tenu, Florin Davidescu, Razvan Petres & Gabriela Stanescu 131 Is the clearing of riparian alien invasive vegetation a viable water resources management strategy? Steve Gillham & Mike Haynes 139 Monitoring—the neglected key to improving environmental management Ian Cordery 147 Shifting system boundaries in vision-building for river basin management Annemiek J. M. Verhallen, Marc Huygens, Martine Ruijgh-van der Ploeg, Gabrielle Bouleau & Patrick Meire 155 ools for Water Resources Management Conjunctive management of surface water and groundwater (keynote paper) Miguel A. Mariño 165 Opportunities for balancing conflicting economic, social and environmental pressures on river basins through an integrated approach with stakeholder involvement Susan Walker 175 Using stakeholder analysis to increase the effectiveness and relevance of water resources systems 183 modelling Leon M. Hermans The use of role-playing in integrated water management Anne Ubbels & Annemiek J. M. Verhallen 191 Competition for water resources of the Volta basin Nick van de Giesen, Marc Andreini, Annette van Edig & Paul Vlek 199 Spatially-oriented methodology for management of complex hydro-environments: the Senegal delta situation Philippe Gourbesville, Stéphanie Duvail & Michel Mietton 207 An integrated model for water resources management at basin level Francesco Mannocchi, Francesca Todisco & Stefano Casadei 215 Improving the quality of model-based decision support: Good Modelling Practice in water management H. Scholten, R. H. van Waveren, S. Groot, F. C. van Geer, J. H. M. Wösten, R. D. Koeze & J. J. Noort 223 Hydrological criteria for durable water systems Victor Jan Witter & Tim Raats 231 River flow prediction: an artificial neural network approach A. W. Jayawardena & T. M. K. G. Fernando 239 Probabilistic characterization of uncertainties of climate change impact assessments A. H. Schumann & M. Antl 247 A field-based hydrological model to study the impacts of urbanization on regional water resources Jens Lange, Chris Leibundgut, Samar Husary, Ronit Nativ, Marwan A. Hassan, Asher P. Schick 255 Development of a metamodel for large-scale assessment of water and nutrient fluxes—first components and initial tests for the Elbe River basin U. Haberlandt, V. Krysanova, B. Klöcking, A. Becker & A. Bárdossy 263 Methodology development for wetland restoration planning based on topography and soil hydrology Francien van Soest, Andrew Williams, Robert Parkinson & Martin Kent 271 Effects of grazing on soil properties and hydrology of a small Dartmoor catchment, southwest England E. W. Meyles, A. G. Williams, J. L. Ternan & J. M. Anderson 279 BRINING GROUNDWATER QUALITY RESEARCH TO THE WATERSHED SCALE (297) Edited by Neil R.Thomson Groundwater Quality A global inventory of groundwater quality: first results Jasper Griffioen, Rianne Brunt, Slavek Vasak & Jac Van Der Gun 3 Groundwater quality in Canada: a national overview Suzanne Lesage 11 Cumulative factors affecting groundwater quality in domestic wells in Finland Kirsti Korkka-Niemi 19 Urbanization of rural watersheds in the region of Waterloo: implications for water quality Randy L. Stotler, Jon Paul Jones, Shaun K. Frape, Robert J. Drimmie, Craig T. Johnston & Ian Judd-Henry 29 Burial sites and their impact on groundwater Julian Trick, Ben Klinck, Patricia Coombs, Dave Noy & Geoff Williams 36 Quality of water from hand-dug wells, boreholes, and streams in two localities in southwest Nigeria: implications for incidence of water borne diseases Samson Ayanlaja, O. O. Kehinde-Phillips, Francis Ogunkolo, Bunmi Dada & B. A. Senjobi 44 Groundwater quality trend detection at the regional scale: effects of spatial and temporal variability H. P. Broers, J. Rozemeijer, M. Van De Aa, B. Van Der Grift & E. A. Buijs 50 Contaminant Input Processes Evaluating diffuse groundwater pollution trends—a key challenge for the new EC water directives Stephen Foster 63 Indicators for assessing transport of oil sands process-affected waters Michael MacKinnon, Grey Kampala, Bill Marsh, Phil Fedorak & Selma Guigard 71 Herbicide runoff on a pastoral hill slope—a case study Karin Müller, Roland Stenger & Anis Rahman 81 Dynamics of groundwater recharge through structured soils and the influence on water quality Edwin Cey, David Rudolph & René Therrien 89 Assessing water travel times during riverbank filtration Melissa Dawe & Kerry MacQuarrie 97 Investigating surface water–groundwater interactions with the help of sewage indicators in Berlin, Germany Gudrun Massmann, Uwe Dünnbier, Janek Greskowiak, Andrea Knappe & Asaf Pekdeger 103 Fate and transport of phage as surrogates for viral pathogens in UK aquifers Eadaoin Joyce, Katie Collins, Aidan Cronin, Joerg Rueedi, Steve Pedley, Alwyn Hart, John Tellam & Richard Greswell 113 Effects of macropore flow on solute transport in a vadoze zone under repetitive rainfall events Fumi Sugita, Tokuo Kishii & Michael English 122 Factors controlling the chemistry of shallow groundwater in different geological and hydrological environments Irén Varsányi, Hélène Pauwels & Lajos Ó.Kovács 130 Impact of a polluted stream on its adjacent aquifer: the case of the Alamar zone, Tijuana, Mexico Fernando T. Wakida, Luis E. Ponce-Serrano, Eulalia Mondragon-Silva, E. Garcia-Flores, David N. Lerner & Guillermo Rodríguez-Ventura 141 The influence of relative permeability heterogeneity on DNAPL releases G. P. Grant, J. I. Gerhard & B. H. Kueper 148 Site Characterization Characterization of Quaternary gravel aquifers and their implementation in hydrogeological models Uli Maier, Andreas Becht, Boris Kostic, Claudius Bürger, Peter Bayer, Georg Teutsch & Peter Dietrich 159 Geostatistical evaluation of high frequency hydraulic property and groundwater quality data collected by the Waterloo Profiler Shane McDonald, Jeff Groncki & Susanne Biteman 169 Quantification of PCE mass flow rates for source zone identification Sebastian Bauer, Marti Bayer-Raich, Christian Kolesar, Dietmar Müller, Thomas Holder & Thomas Ptak 176 Characterization of transport processes in a heterogeneous aquifer using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) Kerstin Müller, Jan Vanderborght, Andreas Englert, Andreas Kemna & Harry Vereecken 182 Contaminant retardation by double-porosity diffusive exchange in the Chalk: implications for monitoring William Burgess, John Barker, Sally Watson & Ben Fretwell 191 Real and apparent thickness relationship for gasoline and gasohol contamination Alexandra Finotti, Nelson Caicedo, Everton De Oliveira & José Luiz Zoby 197 Detection and characterization of a vinyl chloride plume inside an urbanized area Alessandro Gargini & Monica Pasini 203 Wettability effects on the natural remobilization of mixed DNAPL pools James W. Roy, James E. Smith & Robert W. Gillham 212 Management and Decision Making Impacts of changing agricultural land-use practices on municipal groundwater quality: Woodstock, Ontario Claus P. Haslauer, David L. Rudolph, Neil R. Thomson, Rob Walton & Margaret Misek-Evans 223 Developing a farm wellhead protection plan Hugh Simpson & James Myslik 234 Managing basin-wide groundwater quality changes resulting from enhanced groundwater recharge programs N. Thomas Sheahan, W. Greg Hamer & David S. Gould 241 Risk-based design of cost-efficient remediation strategies at megasites Fabio Serapiglia, Judith Sievers & Michael Finkel 249 IMS—A risk-based management approach for megasites, example Bitterfeld megasite, Germany Jochen Großmann, Judith Sievers, Antje Ritter & Martin Keil 256 Macro and micro scale evaluation of contaminant plumes at Aberdeen Proving Ground Donald J. Green 262 Natural Attenuation Processes and Applications SIReN: Site for innovative research on monitored natural attenuation Sarah Macnaughton, Richard Swannell, Gordon Lethbridge, Philippa Scott, Graham Norris, Nicola Harries, Alwyn Hart & Jonathan Smith 269 Assessing measurements of first-order degradation rates through the virtual aquifer approach Sebastian Bauer, Christof Beyer & Olaf Kolditz 274 Investigations of a large TCE plume discharging to surface water Steven Chapman, Beth Parker & John Cherry 282 Assessment of stable carbon isotopes as a tool for assessing MTBE biodegradation at a field site Luis E. Lesser, Gerard Spinnler, Paul C. Johnson & Ramon Aravena 290 Natural attenuation of volatile hydrocarbons in the unsaturated zone—modelling for the Værløse field site Uli Maier, Uli Mayer & Peter Grathwohl 296 Fate and transport of naphthenic acids in groundwater Francoise Gervais & James Barker 305 Wetlands as natural reactive barriers: the hydrological and geomorphological landscape perspective Seiichiro Ioka & Norio Tase 311 Steady state plumes: transverse mixing in aquifers, numerical experiments and field scale predictions for natural attenuation Uli Maier, Hermann Rügner & Peter Grathwohl 317 Modelling a controlled-sourced, multichemical plume undergoing natural attenuation Caitlin Martin, Hugh McCreadie, John W. Molson & Jim Barker 326 Tracing landfill leachate impacts on groundwater using DOC geochemistry and δ13C measurements Hossein Mohammadzadeh, Ian Clark & Gilles St-Jean 332 Natural attenuation of N-S-O heteroaromatic compounds in groundwater: chemical analyses, reactive transport experiments and field studies Matthias Piepenbrink, Martina Krüger, Thomas Ptak & Peter Grathwohl 338 In Situ Remediation In situ groundwater clean-up of MTBE by photocatalysis May Chan, Alex Orlov, Richard Lambert & Rod Lynch 349 Spatial variations in MTBE-biodegradation activity near a biobarrier in Port Hueneme, California Luis E. Lesser & Paul C. Johnson 358 Sequential reactive barrier remediation of ammonium-contaminated groundwater using polymer mats Bradley M. Patterson, Michelle E. Grassi, Blair Robertson, Gregory B. Davis & Allan J. McKinley 367 Separating the kinetic and sorption parameters of nitroaromatic compounds in contact with granular iron Melissa Marietta & John F. Devlin 376 Investigation of the performance of organic carbon permeable reactive barriers using dissolved gas analysis Randi L. Williams, K. Ulrich Mayer, Rich T. Amos, David W. Blowes & Carol J. Ptacek 383 Adsorption of natural organic matter and its effects on TCE degradation by iron PRBs Stefano Marconetto, Lai Gui & Robert Gillham 389 In situ chemical oxidation test of organic solvents with potassium permanganate Salvador Jordana, Jordi Guimerà, Josep A. Domènec & Josep M. Subirana 398 A meso-scale constructed wetland for the remediation of chlorobenzene contaminated groundwater Arno Kaschl, Andrea Schultz, Carsten Vogt, Falk Dorusch, Peter Popp, Helko Borsdorf, Eberhard Küster, Peter Kuschk, Matthias Kästner & Holger Weiß 404 On-site landfill leachate management in a headwater catchment Brian Beatty & Joanne Thompson 412 Surfactant enhanced air sparging in Borden sand Gordon H. Brown, Michael D. Annable, Jaehyun Cho & Heonki Kim 418 Remediation of bromate contaminated groundwater Ray Butler, E. Cartmell, A. Godley & L. Lytton 426 Remediation of groundwater contaminated by trichloroethylene using groundwater extraction and effects of natural attenuation Nobuyuki Egusa, Tatemasa Hirata, Masanori Yoshioka & Osami Nakasugi 433 Flow and Transport Modelling Pesticide transport in groundwater at the national scale: coupling an unsaturated zone model with a groundwater flow model Aaldrik Tiktak, Ton Van Der Linden & Gerard Uffink 441 Stochastic modelling of well head protection zones in highly heterogeneous aquifers Monica Riva, Laura Guadagnini, Eugeniu Martac & Thomas Ptak 449 An adaptive hybrid method of characteristics technique for solving solute transport problems 458 Jianmei Cheng, Danhong Huang & Jianming Chen Modelling groundwater/surface water interactions using MODFLOW-WhaT R. Brad Thoms & R. L. Johnson 466 A fully-coupled approach to evaluate the effectiveness of tile-drain systems to control drainage water and salinity George B. Matanga, Claire Jacquemin & Don Demarco 473 How old is the water? Simulating groundwater age at the watershed scale J. W. Molson & E. O. Frind 482 Large-scale groundwater flow and transport modelling: methodology and application to the Meuse Basin, Belgium Philippe Orban, Serge Brouyere, Horatiu Corbeanu & Alain Dassargues 489 Delineation of well head protection areas for wells in Urmia Plain, Iran, using WhAEM2000 K. Badv & M. Deriszadeh 496 Surface and groundwater qualities in an urbanized catchment: scenario from a developing country Moshood N. Tijani & Shin-Ichi Onodera 506 Applying a laboratory-scale biodegradation concept to model field-scale reactive transport with advanced numerical methods Sascha E. Oswald, Ian A. Watson, Roger S. Crouch & Steven A. Banwart 517 Numerical simulation of density-driven permanganate oxidation of trichloroethylene DNAPL in a sandy aquifer Thomas H. Henderson, K. Ulrich Mayer, Beth L. Parker & Tom A. Al 525 An object-oriented groundwater/river model Olaf Kolditz, Martin Beinhorn & Rudolf Liedl 531 CALIBRATION AND RELIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER MODELLING: COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY (265) Edited by F.Stauffer, W. Kinzelbach, K. Kovar & E. Hoehn Modelling Concepts Verification of a fracture network transport model including two-dimensional rock matrix diffusion W. Barten, P. C. Robinson & B. Tirbonod 3 Modelling of karst development considering conduit–matrix exchange flow Sebastian Bauer, Rudolf Liedl & Martin Sauter 10 Characterization of gypsum aquifers using a coupled continuum–pipe flow model Steffen Birk, Rudolf Liedl & Martin Sauter 16 Modelling of dual porosity media: comparison of different techniques and evaluation of the impact on plume transport simulations S. Brouyère, A. Dassargues, R. Therrien & E. A. Sudicky 22 Removing the boundaries to efficient groundwater contaminant transport modelling Chris Kennedy, Hans Ericsson & Bill Lennox 28 Artificial neural networks: development and application in groundwater pollution remediation design T. D. Krom & D. Rosbjerg 34 Application of economic-risk analysis for design and optimization of the Kansas City Plant interceptor system Alan D. Laase, James O. Rumbaugh III, Evan R. Anderman & Joseph L. Baker 41 Validity and sensitivity analysis of a new comprehensive clogging model A. Pérez-Paricio & J. Carrera 47 Development of a hydrogeological model for the Kiev conurbation V. M. Shestopalov, Yu. F. Rudenko, A. S. Bohuslavsky, A. B. Markovska & N. B. Kasteltseva 54 A method-of-characteristics concept for advective tracer transport in fracture networks C. Thorenz, O. Kolditz & W. Zielke 60 An integrated groundwater, pipe and open-channel flow model for simulation of aquifer-adit systems Beiyan Zhang & David N. Lerner 67 Stochastic Modelling Tracer travel time analysis for inference of aquifer geostatistical parameters Alberto Bellin & Yoram Rubin 77 Characterization of dispersion in an alluvial aquifer by tracing techniques and stochastic modelling N. Courtois, O. Gerbaux-Francois, C. Grenier, P. Maugis, E. Mouche, C. de Fouquet, P. Goblet & E. Ledoux 84 Solute transport in evolving scale formations: analysis of the concentration field Aldo Fiori & Alberto Bellin 90 The use of well transport theory for identification of aquifer properties: 1. Radial divergent flow; 2. Recharging and pumping wells flow G. Dagan & P. Indelman 96 The reliability of a stochastic fracture generator A. Hemminger, L. Neunhäuserer & R. Helmig 104 Evaluation of the transition characteristics of macroscopic dispersion and estimation of the non-uniform hydrogeological structure Kei Nakagawa & Kenji Jinno Permeability field estimation by conditional simulations of geophysical data Luís Miguel Nunes & Luís Ribeiro 110 117 Simultaneous estimation of transmissivity (or conductivity), storage coefficient (or porosity) and effective recharge, in a stochastic framework M. M. Pacheco Figueiredo, L. Ribeiro & J. M. P. Ferreira Lemos 124 Three-dimensional steady state flow to a well in a randomly heterogeneous aquifer Monica Riva, Alberto Guadagnini, Shlomo P. Neuman & Daniel M. Tartakovsky 131 On the concept of block effective macrodispersivity Yoram Rubin 137 Upscaling transmissivity under radially convergent flow X. Sánchez-Vila, M. Bayer, J. Carrera & C. L. Axness 141 An algorithm for the reconstruction and visualization of 3-D groundwater units N. M. Sirakov, L. Ribeiro, P. Pina & F. H. Muge 148 Parameter Estimation and Model Calibration A hybrid Marquardt-Simulated Annealing method for solving the groundwater inverse problem A. Alcolea, J. Carrera & A. Medina 157 Calibration of the Oro Moraine multi-aquifer system: role of geology and objective function Jos Beckers & Emil O. Frind 164 Influence of pumping head data in the conditional estimation of a transmissivity field C. Darcel, M. Donato, C. Grenier, P. Maugis & E. Mouche 171 Calibration of a 3-D groundwater model of the post-Permian sedimentary cover at the Morsleben radioactive waste repository site B. Ehrminger, M. Genter, W. Klemenz & J. Wollrath 177 Calibration of 3-D transient groundwater flow models for fractured rock J. J. Gómez-Hernández, H. J. W. M. Hendricks Franssen, A. Sahuquillo & J. E. Capilla 185 Guidelines for model calibration and application to flow simulation in the Death Valley regional groundwater system Mary C. Hill, Frank A. D’Agnese & Claudia C. Faunt 195 A comparison of solute-transport solution techniques based on inverse modelling results Steffen Mehl & Mary C. Hill 205 A new look at traditional deterministic flow models and their calibration in the context of randomly heterogeneous media Shlomo P. Neuman & Alberto Guadagnini 213 Computational aspects of the coupled inversion of groundwater flow and mass transport A. Sahuquillo, H. J. W. M. Hendricks Franssen, J. J. Gómez-Hernández & J. E. Capilla 222 Determination of the hydraulic properties of a multilayered aquifer from pumping test data using genetic algorithms Y. Takeshita, I. Kohno & K. Yasui 229 Automatic model calibration using a universal approximator Paul Torfs & George Bier 236 Three-dimensional inverse modelling of pneumatic tests in unsaturated fractured rocks Velimir V. Vesselinov, Shlomo P. Neuman & Walter A. Illman 243 Calibration and sensitivity analysis of the 3-D Cape Cod tracer test S. Wagner, F. Häfner, S. Boy & A. Behr 250 The benefit of using data on canal seepage and tracer concentration in aquifer parameter estimation E. Zechner, D. Genereux & J. Saiers Reliability of Model Prediction Predictive modelling of flow in a two-dimensional intermediate-scale, heterogeneous porous media Gilbert R. 256 Barth, Mary C. Hill, Tissa H. Illangasekare & Harihar Rajaram 265 Uncertainty analysis of groundwater heads around underground storage caverns due to the spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity Il-Moon Chung, Woncheol Cho & Jun-Haeng Heo 272 An optimal decision for contaminant plume capture design in a groundwater system under parameter and boundary uncertainty Bernard B. Hsieh 278 Computationally efficient methods for the quantification of uncertainties in groundwater modelling Harald Kunstmann & Wolfgang Kinzelbach 285 Uncertainty propagation using the point estimate method S. Mishra 292 Linking groundwater, contaminant transport, and water distribution models to determine the uncertainty of drinking water contaminant exposure S. D. Normani, J. F. Sykes & W. C. Lennox 297 Reliability-based evaluation of groundwater remediation strategies H. W. Reeves, J. Lee, C. H. Dowding & A. J. Graettinger 304 Stochastic well capture zones in fully, leaky, and randomly confined, heterogeneous aquifers Matthijs van Leeuwen, Adrian P. Butler, Jacob A. Tompkins & Chris B. M. Te Stroet 310 Contaminant transport modelling under random sources P. Patrick Wang & Chunmiao Zheng 317 Comprehensive Use of Field Information Value of seismic data for the risk assessment of mass transport: a case study J. E. Capilla, J. J. Gómez & A. Sahuquillo 327 Modelling of radon-222 as a proxy for vapour phase transport in the unsaturated zone D. A. Gibbons, R. Kalin & H. Johnston 334 Methodology for the hydraulic characterization of a granitic block L. Martínez-Landa, J. Carrera, J. Guimerà, E. Vazquez-Suñé, L. Vives, P. Meier & T. Fierz 340 Modelling the tritium release from underground nuclear tests performed at Mururoa and Fangataufa: a conservative estimate based on uncertain data W. Pfingsten & J. Hadermann 346 Variational data assimilation of soil moisture and temperature from remote sensing observations R. H. Reichle, D. McLaughlin & D. Entekhabi 353 Conditional geostatistical modelling of an alluvial aquifer system characterized by poor-quality shallow groundwater N. C. Ruud, T. Harter, G. S. Weissmann & G. E. Fogg 360 Estimation of the sustainable yield of a borehole including boundary information, drawdown derivatives and uncertainty propagation Gerrit van Tonder, Harald Kunstmann, Yongxin Xu & François Fourie 367 Nonlinear and Coupled Flow and Transport Modelling Density Flow Modelling On modelling of density driven flow P. Ackerer, A. Younes, S. E. Oswald & W. Kinzelbach 377 A comparison of different model concepts for saltwater intrusion processes R. Hinkelmann, H. Sheta, H. Class & R. Helmig 385 Three-dimensional density-dependent calculation of matrix fracture flow Christoph König & Carola Blömer 392 A three-dimensional physical model for verification of variable-density flow codes S. E. Oswald & W. Kinzelbach 399 Conceptual and numerical modelling of density induced migration of radioactive contaminants at the Lake Karachai waste disposal site V. G. Rumynin, V. A. Mironenko, L. N. Sindalovsky, A. V. Boronina, P. K. Konosavsky, C. Gallo & E. Leonardi 405 Multiphase Modelling Characterization of residual NAPL using partitioning tracers: temporal moment analysis Sten Berglund, Daniel Torstensson & George Demmy 412 Error propagation in the Newton-based solution control of unsaturated flow Hans-Jörg G. Diersch & Pierre Perrochet 418 Reliability of models for isothermal and non-isothermal multiphase processes in porous media R. Helmig & H. Class 425 Two-phase flow simulation of water-sealing of compressed air storage under cyclic pressure change in an unlined rock cavern Takeshi Kawatani & Masahiko Saito 432 The influence of interfacial tension reduction on organic liquid migration: numerical and experimental comparisons Klaus M. Rathfelder, Linda M. Abriola, Michael A. Singletary & Kurt D. Pennell 439 Multiphase modelling of gas storage in aquifer with automatic calibration and confidence limits Dominique Thiéry & Karine Guedeney 448 DNAPL spill and plume migration in a naturally heterogeneous aquifer analogue Janet Whittaker, Georg Teutsch & Peter Grathwohl 455 Reactive Transport Modelling Transfer of tracer data to mixing-controlled reactive transport Olaf A. Cirpka 461 Estimation of sequential degradation rates of perchloroethylene by "history matching" R. A. A. Hetterschijt, C. B. M. te Stroet & T. N. P. 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Jarvis 378 Mapping landslide susceptibility in the Three Gorges area, China using GIS, expert knowledge and fuzzy logic A-Xing Zhu, Rongxun Wang, Jianping Qiao, Yongbo Chen, Qiangguo Cai & Chenghu Zhou 385 Verification of an NDVI-evapotranspiration model using a single layer model Hiroaki Watanabe, So Kazama & Masaki Sawamoto 392 Tracking MCSs automatically based on improved area-overlapped method Fang Zhaobao, Lin Hui, Wu Lixin, Jiang Jixi & Huang Qiang 401 Desertification and carbon emission in the headwater area of the Yellow River using remote sensing Yongnian Zeng, Zhaodong Feng & Huo Xu 410 REDUCING THE VULNERABILITY OF SOCIETIES TO WATER RELATED RISKS AT THE BASIN SCALE (317) Edited by Andreas Schumann & Markus Pahlow River Basin Interdependencies Maurits Ertsen, Daniel Prieto & Nick Van De Giesen Hydrological interdependencies of irrigation systems and river catchments, 3 Harro Bode & Michael Weyand Integrated river basin management in the catchment area of the Ruhr River, 9 Y. 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Todd Walter & Marc Leblanc The relationship between native vegetation and in-stream salinity: an Australian case study, 72 Chemical Loads of Water by Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Pesticides Martin Bach, Bjцrn Rцpke & Hans-Georg Frede Pesticide river contamination—identification of significant pressures in the context of the WFD, 79 Maja Brandt, Berit Arheimer & Lotta Andersson Catchment modelling for quantification of Swedish nutrient transport to the sea and effects of measures, 84 Lutz Breuer, Wolfgang Reiher, Thorsten Pohlert, Johan A. Huisman, Bernd Weinmann, Kellie B. 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Batalla, Josй C. de Araъjo, Till Francke, Andreas Gьntner, George Mamede & Eva Mьller Investigating erosion and sediment transport from headwaters to catchments to reduce reservoir siltation in drylands, 119 Carmen de Jong Impounded rivers: aridification and geomorphological risks, 123 Achim Schulte, Bohumir Jansky, Gerhard Daut, Ralf Irmler & Robert van Geldern Sediment dynamics from the drainage area into Lake Mladotice (western Czech Republic) in relation to flood events and under the influence of pre- to post-communist landscape changes, 130 George Leite Mamede, Josй Carlos De Araъjo & Axel Bronstert Global change scenarios in the prediction of reservoir sedimentation and water availability, 137 Institutions in River Basin Management Khalid Mohamed El-Hassan Abdalla Institutional and legal arrangements in the Nile River basin: suggestions for improvement of the current situation, 145 Ines Dombrowsky Institutions for international river management – is integrated water resources management a viable concept ? 151 Charles Hans Komakech, Frank G. 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Brunner, W. Kinzelbach, W. P. Li & X. G. Dong Coupled surface water/groundwater modelling for the management of soil salinity, 213 Jelle Buma, Caroline Sullivan, Neno Kukuric & Jasper Griffioen Can water stressed regions be characterised when there is sparse data ? 219 Wouter Buytaert, Rolando Cйlleri, Bert De Biиvre & Vicente Iсiguez The impact of pine plantations on water yield: a case study from the Ecuadorian Andes, 225 Pradeep P. Lodha & Ashvani K. Gosain Effective impact assessment of development based programmes through quantification of livelihoods, 229 Saeed Morid, Nazanin Shahkarami & Mohammad A. Rahimi Jamnani Optimization of cropped area, based on forecast streamflows (a case study: Soofichay irrigation systems), 235 Decision Support Tools Ekin Birol, Phoebe Koundouri & Yiannis Kountouris Using the contingent valuation method to inform sustainable wetland management: the case of the Akrotiri wetland in Cyprus, 243 Andrea Castelletti, Francesca Pianosi, Valentina Sachero & Rodolfo Soncini Sessa TwoLe/P: a MODSS implementing PIP procedure for participatory water basin planning, 251 Thomas Hein, Alfred P. Blaschke, Gertrud Haidvogl, Severin Hohensinner, Walter Reckendorfer, Karl Reiter, Bernd Schuh & Gabriele Weigelhofer Urban flood plains – optimised management strategies in the face of conflicting ecological and socio-economic demands, 258 Subha Vishnudas, Hubert H. G. Savenije & Pieter Van Der Zaag A conceptual framework for the analysis of sustainable watershed management projects, 263 Global and Climatic Changes Stefan Kaden, Michael Kaltofen & Hagen Koch Water resources management and water availability in the Elbe River basin under conditions of global change, 273 Atef Kassem, Tamas Hamory & Maurice Sydor From concept to practice – a tool for integrated water resources management under climate change, 278 Young-Oh Kim, Hyung Il-Eum, Dae Il Jeong, Dong-Hyun Kang, Dong-Hyun Cha & Dong-Kyou Lee Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the Geum River Basin, Korea, 283 Scales of Vulnerability Against Flooding Saut A. H. Sagala, Paul Hofstee & Nanette Kingma Reducing flood vulnerability: the model of resilience in Naga City, the Philippines, 291 Brian Webby, Peter Adamson, John Boland, Phil Howlett & Andrew Metcalfe Conditional Value-at-Risk analysis of flooding in the Lower Mekong Basin, 297 Flood Risk Management at Different Scales Gerd Morgenschweis & Christian Heitefuss Operational flood protection management in the Ruhr River catchment basin in Germany: challenges and limitations, 305 Annegret H. Thieken, Heidi Kreibich, Meike Mьller, Matthias Nicklisch & Bruno Merz Flood losses in private households: analysis of influencing factors and implications for flood loss modelling, 312 Tools to Estimate and Reduce Flood Risk Susanne Bachner, Alice Kapala & Clemens Simmer Estimation of trends in rainfall extremes as important input parameters for flood risk assessment, 319 Jьrgen Baumann, Isidro Gaytan, Josй Luis Arellano, Jose Luis Miranda & Juan Alberto Rodriguez Database improvement for better land management and natural disaster prevention in a tropical watershed, 325 Johannes Cullmann, Gerd. H. Schmitz & Wilfried Gцrner A new system for online flood forecasting – performance and implications, 330 Jцrg Dietrich, Frank Voss & Andreas Schumann Operational flood risk management based on ensemble predictions, 337 Lutz Feldmann & Jens Schramm Automatic optimization offers new possibilities for cost-effective flood protection at urban rivers, 342 Dagmar Haase & Carsten Bohn Flood vulnerability and preparedness: model approach to mitigate the risk for local communities, 347 Andreas Schumann & Bastian Klein Is hydrology reducing vulnerabilities ? 354 Slobodan P. Simonovic Fuzzy reliability analysis of floods: an approach for integration of objective and subjective risks, 362 Tilo Keller, Oliver Buchholz, Ulrich Kern, Dirk Meetschen & Clemens Simmer HowisErft – a remote sensing based flood prediction and information system, 372 Irina Krasovskaia, Lars Gottschalk, Hallvard Berg, Alison Mcerlain, Denys Ngu & Timm Ruben Geissler Combating flooding together, 377 Heidi Kreibich, Meike Mьller, Annegret Thieken & Bruno Merz Main factors influencing the economic flood damage of companies, 384 Jochen Schanze A European framework of integration for flood risk management, 389 Darren Lumbroso, David Ramsbottom & Mathias Spaliveiro Sustainable methods for reducing communities’ vulnerability to flooding in Mozambique, 394 Erik Jan Langkamp, Ludolph Wentholt, Bob Pengel, Reinhart Vogt, Sebastian Schnitzler & Kees de Gooijer NOAH, the right information at the right time at the right place, 400 Hydraulic Structures Mitigating Flood Risk Daniel Bachmann, Gesa Kutschera, Maren Niemeyer, Nils Peter Huber & Jьrgen Kцngeter Risk assessment for hydraulic structures: procedure and application, 409 Ronald Haselsteiner & Theodor Strobl Constraints and methods of refurbishment measures for dikes, 415 Philippe Lazaro & Guy Toussin Flood relief project at Esch-sur-Sыre, 420 C. Mai Van, P. H. A. J. M. Van Gelder & J. K. Vrijling Reliability of coastal flood defences in Vietnam, 424 Sutham Visutimeteegorn, Kanchit Likitdecharote & Suphat Vongvisessomjai The effects of Chao Phraya dam operation on the upstream flood inundation, 432 Thomas Will & Heiko Lieske Flood Protection vs Heritage Conservation? An integrated urban and landscape design approach for Grimma, Saxony, 441 A NEW FOCUS ON GROUNWATER-SEAWATER INTERACTIONS (312) Edited by Ward Sanford, Christian Langevin, Maurizio Polemio & Pavel Povinec OVERVIEW 3 Background and Summary: A new focus on groundwater–seawater interactions Christian Langevin, Ward Sanford, Maurizio Polemio & Pavel Povinec Regional assessment of groundwater discharge into seas: present-day concepts and methods Igor S. Zektser & Roald G. Dzhamalov 11 Groundwater–seawater interactions in tsunami affected areas: solutions and applications Evgeny A. Kontar 19 The importance of shallow confining units to submarine groundwater flow John F. Bratton 28 PHYSICAL APPROACHES Investigations of the brackish karst springs on the Croatian Adriatic Sea coast Ognjen Bonacci & Ivana Gabrić 39 Geoelectric and geochemical studies for hydrological characterization of Sagar Island, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India R. K. Majumdar & D. Das 50 Investigation of submarine groundwater discharge using several methods in the inter-tidal zone Tomotoshi Ishitobi, Makoto Taniguchi, Yu Umezawa, Shigeru Kasahara, Shin-Ichi Onodera, Masaki Hayashi, Kunihide Miyaoka & Mitsuru Hayashi 60 Seasonal changes in the groundwater–seawater interaction and its relation to submarine groundwater discharge, Ise Bay, Japan Kunihide Miyaoka 68 Basin-wide groundwater flow study in a volcanic low permeability bedrock aquifer with coastal submarine groundwater discharge Jun Shimada, Daisuke Inoue, Sou Satoh, Naohiko Takamoto, Tomoya Sueda, Yoshitaka Hase, Show Iwagami, Maki Tsujimura, Tomotoshi Ishitobi & Makoto Taniguchi 75 Comprehensive evaluation of the groundwater–seawater interface and submarine groundwater discharge Makoto Taniguchi, Tomotoshi Ishitobi, William C. Burnett & Jun Shimada 86 Possibilities of geophysical survey for groundwater contamination and subsurface pollution determination and monitoring in the coastal zone Yuriy R. Ozorovich & Evgeny A. Kontar 93 Multi-channel resistivity investigations of the freshwater–saltwater interface: a new tool to study an old problem 100 Peter W. Swarzenski, Sarah Kruse, Chris Reich & Wolfgang V. Swarzenski CHEMICAL APPROACHES Remaining uncertainties in the use of Rn-222 as a quantitative tracer of submarine groundwater discharge William C. Burnett, Isaac R. Santos, Yishai Weinstein, Peter W. Swarzenski & Barak Herut 109 In situ underwater gamma-ray spectrometry as a tool to study groundwater–seawater interactions Pavel P. Povinec 119 Temporal variability of submarine groundwater discharge: assessments via radon and seep meters, the southern 125 Carmel Coast, Israel Yishai Weinstein, Yehuda Shalem, William C. Burnett, Peter W. Swarzenski & Barak Herut Seasonal changes in the radium-226 distribution on the southeastern USA continental shelf: implications for changing submarine groundwater discharge Willard S. Moore 134 A box model to quantify groundwater discharge along the Kona coast of Hawaii using natural tracers Richard N. Peterson, William C. Burnett, Craig R. Glenn & Adam J. Johnson 142 Nutrient dynamics with groundwater–seawater interactions in a beach slope of a steep island, western Japan Shin-ichi Onodera, Mitsuyo Saito, Masaki Hayashi & Misa Sawano 150 Nutrient inputs through submarine groundwater discharge to Ariake Bay, Kyushu Island, Japan Jun Yasumoto, Mamoru Katsuki, Hidetomo Takaoka, Yoshinari Hiroshiro & Kenji Jinno 159 Evaluation of fresh groundwater contributions to the nutrient dynamics at shallow subtidal areas adjacent to metro-Bangkok Yu Umezawa, Tomotoshi Ishitobi, Sompop Rungsupa, Sinichi Onodera, Tsutomu Yamanaka, Chikage Yosimizu, Ichiro Tayasu, Toshi Nagata, Gullaya Wattayakorn & Makoto Taniguchi 169 Influence of groundwater discharge through a coastal sandy barrier in southern Brazil on seawater metal chemistry Herbert Windom, Willard Moore & Felipe Niencheski 180 Chemical and isotopic characteristics of stagnant water isolated in a coastal area Yasunori Mahara, Eiji Nakata, Takahiro Ooyama, Kimio Miyakawa, Yoshihisa Ichihara & Hiroyuki Matsumoto 189 Existence of stagnant fresh groundwater and diffusion-limited chloride migration in a sub-sea formation at Yatsushiro Bay, Japan Tomochika Tokunaga, Yuki Kimura & Jun Shimada 197 Indicators and quality classification applied to groundwater management in coastal aquifers: case studies of Mar del Plata (Argentina) and Apulia (Italy) E. M. Bocanegra, M. Polemio, H. E. Massone, V. Dragone, P. P. Limoni & M. Farenga 201 Isotopic characterization of saline intrusion into the aquifers of a coastal zone: case study of the southern Venice lagoon, Italy Julie C. Gattacceca, Christine Vallet-Coulomb, Adriano Mayer, Olivier Radakovitch, Enrico Conchetto, Corinne Sonzogni, Christelle Claude & Bruno Hamelin 212 Modélisation de l’intrusion marine dans l’aquifère côtière du Gabès (sud tunisien) / Seawater intrusion modelling for the Gabes coastal aquifer system (southern Tunisia) Badiaa Chulli, Abdalah Taheri Tizro & Nasime Jabnoun 219 MODELLING APPROACHES Driving while under the influence: pumping-driven circulation under the influence of regional groundwater flow M. Bayani Cardenas & John L. Wilson 229 Evaluation of the hydraulic gradient at an island for low-level nuclear waste disposal Prem Attanayake & Michael Sholley 237 Climatic variation, recharge and freshwater lens salinity of a coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean M. van der Velde, M. Vakasiuola, S. R. Green, V. T. Manu, V. Minonesi, M. Vanclooster & B. E. Clothier 244 Effect of an offshore sinkhole perforation in a coastal confined aquifer on submarine groundwater discharge 256 Sarah E. Fratesi, H. Leonard Vacher & Ward E. Sanford Numerical modelling to determine the freshwater/saltwater interface configuration in a low-gradient coastal wetland aquifer Eric Swain & Melinda Wolfert 264 Simulation of submarine groundwater discharge salinity and temperature variations: implications for remote detection Alyssa M. Dausman, Christian D. Langevin & Michael C. Sukop 272 Submarine groundwater discharge under extreme rainfall events Eunhee Lee, Yunjung Hyun & Kang-Kun Lee 281 Impact of a water diversion project on the groundwater environment of Xiamen Island Liu Zhenghua, Huang Hao, Liu Jianli, Wang Jinkeng & Chen Bin 287 Three-dimensional numerical simulation of density-dependent groundwater flow and salt transport due to groundwater pumping in a heterogeneous and true anisotropic coastal aquifer system Ju-Hyun Park, ChanSung Oh & Jun-Mo Kim 294 Numerical modelling of saltwater–freshwater interaction in the Walawe River basin, Sri Lanka Priyantha Ranjan, So Kazama & Masaki Sawamoto 306 Seawater intrusion in the coastal aquifer of Wadi Ham, UAE Mohsen Sherif & Anvar Kacimov 315 A simulation of groundwater discharge and nitrate delivery to Chesapeake Bay from the lowermost Delmarva Peninsula, USA Ward E. Sanford & Jason P. Pope 326 Effect of tidal fluctuations on contaminant transfer to the ocean Ivana La Licata, Christian D. Langevin & Alyssa M. Dausman 334 REGIONAL HYDROLOGY IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE – Impact Assessment and Decision Making (295) Edited by Thorsten Wagener, Stewart Franks, Hoshin V. Gupta, Eva Bøgh, Luis Bastidas, Carlos Nobre & Carlos de Oliveira Galvão 1. Assessment of Potential Hydrological Impacts of Future Climate including the Role of Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Climate Change South America Potential impacts of climate change in the Plata basin Vicente Barros, Moira Doyle & Inés Camilloni (Invited) 11 Impact of climate change and agricultural developments in the Taquari River basin, Brazil Erik Querner, Remco Jonker, Carlos Padovani, Balbina Soriano & Sergio Galdino 19 Climate variability and climate change in Patagonian rivers Rafael S. Seoane, Juan B. Valdés & Luis J. Mata 26 North America & Europe Hydrological response to climate variability, climate change, and climate extremes in the USA: climate model evaluation and projections L. Ruby Leung & Yun Qian 37 Regional effects of climate change on hydrology and water resources in Aliakmon River basin Maria Mimikou & Fotis Fotopoulos 45 Climate change effect on river flow in basins under different climate conditions—an example from rivers on the Balkan Peninsula Snejna Dakova 53 The impact of climate variability and change on water resources in the western coastal zone of the Black Sea Vesselin Alexandrov, Marin Genev & Hafzullah Aksoy 62 Africa Impact of regional climate change on water availability in the Volta basin of West Africa Harald Kunstmann & Gerlinde Jung (Invited) 75 Hydrological catchment models: process representation, data availability and applicability for water management—case study for Benin Helge Bormann, Simone Giertz & Bernd Diekkrüger 86 Climate variability and impacts on an alluvial aquifer in a semiarid climate, the Logone-Chari plain (south of Lake Chad) Benjamin Ngounou Ngatcha, Jacques Mudry, Luc Sigha Nkamdjou, Roger Njitchoua & Emmanuel Naah 94 Asia The potential impact of future climate change on Lebanese river basin hydrology using scenarios Antoine Hreiche, Claude Bocquillon, Wajdi Najem & Diala Dandach 103 The expansion of Himalayan glacial lakes due to global warming: field observations and numerical simulation for prediction Kazuhisa A. Chikita & Tomomi Yamada 111 Identifying potential hydrological impacts of climatic variability and change for Himalayan basins of Nepal David M. Hannah, Sunil R. Kansakar & John Gerrard 120 Hydro-climatological variability in the Upper Indus Basin and implications for water resources, Pakistan Hayley J. Fowler & David R. Archer 131 Effect of the growing population on the air pollution, climatic variability and on the hydrological regime of the Ganga basin, India Anup K. Prasad, Ramesh P. Singh, Menas Kafatos & Ashbindu Singh 139 Hydrological impacts of climatic variability on water resources of the Damodar River basin, India Pankaj Kumar Roy & Asis Mazumdar 147 Impacts of climate variability and change on hydrology and water resources in the Yellow River basin Shenglian Guo, Pan Liu, Dingzhi Peng, Honggang Zhang, Bo Pan & Hua Chen 157 Climate change and water resources security in North China Xia Jun & Zhang Liping 167 Water resources variability from the past to future in the Yellow River, China Dawen Yang, Guangheng Ni, Shinjiro Kanae, Chong Li & Tetsuya Kusuda 174 Impact of climate fluctuation and land cover changes on runoff in the Yellow River basin Wang Miaolin & Xia Jun 183 Simulating effects of climate change on evapotranspiration of major crops in China Huaxia Yao, Michio Hashino & Zuoxing Yuan 189 Oceania Impacts of long-term climate variability and climate change on flood frequency: Susannah Brook, Western Australia Jos Samuel, Murugesu Sivapalan & Stewart W. Franks 201 1. Hydroclimatically Relevant Decision-making, Risk-assessment and Mitigation/Adaptation Strategies using Uncertain Model Predictions of Water Resources and Hydrological Extremes South America Climatic predictability, hydrology and water resources over Nordeste Brazil Carlos O. Galvão, Paulo Nobre, Ana Cláudia F. M. Braga, Klécia F. de Oliveira, Richarde Marques, Simone R. da Silva, Manoel F. Gomes Filho, Celso A. G. Santos, Francis Lacerda & David Moncunill 211 Possible climate change impacts on water resources availability in a large semiarid catchment in Northeast Brazil Axel Bronstert, Andreas Güntner, José Carlos de Araújo, Annekathrin Jaeger & Maarten Krol 221 A case study of the use of sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) as a predictor of river flows Andrea de Oliveira Cardoso, Robin T. Clarke & Pedro Leite da Silva Dias 231 Periodic auto-regressive streamflow models applied to operation planning for the Brazilian hydroelectric system Maria Elvira Pineiro Maceira & Jorge Machado Damázio 239 Estimating the climate change effect upon flood risk reduction by afforestation Raúl Alberto Díaz & Erik Paul Querner 248 Mapping floods in the St Joseph watershed, Trinidad, using GIS Serwan M. J. Baban & Ronnie Kantasingh 254 North America and Europe Multi-resolution integrated assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on water resources in arid and semiarid regions Thorsten Wagener, Yuqiong Liu, Hoshin V. Gupta, Everett Springer & David Brookshire 265 Evaluating the utility of satellite-based precipitation estimates for flood forecasting in ungauged basins Koray K. Yilmaz, Hoshin V. Gupta, Terri S. Hogue, Kuo-Lin Hsu, Thorsten Wagener & Soroosh Sorooshian 273 Investigation of the uncertainty of hydrological modelling for climate change impact assessment Gabriele Hartmann & András Bárdossy 283 Africa Linking water resources and global change in West Africa: options for assessment Jeremy Meigh, Sonja Folwell & Caroline Sullivan 297 Asia Glacio-hydrological aspects of climate change in the Himalayas: mitigation of glacial lake outburst floods in Nepal Suresh Raj Chalise, Madan Lall Shrestha, Kamal Prakash Budhathoki & Mandira Singh Shrestha 309 Influence of climate variability on water resources sustainability in the Himalayan-Gangetic region R. B. Singh 317 Appropriate scales for hydro-climatological variables in the Red River basin Martijn J. Booij & Ha T. Tran 325 Oceania Influence of Indian Ocean sea-surface temperature variability on winter rainfall across eastern Australia Danielle C. Verdon & Stewart W. Franks 335 ENSO-based streamflow forecasting and its application to water allocation and cropping decisions—an Australian experience Yahya Abawi, Sunil Dutta, Xike Zhang & David McClymont 346 HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES: Understanding, Predicting, Mitigating (255) Edited by L. Gottschalk, J.-C. Olivry, D. Reed & D. Rosbjerg Understanding—circulation patterns Francesco Meneguzzo, Alfonso Crisci, Bernardo Gozzini, Daniele Grifoni & Stefano Pagliara Large-scale atmospheric and sea surface processes leading to excessive rainfall in Tuscany, Italy, 3 A. Bárdossy, H. Giese, G. Hartmann, H. P. Nachtnebel, W. Diernhofer & K. Hebenstreit Impacts of climate change on mid-European river basin hydrology, 11 Kerstin Stahl & Siegfried Demuth Investigating the influence of atmospheric circulation patterns on regional streamflow drought in southern Germany, 19 Mary-Jeanne Adler, Aristita Busuioc, Monica Ghioca & Sabina Stefan Atmospheric processes leading to droughty periods in Romania, 29 Zaitao Pan, Moti Segal, Raymond W. Arritt, Tsing-Chang Chen & Shu-Ping Weng Effects of quasi-stationary wave anomalies on the regional hydrologic cycle in the continental United States, 37 Understanding—nonstationarity Toshiharu Kojiri Cluster-based hydrological analysis and prediction of long-term climate change and drought discharge, 43 Alfonso Crisci, Bernardo Gozzini, Daniele Grifoni, Francesco Meneguzzo, Gaetano Zipoli & Stefano Pagliara Climatic variability and its impact on rainfall extremes and urban runoff design in Tuscany, 55 Ian Cordery, Mark McCall & M. Jafar Nazemosadat Forecasting the occurrence of low precipitation three to twelve months ahead, 65 A. A. L. N. Sarma, B. Padma Kumari & S. Srinivas Studies on hydrological extremes—ENSO signal, 73 Irina Krasovskaia, Lars Gottschalk, Alexis Rodríguez & Sadí Laporte Dependence of the frequency and magnitude of extreme floods in Costa Rica on the Southern Oscillation Index, 81 Göran Lindström Trends and variability in Swedish floods, 91 Liu Jingshi & Yoshihiro Fukushima Recent change and prediction of glacier-dammed lake outburst floods from Kunmalik River in southern Tien Shan, China, 99 Liu Guowei & Wang Jingping A study of extreme floods in China for the past 100 years, 109 A. W. Jayawardena & A. B. Gurung Effect of noise in nonlinear hydrological time series analysis and prediction, 121 Khaled H. Hamed & A. R. Rao Variability in spectral characteristics of hydrologic data, 129 Prediction—drought Petra Döll, Frank Kaspar, Stefan Siebert & Joseph Alcamo Global modelling of runoff and irrigation requirements in typical dry years, 137 Thomas R. Kjeldsen, Allan Lundorf & Dan Rosbjerg Regional partial duration series modelling of hydrological droughts in Zimbabwean rivers using a two-component exponential distribution, 145 Assia Chebchoub, Zoubeida Bargaoui, Irene Abi-Zeid & Bernard Bobée Modélisation de l’occurrence des étiages à partir des débits moyens journaliers à l’aide des processus ponctuels, 155 Alain Dassargues, Jean-Christophe Marechal, Guy Carabin & Olivier Sels On the necessity to use three-dimensional groundwater models for describing impact of drought conditions on streamflow regimes, 165 Svetlana Arzhakova Deep freezing of cryolithozone rivers, 171 M. Ouédraogo, E. Servat, J. E. Paturel, B. Kouamé, M. Travaglio, H. Lubès-Niel & J. M. Masson Incidences éventuelles sur la relation pluie–débit d’un contexte régional de diminution des ressources en eau en Afrique de l’Ouest et Centrale non sahélienne, 175 Prediction—flood Mikhail V. Bolgov, Vladilen F. Pisarenko & Marina I. Fortus On the distribution function of extreme flood discharge, 181 David Archer Practical application of historical flood information to flood estimation, 191 Bruno Rabelo Versiani, Eber José de Andrade Pinto & Philippe Bois Analyse des pluies extrêmes annuelles sur la région de Minas Gerais (Brésil): modèle de régionalisation TCEV, 201 Michael E. Steel, Andrew R. Black, Alan Werritty & Ian G. Littlewood Reassessment of flood risk for Scottish rivers using synthetic runoff data, 209 Jeffrey Smithers, Roland Schulze & Geoffrey Pegram Predicting short duration design storms in South Africa using inadequate data, 217 Paul J. Northrop, Richard E. Chandler, Valerie S. Isham, Christian Onof & Howard S. Wheater Spatial–temporal stochastic rainfall modelling for hydrological design, 225 Duncan W. Reed, Dörte Jakob, Alice J. Robson, Duncan S. Faulkner & Elizabeth J. Stewart Regional frequency analysis: a new vocabulary, 237 Duncan S. Faulkner & Alice J. Robson Estimating floods in permeable drainage basins, 245 Paul Webster Factors affecting the relationship between the frequency of a flood and its causative rainfall, 251 Evelyn Krall Investigation of the probability of flood events in small ungauged Austrian catchment areas using basin characteristics, 259 Silvia Kohnová & Ján Szolgay Regional estimation of design summer flood discharges in small catchments of northern Slovakia, 265 Bart Parmet, T. Adri Buishand, Theo Brandsma & Rainer Mülders Design discharge of the large rivers in The Netherlands—towards a new methodology, 269 R. Merz, U. Piock-Ellena, G. Blöschl & D. Gutknecht Seasonality of flood processes in Austria, 273 Mitigation Aka Akpa, Eric Servat, Jean Emmanuel Paturel, Alain Dezetter, Hélène Lubès-Niel, Jean Marie Fritsch, Jean Marie Masson Influences combinées de la sécheresse et de la pression anthropique sur un système d’eau aménagé en Afrique de l’Ouest: cas du bassin du Bandama (Côte d’Ivoire), 281 Carlos Oliveira Galvão, Robin T. Clarke, Trevor D. Davies & Phil D. Jones Evaluation of seasonal forecasting methods for water resource management in northeastern Brazil, 289 Henry M. Sichingabula & Happy Sikazwe Occurrence, severity and magnitude of hydrological drought in Zambia: impacts and implications, 297 Boris Gartsman & Mark Karasyov Flooding in monsoon rivers: complex hydrometeorological risk analysis, 307 Ivan Muzik Performance evaluation of a storage reservoir: a case study, 311 INTERACTION BETWEEN THE CRYOSPHERE, CLIMATE AND GREENHOUSE GASES (256) Editede by Martyn Tranter, Richard Armstrong, Eric Brun, Gerry Jones, Martin Sharp & Mark Williams Interactions Between Climate, Snow and Permafrost Pierre Etchevers, Hervé Douville & Eric Martin Simulation of the Northern Hemisphere snow cover, 3 Judah Cohen & Dara Entekhabi The influence of Eurasian snow cover on Northern Hemisphere climate variability, 11 Pavel Ya. Groisman, Eugene L. Genikhovich, Raymond S. Bradley & Sun Bomin Trends in turbulent heat fluxes over northern Eurasia, 19 Alexander Krenke & Lev Kitaev Interannual variability of snow cover distribution over the former Soviet Union in connection with climate change, 27 Stefan Voigt, Michael Koch & Michael F. Baumgartner A multichannel threshold technique for NOAA AVHRR data to monitor the extent of snow cover in the Swiss Alps, 35 Martyn P. Clark & Mark C. Serreze Snowfall responses over the USA to phase and amplitude variations in the tropospheric wavetrain, 45 Sheldon Drobot & Mark Anderson Interannual variations in snowmelt onset and links to 500 hPa atmospheric anomalies over the Arctic, 55 Tammy Johnson, Jeff Dozier & Joel Michaelsen Climate change and Sierra Nevada snowpack, 63 Sharon L. Smith & Margo M. Burgess Mapping the sensitivity of Canadian permafrost to climate warming, 71 Monitoring and Modelling Snow Cover Hannes Kleindienst, Markus Pfister & Michael F. Baumgartner Pre-operational snowmelt forecasting based on an integration of ground measurements, meteorological forecasts and satellite data, 81 J. W. Pomeroy, R. L. H. Essery, D. M. Gray, K. R. Shook, B. Toth & P. Marsh Modelling snow–atmosphere interactions in cold continental environments, 91 Philip Marsh, Natasha N. Neumann, Richard L. H. Essery & John W. Pomeroy Model estimates of local advection of sensible heat over a patchy snow cover, 103 S. R. Fassnacht, E. D. Soulis & N. Kouwen Shape characteristics of freshly fallen snowflakes and their short-term changes, 111 Wang Jian & Li Wenjun Impact of climate variability on snow cover redistribution and snowmelt runoff regimes in a mountainous region, 123 Ice Mass Variability Alexander Krenke, Tatyana Khromova & Ludmila Chernova Interannual variability of glaciers and snow cover, 133 Liu Shiyin, Wang Ninglian, Ding Yongjian Regional characteristics of glacier mass balance variations in High Asia, 141 David M. Hannah, Angela M. Gurnell & Glenn R. McGregor Identifying links between large-scale atmospheric circulation and local glacier ablation climates in the French Pyrenees, 155 Anthony Arendt & Martin Sharp Energy balance measurements on a Canadian high Arctic glacier and their implications for mass balance modelling, 165 Ding Yongjian, Liu Shiyin, Ye Baisheng & Zhou Wenjuan Variations of glacier mass balance and their climatic implications over the Northern Hemisphere during the past 40 years, 173 Liu Shiyin, Wang Ninglian, Ding Yongjian & Xie Zichu On the characteristics of glacier fluctuations during the last 30 years in the Urumqi River basin and the estimation of temperature rise in the high mountain area, 181 Liu Jingshi, Yoshihiro Fukushima, Tetsuya Hiyama Hydrological response of meltwater from glacier covered mountain basins to climate change in northwest China, 193 Han Jiankang, Xie Zichu, Wen Jiahong, Kang Jiancheng, Zhu Guocai, Jin Xiaoping & Gao Xinsheng Mass balance study on Collins Ice Cap, King George Island, Antarctica: spatial and temporal variations, 209 Ye Baisheng, Ding Yongjian, Shi Yafeng & Zheng Benxing A study of the climate and the environment during the last glacial maximum in western China, 217 Yao Tandong High resolution climatic record from Tibetan ice cores, 227 Chemical Processes in the Cryosphere H. G. Jones, E. van Bochove & N. Bertrand The transmission of soil gases through seasonal snow cover: an experiment to determine the diffusivity of N2O in snow in situ, 237 Zhang Xinping, Yao Tandong & Tian Lide The distributional features of d18O in modern-day precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau, 245 Zhang Xinping, Yao Tandong & Xie Zichu The relationship between d 18O in an ice core from the Dasuopu Glacier, Tibetan Plateau, and large scale ocean– atmosphere interactions, 251 Andy Hodson & Martyn Tranter Contemporary CO2 drawdown by glacial meltwater fluxes from high Arctic Svalbard, 259 I. W. Jones, G. Munhoven & M. Tranter Comparative fluxes of HCO3- and Si from glaciated and non-glaciated terrain during the last deglaciation, 267 Guy Munhoven Carbon dioxide consumption and bicarbonate production rates by continental weathering at the LGM and at presentday—an update, 273 Sustainable Reservoir Development and Management (251) Edited by Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Mike Hamlin, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Dan Rosbjerg & Slobodan P. Simonovic CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1.1 Objective , 1 1.2 Background and scope , 1 1.3 Current status of reservoirs, 4 1.3.1 Number, size and shape of reservoirs K. Takeuchi, 4 1.3.2 Land efficiency discussion of large reservoirs K. Takeuchi & S. P. Simonovic, 7 1.3.3 Reservoir sedimentation K. Takeuchi, 9 1.3.4 Factors controlling the future needs of reservoirs K. Takeuchi & S. P. Simonovic, 10 1.4 Critiques of present reservoirs 1.4.1 Introduction, 14 1.4.2 Environmental effects of reservoir construction, 16 1.4.3 Socio-cultural and institutional problems, 20 1.4.4 Problems related to the use of reservoirs, 22 1.4.5 Concluding remarks, 25 CHAPTER 2. Sustainability and Reservoirs 2.1 Notions of sustainable development, 31 2.1.1 Introduction K. Takeuchi & Z. W. Kundzewicz, 31 2.1.2 Sustainable development: perspective of WCED and UNCED K. Takeuchi & Z. W. Kundzewicz, 31 2.1.3 Indicators of sustainability Z. W. Kundzewicz, 36 2.1.4 Follow-up discussions of sustainable development K. Takeuchi, S. P. Simonovic & Z. W. Kundzewicz, 37 2.2 Sustainable development and management in the reservoir context, 43 2.2.1 Introduction, 43 2.2.2 Integrated water resources management, 44 2.2.3 Notion of multiple objectives, 47 2.2.4 Risk- and uncertainty-related considerations, 51 2.2.5 Systems view , 54 2.2.6 Sustainability criteria for possible use in reservoir analysis, 55 2.2.7 Rationale of the checklist for sustainable reservoir development and management, 58 CHAPTER 3. Comparative Assessment of Reservoirs with Non-reservoir Alternatives 3.1 Introduction, 63 3.2 Multipurpose reservoirs versus alternatives, 64 3.2.1 Water demand and supply, 66 3.2.2 Energy, 72 3.2.3 Flood control, 76 3.2.4 Other purposes, 77 CHAPTER 4. Design and Management of Reservoirs 4.1 Introduction, 81 4.1.1 Structure of the chapter, 81 4.1.2 Dimensions of reservoir analyses, 82 4.2 Hydrological input for reservoir design and management, 84 4.2.1 Time series analysis of reservoir inflows , 84 4.2.2 Use of inflow forecasts for efficient management of reservoirs, 89 4.3 Methodological contributions to the design and management of sustainable reservoirs, 95 4.3.1 New method for the design of a sustainable reservoir, 95 4.3.2 Methodology for reassessment of existing reservoirs, 106 4.3.3 Methodology for net benefit allocation for reservoir redevelopment., 112 4.3.4 The least marginal environmental impact (LMEI) rule for reservoir sizing , 120 CHAPTER 5. Case Studies 5.1 Introduction, 129 5.2 The Alta hydropower development scheme, 130 5.2.1 Introduction to the Alta case, 130 5.2.2 The river, 130 5.2.3 Undercurrents in society, 132 5.2.4 The Alta hydropower scheme, 134 5.2.5 "The Alta affair", 136 5.2.6 Impacts of reservoir development, 138 5.2.7 Design and management of reservoirs, 140 5.2.8 Comparative assessment of the reservoir with non-reservoir alternatives, 141 5.2.9 Sustainability issues, 141 5.3 Aswan High Dam, 142 5.3.1 Introduction to the Aswan case study, 142 5.3.2 Inundation of populated areas, 144 5.3.3 Sedimentation problems, 147 5.3.4 Conclusion on the Aswan case study, 150 5.4 Management of annual peak flows to restore aquatic resources in Green River, Utah 5.4.1 Introduction to the Green River case study, 151 5.4.2 Historical development of Colorado River basin water resources, 153 5.4.3 Hydrology of the Green River basin, 155 5.4.4 Ecological and geomorphological alteration of the Green River, 161 5.4.5 Anticipated benefits of increased flood magnitude and duration, 163 5.4.6 Conflicts and opportunities for increased flooding, 164 5.4.7 Conclusion on the Green River case study, 166 5.5 Projects undertaken to achieve sustainable development of dam reservoirs in Japan, 167 5.5.1 Introduction to the Japanese reservoir policy, 167 5.5.2 Projects related to sustainable development of reservoirs, 167 5.5.3 Legal arrangements for social impacts of dam construction projects, 169 5.5.4 Water quality conservation measures for dam reservoirs, 170 5.5.5 Rehabilitation of an existing reservoir, 171 5.5.6 Improvement of the management and operation of dam reservoirs, 173 5.5.7 Regional promotion and regional planning centred around dams, 174 5.5.8 Other issues, 177 5.5.9 Conclusion on the Japanese study, 178 5.6 Concluding remarks on the case studies, 179 CHAPTER 6. Checklists and Concluding Remarks 6.1 Checklists for sustainable reservoir development and management, 183 6.2 Concluding remarks, 187 Water Resources Variability in Africa during the XXth Century. (252) Edited by Eric Servat, Denis Hughes, Jean-Marie Fritsch & Mike Hulme Variability of rainfall regimes ("Meteorological" point of view) Arona Diedhiou, Henri Laurent, Serge Janicot & Alain Viltard Approche composite de la variabilité synoptique atmosphérique en Afrique de l’ouest et relation avec les précipitations, 3 Jamie V. Kousky, Wassila M. Thiaw & Robert C. Levy Variations in satellite-derived precipitation estimates and atmospheric circulation over Africa, 11 Peter J. Lamb, Michael A. Bell & Jonathon D. Finch Variability of Sahelian disturbance lines and rainfall during 1951–1987, 19 Marybeth Long, Dara Entekhabi & Sharon E. Nicholson Interannual variability in rainfall, water vapour flux, and vertical motion over West Africa, 27 Isabelle Poccard, Pierre Camberlin, Yves Richard & Pascal Roucou Connexions des TSO du Pacifique et de l’Atlantique avec la dynamique atmosphérique et la pluviométrie en Afrique boréale, 35 Jacques Servain, Ilana Wainer, Alain Dessier & Julian P. McCreary Jr Modes of climatic variability in the tropical Atlantic, 45 El Houssein Taleb & Hugo Decleir Upper air characteristics of wet and dry days in tropical West Africa during the rainy season, 55 Wassila M. Thiaw, Jamie V. Kousky & Vadlamani Kumar Atmospheric circulation associated with recent Sahelian hydrologic anomalies, 63 Variability of rainfall regimes ("Hydrological" point of view) Sylvain Bigot, Vincent Moron, Jean-Luc Melice, Eric Servat & Jean-Emmanuel Paturel Fluctuations pluviométriques et analyse fréquentielle de la pluviosité en Afrique centrale, 71 Mostafa El Hamly, Rachid Sebbari, Peter J. Lamb, M. Neil Ward & Diane H. Portis Towards the seasonal prediction of Moroccan precipitation and its implications for water resources management, 79 Luc Ferry, Yann L’Hôte & Anna Wesselink Les précipitations dans le sud-ouest de Madagascar, 89 Françoise Gasse Water resources variability in tropical and subtropical Africa in the past, 97 Sharon E. Nicholson Interannual and interdecadal variability of rainfall over the African continent during the last two centuries, 107 Fredrick H. M. Semazzi, Laban Ogallo, Filippo Giorgi & Liqiang Sun Numerical simulations of intraseasonal, interannual and interdecadal climate variability over Africa, 117 Henry M. Sichingabula Rainfall variability, drought and implications of its impacts on Zambia, 1886–1996, 125 Olga Smakhtina Historical changes in rainfall pattern in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, 135 J. D. Taupin, A. Amani & T. Lebel Variabilité spatiale des pluies au Sahel: une question d’échelles. 1. Approche expérimentale, 143 T. Lebel, A. Amani & J. D. Taupin Variabilité spatiale des pluies au Sahel: une question d’échelles. 2. Modélisation, 153 Variability of flow regimes F. A. K. Farquharson & J. V. Sutcliffe Regional variations of African river flows, 161 Alain Laraque, Didier Orange, Bienvenu Maziezoula & Jean-Claude Olivry Origine des variations de débits du Congo à Brazzaville durant le XXème siècle, 171 Sharon E. Nicholson & Xungang Yin Variations of African lakes during the last two centuries, 181 J.-C. Olivry, J. P. Bricquet & G. Mahé Variabilité de la puissance des crues des grands cours d’eau d’Afrique intertropicale et incidence de la baisse des écoulements de base au cours des deux dernières décennies, 189 Taha B. M. J. Ouarda, Bernard Bobée & Peter Rasmussen Etude de la variabilité spatiale des régimes hydrologiques: comparaison de différents modèles d’homogénéité régionale, 199 Soussou Sambou & Claude Thirriot Effet de la variabilité du régime hydrologique du Fleuve Sénégal sur la prévision des crues: application du filtre de Kalman, 207 Luc Sigha-Nkamdjou, Daniel Sighomnou, Gaston Lienou, Gaspard Ayissi, J. Pierre Bedimo & Emmanuel Naah Variabilité des régimes hydrologiques des cours d’eau de la bande méridionale du plateau sud-camerounais, 215 Rainfall–runoff relationship Farid Achour, Mahmoud Bouzelboudjen & Serge A. Pieyns Variabilité spatio-temporelle des ressources en eau en région semi-aride: application au bassin du Chelif, Algérie, 225 Eric Barrett, Michael Beaumont, Malcolm Taberner & Andrea Wilmshurst Multisource monitoring of rainfall and surface water balance over the humid tropical zone of West Africa, 235 D. Conway, N. Brooks, K. R. Briffa & P. D. Merrin Historical climatology and dendroclimatology in the Blue Nile River basin, northern Ethiopia, 243 Guillaume Favreau & Christian Leduc Fluctuations à long terme de la nappe phréatique du Continental Terminal près de Niamey (Niger) entre 1956 et 1997, 253 Robert Gallaire, Jean-Denis Taupin, Anne Coudrain-Ribstein,Gian-Maria Zuppi & Annick Filly Variabilité spatiale de la qualité des masses d’air précipitantes en Afrique de l’ouest: l’expérience Bénin-Niger, 259 P. Hubert, E. Servat, J.-E. Paturel, B. Kouame, H. Bendjoudi, J.-P. Carbonnel & H. Lubès-Niel La procédure de segmentation, dix ans après, 267 Mark R. Jury Forecasting water resources in South Africa, 275 Christian Leduc, Ousseini Salifou & Marc Leblanc Evolution des ressources en eau dans le département de Diffa (bassin du lac Tchad, sud-est nigérien), 281 Gil Mahé, Robert Dessouassi, Bandia Cissoko & Jean-Claude Olivry Comparaison des fluctuations interannuelles de piézométrie, précipitation et débit sur le bassin versant du Bani à Douna au Mali, 289 Fekadu Moreda & Willy Bauwens Influences of variability of rainfall on flow regimes in central Ethiopia, 297 Y. Opoku-Ankomah & B. A. Amisigo Rainfall and runoff variability in the southwestern river system of Ghana, 307 M. Ouédraogo, E. Servat, J.-E. Paturel, H. Lubès-Niel & J. M. Masson Caractérisation d’une modification éventuelle de la relation pluie–débit autour des années 1970 en Afrique de l’ouest et centrale non sahélienne, 315 Eric Servat, Jean-Emmanuel Paturel, Brou Kouamé, Michel Travaglio, Mahaman Ouédraogo, Jean-François Boyer, Hélène Lubès-Niel, Jean-Marie Fritsch, Jean-Marie Masson & Bertrand Marieu Identification, caractérisation et conséquences d’une variabilité hydrologique en Afrique de l’ouest et centrale, 323 Vladimir Smakhtin, Denis Hughes & Olga Smakhtina Generating natural daily flow sequences for South African rivers from historical flow data, 339 Baxter E. Vieux, Jonathan P. Looper, Bernard Cappelaere, Christophe Peugeot & Ana Maia Exploring climatic impacts on water resources in west Niger, Africa, 347 Human activities–environment relationship Mariam Akhtar Rainfall variability and desertification, 357 Telesphore Brou Yao, Eric Servat & Jean-Emmanuel Paturel Activités humaines et variabilité climatique: cas du sud forestier ivoirien, 365 Jean-Christophe Desconnets, Amadou Diallo, Oumar Traore, Jean-Michel Chene & Guy Morin Exemple d’application du modèle CEQUEAU-ONU: évaluation de l’impact des aménagements sur les écoulements de la rivière Nakambé, Burkina-Faso, 375 Alain Dezetter, Sibiri Traore & Karim Bicaba Gestion intégrée et variabilité des ressources en eau dans le sud-ouest du Burkina Faso, 387 Jean-Marie Fritsch & Eric Servat Conditions de l’amélioration de la connaissance des ressources et des usages de l’eau pour la gestion durable dans un contexte de rareté croissante, 395 Frieder Hetzel & Gerhard Gerold The water cycle of a moist deciduous rain forest and a cocoa plantation in Côte d’Ivoire, 411 Denis Hughes & Vladimir Smakhtin Simulating the impacts of land-use change on streamflow time series for southern African rivers, 419 Mike Hulme The sensitivity of Sahel rainfall to global warming: implications for scenario analysis of future climate change impact, 429 Housseini Amadou Maiga Effets des sécheresses et étiages dans le bassin moyen du fleuve Niger au Mali, 437 Serge A. Pieyns & John L. Bassier WHYCOS en Afrique: un outil pour la connaissance et le développement des ressources en eau, 445 Guido Van Langenhove, Maria Amakali & Barbara De Bruine Variability of flow regimes in Namibian rivers: natural and human induced causes, 455 Impact of Land-Use Change on Nutrient Loads from Diffuse Sources (257) Edited by Louise Heathwaite Small scale field studies of land-use impact on water quality Neil Preedy, Phil Haygarth, Rachel Matthews & Louise Heathwaite Simplified classification of hydrological terminology for phosphorus transfer, 3 Kazimierz Banasik, J. Kent Mitchell, Sharyl E. Walker & Elzbieta Rudzka Comparison of nutrient outputs from two lowland watersheds with different agricultural practices, 13 P. J. Chapman, A. C. Edwards, B. Reynolds & C. Neal The nitrogen composition of streams draining grassland and forested catchments: influence of afforestation on the nitrogen cycle in upland ecosystems, 17 U. C. Sharma Loss of nitrogen through leaching and runoff from two potato land-use systems on different soils, 27 J. Kent Mitchell, Sharyl E. Walker, Michael C. Hirschi & Richard A. C. Cooke Nitrate losses under various cropping systems, 33 P. J. A. Withers, R. M. Dils & R. A. Hodgkinson Transfer of phosphorus from small agricultural basins with variable soil types and land use, 41 T. Tischner Investigations of phosphorus leaching from sandy soil, 51 R. M. Dils & A. L. Heathwaite Phosphorus transport from diffuse agricultural sources: shallow subsurface pathways in grassland soils, 57 Regional scale monitoring studies of land-use impact on water quality Makoto Taniguchi & Norio Tase Nutrient discharge by groundwater and rivers into Lake Biwa, Japan, 67 Harvey J. E. Rodda, Robert J. Wilcock, Ude Shankar & Bruce S. Thorrold The effects of intensive dairy farming on stream water quality in New Zealand, 75 Norman E. 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Mass and Energy Balance The influence of a debris cover on the mid-summer discharge of Dome Glacier, Canadian Rocky Mountains Leif Eric Mattson 25 Mass balance of adjacent debris-covered and clean glacier ice in the North Cascades, Washington Mauri S. Pelto 35 Dust influence on the melting process of glacier ice: experimental results from Lirung Glacier, Nepal Himalayas Sunil Adhikary, Masayoshi Nakawo, Katsumoto Seko & Binod Shakya 43 Characteristics of ablation and heat balance in debris-free and debris-covered areas on Khumbu Glacier, Nepal Himalayas, in the pre-monsoon season Yukari Takeuchi, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha & Masayoshi Nakawo 53 Influence of a fine debris layer on the melting of snow and ice on a Himalayan glacier Pratap Singh, Naresh Kumar, K. S. 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Kirkbride 227 Shrinkage of the Khumbu Glacier, east Nepal from 1978 to 1995 Tsutomu Kadota, Katsumoto Seko, Tatsuto Aoki, Shuji Iwata & Satoru Yamaguchi 235 Numerical simulation of recent shrinkage of Khumbu Glacier, Nepal Himalayas Nozomu Naito, Masayoshi Nakawo, Tsutomu Kadota & Charles F. Raymond 245 Steady-state flow model of debris-covered glaciers (rock glaciers) Sarah K. Konrad & Neil F. Humphrey 255 6. Biology and Hydrology Effect of debris cover on species composition of living organisms in supraglacial lakes on a Himalayan glacier Nozomu Takeuchi & Shiro Kohshima 267 Seasonal changes in dissolved chemical composition and flux of meltwater draining from Lirung Glacier in the Nepal Himalayas Maya P. 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Simmons 28 Long-term effect of wastewater irrigation on nitrate in groundwater in the North China Plain Changyuan Tang, Jianyao Chen & Yuanjun Shen 34 Treated urban wastewater re-use for irrigation of a golf course and impacts on soil and groundwater Lucila Candela, Salvador Fabregat & Alejandro Josa 41 Conservation of water resources in Berlin, Germany, through different re-use of water Birgit Fritz, Stephanie Rinck-Pfeiffer, Gunnar Nuetzmann & Bernd Heinzmann 48 Determination of water quality improvements due to the artificial recharge of treated effluent Simon Toze, Jon Hanna, Tony Smith, Lindsay Edmonds & Adrian McCrow 53 The Nutrient Export Risk Matrix (NERM) for strategic application of biosolids to agricultural land Louise Heathwaite, Sean Burke & Paul Quinn 61 Pathogen survival in groundwater during artificial recharge Simon Toze 70 Fate and transport of organic constituents during groundwater recharge using water of impaired quality Jörg E. Drewes 85 Variation of chemical species in infiltrating treated sewage water using the multi-component solute transport model Gingging Guerra, Kenji Jinno & Yoshinari Hiroshiro 92 Saturated modelling of effluent recharge and its impact on groundwater quality Shutang Zhu, Gang Zhao, Keke Peng & Yuanle Ma 100 Scales in Hydrology and Water Management (287) Edited by Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia, Mike Bonell & Pierre Hubert Multiscale information management and decision tools for effective water resource management Anthony M. Saracino, Jean-Pierre Delhomme & Robert A. Will Scale appropriate modelling: from mechanisms to management Paul F. Quinn, Caspar J. M. Hewett & Aidan Doyle Le bassin versant, nouvelle échelle de gestion des eaux au Brésil Rosa Maria Formiga Johnsson Multiscale approaches to watershed management: land-use impacts on nutrient and sediment dynamics Hans Schreier & Sandra Brown Scaling soil moisture for hydrological models Alain Pietroniro, Eric D. Soulis & N. 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Potter 178 Pollutant runoff under wet weather conditions from diffuse pollution in an urban area Masato Noguchi, Nobuki Morio, Wataru Nishida & Masakazu Furue 185 On-site stormwater detention as an alternative flood control measure in ultra-urban environments in developing countries Flavio Cesar Borba Mascarenhas, Marcelo Gomes Miguez, Luiz Paulo Canedo de Magalhães & Jorge Henrique Alves Prodanoff 196 A 3-copula function application for design hyetograph analysis Salvatore Grimaldi, Francesco Serinaldi, Francesco Napolitano & Lucio Ubertini 203 Strategy to allow the inspection of the deep drainage system of Mexico City H. Leonardo Cisneros-Iturbe & Ramón Domínguez-Mora 212 A rainwater harvesting information system for Chennai City, India G. Ravikumar, V. Harish Kumaar, N. G. Anuthaman & K. 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Safty 264 Indicators of the state of urban water bodies Sergei Kondratyev, Natalia Ignatyeva, Tatyana Gronskaya, Galina Alyabina & Lyudmila Efremova 273 Effects of urbanization on water resource development and its problems in Shijiazhuang, China Yanjun Shen, Changyuan Tang, Jieying Xiao, Taikan Oki & Shinjiro Kanae 280 Use of Principal Component Analysis in determining the relationships between flow and water quality parameters 289 Hamza Ozguler Urbanization effects on the groundwater status of Delhi, India H. Chandrasekharan, S. G. Tadi, A. Sarangi, S. M. Trivedi, B. R. 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Mariсo, 221 Flood forecasting by Coupling Cluster method and Artificial Neural Networks Yin Xiongrui, Xia Jun & Zhang Xiang, 228 Ecological impacts of water resources utilization in the Tarim River Basin of China Chen Yaning, Hao Xinming, Li Weihong & Xu Changchun, 236 Evolution of property rights in groundwater irrigation system and food-water security in Haihe basin, China Hao Li, Xia Jun & Jinxia Wang, 244 Forest hydrology project (UFSC–MOBASA) for water resources management in Rio Negrinho City, Santa Catarina, Brazil Masato Kobiyama, Tatiane Checchia, Claudia W. Corseuil, Joгo F. L. Lino, Nadia H. Y. Lopes, Fernando Grison, Pedro L. B. 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Hermans, 276 Blue Nile flow sensitivity to projected climatic change until 2100 Rizwan Nawaz & Timothy Bellerby, 284 Quantitative analysis of human impact on river runoff in west Liaohe basin through the conceptual Xin’anjiang model Liliang Ren, Vu Van Nghi, Fei Yuan, Chunhong Li & Jixin Wang, 295 Impacts of water pollution and shortage on the economic development of the Haihe River basin Huang Hao & Xia Jun, 303 A water balance approach to indicate effects of man-made enhanced greenhouse warming on groundwater recharge in the Kalahari Heike Wanke, Ulrike Beyer, Armin Dьnkeloh & Peter Udluft, 310 Socio-economic activities and the balance between water resource supply and demand in the Yellow River basin, China Akio Onishi, Hidefumi Imura, Ji Han, Feng Shi & Yoshihiro Fukushima, 320 SOIL-VEGETATION-ATMOSPHERE TRANSFER SCHEMES AND LARGESCALE HYDROLOGICAL MODELS (270) Edited by A. J. Dolman, A. J. Hall, M. L. Kavvas, T. Oki & J. W. Pomeroy General SVAT Modelling Relative influence of vertical and horizontal processes in large-scale water and energy balance modelling Eleanor Blyth 3 The representation of the seasonal hydrological cycle in a regional climate model in west Europe A. J. Dolman, M. Soet, B. J. J. M. Van Den Hurk, R. J. M. Ijpelaar & R. J. Ronda 11 Hydrological simulation by SiB2-Paddy in the Chao Phraya River basin, Thailand Wonsik Kim, Yasushi Agata, Shinjiro Kanae, Taikan Oki & Katumi Musiake 19 A framework for coupling atmospheric and hydrological models Alain Pietroniro, Eric D. Soulis, Ken Snelgrove & Nick Kouwen 27 Regional mechanistic estimations of sugar-cane water use Angel Utset & Gilberto Lopez 35 A bucket with a bottom hole (BBH) model of soil hydrology Tetsuo Kobayashi, Shuh Matsuda, Hideyuki Nagai & Jun’ichi Tesima 41 Impact of soil moisture movement schemes in a SVATS on the global climate of an AGCM Tosiyuki Nakaegawa & Masato Sugi 47 Estimation model for litter moisture content ratio on forest floor Koji Tamai 53 Development of the evaporation component for the physically-based distributed tank model Zongxue Xu, Jingyu Li & Kazumasa Ito 59 SVAT and Precipitation Runoff Modelling Application of a land surface model for studying the role of boreal spruce forest in land surface–atmosphere interactions Olga N. Nasonova & Yeugeniy M. Gusev 65 Investigating the ability of a land surface model to simulate runoff on a large river basin scale Yeugeniy M. Gusev & Olga N. Nasonova 73 Large-scale modelling and spatial heterogeneity of landscape characteristics—experience from the Upper Danube River basin Joachim Geyer & Andreas H. Schumann 81 Toward improved parameter estimation of land surface hydrology models through the Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX) John Schaake, Qingyun Duan, Victor Koren & Alan Hall 91 Hydrological modelling of the Mekong River basin Geoff Kite A distributed dynamic parameters inverse model for rainfall–runoff Li Lan 99 103 Sub-grid runoff processes and hydrological modelling in the subarctic Canadian Shield Christopher Spence 113 Parameter Estimation for Large-Scale Hydrological Models An analysis of the variation in hydrological conditions in the Korean peninsula due to global warming Yong Nam Yoon, Jae Soo Lee, Chulsang Yoo & Jae Hyun Ahn 119 Expanding distributed hydrological modelling to the continental scale Dawen Yang, Shinjiro Kanae, Taikan Oki & Katumi Musiake 125 A physically-based rainfall–runoff model and distributed dynamic hybrid control inverse technique Li Lan 135 Calibration of a global hydrological model against measured discharge Petra Döll, Frank Kaspar & Bernhard Lehner 143 Using conceptual hydrological modelling to develop better sub-grid variability in the Rossby Centre Regional Atmospheric Model L. Phil Graham, Göran Lindström, Björn Bringfelt, Marie Gardelin, Stefan Gollvik, Sten Bergström & Patrick Samuelsson 151 Daily river discharge prediction using GCM generated atmospheric data A. W. Jayawardena & S. P. P. Mahanama 159 A semi-distributed hydrological model and its application in a macroscale basin in China Shenglian Guo, Jinxing Wang & Jin Yang 167 Parameterization of sub-grid effects in a large-scale hydrological model Lev Kuchment 175 A completely-formed distributed rainfall–runoff model for the catchment scale Huaxia Yao & Michio Hashino 183 Coupled regional-scale hydrological–atmospheric model for the study of climate impact on Japan Junichi Yoshitani, M. L. Kavvas & Z.-Q. Chen 191 Spatially-distributed snowmelt, water balance and streamflow modelling for a large mountainous catchment: Boise River, Idaho, USA David C. Garen, Joachim Geyer, Andreas H. Schumann & Danny Marks 199 Influence de la nature et de l’origine des données sur la modélisation hydrologique de grands bassins versants en Afrique de l’Ouest M. Ouedraogo, J. E. Paturel, G. Mahé, E. Servat, A. Dezetter & D. Conway 209 Data Assimilation in Large-Scale Hydrological Models Improved conditioning of SVAT models with observations of infrared surface temperatures M. F. McCabe, S. W. Franks & J. D. Kalma 217 Thermal remote sensing of the land surface for numerical weather prediction models S. W. Franks, S. R. McKee, J. D. Kalma, B. J. J. M. Van den Hurk & Yaping Shao 225 Contribution of satellite and lightning data to convective rainfall frequency analysis Maria Helena Ramos, Stephane Sénési, Jean-Dominique Creutin & Christophe Morel 233 Modelling the hydrological cycle of river basins using high resolution satellite information E. L. Muzylev & A. B. Uspensky 241 Assimilation of soil moisture in a hydrological model for flood forecasting A. Weisse, C. Michel, D. Aubert & C. Loumagne 249 Directives for 4-D soil moisture data assimilation in hydrological modelling E. E. van Loon & P. A. Troch 257 Incidence de l’incertitude pluviométrique sur la modélisation pluie–débit Radhia M’Chirgui, Zoubeida Bargaoui & András Bárdossy 269 Daytime long-wave radiation approximation for physical hydrological modelling of snowmelt: a case study of southwestern Ontario S. R. Fassnacht, K. R. Snelgrove & E. D. Soulis 279 Large-scale mapping of leaf area index using remote sensing data Takashi Ishii, Makoto Nashimoto & Hisashi Shimogaki 287 Regional extrapolation of meteorological data in a distributed hydrological model Vladimir Konovalov 291 Snow–Vegetation Interaction Snow vegetation interactions: issues for a new initiative J. W. Pomeroy, P. Höller, P. Marsh, D. A.Walker & M. Williams 299 The impact of the representation of soil–vegetation–atmosphere interaction upon snow processes E. A. Kowalczyk & J. L. McGregor 307 Interactions of shrubs and snow in arctic tundra: measurements and models Joseph P. McFadden, Glen E. Liston, Matthew Sturm, Roger A. Pielke, Sr & F. Stuart Chapin, III 317 Hydrological modelling of river ice processes in cold regions Xieyao Ma, Yoshihiro Fukushima & Tetsuo Ohata 327 Estimating subsurface drainage from organic-covered hillslopes underlain by permafrost: toward a combined heat and mass flux model W. L. Quinton & D. M. Gray 333 Sublimation of snow intercepted by coniferous forest canopies in a climate model Richard Essery & John Pomeroy 343 Spatial fields of meteorological input data including forest canopy corrections for an energy budget snow simulation model David C. Garen & Danny Marks 349 Snow gliding and avalanches in a south-facing larch stand Peter Höller 355 The phenology of four subalpine herbs in relation to snow cover characteristics Christian Rixen, Veronika Stoeckli, Christine Huovinen & Kai Huovinen 359 A new possible site to study the effects of climate warming on tundra ecosystems: the Giant Mountains, Czech Republic Milena Kocianova & Helena Štursova 363 PREDICTIONS IN UNGAUGED BASINS: International Perspectives on the State of the Art and Pathways Forward(301) Edited by Stewart Franks, Murugesu Sivapalan, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi & Yasuto Tachikawa International Perspectives on PUB and Pathways Forward: Outcomes of the Perth PUB Workshop (Full Text) Murugesu Sivapalan, Stewart W. Franks, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi & Yasuto Tachikawa National, Regional and Global Perspectives on PUB Hydrology as a Policy-Relevant Science in Japan and Monsoon Asia Kuniyoshi Takeuchi Chinese Perspectives on PUB and the Working Group Initiative Dawen Yang, Chong Li, Baisheng Ye, Heping Hu, Hong Zhang, Zhiyu Liu & Jun Xia Australian Perspectives on Predictions in Ungauged Basins Thomas A. McMahon Some Perspectives on Hydrological Prediction and the Role of PUB Dennis P. Lettenmaier Nature of Hydrological Predictions: Floods, Droughts, Sediments and Water Quality Drought and Water Resources Management in Japan Akira Kawamura & Yasuhisa Kuzuha Flood Prediction in Japan and the Need for Guidelines for Flood Runoff Modelling Yasuto Tachikawa, Roshan K. Shrestha & Takahiro Sayama Current Issues and Research on Sediment Movement in the River Catchments of Japan Yutaka Ichikawa Flood and Drought Risk in Eastern Australia Stewart W. Franks Can We Predict Decadal Changes in Southern Hemisphere Climate? Scott Power, Rob Colman, Xiandong Wang & Pandora Hope Towards Better Prediction of Water Quality in Ungauged Basins John Bradd New Data Sources and New Approaches for Hydrological Modelling Standing Back Looking Forward: Role of Satellite Remote Sensing in the Predictions of Ungauged Basins Venkat Lakshmi New Directions for Top-Down Modelling: Introducing the PUB Top-Down Modelling Working Group David A. Post, Ian G. Littlewood & Barry F. Croke Derivation of Closure Relations and Commensurate State Variables for Meso-scale Models Using the REW Approach Erwin Zehe, Haksu Lee & Murugesu Sivapalan Representative Elementary Watershed (REW) Approach: A New Blueprint for Distributed Hydrological Modelling at the Catchment Scale Haksu Lee, Murugesu Sivapalan & Erwin Zehe Approaches Towards Greater Process Understanding and Integration The Need for a Virtual Hydrologic Laboratory for PUB Eric F. Wood, Jan Boll, Patrick Bogaart & Peter A. Troch A Perspective on Hillslope Hydrology in the Context of PUB Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Brian McGlynn, Kellie Vache & Ilja Tromp-van Meerveld An Interdisciplinary and Hierarchical Approach to the Study and Management of River Ecosystems Martin C. Thoms Dynamics and Optimality in Coupled Terrestrial Energy, Water, Carbon and Nutrient Cycles Michael R. Raupach Simplicity, Complexity and Scale in Terrestrial Biosphere Modelling Michael R. Raupach, Damian J. Barrett, Peter R. Briggs & J. Mac Kirby Towards Reduction of Uncertainty on MEDCLUB (MEDiterranean CLimate Ungauged Basins) Mauro Fiorentino & Vito Iacobellis Uncertainty Estimation and Model Identification Physical-Statistical Models for Predictions in Ungauged Basins Edward P. Campbell A Bayesian View of Rainfall–Runoff Modelling: Alternatives for Parameter Estimation, Model Comparison and Hierarchical Model Development Ashish Sharma, Lucy Marshall & David Nott PUB as Robust State Estimation John P. Norton PREDICTION IN UNGAUGED BASINS: Promise and Progress (303) Murugesu Sivapalan, Thorsten Wagener, Stefan Uhlenbrook, Erwin Zehe, Venkat Lakshmi, Xu Liang, Yasuto Tachikawa & Praveen Kumar Model Improvements Through Detailed Process Studies Hydrological conceptual models of two Haute-Mentue subcatchments through environmental tracing and TDR soil moisture measurements Daniela Balin, Christophe Joerin & André Musy Identification of flow pathways along hillslopes using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) Stefan Uhlenbrook & Jochen Wenninger Using factor analysis and end-member mixing techniques to infer sources of runoff generation Corinna Abesser, Ruth Robinson & Chris Soulsby Process-based strategies for model structural improvement and reduction of model prediction uncertainty Kellie B. Vaché & Jeffrey J. Mcdonnell Analysis of process controls on streamflow response in an Australian tropical catchment Laura Montanari, Murugesu Sivapalan & Alberto Montanari Evaluation of a grid-based distributed hydrological model over a large area Victor Koren, Fekadu Moreda, Seann Reed, Michael Smith & Ziya Zhang PAI-OFF: a new strategy for online flood forecasting in mountainous catchments J. Cullmann, G. H. Schmitz & W. Görner Model Evaluation and Comparison: Uncertainty Analysis and Diagnostics Thorsten Wagener 7 15 21 30 38 47 57 69 72 Water resources estimation in less developed regions—issues of uncertainty associated with a lack of data Denis A. Hughes Evaluating uncertainty in modelled sediment delivery in data-sparse environments: application to the Mae Chaem Catchment, Thailand David A. Post & Michael G. Hartcher Bayesian kriging and GLUE applied to estimation of uncertainty due to precipitation representation in hydrological modelling Luciano Nobrega Rodrigues Xavier, Afonso Augusto Araujo De Magalhaes & Otto Correa Rotunno Filho Evaluation of water quantity and quality modelling in ungauged European basins Berit Arheimer Identification of a river water quality model and assessment of data information content Michael Rode & Gunter Wriedt Influence of rating curve uncertainty on daily rainfall–runoff model predictions Giuseppe T. Aronica, Angela Candela, Francesco Viola, & Marcella Cannarozzo Parameterization of frozen ground effects: sensitivity to soil properties Victor Koren The Multi-Model approach to rainfall–runoff modelling Adam M. Wyatt & Stewart W. Franks Hydrological model evaluation and comparison through uncertainty recognition and quantification Shen Chiang, Yasuto Tachikawa & Kaoru Takara Evaluation of the Xinanjiang model structure by observed discharge and gauged soil moisture data in the HUBEX/GAME Project Liliang Ren, Qiong Huang, Fei Yuan, Jixin Wang, Jing Xu, Zhongbo Yu & Xinren Liu Multi-objective conditioning of a SVAT model for heat and CO2 fluxes prediction Xingguo Mo, Suxia Liu, Zhonghui Lin, Xiaomin Sun & Zhilin Zhu Uncertainty propagation in a sequential model for flood forecasting Renata J. Romanowicz, Keith J. Beven & Peter C. Young New Data Collection, Approaches and Model Development Venkat Lakshmi 80 90 99 108 116 125 134 145 153 164 177 185 187 Role of spatial aggregation over runoff calculations on southeast France catchments Nabil J. Eid, Flavie Cernesson, Nathalie Folton & Pascal Kosuth Influence of spatial variability of precipitation in a distributed rainfall–runoff model Tapash Das, András Bárdossy & Erwin Zehe The frequency of precipitation days in the Yangtze River basin Yijin Wu, Stefan Becker, Lorenz King, Hsiang-Te Kung, Tong Jiang, Heike Hartmann & Wenjing Zhu Estimating the potential evapotranspiration over the Yellow River basin by considering the land cover characteristics M. C. Zhou, H. Ishidaira & K. Takeuchi Assimilation of remotely sensed soil saturation levels in conceptual rainfall–runoff models Patrick Matgen, Jean-Baptiste Henry, Lucien Hoffmann & Laurent Pfister Investigation of the effect of a coupled land–atmosphere satellite data assimilation system on land–atmosphere processes Souhail Boussetta,Toshio Koike, Mahadevan Pathmathevan & Kun Yang Hydrological modelling in Amazonia—use of the MGB-IPH model and alternative databases Alfredo Ribeiro Neto, Walter Collischonn, Rui Carlos Vieira Da Silva & Carlos E. M. Tucci A new approach for the numerical modelling of the groundwater flow in the fractured rock massifs Jiří Maryška, Otto Severýn, Miloslav Tauchman & David Tondr PUB and water resources management practises in Nigeria Olusegun Adeaga, Lekan Oyebande & Idowu Balogun Frequency-domain analyses of GPR waveforms: enhancing near-surface observational capabilities Guy Serbin & Dani Or Water level change in wells—a predictor for earthquakes? Joseph Guttman, Akiva Flexer & Annat Yellin-Dror New Modelling Approaches and Methods for Testing Models against Observations 195 204 214 226 235 246 255 267 274 286 291 Erwin Zehe & Yasuto Tachikawa 293 Physically-based model of heat and water transfer in frozen soil and its parameterization by basic soil data Alexander Gelfan Effect of soil shrinkage on runoff generation in micro and mesoscale catchments Falk Lindenmaier, Erwin Zehe, Martin Helms, Oleg Evdakov & Jürgen Ihringer Modelling flood plain vegetation based on long-term simulations of daily river–groundwater dynamics Bruno Büchele, Peter Burek, Ralf Baufeld & Ilona Leyer Indirect assessment of flooding duration as a driving factor of plant diversity in wet grasslands Cyrille Violle, Christophe Cudennec, Manuel Plantegenest, Christian Damgaard, Didier Le Coeur, Jan-Bernard Bouzille & Anne Bonis Effects of conservation tillage on storm flow: a model-based assessment for a mesoscale watershed in Germany Ingo Haag, Annette Luce & Kai Gerlinger Assessing the predictive ability of the spatially distributed conceptual AFFDEF model for a mesoscale catchment Tapash Das, Greta Moretti, András Bárdossy & Alberto Montanari Large basin simulation experience in South America Daniel Gustavo Allasia, Benedito Cláudio da Silva, Walter Collischonn & Carlos Eduardo Morelli Tucci Distributed rainfall–runoff analysis in a flow regulated basin having multiple multi-purpose dams Takahiro Sayama, Yasuto Tachikawa, Kaoru Takara & Yutaka Ichikawa Surface runoff simulation for part of Yewa basin Olusegun Adeaga, Lekan Oyebande & Christian Depraetere Inversion d’une modélisation de type hydrogramme unitaire à base géomorphologique: interprétation physique et première mise en œuvre (Full Text) Houda Boudhraa, Christophe Cudennec, Mohamed Slimani & Herve Andrieu Numerical modelling of water transfer among precipitation, surface water, soil moisture and groundwater Xi Chen, Zhicai Zhang & Yongqin David Chen Disaggregation of upslope catchment area and steepest slope for transferring geomorphometric information across scales Nawa R. Pradhan, Yasuto Tachikawa & Kaoru Takara A multi-level and multi-scale structure of river network geomorphometry with potential implications towards basin hydrology (Full Text) 305 318 334 342 351 360 371 382 391 400 414 422 Christophe Cudennec, Jean-Christophe Pouget, Houda Boudhraa, Mohamed Slimani & Slah Nasri Application of the wavelet transform for analysis of precipitation and runoff time series Celso Augusto G. Santos & Sandra Maria Araújo Ideião Progress in PUB Implementation (PUB Working Groups) 431 441 Murugesu Sivapalan 443 The PUB Top-Down Modelling Working Group (TDWG): initial development and activities Ian G. Littlewood, Barry F. W. Croke & David A. Post Towards an uncertainty framework for predictions in ungauged basins: The Uncertainty Working Group Thorsten Wagener, Jim Freer, Erwin Zehe,Keith Beven, Hoshin V. Gupta & Andras Bardossy MEDCLUB—starting line and first activities Mauro Fiorentino, Domenico Carriero, Vito Iacobellis, Salvatore Manfreda & Ivan Portoghese Groundwater pollution and risks for the coastal environment (southeastern Italy) Maurizio Polemio & Pier Paolo Limoni Canadian PUB planning and implementation Christopher Spence, John W. Pomeroy & Alain Pietroniro Research initiatives in Thailand on Predictions in Ungauged Basins Dushmanta Dutta, Chavalit Chaleeraktrakoon & Saisunee Budhakooncharoen PUB Working Group on Orographic Precipitation, Surface Water and Groundwater Interactions, and their Impacts on Water Resources Xu Liang, L. Ruby Leung, Maoyi Huang, Yun Qian, Mark S. Wigmosta, George B. Matanga & Dave Matthews 454 463 477 487 492 500 IMPACTS OF URBAN GROWTH ON SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATER QUUALITY (259) Edited by J. Bryan Ellis GROUNDWATER: National perspectives S. S. D. Foster, B. L. Morris & P. J. Chilton Groundwater in urban development—a review of linkages and concerns, 3 Frans Van de Ven & Michiel Rijsberman Impact of groundwater on urban development in The Netherlands, 13 Oliver T. N. Sililo Groundwater contamination by organic chemicals in industrializing countries: the unseen threat, 23 Nahed E. El Arabi Problems of groundwater quality related to the urban environment in Greater Cairo, 29 Chung-Ho Wang, Chung-Jung Chiang, Tsung-Ren Peng & Wen-Cheh Liu Deterioration of groundwater quality in the coastal Pingtung Plain, southern Taiwan, 39 R. Ramesh Groundwater quality management: pollution perspectives, 47 GROUNDWATER: Modelling A. Jake Gusman & Miguel A. Mariño Modelling of nitrogen dynamics in the subsurface environment, 59 E. Vázquez-Suñé & X. Sánchez-Vila Groundwater modelling in urban areas as a tool for local authority management: Barcelona case study (Spain), 65 V. V. S. Gurunadha Rao & S. K. Gupta Modelling contamination of a drinking water supply well in the Sabarmati river bed aquifer, Ahmedabad, India, Anna Belousova Ecological indicators and indices of sustainable development, 83 M. Kamrul Hasan, William Burgess & Jane Dottridge The vulnerability of the Dupi Tila aquifer of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 91 V. V. S. Gurunadha Rao, K. Subrahmanyam, P. Yadaiah & R. L. Dhar Assessment of groundwater pollution in the Patancheru Industrial Development Area and its environs, Medak District, Andhra Pradesh, India, 99 M. Chandra Sekhar & K. Karuna Kumar The use of DRASTIC modelling indices for the assessment of groundwater pollution potential, 111 GROUNDWATER: Methodological approaches David N. Lerner, Yuesuo Yang, Mike H. Barrett & John H. Tellam Loadings of non-agricultural nitrogen in urban groundwater, 117 Ian Holman & Robert Palmer Groundwater protection incorporated into land use planning: a study from Cebu City, the Philippines, 125 Chris D. Handley Autopsy of an aquifer: a case study of Al Hayma, Yemen, 133 Anwen J. Hughes, John H. Tellam, John W. Lloyd, Kim A. Stagg, Simon H. Bottrell, Andrew P. Barker & Michael H. Barrett Sulphate isotope signatures in borehole waters from three urban Triassic Sandstone aquifers, UK, 143 Masaya Yasuhara, Kohei Kazahaya, Hiroyuki Higuchi & Toshifumi Ueda A stable carbon isotope study on direct precipitation recharge to the aquifer in the City of Yamagata, northern Japan, Lynda Taylor & Michael Rivett Monitoring solvents in the Birmingham aquifer (UK): 1987, 1998 and on to the next millennium, 161 Giuseppe Capelli, Renato Funiciello, Daniela Iorio & Roberto Salvati Loss of groundwater resources following major quarrying activity in urban areas: the Galeria-Magliana quarry basin (Rome, Italy), 169 GROUNDWATER: Process and case studies Emily Whitehead, Kevin Hiscock & Paul Dennis Evidence for sewage contamination of the Sherwood Sandstone aquifer beneath Liverpool, UK, 179 Matthias Eiswirth, Renke Ohlenbusch & Klaus Schnell Impact of chemical grout injection on urban groundwater, 187 Tullia Bonomi Groundwater level evolution in the Milan area: natural and human issues, 195 C. Subba Rao & N. V. Subba Rao The impact of urban industrial growth on groundwater quality in Visakhapatnam, India, 203 E. Khazai & M. G. Riggi Impact of urbanization on the Khash aquifer, an arid region of southeast Iran, 211 H. K. Ramaraju, M. Venkatachalappa, G. Ranganna, C. Sadashivaiah & N. Manamohan Rao Hazards due to migration of septic tank leakages in peri-urban settlements, 219 R. B. Singh Urban impacts on groundwater quality in the Delhi region, 227 SURFACE WATER: Hydrology and meteorology inputs C. S. B. Grimmond & T. R. Oke Evapotranspiration rates in urban areas, 235 Markus Quirmbach, Gert A. Schultz & Torsten Frehmann Use of weather radar for combined control of an urban drainage system and a sewage treatment plant, 245 Victor E. Chub & Sergey V. Myagkov A model of the flood transformation in the Amudarya River, 251 E. I. Chembarisov & E. I. Chembarisova Contemporary status of surface water quality of the Aral Sea basin, 255 SURFACE WATER: Methodological and source tracing studies Andreas Krein & Reinhard Bierl Identifying major sources of organic micropollutants and heavy metals during flood events in a partly urbanized headwater catchment, 263 Ross A. Sutherland Spatial variation of metals in bed sediments of an urban drainage basin, Hawaii, 269 Norman E. Peters & Stephen J. Kandell Evaluation of stream water quality in Atlanta, Georgia, and the surrounding region (USA), 279 Sergei Kondratyev, Ludmila Efremova, Tatiana Gronskaya & Irina Varfolomeeva Water quality and ecology of water bodies in urban territories: St Petersburg as a case study, 291 SURFACE WATER: Identifying and measuring impacts Nilo Oliveira Nascimento, Márcio Benedito Baptista & Luiz Augusto Kauark-Leite Stormwater management problems in a tropical city – the Belo Horizonte case study, 299 U. Riemann Impacts of urban growth on surface water and groundwater quality in the City of Dessau, Germany, 307 Mervyn Peart Development and water quality in the Kam Tin basin, Hong Kong, 315 E. Pretorius & G. du T. de Villiers An integrated approach to the management of water quality in a developing South Africa, 321 SURFACE WATER: Ecological and source controls Kate Heal Metals in sediments of sustainable urban drainage structures in Scotland, 331 Tom Shatwell & Ian Cordery Nutrient storage in urban wetlands, 339 Michael Revitt, Brian Shutes & Lian Scholes The use of constructed wetlands for reducing the impacts of urban surface runoff on receiving water quality, 349 J. Bryan Ellis Design considerations for the use of vegetative controls for the treatment of highway discharges, 357 Peter Callander, Robert Watts & Tony Oliver Sustainable management of Christchurch’s waterways and wetlands using stormwater soakage disposal, 365 Chris Jefferies, Anna Govier & Katherine Bradshaw Improving degraded urban water courses in eastern Scotland: a case study, 373 S. Brown, S. Shrestha & S. J. Riley The allocation of resources to stormwater pollution control, 381 SURFACE WATER: Integrated management and planning Sveinn T. Thorolfsson & Magnar Sekse Towards integrated stormwater–meltwater management in the coastal part of Norway, 393 Luiz Augusto Kauark-Leite, Nilo Oliveira Nascimento & Márcio Benedito Baptista Stormwater master planning in developing tropical countries, 401 Uri Shamir & Naomi Carmon Water-sensitive urban planning: the case of Israel’s coastal aquifer, 409 SURFACE WATER: Case studies John Kioko Musingi, Shadrack Mulei Kithiia & Boniface Nzuve Wambua The urban growth of Mombasa coastal town and its implication for surface and groundwater resources, 419 Wang Gengxu & Cheng Guodong Water resources utilization and its influence on the eco-environment in the arid zone of northwest China, 423 T. K. S. Abam Dynamics and quality of water resources in the Niger Delta, 429