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Infiltration (hydrology)

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Column studies to assess the effects of climate variables on redox processes during riverbank filtration

Riverbank filtration is an established technique used world-wide to produce clean drinking water in a reliable and cost-efficient way. This practice is, however, facing new challenges posed by climate change, as already observed during past heat waves with ...

Elsevier2014

Water retention behavior of deformable soils-experiment and modeling

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Mathieu Nuth, Simon Salager

The paper presents an experimental and modelling approach for the soil water retention behaviour of two deformable soils. The objective is to investigate the physical mechanisms that govern the soil water retention properties and to propose a constitutive ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2014

Solving Richards Equation for snow improves snowpack meltwater runoff estimations in detailed multi-layer snowpack model

Michael Lehning, Nander Wever, Charles Fierz

The runoff from a snow cover during spring snowmelt or rain-on-snow events is an important factor in the hydrological cycle. In this study, three water balance schemes for the 1 dimensional physically-based snowpack model SNOWPACK are compared to lysimeter ...

European Geosciences Union2014

HYDROLOGY

André Musy

This book presents the main hydrological methods and techniques used in the design and operation of hydraulic projects and the management of water resources and associated natural risks. It covers the key topics of water resources engineering, from the est ...

CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group2014

Temporally Consistent Snow Cover Estimation from Noisy, Irregularly Sampled Measurements

Sabine Süsstrunk, Matthew Brown, Dominic Rüfenacht

We propose a method for accurate and temporally consistent surface classification in the presence of noisy, irregularly sampled measurements, and apply it to the estimation of snow coverage over time. The input imagery is extremely challenging, with large ...

2014

Crop Backscatter Modeling And Soil Moisture Estimation With Support Vector Regression

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Devis Tuia, Maurice Borgeaud, Jelena Stamenkovic

In this paper, we used an improved version of the Tor Vergata radiative transfer model to simulate the backscattering coefficient for the L-band SAR signals over areas covered with vegetation. Fields of winter wheat, maize and sugar beet observed during th ...

Ieee2014

NOM degradation during river infiltration: Effects of the climate variables temperature and discharge

Urs von Gunten, Janet Gordon Hering

Most peri-alpine shallow aquifers fed by rivers are oxic and the drinking water derived by riverbank filtration is generally of excellent quality. However, observations during past heat waves suggest that water quality may be affected by climate change due ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Infiltration in soils with a saturated surface

David Andrew Barry, Marc Parlange

An earlier infiltration equation relied on curve fitting of infiltration data for the determination of one of the parameters, which limits its usefulness in practice. This handicap is removed here, and the parameter is now evaluated by linking it directly ...

American Geophysical Union2013

Evaporation from a shallow water table: Diurnal dynamics of water and heat at the surface of drying sand

Marc Parlange, Ivan Lunati, Chad Higgins, Scott W. Tyler

Accurate estimates of water losses by evaporation from shallow water tables are important for hydrological, agricultural, and climatic purposes. An experiment was conducted in a weighing lysimeter to characterize the diurnal dynamics of evaporation under n ...

Amer Geophysical Union2013

Impacts of irrigation with industrial treated wastewater on soil properties

André Mermoud, Pascal Boivin

Wastewater reuse in agriculture is a widespread practice in developing countries, especially in urban areas where water shortage and poverty encourage people to use that marginal resource. Raw or treated wastewaters are used by farmers, but even treated wa ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

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