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1.	Bengtsson, Lars, et al. (author) Water balance for landfills of different age 1994 In: Journal of Hydrology. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 158:3-4, s. 203-217 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Water-related processes in landfills are discussed with emphasis on internal processes such as field capacity, moisture variation in time and space, and macropore flow. Runoff production and evaporation from landfills in Sweden of different age are investigated. It is clarified in what ways and for how long a closed municipal landfill differs from an ordinary land area from a hydrological point of view.
2.	Grelle, A., et al. (author) Evaporation components of a boreal forest : variations during the growing season 1997 In: Journal of Hydrology. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 197:1-4, s. 70-87 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract To improve the understanding of interactions between the boreal forest and the climate system as a key issue for global climate change, the water budget of a mixed pine and spruce forest in central Sweden was estimated by measurements of the water flux components and the total evaporation flux during the period 16 May-31 October 1995. Total evaporation was measured using eddy correlation and the components were obtained using measurements of precipitation, throughfall, tree transpiration, and forest floor evaporation. On a daily basis, tree transpiration was the dominant evaporation component during the vegetation period. However, it could be efficiently blocked by a wet canopy associated with large interception evaporation. The accumulated total evaporation was 399 mm, transpiration was 243 mm, forest floor evaporation was 56 mm and interception evaporation was 74 mm. The accumulated sum of interception, transpiration, and floor evaporation was 51 mm larger than the actual measured total evaporation. This difference was mainly attributed to the fact that transpiration was measured in a rather dense 50-year-old stand while total evaporation represented the average conditions of older, roughly 100-year-old stands. To compare eddy-correlation measurements with small-scale measurements of evaporation components, a source area analysis was made to select the flux data that give the best representation of the investigated stand. Especially under stable atmospheric conditions the requirements for surface homogeneity were very high and extreme care had to be taken to be aware of the flux source areas. Canopy water storage was determined by two methods: by the water balance of the canopy, which gave a result of 3.3 mm; and by the so-called minimum method based on plots of throughfall versus precipitation, which gave a much lower value of 1.5 mm. Seasonal interception evaporation constituted 30% of the precipitation.
3.	Halldin, Sven, et al. (author) NOPEX - a northern hemisphere climate processes land surface experiment 1998 In: Journal of Hydrology. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 212-213, s. 172-187 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The interface between land surfaces and the atmosphere is a key area in climate research, where lack of basic knowledge prevents us from reducing the considerable uncertainties about predicted changes. Boreal forests play an important, but not well known, role in the global hydrological and biogeochemical cycles. NOPEX (a NOrthern hemisphere climate Processes land surface EXperiment) is devoted to the study of land surface-atmosphere interaction in a northern European forest-dominated landscape. The main NOPEX region represents the southern edge of the boreal zone. It consists of a highly heterogeneous landscape, with forests, mires, agricultural land and lakes. A second study site, in northern Finland, representing the northern edge of the boreal zone, will be introduced into NOPEX in connection with its coming winter-time field activities. Field activities, dominating the initial phase of NOPEX, are conceived to strike a balance between the need to cover multi-annual observations and the resources required to carry out measurements covering all relevant spatial scales. The long-term data collection activities, the Continuous Climate Monitoring (CCM), form the backbone of the field programme. A suite of Concentrated Field Efforts (CFEs) covering periods of summer, spring and winter brings together scientists from more then 20 countries during month-long campaigns. CFEs have been carried out in May-June 1994 and April-July 1995. A third, winter-time CFE is planned for 1998-99. The System for Information in NOPEX (SINOP) is the database which forms a backbone for modelling and analysis work, dominating the second stage of NOPEX. A series of PhD courses are run in parallell to the research activities. Analysis and modelling are done in four interacting areas, including local-scale processes, meso-scale surface-atmosphere coupling and remote sensing techniques. The fourth area, regionalization methods, aims at bringing the previous three together in order to provide improved parameterization schemes for exchange of energy, momentum, water and CO2 between land and atmosphere in hydrological and meteorological models from the meso to the global scale.
4.	Johnsson, Holger, et al. (author) Surface runoff and soil water percolation as affected by snow and soil frost 1991 In: Journal of Hydrology. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 122:1-4, s. 141-159 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract A coupled soil water and heat model was used to study the influence of soil frost and snow on infiltration and drainage flow in an agricultural field in central Sweden. An analogy between freezing/thawing and drying/wetting was assumed for the soil frost submodel. Model simulations were evaluated against measurements of total soil water content, unfrozen water content, soil temperature and drainage water-flow. The influences of soil frost and spatial variation in snow cover were studied by simulation of possible extreme situations in the field. The model accurately described the dynamics of soil temperature and water contents; however, infiltration and field drainage flow were considerably underestimated and delayed by about three weeks under frozen conditions. A model simulation, discounting the effects of soil frost, overestimated the drain response. An attempt at simulating the field variation in snow cover by assuming possible 'sink points' for snowmelt, explained part of the deviations between simulated and measured drain flows. A basis for a new model formulation of the infiltration and percolation processes in frozen soil is proposed in which two water-flow domains are assumed, one low-flow domain in the fine pores, smaller than those filled with ice, and one high-flow domain in the large air-filled pores. This allows the simulation of rapid infiltration in large ice-free pores and drainage flow under frozen conditions as well as the resulting redistribution of ice from smaller to larger pores.
5.	Jonsson, K., et al. (author) Hyporheic exchange of reactive and conservative solutes in streams - tracer methodology and model interpretation 2003 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 278:04-jan, s. 153-171 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract A transient storage model is evaluated using results from a tracer experiment, where a conservative and a reactive tracer (H-3 and Cr-51(III)) were injected simultaneously and monitored in stream water and bed sediment. About 76% of the chromium was lost from the stream water on the reach 30 km downstream of the injection point directly after the passage of the pulse in the flowing water. The bed sediment hosted the main part of the retained chromium. The time to washout 75% of the maximum solute uptake in the sediment was similar to 85 times longer for chromium than for tritium (i.e. similar to 45 days). It was possible to describe the sediment-water exchange with a diffusive flux formulation that could be evaluated using tritium breakthrough curves in the stream water or the tritium inventory breakthrough curves in the sediment. This experiment revealed further that observations of chromium concentrations in the sediment were essential for the quantifying of sorption properties, as it was not possible to catch accurately the time scale of sorption within the duration of the breakthrough curves in the stream water. There was a clear need for a rate-limited description of the sorption of chromium in the sediment. We found that a first-order kinetic description of the sorption process could acceptably describe the breakthrough curves in both the stream water and the bed sediment.
6.	Jonsson, Karin, et al. (author) Hyporheic Exchange of Reactive and Conservative Solutes in Streams - Tracer Methodology and Model Interpretation 2003 In: Journal of Hydrology. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 278:1-4, s. 153-171 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract A transient storage model is evaluated using results from a tracer experiment, where a conservative and a reactive tracer (3H and 51Cr(III)) were injected simultaneously and monitored in stream water and bed sediment. About 76% of the chromium was lost from the stream water on the reach 30 km downstream of the injection point directly after the passage of the pulse in the flowing water. The bed sediment hosted the main part of the retained chromium. The time to washout 75% of the maximum solute uptake in the sediment was ∼85 times longer for chromium than for tritium (i.e. ∼45 days). It was possible to describe the sediment-water exchange with a diffusive flux formulation that could be evaluated using tritium breakthrough curves in the stream water or the tritium inventory breakthrough curves in the sediment. This experiment revealed further that observations of chromium concentrations in the sediment were essential for the quantifying of sorption properties, as it was not possible to catch accurately the time scale of sorption within the duration of the breakthrough curves in the stream water. There was a clear need for a rate-limited description of the sorption of chromium in the sediment. We found that a first-order kinetic description of the sorption process could acceptably describe the breakthrough curves in both the stream water and the bed sediment.
7.	Lundberg, Angela, et al. (author) Evaporation of intercepted snow : measurement and modelling 1998 In: Journal of Hydrology. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 206:3-4, s. 151-163 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Snow storage on a coniferous forest canopy was measured using γ-ray attenuation and tree weighing systems, along with measurements of throughfall, using two plastic sheet net rainfall gauges. Meteorological parameters were measured with an automatic weather station. Estimates of evaporation of intercepted snow show an average rate of 0.24 mm h-1 and a maximum cumulative total of 3.9 mm in 7 h. Comparison with evaporation determined by a combination method with two different estimates of aerodynamic resistance (the "standard" rain aerodynamic resistance raL and a snow aerodynamic resistance raS-an order of magnitude larger than raL) showed that raL overestimated the evaporation by a factor of 2.6, whereas raS gave fair agreement with the measured evaporation. A multilayer model may be needed to take into account the variations of latent heat source area. Using the long-term measurements of the weight of snow on a single tree the total interception evaporation was estimated to be of the order 200 mm year-1.
8.	Lundberg, Angela (author) Evaporation of intercepted snow : review of existing and new measurement methods 1993 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 151:2-4, s. 267-290 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Knowledge of the annual water balance within a catchment is still hampered by an insufficient understanding of winter conditions. The least known term of the winter water balance is evaporation - particularly that from intercepted snow. Methods to measure interception and evaporation are reviewed. Undisturbed meteorological conditions, high time resolution and continuous measurements of intercepted mass were taken as criteria for an ideal method. The ideal method should work during periods of melt and sublimation and above rough forest surfaces. None of the existing methods fulfils all the criteria. Most traditional hydrological methods to estimate winter-time evaporation, such as runoff and snow-course studies, non-weighing lysimeters, and precipitation and throughfall measurements, produce too little information to distinguish the causes of the observed changes. Among micrometeorological methods, only the eddy-correlation technique is suitable, and should be used in combination with interception measurements. Of the methods primarily designed to quantify interception, i.e. collection of intercepted snow, visual or photographic observations, displacement transducers, weighing of branches and trees and gamma-ray attenuation, only the last two yield continuous interception records. In combination with continuous measurements of throughfall and drip, these methods can be used to study the evaporation process. The gamma-ray method can be used to measure whole-canopy losses, whereas the other two methods deal only with losses from a branch or a single tree. The weighing-lysimeter technique produces the same information as the method of weighing a cut tree but employs a more complex set-up. The weighing-tree method combined with measurement of drip is one of the current methods that is most suitable for process studies. A new device for this purpose is presented, which differs from earlier designs by allowing a continuous weighing of drip in a tray of 2m width placed around the tree. The tray was fastened to the tree with wires and was automatically raised and lowered, thus allowing continuous measurements of both intercepted mass (with the tray raised) and evaported mass (with the tray lowered). A maximum evaporation rate of 0.3 mm h-1 was recorded with this device on 22-23 March 1990 at a site close to Luleå in northern Sweden. This maximum value was measured when wet snow was present, and confirmed earlier reports of high evaporation rates. The maximum evaporated mass during 24 h was 3.3 mm.
9.	Lundin, Lars-Christer (author) Hydraulic properties in an operational model of frozen soil 1990 In: Journal of Hydrology. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 118:1-4, s. 289-310 Journal article (peer-reviewed)
10.	Stålnacke, P., et al. (author) Trends in nutrient concentrations in Latvian rivers and the response to the dramatic change in agriculture 2003 In: Journal of Hydrology. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 283:1-4, s. 184-205 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract In recent years, the use of fertilisers in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) has decreased at an unprecedented rate. The import of mineral fertilisers and feed stuff became almost non-existent, and extensive slaughtering of livestock reduced the amount of manure. In Latvia, the purchase of mineral fertilisers decreased by a factor of 15 between 1987 and 1996 and the number of livestock decreased with a factor of almost 4 during the same time period. Such abrupt and comprehensive changes in land use have never before occurred in the history of modern European agriculture. Here, the impact that this dramatic reduction has had on concentrations of nutrients in Latvian rivers is examined. To discern temporal changes, statistical analyses were undertaken on time series of nutrient concentrations and relationships between concentrations and runoff at 12 sampling sites in ten Latvian rivers covering drainage areas from 334 to 64,000 km2. Considering the study period 1987-1998, only four of the 12 sites showed statistically significant downward trends (one-sided test at the 5% level) in the dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN = NO3-N + NO2-N + NH4-N) data. There are probably two main explanations for the weak DIN trends. Firstly, long water-transit times in the soilwater and groundwater may have caused substantial time lag between changes in input and output of nitrate in the studied catchments. Secondly, the loss of DIN might have been dominated by mineralisation of large pools of organic nitrogen that have accumulated over several years. These inferences are supported by (i) a hydrograph recession analysis and (ii) indications of DIN transformation processes, presumably denitrification, in smaller streams and channels, based on measurements in small agricultural catchments (1-4 km2) in Estonia and Latvia. Formal testing of trends in phosphorus data revealed that marked drops occurred in riverine concentrations at six sites in 1987-1998. A joint analysis of concentration time series for all sampling sites for 1987-1998 showed weak statistical significance for downward trends in NH4-N, NO 3-N, and DIN (p ? 0.04) and substantial significance for PO 4-P (p < 0.01). Thus, the extensive decrease in agricultural intensity that began in the early 1990s has led to only a slow and limited (especially regarding nitrogen) response in Latvian rivers. The difference noted between nitrogen and phosphorus also suggests that factors other than reduced fertiliser application influenced the inertia of the water quality response. Our findings, along with those obtained in similar studies, show that large cuts in nutrient inputs do not necessarily cause an immediate response, particularly in medium-sized and large catchment areas.
11.	Szöllösi-Nagy, Andras (author) The discretization of the continuous linear cascade by means of state space analysis 1982 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 58:3-4, s. 223-236 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract In applying digital filtering techniques for hydrological forecasting by means of cascade models a discrete model of the continuous processes involved is necessary. The paper deals with the discretization of the continuous Nash cascade. The principles of state space modelling are used. The continuous state variable model of the Nash cascade together with the computation of the state transition matrix and the impulse response is given. A discrete state variable model is derived whose state and input transition matrices are in a dual relationship. Any different discrete state representations of the continuous Nash cascade are related to each other via a linear transformation. In the limit case the discrete state models are identical with the continuous Nash cascade. The discrete state models are discretely coincident with the continuous model but at the same time consider the dynamic changes in between the sampling points. A numerical example is presented
12.	Achleitner, Stefan, et al. (author) Analyzing the operational performance of the hydrological models in an alpine flood forecasting system 2012 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 412-413, s. 90-100 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract During recent years a hybrid model has been set up for the operational forecasting of flood discharges in the 6750km 2 Tyrolean part of the River Inn catchment in Austria. The catchment can be characterized as a typical alpine area with large variations in altitude. The paper is focused on the error analysis of discharge forecasts of four main tributary catchments simulated with hydrological water balance models. The selected catchments cover an area of 2230km 2, where the non-glaciated and glaciated parts are modeled using the semi-distributed HQsim and the distributed model SES, respectively.The forecast errors are evaluated as a function of forecast lead time and forecasted discharge magnitude using 14 events from 2007 to 2010. The observed and forecasted precipitation inputs were obtained under operational conditions. The mean relative bias of the forecasted discharges revealed to be constant with regard to the forecast lead time, varying between 0.2 and 0.25 for the different catchments. The errors as a function of the forecasted discharge magnitude showed large errors at lower values of the forecast hydrographs, where errors decreased significantly at larger discharges being relevant in flood forecasting
13.	Ala-aho, P., et al. (author) Using stable isotopes to assess surface water source dynamics and hydrological connectivity in a high-latitude wetland and permafrost influenced landscape 2018 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 556, s. 279-293 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Climate change is expected to alter hydrological and biogeochemical processes in high-latitude inland waters. A critical question for understanding contemporary and future responses to environmental change is how the spatio-temporal dynamics of runoff generation processes will be affected. We sampled stable water isotopes in soils, lakes and rivers on an unprecedented spatio-temporal scale along a 1700 km transect over three years in the Western Siberia Lowlands. Our findings suggest that snowmelt mixes with, and displaces, large volumes of water stored in the organic soils and lakes to generate runoff during the thaw season. Furthermore, we saw a persistent hydrological connection between water bodies and the landscape across permafrost regions. Our findings help to bridge the understanding between small and large scale hydrological studies in high-latitude systems. These isotope data provide a means to conceptualise hydrological connectivity in permafrost and wetland influenced regions, which is needed for an improved understanding of future biogeochemical changes.
14.	Ameli, A. A., et al. (author) Hillslope permeability architecture controls on subsurface transit time distribution and flow paths 2016 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier B.V.. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 543, s. 17-30 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Defining the catchment transit time distribution remains a challenge. Here, we used a new semi-analytical physically-based integrated subsurface flow and advective–dispersive particle movement model to assess the subsurface controls on subsurface water flow paths and transit time distributions. First, we tested the efficacy of the new model for simulation of the observed groundwater dynamics at the well-studied S-transect hillslope (Västrabäcken sub-catchment, Sweden). This system, like many others, is characterized by exponential decline in saturated hydraulic conductivity and porosity with soil depth. The model performed well relative to a tracer-based estimate of transit time distribution as well as observed groundwater depth–discharge relationship within 30 m of the stream. Second, we used the model to assess the effect of changes in the subsurface permeability architecture on flow pathlines and transit time distribution in a set of virtual experiments. Vertical patterns of saturated hydraulic conductivity and porosity with soil depth significantly influenced hillslope transit time distribution. Increasing infiltration rates significantly decreased mean groundwater age, but not the distribution of transit times relative to mean groundwater age. The location of hillslope hydrologic boundaries, including the groundwater divide and no-flow boundary underlying the hillslope, changed the transit time distribution less markedly. These results can guide future decisions on the degree of complexity that is warranted in a physically-based rainfall–runoff model to efficiently and explicitly estimate time invariant subsurface pathlines and transit time distribution.
15.	Amvrosiadi, Nino, et al. (author) Soil moisture storage estimation based on steady vertical fluxes under equilibrium 2017 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier B.V.. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 553, s. 798-804 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Soil moisture is an important variable for hillslope and catchment hydrology. There are various computational methods to estimate soil moisture and their complexity varies greatly: from one box with vertically constant volumetric soil water content to fully saturated-unsaturated coupled physically-based models. Different complexity levels are applicable depending on the simulation scale, computational time limitations, input data and knowledge about the parameters. The Vertical Equilibrium Model (VEM) is a simple approach to estimate the catchment-wide soil water storage at a daily time-scale on the basis of water table level observations, soil properties and an assumption of hydrological equilibrium without vertical fluxes above the water table. In this study VEM was extended by considering vertical fluxes, which allows conditions with evaporation and infiltration to be represented. The aim was to test the hypothesis that the simulated volumetric soil water content significantly depends on vertical fluxes. The water content difference between the no-flux, equilibrium approach and the new constant-flux approach greatly depended on the soil textural class, ranging between ∼1% for silty clay and ∼44% for sand at an evapotranspiration rate of 5 mm·d−1. The two approaches gave a mean volumetric soil water content difference of ∼1 mm for two case studies (sandy loam and organic rich soils). The results showed that for many soil types the differences in estimated storage between the no-flux and the constant flux approaches were relatively small.
16.	Andersson, Lotta, et al. (author) Impact of climate change and development scenarios on flow patterns in the Okavango River 2006 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 331:1-2, s. 43-57 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This paper lays the foundation for the use of scenario modelling as a tool for integrated water resource management in the Okavango River basin. The Pitman hydrological model is used to assess the impact of various development and climate change scenarios on downstream river flow. The simulated impact on modelled river discharge of increased water use for domestic use, livestock, and informal irrigation (proportional to expected population increase) is very limited. Implementation of all likely potential formal irrigation schemes mentioned in available reports is expected to decrease the annual flow by 2% and the minimum monthly flow by 5%. The maximum possible impact of irrigation on annual average flow is estimated as 8%, with a reduction of minimum monthly flow by 17%. Deforestation of all areas within a 1 km buffer around the rivers is estimated to increase the flow by 6%. However, construction of all potential hydropower reservoirs in the basin may change the monthly mean flow distribution dramatically, although under the assumed operational rules, the impact of the dams is only substantial during wet years. The simulated impacts of climate change are considerable larger that those of the development scenarios (with exception of the high development scenario of hydropower schemes) although the results are sensitive to the choice of GCM and the IPCC SRES greenhouse gas (GHG) emission scenarios. The annual mean water flow predictions for the period 2020-2050 averaged over scenarios from all the four GCMs used in this study are close to the present situation for both the A2 and B2 GHG scenarios. For the 2050-2080 and 2070-2099 periods the all-GCM mean shows a flow decrease of 20% (14%) and 26% (17%), respectively, for the A2 (B2) GHG scenarios. However, the uncertainty in the magnitude of simulated future changes remains high. The simulated effect of climate change on minimum monthly flow is proportionally higher than the impact on the annual mean flow. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
17.	Barron, Jennie (author) Building climate resilience in degraded agricultural landscapes through water management: A case study of Bundelkhand region, Central India 2020 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 591 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Rainfall variability and water scarcity continue to hamper the food and income security of smallholder farming systems in poverty-affected regions. Innovations in soil and water management, especially in the drylands, are critical for meeting food security and water productivity targets of Agenda 2030. This study analyzes how rainfed agriculture can be intensified with marginal impact on the landscape water balance. The impact of rainwater harvesting structures on landscape hydrology and associated agricultural services was analyzed in the semi-arid Jhansi district of Bundelkhand region in central India. The Parasai-Sindh pilot watershed was subjected to a 5-year (2012-2016) monitoring of rainfed system improvements in water availability and crop intensification due to surface water storage (haveli system), check dams, and field infiltration structures. Hydrological processes were monitored intensively to analyze the landscape's water balance components. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) structures altered the landscape's hydrology, limiting average surface runoff from 250 mm/year to 150 mm/year over the study period. Groundwater levels increased by 2-5 m (m), alleviating water scarcity issues of the communities in recurring dry years. Nearly 20% of fallow lands were brought under cultivation. Crop yields increased by 10-70% and average household income increased from US$ 960/year to US $ 2700/year compared to that in the non-intervention landscape. The combined soil-water-vegetation efforts strengthened water resilience and environmental systems in agricultural landscape.
18.	Bejarano, Maria Dolores, et al. (author) Characterizing effects of hydropower plants on sub-daily flow regimes 2017 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 550, s. 186-200 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract A characterization of short-term changes in river flow is essential for understanding the ecological effects of hydropower plants, which operate by turning the turbines on or off to generate electricity following variations in the market demand (i.e., hydropeaking). The goal of our study was to develop an approach for characterizing the effects of hydropower plant operations on within-day flow regimes across multiple dams and rivers. For this aim we first defined ecologically meaningful metrics that provide a full representation of the flow regime at short time scales from free-flowing rivers and rivers exposed to hydropeaking. We then defined metrics that enable quantification of the deviation of the altered short-term flow regime variables from those of the unaltered state. The approach was successfully tested in two rivers in northern Sweden, one free-flowing and another regulated by cascades of hydropower plants, which were additionally classified based on their impact on short-term flows in sites of similar management. The largest differences between study sites corresponded to metrics describing sub-daily flow magnitudes such as amplitude (i.e., difference between the highest and the lowest hourly flows) and rates (i.e., rise and fall rates of hourly flows). They were closely followed by frequency-related metrics accounting for the numbers of within-day hourly flow patterns (i.e., rises, falls and periods of stability of hourly flows). In comparison, between-site differences for the duration-related metrics were smallest. In general, hydropeaking resulted in higher within-day flow amplitudes and rates and more but shorter periods of a similar hourly flow patterns per day. The impacted flow feature and the characteristics of the impact (i.e., intensity and whether the impact increases or decreases whatever is being described by the metric) varied with season. Our approach is useful for catchment management planning, defining environmental flow targets, prioritizing river restoration or dam reoperation efforts and contributing information for relicensing hydropower dams.
19.	Beven, Keith (author) A manifesto for the equifinality thesis 2006 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 320:1-2, s. 18-36 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This essay discusses some of the issues involved in the identification and predictions of hydrological models given some calibration data. The reasons for the incompleteness of traditional calibration methods are discussed. The argument is made that the potential for multiple acceptable models as representations of hydrological and other environmental systems (the equifinality thesis) should be given more serious consideration than hitherto. It proposes some techniques for an extended GLUE methodology to make it more rigorous and outlines some of the research issues still to be resolved. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
20.	Beven, Keith J, et al. (author) Comment on “Hydrological forecasting uncertainty assessment: Incoherence of the GLUE methodology” by Pietro Mantovan and Ezio Todini 2007 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 338:3-4, s. 315-318 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This comment is a response to the criticisms of the GLUE methodology by [Mantovan, P., Todini, E., 2006. Hydrological forecasting uncertainty assessment: Incoherence of the GLUE methodology, J. Hydrology, 2006]. In this comment it is shown that the formal Bayesian identification of models is a special case of GLUE that can be used where the modeller is prepared to make very strong assumptions about the nature of the modelling errors. For the hypothetical study of Mantovan and Todini, exact assumptions were assumed known for the formal Bayesian identification, but were then ignored in the application of GLUE to the same data. We show that a more reasonable application of GLUE to this problem using similar prior knowledge shows that gives equally coherent results to the formal Bayes identification. In real applications, subject to input and model structural error it is suggested that the coherency condition of MT06 cannot hold at the single observation level and that the choice of a formal Bayesian likelihood function may then be incoherent. In these (more interesting) cases, GLUE can be coherent in the application of likelihood measures based on blocks of data, but different choices of measures and blocks effectively represent different beliefs about the information content of data in real applications with input and model structural errors.
21.	Beven, Keith, et al. (author) So just why would a modeller choose to be incoherent? 2008 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 354:1-4, s. 15-32 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This article provides an extended response to the criticisms of the GLUE methodology by Mantovan and Todini [Mantovan, P., Todini, E., 2006. Hydrological forecasting uncertainty assessment: incoherence of the GLUE methodology. J. Hydrol. 330, 368-381]. It is shown that the formal Bayesian identification of models is a special case of GLUE that can be used where the modeller is prepared to make very strong assumptions about the nature of the modelling errors. Under such assumptions, GLUE can be coherent in the sense of Manotvan and Todini. In real applications, however, with multiple sources of uncertainty including model structural error, their strong definition of coherence is shown to be inapplicable to the extent that the choice of a format likelihood function based on a simple error structure may be an incoherent choice. It is demonstrated by some relatively minor modifications of their hypothetical example that misspecification of the error model and the non-stationarities associated with the presence of input error and model structural error in the Bayes approach will then produce well-defined but incorrect parameter distributions. This empirical result is quite independent of GLUE, but the flexibility of the GLUE approach may then prove to be an advantage in providing more coherent and robust choices of model evaluation in these cases and, by analogy, in other non-ideal cases for real applications. At the current time it is difficult to make a reasoned choice between methods of uncertainty estimation for real applications because of a lack of understanding of the real information content of data in conditioning models.
22.	Bhattacharya, Prosun, et al. (author) Arsenic in hydrological processes-Sources, speciation, bioavailability and management 2014 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 518, s. 279-283 Journal article (other academic/artistic)
23.	Bishop, Kevin, et al. (author) Effect of DEM-smoothing and -aggregation on topographically-based flow directions and catchment boundaries 2021 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 602 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract It is generally assumed that, in humid climates, the groundwater table is a subdued copy of the surface topography. However, the general groundwater table is unlikely to be affected by the microtopography as seen in high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). So far, there has been little guidance on the best resolution DEM to use to determine the shape of the water table or the direction of shallow groundwater flow in headwater catchments. We, therefore, looked at the effects of DEM-smoothing and -aggregation on the calculated flow directions and derived catchment boundaries, and identified areas and landscape features for which the calculated flow directions are particularly sensitive to DEM smoothing or aggregation. For > 40 % of the area of the Krycklan study catchment, the calculated flow directions depend strongly on the degree of smoothing or aggregation of the DEM. The four main landscape features for which DEM smoothing or aggregation strongly affected the calculated flow directions were: local slopes in the opposite direction of the general slope, flat areas, ridges, and incised streambanks. To determine the effects of the changing flow directions on the derived catchment boundaries for the smoothed and aggregated DEMs, we calculated the drainage area for 40 locations, representing the outlets of catchments of varying sizes. The shape and size of the catchments of first-order streams were most affected by the processing of the DEM. These streams were often almost completely smoothed out during the DEM preprocessing steps. These shifts in catchment boundaries and drainage area would have a large effect on the water balance. This study thus highlights the need to carefully consider the effects of DEM smoothing or -aggregation on the calculated flow directions and drainage areas.
24.	Blecken, Godecke-Tobias, et al. (author) Laboratory study on stormwater biofiltration : nutrient and sediment removal in cold temperatures 2010 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 394:3-4, s. 507-514 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Stormwater biofilters have the ability to remove nutrients from stormwater. Reliable pollutant removal during the cold season is particularly important due to the comparably high contamination levels. However, the removal performance might be negatively affected by low temperatures. A biofilter column study was conducted in thermostat-controlled climate rooms (at 2, 7 and 20 °C) to investigate the effect of low temperatures on nutrient removal. Phosphorus and suspended solids removal were significantly correlated and consistently very high (typically in excess of 90 and 95%, respectively, at all temperatures). This is important for the successful implementation of biofilters in cold climates since phosphorus is commonly of principal concern, often being the limiting factor for eutrophication in freshwater ecosystems. Unfortunately, nitrogen removal was poor and leaching was shown, which increased with temperature. The increasing nitrate-nitrogen production rates with temperature were well described by the Arrhenius relationship with temperature coefficients Q10 in the range which is typically used to describe temperature effects on nitrification. Thus, temperature effects have to be considered when nitrogen removal is targeted and the biofilter might be exposed to cold temperatures.
25.	Bodin, Hristina, et al. (author) Influence of residence time analyses on estimates of wetland hydraulics and pollutant removal 2013 In: Journal of Hydrology. - : Elsevier. - 0022-1694 .- 1879-2707. ; 501, s. 1-12 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Hydraulic tracer studies are frequently used to estimate wetland residence time distributions (RTDs) and ultimately pollutant removal. However, there is no consensus on how to analyse these data. We set out to (i) review the different methods used and (ii) use simulations to explore how the data analysis method influences the quantification of wetland hydraulics and pollutant removal. The results showed that the method influences the water dispersion (N) most strongly and the removal least strongly. The influence increased with decreasing effective volume ratio (e) and N, indicating a greater effect of the method in wetlands with low effective volume and high dispersion. The method of moments with RTD truncation at 3 times the theoretical residence time (t(n)) and tracer background concentration produced the most dissimilar parameters. The most similar parameters values were those for gamma modelling and the method of moments with RTD truncation at tracer background concentration. For correct removal estimates, e was more important than N. However, the results from the literature review and simulations indicated that previously published articles may contain overestimated e and underestimated N values as a result of frequent RTD truncations at 3t(n), when using the method of moments. As a result, the removal rates may also be overestimated by as much as 14% compared to other truncation methods or modelling. Thus, it is recommended that wetland hydraulic tracer studies should use the same method, specifically, RTD truncation. We conclude that the choice of tracer data analysis method can greatly influence the quantifications of wetland hydraulics and removal rate.

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