Simulation of runoff and streamflow on local and regional scales

The effects of bushfires on hydrological processes using a paired-catchment analysis

“…As it will contain many measurable parameters related to land use change from the effects of fire, such as leaf area index and albedo, both water and energy transfer in the vertical direction and water movement in the horizontal direction the distributed hydrological model should be integrated with a Geographical Information System (Mackay and Band, 1997;Storck et al, 1998;Matheussen et al, 2000;Mengelkamp et al, 2001;Kosner, 2001). It is reasonably straightforward to simulate the effects of fire via the physical mechanism of water and energy transfer within a Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Transfer system (SVAT), which can explicitly reflect the change in vegetation before and after a bushfire.…”

Improving the characteristics of streamflow modeled by regional climate models

“…Further studies on large river basins have introduced river runoff routing models, such as that found in Naden (1993), Lohmann et al (1998) and Mengelkamp et al (2001), to realistically route the flow through and between grid cells. Possibly the first hydrologic model to be incorporated into a climate model is the Nanjing model (Zhao, 1977), variations of which have also been termed the Arno model by Franchini and Pacciani (1991) and the variable infiltration capacity model (VIC), (Wood et al, 1992).…”

Influence of Scale on SWAT Model Calibration for Streamflow in a River Basin in the Humid Tropics

“…The scale at which various types of knowledge can be applied to water management also varies widely. Studies have been conducted in different parts of the world on the issues of scale influence on different hydrological parameters (Abdulla et al 1996;Lobmeyr et al 1999;Mengelkamp et al 2001). Alternative approaches to the assessment of water resources for policy making and the validity of using such assessments at different scales have also been discussed (Sullivan and Meigh 2007).…”