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Instruments and techniques: modeling

The Emme River in Switzerland
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tracing Water from River to Aquifer

by Aaron Sidder 20 April 202128 September 2021

A new technique using dissolved noble gas tracers sheds light on how water moves through an aquifer, with implications for water resources and their vulnerability to climate change.

Water rushing down the damaged Oroville dam spillway into the river.
Posted inNews

How Infrastructure Standards Miss the Mark on Snowmelt

by Jackie Rocheleau 16 October 202022 October 2021

Nationwide, civil engineers consider precipitation values from NOAA to design their structures. But those values are missing another contributor to flood risk: snowmelt.

Land use map of the Selke river catchment in central Germany
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Isotope Model Predicts Denitrification from Riparian Zones

by D. Scott Mackay 13 January 2020

A new model quantifies the relative contributions of denitrification and other processes of nitrogen uptake, such as by plants, from groundwater in riparian areas around streams.

Posted inNews

Simplifying How (and When and Where) Snow Turns into Flow

by D. Lockwood 20 February 2019

A Montana researcher has developed a map for predicting how climate change may alter the water supply.

Researchers examine how mesquite trees move water between soil layers
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Mesquite Trees Gain a Competitive Edge in Arid Arizona

by Aaron Sidder 6 July 2018

A new study shows that mesquites employ hydraulic redistribution to move water between soil layers in the savannas of Santa Rita.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Tracing Water Through the Critical Zone

by M. Sprenger and M. Weiler 12 June 20174 February 2018

The authors of a recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics describe how isotope hydrology offers new insights into interactions at the interface between soil, vegetation, and the atmosphere.

Tidal bore traveling up the Mersey River in northwestern England.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

When Rivers and Tides Collide

by Sarah Stanley 28 April 201628 April 2016

Scientists review several decades of research on the complex freshwater reach where fluvial and tidal forces meet.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Tidal River Dynamics

by M. Moldwin 6 April 201610 February 2018

Tidal rivers are a vital and little studied nexus between physical oceanography and hydrology.

Posted inScience Updates

Satellite Data for Water Resources Management

by J. D. Bolten, C. Lee and P. Houser 28 September 201528 March 2016

2015 NASA Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources Team Meeting; College Park, Md., 3–4 March 2015

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