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Evaluation of Statistical-Downscaling/Bias-Correction Methods to Predict Hydrologic Responses to Climate Change in the Zarrine River Basin, Iran
(2018-04-20)
Modeling the hydrologic responses to future changes of climate is important for improving adaptive water management. In the present application to the Zarrine River Basin (ZRB), with the major reach being the main inflow source of Lake Urmia (LU), firstly future daily temperatures and precipitation are predicted using two statistical downscaling methods: the classical statistical downscaling model (SDSM), augmented by a trend-preserving bias correction, and a two-step updated quantile mapping (QM) method. The general ...
Dissertation
Estimating the Effects of Climate Change on the Water Resources in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB)
(2018)
Water balance calculations and spatially distributed rainfall-runoff models require high-resolution climatic datasets as the primary input, however, in the Upper Indus basin (UIB), it is rare to find in-situ observational climate data which have spatial, altitudinal and temporal coverage, suitable enough for distributed hydrological investigations and so for the assessment of climate-change’s hydrological impacts. The average precipitation amounts over the UIB are unrealistically low to sustain the observed discharge ...
Dissertation
Energy Budget- and Temperature Index- based Calculations of Seasonal Mass Balances and Discharge in the Tropical Glacier Artesonraju and Artesoncocha Basin in the Cordillera Blanca,
Peru
(2020)
The core of the present Doctoral study deals with glacier simulations for calculating mass balance and discharge in the Artesonraju glacier and Artesoncocha basin, in the Cordillera Blanca (CB), Peru. For this purpose, two different models are used. One is an energy-model (EBM) which is physically based and uses energy fluxes measurements on the glaciers, whereas the other one is a temperature index model (TIM) which is empirical and uses mainly temperature and precipitation as its main input data.
An analysis of ...
Aufsatz
Rainfall Prediction with AMSR–E Soil Moisture Products Using SM2RAIN and Nonlinear Autoregressive Networks with Exogenous Input (NARX) for Poorly Gauged Basins: Application to the Karkheh River Basin, Iran
(2018-07-23)
Accurate estimates of daily rainfall are essential for understanding and modeling the physical processes involved in the interaction between the land surface and the atmosphere. In this study, daily satellite soil moisture observations from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–Earth Observing System (AMSR–E) generated by implementing the standard National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) algorithm are employed for estimating rainfall, firstly, through the use of recently developed approach, SM2RAIN ...
Dissertation
Lateral spreading in basal reinforced embankments supported by pile-like elements
(Kassel Univ. Press, 2008)
Bei Dämmen auf wenig tragfähigem Untergrund ist es zwischenzeitlich Stand der Technik, an der
Dammbasis eine Bewehrung aus hochzugfesten Geokunststoffen (Gewebe oder Geogitter) einzulegen.
Dabei können die Bewehrungslagen direkt auf den weichen Boden oder über Pfahlelementen
angeordnet werden, die die Dammlasten in tiefere, tragfähigere Schichten abtragen.
Die horizontale Bewehrung an der Dammbasis hat die Aufgabe, die vertikalen Dammlasten und
die nach außen wirkenden Spreizkräfte aufzunehmen. Dies ist besonders ...
Dissertation
Experimental and numerical Investigations of Tracer- and Density- dependent Transport in highly stochastic heterogeneous porous Media and Evaluation of transverse Macrodispersion
(2017-11-27)
Experimentelle und numerische Untersuchungen der dichteabhängigen Strömung und des Transportes gelöster Stoffe in einem sandbepackten Labortank sind wichtig für das Verständnis des Prozesses der Erneuerung von Aquifer. Am Hydrauliklabor der Universität Kassel werden solche Experimente zur Analyse von Makrodispersionseffekte auf eine Frisch-Salzwasser-Grenzfläche innerhalb der heterogen gepackten Sandstruktur mit vorgegebenen stochastischen Eigenschaften in einem Plexiglastank mit den Maßen 9.8×0.1 × 1.225 m durchgeführt. ...
Dissertation
Climate Change Impact Assessment of Basin-scale Water Allocation and Management in the Karkheh River Basin, Iran
(2018-09-21)
Hydrological research is intended to improve our understanding of hydrologic processes, the role of hydrological systems in providing water for ecosystems and society, and of the water cycle in the functioning of the earth system. The proper understanding of the hydrology of arid and semi-arid regions is becoming increasingly important, due to diminishing projections of water resource availability in response to global environmental changes. The main objective of this thesis study is to investigate the development ...