WETLAND AND WATER RESOURCE MODELING AND ASSESSMENT: A Watershed Perspective - Chapter 3 doc

... residential and industrial land uses interspersed among expanses of landlls, marsh grass elds, tidal wetlands creeks, mudats, and rivers (Figure 3. 1). There are approximately Band 32 Band 17 Band ... 23 34 km 2 of wetlands and open water within the Meadowlands, and 12 km 2 of salt marsh vegetation including high marsh species Patens (Spartina patens) and Dis- tichlis...

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... informa- tion from the image by masking out the water bodies. Seven land cover types, includ- ing built-up area, wetland (with vegetation), grassland, forest, bare land, muddy beach, and farmland ... spectral comparison of the built-up urban area with the muddy beach. © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 16 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment bodies and...

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... interan- nual WASSI variability. Even in heavily populated areas, residential and commer- cial water use represent small segments of total water demand, but cities do affect water quality. As ... by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Degrees Celsius 44 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment Communities need to accurately assess future water supply and demand i...

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... 1996. Water problem of red soil and its management [in Chinese]. Acta Pedologica Sinica 33 (1): 13 20. © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 62 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment Watershed ... obtain or measure percolation, evapotranspiration, and runoff accurately in the large- to medium-scale basin, and even in the small-scale watershed. Theref...

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... topographic index bins, and A i [L 2 ] is the fractional catchment area corresponding to each bin. 94 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment 8 .3. 2 MODEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION The ... local unsaturated zone storage due to gravity drainage, and param- eter t d is a time constant. Vertical drainage that depletes the water in the subsurface storm ow...

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... prediction of water quality parameters. Landscape indices are gen- erally widely used tools for spatial landscape analyses and serve as standards for comparison between landscapes in different parts ... LLC 146 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment 12 .3 RESULTS A. Multivariate regression analysis suggested that the mean patch size of agri- culture and open l...

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... The coastal wetlands only used a single-season late spring leaf-off image from mid-March. Prairie wetlands, forest wetlands, and ripar- ian wetlands utilized a two-season (leaf-off and peak phenological ... China, with many marshes, grass- lands, and alluvial oodplains in its watershed. The wetland area of Poyang Lake Basin has diverse ora and fauna and provides important...

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... for automatic and quick wetland classication. EW N S Water Body FIGURE 4.8 Vector map of Poyang Lake wetland. © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 38 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and ... lake water, reservoir, and land. © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 34 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment where C is the landscape frag...

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... & Francis Group, LLC 80 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment This analysis was based on the assumption that future precipitation and poten- tial evapotranspiration do not change. ... and a runoff ratio of 70.2%) than the 291-ha clear-cut watershed (276 mm/yr and a runoff ratio of 27 .3% ). In 1969, 60% of the forested watershed was harvested and...

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... heat balance used for snow- melt and potential evapotranspiration, are taken as spatially constant over the water- shed. Also, the partial linear reservoir coefcients for the groundwater and ... hydrological /water quality models available to evaluate movement of materials (sediments, animal and human wastes, agricultural chemicals, nutrients, etc.) in both surface and subsurfac...

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