... referred to as rain gar-
dens). Bioretention is a terrestrial-based (upland as opposed to wetland) , water qual-
ity and water quantity control practice using the chemical, biological, and physical
properties ... LLC
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time and natural growth to treat stormwater prior to discharge to a downstream
surface water...
... 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 ... is the largest freshwater lake in China, with many marshes, grass-
lands, and alluvial oodplains in its watershed. The wetland area of Poyang Lake
Basin has diverse ora a...
... 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 ... examining spectral characteris-
tics, three groups of objects with spectral similarity were identied: (a) wetland and
grassland/forest, (b) bare land and developing urban area, an...
... (3.1)
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marsh vegetation and invasive species in fragmented coastal wetlands. Schmidt and
Skidmore (2003), for example, examined and tested ... 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 (Distichlis...
... inter-
annual variation in climate and potential loss of groundwater reserves. A doubling of
local populations around metropolitan areas will have a limited impact on interan-
nual WASSI variability. ... by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Degrees Celsius
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Communities need to accurately assess future water supply and d...
... described the water problem including seasonal drought and water stor-
age capacity in a red soil area. Wang et al. (1996) analyzed the variations in rainfall,
evaporation, and water storage and supply ... 60 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment
have rarely been undertaken in the red soil areas of China. SWAT (Soil and Water
Assessment Tool) (Arno...
... impacts on groundwater recharge, soil moisture, and baseow. For-
estation in wetland- dominated watersheds may have little effect on overall
watershed hydrology since water balances (i.e., evapotranspiration) ... vegetated
watersheds. The average annual precipitation was about 400 mm. Greater than 95%
of precipitation evapotranspirated, and less than 5% precipitation became stream...
... topographic index
bins, and A
i
[L
2
] is the fractional catchment area corresponding to each bin.
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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 zo...
... distributed watershed models of water and agricultural materials runoff and
identies their limitations, and then presents our resultant distributed model of water
and material movement within a watershed.
9.2 ... hydrological /water quality models available to evaluate movement of materials
(sediments, animal and human wastes, agricultural chemicals, nutrients, etc.) i...