{"title":"Phenomenological validation of a regional rainfall frequency analysis","authors":"A. Parodi , G. Boni","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00064-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00064-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The interpretation of the experimental evidence of the presence of a double component in the distribution of rainfall annual maxima (RAM) observed along the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy is discussed here. Using a simple model for rainfall storm generation the effect of the presence or absence of the European blocking condition on the generation of the double component in the RAM is investigated. The model is calibrated on the essential meteorological characteristics of the Mediterranean storms provided both by remote sensing and high resolution raingauge data. It allows to give a physical explanation for the variability of the parameters distribution with time observation interval. The maxima extracted from the model generated rainfall time series show statistical properties very similar to those obtained by sample data. In particular the model derived rainfall frequency curves and intensity duration frequency curves show a good agreement with the observed ones.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101025,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere","volume":"26 9","pages":"Pages 649-654"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00064-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81530855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring, observing and pattern recognition of sediment transport in an armoured river using a sampler with attached underwater camera","authors":"H.D. Duizendstra","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)85015-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)85015-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In a small part of the Meuse, the only gravel bed river in the Netherlands, bed load transport cannot be measured from a measuring vessel because of the large flow velocities at flood discharges. Since 1994 these measurements were carried out from bridges by means of a truck with a winch. The first measurements were carried out with a Helley-Smith sampler and since 1997 the BTMA-2 sampler was used. The measurements of the bed load transport at the flood discharge of 2770 m<sup>3</sup>/s proved these measurements could be carried out for the entire range of discharges (Fig. 1). <figure><img></figure></p><p>On top of both samplers an underwater camera was attached by which pictures of the river bed and the inflowing bed load were taken and stored on a video tape. The combination of the measurements with pictures of the river bed give an explanation of the complex morphological behaviour of the Common Meuse at varying discharges due to the building of an armour layer. The latest measurements of the bed load transport (1998) show the timeshift between maximum discharge and maximum bed load transport as shown earlier in laboratory experiments (Klaassen, 1987).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101025,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere","volume":"26 1","pages":"Pages 59-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1909(01)85015-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75383767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BALTEX precipitation analysis: results from the BRIDGE preparation phase","authors":"F. Rubel , M. Hantel","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00025-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00025-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Baltic Sea Experiment (BALTEX) is the European contribution to the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX). During the preparation phase of the BALTEX main experiment BRIDGE a <em>Precipitation Correction and Analysis</em> (PCA) model has been designed and was tested using 3 years (August 1995 – December 1998) of about 4 000 rain gauge observations collected by the BALTEX Meteorological Data Centre (BMDC). The PCA model consists of two parts: (1) a bias correction and (2) a geostatistical module. The dynamic bias correction reduces the systematic underestimation of the rain gauges due to wind-induced, evaporation and wetting losses taking instrument-specific properties as well as additional information from synoptic observations into account. The mean correction factor has a maximum in February (1.25 – 1.50) and a minimum in August (1.02 – 1.05). The geostatistical module of the PCA model consists of an ordinary block kriging algorithm to estimate area averaged precipitation values on the grid of the meso-scale model REMO (spatial resolution: <span><math><mtext>1</mtext><mtext>6</mtext></math></span> degree or 18 km). Results, to be operationally produced during BRIDGE, will be daily, monthly and annual meso-scale precipitation fields based on quality checked, bias corrected rain gauge measurements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101025,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere","volume":"26 5","pages":"Pages 397-401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00025-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73802375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bird identification on 1290-MHz wind profiler data applying neural networks and neurofuzzy systems","authors":"H. Richner, R. Kretzschmar","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1909(00)00237-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1909(00)00237-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Migrating birds can severely affect data from wind profilers operating in the 1000 MHz range. Recent methods for removing bird contamination do not seem to solve the problem satisfactorily. Here, a new method, the Quantum Neurofuzzy Bird Identification and Removal Deck (NEURO-BIRD) is presented. The algorithm has an overall classification rate of over 90 % for birds, clear air returns, and rain echoes for single, one-second wind profiler spectra. Even with very heavy migration, high quality hourly winds can be obtained. Because the source of contamination of the spectra is unambiguously identified, bird data can be supplied for ornithological research. NEURO-BIRD is very fast and well suited for real-time applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101025,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere","volume":"26 3","pages":"Pages 181-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1909(00)00237-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74379203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ground based remote profiling of the atmosphere: Demands, prospects and status","authors":"G. Peters","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1909(00)00236-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1909(00)00236-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The “traditional” fields of application of ground based remote sensing, are local and meso-scale studies and, more recently, observational networks used for weather forecast. In this paper their potential role in climate research is discussed. Global circulation models used for climate simulation depend on the realistic parameterization of unresolved physical processes. Particularly the presentation of processes related to the hydrological cycle seems to require improvements. Existing data sets, providing the basis for pertinent parameterizations, suffer from deficiencies, which may be overcome by the systematic use of ground based remote sensing in a global climatologic observing system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101025,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere","volume":"26 3","pages":"Pages 175-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1909(00)00236-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79402615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative estimation of surface ozone observation and forecast errors","authors":"S. Tilmes","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00082-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00082-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Five-month time series of hourly ground level ozone data of more than 360 German monitoring sites are investigated to estimate errors in observations and forecasts by a comprehensive three-dimensional regional chemistry transport model. On the assumption of uniform measurement techniques, error variances and spatial error correlations in the gridded background field are derived from the analysis of observation increments which are the differences between observations and modeled data. A thorough estimation of those error characteristics is the basic requirement for all data assimilation techniques. The results indicate how the representativeness of the observation sites is limited by differences in local emission characteristics. Additionally, there is a strong dependency on the time of day. The conclusion is that the description of observation and background error covariances for the analysis of ground level ozone has to be time-dependent and spatially inhomogeneous.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101025,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere","volume":"26 10","pages":"Pages 759-762"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00082-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80713255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Documented Land Use Changes on the Surface Albedo and Evapotranspiration in a Plain Watershed","authors":"J. Mika, Sz. Horváth, L. Makra","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00055-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00055-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101025,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere","volume":"33 1","pages":"601-606"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75290837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bias correction of global daily rain gauge measurements","authors":"M. Ungersböck , F. Rubel , T. Fuchs , B. Rudolf","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00027-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00027-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Up to the present global precipitation climatologies based on rain gauges have been corrected for systematic measurement errors using monthly correction factors only. We present results from a statistical correction model for daily measurements. It was developed in the framework of BALTEX and adapted for the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) to correct global daily rain gauge data routinely transmitted via GTS. We focus on regions of the GEWEX continental scale experiments BALTEX (Europe), GAME (Asia), LBA (South-America) and GCIP (North- America). The correction model was applied to 2 years of data (1996, 1997) and compared with the correction factors of the widely used precipitation climatology of Legates (1987). In the BALTEX region our averaged daily correction factor is about equal to the monthly correction given by Legates during the summer months, while Legates estimated higher corrections for snow (up to 50 %). In the regions of GAME and LBA the corrections given by Legates are also generally higher (50 – 100 %) than our corrections. This is opposite to the corrections calculated for GCIP rain gauges, which are not significantly different.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101025,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere","volume":"26 5","pages":"Pages 411-414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00027-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73122311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Roo, M. Odijk, G. Schmuck, E. Koster, A. Lucieer
{"title":"Assessing the effects of land use changes on floods in the meuse and oder catchment","authors":"A. Roo, M. Odijk, G. Schmuck, E. Koster, A. Lucieer","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00054-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00054-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101025,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere","volume":"73 1","pages":"593-599"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73246660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactive vegetation modelling at a regional scale: application to the adour basin","authors":"S. Voirin, J.-C. Calvet, F. Habets, Noilhan","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00038-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00038-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ISBA (Interactions between Soil Biosphere and Atmosphere) SVAT model was modified to include a representation of interactive vegetation. A parameterization of <em>CO</em><sub>2</sub> assimilation was introduced, the photosynthesis process was parameterized as a function of vegetation physiological properties and environmental conditions. Thereby, the canopy stomatal resistance is described in a more realistic way than in the initial version. A growth model was used to compute Leaf Area Index (LAI) evolution instead of prescribing it from satellite data without taking into account possible climate changes and their consequences on plant development. In this paper, the “ISBA-A-gs” modified model is tested at the regional scale in the Adour basin. For this purpose it was necessary to calibrate three parameters for each land cover type (mainly coniferous forest, summer and winter crops): the mesophyll conductance, the maximum turnover time of leaves and an effective biomass per LAI ratio. This work has been followed by a long term simulation (1986–1995), where the surface scheme was coupled with a distributed hydrological model. The results were compared to those obtained with the “standard version”, <em>i.e</em> ISBA without A-gs. For the whole period, the simulated LAI was lower than the prescribed one, which decreased evaporation (10 to 15 % less with A-gs) and led to a better simulation of streamflow on both crop and forest areas.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101025,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere","volume":"26 5","pages":"Pages 479-484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1909(01)00038-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74832894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}