{"title":"Hydrologic drought characteristics of selected basins in various climate zones of Lebanon","authors":"El Tayara - Zobaida","doi":"10.26491/mhwm/174194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26491/mhwm/174194","url":null,"abstract":"1. Beran M.A., Rodier J.A., 1985, Hydrological aspects of drought: a contribution to the International Hydrological Programme, Studies and reports in hydrology, UNESCO-WMO, Paris, 149 pp. Google Scholar","PeriodicalId":42852,"journal":{"name":"Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management-Research and Operational Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135476637","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}
Krystyna Konca-Kedzierska, Joanna Wibig, Marta Gruszczyńska
{"title":"Comparison and combination of interpolation methods for daily precipitation in Poland: evaluation using the correlation coefficient and correspondence ratio","authors":"Krystyna Konca-Kedzierska, Joanna Wibig, Marta Gruszczyńska","doi":"10.26491/mhwm/171699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26491/mhwm/171699","url":null,"abstract":"1. Akima H., Gebhardt A., 2022, Interpolation of Irregularly and Regularly Spaced Data, Package “akima”, version 0.6-3.4, available at https://cran.r-project.org/web... (data access 08.09.2023). WWW Google Scholar","PeriodicalId":42852,"journal":{"name":"Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management-Research and Operational Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135153884","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":"Non-homogeneity of hydrometric data and estimating the rating curve","authors":"Teresa Jakubczyk, W. Szulczewski","doi":"10.26491/mhwm/168142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26491/mhwm/168142","url":null,"abstract":"One of the main tasks of contemporary hydrology is to plot the best possible rating curve, which has numerous applications in practical hydrological problems. The quality of the curve depends to a significant degree on the precision of hydrometric measurements and the precision in determining the relationship between discharge and the stage (water level). In this study, we engage the multidimensional problem of non-homogeneity of hydrometric data. The distances between a given point of measurement and the given cross-section proved to be highly diverse. Hence, we propose data transformation so that every measurement can be treated as taken in a given cross-section. The transformation allows partial homogenization of measurement data. An automatic non-linear method for estimating the rating curve is also proposed. The method has been tested on selected representatives of mountain, submontane, and lowland rivers of the Oder River catchment basin (Lower Silesia, Poland). Cross-sections selected for analysis were: Łąki on the Barycz R iver, Lądek Zdrój on the Biała Łądecka R iver, Jelenia Góra on the Bóbr River, Jakuszyce on the Kamienna River, and Łozy on the Kwisa River.","PeriodicalId":42852,"journal":{"name":"Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management-Research and Operational Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82448298","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}
L. Gorbachova, O. Afteniuk, B. Khrystiuk, O. Lobodzinskyi
{"title":"Trends and fluctuations of river ice regimes in the Prypiat Basin, within Ukraine","authors":"L. Gorbachova, O. Afteniuk, B. Khrystiuk, O. Lobodzinskyi","doi":"10.26491/mhwm/166632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26491/mhwm/166632","url":null,"abstract":"Information about the formation, destruction, and duration of river ice regimes is especially important for hydropower, shipping, fisheries, etc. Research into modern trends in river ice regimes and their spatial and temporal fluctuations is essential, especially in a changing climate. This study examines the trends and fluctuations of air temperature and ice regimes based on series of observations in the Prypiat River basin within Ukraine. Air temperature data from 17 meteorological stations and ice data from 29 water gauges were analyzed. A complex analytical approach involving statistical and graphical methods was employed. The Mann-Kendall statistical test, mass curve, residual mass curve, and combined graphs were used in the study. In the Prypiat River basin within Ukraine, observations of mean monthly air temperature, ice occurrence, freeze-up, and their duration are homogeneous (quasi-homogeneous) and stationary (quasi-stationary). The quasi-homogeneous and quasi-stationary characteristics are explained by the presence in the observation series of only increasing and decreasing phases of long-term cyclical fluctuations, which are incomplete. The trends of air temperature and ice regime correspond strongly, indicating the defining role of air temperature in the formation of ice occurrence and freeze-up. Since the end of the 1990s, the warming phase of air temperature in the autumn-winter period determines the appearance of ice and freeze-up later in the year. In March, the warming trend in air temperature, which began after 1988, determines the freeze-up, break-up, and disappearance of ice earlier in the year. Thus, the duration of ice and freeze-up on the rivers has decreased.","PeriodicalId":42852,"journal":{"name":"Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management-Research and Operational Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80162417","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}
O. Lobodzinskyi, Yevhen Vasylenko, Olha Koshkina, Y. Nabyvanets
{"title":"Assessing the impact of climate change on discharge in the Horyn River basin by analyzing precipitation and temperature data","authors":"O. Lobodzinskyi, Yevhen Vasylenko, Olha Koshkina, Y. Nabyvanets","doi":"10.26491/mhwm/163286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26491/mhwm/163286","url":null,"abstract":"It is important to investigate the hydrological consequences of current climate change. Hydrological responses to climate warming and wetter conditions include changes in discharge (frequency, amplitude, and volume). This paper describes current climate change and its impact on hydrological flow within the Horyn River basin. Daily air temperature and precipitation data obtained from the 17 meteorological stations located in and nearby the Horyn River basin, in combination with hydrological data (such as daily water discharges obtained from 9 water gauges), were used for the analysis of climate variability and its hydrological consequences. Analyses of meteorological variables and water discharges are crucial for the assessment of long-term changes in the river regime. Thiessen polygons were used to determine the area of influence of assigned specific meteorological stations, which affect the river ’ s catchments within the Horyn River basin. As a result of the trend analysis, it was observed that discharge within the Horyn River basin decreased over time. These results were congruent with the trends of precipitation data and air temperature data of the stations determined by the Thiessen polygons and basin boundaries. To understand current changes in the daily flow in the basin, changes in air temperature and precipitation for the period 1991-2020 were compared with the period of the climatic norm (1961-1990). A similar analysis was done for daily water discharges. Increasing air temperature and decreasing precipitation in the current period led to a significant decrease in discharges in the Horyn River basin, especially during the spring flood period.","PeriodicalId":42852,"journal":{"name":"Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management-Research and Operational Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86983875","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}
W. Jarmołowski, P. Wielgosz, A. Krypiak-Gregorczyk, X. Ren
{"title":"Assessment of global ionosphere maps in view of ionospheric correction for coastal and inland altimetry: the case for average total electron content","authors":"W. Jarmołowski, P. Wielgosz, A. Krypiak-Gregorczyk, X. Ren","doi":"10.26491/mhwm/161815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26491/mhwm/161815","url":null,"abstract":"Several low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are equipped with dual-frequency altimeters, theoretically scanning the entire ionosphere in the nadir direction. These two frequencies enable the determination of ionospheric delay and, thus, total electron content (TEC) below the satellite orbit. This information helps in altimetric range determination but is limited to sea and ocean areas. Therefore, global and local ionospheric models are needed for ionospheric corrections over coastal regions and lands. At the same time, altimetry-derived TEC is an important source of validation data for global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-TEC models over the oceans, where the number of GNSS stations is limited. This study compares the application of a high-resolution regional GNSS-TEC model determined from Precise Point Positioning and modeled by least-squares collocation (PPPLSC), and global ionosphere maps (GIMs), in the determination of ionospheric corrections along coastal altimetry tracks. The ionospheric delay values from 5 models are then compared with altimetry-derived TEC from 3 satellites, in the region of southeastern Asia, during a time of moderate TEC values and solar conditions. The reason for the choice of area is that altimetric observations from coastal zones meet difficulties related to atmospheric corrections, e.g., ionospheric correction, which can be affected by the land in the altimeter footprint. For this reason, along with the rapid progress of inland satellite hydrology, we are encouraged to study the consistency of ionospheric delays in coastal regions. The study shows overall discrepancies of 30% of the entire ionospheric delay, which is 2-3 cm even in the case of 35 TEC unit (TECU = 10 16 el/m 2 ) values. For this reason, in the case of increased solar activity, the GIMs can have even less TEC consistency with the altimetry-derived TEC, resulting from different orbital altitudes, data gaps, and modeling techniques. The GIMs, modeled by low-order spherical harmonics, have particularly low resolution and do not represent well the equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA).","PeriodicalId":42852,"journal":{"name":"Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management-Research and Operational Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90967187","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":"Analyzing the derecho system over Poland on 11 August 2017. Preface to the topical issue","authors":"Mateusz Taszarek, M. Ziemianski","doi":"10.26491/mhwm/161546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26491/mhwm/161546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42852,"journal":{"name":"Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management-Research and Operational Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79771605","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":"Influence of computational grid resolution on the quality of forecasts of dangerous convection phenomena: a case study of August 11, 2017","authors":"A. Mazur, G. Duniec","doi":"10.26491/mhwm/159068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26491/mhwm/159068","url":null,"abstract":",","PeriodicalId":42852,"journal":{"name":"Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management-Research and Operational Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78464021","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}
M. Kolonko, Małgorzata Szczęch-Gajewska, B. Bochenek, G. Stachura, Piotr Sekula
{"title":"Using ALARO and AROME numerical weather prediction models for the derecho case on 11 August 2017","authors":"M. Kolonko, Małgorzata Szczęch-Gajewska, B. Bochenek, G. Stachura, Piotr Sekula","doi":"10.26491/mhwm/156260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26491/mhwm/156260","url":null,"abstract":"On average, a derecho occurs once a year in Poland while bow echoes happen several times per year. On 11 August 2017, severe meteorological phenomena were observed in Poland, including extremely strong wind gusts. We focused especially on the convective windstorm of a derecho type which occurred on that date in northern and north-western Poland. A rapidly moving mesoscale convective system (MCS) resulted in a bow echo, a mesoscale convective vortex (MCV), and finally fulfilled the criteria for a derecho. To establish whether our operational models in the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, National Research Institute (IMGW-PIB) could reproduce a derecho of such intensity as that of 11 August 2017, the results from two mesoscale numerical weather prediction models were analyzed. The Application of Research to Operation at Mesoscale (AROME) and the ALADIN & AROME (ALARO) models were applied in the non-hydrostatic regime. We also examine how models differ with respect to mesoscale convective system drivers (such as vertical wind shear and convective available potential energy) and representation of deep convection (e.g., vertical velocities, cold pool generation). Forecasts are compared with observations of wind gusts and radar data. Severe weather phenomena, such as rear inflow jet and cold pool, were predicted by both models, visible on the maps of the wind velocity at 850 and 925 hPa pressure levels and on the map of air temperature at 2 m above the ground level, respectively. Relative vorticity maps of the middle and lower troposphere were analyzed for understanding the evolution of MCV.","PeriodicalId":42852,"journal":{"name":"Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management-Research and Operational Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90074399","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}
Albert Malinger, Małgorzata Wawrzyniak, Maksymilian Rybacki, T. Dysarz, Ewelina Szałkiewicz
{"title":"Reducing flood hazard by effective polder operation: A case study of the Golina polder","authors":"Albert Malinger, Małgorzata Wawrzyniak, Maksymilian Rybacki, T. Dysarz, Ewelina Szałkiewicz","doi":"10.26491/mhwm/156516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26491/mhwm/156516","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the study was to determine an effective variant of operation of the Golina polder to reduce flood hazard in the Warta River valley. We implemented a trial-and-error method for the development of computational variants. Our approach was based on staged analyses of alternatives, which took into account different locations and parameters of the inlet and outlet-controlling structures. Various control scenarios for flooding and draining the polder were also considered. A hybrid hydrodynamic model consisting of a 1D part for the main river area and a 2D part for the polder area was used for calculations. The model was built based on a digital elevation model (1 m resolution) and channel sections of the Warta River. The calibration was based on data collected during the flood in 2010 from the water gauge Sławsk (located directl y at the Warta River) and water surface elevation measurements carried out in the polder area. Alternatives in subsequent stages were determined based on the results of previous stages, as well as experiences from the 2010 flood and consultations with the Regional Water Management Board in Poznań. The performance of the alternatives was evaluated according to six criteria that described the effectiveness of the polder operation in terms of its practical use and effectiveness in reducing flood hazard. The results showed that our approach made it possible to identify an effective variant of polder operation. Additional calculations were also performed to determine the magnitude of flows for which flooding of the polder should be considered to reduce downstream flooding.","PeriodicalId":42852,"journal":{"name":"Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management-Research and Operational Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74763469","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}