Land use, or what humans use their land for like agriculture, residential, or industrial purposes, has a big impact on the water quality of a stream or lake. Impervious surfaces cause water to move ...

Rainfall simulators have been used more than 50 years to evaluate hydrologic parameters. The generated runoff hydrograph is a continuous integration of all factors that affect runoff flow. The ...

Management makes a difference for water movement into and across soils during heavy rains. On this Soil Health Minute, Abbey Wick uses a rainfall simulator to show us how much water movement varies ...

ABSTRACT: The usefulness of time-series simulation of daily rainfall for estimating large quantiles of the distribution of 10 d seasonal maximum rainfall is questioned. The emphasis is on rare 10 d ...

Fourteen students watched water spray over patches of soil outside Park Elementary School. As soon as water started collecting in jars alongside each patch on the rain simulator Monday, the students ...

Kyushu University is pictured in this file photo. (Mainichi/Yusaku Yoshikawa) FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- As global warming advances, the amount of rainfall brought by typhoons to Japan could increase by about ...