International collaboration between research institutes and universities is a promising way to reach consensus on hydrological model development. Although model comparison studies are very valuable for international cooperation, they do often not lead to very clear new insights regarding the relevance of the modelled processes. We hypothesise that ...
Published in E3S Web of Conferences
Occurring at small temporal and spatial scales, flash floods (FF) can cause severe economic damages and human losses. To better anticipate such events and mitigate their impacts, the French Ministry in charge of Ecology has decided to set up a national FF warning system over the French territory. This automated system will be run by the SCHAPI, the...
The Languedoc area, in Southern France, is prone to autumnal flash floods which are characteristic of the Mediterranean climate. To cope with this threat, the local authorities have chosen to build several dams on the main dangerous rivers of the area. We have focused on the flood mitigation facilities of two operators: the City of Nîmes and the Ga...
Ideally, semi-distributed hydrologic models should provide better streamflow simulations than lumped models, along with spatially-relevant water resources management solutions. However, the spatial distribution of model parameters raises issues related to the calibration strategy and to the identifiability of the parameters. To analyse these issues...
Published in Surveys in Geophysics
Natural and anthropogenic forcing factors and their changes significantly impact water resources in many river basins around the world. Information on such changes can be derived from fine scale in situ and satellite observations, used in combination with hydrological models. The latter need to account for hydrological changes caused by human activ...
The large floodplains associated with the Amazon River and its main tributaries affect water transport, influence sediment and chemical budgets and support highly diverse ecosystems and productive fi sheries. Approximately 25% of the Amazon River discharge is routed through these systems along a 2,000 km reach between Sao Paulo de Olivença and Obid...
The large floodplains associated with the Amazon River and its main tributaries affect water transport, influence sediment and chemical budgets and support highly diverse ecosystems and productive fi sheries. Approximately 25% of the Amazon River discharge is routed through these systems along a 2,000 km reach between Sao Paulo de Olivença and Obid...
Published in La Houille Blanche
L'augmentation des surfaces imperméables et les modifications des chemins d'écoulement de l'eau par les réseaux d'assainissement unitaires et pluviaux ont un impact sur l'hydrologie des bassins versants. Les bassins périurbains, qui s'urbanisent rapidement, y sont particulièrement sensibles. Les outils de modélisation hydrologique spatialisés, simu...
Urban growth affects mostly the periphery of large cities, leading to catchments which are a mixture of rural and urban areas, so-called periurban catchments. Increase imperviousness and the setup of various networks (drinking water, sewer systems) lead to the modification of the hydrological cycle components and of water pathways in those catchmen...
