Resulting surfaces are useful for a variety of landscape-scale modeling applications, such as the prediction of potential hillslope failure, hydrologic flow paths, and vegetation patterns.
SLOPEMAP can be applied to various tasks in geoscientific digital terrain analysis, like slope stability assessments, map scale structural analysis, the recognition of hydrologic flow paths, or geomorphological landscape analysis.
The HCT is a web-interface program which uses a modified version of the water erosion prediction project (WEPP, Laflen and others 1991) model (Boll and others 2011) to identify the effects of various management practices on hydrologic flow paths and sediment transport through specific land types in a region.
After DMIP 1, the NWS recognized the need for additional science experiments to guide its research-to-operations path towards advanced hydrologic models for river and water resources forecasting.
We applied betweenness-centrality concepts (using Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm) to determine major hydrologic flowpaths based off of hydraulic resistance.
Poole, GC; O'Daniel, SJ; Jones, KL; Woessner, WW; Bernhardt, ES; Helton, AM; Stanford, JA; Boer, BR; Beechie, TJ, Hydrologic spiralling: The role of multiple interactive flow paths in stream ecosystems, River Research and Applications, vol. 24 no.
A flow path map (Fig. 4), generated from hydrologic head data collected monthly at all monitoring wells and staff gauges, indicates that groundwater radiates in nearly all directions from the elevated replacement site.
Results of this study suggest that local watershed-scale processes, such as groundwater storage in limestone and alluvial strata, dynamic infiltration flow paths, and soil moisture conditions, produce a threshold-driven hydrologic response, decoupling the headwater hydrologic regimes from sub-annual weather patterns.
Like hydrologic watershed boundaries for stream networks, the contributing areas of potential lava flow paths can be delineated based on topography.
Changes in the spatial distribution and flow-paths of water in a high-mountain, headwaters watershed are evaluated using an integrated hydrologic model based on a heterogeneous domain in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in the United States.
