Hydrology
Messy Rivers are Healthy Rivers
Dr. Ellen Wohl provoked the audience to give thought to how we evaluate river health in her keynote address to the Riverflow 2016 Conference in...
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Stage-Discharge Rating Curves – Geophysics or Religion?
Almost everything we know about our global freshwater resources is due to the humble stage-discharge rating curve. The vast majority of all flow data ever...
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Drones – Providing a New Perspective on Hydrometry
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) also known as drones, can be used for Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry to provide cross-sectional hydrometry info.
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Extreme Gauging – How to Extend Rating Curves With Confidence
Extreme flows are extremely hard to gauge, hence we get very few gaugings to accurately define the top-end of stage-discharge rating curves. This is a...
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Data Rounding and Why You Should Care
To understand why modern data management systems store data to double precision we must consider the distinction between storing and reporting of data.
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How to Get Better Flow Measurements Using the Rising Bubble Method
One objective of the Hydrology Corner is to provide a forum where hydrometric problems can be discussed and clever solutions to those problems can be...
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The Weaponization of Water Data
Every change in the expected pattern of variability of water supply and quality poses a threat to the security of the water, food and energy...
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A Hydrologist’s Holiday
A 3-day hike in July on the Wapta Icefield in the Canadian Rockies with my son took us up the Bow Glacier, briefly onto the...
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The Other Extreme : the Measurement of Water Flow
Most conversations about extreme measurements focus on flood flow. However, I recently had a conversation with Emily Huxter about her…
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The Fracking Truth About Hydraulic Fracturing
Read about differing opinions about the hydraulic fracturing "fracking" technique used for shale gas extraction.
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Boom Bust & Echo – Global Water Infrastructure Renewal
Clean, safe, water delivery to your home is a really good idea. Sanitary treatment of water waste from your home…
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Good Data Lead to Good Outcomes! Buenos Datos Conducen a Buenos Resultados!
Good data lead to good outcomes! Most of us have the luxury of taking our data for granted. Without the…