runoff generation

Zooming out: how climate and landscapes control streamflow generation

As you watched the videos about flow generation mechanisms, one of the things that you should have noticed is that climate and landscape characteristics influence the way water gets to streams. (And the way water gets to streams influences the shape of the hydrograph.) Putting it together Below I go …

How flow generation controls stream hydrographs

[Watershed Hydrology students: You should read the whole thing, but if you want to see the TL;DR version first, scroll way down.] The big picture Now that you’ve learned all about the four different ways to generate streamflow, you might be asking yourself why they matter. Here’s why it matters: …