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 ...

As global warming advances, the amount of rainfall brought by typhoons to Japan could increase by about 3.1 times, ...

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 ...

AMES, Iowa — The Iowa Learning Farm has the power to make it rain. Researchers at Iowa State University have developed a machine that simulates the impact of raindrops to various land surfaces when it ...

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 ...

Sauk County rainfall simulator shows farmers how rain impacts their fields If soils are left bare outside the growing season, rain can cause some of that soil to run off into local waterways.

PORTLAND >> The dreary weather this week has scuttled plans to do a controlled balloon flight to measure the height of a proposed cellular tower. In an email to town officials on Thursday, Deanna ...