Search Results - "Vertessy, R A"

A review of paired catchment studies for determining changes in water yield resulting from alterations in vegetation by Brown, Alice E., Zhang, Lu, McMahon, Thomas A., Western, Andrew W., Vertessy, Robert A.

“…Paired catchment studies have been widely used as a means of determining the magnitude of water yield changes resulting from changes in vegetation. This review…”
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Forest age-induced changes in evapotranspiration and water yield in a eucalypt forest by Cornish, P.M, Vertessy, R.A

“…Water yields in a regrowth eucalypt forest were found to increase initially and then to decline below pre-treatment levels during the 16-year period which…”
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review of whole-plant water use studies in trees by Wullschleger, S.D, Meinzer, F.C, Vertessy, R.A

“…Weighing lysimeters, large-tree potometers, ventilated chambers, radioisotopes, stable isotopes and an array of heat balance/heat dissipation methods have been…”
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Relationships between stem diameter, sapwood area, leaf area and transpiration in a young mountain ash forest by Vertessy, R.A, Benyon, R.G, O'Sullivan, S.K, Gribben, P.R

“…We examined relationships between stem diameter, sapwood area, leaf area and transpiration in a 15-year-old mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell.) forest…”
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Comparing modelling frameworks – A workshop approach by Argent, R.M., Voinov, A., Maxwell, T., Cuddy, S.M., Rahman, J.M., Seaton, S., Vertessy, R.A., Braddock, R.D.

“…Of concern to the environmental modelling community is the proliferation of individual, and individualistic, models and the time associated with common model…”
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Estimating stand water use of large mountain ash trees and validation of the sap flow measurement technique by Vertessy, R A, Hatton, T J, Reece, P, O'Sullivan, S K, Benyon, R G

“…Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans F.J. Muell.) forest catchments exhibit a strong relationship between stand age and runoff, attributed inter alia to…”
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Runoff and sediment generation on bench-terraced hillsides: measurements and up-scaling of a field-based model by van Dijk, A. I. J. M., Bruijnzeel, L. A., Vertessy, R. A., Ruijter, J.

“…Despite widespread bench‐terracing, stream sediment yields from agricultural hillsides in upland West Java remain high. We studied the causes of this lack of…”
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Long-term growth and water balance predictions for a mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forest catchment subject to clear-felling and regeneration by Vertessy, R. A., Hatton, T. J., Benyon, R. G., Dawes, W. R.

“…We used a physically based ecohydrological model to predict the water balance and growth responses of a mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell.) forest…”
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Pedotransfer functions for estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity: implications for modeling storm flow generation by Sobieraj, J.A, Elsenbeer, H, Vertessy, R.A

“…We evaluated the performance of nine published pedotransfer functions (PTFs) for estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) in modeling the stormflow…”
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Integration of sapflow velocity to estimate plant water use by Hatton, T.J, Catchpole, E.A, Vertessy, R.A

“…The heat pulse technique provides an estimate of sapflow velocity at one position within the xylem of an individual plant. Previous experience has shown that…”
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Modelling the effects of soil moisture and solute conditions on long-term tree growth and water use: a case study from the Shepparton irrigation area, Australia by Silberstein, R.P, Vertessy, R.A, Morris, J, Feikema, P.M

“…This paper discusses the growth and hydrologic impact of a small (2 ha) 21-year old plantation growing over a shallow saline water table at Kyabram, in the…”
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Observations of evapotranspiration in a break of slope plantation susceptible to periodic drought stress by McJannet, D. L., Vertessy, R. A., Clifton, C. A.

“…Break of slope (BOS) plantations are advocated as a means of water table control in areas where groundwater flows through colluvial deposits overlying low…”
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Continuous modeling of intermittent stormflows on a semi-arid agricultural catchment by Zhu, T.X, Band, L.E, Vertessy, R.A

“…The major barriers to modeling hydrological processes in semi-arid and arid areas are a lack of understanding and model representations of the distinctive…”
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Factors determining relations between stand age and catchment water balance in mountain ash forests by Vertessy, Robert A., Watson, Fred G.R., O′Sullivan, Sharon K.

“…There is a well-documented empirical relationship between stand age and water yield for mountain ash ( Eucalyptus regnans) forested catchments in the Central…”
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Large-scale distribution modelling and the utility of detailed ground data by Watson, Fred G. R., Grayson, Rodger B., Vertessy, Robert A., McMahon, Thomas A.

“…A large‐scale distribution function model was used to investigate the effect of differing parameter mapping schemes on the quality of hydrological predictions…”
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A review of whole-plant water use studies in tree by Wullschleger, Stan D., Meinzer, F. C., Vertessy, R. A.

“…Weighing lysimeters, large-tree potometers, ventilated chambers, radioisotopes, stable isotopes and an array of heat balance/heat dissipation methods have been…”
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Distributed modeling of storm flow generation in an Amazonian rain forest catchment: Effects of model parameterization by Vertessy, Robert A., Elsenbeer, Helmut

“…We describe a process‐based storm flow generation model, Topog_SBM consisting of a simple bucket model for soil water accounting, a one‐dimensional kinematic…”
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Large-scale modelling of forest hydrological processes and their long-term effect on water yield by Watson, Fred G. R., Vertessy, Robert A., Grayson, Rodger B.

“…A water balance model was used to simulate the long‐term increases in water yield with forest age which are observed in the mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans)…”
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Integration and application of the Rainfall Runoff Library by Kim, S, Vertessy, R A, Perraud, J-M, Sung, Y

“…The Rainfall Runoff Library (RRL) provides a convenient platform for implementing environment modelling components such as rainfall runoff models, calibration…”
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The sensitivity of a catchment model to soil hydraulic properties obtained by using different measurement techniques by Davis, Sharon H., Vertessy, Robert A., Silberstein, Richard P.

“…Most studies on the use of physically based hydrological models have identified saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) as one of the most sensitive input…”
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