Articles

Course subject(s) 1. Catchment and water balance 2. Precipitation and runoff 3. Hydrology of coastal areas 4. Salinity in estuaries 5. Coastal reservoirs and continental moisture recycling 6. Flow paths 7. Flood survey and flood propagation Exercises

Publications

Water resources and catchment hydrology

Savenije, H.H.G., 2000. Water Scarcity Indicators; the Deception of the Numbers, Phys Chem. Earth., Vol.25, No3, pp. 190-204.

De Groen, M.M. and H.H.G. Savenije, 2006. A monthly interception equation based on the statistical characteristics of daily rainfall, Water Resources Research, Vol. 42, W12417, doi:10.1029/2006WR005013.

Savenije, H.H.G., 2004. The importance of interception and why we should delete the term evapotranspiration from our vocabulary, Hydrological Processes, Vol. 18, 1507-1511, doi: 10.1002/hyp.5563.

Tracers

Rice, K.C. and G.M. Hornberger, 1998. Comparison of hydrochemical tracers to estimate source contributions to peak flows in a small, forested, headwater catchment, Water Resources Research, Vol 34., No. 7, pp. 1755-1766

Uhlenbrook S. and S. Hoeg, 2003. Quantifying uncertainties in tracer-based hydrograph separations: a case study for two-, three- and five-component hydrograph separations in a mountainous catchment,Hydrological Processes, Vol. 17, pp. 431-453, doi: 10.002/hyp.1134.

Jones J.P., E.A. Sudicky, A.E. Brookfield and Y.-J. Park, 2006. An assessment of the tracer based approach to quantifying groundwater contributions to streamflow, Water Resources Research, Vol.42, W02407, doi: 10.1029/2005WR004130.

Renaud J.-P., H.L. Cloke and M. Weiler, 2007. Comment on “An assessment of the tracer-based approach to quantifying groundwater contributions to streamflow” by J.P. Jones et al., Water Resources Research, Vol. 43, W09601, doi: 10.1029/2006WR005157.

 Sudicky E.A., Jones J.P., A.E. Brookfield and Y.-J. Park, 2007, Reply to comment by J.-P. Renaud et al. on “An assessment of the tracer-based approach to quantifying groundwater contributions to streamflow”, Water Resources Research, Vol.43, W09602, doi: 10.1029/2006WR005416.

Coastal Hydrology

Savenije, H.H.G., 1992. Lagrangian solution of the St. Venant’s equations for alluvial estuary, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 118, No. 8, pp. 1153-1163, ISSN 0733-9429/92/0008-1153.

Savenije, H.H.G., 1998. Analytical Expression for tidal damping in alluvial estuaries, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 124, No. 6, pp. 615-618, ISSN 0733-9429/98/0006-0618.

Savenije, H.H.G., 2001. A simple analytical expression to describe tidal damping or amplification,Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 243, pp. 205-215.

Coastal hydrology

Savenije, H.H.G. and E.J.M. Veling, 2005. Relation between tidal damping and wave celerity in estuaries, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, C04007, doi: 10.1029/2004JC002278.

Horrevoets A.C., H.H.G. Savenije, J.N. Schuurman and S. Graas, 2004. The influence of river discharge on tidal damping in alluvial estuaries, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 294, pp. 213/228, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.02.012.

Savenije, H.H.G., 1993. Predictive model for salt intrusion in estuaries, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 148, pp. 203-218.

Soil moisture recycling

Savenije, H.H.G., 1995. New definitions for moisture recycling and the relationship with land-use changes in the Sahel, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 167, pp. 57-78.

Savenije, H.H.G., 1996. The runoff coefficient as the key to moisture recycling, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 176, pp. 219-225.

Makarleva A.M. and V.G. Gorshkov, 2007. Biotic pump of atmospheric moisture as driver of the hydrological cycle on land, Hydrology and Earth System Science, Vol. 11, pp. 1013-1033.

Savenije, H.H.G., 1995. Does moisture feedback affect rainfall significantly?, Phys Chem. Earth., Vol. 20, No. 5-6 pp. 507-513.

Van der Ent R.J., H.H.G.Savenije, B. Schaefli and S.C. Steele-Dunne. 2010. Origin and fate of atmospheric moisture over continents, Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, W09525, doi: 10.1029/2010WR009127.

Van der Ent R.J., H.H.G.Savenije. 2011. Length and time scale of atmospheric moisture recycling,Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 11, pp. 1853/1863.

Routing and floods

Birkhead A.L. and C.S. James, 2002. Muskingum river routing with dynamic bank storage, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 264, pp. 113-132.

Savenije, H.H.G., 2003. The width of a bankfull channel; Lacey’s formula explained, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 276, pp. 176-183, doi: 10.1016/S0022-1694(03)00069-6.

Fenicia F., H.H.G Savenije, P. Matgen and L. Pfister, 2006. Is the groundwater reservoir linear? Learning from data in hydrological modelling, Hydrology and Earth System Science, Vol. 10, pp. 139-150.

Savenije, H.H.G., 1996. Recent extreme floods in Europe and the USA; challenges for the future, Phys Chem. Earth., Vol. 20, No. 5-6 pp. 433-437.

Savenije, H.H.G., 2003. The width of a bankfull channel; Lacey’s formula explained, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 276, pp. 176-183.

Todini E., 2007. A mass conservative and water storage consistent variable parameter Muskingum-Cunge approach, Hydrology and Earth System Science, Vol. 11, pp. 1645-1659.

Salt intrusion

Savenije, H.H.G., 1986. A one-dimensional model for salinity intrusion in alluvial estuaries, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 85, pp. 87-109.

Savenije, H.H.G., 1989. Salt intrusion model for high-water slack, low water slack, and mean tide on spread sheet, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 107, pp. 9-18.

Savenije, H.H.G., 1992. Hypersalinity: a dramatic change in the hydrology of Sahelian estuaries,Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 135, pp. 157-174.

Savenije, H.H.G., 1993. Predictive model for salt intrusion in estuaries, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 148, pp. 203-218.

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