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Rainfall interception in a mature spruce forest – a case study
Černý, T. ; Dohnal, M. ; Tesař, Miroslav ; Votrubová, J.
During rainfall events, an appreciable part of the precipitation is intercepted by the vegetation surfaces. This part of rainfall, usually called interception capacity of the surface, is subsequently evaporated back to the atmosphere. Currently available distributed hydrological models require detailed knowledge of all components of hydrological cycle, including the interception and key parameters affecting its amount and rate of evaporation. In the present study the interception of the spruce forest canopy at an experimental catchment in the Bohemian Forest is examined.
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Evaluation of water regime monitoring in Roklan site
Čejková, E. ; Sněhota, M. ; Tesař, Miroslav ; Dohnal, M.
Contribution focuses on soil water regime in the mountainous site Roklan, which is located in the first zone of the National Park Sumava. Spruce monoculture forest in the location was devastated by bark beetle and then left to natural regeneration. The soil hydrological and meteorological monitoring is performed since 2011. Presented paper reports on soil hydraulic properties of the soil from the site. Then, the TDR water contents data collected in the site are compared with the water content data obtained by calculation from the pressure head data using the known water retention curves. The data for two selected rain episodes are presented in detail and results are discussed.
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Flash floods as theme for the summer periods in next decades
Buchtele, Josef ; Tesař, Miroslav ; Chlumecký, M. ; Fořtová, Magda
The variability of water regime in the annual cycle is influenced not only by the annual development of the vegetation cover, but also by its increases in the span of several decades. In the actual year it has been twelve years ago when the disastrous floods appeared in the Labe River, and more than fifteen years from destructive inundations in the Morava River basin, and so it is reasonable to remind those situations in the context with the recent flood. The modeling of rainfall-runoff process is the tool for the evaluation of the possible changes in the water regime in the mentioned landscape development.
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Hydrology of a small basin 2014
Brych, Karel ; Tesař, Miroslav
The book includes the full text of scientific articles. These articles were prepared as the contributions for the Conference with international participation “Hydrology of a small basin 2014” that was held from April 22nd to April 24th 2014 in Prague. The Conference was organized by the Institute of Hydrodynamics ASCR in Prague, Institute of Hydrology SAS in Bratislava, the Czech Water Management Society in Prague, Czech Hydrometeorological institute in Prague and Czech Committee for Hydrology. The book was published by the Institute of Hydrodynamics ASCR in Prague in 2014.
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Early warning system for flash floods in the Krkonoše Mts
Tesař, Miroslav ; Šír, Miloslav
The present contribution describes a sophisticated local warning system (LWS) for detection of local flash floods that is built in the Krkonoše Mts. in the upper of the Úpa river with the closing profile at Horní Maršov (573–1602 m a.s.l., 81.70 km2). This system is based on the new knowledge of the discontinuous character of water transport in an unsaturated zone and involves: (i) instrumentation: (1) stream gauge monitoring stations with data transfer to the internet, (2) monitoring stations (equipped by rain gauge, air and soil thermometers, soil water tensiometers and soil moisture meters) with data transfer to the internet, (ii) software: (1) the internal software of the stream gauge and monitoring stations for the measurement, storage and transfer the data to the dispatching centre, (2) software of a central data repository, (3) software for data transmission in the internet browser, (3) software for the forecasting of flood risk and sending flood alert, (iii) dispatching centre: (1) operating of the data repository, (2) forecasting of the water level for the each of connected stream gauge station, (3) sending flood alert, (iv) handbooks and user’s Guides: (1) hydrological and soil surveying, (2) LWS design, (3) operation and maintenance of the LWS, (v) complete projection documentation of the LWS, (vi) installation of the LWS in a catchment, (vii) testing and routine operation of the LWS. The described LWS is supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (Project TA02021451).
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Extreme runoffs from the Modrý důl basin in the vegetation season
Šír, Miloslav ; Tesař, Miroslav ; Dvořák, Igor
The main objective of the present article is to advance understanding of the complex role of various vegetation cover in extreme runoff formation in the Modrý potok basin. This watershed (1010–1554 m a.s.l., 2.62 km2) is situated in the northern part of the Czech Republic in the eastern part of the Krkonoše Mts. The soil types are the mountainous Podzole and Lithosol with a thin humic layer on crystalline bedrock. Monitoring stations with data transfer to the internet are installed on several localities differing in the type of vegetation cover (in the grassland and dwarf pine above the forest margin, in the growth of mature spruce forest, and in the grassland below the spruce forest). The discharge at the closing profile is continuously recorded. Meteorological data are collected at a station close to the Výrovka chalet (1360 m a.s.l.): year-round precipitation, solar radiation, wind speed and direction, air and soil temperatures and soil moisture. The long-term monitoring of the water balance of the headwater catchment Modrý potok and its soil water regime was evaluated taking into account the discontinuous character of water transport in an unsaturated zone. Extreme runoffs in a vegetation season are caused by these factors: (1) oversaturation of the soil profile, (2) water repellency of the soil surface, (3) gravitationally destabilized flow of water in the soil profile, (4) extreme rainfall. The typical combinations are (1) and (3) – gravitationally destabilized flow of water can be caused even by a small rainfall under the oversaturation, (2) and (4) – long-term drought can cause the water repellency of the soil surface and the extreme rainfall. The research is supported by the Czech Science Foundation (205/09/1918) and by the Technology Agency of CR (TA02021451).
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