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Hydrology

There is an ever-growing need for fresh water, for people, animals, agriculture and industry. Life depends on water and in certain parts of the world climate change severely impacts upon its availability and usage. Monsoons fail, rain patterns shift and fertile areas become barren.

Monitoring the World’s Water Resources

River basins and deltas support the supply to local populations of fresh water for both consumption and irrigation purposes. Monitoring them is a signifi cant part of water resource management. ET is an important indicator of plant and tree condition and rates of growth and the data can serve as an input for hydrological models, drought prediction and crop yield forecasts.Kipp & Zonen scintillometer systems off er a reliable, robust and easy to use solution for hydrology applications. The challenge for hydrologists is to gain an accurate insight into the world’s water resources, and this requires continuous monitoring of rainfall, river run-off , evaporation, and surface energy fl uxes.Our turn-key Large Aperture Scintillometer (LAS) Evapo-Transpiration (ET) systems are specifi cally designed for Earth energy balance studies. These systems offer measurement scales up to 10 km for atmospheric turbulence, sensible heat fl ux and ET. This is a major advantage over point measurement techniques, making them ideal for the ground validation of satellite measurements.