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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kyushu University is pictured in this file photo. (Mainichi/Yusaku Yoshikawa) FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- As global warming advances, the amount of rainfall brought by typhoons to Japan could increase by about ...