Hydrogeomorphology
Abazar Esmali Ouri; Shokrollah Asghari; Arezoo Eshaghzadeh; Raoof Mostafazadeh
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Determining the extent of riverbank erosion and displaying it as a map in a GIS environment is effective in the optimal management of water and soil resources. The aim of the current research is to delineate the riverbank erosion zone from aerial photographs, perform regression modeling, and identify ...
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Determining the extent of riverbank erosion and displaying it as a map in a GIS environment is effective in the optimal management of water and soil resources. The aim of the current research is to delineate the riverbank erosion zone from aerial photographs, perform regression modeling, and identify factors influencing the development of riverbank erosion using various spatial data including physiographic, hydrological, geological, and environmental data in different sections of the Balikhlouchai River in Ardabil Province. Initially, influential parameters in riverbank erosion in the region, including topographic, soil and land factors, hydrology, and land use changes, were calculated. Accordingly, the variables under study were obtained for four time periods: 1955 using aerial photographs, 1980 using TM satellite images, and years 2010 and 2013 using Google Earth images, and the effective extent of riverbank erosion was compared. Subsequently, multivariate regression analysis was performed using independent variables (including topographic, hydrological, soil erodibility, and land factors) and the effective extent of riverbank erosion as the dependent variable, using SPSS software, and suitable models were developed to estimate the amount of different riverbank erosion. Based on the results of regression analysis, environmental parameters such as slope of the river reaches, peak discharge, area under irrigated agriculture, concentration time, pasture coverage, and residential areas played a more significant role in exacerbating riverbank erosion.
Hydrogeomorphology
fatemeh menbari; Amjad Maleki; nayyeri hadi
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Morphometric analysis of a drainage basins and river network plays an vital role in understanding the hydrogeological behavior of the drainage basin . Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of modeling flood and its relationship with morphometric variables using multivariate regression. ...
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Morphometric analysis of a drainage basins and river network plays an vital role in understanding the hydrogeological behavior of the drainage basin . Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of modeling flood and its relationship with morphometric variables using multivariate regression. The research method is based on the destruction of morphometric parameters and statistical analysis, including correlation coefficient and linear regression analysis. In this regard, first, the studied basins have been selected using ARC GIS 10.5 software, and the limits of each one has been determined. Then, their morphometric characteristics have been extracted. The Flood discharge has also been reconstructed in return periods of 2 to 500 years using easy-fit software. For modeling, first, the linear relationship between each morphometric variable as an independent variable with flood discharge as a dependent variable was investigated. After ensuring the linear relationship between variables and flood discharge, correlation between each variable and flood discharge was calculated. The variables with the highest correlation were watershed area, basin length, and surface flow length. Using multivariate regression, modeling was used for independent variables and flood discharge. The results show that as the return period increases, the relationship between independent variables and flood discharge increases, So that the correlation of the area with the return period of 25 years is 0.609 and with the return period of 200 years is 0.677.also, the proposed models have more validity for flood prediction using multivariate regression analysis in return periods above 25 to 500 years.
Geomorphology
shamsolah Asgari; samad shadfar; MohamadReza Jafari; Kourosh Shirani
Abstract
Sedimentation is one of the most important issues in the watershed. Due to the problems caused by sediment, it is necessary to investigate the relationship between hydrogeomorphic variables affecting sediment production and suspended sediment load in the watershed. The purpose of this study is to model ...
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Sedimentation is one of the most important issues in the watershed. Due to the problems caused by sediment, it is necessary to investigate the relationship between hydrogeomorphic variables affecting sediment production and suspended sediment load in the watershed. The purpose of this study is to model the relationship between suspended sediment loads with hydrogeomorphic variables of the basin and to extract geomorphic features and their relationship with sedimentation in the watershed. By simple random method, two cows and conifers, which include 8 specific sub-basins and are equipped with hydrometric stations, were selected. Statistical multivariate regression method was used to analyze the relationship between geomorphic variables with sedimentation of each sub-basin. The results of the study of the relationship between geomorphic characteristics and sedimentation of sub-basins showed that the amount of sediment produced was positively correlated with slope index, roundness, drainage texture, rainfall, unevenness and basin area and was significant at the level of 0.001. In order to influence the variables on the sedimentation rate of the sub-basins, the principal component analysis and cluster analysis methods were used. The results showed that the three factors of roundness coefficient, slope coefficient and drainage texture coefficient of the basin explain 44.62, 25.22 and 16.74% of the variance of all research variables, respectively. In total, the three final extracted factors were able to explain 87% of the variance of all research variables.