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GIS and hydrology — Wikipedia (en)

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Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS_and_hydrology
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@misc{dc41282a930bed,
  title = {GIS and hydrology — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS_and_hydrology},
  note = {License CC-BY-SA-4.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_41282a930bed; sha256 353e90ba0bdcc5faf0b06295a726e7690bd4592cfc11423a5014f3985e37beff},
  year = {2026}
}

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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS_and_hydrology. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

Geographic information systems (GISs) have become a useful and important tool in the field of hydrology to study and manage Earth's water resources. Climate change and greater demands on water resources require a more knowledgeable disposition of arguably one of our most vital resources. Because water in its occurrence varies spatially and temporally throughout the hydrologic cycle, its study using GIS is especially practical. Whereas previous GIS systems were mostly static in their geospatial representation of hydrologic features, GIS platforms are becoming increasingly dynamic, narrowing the gap between historical data and current hydrologic reality. The elementary water cycle has inputs equal to outputs plus or minus change in storage. Hydrologists make use of this hydrologic budget when they study a watershed. The inputs in a hydrologic budget include precipitation, surface flow, and groundwater flow. Outputs consist of evapotranspiration, infiltration, surface runoff, and surface/groundwater flows. All of these quantities can be measured or estimated based on environmental data and their characteristics can be graphically displayed and studies using GIS.

Tema degli esploratori: terra, clima ed energia (deposito sistematico; ricerca «hydrology»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «GIS and hydrology» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS_and_hydrology
Wikidata Q5513522 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5513522
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS_and_hydrology?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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