From Headwaters to the Ocean

1. Land-atmosphere interaction * Effects of selective cutting of large trees on transpiration and surface temperature: A predictive study of evergreen broad-leaf forest in central Cambodia * The role of cavities in land-atmosphere interactions * A simulation of sea breeze in Fukuoka facing the Sea of Japan * Characteristics of water vapor content and its budget over Tarim river basin * Climatological changes in rain and non-rain days over the East Asian region using long term rain gauge observation data * Hydrological balance over northern Eurasia from gauge-based high-resolution daily precipitation data * Investigating changes in rainfall characteristics using the copula approach 2. Headwater environment: Impacts of climate change and human intervention * Effects of various rainfall-runoff characteristics on streamwater stable isotope variations in forested headwaters * The effect of antecedent moisture condition on storm flow water sources in young forest headwater catchment * Combined roles of soil horizons and fractured bedrock in subsurface water concentration in a valley-head * Generation of a saturated zone at the soil-bedrock interface around a tree on a hillslope * Factors controlling stream water chemistry in ten small forested watersheds with plantation forests of various proportions and ages in central Japan * Nitrate and phosphate uptake in a temperate forest stream in central Japan * Impact of forestry practices on groundwater quality in the boreal environment * Water yield and nitrogen loss during regrowth of Japanese cedar forests after clearcutting * Environmental impacts of the acid atmospheric deposition and forest clear-cut in a mountain catchment * Climate changes and debris flows in periglacial areas in the Italian Alps * Changes in the hydraulic properties of forest soils resulting from litter removal and compaction by human traffic * Effects of land use on soil physical and chemical properties of sandy land in Horqin, China 3. Strategic planning and environmental assessments of activities in headwater areas * A comparative policy analysis for headwater management * The change of water balance including municipal and irrigation waters - A case study of the Koise River basin, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan 4. Environmental education for sustainable development: The role of mountain and headwater landscapes * Teaching sustainable headwater land management through problem based field study * Implementation of school catchments network for water resources management of the Upper Negro River region, southern Brazil 5. Hydrological models in support of integrated water resources management * On integrated water resources management * Distributed simulation of basin water cycle under changing environment * A continuous rainfall-runoff model as a tool for the critical hydrological scenario assessment in natural channels * Simulating water balance of the small-forested watershed using BROOK90 model * Quantitative effect of land use and land cover changes on green water and blue water in Northern part of China * Development of a distributed water circulation model for assessing human interaction in agricultural water use * Sensitivity analysis to evaluate the effect of land use change on discharge rate * An integrated hydrological model for the long-term water balance analysis of the Yellow River Basin, China * Application of geographic information system in hydrological models: A review * Relationship between residence time and geographic source of stream flow in small watersheds - Analysis with a distributed rainfall-runoff model and field observation data - * Evaluation of seawater intrusion to a coastal aquifer by developing a three dimensional numerical model * A hidden Markov model for non-stationary runoff modeling conditioned on El Nino information * Integrated simulation by hydrological, hydraulic and water management modelling techniques in support of water resources management in the Czech Republic * Multi-model approach to hydrologic impact of climate change * Adapting to climate change impacts on the water resources systems of the Seyhan River Basin in Turkey * Impact of climate change on annual drought severity * Conceptual investigation of time of concentration: Case study of the Pequeno River watershed, Sao Jose dos Pinhais, PR, Brazil * Application of aritificial neural network in rainfall-runoff model * Research on system dynamics model of water resources harmonious management 6. Groundwater-surface water interaction * Importance of groundwater discharge in developing urban centers of Southeast Asia * Comparative study on water quality among Asian megacities based on major ion concentrations * Surface and groundwater interactions in the lower reach of the Yellow River * Saline groundwater flow in the Yellow River delta, China * Long-term changes of water and salinity management in Lower Seyhan Plain, Turkey * Intensive groundwater-surface water interaction in an alluvial fan: Assessment using a numerical model and isotopic tracer * The thermal effect of groundwater flow on temperature distribution in the Sendai Plain * Thorium and uranium concentrations in 44 Japanese river waters - Possible uranium addition from agricultural fields to river waters * Roles of deep bedrock groundwater in surface hydrological processes in a headwater catchment * A GIS-based, hypothetical model of groundwater seepage into a former mining open pit:1.discrete fractures scenario * Mechanism for the production of dissolved iron in the Amur River basin - a modeling study of the Naoli River of the Sanjiang Plain 7. Remote sensing for measuring water balance, hydrodynamics and hydrological processes * The 2006 Australian drought detected by GRACE * Improvement of JLG terrestrial water storage model using GRACE satellite gravity data * The European SMOS for large-scale water balance and climate modelling studies * Remote sensing-based estimates of evapotranspiration for managing scarce water resources in the Gezira scheme, Sudan * Investigation of fresh and salt water distribution by resistivity method in Yellow River Delta 8. Interaction between the groundwater resources and ecosystems * Riparian vegetation changes from hydrological alteration on the River Murray, Australia - Modelling the surface water-groundwater dependent ecosystem * An analysis of groundwater conditions in a saline groundwater area, Thailand * The role of monsoon rainfall in desalinization of soil-groundwater system and in vegetation recovery from the 2004 tsunami disaster in Nagapattinam district, India * Effect of stream diversion on densities of Aeromonas hydrophila in a mountain stream in a headwater area 9. Socio-economic models and monitoring of vulnerable water resource * Water resources estimation and allocation in the rapid developing area of China * Policy evaluation of China's pollution charge system with a measurement adjusted by water quality * Prediction of water resource carrying capacity of Changchun city, northeast China, based on BP neutral network method * External dependency of water supply system in Beijing: An application of water mileage * Urbanization and water use situation in Beijing, China - an evidence from water production and supply sector * Study on future water supply and demand in the Yellow River basin of China based on scenario analysis * Study on sustainable agricultural production and agricultural water use efficiency in the Yellow River Basin of China * Combinatory efficiency of water and power transfer systems in North China * Estimation of groundwater resource demand in the Yellow River Basin, China * Long-term urban growth and water demand in Asia * Impact of municipal waste and waste water management change on nutrients flow to surface water and ground water in Asian mega-cities * Frequency analysis of extreme hydrologic events and assessment of water stress in a changing climate in the Philippines * Why farmers still invest in wells in hard-rock regions when the water-table is fast declining? * Quantifying vulnerability and impact of climate change on production of major crops in Tamil Nadu, India * Modeling the country based land use change and spatial distribution 10. Reconstruction of human impacts on the surface and subsurface environments during past 100 years * Long-term temperature monitoring in boreholes for studies of the ground surface thermal environment and groundwater flow * Ground surface temperature history reconstruction from borehole temperature data in Awaji Island, southwest Japan for studies of human impacts on climatic change in East Asia * Estimation of the past ground surface temperature change from borehole temperature data in the Bangkok area * Reconstructions of climate change and surface warming at Jakarta using borehole temperature data * Subsurface thermal environment change due to artificial effects in the Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan * Land expansion with reclamation and groundwater exploitation in a coastal urban area: A case study from the Tokyo Lowland, Japan * Shallow groundwater quality and potential for groundwater pollution by nitrogen fertilizer in an agricultural area * The restoration of historical hydro-environment from historical materials and topographical maps in Tokyo, Japan * Urbanization and the change of water use in Osaka City - Spatio-temporal analysis with data maps * Urbanization in Asian Metropolis and the changes of hydrological environment in and around Bangkok * A comparative study on history of sewage works construction between Bangkok and Tokyo * Estimation of historical/spatial changes in subsurface material stock related to the construction sector of urban areas in Japan * Ecosystem changes on the River Murray floodplain over the last 100 years and predictions of climate change * Degradation of sub surface environment in Asian coastal cities 11. Land-ocean interaction * Global assessment of submarine groundwater discharge * Potential effects of terrestrial nutrients in submarine groundwater discharge on macroalgal blooms in a fringing reef ecosystem * Estimation of groundwater discharge to the sea using a distributed recharge model * Groundwater discharge into the Caspian Sea from the Iranian Coast and its importance * Concentrations and distributions of 9 major ions and 54 elements in major Japanese river waters * The geochemistry of heavy metals, yttrium, and rare earth elements in Wakasa Bay, Japan * The interactions between the Yukon River and Bering Sea * Evaluation of denitrification potential in coastal groundwater using simple in situ injection experiment * Bohai Sea coastal transport rates and their influence on coastline nutrient inputs * Water and phosphorus budgets in the Yellow River estuary including the submarine fresh groundwater * Decrease in Yellow River discharge and its impact on the marine environment of the Bohai Sea Author index, Keyword index