Green roofs have increasingly become an integral part of urban environments, mainly due to their aesthetic benefits, thermal comfort and efficiency in controlling excess runoff. However, the effects of this emerging ...

This study aimed to analyze the vulnerabilities of family livestock on water front property at temperature rise caused by climate change, the Alto Camaquã s sub-watershed, which is located at the top of the river basin ...

Understanding the spatial and temporal rainfall occurrence, improves the water resources management, both in order to prevent losses related to the occurrence of floods and droughts events, as in relation to the supply ...

This work evaluated, throught techniques of Remote Sensing and geoprocessing, the influence of hydrological conditions in the dynamics of emergent aquatic macrophytes in Taim Wetland (TW), important wet area in Rio Grande ...

Concern over water quality in Brazil is being hotly debated currently. In order to obtain information about the water quality at the national level, it was created the National Program for Assessment of Water Quality (PNQA). ...

The knowledge of energy transfers between vegetated surface and the atmosphere is of great importance to characterize the local microclimate and identify interactions between environmental variables and vegetation. In ...

The sediment yield causes a number of problems, and among them stands out silting of rivers and reservoirs, and contamination of surface water. Sediments result from the processes of erosion, transport, storage and ...

This research aimed to delineate the contamination plume, coming from a leak in the fuel station dealer, penetrating crystalline aquifer in the Rio Grande do Sul state southern Brazil. Determined with the use of a steam ...

The dissolved oxygen is an important indicator that shows water quality variation in rivers, caused by the release/accumulation of organic matter. The determination of the reaeration coefficient is indispensable, due to ...

Human activities generate qualitative and quantitative impacts of water resources which vary in intensity with the occupation and urbanization of a watershed, create a big problem due to the high concentration of nutrients. ...