Vegetation is 1st security guard on earth surface to welcome as well as suitably treat the "miss rain drop" having good round shining shape and full of energy & speed traveling freely and approaching earth surface carrying big force with her. Upon striking this guard kills her most of the harmful attributes like velocity, enenrgy, quantum, size, delaying traveling & increasing traveling path etc.
This is the first and foremost initiation of so called hydrology or hydrologic cycle. If vegetation is optimum (even the tiny grass do wonderful job) half of the risk of soil erosion, peak flows is curtailed.
We are dearth of such studies where these important phenomenon are to be studied in real ground conditions. We all like and want to do so and we all understand its importance too.
Only thing preventing us to do so is ....in my opinion a simplistic suitable portable set of system, equipment, or other means where we can take it in field and apply desired kind of artificial rains ( to be produced in close matching with prevailing natural rains) and generating data bank from enormous kind of vegetation and their mix for variety of combinations.
People have tried many innovative ways to attack this vital research problem, but most of the efforts remained in piece meal kind or just for the sake of some narrow or local targets with limited applicability in bigger or larger domain.
We need to think seriously on it..under the present modern age where ''sensor'' can sense any thing...how to attack on this simple but vital research problem of hydrology in a simple but accurate manner...I like to invite expert views and supportive stuff if my friends can offer..
thanks
Capturing and storing rainfall is best done by plant communities and healthy soils. It is important to match the local environment in the design of any such simple systems. I think looking at historic and local landscapes that have survived centuries will give us a clue on mimicking such systems. At a watershed scale, modeling could be used to identify locations for water harvesting.
See the following article on water harvesting
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223866718_Spatial_assessment_of_conjunctive_water_harvesting_potential_in_watershed_systems
Article Spatial assessment of conjunctive water harvesting potential...
Thanks Timothy
it is very nice and unique paper depicting concept of watershed harvest model in an innovative way. i saw firstly. Author deserves appreciation.Once again thank you to contribute on my question, but still the basic issue remains a bit puzzled where interception losses are to be revisited in real ground conditions...
hope to have some concrete inputs/views from friends here
Rgds
Gaur
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