1st Edition

Assessment of the Effects of Climate Variability and Land-Use Changes on the Hydrology of the Meuse River Basin PhD: UNESCO-IHE Institute, Delft

By Tu Min Copyright 2006
    206 Pages 40 Color Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    206 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Anthropogenic climate change may lead to intensification of the global hydrological cysle and to increased flooding risk of rivers across Europe. A series of extreme floods in European rivers in the last decades have stimulated discussions about the possible effects of climate variability/change and human interventions in river basins. A synoptic-climatological analysis was carried out to elucidate the observed precipitation change in the Meuse basin, in northwestern Europe. The findings of this research will be valuable to those developing improved flood protection strategies, as well as those engaged in water resource management in river basins similar to the Meuse.

    1. Introduction  2. Materials and Methods  3. Changes in Discharge Regimes  4. Changes in Precipitation Regimes  5. Linking Precipitation Variability to Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation  6. Assessment of Rainfall-Runoff Relationships  7. Effects of Human Activities on Discharge Regimes  8. Summary and Conclusions

    Biography

    Tu Min was born in Hubei Province, China in 1969. Following a B.Sc. degree in Geography, she studied for an M.Sc. in Pedology, and went on to work in environmental impact assessment of large-scale water projects in China. She has carried out research in the Netherlands.  Her interests are in climate variability, hydrology and statistics and modelling.