EGS XXV General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2000

HSB2.02 River basin research and management: Influence of land cover, land use and soil surface conditions on hydrological processes and the water balance of catchments

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In recent years, the influence of land cover, land use and soil surface conditions on the hydrological cycle has increasingly been studied in order to quantify the possible impacts of changes in land use, land cover, or soil surface conditions on catchment water balance and on extreme hydrological conditions (floods and droughts). This session welcomes contributions on the following issues: * Measurement and areal assessment methods of land cover, land use, and soil surface conditions and their possible changes * Parameterisation of land cover, land use, and soil surface conditions; adequate approaches to model the relevant hydrological processes. * Case studies investigating the hydrological impacts of land cover, land use, and soil surface conditions (changes), in particular on areal evapotranspiration, storm runoff generation, and the catchment water balance.

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