EGS XXVI General Assembly, Nice, France, March 2001

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

Event Information

The influence of land cover, land use and soil surface conditions on hydrological processes and water balance of catchments has been a major research topic in recent years. Hydrologic models have been developed and applied to assess possible consequences of land cover, land use or soil surface condition changes to support management decisions. This session welcomes contributions to the following topics: * Spatially distributed modelling of water balance components, runoff patterns or water availability as a tool to assess the influence of land cover, land use and surface condition changes on hydrological processes * Parameterisation of land cover patterns, land use and soil surface conditions for large scale hydrologic models (from catchment to continental scale). Adequate approaches to model the relevant hydrological processes, sensitivity of land cover, land use or soil surface condition parameters in hydrological models. * Measurements and case studies on catchment scale investigating the impact of land cover, land use or soil surface condition changes on a catchment scale * Development of spatially distributed land cover, land use and soil surface condition change scenarios

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