Author(s): Jong-Sook Park; Ian D. Cluckie
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Keywords: Integrated catchment management; Fully-distributed and physically-based modeling; GIS; Seasonal land use change; Sustainable water resource management; EU WFD
Abstract: In order to enhance the sustainable management of water resources and to provide a better understanding of surface heterogeneity in a catchment, a more integrated approach on physical, hydrological and ecological features of the catchment associated with human activities has been needed. This study is an attempt to treat those aspects using large quantities of spatial and temporal data of land cover, rainfall, soil hydraulics and hydrogeology for a typically floodplain based wetland river basin in the South West of the UK in the line with the EU WFD (Water Framework Directive). This paper discusses, as an ongoing study, seasonal and annual surface water fluctuation and the effect on the main channel, soil moisture and surface water movement developed by localised spatially distributed modelling from a river basin perspective.
Year: 2005