Climate Change, River Flow and Watershed Management
Asian river basins to climate change and uneven spatial and temporal distribution of water resources (such as water, sand, etc.) is the hot issue of concern. Recent research results show that: the increased significantly temperature of some Asian river basins has exacerbated the water circulation strength in these areas, and to increase the water-related natural disasters. At the same time, reservoirs, inter-basin transfers,etc adjust water resources' space-time. The second international Symposium on Large Asian Rivers invited international experts, scholars, engineers and government decision-makers of related fields for academic exchanges. The represents visited the biggest freshwater lake of China --- Poyang Lake and the biggest dam in the world ---Three Gorges Dam after symposium.
Themes of this symposium include, but not limited to 1) Current and future climate change on Asian river basins, 2)Affect of climate change on runoff and sediment of the river, 3) Climate change and activity and its effects on rivers, estuaries and coastal processes affecting, 4) Poyang Lake Research Topics.
This symposium was jointly organized by Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnlogy Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), the National University of Singapore. And Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS and Sino-German research team hosted the symposium together.
The Symposium was held on 25th -29th September, 2007 in Nanchang, China.
Links to previous sysmposium coverage:
Previous articles
Editorial board/ Aims & Scope
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Page IFC
The urban heat island in Nanjing
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 38-43
Impacts of land use change scenarios on storm-runoff generation in Xitiaoxi basin, China
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 121-128
Climate changes over eastern China during the last millennium in simulations and reconstructions
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 11-18
Regionalization study of a conceptual hydrological model in Dongjiang basin, south China
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 129-137
Development and application of an integrated surface runoff and groundwater flow model for a catchment of Lake Taihu watershed, China
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 102-108
Lead pollution recorded in sediments of three lakes located at the middle and lower Yangtze River basin, China
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 145-150
Quasi-cycles in Chinese precipitation time series and in their potential influencing factors
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 28-37
Relationship between flood/drought disasters and ENSO from 1857 to 2003 in the Taihu Lake basin, China
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 93-101
Fifty-year climate change and its effect on annual runoff in the Tarim River Basin, China
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 53-61
Simulation on stream flow and nutrient loadings in Gucheng Lake, Low Yangtze River Basin, based on SWAT model
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 109-115
Response of streamflow to climate change in the headwater catchment of the Yellow River basin
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 62-75
Seasonal dynamics of suspended solids in a giant subtropical reservoir (China) in relation to internal processes and hydrological features
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 138-144
The effect of upstream river hydrograph characteristics on zinc deposition, dissolved oxygen depletion and phytoplankton growth in a flood detention basin system
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 158-168
Using a simple model as a tool to parameterise the SWAT model of the Xiangxi river in China
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 116-120
Projected changes in temperature and precipitation extremes over the Yangtze River Basin of China in the 21st century Original Research Article
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 44-52
Rainfall index since 1873 for middle-lower reaches of Yangtze River basin during the eastern Asia summer monsoon
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 19-27
Analysis of multi-factors affecting sediment load in the Three Gorges Reservoir
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 76-84
Plausible causes of temporal variation in suspended sediment concentration in the upper Changjiang River and major tributaries during the second half of the 20th century
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 85-92
Rare earth elements in the surface sediments of the Yarlung Tsangbo (Upper Brahmaputra River) sediments, southern Tibetan Plateau
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 151-157
Discharge of large Asian rivers – Observations and projections
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 4-10
Larger Asian rivers: Climate change, river flow and sediment flux
Quaternary International, Volume 208, Issues 1–2, 15 October 2009, Pages 1-3