Climate Change Impact on Hydrology of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna : Implications for Future Water Resource Management of the World's Most Vulnerable Basin

ISBN-13: 9786202003643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 96 str.

Muhammad Masood

Opis

The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin is identified as the most vulnerable basin in the world to climate change. The basin is also recognized as one of the areas most prone to waterborne natural hazards, floods and droughts, which threat its large number of population each year. The study presented in this book aimed to acquire policy-relevant information necessary for climate change adaptation as well as for local water resources management to ensure the sustainability of the region. A macro-scale distributed hydrologic model, H08, was employed to assess impacts of climate change on basin-scale hydrology including runoff, evapotranspiration, net radiation, and soil moisture by using CMIP5 GCMs with high emission scenario through 3 time-slice experiments; the present-day (1979-2003), the near-future (2015-2039), and the far- future (2075-2099) periods. The obtained information will contribute to direct water resource management in the basin and improve the design of adaptive measures. The findings can also be considered for risk management, planning for prevention, mitigation of disaster risk, and formulation of policies for future water resources development.

O autorze

Muhammad Masood, a Civil Engineer graduated from BUET has completed his PhD in Disaster Management from GRIPS, Tokyo, Japan with the research assistance from International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO. He has a number of high-impacted journal publications in HESS, Natural Hazards etc.