Description
FWO Fundamental Research Grant Proposal.Abstract: Global change, driven by climate change, land use and land cover alterations, and socioeconomic shifts, has significantly impacted water systems, affecting water quantity and sediment loads in many regions of the world. This underscores the need for global assessment tools to support policymakers and institutions related to water management for all sectors. While Global Hydrological Models (GHMs) offer valuable insights and have been crucial for better understanding global hydrology, most inadequately represent lake hydrology, oversimplify processes and systems, or use grid-based approaches rather than basin oriented ones that may not suit water management needs. These limitations highlight the need for improved modelling approaches oriented towards global assessments.
This research aims to enhance the CoSWAT+ GHM, a process-based global water model, by improving lake representation using local and regional case studies before scaling globally. It will also assess past, present, and future impacts of global change on lakes and rivers, focusing on water quantity and sediments. The findings of this research will benefit the large-scale hydrological modelling, the catchment hydrology modelling and the lake modelling scientific communities, and it will provide critical insights for institutions involved in water resources management at global, regional and national levels.
| Periode | 3 mrt. 2025 |
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| Gehouden op | FWO - Fundamental Research, Belgium |