°Õ³ó±ðÌýQUEST-GSI Water Resources Workshop, organised by °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Geography and funded by the NERC QUEST Programme, provided an opportunity for collaborating scientists from China, South Africa, Brazil and Canada to present and discuss the latest research findings on the impacts of scaled increases in global mean air temperature (1.0ºC to 6.0ºC in 1.0ºC increments) as well as defined climate and socio-economic scenarios (IPCC SRES A1b, A2, B1, B2) on freshwater resources at the basin scale in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Basin-scale results were also compared with outputs from a global hydrological model run at the Walker Institute, University of Reading (UK).
Critically, the workshop also enabled scientists to engage in roundtable discussions of these latest research outputs and their policy implications with stakeholders from ,Ìý, UNESCO-IHP (FRIEND,ÌýHELP,ÌýGRAPHIC programmes),ÌýGlobal Water System Project, and UK government departments (,Ìý,Ìý). Links to key presentations and messages emanating from the workshop are provided below.
Presentations
- Projected hydrological change in the Americas
- River Liard Basin (.pdf),ÌýRobin Thorne, Department of Geography, McMaster University, Canada
- Rio Grande Basin (.pdf),ÌýWalter Collischonn & Marcio Nobrega, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Projected hydrological change in Africa
- River Okavango Basin (.pdf),ÌýDenis Hughes, IWR, Rhodes University, South Africa
- Tributary of the Upper Nile Basin (.pdf),ÌýDaniel Kingston, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Geography, UK
- Projected hydrological change in Asia
- River Changjiang (Yangtze) Basin (.pdf),ÌýYan Huang & Yang Wenfa, Changjiang Water Resources Commission, China
- River Mekong Basin (.pdf),ÌýDaniel Kingston, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Geography, UK
- Tributaries of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers (.pdf),ÌýHongmei Xu, National Climate Centre, China
- Projected global hydrological change
- Global Water Resources (.pdf),ÌýNigel Arnell, Simon Gosling & Matt Charlton, Walker Institute, University of Reading, UK
- Global - Basin Model Comparison (.pdf),ÌýSimon Gosling & Nigel Arnell, Walker Institute, University of Reading, UK