BOOK
Advanced Tools and Models to Improve River Basin Management in Europe in the Context of Climate Change
Michael Finkel | Johannes Barth | Peter Grathwohl
(2010)
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Abstract
Advanced Tools and Models to Improve River Basin Management in Europe in the Context of Climate Change - AquaTerra has developed from an integrated project of the 6th EU RTD Framework Programme that aims to provide the scientific basis for an improved river basin management through a better understanding of the river-sediment-soil-groundwater system as a whole, by integrating both natural and socio-economics aspects at different temporal and spatial scales.
This book aims:
- To provide better understanding of the river-sediment-soil-groundwater system at various temporal and spatial scales
- To relate expected climate alterations to changes in deposition, mobility and distribution of pollutants in European river basins
- To provide the scientific basis for improved river basin management
- To introduce novel tools for water and soil quality monitoring
- To show the necessity of integrated modelling frameworks for impact evaluation of pollution as well as climate and land-use changes for definition of long-term management schemes
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Half title | 1 | ||
| Title page | 3 | ||
| Copyright page | 4 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| About the author | 9 | ||
| Chapter 1: Introduction | 13 | ||
| Chapter 2: HYDRO – Climate and water cycle at the basin scale | 15 | ||
| KEY OBJECTIVES | 15 | ||
| KEY ACHIEVEMENTS | 16 | ||
| Framework for probabilistic climate change scenarios | 16 | ||
| Water availability predictions | 16 | ||
| Spatial downscaling | 17 | ||
| Temporal downscaling | 18 | ||
| Stochastic ‘weather’ generation | 18 | ||
| Non-stationarity and climate change scenarios | 18 | ||
| Establishment of a monitoring network | 18 | ||
| Catchment Investigations | 19 | ||
| IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF RESULTS | 20 | ||
| CONTRIBUTIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT | 21 | ||
| Locally/nationally | 21 | ||
| In a European context | 21 | ||
| OPEN & NEW QUESTIONS FROM HYDRO | 22 | ||
| REFERENCES | 22 | ||
| Chapter 3: BIOGEOCHEM – Biogeochemical processes in soils and sediments | 25 | ||
| KEY OBJECTIVES | 25 | ||
| KEY ACHIEVEMENTS | 25 | ||
| Particles – and colloid-facilitated transport | 25 | ||
| Sorption processes; organic contaminants | 26 | ||
| Sorption processes; inorganic contaminants | 28 | ||
| Bioprocesses; organic contaminants | 28 | ||
| IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF RESULTS | 29 | ||
| CONTRIBUTIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT | 30 | ||
| Locally/nationally | 30 | ||
| In a European context | 31 | ||
| OPEN & NEW QUESTIONS FROM BIOGEOCHEM | 31 | ||
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 32 | ||
| REFERENCES | 32 | ||
| Chapter 4: FLUX – Mass transfer in river-sediment-soil-groundwater systems | 35 | ||
| KEY OBJECTIVES | 35 | ||
| KEY ACHIEVEMENTS | 36 | ||
| Distribution and fluxes of persistent organic pollutants in AquaTerra catchments | 36 | ||
| Fluxes of current use pesticide in the Brevilles catchment | 37 | ||
| Geochemical conceptual scheme of the Bitterfeld/Wolfen megasite, Mulde catchment, Elbe Basin | 37 | ||
| Temperature as intercompartment water and contaminant fluxes characterization | 37 | ||
| Natural degradation processes at the interface between groundwater and surface water at laboratory scale | 38 | ||
| Geochemical conceptual scheme of the Brévilles catchment | 39 | ||
| Influence of dams on the composition of the suspended and riverbank sediments in the Danube | 39 | ||
| Long-term fluxes of dissolved and suspended matter in the Ebro River Basin | 39 | ||
| Decomposition of dissolved elements fluxes on the Ebro River Basin (Spain) supported by sulfate isotopes | 40 | ||
| Natural versus anthropogenic sources in the Dommel surface and groundwater dissolved load (Meuse basin): isotopic constraints (B, Sr) and Gd anomaly | 41 | ||
| Heavy metal sources in the Dommel catchment (Meuse basin): Chemical and isotopic constraints | 41 | ||
| Suspended matter of the Meuse River | 42 | ||
| Sediment dynamics and Geoacoustic methods | 42 | ||
| CONTRIBUTIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT | 44 | ||
| OPEN & NEW QUESTIONS FROM FLUX | 44 | ||
| REFERENCES | 44 | ||
| Chapter 5: MONITOR – Data analysis, monitoring and analytical protocols, and sampling devices | 47 | ||
| KEY OBJECTIVES | 47 | ||
| KEY ACHIEVEMENTS | 48 | ||
| Optimised method for the analysis of pesticides in water and soil | 48 | ||
| Liquid chromatography-quadrupole-linear ion trap mass spectrometry (LC-QqLIT MS) method for the analysis of pharmaceutically active compounds in surface and wastewater | 48 | ||
| LC-QqLIT-MS method for simultaneous determination of new brominated flame retardants | 48 | ||
| Deployment and validation of two types of time-integrating passive sampling devices | 48 | ||
| Integration of ultrafast magnetic proxy screening into site characterization | 50 | ||
| Optimisation and validation of artificial neural networks to allow early identification of trends from highly variable data sets | 50 | ||
| IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF RESULTS | 50 | ||
| CONTRIBUTIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT | 50 | ||
| Locally/nationally | 50 | ||
| In a European context | 50 | ||
| OPEN & NEW QUESTIONS FROM MONITOR | 51 | ||
| REFERENCES | 51 | ||
| Chapter 6: TREND – Temporal development of environmental media: Properties, processes and stresses | 53 | ||
| KEY OBJECTIVES | 53 | ||
| KEY ACHIEVEMENTS | 54 | ||
| Trends in soil and sediment | 54 | ||
| Trends in groundwater | 55 | ||
| Modelling and forecasting from catchment to basin scales | 56 | ||
| IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF RESULTS | 56 | ||
| CONTRIBUTIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT | 59 | ||
| OPEN & NEW QUESTIONS FROM TREND | 59 | ||
| REFERENCES | 60 | ||
| Chapter 7: BASIN – Integration of research in AquaTerra river basins | 63 | ||
| KEY OBJECTIVES | 63 | ||
| KEY ACHIEVEMENTS | 63 | ||
| Results brévilles | 63 | ||
| Results Ebro | 63 | ||
| Results Meuse | 64 | ||
| Application of the BioChem model: case study Dommel basin | 64 | ||
| Ecotoxicological research in the Walloon Meuse river basin | 65 | ||
| Dispersion of contaminants from groundwater into surface water: the Flémalle test site | 67 | ||
| A new hydrological model to deal with climate change impacts assessment: the Geer basin | 67 | ||
| Results Elbe | 68 | ||
| Results Danube | 68 | ||
| IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF RESULTS | 69 | ||
| Locally | 69 | ||
| In a European and a global context | 70 | ||
| CONTRIBUTIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT | 71 | ||
| Locally/nationally | 71 | ||
| In a European context | 71 | ||
| OPEN & NEW QUESTIONS FROM BASI | 72 | ||
| REFERENCES | 72 | ||
| Chapter 8: COMPUTE – Modelling methods and strategies | 75 | ||
| KEY OBJECTIVES OF COMPUTE | 75 | ||
| KEY ACHIEVEMENTS | 75 | ||
| Modelling at the bench and hill slope scales | 76 | ||
| Modelling at the catchment scale | 77 | ||
| Modelling at the river basin scale | 80 | ||
| Software tool box | 85 | ||
| IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF RESULTS | 86 | ||
| CONTRIBUTIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT | 86 | ||
| Locally/nationally | 88 | ||
| In a European context | 88 | ||
| OPEN & NEW QUESTIONS FROM COMPUTE | 89 | ||
| REFERENCES | 89 | ||
| Chapter 9: INTEGRATOR – Integration of knowledge | 91 | ||
| KEY OBJECTIVES | 91 | ||
| KEY ACHIEVEMENTS | 92 | ||
| INTEGRATOR 1 – Evaluation and characterisation of stakeholder demand for a conceptual model of interaction between the society and soil-water resources | 92 | ||
| INTEGRATOR 2 – Implementation in selected case studies | 93 | ||
| INTEGRATOR 3 – Development of conceptual models for decision makers and the integration of AquaTerra results | 95 | ||
| IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF RESULTS | 97 | ||
| CONTRIBUTIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT | 98 | ||
| Locally/nationally | 98 | ||
| In a European context | 99 | ||
| OPEN & NEW QUESTIONS FROM INTEGRATOR | 99 | ||
| REFERENCE | 100 | ||
| Chapter 10: EUPOL – Linking policy demands and research | 101 | ||
| KEY OBJECTIVES | 101 | ||
| KEY ACHIEVEMENTS | 101 | ||
| IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF RESULTS | 103 | ||
| CONTRIBUTIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT | 104 | ||
| OPEN & NEW QUESTIONS FROM EUPOL | 104 | ||
| REFERENCES | 105 | ||
| Chapter 11: AquaTerra’s achievements and recommendations to river basin management in brief | 107 |