• search hit 24 of 51
Back to Result List

Potential impacts of climate change on natural and managed discharges of the Rivers Spree, Schwarze Elster and Lusatian Neisse, Central Europe

  • The water balance of the Rivers Spree, Schwarze Elster and Lusatian Neisse is profoundly disturbed due to large-scale open-cast lignite mining activities and water management. Together with continental climate conditions this affects water resources and water users in the region. Driven by scenarios of the regional climate model STAR which assume increasing temperature and decreasing precipitation, two hydrological models, the Soil and Water Integrated Model SWIM and the catchment model EGMO simulate declining natural discharges in the region. Thus, decreasing managed discharges are simulated with the long term water management model WBalMo. The refinement of the simulation time step of WBalMo from months to weeks improves the consideration of climate variability and is also associated with higher simulated managed discharges in early summer. Management scenarios in terms of a reduced outlet capacity of a mining lake reservoir result in higher releases from other reservoirs and slightly reduced summer discharges in downstreamThe water balance of the Rivers Spree, Schwarze Elster and Lusatian Neisse is profoundly disturbed due to large-scale open-cast lignite mining activities and water management. Together with continental climate conditions this affects water resources and water users in the region. Driven by scenarios of the regional climate model STAR which assume increasing temperature and decreasing precipitation, two hydrological models, the Soil and Water Integrated Model SWIM and the catchment model EGMO simulate declining natural discharges in the region. Thus, decreasing managed discharges are simulated with the long term water management model WBalMo. The refinement of the simulation time step of WBalMo from months to weeks improves the consideration of climate variability and is also associated with higher simulated managed discharges in early summer. Management scenarios in terms of a reduced outlet capacity of a mining lake reservoir result in higher releases from other reservoirs and slightly reduced summer discharges in downstream river sections.show moreshow less

Export metadata

Additional Services

Search Google Scholar
Metadaten
Author: Ina Pohle, Hagen Koch, Anne Gädeke, Michael Kaltofen, Michael Schramm, Michael Redetzky, F. Müller, Uwe Grünewald
ISBN:978-1-84564-742-1
ISBN:978-1-84564-743-8
Title of the source (English):Water and Society II
Publisher:WIT Press
Place of publication:Ashurst, Southampton, UK
Editor: Carlos A. Brebbia
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of publication:2013
Contributing Corporation:Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
Tag:climate change; hydrological modelling; mining; water management modelling
First Page:3
Last Page:16
Series ; volume number:WIT Transactions on Ecology and The Environment ; 178
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 2 Umwelt und Naturwissenschaften / FG Hydrologie
Institution name at the time of publication:Fakultät für Umweltwissenschaften und Verfahrenstechnik (eBTU) / LS Hydrologie und Wasserressourcenbewirtschaftung
Einverstanden ✔
Diese Webseite verwendet technisch erforderliche Session-Cookies. Durch die weitere Nutzung der Webseite stimmen Sie diesem zu. Unsere Datenschutzerklärung finden Sie hier.