Developing a Model to Study the Climate Change Impact on River Bifurcations in Engineered Rivers

Developing a Model to Study the Climate Change Impact on River Bifurcations in Engineered Rivers

Chowdhury, M. Kifayath (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering)
Blom, A. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering)
Ylla Arbos, C. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering)
Schielen, R.M.J. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering; Rijkswaterstaat)

2024

Climate change is responsible for global shifts in precipitation patterns and an overall in-crease in global temperatures. The transi-tions are anticipated to modify the river hydro-graph and sea level. The changes to the hy-drograph are also likely to influence sediment flux. These alterations imply shifts in both up-stream and downstream boundaries for river bifurcations. However, the resulting bifurca-tion response remains uncertain and warrants further investigation. Our objective is to un-derstand the extent of large-scale and long-term response of river bifurcations to climate change. We take the Upper Dutch Rhine bifur-cation region as our case study and develop a 1D hydro-morphodynamic model representing the system to achieve this goal.

river bifurcation
Rhine River
climate change
long term morphological change
Pannerdense Kop

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NCR DAYS 2024, 2024-02-28 → 2024-02-29, Gaia, Wageningen University & Research campus, Wageningen, Netherlands

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© 2024 M. Kifayath Chowdhury, A. Blom, C. Ylla Arbos, R.M.J. Schielen