Print Email Facebook Twitter River science in the light of climate change Title River science in the light of climate change Author De Vriend, H.J. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2011-08-31 Abstract Climate change and a river’s response to it are likely to be slow processes as compared to the responses to direct human interventions such as engineering works. Therefore, we have to look at timescales of centuries. Such timescales are difficult to be covered by numerical models and, moreover, uncertainties are so large that the degree of detail offered by numerical model simulations hardly pays off in terms of extra information. Therefore, we fall back on simple basic models providing first-order insight into a river’s long-term behaviour. Starting from the basic drivers and controls of large-scale river morphology, we describe longterm changes as can be expected from climate change and long-lasting human interventions. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:de0aba75-dc83-476b-96eb-2a90aa622e21 Publisher German Federal Institute of Hydrology ISBN 978-3-940247-03-2 Source EurAqua Symposium: Impact of climate change on water resources – 200 years hydrology in Europe: A European perspective in a changing world, Koblenz, Germany, 9-10 November 2010 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2011 German Federal Institute of HydrologyThe Author(s) Files PDF 275936.pdf 862.33 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:de0aba75-dc83-476b-96eb-2a90aa622e21/datastream/OBJ/view