Adapting to water scarcity in Europe
- Resumen
- According to IPCC projections Europe will experience considerable changes in rainfallamountsanddistributionduringthiscentury.Thiswouldleadtoan increasing polarisation of water availability between the north, where rainfall amounts are expected to increase and the South, where they may sharply decrease. Results from a coupled regional climate impact model, which simulates the reaction of the runoff regime of the mountainous Upper Danube river basin on the expected climate change, demonstrates as a case study, that a complete change in the hydrologic re-gime of Central and Southern European mountain water resources is likely. The consequences, more severe low-flow conditions, sharply decreased summer discharges, reduced hydropower potential and an increasing demand for irrigation, are demonstrated. Possible ways to adapt by changing the operational mode of existing reservoir structures are discussed.
- Autor
- Mauser, Wolfram; Hank, Tobias
- Palabras Clave
- Europa, Cambio climático, Ciclo hidrológico, Datos hidrológicos, Escorrentía, Sequía
- Idioma
- Español
- Documentos
- Ponencia ( 15 pag, 384 Kb )
- Presentación
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