Status and Perspectives of Hydrology in Small Basins

Edited by Andreas Herrmann & Sybille Schumann
Co-edited by Ladislav Holko, Ian Littlewood, Laurent Pfister, Piet Warmerdam & Ulrich Schröder

IAHS Publ. 336 (2010) ISBN 978-1-907161-08-7, 316 + xii pp. Price £65.00

  

Only in well-defined small basins with high-quality measurements can the complexities of combined physical, chemical and biological processes be adequately investigated. Small hydrological research basins provide interdisciplinary observatories, thus contributing to the study of the impact of environmental changes and to developing strategies for water and land-use management under such change.

This volume, the Proceedings of the Workshop held at Goslar-Hahnenklee, Germany, in spring 2009 focuses on:

  • Presently operational small research basins
  • Fundamental hydrological research results drawn from small basins
  • Hydrological processes
  • Importance of small basin data and results for hydrological modelling
and includes the Braunschweig Declaration on:
The need for a global network of long-term small hydrological research basins.

Contents

    PLENARY SESSIONS

  1. Presently Operated Small Hydrological Research Basins; 60 Years of Hydrological Measurements in the Bramke Research Basin
     
  2. Fundamental Hydrological Results Drawn from Studies in Small Basins
     
     
  3. Hydrological Processes Knowledge Drawn from Studies in Small Basins
     
     
  4. Importance of Hydrological Data and Results from Small Basins for Hydrological Modelling
     

    WORKING GROUP SESSIONS

  5. Research on hydrological processes: which achievements are expected from research in small basins in the coming decades ?
     
     
  6. What contribution to the monitoring and understanding of changes in physical processes, water fluxes, water balances and global warming effects is expected from hydrological small basins research ?
     
     
  7. What may be the scientific contribution to the PUB initiative and what is expected vice versa ?
     
     
  8. Do we need research results from small basins for the further development of mathematical hydrological models ?
     

    Braunschweig Declaration – The need for a global network of long-term small hydrological research basins, 305-308