Integrated Modelling Of Water, Water Quality And Sediment Delivery For Best Practice In Upland Environments

School of Geography, University of Leeds

Principal Investigator:

Prof SN Lane

Co-Investigators:

Prof A McDonald and Prof MJ Kirkby

Dates:

1st November 2001 – 31st October 2004

Grant:

Natural Environment Research Council

Summary:

The project seeks to develop generic understanding and modelling methods to assist in the development of best practice in upland environments. It seeks to develop an integrated modelling strategy to allow the consequences of a range of upland management decisions to be assessed in terms of a range of potential impacts. Specifically, the research seeks to couple a distributed hydrological model for hill slopes, a 1D routing model for the channel network, a 2D model of floodplain inundation, a sediment transfer model and a water quality model. The aim of doing this is to allow the effects of changes in catchment hydrological controls (e.g. land management) upon the management of sediment transfer, floods and water quality to be assessed. The model will be applied and tested in the Upper Wharfe, UK.