A first look at the influence of anthropogenic climate change on the future delivery of fluvial sediment to the Ganges–Brahmaputra

A first look at the influence of anthropogenic climate change on the future delivery of fluvial sediment to the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna delta

Published:2015 Issue:9 Volume:17 Page:1587-1600
ISSN:2050-7887
Container-title:Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
language:en
Short-container-title:Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts

Author:

Darby Stephen E.¹²³⁴,Dunn Frances E.¹²³⁴,Nicholls Robert J.⁵²⁶⁴,Rahman Munsur⁷⁸⁹¹⁰,Riddy Liam¹²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. Geography and Environment

2. University of Southampton

3. Southampton SO17 1BJ

4. UK

5. Engineering and the Environment and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

6. Southampton

7. Institute of Water and Flood Management

8. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

9. Dhaka-1000

10. Bangladesh

Abstract

We employ a climate-driven hydrological water balance and sediment transport model (HydroTrend) to simulate future climate-driven sediment loads flowing into the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna (GBM) mega-delta.

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Environmental Chemistry,General Medicine

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/EM/C5EM00252D

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