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nitrogen, ammonium-nitrogen and temperature, and by also comparing it to theFlemish water quality immission standards.SHRESTHA Indu MohanGroundwater Modelling of Maaswinkel Natural Reserve Area, BelgiumPromotor: F. De SmedtMaaswinkel Natural Reserve Area lies in the basin of the Meuze river in Belgium. Itconstitutes of ecologically valuable area with a complicated ecosystem. There is concernabout the influence of the Meuse river and its impact on the natural reserve. The waterlevel in the ponds situated in the natural reserve is strongly dependent on the Meuseriver and shows fluctuation of several meters during the year. The water levelfluctuation has been considered as major factor contributing to loss of biodiversity inecosystem. The research aims to study the relationship between the Meuse river waterlevel and the water level in the ponds by surface water – groundwater interaction. Forthe simulation of the groundwater system, steady state and transient state models havebeen developed by using Visual MODFLOW. The spatially distributed groundwaterrecharge input for groundwater flow simulation has been computed by the use ofWetSpass. Furthermore, MODPATH has been used to compute the three dimensionalpathlines and position of particles at specified points in time. The diffusion of waterfrom the Meuse river towards the natural reserve area has been simulated by MT3DMS.Groundwater modelling result shows that the general groundwater flow direction isfrom general head boundary towards the Meuse river as most of basin area lies outsidethe study area which is contributing 53.8% of groundwater flow towards the ponds andthe Meuse river throughout the year except during flood. During the peak floods, thewater level fluctuation on the ponds is mainly due to the Meuse river that contributes54.8% of groundwater flow towards the ponds. Finally, the impacts of groundwater levelin the natural reserve area have been analyzed in order to maintain its biodiversityconsidering different scenarios of nature and water resources management.- 24 -
SILVA JORDÁN Luis FernandoEvaluation of Climate Indexes under Climate Change Scenarios in the SouthernHighland of BoliviaPromotor: O. BatelaanThis thesis arises from the necessity of predicting future climatic events, especiallythose for the agricultural zones of Bolivia, specifically the Enrique Baldivieso province inthe department of Potosi, zone of study for the present investigation.The rate of climate change expected for the following 100 years does not haveprecedents comparatively with the last 160.000 years. Certainly climate change wasoccurring in geological time, but clearly by natural causes; by the human influence andstarting with the boom of the industry in the 18 th century also began the dramaticconsequences of the global warming. According to works with climate scenarios carriedout by the National Program of Climatic Changes in Bolivia, this research uses thefollowing scenarios: IS92a baseline, IS92c optimistic and the IS92e pessimistic scenario.The work was calibrated in agreement to SCENGEN with a spatial resolution of 5° ofLatitude and 5° Longitude. The models of General Circulation (GCM) utilized in thisthesis are: HADCM2, UKHI and GISSEQ the best model that adjusts Bolivian dataaccording to studies carried out in Bolivia. The last one is the base model for studies ofclimatic indices of the year 2100 in this thesis. With the objective to calculate thevariation of bio-climatic indexes both for baseline scenario (2006) and for the scenarioof design (2100), it was taken into account climatic indices like: wind, precipitation,temperature, evapotranspiration, etc., based on records data in 5 climate stations of theNational Service of Hydrology and Meteorology SENHAMI, these stations aresurrounding the zone of the project. The registers in some stations were not sufficientin order to do a precise evaluation of indexes; hence a homogeneous behavior in thezone is assumed, especially referred for the indices of wind, evaporation, cloudinessand sun hours recorded in Uyuni station. These data were evaluated with WetSpassprogram in order to obtain the water balance of the zone, for the baseline scenario(2006 with historic data 1974–2006) and for the climate change scenarios IS92a, IS92band IS92e (for the years 2050 and 2100). These results are the base for the calculationof the bio-climatic indexes. The final results and conclusions of the thesis show acomparison between the climate scenarios and the effects in ecological systems that arerepresented by the bio-climatic indexes.- 25 -
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