Co-ordinator :J.C. Bathurst
The EC-funded DM2E project (1992-94) was aimed at evaluating the role which vegetation cover and its degradation by natural and human means plays in determining hydrological, erosion and water quality regimes in areas undergoing desertification, with specific reference to Mediterranean Europe. In the Newcastle component of the project, the SHETRAN flow and sediment transport modelling system (see separate leaflet on River Basin Modelling Systems) was applied to the Rimbaud and Draix catchments situated in the south of France to investigate its ability to represent the impacts of vegetation changes on catchment sediment yield. Data for both catchments were supplied by the French agency CEMAGREF.
contact :
J.C. Bathurst
Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU,
United Kingdom
Tel: (44)(0) 191 222 6259
Fax: (44)(0) 191 222 6669
j.c.bathurst@ncl.ac.uk
web site :
http://wrsru7.ncl.ac.uk/dm2e/dm2e.html