Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015

Presentation information

Oral

Symbol A (Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences) » A-HW Hydrology & Water Environment

[A-HW27] Water and material transport and cycle in watersheds: from headwater to coastal area

Sun. May 24, 2015 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM 301B (3F)

Convener:*Shinji Nakaya(Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University), Mitsuyo Saito(Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University), Shin-ichi Onodera(Graduate School of Integrated and Arts Sciences, Hiroshima University), Kazuhisa Chikita(Department of Natural History Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University), Tomohisa Irino(Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University), Masahiro Kobayashi(Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute), Seiko Yoshikawa(Narional Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences), Noboru Okuda(Research Institute for Humanity and Nature), Chair:Kazuhisa Chikita(Department of Natural History Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University), Masahiro Kobayashi(Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)

5:39 PM - 5:42 PM

[AHW27-P04] Estimation of the climate change effect on the long-term variation in river temperature in a snow-covered watershed

3-min talk in an oral session

*Yutaka MARUYAMA1, Shin-ichi ONODERA1, Koichi KITAOKA2, Mitsuyo SAITO3, Yuta SHIMIZU4 (1.Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, 2.Okayama University of Scienece, 3.Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, 4.National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Western Region Agricultural Research Center)

According to the effect of climate change such as global warming, it is possibly predicted that seasonal precipitation, snowfall, and river ecosystem changes in a watershed scale. Therefore, the estimation of climate change effect on river environment especially in a snow-covered watershed is important. In the present study, two different trends were found in the river temperature in western Japan; monthly decreasing trends and annual increasing trends. These trends could be explained by the hydrological process such as increase of snowfall and rainfall in the headwater area during winter seasons and increasing of the groundwater discharge to the river in summer seasons, respectively. An estimation of the temperature of river water by an extrapolation model in 2011-2050 indicates that annual temperature will increase.