Potential impacts of climate change on water quality and ecology in six UK rivers
Potential impacts of climate change on water quality and ecology in six UK rivers
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气候变化对英国六条河流水质和生态的潜在影响
DOI：
10.2166/nh.2009.078
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
D. Butterfield
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作者：
P. Whitehead;A. Wade;D. Butterfield
已经进行了一项建模研究，以评估气候变化对英国各地水质可能产生的影响。一系列气候变化情景已被用来生成英国各地一系列流域的未来降水、蒸发和温度时间序列。这些时间序列随后被用来驱动综合流域 (INCA) 的流量、水质和生态模型套件，以模拟塔马河、拉格河、坦姆河、肯尼特河、特威德河和兰伯恩河的流量、硝酸盐、氨、总磷和可溶性活性磷、沉积物、大型植物和附生植物。已经获得了广泛的响应，其影响因河流特征、流域位置、流态、情景类型和未来时间而异。本质上，河流的高地河段与河流的低地河段的响应不同，并且响应将根据感兴趣的水质参数而变化。
A modelling study has been undertaken to assess the likely impacts of climate change on water quality across the UK. A range of climate change scenarios have been used to generate future precipitation, evaporation and temperature time series at a range of catchments across the UK. These time series have then been used to drive the Integrated Catchment (INCA) suite of flow, water quality and ecological models to simulate flow, nitrate, ammonia, total and soluble reactive phosphorus, sediments, macrophytes and epiphytes in the Rivers Tamar, Lugg, Tame, Kennet, Tweed and Lambourn. A wide range of responses have been obtained with impacts varying depending on river character, catchment location, flow regime, type of scenario and the time into the future. Essentially upland reaches of river will respond differently to lowland reaches of river, and the responses will vary depending on the water quality parameter of interest.