'NERC-NSTC': Groundwater Resources in a Changing Climate (GRCC) - A Taiwan & UK partnership to share and develop groundwater knowledge and expertise

“NERC-NSTC”：气候变化中的地下水资源 (GRCC) - 台湾

• 批准号: NE/X002470/1
• 负责人: John Bloomfield
• 金额: $ 12.86万
• 依托单位: British Geological Survey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FX002470%2F1
• 关键词: NERC; NSTC; Groundwater; Resources; Changing

Groundwater provides about of one-third of global freshwater supplies and it has been estimated that about 2.5 billion people are solely dependent on groundwater for basic daily water needs. It is critical for agricultural irrigation, industrial water supplies, and it sustains important groundwater-dependent terrestrial ecosystems. However, this high level of dependence on groundwater means that communities and ecosystems across the globe are vulnerable to natural changes in groundwater resources and the impacts of climate change. Consequently, groundwater droughts, periods of below-normal groundwater levels, and associated surface water droughts are a major threat to global water security and are potentially susceptible to being modified by climate change.It has been shown that groundwater droughts are becoming more frequent, longer and more intense in the UK consistent with climate warming, and, that regardless of climate setting, nations and communities are increasingly aware of the impacts of climate change on the resilience of water resources. For example, Taiwan and the UK have both suffered recent major droughts. In 2021 Taiwan experienced its worst drought in over 50 years due to failure of the annual typhoon season leading to restrictions in public, industrial and agriculture water supplies. In response, the Taiwan Ministry of Water commissioned 190 new groundwater wells. In the UK, the driest 18 months for over 100 years, from 2010 to 2012, led to record low groundwater levels, 'hosepipe bans' were imposed on ~20 million people in spring 2012, and the environment and farming sectors were significantly adversely affected. In both cases the episodes of drought were driven by exceptional rainfall deficits consistent with the effects of climate change, either by the failure of the annual typhoons in Taiwan, or successive dry winters in the UK. As a result, there is a pressing need to better understand the formation and propagation of groundwater droughts and for improved short- and long-term forecasting and prediction of groundwater and linked surface water resources and droughts under climate change.In response to the call from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST) and Natural Environment Research Council, UK, the Groundwater Research in a Channing Climate (GRCC) Partnership is proposed. The GRCC is a new multi-disciplinary research partnership between the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan and the British Geological Survey (BGS) UK that will enable the sharing of knowledge and expertise and will build an enduring research capacity to addresses research challenges and societal needs related to groundwater droughts common to Taiwan and the UK. It will be facilitated by partnership-building activities and by joint working on three technical strands. To ensure that it endures, the GRCC Partnership will explicitly provide support for early careers researchers (ECRs) to grow into leadership roles and it will consolidate learning from all GRCC activities to produce a plan for future collaboration and growth of the partnership following the initial phase of GRCC funding. The GRCC Partnership activities include: regular project team VCs; reciprocal, annual visits for joint workshops and to enable joint working on the three research themes; and, to enable access to and participation in regional (Taiwan and UK) research fora to widen the reach of the GRCC Partnership. The GRCC Partnership will work on and produce joint deliverables on three research strands: groundwater droughts; baseflow (streamflow) droughts; and, groundwater drought prediction and forecasting. The GRCC will enhance our ability to deliver impactful research on this important topic by significantly growing our current capability and future potential to provide world-leading, innovative research that can contribute to improved water resource and drought management planning in Taiwan, the UK, and more widely.

地下水约占全球淡水供应的三分之一，据估计，约有25亿人完全依靠地下水满足基本的每日水需求。它对于农业灌溉，工业水供应和维持重要地下水依赖地下水生态系统至关重要。但是，这种高水平的对地下水的依赖意味着全球的社区和生态系统容易受到地下水资源的自然变化和气候变化的影响。因此，地下水干旱，低于正态的地下水水平的时期以及相关的地表水干旱是对全球水安全的主要威胁，并有可能受到气候变化的修改，这表明，气候干旱变得越来越频繁，更长，更加激烈，并且在英国对气候变暖和环境的影响不断增加，这是对气候变化的不断变化的，而在气候中，这种危机和社区的变化是依赖于气候的变化。水资源。例如，台湾和英国都遭受了最近的重大干旱。台湾在2021年由于年度台风季节的失败导致公共，工业和农业供水的限制，台湾在50多年来经历了最严重的干旱。作为回应，台湾水务部委托了190个新的地下水井。在英国，从2010年到2012年，最干旱的18个月最多的100年以上，导致了低下的地下水水平，2012年春季施加了〜2000万人的“软管禁令”，环境和农业部门受到了显着不利影响。在这两种情况下，干旱的发作都是由与气候变化的影响一致的出色降雨缺陷所驱动的，无论是由于台湾年度台风的失败还是英国连续的干冬冬季的失败。结果，迫切需要更好地理解地下水干旱的形成和传播，并改善了在气候变化下的地下水和链接的地表水资源以及链接的地表水资源和干旱的预测和预测。在台湾（大多数）和自然环境研究委员会的呼吁下，台湾和自然环境研究委员会提出了一项channing clcctnning channine channing climate channing climate channine clcctnning channine clcctnning channing clcctnning。 GRCC是国立郑项大学（NCKU），台湾和英国地质调查局（BGS）英国的新型多学科研究合作伙伴关系，它将能够共享知识和专业知识，并将建立持久的研究能力，以满足与台湾和英国与台湾和英国的地下水干旱相关的研究挑战和社会需求。合作伙伴关系活动和联合从事三个技术链的联合工作将促进它。为了确保它的持久，GRCC合作伙伴关系将明确为早期职业研究人员（ECRS）提供支持，以发展为领导角色，它将巩固从所有GRCC活动中学习，以制定计划后，在GRCC资金的初始阶段为未来的合作和成长提供了一项计划。 GRCC合作伙伴活动包括：常规项目团队VC；互惠，年度访问联合研讨会，并使共同致力于三个研究主题；并且，为了访问和参与区域（台湾和英国）研究，以扩大GRCC合作伙伴关系的影响力。 GRCC合作伙伴关系将在三个研究方面开展并生产共同的可交付成果：地下水干旱；碱流（流）干旱；而且，地下水干旱的预测和预测。 GRCC将通过显着提高我们当前的能力和提供世界领先，创新的研究的潜力来提高我们对这一重要主题进行有影响力的研究的能力，从而有助于改善台湾，英国的水资源和干旱管理计划，并且更广泛地。