HR: 15:55h
AN: A34B-02 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Integrated modelling and remote sensing approach for sustainable management of water resources in a semi-arid basin in Morocco (SUDMED
AU: * Chehbouni, A
EM: ghani@cesbio.cnes.fr
AF: CESBIO (CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS), 18 Av. E. Belin, Toulouse, 31055 France
AU: Escadafal, R
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AF: CESBIO (CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS), 18 Av. E. Belin, Toulouse, 31055 France
AU: Boulet, G
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AF: CESBIO (CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS), 18 Av. E. Belin, Toulouse, 31055 France
AU: Duchemin, B
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AF: CESBIO (CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS), 18 Av. E. Belin, Toulouse, 31055 France
AU: Simmonaux, V
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AF: CESBIO (CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS), 18 Av. E. Belin, Toulouse, 31055 France
AU: Dedieu, G
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AF: CESBIO (CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS), 18 Av. E. Belin, Toulouse, 31055 France
AU: Hanich, H
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AF: University Cadi Ayyad, Av. My abdellah, Semlalia, Marrakech, 40014 Morocco
AU: Errouane, S
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AF: University Cadi Ayyad, Av. My abdellah, Semlalia, Marrakech, 40014 Morocco
AB: In southern Mediterranean regions, water consumption has increased by 60% in the last decades and continues to rise while available water resources are becoming increasingly scarce. This situation has raised public awareness of long-term water resources issues. However, due to a combined shortage of expertise and funding, little has been attempted toward the development of a basin-wide hydro-ecological understanding of its functioning, stresses and the consequent hydrological responses to those stresses. In this context, CESBIO/IRD have conceived in a close connection with Moroccan scientists, managers, decision makers and other stake holders an interdisciplinary research program whose general objectives are: - Understanding of critical hydro-ecological processes at the basin scale and addressing them through an integrated research program by making a full use of historical data and newly developed technology such as remote sensing, GIS, and other ground instruments such as scintillometers, isotopic analysis, numerical modelling and data assimilation. - Providing operational tools to mangers and guidance to decision makers which help to make informed decision where the need for the growth/development and the sustainability of water are balanced. In this presentation, we will first outline the specific objectives of the program. Second, we will provide the initial results, ongoing and future investigations. Finally, the issue of transposing the results obtained in Morocco to other semi-arid regions of the world will be discussed.
DE: 1833 Hydroclimatology
DE: 1851 Plant ecology
DE: 1878 Water/energy interactions
DE: 3307 Boundary layer processes
DE: 3322 Land/atmosphere interactions
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly