Supervisors and collaborators:
Duration: 2008-2012
Funding: Microsoft Research Ltd.; CSIRO Land and Water
Research questions and objectives
The aim of this project is to assess the impact of land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) on dry-season flows across the tropics through a combination of hydrological analysis and modelling.
Specific objectives include:
- to define reference hydrological conditions under natural forest conditions
- to evaluate where tropical LUCC (both deforestation and reforestation) can be expected to have the greatest impacts on dry-season flows
- to assess the potential for rehabilitation and regeneration of hydrological services in degraded areas through reforestation
Publications
- Pena Arancibia, J.L. (2012). Impacts of land use change on dry season flows across the tropics. Forests as 'sponges' and 'pumps. Doctoral dissertation, University of London, May 2013, 262 pp.
- Pena-Arancibia, J.L., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Guerschman, J.P., Mulligan, M., Bruijnzeel, L.A., & McVicar, T.R. (2012). Using multiple lines of evidence to evaluate the hydrological response to deforestation of large catchments in the dry tropics of Queensland, Australia. Journal of Hydrology 416-417, 60-71.
- Pena Arancibia, J.L., van Dijk, A.I.J.M. & Renzullo, L. (2012). Evaluation of precipitation from reanalyses and satellite products in Australia and East Asia [abstract]. EGU General Assembly 2012 Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 14, 22-27 April 2012, Vienna: EGU2012-6941.
- Pena Arancibia, J.L., van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Stenson, M. & Viney, N. (2011). Opportunities for evaluation of AWRA-L using global data sets. Chan, F., Marinova, D., and Anderssen, R. (eds), MODSIM11, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 12-16 December 2011, Perth, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand: 4071-4077.
- Peña-Arancibia, J.L., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Mulligan, M. & Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2010). The role of climatic and terrain attributes in estimating baseflow recession in tropical catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14: 2193-2205. DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-2193-2010.
