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This paper reports our research effort aiming to investigate the applicability of integrating a hydrological model and the Hydrological Predictions for the Environment (HYPE) model with a geographic information system (GIS) to examine the effect of land use change and climate change on stream-flows with the Kamo River basin (KRB) located in the central Honshu island, Japan as a case study. The goal of this study was to provide important information for understanding water discharge variations as a basis to guide water resource managers in environmental change decisions in this river basin. This goal was accomplished by two steps (i) comparing HYPE-generated hydrographs for various meteorological data from history to present at current land use (S1 and S2); and (ii) comparing HYPE-generated hydrographs for historical and current land use scenarios at current climate (S3 and S4). The calibration and validation results suggest that HYPE performs well in the case study site for daily simulations. The results of S1–S2 indicate that with the impact of climate change, the trend of annual and seasonal stream flows at the Kamo River Basin outlet would decrease. However, there is no evidence to indicate that the flood risk would be decreasing. The results of S3–S4 show that the conversion of forest, glass and agriculture (FGA) into urban area would induce high peak flows, a reduction in annual evaporation and an increase in annual surface runoff.
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The authors thank the supports from the “One Hundred Talents Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41471460). The first author would like to thank China Scholarship Council (CSC) for his PhD scholarships.
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Hu, M., He, B., Luo, P., Takara, K., Duan, W. (2015). Modeling the Effects of Land Use Change and Climate Change on Stream Flow Using GIS and a Hydrological Model. In: Li, J., Yang, X. (eds) Monitoring and Modeling of Global Changes: A Geomatics Perspective. Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9813-6_2
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