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Climate change impact on soil erosion in the Mandakini River Basin, North India [1]

Correct estimation of soil loss at catchment level helps the land and water resources planners to identify priority areas for soil conservation measures. Soil erosion is one of the major hazards affected by the climate change, particularly the increasing intensity of rainfall resulted in increasing erosion, apart from other factors like landuse change. Changes in climate have an adverse effect with increasing rainfall. It has caused increasing concern for modeling the future rainfall and projecting future soil erosion. In the present study, future rainfall has been generated with the downscaling of GCM (Global Circulation Model) data of Mandakini river basin, a hilly catchment in the state of Uttarakhand, India, to obtain future impact on soil erosion within the basin.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
09/05/2016
Deepak Khare [3], Arun Mondal [4], Sananda Kundu & et al [5]
Applied Water Science [6]
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Tags:
Climate Change [7], Soil Erosion [8], River Basin [9], Land Use [10], Rainfall Pattern [11], Alakananda [12], Rudraprayag (D) [13], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [14], Monsoons [15], Climate Impacts [16]
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/climate-change-impact-soil-erosion-mandakini-river-basin-north-india
[2] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13201-016-0419-y
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/deepak-khare
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/arun-mondal
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sananda-kundu-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/applied-water-science
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/soil-erosion
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/river-basin
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-use
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rainfall-pattern
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/alakananda
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rudraprayag-d
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/uttaranchal-uttarakhand
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/monsoons
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts