https://hzambran.github.io/tags/china/ China HugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)en-usTue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://hzambran.github.io/media/icon_hu_edd58fc588fafe6f.png https://hzambran.github.io/tags/china/ https://hzambran.github.io/projects/2023-2024-nsfc190018/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://hzambran.github.io/projects/2023-2024-nsfc190018/ <style> /* 1. Target the main article container broadly */ body .page-body, body .universal-wrapper, article.article { font-size: 1rem !important; /* Forces base size to 16px */ } /* 2. Target paragraphs and lists specifically with !important */ .article-style p, .article-container p, article p, .project-content p { font-size: 1rem !important; line-height: 1.6 !important; } /* 3. Target list items */ .article-style li, .article-container li, article li { font-size: 1rem !important; } </style> <h3 id="context-and-motivation">Context and motivation</h3> <p>Climate change and rapid land-use transformation are reshaping hydrological regimes worldwide, intensifying droughts and floods while increasing pressure on already vulnerable watersheds. These challenges are particularly acute in regions where water resources sustain agriculture, forest production, hydropower, and rural livelihoods. At the same time, reservoir regulation and shifting land management practices further modify natural flow dynamics, often in ways that interact nonlinearly with climate variability. Understanding and quantifying these combined effects is therefore essential for advancing predictive hydrology and supporting adaptive water governance under global change. Within this context, this Chile–China collaborative project addresses the urgent need for integrated, process-based assessments of hydroclimatic and land-system interactions across contrasting socio-environmental settings.</p> <h3 id="project-description">Project description</h3> <p>This four-year research project (January December 2023) is funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development ( ) under the <em> </em> call. This project aims to develop and apply a comprehensive hydrological simulation framework to eight pilot basins (four in Chile and four in China) that represent diverse hydroclimatic conditions and water management challenges. Using two complementary models of different structural complexity (SWAT+ and Liuxihe) the research will simulate key hydrological processes and disentangle the relative contributions of climate change, land-use change, water use, and reservoir operations over the past three decades and throughout the 21st century. Historical reconstructions and future scenarios (including climate projections and land-use pathways aligned with policy instruments such as NDCs) will be combined to assess impacts on floods and droughts. A novel Synergistic Effect Function (SEF) will be proposed to quantify the compounded influence of multiple drivers. The project further integrates stakeholder engagement in the selected basins to co-develop science-based recommendations for land-use planning and water resources management, fostering bilateral knowledge exchange and producing transferable methodologies for hydroclimatic</p>