Water Quality: Current Trends and
Expected Climate Change Impacts

Proceedings of the Symposium HS04 held during the IUGG GA in Melbourne (28 June-7 Jullet 2011)

Edited by Norman E. Peters, Valentina Krysanova, Ahti Lepistö, Rajendra Prasad,
Martin Thoms, Rob Wilby, Sarantuyaa Zandaryaa

IAHS Publ. 348 (2011) ISBN 978-1-907161-23-0, 186 + x pp. Price £ 50.00

The proceedings of a symposium which brought together water quality scientists for a dialogue on the evaluation of climate change impacts on a wide range of water quality issues. The contributions included herein cover a broad spectrum of water quality issues and have been grouped accordingly: Seasonality and extreme event effects on water quality Effects on groundwater quality Climate change and water quality assessment Climate change and water temperature, and Climate change and water quality modelling.

This volume is a contribution to the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO.

Contents

• Norman (Jake) Peters, Valentina Krysanova, Ahti Lepistö, Rajendra Prasad, Martin Thoms, Rob Wilby & Sarantuyaa Zandaryaa
  Preface, v-vi

1. Seasonality and Extreme Event Effects on Water Quality

   • Y. Somu Naidu, P. Rajendra Prasad & C. Kavitha
     Rainwater quality from 1983 to 2005 and during pre-monsoon and post-monsoon periods in Visakhapatnam, India: a measure of industrial development, 3-7
   • R. B. Singh & Vaneeta Chandna
     Spatial analysis of Yamuna River water quality in pre- and post-monsoon periods, 8-13
   • Chengwei Han, Shiguo Xu, Tianxin Lua, Tianxiang Wan & Jianwei Liu
     Variation of nonpoint-source nutrient concentration in interflow affected by winter processes in Shenyang, China, 14-19
   • Zhiqiang Deng & Abhijit A. Patil
     Assessment of water quality variation in Amite River watershed under changing climate and land use, 20-25
   • Melissa Neave, Scott Rayburg & Ellen Curtis
     A comparison of deflation basin (wetland) soils from wet and dry climatic zones in Tasmania, 26-31
   • S. Payraudeau, G. S. McGrath & C. Hinz
     Climate and contaminant transport: the role of within-storm variability on contaminant transport by surface runoff, 32-37
   • Xing Chen, Zhongbo Yu, Guangbai Cui, Qin Xu & Weiyu Liu
     Effects of extreme rainstorms on the export of diffuse pollution from an agricultural watershed in eastern China, 38-44
   • Guangzhe Jin, Shin-Ichi Onodera, Atsuko Amano, Yuta Shimizu & Takaharu Sato
     Reconstruction of 100-years variation in phosphorus load using the sediment profile of an artificial lake in western Japan, 45-50
   • Kazem Nosrati
     The effects of hydrological drought on water quality, 51-??

2. Effects on Groundwater Quality

   • M. D. Nowbuth & S. Ungnoo
     Climate variability and its impacts on the spatial and temporal variation of groundwater quality in an island, 59-66
   • Dhundi Raj Pathak, Akira Hiratsuka & Yosuke Yamashiki
     Influence of anthropogenic activities and seasonal variation on groundwater quality of Kathmandu Valley using multivariate statistical analysis, 67-72
   • Yanjun Shen, Huimin Lei, Dawen Yang & Shinjiro Kanae
     Effects of agricultural activities on nitrate contamination of groundwater in a Yellow River irrigated region, 73-80

3. Climate Change and Water Quality Assessment

   • Ahti Lepistö & Pirkko Kortelainen
     Increasing organic C and N fluxes from a northern boreal river basin to the sea, 83-88
   • Fadong Li, Shuai Song, Zhenzhong Sun, Qiang Liu, Xiangdong Wu & Guangshuai Zhao
     Potential impact of climate change on water quality in the Huai River: an analysis of trends from 1959 to 2008, 89-94
   • Y. Jun Xu & April BryantMason
     Determining the nitrate contribution of the Red River to the Atchafalaya River in the northern Gulf of Mexico under changing climate, 95-100
   • Branka Bracic Zeleznik, Barbara Cencur Curk & Petra Souvent
     Drinking water quality under changing climate conditions, 101-105
   • P. Antunes & F. C. Rodrigues
     Azores volcanic lakes: factors affecting water quality, 106-114
   • J. Nettles, M. Youssef, J. Cacho, J. Grace, Z. Leggett & E. Sucre
     The water quality and quantity effects of biofuel operations in pine plantations of the southeastern USA, 115-120

4. Climate Change and Water Temperature

   • Heejun Chang & Ken Lawler
     Impacts of climate variability and change on water temperature in an urbanizing Oregon basin, USA, 123-128
   • Julia A. Toone, Robert L. Wilby & Stephen Rice
     Surface-water temperature variations and river corridor properties, 129-134
   • Marie Bourqui, Frederic Hendrickx & Nicolas Le Moine
     Long-term forecasting of flow and water temperature for cooling systems: case study of the Rhone River, France, 135-142

5. Climate Change and Water Quality Modelling

   • Chantal Donnelly, Johan Strömqvist & Berit Arheimer
     Modelling climate change effects on nutrient discharges from the Baltic Sea catchment: processes and results, 145-150
   • M. Rode, H. Boyacioglu, T. Vetter & V. Krysanova
     Impacts of climate change on regulating nitrogen retention in the River Weiße Elster in Germany, 151-158
   • Marta Martínková, Valentina Krysanova, Cornelia Hesse, Martin Hanel & Šárka Blažková
     Modelling of the climate change effects on nitrogen loads in the Jizera catchment, Czech Republic, 159-154
   • Niu Cunwen, Jia Yangwen, Wang Hao, Zhou Zuhao, Qiu Yaqin, Bao Shujun & Lv Caixia
     Assessment of water quality under changing climate conditions in the Haihe River Basin, China, 165-171
   • Yuta Shimizu, Shin-Ichi Onodera & Mitsuyo Saito
     Effect of climate change on nutrient discharge in a coastal area, western Japan, 172-177
   • F. Dyer, S. El Sawah, E. Harrison, S. Broad, B. Croke, R. Norris & A. Jakeman
     Predicting water quality responses to a changing climate: building an integrated modelling framework, 178-184

   Key word index, 185