Lower Mekong River Basin
Evaluation of Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates in the Lower Mekong River Basin (Southeast Asia)
... the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMRB) in Southeast ...the basin. CHIRPS correlated better than TMPA at lower elevations and for monthly rainfall accumulation less than 500 ...
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Enhancing capacities of riparian professionals to address and resolve transboundary issues in international river basins: experiences from the Lower Mekong River Basin
... The Lower Mekong Basin countries are all “medium hu- man development” countries (human development index be- tween ...the basin still is one of the last great rivers without large reservoirs ...
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Application of Modis 250m images without in situ observations for mapping Mekong River Basin land cover
... entire Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB), using 250m MODIS ...the basin. This helped to delineate the vast paddy area around Mekong Delta from rest of the ...contain lower ...
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The Challenges of Integrated Management of Mekong River Basin in Terms of People’s Livelihood
... the river side, provide navigation routes and necessary environmental functions, but ex- treme floods usually cause severe damage and suffering, especially to people living in low lying ...the lower ...
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Roads and Floods. Mekong River Commission
... the Lower Mekong Basin has evolved at a fast ...the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), requires a different approach to planning as well as technical design, compared to road developments ...
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Flood trends and variability in the Mekong river
... The Mekong river lies in Southeast Asia and its 800 000 km 2 catchment is shared by China, Myanmar, Thai- land, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam ...the river flows on the Tibetan plateau through the Yunnan ...
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Tradeoff analysis between electricity generation and ecosystem services in the Lower Mekong Basin
... the river hydrology, capture fisheries and sediment/ nutrients dynamics which would adversely affect the productivity of Tonle Sap and the floodplains in Cambodia and the Vietnam Delta coastal zone (Kummu and ...
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Hydropower Development in the Lower Mekong Basin: Alternative Approaches to Deal with Uncertainty
... the Mekong, highlighting those affected by proposed main- stream dams, assessment of the ecological importance and productivity of the seasonally exposed in-channel wetlands, and assessment of the possibilities ...
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Physically controlled CO2 effluxes from a reservoir surface in the upper Mekong River Basin: a case study in the Gongguoqiao Reservoir
... Figure 3. Box plots of pCO 2 in the rivers (R), permanent flooded area of the reservoir (P), downstream (D) and littoral zone (L) in the spring (a), summer (b), autumn (c) and winter (d). Notice that the scale of pCO 2 ...
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The Dam Xayaburi and the Need to Review the 1995 Mekong River Basin Agreement
... the Mekong River including the absence of China as an upstream country and the lack of mechanisms for the equal rights of downstream ...the Mekong Commission as a full ...the Lower ...
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Detecting Spatial and Temporal Change of NDVI Dynamics in the Mekong River Basin: Relationship with Anthropogenic Effects
... study of forest losses between 1993 and 1997 found that the lower MRB as a whole lost close to 500,000 ha in four years (equivalent to 0.5% of the annual deforestation rate) [9]. In addition, the lower MRB ...
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Understanding the Mekong Basin
... the river, is the construction of dams upstream, causing crops to wither, drinking water levels in wells to fall, and fish stocks to ...the lower Mekong Delta further south in Vietnam resulting in ...
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Thermoluminesence and Radiocarbon Dates in the Brick Structures of GoThap Site in the Lower Mekong Delta Basin
... of Mekong River - the longest river in south-eastern Asia and one of the longest in the ...The river starts in eastern Tibet, flows through China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and ...the ...
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Planning Approaches for Hydropower Development in the Lower Mekong Basin
... the Mekong River on which uncertain impacts from planned developments in the basin, including mainstream hydropower developments, could significantly influence the direction of costs and benefits of ...
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Water discharge and sediment flux changes over the past decades in the Lower Mekong River: possible impacts of the Chinese dams
... the Lower Mekong basin, and have a considerable impact on flows and sedimentation ...The Lower Mekong countries are concerned that the construction of the cascade dams in China will ...
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A climate flood link for the lower Mekong River
... the lower Mekong ...upper Mekong basin could have had important effects on the flood regime, although it is unlikely that they would have affected down- stream stations like Kratie during the ...
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Saving the Mekong River Basin
... We only consider the strong governance case of the downstream for the cooperation regime. Table 8 reports the regions’ economic values for each of these four scenarios and the situation with no cooperation. Without an ...
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Impact of climate change on sediment yield in the Mekong River basin: a case study of the Nam Ou basin, Lao PDR
... the basin are highly dependent on the direction of the projected changes in precipitation; this is also concluded by Kingston et ...Ou basin and further downstream in the Mekong ...the Mekong ...
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Uncertainty in hydrological scenario modelling: An investigation using the Mekong River Basin, SE Asia
... In the case of the Chi, a dead storage term was applied to baseflow reservoir 2 to prevent overestimation of flows (Table 4.7). Overestimation of flows in the absence of dead storage was also experienced in the ...
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Evidence-based Conservation: lessons from the Lower Mekong
... ~cronyms 5MHRP A."f ABE ACSC ADB ADRA MAP AK ARBCP ARD ASEAN BCCI BCI BMNP BMZ BNR BPAM1' BZ CALM CARERE CBD CBNRM CCAFS CCBA CCPf CDM CECG CEDAC CEEE CET and abbreviations Five Million [r] ...
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