Mountain hydrology
Mountains play a pivotal role for societies worldwide. Their water supplying role is particularly relevant for millions of people living downstream of major mountain ranges. Melt water from glaciers and snow is a seasonal buffer and essential resource for irrigation, domestic and industrial water consumers.
Mountains are climate change hotspots. An increase in temperature combined with shifts in precipitation may have severe impacts on the magnitude and timing of water availability, the occurrence of extreme events such as flooding, droughts, glacier related hazards and landslides. With rapidly developing economies and an ever-growing demand for secure water resources downstream, mountain hydrology forms a unique, important and relevant field of research and education.
The mountain hydrology group at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 provides cutting-edge science ranging from the fundamental understanding of the high altitude water cycle to mapping and understanding of mountain hazards to large scale studies linking upstream water supply to downstream water demands. We organise research expeditions to the Himalayas and combine those field data with the latest satellite imagery, drones and numerical weather and hydrological models.
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