Congo Basin Hydrology, Climate, and Biogeochemistry

New scientific discoveries in the Congo Basin as a result of international collaborations

The Congo is the world's second largest river basin and home to 120 million people. Understanding the cycling of water, sediments, and nutrients is important as the region faces climatic and anthropogenic change.

Congo Basin Hydrology, Climate, and Biogeochemistry: A Foundation for the Future explores variations in and influences on rainfall, hydrology and hydraulics, and sediment and carbon dynamics. It features contributions from experts in the region and their international collaborators.

Volume highlights include:

• New in-situ and remotely sensed measurements and model results

• Use of historic data to assess precipitation and hydrologic changes

• Exploration of water exchange between wetlands and rivers

• Biogeochemical processes in the Congo's forests and wetlands

• A scientific foundation for hydrologic resource management in the region

• Studies from different parts of the Congo river and its adjoining basins

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Auteur

Raphael M. Tshimanga, University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Guy D. Moukandi N'kaya, Marien Ngouabi University, Republic of the Congo.

Douglas Alsdorf, The Ohio State University, USA.

Contenu

Preface
Guy D. Moukandi N'kaya, Raphael Tshimanga, and Doug Alsdorf

1.Tshimanga et al., Introduction: Congo Basin Research: Building a Foundation for the Future

Section I: Influences on Rainfall

2. Pokam et al., Annual regime of rainfall over Central Africa: advances and gaps

3. Nicholson, The rainfall and convective regime over equatorial Africa, with emphasis on the Congo Basin

4. Mengouna et al., Influence of "slab-ocean" parametrization in a regional climate model

(RegCM4) over Central Africa

5. Ndehedehe et al., Understanding the influence of climate variability on surface water hydrology in the Congo basin

6. Nguimalet et. al., Hydroclimatic dynamics of upstream Ubangi at Mobaye, Central African Republic: comparative study of the role of savannah and equatorial forest

7. Moudi Igri et al., Evaluation of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42 and 3B43 products relative to Synoptic Weather Station Observations over Cameroon

Section II: Variations in Rainfall and Runoff

8. Moukandi et al., A new look at hydrology in the Congo Basin, based on the study of multi-decadal chronicles

9. Ndehedehe and Agutu, Historical changes in rainfall patterns over the Congo basin and impacts on runoff (1903 - 2010)

10. Sridhar et al., Water Budgets and Droughts under Current and Future Conditions in the Congo River Basin

11. Sorí Gómez et al., Spatio-temporal variability of droughts in the Congo River basin: the role of atmospheric moisture transport

Section III: Hydrology and Hydraulics

12. Tshimanga, Two decades of hydrologic modelling and predictions in the Congo River Basin: Progress and prospect for future investigations

13. Yuan et al., Sources and sinks of water of the Cuvette Centrale wetlands using multiple remote sensing measurements and a hydrologic model

14. Datok et al., Investigating the role of the Cuvette Centrale in the hydrology of the Congo River Basin

15. Carr et al., Estimation of Bathymetry for Modelling Multi-thread Channel Hydraulics: Application to the Congo River Middle Reach

16. Schumann et al., Reviewing Applications of remote sensing techniques to hydrologic research in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a special focus on the Congo basin

17. Brachet et al., Hydrologie spatiale et applications dans le bassin du Congo

18. Paris et al., Monitoring hydrological variables from remote sensing and modelling in the Congo River basin

19. Bogning et al., Long-term Hydrological Variations of the Ogooué River Basin

Section IV: Sediments and Carbon

20. Richey et al., Fluvial Carbon Dynamics across the Land to Ocean Continuum of Great Tropical Rivers: the Amazon and Congo

21. Trigg et al., Measuring Geomorphological Change on the Congo River Using Century Old Navigation Charts

22. Mushi et al., Site selection, Design, and Implementation of a Sediment Sampling Program on the Kasai River, a major tributary of the Congo River

23. Tshimanga et al., New Measurements of Water Dynamics and Sediment Transport along the Middle Reach of the Congo River and the Kasai Tributary

Section V: Water Resources

24. Tshimanga et al., Towards a framework of catchment classification for hydrologic predictions and water resources management in the ungauged basin of the Congo River: An a priori approach

25. Nzango et al., The environmental issues of the Ubangui water transfer project to Lake Chad

26. Fougou and Lemoalle, VARIABILITY OF LAKE CHAD: WHAT HYDRAULIC MANAGEMENT TO PRESERVE NATURAL RESOURCES?

27. Bola et al., Multi return periods flood hazards and risks assessment in the Congo River Basin

28. Trigg et al., Putting river users at the heart of hydraulics and morphology research in the Congo Basin

Index