Respuesta Morfológica y Sistemática al Cambio Climático en Cauces Efímeros Mediterráneos: Dinámica, Resiliencia y Propuestas de Actuación (CCAMICEM)

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Respuesta Morfológica y Sistemática al Cambio Climático en Cauces Efímeros Mediterráneos: Dinámica, Resiliencia y Propuestas de Actuación (CCAMICEM)

Morphological and systemic response of ephemeral channels to climate change: dynamics, resilience and proposals for action

Funded by Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (2018-2020)
CEBAS-CSIC and Universidad de Murcia
My role was to analyze the channel planform and morphological features in an ephemeral stream in the southeast of Spain and apply a soil erosion model ensemble in a climate change impact assessment.

Through a collaboration with the University of Murcia I participated in this project, which focuses on Mediterranean ephemeral channels. The project was performed at a range of temporal and spatial scales, which included field surveys, analysis of remote sensing data and modelling. The impact of climate change was analysed, focusing on morphological channel processes, such as incision, narrowing and plant colonization. I contributed with a study on the impact of climate change on soil erosion in the Alta Mula catchment. Here, we applied an ensemble of five continuous process-based soil erosion models to account for model uncertainty under climate change. The model code is available through GitHub.

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