International Hydrological Programme

Introduction to River Basin Environment Assessment underClimate Change
The Twenty-first IHP Training Course
28 November - 9 December, 2011
Kyoto, JapanWater Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto
UniversityHydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University
Supported byDisaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Global Center for Education and Research on Human Security Engineering for
Asian Megacities, Kyoto University
Global Center for Education and Research on Sustainability Science for Resilient
Society Adaptable to Extreme Weather Conditions, Kyoto University

Outline
A short training course on river basin environment assessment under climate changes will be
programmed for participants from Asia-Pacific regions as a part of Japanese contribution tothe International Hydrological Program (IHP). The course composed of a series of lecturesand practice sessions and field surveys along the Kamo River will be held mainly at theDisaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University during the two weeks from28 November to 9 December 2011.
Objectives
It is obvious that climate changes in recent decades influences the hydrological behaviour andits corresponding environments in river basins. Thus, a numerical evaluation based on themodel accurately expressing natural reactions is necessary. In simulating the river basin
environments subject to past, present and future climate changes, we need to have anindisputable and integrated model incorporating some eco-hydrological/eco-hydraulic andhydro-chemical processes into hydrological/hydrometeorological ones. We have toimmediately consider the full impacts of climate changes on river basin environments toconduct the river basin management. The above full impact is quite difficult to grasp because
the actual system of river basin environments is too complicated to build up the accurate
models of coupling reactions among hydrological, environmental and ecological events. We
can, nevertheless, model and simulate the individual component models as a numericalsystem. A numerical simulation using appropriate modelling for hydrological, environmental
and ecological behaviour under climate changes is a powerful, useful and helpful approach tograsp a spatiotemporal distribution of water resources, environmental assessments andbiomass.
The 21st IHP training course is focused on three major objectives: (1) to acquire thelatest knowledge on hydrological and environmental assessment under climate changes atriver basin scale in the Asia-Pacific region, (2) to make practice for selected topics on
successful simulations to make use of the river basin environment assessment, and (3) todiscuss the possibility to apply the river basin environment assessment into somehydrological and environmental managements.

Course Contents
Convener: KOJIRI, Toshiharu (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
Chief assistant: HAMAGUCHI, Toshio (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)

Lecturers
HAMAGUCHI, Toshio
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
ICHIKAWA, Yutaka
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yamanashi University
KAWAGUCHI, Tomoya
Nihon Suido Consultants, Co., Ltd.
KUZUHA, Yasuhisa
Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University
SATO, Yoshinobu
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
SHIIBA, Michiharu
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
TAKEMON, Yasuhiro
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
TANAKA, Kenji
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
TOKAI, Akihiro
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
TSUJIMURA, Maki
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Lectures’ contents at the Seminar Room of Obaku Plaza, Kyoto University(1-1) Overall concepts of basin-scaled hydrological processes
M. Shiiba(1-2) Basin-scaled evapotranspiration processes
Y. Kuzuha(1-3) Basin-scaled runoff processes
Y. Ichikawa(1-4) Basin-scaled groundwater processes
M. Tsujimura(1-5) Applied skills of remote sensing measurements on hydrological processes
K. Tanaka(2-1) Basin-scaled chemical environment assessments
A. Tokai(2-2) Basin-scaled ecological environment assessments
Y. Takemon(2-3) Basin-scaled food-chain impact assessments
T. Kawaguchi

Practices(3-1) Exercises on runoff processes
Y. Sato(3-2) Exercises on groundwater processes
T. Hamaguchi(3-3) Exercises on remote sensing analyses
K. Tanaka(3-4) Ecological field surveys
Y. Takemon

Technical visits and field surveys
Uji River, Lake Biwa Canal Museum, Kamo River

Schedule (28 November to 9 December, 2011)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------27 (Sunday)

Arrival at Kansai Airport and movement to Kyoto

28 (Monday)

Registration & Guidance (afternoon)
Welcome party (evening)

29 (Tuesday)

Lecture 1-4 (morning)
Lecture 1-2 (afternoon)

30 (Wednesday)

Exercise 3-2 (morning and afternoon)

1 (Thursday)

Lecture 1-3 (morning)
Lecture 2-1 (afternoon)

2 (Friday)

Lecture 2-2 (morning)
Lecture 2-3 (afternoon)

3 (Saturday)

Technical visits with students along the Uji River

4 (Sunday)

Technical visits with students at the Lake Biwa Canal Museum

5 (Monday)

Lecture 1-1 (morning)
Lecture 1-5 (morning)

6 (Tuesday)

Exercise 3-1 (morning & afternoon)7 (Wednesday)

Exercise 3-3 (morning & afternoon)

8 (Thursday)

Exercise 3-4 (morning & afternoon around the Kamo River)

9 (Friday)

Making a report (morning)
Completion ceremony of this course (afternoon)
Farewell party (evening)"

10 (Saturday)

Departure from Kansai Airport

Downloading the Textbook for Participants from the Net
The textbook of “the 21st IHP Training Course”, which is converted in PDF style, will beprepared and available on the IHP Nagoya forum website www.ihpnagoyaforum.org. The
participants are requested to download such PDF file from the website in advance as apreparation to the several lectures of the training course. The textbook should be constitutedof contents (referred sentence bodies, figures, tables, pictures, equations andobserved/calculated results) with authorized copyrights.
Web broadcasting the Lectures
The lectures, with the exception of field trips, will be webcasted to some universities in Asia
via the UNESCO Office Jakarta and with other technology through DPRI facilities. The slidematerials will be distributed to the participants from the Net in advance. The materials arerequested to be filtered out whenever copyrights apply in case of web broadcasting (part orwhole slides will be masked out with digital treatments such as overlaying mosaic images orwith black-out screening during web broadcasting).