No. 71

January 2001

HSJ now has
an impactfactor of 1.009(see page 3)

Huge pricereductions onsome Red Books
and Journals(see page 7 and the new
Catalogue)

Plan to cometo Maastricht,
July 2001
IAHS President John Rodda at the International Symposium: Can Science and Society
Save the Water Crisis in the 21st Century?, Tokyo, 24 October 2000.

(see page 24 and 2nd
circular)Contents
President’s Piece.............................................. 1

WMO.......................................................... 19

From the President-Elect ................................. 2

In Memory of Adriaan Volker.................... 20

From the Editor................................................ 3

Reports on Meetings................................... 21

IAHS Press ...................................................... 6

News about Maastricht............................... 24

News from Commissions................................. 9

Other Forthcoming Events ......................... 25

IAHS/WMO Working Group for GEWEX ..... 13

Changes to National Representatives ......... 27

UNESCO ......................................................... 17

Calendar of Meetings ................................. 27

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President’s Piece
Colorado was extremely hot, with extensive
forest fires in the western part of the state, when
the Executive Committee of the International
Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) met
for its annual session in Boulder on 9 and 10
August. Following reports of the meeting of the
IUGG Bureau and from the seven associations
and after discussions of the preparations for the
Sapporo Assembly, most attention was given to
consideration of IUGG goals and objectives andthe future of the Union. Why should IUGG exist?
What makes the Union unique? How would theannual subvention be obtained from member
countries without IUGG, were among thequestions addressed in attempts to clarify what iswrong with the Union. It was felt that IUGG
should be made more relevant, more active andmore flexible. How to achieve these and otherdesirable attributes were amongst the main
problems.
In the last Newsletter, I reported questioning
Dr Larry Kohler (Executive Director of the

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Next deadline for copy
Articles must be received at least six weeks
before the month of publication. The next
issue will be published in May 2001 andthe deadline for articles is 24 March 2001.
The Newsletter is edited by Penny Kisby and published by
IAHS Press, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford,
Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UKInternational Council for Science (ICSU)) at his
lecture at the Royal Society in June about
improving links between IAHS and theInternational Geosphere Biosphere Programme(IGBP). To discuss this question and others,
ICSU convened a meeting in Paris in September
between representatives of its water programmes
in the Global Energy and Water Experiment(GEWEX) and IGBP, a number of ICSU bodies
including IAHS, and parallel international
programmes of which FRIEND (Flow Regimes
from International Experimental and NetworkData) and HELP (Hydrology for Environment,Life and Policy) are prominent. Views were
exchanged on how each programme or body wasadvancing and on needs to improve links between
them. I proposed that IGBP should plan toconvene jointly with IAHS its future symposia
concerned with hydrology and water resources.
Marseilles in mid-October was the venue for
the Second Assembly of the World Water
Council (WWC) attended by some 200 water
specialists from: ministries, international agencies,
water companies, nongovernmental organizations
and the like. There were technical sessions, thefinal meeting of the 38-member Board ofGovernors (BOG) formed at the First Assembly,
the Assembly itself when the business of the
WWC was conducted and the initial meeting of
the new BOG. Quite a lot of time was spent onagreeing the acceptance of new members of theCouncil and then conducting the election of the
new BOG. There were 39 candidates for the 20
elected places and when the result wasannounced, the 75 votes received by IAHS gave
the Association the 17th place. The new BOG
then elected Mahmoud Abu-Zeid as President fora further 3 years and Bill Cosgrove as VicePresident. The WWC is preparing for the Third
World Water Forum in Japan in March 2003.
Can Science and Society Save the Water
Crisis in the 21st Century? This was theintriguing title of an international symposium
held at the Science Council of Japan in Tokyo on
24 October, organized by the Japan Society ofHydrology and Water Resources with the supportof the Science Council, several ministries of theGovernment of Japan and a number of otherbodies. Kuni Takeuchi, who led the organizationof the symposium, arranged for this question to
be answered in a series of lectures from “aroundthe world”. These lectures were given by: thePresident of IAHS, the three Vice-Presidents, theSecretary General, the Editor and several othermembers of the Association, together with
Andras Szollosi-Nagy, Arthur Askew and Gordon
Young. The symposium was followed later in theweek by a set of similar presentations at
Yamanashi University and a field excursion,
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nights in a Japanese-style hotel. During the visit
to Japan the idea of establishing an IAHS 2020
Working Groupwas developed.
Each
Commission is being asked to provide me with
the names of two members aged 35 or less, one ofwhom will be selected to make up the 12-member
group, with one UNESCO and one WMO
nominee, to be chaired by Prof. Oki. The group is
expected to produce a report similar to that of theHydrology 2000 Working Group (IAHS Publ. no.
171), for presentation at the IAHS Scientific
Assembly in 2005.
Dams, as most hydrologists are aware, are andhave been the focus for much controversy andcontention, to the extent that the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature and theWorld Bank established the World Commission
on Dams several years ago to look into the
problems their construction poses. “Dams andDevelopment”, the report of the 10 member
commission, chaired by Prof. Kader Asmal(South Africa) was launched in London on
16 November. Several members of IAHS
contributed to the report and your President was
one of the 500 or so gathered together for thelaunch. Former President Nelson Mandela opened
the proceedings with the hope that confidence,
assurance and harmony would be promoted by
the report.
John C. Rodda

From the President-Elect
Dear friends:
A happy new Century!
I hope that you all started a very pleasant newyear of the new Century with something brightand promising in your mind. Let us start working
together.
The millennium year was indeed full of
exciting events launching the new Century. Manyof them attracted more people, more disciplines,
more interest, more ideas and experiences, andmore and more were integrated. It demanded anincrease of knowledge and the powerful analysis
and synthesis of knowledge. It is our role as hydrological scientists to provide simple but practicalprinciples to analyse the mass of knowledge andsynthesize the results for practical use. I believethat IAHS has been very successful in acquiringknowledge and finding principles. Our continued
efforts as a scientific nongovernmental organization (NGO) acting as a bond for various
disciplines can certainly contribute to the betteruse of scientific knowledge. New initiatives suchas Hydrology for Environment, Life and Policy(HELP), the World Water Assessment
Programme, the International Global Observing
System are some examples where we can make adirect contribution.

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I would like to share with you some of mymillennium year experiences.
It was a real surprise at the Second World
Water Forum in the Hague last March seeing a
man and a woman absolutely naked standing on
the stage and a naked lady in the audience
protesting about dam construction and theprivatization of water. I witnessed this event,
together with John Rodda and Gordon Young, in
the auditorium of the Hague Congress Centre. I
believe this added some extra concerns of theJapanese organizers hosting the third World
Water Forum in 2003.
After the Bureau of the IHP in Paris in April,
Andras Szollosi-Nagy of UNESCO’s Water
Sciences Division and I visited the US
Departments of State and of the Interior in
Washington, DC. US colleagues expressed theirkeen interest in participating in the IHP and inother global water initiatives. We visited theWater Resources Institute of the Corps ofEngineers and saw the very advanced applicationof hydro-sciences in real water management
practices. Andras and I took a photo in front of
the big statue of Albert Einstein who said
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
We appreciated the help of Jerry Delli Priscoli
and Jake Peters for making the arrangements andfor the hospitable reception we received.
In June I successfully terminated my
Chairpersonship of the Intergovernmental
Council of the IHP and passed the burden to Prof.
Reinder Feddes of The Netherlands. I am pleased
to be relieved of this important role and pass it
over to our old friend Reinder, although till 2002
I still remain on the IHP Bureau as the past
chairperson.
In September I visited Cambodia together
with Dr Dushmanta Dutta of the University ofTokyo and saw the record-breaking floods. We
visited flooded areas and saw refugees with goats
and cattle on the roads and boats distributing
relief supplies. The floods affected one third of
the country. Mr Veng Sakhon, the Under
Secretary of State, Ministry of Water Resources
and Meteorology, requested all the help they
could get, including scientific support such as
satellite images which we mailed to him later.
From 22 to 28 October the Japan Society ofHydrology and Water Resources (JSHWR)
invited John Rodda, Pierre Hubert, Gordon
Young, Carlos Tucci, Lars Gottschalk, Lekan
Oyebande, Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Andras
Szollosi-Nagy, Arthur Askew, Xia Jun, Irina
Krasovskaia and Ashim Das Gupta to Tokyo and
Kofu. A symposium entitled “Can Science andSociety Save the World Water Crisis in the 21stCentury? Reports from the World” was held inTokyo and two workshops were held in Kofu. It
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IAHS and its collaboration with UNESCO and
WMO, besides drawing support for my IAHS
presidency starting at Maastricht. The presented
papers are now being edited for possible
publication as a special issue of Hydrological
Sciences Journal. I am grateful to all the invitees
for sparing precious time to attend, and to ourhosts including Professors Katumi Musiake(JSHWR President), Hiroyoshi Shiigai (Presidentof Yamanashi University), Toshiharu Kojiri and anumber of sponsors.
In November, the Eighth IHP Regional
Steering Committee for Southeast Asia and thePacific (RSC) and a symposium were held in
Christchurch, New Zealand, jointly with the New
Zealand Conference on Fresh Perspectives.
Nearly 400 participants attended including over
50 delegates from Southeast Asia and the Pacificregion from countries ranging from Mongolia to
Tonga. After the conference, I was one of theseven Japanese who visited the Motueka basin in
the northernmost part of the South Island to see
their experience as a leading HELP basin. We
witnessed the cooperative scientific anddemocratic process of integrated catchment
management for conserving the beautiful basin
environment for forestry, agriculture, fishery andmarine production. We are grateful to our hosts,
in particular, Richard Ibbit, Breck Bowden andAndy Pearce.
I would like to mention two interesting lessons
I learned:• At the Hydraulic Engineering Center, USCE,
in Davis, California, in September,
Mr Arlen D. Feldman said to me “Verydetailed risk analyses requirement in any
engineering project assessment provided us agreat opportunity to understand our own
project better and improve it.” I believe this is
the way we have to go.
• In Perth, Australia, in November,Prof. Tom Hatton told me “Although Perthhas a Mediterranean climate with precipitation
about 850 mm year-1, in the area some
hundreds of kilometres around Perth theprecipitation is only 400–500 mm year-1. The
area was originally forested with semiarid
trees such as eucalyptus and since theevapotranspiration rate was large, thegroundwater recharge rate was only in theorder of 1 mm year-1, which resulted in theaccumulation of very large amounts of cyclic
salts deep in the regolith. But after it wasdeveloped into agricultural land, mostly forwheat, the recharge rate increased to up to
10% of the annual precipitation, due to thedecrease of transpiration, well above theaquifer discharge capacity, in the
1–5 mm year-1 range. This created a sharp risein the groundwater level resulting in serious
salinization and in some cases water logging

frequently producing floods.” I think this is
unique as a salinization problem as a result
only of changing the land use by deforestation
to cropland, without the introduction of any
irrigation.
Finally, I would like to mention two personalmatters. Between the IHP Bureau and the US visit
in April, I had three days off in Paris when I
participated in the European “GO” Championship
Tournament and I got a “5 Wins (out of 6 games)Award” with a certificate and 500 FF. In Augustat the occasion of the JSHWR General Assembly,
I was awarded the “JSHWR DistinguishedAchievement Award” for my contribution tointernational research leadership. Which do I likebetter? Please do not ask.
I wish you all the very best start for the firstyear of the new Century. See you at Maastricht if
not sooner.
Kuni Takeuchi

From the Editor
Let me start by sharing with you the joy of thegood news. The Science Edition of the 1999 ISI
Journal Citation Reports provides key figures onjournal rankings. Out of 46 journals listed in the
Water Resources section, Hydrological Sciences
Journal (HSJ) is ranked thirteenth with an impact
factor of 1.009. This represents very substantial
progress. The value of the impact factor for theyear 1999 was determined as an average numberof fast citations (i.e. to papers published in HSJ in
1997 and 1998), calculated throughout all thejournals in the ISI database. You may remember
my enthusiasm not long ago when the value of the
impact factor grew from 0.386 to 0.411. Now, ourJournal is closer to the giants! The total number ofcitations to all HSJ articles (including the older
ones) in ISI-listed journals in 1999 was 579.
My warmest thanks go to everyone who
contributed to this success. First of all, to all
scientists publishing their excellent papers in HSJ
and to authors referring to HSJ articles in their
Journal contributions; to reviewers (from theBoard of Associate Editors and from outside theBoard) whose wise recommendations have helpedme minimize the number of errors and thepossibility of accepting papers that do not deserve
being in HSJ. Thanks also to the Associate
Editors for all their input and advice, and toFrances Watkins who has been an excellent andmost reliable Production Editor. Frances is
responsible for the day-to-day administration of
the Journal and does the bulk of the copy editing
and formatting work on papers accepted for
publication.
Of course, a positive jump of the impact factor
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oscillation which cannot be sustained the next
year. Yet, in my assessment, it is a manifestationof a long-term growth tendency. In fact, I was
confident that HSJ could reach the level of unity,
yet I thought that it might take two or three years
longer to achieve. To reach such a high value now
was a pleasant surprise and a terrific Christmas
gift. I am aware of references to past HSJ articles
in recent HSJ papers, yet this in itself is notenough to explain the observed improvement.
There must have been plenty of citations to recent
HSJ papers in other journals on the ISI list.
The value of the impact factor does indeed
matter. I learned about our success from ascientist who recently submitted a paper to HSJ,
encouraged by the, now high, value of the impact
factor. It was a pragmatic decision. In several
countries a scientist is evaluated based, inter alia,
on the value of the impact factor of journals
where her or his papers are published.
I take the impact factor rise as a signal that weare on the right track. Yet, the value of the impact
factor is not the sole criterion of journal rating.
Another one is the number of subscribers. Bothindices are inter-related (though with some timelag). The growth in the value of the impact factor
must be echoed by improved sales. By the way, if
you happen to read this article and have reachedthis point, could you please check whether yourinstitution has subscribed to HSJ in 2000 (if not,this interesting volume can still be purchased) andwill subscribe in 2001? Or, maybe, you could
take advantage of a discounted individual
member’s subscription? Good value (impact
factor 1.009!) for little money!
In the IAHS environment, the scientific andfinancial criteria are not the only ones that count.
Enhancing research in the developing world
definitely belongs to the mandate of the
Association and HSJ plays an important role in it.
Let us try to fulfil this mandate while maintaining
the high quality of accepted papers. Noblesse
oblige! Let us continue to work together and try
to pursue continuous improvement of HSJ.
According to the rules, the panel of Associate
Editors of HSJ has 30 members, nominated for a
six-year period. Associate Editors are usuallyactive as authors, reviewers, advisors andpromoters of the Journal. Every autumn, the HSJ
Editor thanks retiring Associate Editors for theirlong-standing support and collaboration and invites
new incumbents to serve for a period of six years.
Accordingly, I recently had the very unenviabletask of bidding farewell to five loyal and longserving Associate Editors, nominated in 1994,
who have provided regular timely reviews andadvice throughout the six years of their duties.
They are: Dr E. Adar (Israel), Dr R. Berndtsson(Sweden), Dr M. J. Hall (The Netherlands),
Dr M. Kuhn (Austria) and Dr T. Mizuyama(Japan). They have served HSJ very generously.

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We thank them most warmly for all their help andwise advice over those years. It would be highly
appreciated it they could occasionally assist us
further when asked to review a paper.
The main aim of the rotation policy is toensure a regular input from the growing body ofexperts in new developments within hydrology—
active researchers, working on cutting-edge
problems. New people are expected to bring in
new ideas, new knowledge of emerging fields ofhydrology and to extend the area of competenceof the pool of Associate Editors. The new
Associate Editors joining us this autumn are: Dr
Alistair McKerchar (New Zealand), Dr Zekai Şen(Turkey), Dr Eric Servat (France), Dr Jim
Shuttleworth (USA) and Dr Andrzej Zuber(Poland). Wishing them every success in their
new capacity, I am looking forward to closer
collaboration with them. I hope that the newincumbents will be most reliable in competentand timely reviewing of submitted papers. It is
our expectation that the Associate Editors will not
decline a review request in their area of expertise,
unless they can indicate a reliable replacement
referee willing to undertake the review.
Even if good news dominates this article, it isnecessary, for a proper balance, to mention lessenjoyable developments and problems.
In order to provide satisfactory service to our
authors, we need prompt reviewing. Every HSJ
contribution is reviewed by at least two experts.
An eternal problem is related to the poor
responsiveness of some reviewers. Frances keeps
chasing referees when they do not provide
reviews in time. Yet, due to the heavy everyday
workload it is hard to find time for chasing.
Sometimes referees promise they will write areview and then again nothing happens. The
failure of referees to respond to review requests
may be due, in part, to their belief that we ask alarge number of referees to review each paper, as
seems to be the case with some of the larger, e.g.
US commercial hydrology journals. Therefore
they just ignore our request, even though Frances’e-mail asks them to let her know if they areunable to provide the necessary review.
Let me issue a plea to all experts to whom areview request is directed. If you cannot provide a
review, then a fast response declining our review
request will be appreciated. It would be evenbetter if you could suggest another competent
referee. The best solution is for you to suggest thename of a competent referee who is likely toagree or who has already agreed to provide a
review. Sometimes papers are scientificallyenriching and reviewers thank me for giving themthe opportunity of seeing such papers. At times
the opposite happens.
I strongly encourage our referees to be morecritical. Euphemistic reviewing and being overly
acceptance-prone do not serve the Journal well.

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There have been a few other less pleasantmoments. We witnessed a conflict between aprofessor and his PhD student. I had to make adecision at the proof-reading stage of an article(i.e. shortly before publication), based on theevidence available to me at that time, which
stemmed from the professor. Later on, the student
contacted me providing additional and convincing
evidence in his favour.
It was not pleasant when another Associate
Editor, asked to name a reviewer, replied, “It is
Zbyszek’s problem to find a reviewer. All mycolleagues are very busy.”
During the recent IAHS event organized by Dr
Takeuchi, our President-Elect, in Japan, there
were ample opportunities to discuss various
IAHS-related matters among the officers of the
Association, WMO and UNESCO Directors andother experts. When talking on HSJ matters I
stated that, after my three-and-half years as IAHS
Editor, I saw reviewing as a critically importantfactor in the performance of a journal. A small
token of our appreciation is an acknowledgement
and a list of all referees who have reviewed HSJ
submissions in a given year, now published in the
February issue of the Journal. “How about
launching a best reviewer’s award?”—said Dr
Hubert, IAHS Secretary General. The idea isdefinitely worthy of consideration. What qualifies
as good is a quick response, a 3C (competent,
concise and critical) review, preferably sent,
clearly labelled, as an e-mail attachment. The
award could be an incentive and could enhancehigh quality reviewing. The modalities need to be
discussed. The award itself could be modest(IAHS finances permitting), e.g. a diploma and an
IAHS tie or headscarf. It is rather difficult tomake a collective decision and a one-person-jury(myself, knowing all the anonymous reviewers)
seems the only option. Yet, in the decisionmaking process, the nomination of reviewers byauthors should play a role if authors feel thatanonymous Reviewer A or Reviewer B did amarvellous and very useful job. Should
individuals eligible for the award stem from thepool of reviewers who are not Associate Editors?
Or perhaps including Associate Editors? Maybe
two awards—one for an Associate Editor and one
for a referee who is not an Associate Editor?
Comments welcome.
One more thing I would like to discuss ispapers in French. There are two official languagesof the Association: English and French.
Therefore, authors may publish papers in HSJ ineither of these languages (accompanied by atranslation of the title and the abstract into theother language). Yet, several authors of accepted
papers in English inform us that it is not possible
for them to provide the titre et résumé in good
French. Then we have to rely on the generous
assistance of Dr Pierre Hubert in checking(sometimes doing) French translations of titles
and abstracts of accepted HSJ papers in English
and also in checking the language of papers
written in French, especially by authors whose
mother tongue is not French. Pierre has continued
to provide this service after he retired as an
Associate Editor in 1998, and continues to do so
despite his heavy duties as Secretary General.
Chapeaux bas to Pierre for his heroic efforts topromote and enhance the presence of the Frenchlanguage in HSJ. Well, in fact it is not only
Pierre. We have several francophone Associate
Editors and several other colleagues who know
French quite well. Yet, at times, there areproblems. There are fewer experts in our pool ofpotential reviewers with an adequate command of
French. On several occasions excellent scientists
have refused our review request. “Sorry, but I do
not know French well enough.” was a typicalexplanation. “Can I have the paper translated into
English?” Well ... no, you cannot. Sorry. But then
French speaking experts prove to be very helpful
in suggesting alternative reviewers.
Frances and I wish we knew French better—the common language of educated people inseveral European countries in the past. I am trying
hard to read carefully every French paper before
it is accepted for publication in HSJ. I am wellaware of the large audience from France, Quebec,
Belgium, Switzerland, Africa, and more generally
those from the communauté francophone. Yet, theassistance of French native speakers is indeed
indispensable in our work for HSJ.
More and more often we work electronically.
We are delighted with the increasing number of esubmissions (accompanied by posted hardcopies), e-reviews and e-correspondence withauthors and referees. This is a high-speed, highreliability and low-cost development. I hope thatmany find it useful to have tables of contents andabstracts of HSJ papers on the IAHS web siteably administered by Dr Pierre Hubert(http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs). A list offorthcoming papers is also on the web site.
I end with my best seasonal greetings to all ofyou. All the best for the New Year and for themillennium. Somebody has wished me more
submissions to HSJ. Well, I would frame thiswish in a slightly different way: more excellent
submissions! The number of submissions keeps
growing. This augurs well for further growth ofquality: there is a better selection, as the numberof articles in a volume is about constant.
You are always welcome to contribute to HSJ
and to offer your advice on the editorial policy
and strategy for the Journal, preferably to mye-mail address: zkundze@man.poznan.pl. I would
appreciate receiving remarks you may have on
this article, or any other comments which you
think could be useful to me.
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz

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IAHS Press
Red Books
Two books in the IAHS Series of Proceedings
and Reports (Red Books) were published in
September and another (Publ. no. 261) was
published in December. Abstracts of the papers
are already on the IAHS Homepage:
Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater
Modelling—Coping with Uncertainty
edited by F. Stauffer, W. Kinzelbach, K. Kovar &E. Hoehn
The 74 papers in the post-published proceedings of theModelCARE 99 Conference (Zürich, September 1999)
address relevant methodologies and techniques, andidentify the needs for future development. They form acomprehensive overview.
Modelling concepts, stochastic modelling, parameter estimation and model calibration, prediction
reliability, use of field information, and nonlinear andcoupled flow and transport modelling, are covered inseparate sections which incorporate both the theoreticaland the applied. There isdiscussion of well-known
modelssuch
as
MODFLOW-MT3D as wellas innovative approaches
including the development
and use of artificial neuralnetworks
andgenetic
algorithms.
Applications
include modelling of tritium
release at Mururoa andFangataufa using uncertain
data,
and
multiphasemodelling of gas storage inaquifers, as well as
groundwater resource andquality estimation.
Publ. no. 265 (September 2000), price £69.00 (2001 price tomembers in financially disadvantaged countries only £13.80;
other members £51.75), 524 + xii pages, ISBN 1-901502-36-8

Debris-Covered Glaciersedited by M. Nakawo, C. F. Raymond & A. Fountain
The Workshop on DebrisCovered Glaciers (Seattle,
September 2000) was
organized with the aim ofsynthesizing
current
understanding
about
debris-covered
glaciers
and rock glaciers. By
drawing on experiencesfrom different regions of
the world the underlying
physicalprocesses
controlling the nature ofdebris-covered and rockglaciers were highlighted.
This pre-published proceedings volume comprises
28 selected papers on:• Distribution and setting• Mass and energy balance• Origin and transport

6• Supraglacial lakes• Climate variations• Biology and hydrology
Financial sponsorship for this publication was provided by
the International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks,
Alaska, USA; and Glaciological Expedition in Nepal
Publ. no. 264 (September 2000), price £44.00 (2001 price tomembers in financially disadvantaged countries only £9.00; othermembers £33.00), 288 + viii pages, ISBN 1-901502-31-7

The Hydrology–Geomorphology Interface:
Rainfall, Floods, Sedimentation, Land Useedited by Marwan Hassan, Olav Slaymaker &Simon Berkowicz
This publication comprises 20 chapters which derivefrom a conference at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem(May 1999), organized around the theme of drainage
basin processes and morphology. They reflect thecomplex functioning of the drainage basin sedimentcascade and are arranged to follow the flux of waterand sediment from source to sink. Fluvial
geomorphology and related processes in arid areas, andespecially those represented in the Negev Desert(Israel), are a particular focus.
The rainfall input to arid geomorphologicalsystems is considered in detail. Understanding of bothits temporal and spatial distribution is a prerequisite ofsuccessful rainfall–runoff modelling and particularly
so for arid systems. Rainfall–runoff modelling anderosion studies in the Negev Desert and also Australia,
Slovakia and the USA are reported.
Some of the central questions in fluvial
geomorphology are addressed including that of thegeomorphic effectiveness of high magnitude events
such as tropical storms in Baja California, USA, andalso in India. The sediment output term has, until thelast decade or two, been comparatively neglected bygeomorphologists in general, but four contributions
provide information about the functioning of drainage
basins from lacustrine sedimentary evidence.
The volume is a tribute to the contribution made byAsher Schick to the science of geomorphology. The
success of Schick’s work arises largely from his singleminded attention to the fundamental links between
geomorphology and hydrology.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem provided financial
sponsorship for this publication
Publ. no. 261 (December 2000), price £49.00 (2001 price tomembers in financially disadvantaged countries only £9.80; othermembers £36.75), 326 + x pages, ISBN 1-901502-16-3

The first 2001 title is likely to be:
Hydro-ecology: Riverine Ecological Response
to Changes in Hydrological Regime, SedimentTransport and Nutrient Loadingedited by Mike Acreman
The post-published proceedings of Workshop HW2
held at the IUGG Assembly in Birmingham, July 1999,
contains 14 papers including an overview paper by
Mike Dunbar. This Red Book may be published in
March.
Publ. no. 266 (2001), approx. 160 pages, ISBN 1-901502-41-4

Work is in progress on the post-published proceedings of two large IAHS meetings held in 2000:

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Remote Sensing and Hydrology 2000
edited by Manfred Owe, Kaye Brubaker, Jerry Ritchie& Albert Rango
Over 120 oral and poster papers from a symposium
held at Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2000.
Publ. no. 267

The Extremes of the Extremes: Extraordinary
Floodsedited by Arni Snorrason et al.
About 60 oral papers from a symposium held at
Reykjavik, July 2000.
Publ. no. 271

Publications 268–270 will be the three prepublished proceedings for symposia S2, S3 andS5 at the IAHS Assembly in Maastricht, July
2001. Revised and edited papers are due at IAHS
Press in February for:Regional Management of Water Resourcesedited by Andreas Schumann, Xia Jun, Miguel Marino& Dan Rosbjerg
Publ. no. 268

Impact of Human Activity on Groundwater
Dynamicsedited by Hans Gehrels
Publ. no. 269

Soil–Vegetation–Atmosphere Transfer
Schemes and Large-scale Hydrological Modelsedited by Han Dolman, John Pomeroy, Taikan Oki &Alan Hall
Publ. no. 270

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There has been a small but steady increase in
the number of papers submitted for publication. It
currently takes about 9 months from receipt of apaper at IAHS Press to final acceptance forpublication, and a further four months before
publication in a Journal issue.

Catalogue of Publications 2001
2001 Blue Book

Following the hugely successful The Hydrologyof the Nile, published in 1999, we are delighted toannounce plans are in place to produce thefollowing title in the series of Special
Publications later in 2001:
The Ecohydrology of South American Rivers
and Wetlandsedited by Michael McClain
Chapters based on papers from the International
Symposium on Hydrological and Geochemical
Processes in Large-scale River Basins (with special
emphasis on the Amazon and other tropical basins),
held at Manaus, Brazil, November 1999, as part of the
UNESCO Ecohydrology Programme.
Special Publication no. 6

A new edition of the Catalogue of Publications has
been produced and is being distributed to IAHS
Members with this issue of the Newsletter. The
Catalogue may also be found on the IAHS web site.
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prices of pre-1990 Red Books and pre-1996
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Hydrological Sciences Journal (HSJ)
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factor of 1.009, ranking 13th out of the 46
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Hydrological Sciences Journal 2000
Papers in vol. 45, no. 5 (October)
Papers in vol. 45, no. 6 (December)
PRATAP SINGH, K. S. RAMASASTRI, NARESH KUMAR &ERIC SAUQUET, LARS GOTTSCHALK & ETIENNE LEBLOIS: Mapping
MANOHAR ARORA: Correlations between discharge andaverage annual runoff: a hierarchical approach applying astochastic interpolation scheme
meteorological parameters and runoff forecasting from a highly
glacierized Himalayan basin
COSTANZA DI STEFANO, VITO FERRO & SALVATORE RIZZO:
J. D. KALMA, H. PERERA, S. A. WOOLDRIDGE & G. STANHILL:
Assessing soil erosion in a small Sicilian basin by caesium-137
measurements and a simplified mass balance model
Seasonal changes in the fraction of global radiation retained as
net all-wave radiation and their hydrological implications
MAGNUS PERSSON, RONNY BERNDTSSON, SLAH NASRI,
NESE ACANAL, RECEP YURTAL & TEFARUK HAKTANIR: MultiJEAN ALBERGEL, PATRICK ZANTE & YUKI YUMEGAKI: Solutestage flood routing for gated reservoirs and conjunctive
transport and water content measurements in clay soils using
optimization of hydroelectricity income with flood losses
time domain reflectrometry
W. FERNANDEZ, R. M. VOGEL & A. SANKARASUBRAMANIAN:
AMIN A. ELSHORBAGY, U. S. PANU & S. P. SIMONOVIC: GroupRegional calibration of a watershed model
based estimation of missing hydrological data: I. Approach andgeneral methodology
B. YU, C. W. ROSE, C. C. A. CIESIOLKA & U. CAKURS: The
AMIN A. ELSHORBAGY, U. S. PANU & S. P. SIMONOVIC: Grouprelationship between runoff rate and lag time and the effects ofsurface treatments at the plot scale
based estimation of missing hydrological data: II. Application to
streamflows
BELLIE SIVAKUMAR: Fractal analysis of rainfall observed in two
different climatic regionsPAWEŁ M. ROWIŃSKI, WŁODZIMIERZ CZERNUSZENKO &JEAN-MARC PRETRE: Time-dependent shear velocities in channel
J. LÉONARD, M. MIETTON, H. NAJIB & P. GOURBESVILLE: Ratingrouting
curve modelling with Manning’s equation to manage instability
and improve extrapolation
WAN RUSLAN ISMAIL: The hydrology and sediment yield of theSungai Air Terjun catchment, Penang Hill, Malaysia
NICOLAS R. DALEZIOS, ATHANASIOS LOUKAS, LAMPROS VASILIADES
JACQUES CALLEDE, PASCAL KOSUTH, JEAN-LOUP GUYOT && ELIAS LIAKOPOULOS: Severity–duration–frequency analysis
of droughts and wet periods in Greece
VALDEMAR SANTOS GUIMARÃES: Discharge determination by
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP): a moving bottom
MANOJ K. JAIN & UMESH C. KOTHYARI: Estimation of soil
error correction method, applied on the River Amazon at Obidos
erosion and sediment yield using GISTOMMY S. WONG & YUNJIE LI: Determination of equilibrium
detention storage for a series of planes
Forthcoming papers (in no particular order)
SERWAN M. J. BABAN & KAMARUZAMAN WAN YUSOF: Modelling
Y. S. YANG, R. M. KALIN, Y. ZHANG, X. LIN & L. ZOU: Multiobjective optimization for sustainable groundwater resource
soil erosion in tropical environments using remote sensing andmanagement in a semiarid catchment
GIS
T. K. S. ABAM: Regional hydrological research perspectives in the BERHANU FANTA, B. T. ZAAKE & R. K. KACHROO: A study of
Niger Delta
variability of annual river flow of the southern African region
MIKDAT KADIOĞLU & ZEKAI ŞEN: Monthly precipitation–runoff
GIL MAHÉ, YANN L’HOTE, JEAN CLAUDE OLIVRY &polygons and mean runoff coefficients
GEOFFROY WOTLING: Trends and discontinuities in regional
rainfall of West and Central Africa
BENINA TOUAÏBIA, ABDELLAH AÏDAOUI, DIETER GOMER &MOHAMED ACHITE: Quantification et variabilité temporelles de HAFZULLAH AKSOY, MEHMETCIK BAYAZIT &l’écoulement solide en zone semi-aride, de l’Algérie du Nord
HARTMUT WITTENBERG: Probabilistic approach to modelling ofrecession curves
SARFARAZ AHMAD & SYED I. HASNAIN: Snow and stream waterchemistry of the Ganga headwater basin, Garhwal Himalaya,
A. MAHESHA: Effect of strip recharge of sea water intrusion intoIndia
aquifers
SCOTT A. WOOLDRIDGE, STEWART W. FRANKS &F. SÁNCHEZ-MARTOS, R. JIMÉNEZ-ESPINOSA & A. PULIDO-BOSCH:JETSE D. KALMA: Hydrological implications of the Southern
Mapping groundwater quality variables using PCA and
Oscillation: variability of the rainfall–runoff relationshipgeostatistics: a case study (Bajo Andarax, southeastern Spain)
T. A. FONTAINE, J. F. KLASSEN, T. S. CRUICKSHANK &ZEKAI ŞEN & AHMET OZTOPAL: Genetic algorithms for
precipitation occurrence classification and prediction
R. H. HOTCHKISS: Hydrological response to climate change inthe Black Hills of South Dakota, USA
OGNJEN BONACCI: Monthly and annual effective infiltration
coefficients in Dinaric karst: example of the Gradole karst spring
BELLIE SIVAKUMAR, RONNY BERNDTSSON, JONAS OLSSON &catchment
KENJI JINNO: Evidence of chaos in the rainfall–runoff process
EMMA L. TATE, KEVIN J. SENE & JOHN V. SUTCLIFFE: A water
MURRAY PEEL, Q. J. WANG, RICHARD M. VOGEL &THOMAS A. McMAHON: The utility of L-moment ratio diagrams
balance study of the upper White Nile basin flows in the latenineteenth century
for selecting a regional probability distribution
SURENDRA KUMAR MISHRA & VIJAY P. SINGH: On the Seddon
C. LOUMAGNE, M. NORMAND, M. RIFFARD, A. WEISSE,
speed formula
A. QUESNY, S. LE HÉGARAT-MASCLE & F. ALEM: Integrationof remote sensing data into hydrological models for reservoir
YADH ZAHAR & JEAN-PIERRE LABORDE: Génération stochastiquemanagement
d’averses et de leurs index d’érosivité: conception et validationd’un modèle pour la simulation temporelle de la dynamique
TAWATCHAI TINGSANCHALI & CHAIYUTH CHINNARASRI:
érosive en Tunisie centrale
Numerical modelling of dam failure due to flow overtopping
SPYROS BELTAOS & TERRY D. PROWSE: Climate impacts on
extreme ice jam events in Canadian rivers

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Cate Gardner & Jill GashNews from Commissions
International Commission on
Surface Water (ICSW)The International Commission on Surface Water
has established a mailing list to easecommunication with and dissemination of
information to the hydrological community
interested in surface water-related topics.
The International Commission of Surface
Water held a bureau meeting in Stockholm on
13 September 2000, which was hosted by the
Swedish Natural Science Research Council. The
meeting discussed the activities of the secretariat,
including the completion of the web site,
establishing a mailing list of ICSW members andreviewing contributions to the IAHS Newsletter.
In addition, funding was discussed for forthcoming workshops and conferences and ideas
were outlined for the next IUGG General Assembly,
which will be held in Sapporo, Japan, in 2003.
The next ICSW Bureau meeting will takeplace during the IAHS Maastricht Assembly in2001 (provisional date 20 July). There will also
be an ICSW Plenary meeting provisionallyarranged for the evening of Monday, 23 July. All
IAHS members interested in ICSW are invited tothis meeting. If you would like to contribute to
any activities organized by ICSW, please contact
Siegfried Demuth, ICSW Secretariat.
ICSW members interested in European Water
issues have the opportunity to receive regular news
from The European Association (EWA) throughregistration at the European Water Management
News (jan.van.de.kraats@kabelfoon.nl). The
members of the EWA are national organizationsin the field of water management and its
secretariat is located at Hennef in Germany. The
Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste
Water Treatment (RIZA) in The Netherlands is
responsible for the retrieval and organization of
the e-mail news, primarily by searching theWorld Wide Web for interesting press releases in
the water sector and distributing them toregistered persons. The ICSW Secretariat has
released the e-mail addresses via its mailing list
and has received much positive feedback.
ICSW supported the FRIEND/AMHY(FRIEND-Alpine and Mediterranean Hydrology)
seminar in Montpellier, 11–13 October 2000. The
International Seminar on Hydrology of theMediterranean Regions aimed to take stock ofhydrological research conducted in the
Mediterranean region. The seminar focused on:(1) Rainfall and runoff variability(2) Hydrological hazards(3) Availability and durability of water resources(4) Integrated water resources management.
Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon and the Palestinian
Hydrology Group recently joined the FRIEND/AMHY network. The future aim is to include
Egypt and Syria to achieve a better balance
between north and south Mediterranean countries.
The seminar received over 150 abstracts with 60
oral presentations and poster presentations. As aresult of the seminar two new networks have beenlaunched: (1) Rainfall/Runoff Modelling in the
Mediterranean Basins, coordinated by Lebanonand (2) Integrated Water Resources Management,
coordinated by Tunisia. The FRIEND/AMHY
group is involved in organizing an International
Conference on the Hydrology of theMediterranean and Semiarid Regions, at
Montpellier in 2003, which will also include
research from Africa and Central America.
The Commission supported the very
successful Workshop on Runoff Generation and
Implications for River Basin Modelling, Freiburg
University, Germany, 9–12 October. A report on
the workshop is given later in this Newsletter.
The Commission is supporting:• European Geophysical Society Workshop:
Modelling and Managing HydrologicalDroughts, Nice, France, 26–30 March 2001;
preparation for this workshop is well under way.
• FRIEND 2002: Fourth International
Conference on FRIEND— Bridging the Gap
between Research and Practice, Cape Town,
South Africa, 18–22 March 2002. The first
circular has now been distributed. The
conference proceedings will be published as
an IAHS Red Book and a FRIEND Reportsummarizing the main research results fromthe regional FRIEND groups will also be
published.
Siegfried Demuth, Secretary ICSWInternational Commission on
Groundwater (ICGW)The committee is in transition as we approach theend of the Presidency of Dr Ed Sudicky from theIAHS Newsletter 71, January 2001

University of Waterloo, Canada, in July 2001. We
express our gratitude to Ed for his excellent
service. Dr Yoram Rubin from the University ofCalifornia—Berkeley, will succeed him. The
other officers of the Commission are: Dr Norio
Tase from Japan (Secretary), and Vice-Presidents
Dr Marc Bierkens from The Netherlands, Dr Aldo
Fiori from Italy, and Dr David Lerner from theUK.
Recently, ICGW assisted in forming a jointcommission on groundwater–seawater interaction, which is sponsored by the International
Association of Physical Sciences of the Ocean
and IAHS. A preliminary proposal for thecreation of this joint commission is available forreview at the following URL:
http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs/groundse.htm
IAHS will be represented by Jeff Turner from
Australia (jeff@per.clw.csiro.au).
ICGW is assisting and supporting thefollowing conferences:• First International Conference on Salt Water
Intrusion and Coastal Aquifers: Monitoring,
Modelling, and Management, Essaouira,Morocco, 18–25 April 2001, hosted by Ecole
Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs, Rabat.
• Groundwater Quality 2001: Third
International Conference on Groundwater
Quality, Sheffield, UK, 18–21 June 2001,
hosted by the University of Sheffield and cosponsored by the International Association of
Hydrogeologists and IAHS.
• Bridging the Gap between Measurements andModelling in Heterogeneous Media:
International Groundwater Symposium,
Berkeley, California, 25–29 March 2002,
organized by the International Associationfor Hydraulic Engineering and Research(IAHR) and co-sponsored by IAHS andASCE/EWRI.
• ModelCARE 2002 Conference, Prague, Czech
Republic, 17–20 June 2002, is now being
planned.
More information on these meetings may beobtained from the our Association or Commission
web sites:
http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs or
http://www.env.tsukuba.ac.jp/~ICGW
Norio Tase, Secretary ICGWInternational Commission on Water
Quality (ICWQ)The Commission was involved, together with the
IHP/OHP National Committees of The
Netherlands and Germany, in sponsoring andorganizing the International Conference on
Agricultural Effects on Ground and Surface

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Waters: Research and Policy at the Edge of
Science and Society, which took place inWageningen, The Netherlands, 1–4 October
2000. A report on the conference is given later inthis Newsletter.
In this Newsletter, the series of items
highlighting critical water quality problems incountries where the Commission Vice-Presidents
work is continued with a report from Valentina
Krysanova on the Elbe River basin in Germany.

Changes in water quality in eastern
Germany and the Czech Republic since
1990
The Elbe River basin (∼150 000 km2) covers
large parts of the Czech Republic and eastern
Germany. Approximately two thirds of the basin
lie within Germany (about 80% of that within theformer GDR territory) and one third within the
Czech Republic. The basin is densely populated
and includes large cities such as Berlin, Pragueand Hamburg. The Elbe is important as a sourceof water supply for industrial, domestic andagricultural purposes, and as an essential inland
waterway.
In 1989, the Elbe was one of the most polluted
European rivers. At that time, its water quality
was comparable to that of the Rhine in the early
1970s when maximum pollutant loadings wereexperienced. Untreated or insufficiently treatedsewage from industrial and domestic sources, andpracticallyuncontrolledleaching
fromagricultural fields in the Czech Republic and theformer GDR were responsible for the highpollution load. In addition, pollution by organic
compounds and heavy metals results frommining activities in both countries, and fromindustrial sources, including the chemicalindustry; pulp and paper factories; metallurgy andothers. The load by nutrients (nitrogen, N, andphosphorus, P) comes mainly from domestic
sources, the food industry, and diffuse
agricultural sources.
“The Programme of Immediate Actions for
the Reduction of Pollution Load in the Elbe” and“The Action Programme Elbe” were developedby the International Commission for theProtection of the Elbe in 1991 and 1995,
respectively, as a basis for the improvement ofwater quality. In these programmes, specificrequirements and recommendations were laid
down for different industries. Throughimplementation of these measures, and reduction
and partial closing of mining activities and someindustries, the pollution load from industrial
sources has been essentially reduced (e.g. by
1999 total N, total P, Cd, and Pb had been
lowered to 35, 44, 3.4 and 39%, respectively of
1994 values). In addition, 181 waste-water
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Czech Republic with a capacity of >20 000
population equivalents each) were extended,reconstructed or built in the Elbe drainage area inthe period 1990–1999. These measures and theintroduction of phosphate-free detergents haveresulted in a reduction of inputs from domestic
sources by ∼30% for nitrogen and ∼65% forphosphorus.
The programmes also suggested the following
measures regarding agricultural enterprises in thebasin:(a) supporting structural changes, such as setaside of arable land and conversion ofcropland into grassland,(b) building manure depots of sufficient storage
capacity,(c) implementing measures for erosion control,(d) improving environmental education of
farmers.
In addition, establishment of buffer strips along
river courses was suggested and has begun.
However, up to now inputs from diffuse sources
to surface waters have not changed significantly.
The ecological state in many parts of the Elbe
is still close to natural, despite the occurrence ofrather poor water quality in the 1980s. A diverse
community of living organisms has survived in
the river bed. For example, observations close to
Magdeburg show that there were 114 species
present in the period 1850–1940, which reduced
to 52 in 1950–1989, but re-established to 83 in
1998. The number of fish species in the middle
Elbe has been increased from 26 in the 1980s to
52 in 1999. The improved water quality allowed
the introduction of salmon in the streams of
Saxony in the 1990s. This is an indication that theElbe is in a regeneration phase.
It can be concluded that implementation of the
programmes and many other initiatives since1990 have led to substantial improvement ofwater quality and the ecological situation in theElbe. Now, following reduction of pollutant andnutrient inputs from point sources and thesolution of the most severe problems, agriculture
has become the main source of nutrient pollution
in the Elbe, as in many other European rivers. In
some ways, however, the situation has become
more complex, because a further reduction ismore difficult to achieve.

Good modelling practice in water
management
Of interest to water quality modellers will be theinitiative taken in The Netherlands to develop a
Good Modelling Practice (GMP) Handbook,where hitherto there were no guidelines on goodpractice supported by all the parties involved inwater management. To summarize, the objectiveof the GMP Handbook is:• To take the initiative on guidelines with regard

to model use, which are supported by allparties in water management• To stimulate more careful use of models inwater management• To improve the reproducibility andtransferability of model studies
The handbook is intended in particular to support
the modeller. It deals with all major steps in themodelling process and is therefore very suitablefor use as a checklist. Recording the proceduresof the checklist will create a model journal, which
renders a model study reproducible andtransferable, and allows other parties involved tohave a clearer idea of the model study. However,the Handbook explicitly is not intended as acompulsory straitjacket, but rather as a technicaltool.
The main target group for the handbook is the(non-programming) modeller who carries out
modelling projects. The various components of
the handbook provide an inexperienced modeller
with a clear and step-by-step plan in order tocarry out a modelling project in a careful,reproducible and transferable manner. Moreexperienced modellers will probably mainly use
the handbook to check whether all steps in themodelling process have been or will be paid
sufficient attention. The handbook may well
become part of the quality system in institutes andcompanies in the future, regardless of whether
they are acting as a client or an executive party.
Finally, the handbook can be used as a study andreference book in the training of modellers. On
the whole, the handbook is expected to be auseful tool in reducing the gap and confusion,
which often occur between client, executing party
and modeller.
This GMP handbook may be freely used andcopied, provided that correct acknowledgement ismade to: STOWA/RIZA (1999) Smooth
Modelling in Water Management, Good
Modelling Practice Handbook; STOWA Report
99-05, Dutch Dept of Public Works, Institute forInland Water Management and Waste Water
Treatment Report 99.036; ISBN 90-5773-056-1.
Copies of this report (price Dfl 25) are available
from the following addresses in The Netherlands:– SDU, afdeling SEO/RIZA, Postbus 20014,
2500 EA The Hague [tel.: +31 70 3789783;
mlget@sdu.nl]. Payment upon delivery; giro
slip enclosed.
– Hageman Verpakkers BV, Postbus 281,
2700 AC Zoetermeer, stating ISBN or ordernumber and a clear delivery address.
This handbook can also be downloaded from theinternet at the following URL:
http://waterland.net/riza/aquest/projecten/modellen/gmp.html

Bruce Webb, Secretary ICWQIAHS Newsletter 71, January 2001

International Commission on
Tracers (ICT)
Joint International Isotopes in Hydrology
Programme
During a meeting in Paris, 6–8 April 2000, at
UNESCO, an IAEA/UNESCO planning groupsuggested forming a long-term inter-agency
programme entitled Joint International Isotopes
in Hydrology Programme (JIIHP) establishedunder the auspices of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) in cooperation with
UNESCO with links to WMO and otherinternational hydrological and water-related
programmes (see also page 18 of this Newsletter).
The aim of this programme is to facilitate theintegration of isotopes in hydrological practices
through:– Development of tools for better understandingof specific hydrological processes andimproving the assessment, development andmanagement of water resources– Support of national, regional and international
programmes in water resources– Incorporation of isotope hydrology as part ofhydrological curricula in universities worldwide– Integration of isotopic data in hydrological
databases at national, regional and global
scales
It is expected that this international programme
will cover scientific, practical and educational
aspects of relevant hydrology and water resources
studies and will improve implementation andcoordination of hydrological programmes of
UNESCO, WMO, IAEA and other international
governmental or nongovernmental organizations.
The following is an excerpt from IHP/ICXIV/Inf.20:
Methodologies based on the use of isotopes in awide spectrum of hydrological problems
encountered in water resources assessment,
development and management activities are
already scientifically established, and they arepresently employed as an integral part of many
water resources investigations and environmental
studies. These methodologies are essentiallybased on the general concept of “Tracing” inwhich either naturally occurring isotopic species(environmental isotopes) or intentionallyintroduced tracers are employed. A variety ofwell-established and field verified isotopic
techniques offer effective tools, with proventechnological and economic benefits, for water
resources assessment, development, andmanagement. It is important to note that isotope
studies are not expensive and that a single
analysis can yield considerable information onhydrological process as compared to costlier
classical investigations.

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ICT is delighted with this idea and thephilosophy of this programme and considers it asa great success for the work and the efforts of ICT
during the last 10 years in promoting tracer
methods in hydrology and in particular inbringing hydrologists and tracer specialists closer
together. This planned international programmefollows the general aims and purposes of ICT
formulated in 1991.

Events with ICT involvement:• The International Workshop on Runoff
Generation and Implications for River Basin
Modelling, Freiburg University, Germany,
9–12 October 2000 was successful. A reportby Jens Lange is given later in this Newsletter.
• Workshop on Environmental Isotopes in the
Arid Zone held at CSIRO Land and Water
in Adelaide, 4–7 December 2000. The
Adelaide laboratory of the Centre for
Groundwater Studies and CSIRO Land andWater has been the initiator and centre ofmuch of the Australian isotope hydrologicalwork over the last 30 years. Moreinformation on the workshop may beobtained from Andrew Herczeg(andrew.herczeg@adl.clw.csiro.au).
• New Approaches to Characterizing
Groundwater Flow at the XXXI Congress of
the International Association of
Hydrogeologists (IAH), Munich, Germany,
10–14 September 2001, organized by IAH in
cooperation with International Association ofTracer Hydrology. Further information from:stefan.wohnlich@iaag.geo.uni-muenchen.deor from the Secretary of ICT.
• AGU Chapman Conference on State of the Art
of Hillslope Hydrology, convened by Larry
Band and Jeff McDonnell. AGU has recently
approved this Chapman conference that will
be held at Sunriver, Oregon, 8–12 October
2001. The 5-day meeting will include invitedoral presentations and submitted poster
presentations. Further information can beobtained from Larry Band(lband@email.unc.edu) or Jeff McDonnell(jeff.mcdonnell@orst.edu).

Other news
The International Commission on Tracers would
like to establish a mailing list to facilitate,
implement and enforce close links and transfer
information between the hydrological community
interested in the application of tracer methods inhydrology. Therefore we need an updated
database of members of ICT. If you are interested
to get actual information by e-mail in future,please
let
me
know
your
address(hydrology@uni-freiburg.de).

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The next ICT plenary meeting will be held in
Maastricht and has been provisionally arranged
for the evening of Tuesday, 24 July. All IAHS
members interested in ICT are invited to thismeeting. If you would like to contribute to any
activities of ICT, please contact the Secretary of
ICT. The date of the ICT bureau meeting has not
yet been decided.
Chris Leibundgut, Secretary ICTInternational Commission on
Atmosphere–Soil–Vegetation
Relations (ICASVR)
Past events
Karsten H. Jensen was a member of the scientificadvisory committee for Groundwater 2000:
International Conference on Groundwater
Research that was held in Copenhagen, Denmark,
6–8 June 2000. More information can be found at
http://www.isva.dtu.dk/grc/gw2000/default.htm
and a report on the meeting by Dan Rosbjerg is
given later in this Newsletter.

Training and teaching activities• Training in the Use of LBA-HydroNET
Hydrometeorological Network Database inSupport of the Large-scale Biosphere–
Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia,
CPTEC, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, December
2000. It is hoped this will be the first in aseries of workshops which has created
http://www.lba-hydronet.sr.unh.edu over
the LBA (Large-scale Biosphere–Atmosphere
Experiment in Amazonia) domain. It is a
result of earlier work with UNESCO and
CATHALAC to develop the
http://www.r-hydronet.sr.unh.edu. A group of
about 35 researchers from the US, Brazil,
Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, andEcuador attended; and Charles Vörösmarty
was the convenor.
• Typological Approaches to Estimation of
Global Suspended Sediment Flux,
Water/Sediments Workshop of theInternational Geosphere Biosphere
Programme (IGBP), Boulder, Colorado, USA,
September 2000. Charles Vörösmarty
represented IGBP-BAHC to develop land-toocean flux models to support IGBP activities
in this realm.
• NSF-Arctic Systems Science Hydrology
Workshop, at the National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa
Barbara, California, September 2000. This
was a gathering of about 30 researchers, both
US and international, to develop a researchplan for the US National Science Foundation’s

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Arctic Systems Science Program to improvehydrological research across the Arctic. The
plan being submitted recommends creation ofa pan-Arctic hydrological systems initiative
composed of linked monitoring, process
studies, and simulation exercises.
Charles Vörösmarty was the workshop
convenor and co-chair.
Short Course on Advanced Modelling of Water
Flow and Solute Transport in Variablysaturated Media at CSIRO Land and Water in
Townsville, Australia, 15–17 August 2000.
The instructors were M. Th. van Genuchten,
Jirka Simunek and J. W. Hopmans.
Short Course on Modelling of Water Flow and
Solute Transport in Variably-saturated Mediaat ETH, Monte Verita, Switzerland,
17–21 October 2000. The instructors were
M. Th. van Genuchten, Jirka Simunek,
M. Larsson, K. C. Abbaspour and C. Stamm.
Short Course on HYDRUS-1D and 2D Software
for Variably Saturated Flow and Transportorganized by the International Ground Water
Modeling Center and Bechtel, San Francisco,
14–15 December 2000. The instructors were M.
Th. van Genuchten and Jirka Simunek.
Jirka Simunek was a member of the“Simulation and Modelling Work Group” inthe Partnership in the DOE Complex-Wide
Vadose Zone Science and Technology
Roadmap: Characterization Modelling and
Simulation of Subsurface Contaminant Fate
and Transport, May–July 2000.

Forthcoming event• Short course on Advanced Modelling of Water
Flow and Solute Transport in VariablySaturated Media at Institute of Soil Science, theUniversity of Hanover, Hanover, Germany,
30 March–1 April 2001. The instructors will be
M. Th. van Genuchten and Jirka Simunek.
K. H. Jensen, President ICASVR

IAHS/WMO Working Group for
GEWEX
The IAHS/World Meteorological Organization(WMO) Working Group for the World Climate
Research Programme’s Global Energy and Water
Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) was established in
the early days of GEWEX to support thehydrological sciences undertaken within the
programme. The aims of the Working Group
parallel those of the IAHS and WMO—namely:• To promote the development and applicationof hydrological science to the aims of
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• To provide for discussion, comparison, andpublication of research results and therequirements for future research through theorganization of workshops, symposia at
special sessions at the IUGG General
Assemblies and IAHS Scientific Assemblies
and stand-alone workshops.
As GEWEX activities move beyond thecontinental-scale experiments to cover other areasof the world, IAHS and WMO can provide
opportunities for “global” support. Thus theWorking Group should address issues not
currently being dealt with by the GEWEXHydrometeorology Panel (GHP) (“niche”
issues/problems) beyond the current ContinentalScale Experiments (CSE) in a global sense. It
should provide advice to the GHP on appropriatehydrological and water resources management
issues.
Thereareopportunities
tocoordinate/include those relevant international/
country/regional/basin activities currently outsideof the CSE/GEWEX activities. The Working
Group will also promote discussions between thehydrological modelling community and the landsurface modelling communities which tend to be
represented by IAHS and the International
Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric
Sciences (IAMAS) respectively. For example, an
initiative of the Working Group could be topromote the development of appropriateddistributed hydrological models that operate as(a) land-surface schemes for use in atmosphericmodels (used in NWP) or (b) stand-alone models
that are able to handle the appropriate
atmospheric models and satellite data.
Current Working Group proposals include thefollowing: a workshop for water managers in
Europe to follow on the US experience (see later),a workshop on precipitation fields derived fromadjusted point observations for GCM validation
improvement in mountainous areas, and at a laterstage, when the relevant new satellites areproducing data, a workshop on soil moisture
which would be focused on the linking ofobserved point data to satellite data.
Following the retirement of the Group’s firstchairman, Prof. Gert Schultz, and the retirementof many of the original members, the Working
Group is being restructured to accommodate thedevelopment of the GHP and the work of the
CSEs. The new Working Group will haverepresentatives of the CSEs and the relevant
IAHS International Commissions together withkey members of the original Group, WMO and
UNESCO. The Group formally meets at IAHS
Assemblies and IUGG General Assemblies and,during the intervening two years, makes use of
informal meetings at other conferences, meetings,
etc. The next meeting, the first of the new
Working Group, will be at the Scientific
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IAHS members are invited to attend as observers
and to contact the Chairman if they wish to takean active role in defining new projects/activities
which the Group could undertake in support of
GEWEX.

GEWEX Continental-Scale Experiments
Begun in 1987 GEWEX is now in its second
phase and has had its aims and objectives refined
to reflect the growing concerns as to theavailability and sustainability of the world’s water
resources. The GEWEX Continental-scaleInternational Project (GCIP) was the first
GEWEX large-scale land-surface experiment.
GCIP was established to improve theunderstanding and to demonstrate prediction of
the variations of global and regional processes
and water resources and their response toenvironmental change. Taking advantage of thedata resources available in the Mississippi Riverbasin, GCIP was quickly followed by four more
Continental-Scale Experiments (CSE) in various
climatic zones: the Baltic Sea Experiment(BALTEX), the Mackenzie River basin GEWEX
study in Canada (MAGS), the Large-scale
Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia(LBA), and the GEWEX Asian Monsoon
Experiment(GAME),
anexperimentencompassing several areas in Asia. Linked to
GAME is the Korean Monsoon Experiment(KORMEX) the objectives of which are tounderstand the dynamic and physical mechanismsof the energy and water cycle of the monsoon in
Korea as characterized by the “Changma” pattern
and the associated heavy rainfall, and to improvetheir prediction. At its fifth session in September
1999, the GHP included the study of the Couplingof the Tropical Atmosphere and Hydrological
Cycle (CATCH) in Niamey, West Africa, as aContinental-Scale Affiliate (CSA) within the
GHP. CATCH will make important contributions
toward the GHP/GEWEX global objectives, inparticular these smaller basins will be an
important component of GHP’s plannedtransferability studies. In addition, CATCH meetsthe call to have a study in Africa where theapplication of GEWEX research in the water
cycle is critical to understanding the water
resources problems of the region. CSA status
recognizes the difficulty CATCH will have infully meeting all of the CSE criteria. Initiatives inother parts of the world are expected to qualify
for CSA status.

GEWEX Phase II
With the endorsement of Prof. Soroosh
Sorooshian, Hydrology and Water Resources
Systems and Engineering, University of Arizonaas the Chairman of the GEWEX Scientific
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WCRP Joint Scientific Committee, GEWEX ismoving into Phase II, an exploitation of newsatellites and models. As a hydrologist, Prof.
Sorooshian’s appointment will assist in directing
GEWEX to meet one of its more criticalobjectives, “to develop the ability to predict thevariations of global and regional hydrologic
processes and water resources and their response
to environmental change”. GEWEX is to make agreater effort to engage the water resources
community to ensure that modelling, observations
and data assimilation activities meet the watercommunity’s requirements for better managementof water resources.
Initiatives proposed under Phase II have beendeveloped and identified over the past 10 years.
Valuable lessons have been learnt as to thedeficiencies in the successful closure of the waterand energy cycles at different spatial andtemporal scales. The new global initiatives tomeet the goals of the second phase of GEWEX
include the following:• Development of new global data sets of key
climate parameters• GEWEX radiation studies aimed at producing
accurate fluxes in the entire atmosphericcolumn• Continued improvement of coupled landsurface/atmosphere models andparameterization of cloud and atmosphericprocesses in regional and global weather andclimate models• Promoting the participation of thehydrological modelling community andsupporting operational environmental services
in their efforts to develop improved and moreaccurate hydrometeorological predictions• Continued participation in studies related tochanges in surface snow cover, mid-winterprocesses, and other cold region phenomena• Coordinating the future activities andparticipation of the CSEs in the CoordinatedEnhanced Observing Period (CEOP).

GEWEX Hydrometeorology Panel
All CSEs have agreed to facilitate the exchangeof scientific information and observational data,
validate models and parameterization schemes
and verify their transferability from one river
basin to another, and to involve water resources
agencies in the better utilization of prediction
results. The CSEs will also engage the broader
community through outreach efforts utilizing
lectures on topics of regional and global climate
variations and prediction of their impact onsociety.

Water Energy Balance Study
In order to assess the value of many years ofobservations, modelling and analysis and ourability to close the energy and water cycles over
the CSEs, the GHP established a Water Energy
Balance Study (WEBS). This is seen as
particularly important in the implementation of
GEWEX Phase II, an exploitation of newsatellites and models, and Phase III, theapplication of GEWEX results to climate
prediction. This evaluation will assist in
determining observational gaps which will or
could be met by remote sensing observations,where new in situ observations are required, andto what extent gaps can be satisfactorily filledusing models. The first WEBS workshop washeld during GHP’s fifth session in September
1999 at which a few cross-cutting statements
were presented from an earlier GCIP WEBS
workshop. These provide an indication of some ofthe problems which need to be addressed in thisactivity and are reproduced below:• High temporal resolution data that resolve
important processes are essential for
accurately resolving the water budget• The domain over which a budget can be
resolved is sensitive to the spatial resolution of
the sampling• Although it is difficult to establish, runoff
appears to be a valuable independent variable
for testing closure• High resolution models in 4-DDA mode, plus
data inputs provide the best products foratmospheric budgets• “Tuning” and “nudging” techniques limit theutility of models in budget studies
Process research (on precipitation and cloud
processes; soil moisture/runoff generation
processes, etc.) are needed to improve the ability
to model water and energy budgets.

Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period
To enhance global GEWEX activity the CSEs
have established a Coordinated Enhanced
Observing Period (CEOP). As an initial pilot
activity this is a two-year effort in 2001 and 2002
to collect common data sets necessary to meetcommon scientific objectives. CEOP will bepatterned on the First GARP Global Experiment.
It will make effective use of the new generationof satellite data and global analysis schemes aswell as other associated regional experiments.
This coordinated effort will provide validation
testbeds of models and remote sensing for
GEWEX and other WCRP programmes such as
Climate Variability and Prediction Project(CLIVAR). It will advance our understanding ofseveral key processes of land-surface andatmospheric interactions under different terrain
and climate conditions, providing an important
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larger scales. This coordinated effort will provide
deeper insight into the coupled atmosphere–landsurface interactions in the climate system and will
improve our skill in predicting changes inprecipitation and water resources on seasonal andannual time scales.

Water Resources Application Project
Following preliminary proposals at the fifthsession of GHP in September 1999, at the
expanded GEWEX SSG meeting in January–
February 2000 to develop detailed plans for the
next phase of GEWEX, a breakout session wasestablished to consider the role of GEWEX inwater resources applications. It was recognizedthat because of the complex and wide ranging
requirements of the water resources community,
careful evaluation and planning are needed todetermine the most effective interface between
GEWEX and water resources applications. To
progress planning a Water Resources Application
Project (WRAP) has been established within the
GHP. The purpose of this group is to promotedialogue between the GEWEX programme (andGHP in particular) and the water resources
community regarding contributions (real andpotential) of hydrological and meteorologicalsciences to water management at all space andtime scales. The first meeting of the working
group was held in August 2000 at which it was
decided to pursue the IAHS/WMO Working
Group’s proposal to hold workshops with water
resources managers on “The Role of GEWEXHydrometeorology Science in Improved Water
Resources Management”. The first is proposed
for Europe in 2001 and the second a joint
Workshop with IAMAS at IUGG in Sapporo in
2003.

GEWEX Global Land–Atmosphere
System Study
The GHP will have a role in the GEWEX Global
Land–Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) which
is being led by the GEWEX Modelling andPrediction Panel in close association with the
WCRP Working Group on Numerical
Experimentation. The aim of GLASS is to foster
an evaluation of the next generation of landsurface schemes (LSS) in general circulation andregion atmospheric models and to coordinate theevaluation of LSSs in their different applications.
The next generation of LSSs includes the carbon
cycle to provide atmospheric models with CO2
fluxes to simulate the evolution of vegetation andthus feedbacks between climatic variations andthe state of the biosphere. The new generation
will feature more horizontal complexity of thesurface to address the imbalance of current LSSs’emphasis on very sophisticated vertical processes
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horizontal variance of surface conditions. They
will also include the next generation of data
assimilation methods making use of the evolving
remotely sensed variables. GLASS will also serveas an interface between the land-surface
community and other GEWEX projects such as
theInternational
Satellite
Land-surface
Climatology Project (ISLSCP). Links to the
Biosphere Aspects of the Hydrologic Cycle(BAHC) will be maintained in order to facilitatesmoothcoordination
with
the
model
intercomparison studies undertaken by BAHC.

Soil wetness
Soil wetness plays an important role inpartitioning incoming radiative energy into
sensible and latent heat fluxes. In addition to therole of soil moisture in the interaction between
the land surface and the atmosphere, soil wetness
regulates runoff from the land surface anddischarge. The status of vegetation, which
determines transpiration and radiative properties,
is controlled seasonally and inter-annually by soil
moisture. Hence, soil moisture is essential forclimate predictability on seasonal-to-interannual
time scales.
Given its importance two components of
GEWEX, the International Satellite Land-surface
Climatology Project (ISLSCP) and the GEWEX
Numerical Experimentation Panel (GNEP),
established the Global Soil Wetness Project. The
Project consisted of the modelling of a 2-year
data set, 1987–1988, based on the ISLSCP
Initiative I CD-rom data. Uncoupled land-surface
process models utilizing global data of soil
moisture, temperature, runoff and surface fluxes
were used to produce three times per month dataof time-mean and instantaneous fields and themonthly mean diurnal cycle of specified
quantities in a standard format for comparative
analyses. The products were compared withroutinely observed soil moisture data from
Russia, Mongolia, China and the USA and thedata obtained from the First ISLSCP Field
Experiment (FIFE). A Special issue of the
Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan,
vol. 77, no. 1B, Global Soil Wetness Project(GSWP), edited by T. Kioke et al., 1999
describes some of the models and results.

Model Parameter Estimation Project
A key issue in land-surface modelling is toestimate model parameters that vary spatially andare unique to each computational element. An
international Model Parameter Estimation
Experiment (MOPEX) was established with thesupport of GCIP funding and the IAHS/WMO
Working Group and the WMO Commission of
Hydrology to develop techniques for the a priori
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parameterization schemes of atmospheric models
and in hydrological models. The major effort toachieve this goal is to assemble a large number ofhigh quality historical hydrometeorological andriver basin characteristics data sets for a wide
range of intermediate-scale river basins (500–
10 000 km2) throughout the world. Data sets from
Phase I of MOPEX are available via the Internet.
MOPEX Phase II activities will collect additional
data from the US as well as data for basins fromother countries. During the next three years, thescientific community will use the available
MOPEX data sets to estimate basin parameters
and to relate them to basin characteristics. The
issues being addressed in MOPEX will beconsidered at the next IAHS Scientific Assemblyin Maastricht in 2001 in Symposium S5: Soil–
Vegetation–Atmosphere Transfer Schemes andLarge-scale Hydrological Models.
For further information on GEWEX and theabove activities readers are referred to the
GEWEX web site and its associated links(http://www.gewex.com).
Alan Hall, Chairman IAHS/WMO
Working Group for GEWEXUNESCO
Status of IHP after the 14th Sessionof the Intergovernmental Council,
Paris, 5–10 June 2000

Introduction
The UNESCO intergovernmental scientificcooperative programmes in water resources (IHP,
and earlier the International Hydrological Decade(IHD)) were established because both theinternational scientific community and theMember States, realizing that water resources areoften among the primary limiting factors forharmonious development in many regions andcountries of the world, saw the need for aninternationally coordinated programme. Its primerole is acting as a catalyst to promote scientificcooperation. The general objective of the IHD,
and later of the IHP, was established as the
improvement of the scientific and technologicalbasis for the development of methods and thehuman resource base for the rational managementof water resources, including the protection of theenvironment.
These objectives remain almost the same
today as during the launching of the IHD in 1965.
However, there are several shifts/trends in theinternational scene related to the field of water
sciences and water resources development andmanagement that are quite relevant to UNESCO’srole in the next decade, such as: Globalization,with the entry of new players, including

multinationals, the increasingly acute competition
for water giving rise to diverse types of conflicts
and the increasing role of stakeholders in thedecision process. Major recent developments
framing UNESCO’s actions in the field offreshwater are influenced by:• The World Conference on Science (Budapest,
1999), which appealed to the scientificcommunity for a “new commitment” and to
shift to application-oriented research which
can be summarized by “sciences serving
human needs”.
• The exercise of the World Water Vision,
hosted and assisted by UNESCO and which
culminated in the Second World Water Forum(The Hague, March 2000). It identified criticalregional and cross-cutting issues, pointed out
directions leading toward the 2025 “Vision”
and made a strong worldwide call to makewater “everybody’s business”.
• The Ministerial Declaration “Water Security
for the 21st Century” issued from theconcurrent Ministerial Conference in The
Hague, which delineated specific actions,
expected from the UN system including a
World Water Assessment Programme, leading
to periodic reporting of the situation.
These landmarks, among many others, haveinfluenced the Fifth and Sixth Phases of the IHP.
More information about these phases as well as
the related new initiatives, will be briefly
presented here.

The current phase (IHP-V; 1996–2001)
The theme of the current Fifth Phase (IHP-V) is“Hydrology and Water Resources Development
in a Vulnerable Environment”. As in the previous
phases, IHP-V constitutes a framework forapplied research and education in the field ofhydrology and water management. It is regarded
as a dynamic concept that aims to improve thelinks between research, application andeducation, and to promote scientific andeducational activities. There are three main
clusters, in IHP-V, addressing issues related to:• Resource process and management studies• Regional studies• Transfer of knowledge, information andtechnology
Eight themes have been identified, within theset of clusters, as a support structure for the whole
programme. They cut
across differenthydrological scales and different climatic regions,but have integrated water management in avulnerable environment as a common issue. The
themes are seen as cornerstones within which
projects can be flexibly implemented.
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• Global hydrological and biochemical
processes• Ecohydrological processes in the surficial
zone• Groundwater resources at risk
• Strategies for water resources management inemergency and conflicting situations• Integrated water resources management in arid
and semiarid zones• Humid tropics hydrology and water
management• Integrated urban water management• Transfer of knowledge, information andtechnology (KIT)Over 30 projects and hundreds of activities
have been executed under these themes.
However, the implementation of IHP-V is now
running close to its concluding biennium(2000/2001) and is naturally harmonized with theactive planning for the Sixth Phase of the IHP.

The forthcoming phase(IHP-VI; 2002–2007)
In recognition of the shift in thinking about waterfrom fragmented compartments of scientificinquiry to a more holistic, integrated approach,
the general theme for IHP-VI has been defined as“Water Interactions: Systems at Risk and Social
Challenges”. In defining the critical researchcomponents for 2002–2007, it became clear thatwhat had hitherto been missing is a close
investigation of water science and policy “at themargins”. What happens, for example, at theintersections of distinct components of water
resources management?
Some of the interactions to be further
investigated, or to be focused on during the Sixth
Phase of IHP include those between:• Surface water and groundwater• Atmospheric and terrestrial parts of thehydrological cycle• Freshwater and salt water• Global watershed and river reach scales• Quantity and quality• Water bodies and aquatic ecosystems• Science and policy• Water and civilization
Bridging the gaps between these disparate
components in an integrated fashion represented
the major need to draw the IHP-VI in line withthe above-mentioned comprehension of waterinteractions, technological development of dataacquisition and improved modelling of processes
and interactions. The relevant IHP-VI topics onhydrologicalresearch,water
resources
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in five themes; with the transition and interaction
from the global scale to the watershed scale being
the overall need for knowledge, information andtechnology transfer. The five themes are:
Theme 1 Global changes and water resources
Theme 2 Integrated Watershed and Aquifer
Dynamics
Theme 3 Land Habitat Hydrology
Theme 4 Water and Society
Theme 5 Water Education and Training
Two cross-cutting programme components:
FRIEND (Flow Regimes for International
Experimental and Network Data) and HELP
(Hydrology for Environment, Life and Policy)
have been identified which, through theiroperational concept, interact with all of the fivethemes.
The above-mentioned IHP-VI Plan wasapproved by the Intergovernmental Council of the
IHP in its 14th session held in Paris in June 2000.
Other than HELP, the approved Plan includes
many new initiatives such as the World Water
Assessment Programme, the progress with
UNESCO-IHE Institute in Water and Education,
the Joint International Isotope Hydrology
Programme, and two initiatives on groundwater.
Due to the importance of these initiatives, aspecific introduction on each of them now
follows.

The new initiatives
The World Water Assessment Programme(WWAP)

WWAP is one of the new initiatives approved by
the 14th session of the Intergovernmental
Council. It was recognized that one of its major
productions is the “World Water Development
Report” (WWDR). The report is a majorcooperative initiative of the UN system under thesupervision of the ACC Subcommittee on Water
Resources.
WWDR will be a periodic review, continuously updated, designed to give a credible pictureof the state of the world’s water resources andtheir development. It will contain indicators andanalysis that will identify and diagnose:• The needs for and uses of water• The state of the world’s freshwater resources• The broad organizational and socio-economic
context of their utilization• Current problems and emerging threats to theresource base
• Approaches to sustainable development,
management and use of freshwater resources
More details about the WWDR will bepresented and discussed as a major agenda item of
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Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy(HELP)HELP is a joint UNESCO/WMO programme
which is designed to establish a global network ofcatchments to improve the links betweenhydrology and the needs of society. It is a crosscutting programme of the UNESCO IHP and willcontribute to the World Freshwater Assessment
Programme, and the Hydrology and Water
Resources Programme of WMO.
The vital importance of water in sustaining
human and environmental health is the key
driving force behind HELP. However, nointernational hydrological programme hasaddressed key water resource issues in the field
and integrated them with policy and management
needs. HELP will change this by creating a new
approach to integrated catchment management.
The new approach is to use real catchments, withreal water-related problems as the environment
within which hydrological scientists, water
resources managers and water law and policy
experts can be brought together.
The Joint International Isotope Hydrology
Programme (JIIHP)

The main objective of JIIHP is to enhance theutilization of isotope techniques in various water
resources
assessment
andmanagement
operations. The programme will be convened inclose collaboration with the International Atomic
Energy Agency and WMO as a follow-up to a
recommendation of the Fifth UNESCO/WMO
International Conference on Hydrology.
The Groundwater Initiatives

The two groundwater initiatives include a project
on “International Shared Aquifer Resources
Management (ISARM)”. IHP, in cooperation
withtheInternational
AssociationofHydrogeologists, FAO and UN ECE, havelaunched this programme in recognition of thefact that there are many large regional aquifers,
shared by more than one country, that represent a
substantial and secure supply for many beneficial
socio-economic uses and are thus critical fornational and regional water security. The aim of
this interagency initiative is to improve theregional coordination as well as the understandingof the scientific, socio-economical, legal,
institutional and environmental issues of the
management of shared aquifers. The second
initiative is the establishment of an “International
Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre(IGRAC)” under the auspices of UNESCO and
WMO. The Centre should act as a catalyst for
stimulating and focusing national efforts ingroundwater system monitoring and assessment.
The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water
Education and Training

One area that received great emphasis anddemand for immediate action from UNESCO,
was the strengthening of “Fresh Water Resources
Education”. As a response to this, the Director
General of UNESCO, Mr Koichiro Matsuura, hassigned an Aide-Memoire with the Government of
The Netherlands to further pursue theestablishment of the International Institute forInfrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental
Engineering (IHE) in Delft as a UNESCO Centreof excellence in water resources education:
Concerned authorities in both The Netherlands
and UNESCO are currently carrying out aconsultation process for the realization of this aim
through the ultimate mandatory approval of thegoverning bodies of UNESCO.

Mr Rutashobya of Tanzania and Mr B. Stewart of Australia, new
President and Vice-President respectively of the WMO CHy.

IHP Secretariat

WMO
The eleventh session of the WMO
Commission for Hydrology (Chy)was held in Abuja (Nigeria) from 6 to
16 November. The session was
opened by the Nigerian Federal
Minister of Water Resources, Colonel
Muhammadu Bello Kaliel and by the
WMO General Secretary, Prof. G. O.
P. Obasi. About 40 countries andseveral international organizations
wererepresented.
IAHS
wasrepresented by its Secretary General,
Dr P. Hubert. All the aspects of thehydrologicalprogrammes
andactivities of WMO were reviewed.
We will give more information about
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nevertheless give some information about the
renewal of the Bureau. Mr D. Rutashobya from
Tanzania was elected the new President of theCommission. He succeeds Dr K. Hofius from
Germany, who has been in charge for the last 8
years. The new Vice-President of theCommission is Mr B. Stewart from Australia.
IAHS works closely with WMO, throughdifferent channels, like the IAHS/WMO working
group on GEWEX (see the report earlier in thisNewsletter), and is regularly invited to attend the
Chy Advisory Working Group, which is thegoverning body of Chy. WMO provides generous
support for our activities, especially to enable
scientists from countries in need to participate to
our workshops, symposia and assemblies. We
want here to attest our gratitude to WMO for this
support and to Dr Hofius for the marvellous job
he has done for hydrology. We also want to wish
Mr Rutashobya and Mr Stewart good luck in their
new posts and ensure them of our loyal support.
Pierre Hubert

GRDC has new Head
Dr Thomas Maurer is the new Head of the Global
Runoff Data Centre (GRDC), at the Federal
Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz. An article on
GRDC will be included in the next Newsletter.

In Memory of Adriaan Volker
On 3 September 2000 Prof. Ir Adriaan Volker passed
away after a short illness. With him, we lost aneminent hydrologist and a very interesting and modest
personality.

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Adriaan Volker was born in Rotterdam in 1917.
His father, who worked with the Volker dredging
company, was often on mission abroad. Because ofthis, from the age of eight Adriaan spent his primaryschool days in France. As a result he had full commandof the French language and developed a lifelong
affinity with the French culture. After graduating fromsecondary school he took up his studies at the Delft
University of Technology, then named Technische
Hogeschool Delft, from which he graduated in 1940. In
the same year he started working at the Hydraulics
Department of the Dienst Zuiderzeewerken (thegovernmental service responsible for the large land
reclamation projects in the former inland sea in theheart of the country), later to become the head of thisdepartment. He initiated and coordinated the research
activities related to the land reclamation projects,
including research into: dike elevation, seepage ofsaline water, salinization, dry-out of the old land, water
management and in general, the impact of the works on
the hydrology.
Volker was famous and highly respected for his
knowledge of land reclamation, throughout the world.
In 1954, the Japanese government requested Volker
and Prof. Jansen (who reclaimed the island ofWalcheren after it was inundated during the war) toadvise on the reclamation of the Hachiro Gata lagoon.
Following their advice the lagoon was successfullyreclaimed. A monument in their honour reminds us of
their efforts.
In 1956 Volker became the head of the Hydrology
Department of the Ministry of Public Works. In thiscapacity his accomplishments included: study of thesalt intrusion in estuaries, the first policy document onwater management and for quite some time he wasmember of the boards of the former Committee on
Hydrological Research TNO and the Institute ofApplied Geosciences of TNO (now NITG-TNO).
He was one of the first to plead for a reduction of
the pollution of the Rhine, and in particular the salt
disposals. He convinced the International Commission
for the Protection of the Rhine to include restrictions
on both the salt load and salt concentration in the treatyof 1976. As a spin-off of theInternational
Hydrological
Decade (1965–1975) Adriaan
Volker was one of the initiatorsof the International Commission
for the Hydrology of the Rhine.
He visited more than 75
countries as an advisor. He wasconvinced that one should shareknowledge and information to
gain knowledge, particularly withcolleagues from developing
countries. In 1957, also as aresult of his efforts, the IHEDelft was established, where
education was provided tointernational students from allover the world in the fields ofhydraulics and environment. He
continued to lecture in hydrology
at IHE (with special attention to
the hydrology of deltas) until his
retirement in 1992, on whichoccasion he received a special
award as Distinguished Lecturerof IHE.
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Professor of Hydrology at the Department of Civil
Engineering, where he lectured on general hydrology
and the hydrology of deltas.
In his career, Volker declined several offers foreven more prestigious positions, with the argument that
this would keep him from travelling and from his
international advisory activities. In this capacity he wasan important ambassador for the hydrological science
as well as for his home country.
Besides his advisory work, he participated in
activities of the ECE, OECD, WMO, FAO, UNESCO,World Bank, ECAFE, Mekong Secretariat, etc. He was
President of IAHS from 1963 to 1967. He chaired theCouncil of the International Hydrological Decade from1971 to 1973. He was Vice-President of ICID. In 1984
IAHS, UNESCO and WMO honoured him with theInternational Hydrology Prize. The Dutch and Frenchgovernments gave him high governmental distinctions.
In 1982, at the age of 65, Volker retired fromgovernment and the Delft University of Technology,
but he never retired from his international activities. In
the late nineties his activities slowed down, but heremained in close contact with his friends, colleagues
and neighbours.
With Adriaan Volker, the hydrological community
loses an active, enthusiastic and colourful advocate of
the hydrological sciences, an excellent engineer and avery special educator. His fascinating personality willremain part of our memories.
P. Huisman, R. H. Boekelman, H. J. Colenbrander,
H. M. Oudshoorn, F. Rutgers, H. H. G. Savenije &E. Schultz

Reports on Meetings
GROUNDWATER 2000: International
Conference on Groundwater Research
Copenhagen, Denmark, 6–8 June 2000
The conference was organized by the Groundwater
Research Centre at the Technical University ofDenmark in collaboration with the Danish Water
Resources Committee and sponsored by The COIWI
Foundation, European Science Foundation and Danish
Environmental Protection Agency. Co-sponsoringorganizations included IAHS and the IHP of UNESCO.
The aim of the conference was to create aninterdisciplinary forum for presentation and exchangeof the most recent advances in groundwater research.
Current
researchingroundwater
addresses
fundamental processes, for example by recognizing the
combined effect of physical, chemical andmicrobiological mechanisms in laboratory and fieldstudies. It also marks a transition to more engineeringrelated topics such as remediation technologies forcleaning up contaminated soils and groundwater.
The conference focused in particular on five key
issues:• Aquifers and contaminant distribution• Groundwater quality problems• Natural attenuation• Remediation technologies• Groundwater protection
High-level keynote and invited speakers wereassociated with each of the selected topics and a large
number of contributed oral and poster papers were
presented during the three-day conference. The numberof participants was approximately 320, ensuring
lively discussions in three well-attended concurrent
sessions.
The proceedings of the conference are printed byBalkema in the book Groundwater 2000 edited by
P. L. Bjerg, P. Engesgaard & T. D. Krom(ISBN 90-5809-133-3).
All
oral
and
posterpresentations are documented by a two-page paper, andthe book hereby offers a comprehensive overview ofactual research results, while at the same time pointing
to other recently published material. A CD-rom
providing easy search opportunities is included.
The organizers are happy to conclude that the aimsof the conference were achieved. The contributions of
the sponsors and the efforts of the attendees are
gratefully acknowledged. The generous support andthe enthusiastic participants made the conference animportant event in the continuous struggle to advancegroundwater research.
Dan Rosbjerg, Lyngby, Denmark

XXth Conference of the Danube Countries on
Hydrological Forecasting and the Hydrological
Basis of Water Management
Bratislava, Slovakia, 4–8 September 2000
The conference was organized by the Slovak
Committee for Hydrology and the Slovak
Hydrometeorological Institute jointly with the IHP of
UNESCO, WMO and IAHS. All the main Slovak
hydrological institutions took part in the organizationof the conference.
155 papers from 287 authors were submitted and252 participants registered for the conference. The
participants were from 20 countries, mostly from the
Danube River basin. Out of 18 Danube countries only
three were not represented (Switzerland, Bosnia andHerzegovina, Macedonia). The proceedings of theconference have been published on CD-rom.
Technical and historical excursions were organized tothe confluence of Danube and Morava rivers
including one to Devín Castle, and to the Gabčíkovohydrostructure area.
The conference topics were:• Hydrological forecasting• Eco-hydrological processes• Erosion, sediment transport and sedimentation• Water quality and river ecology• Water resources management in the Danubian
regionThe International and Local Scientific Committees
announced the results of the Danube ConferenceAward for Young Hydrologists. The Award promotes
excellence in research by young hydrologists in the
Danube countries. Three Awards were granted foroutstanding papers submitted to and presented at theconference. Candidates applying for the Awards haveto be under 35 years of age. The Award consisted of acitation at the conference and a grant covering thecosts of the stay in Bratislava. The following authors
received the award (in alphabetical order): Elena
Bojilova and Tatiana Orehova from Bulgaria who coauthored a paper, Graziella Jula from Romania, andMichail Kornilov from Ukraine.
The XXI Hydrological Conference of the Danube
Countries will be hosted by the Romanian National
Committee for the IHP in 2002.
Pavol Miklanek, Bratislava, Slovakia

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International Workshop on Debris-Covered
Glaciers
Seattle, USA, 13–15 September, 2000
Debris-covered glaciers comprise a significant fractionof the global population of glaciers and are particularlycommon in the Himalayas, Andes, Alaska, and on
strato-volcanoes worldwide. Despite their relatively
common occurrence, debris-covered glaciers have notbeen well studied. However, to quantitatively estimate
glacier contribution to sea-level rise, regional water
resources, and hydrological hazards, we require
fundamental understanding of their distribution andprocesses. Of immediate importance, debris-covered
glaciers, particularly those in the Himalayas,commonly develop supraglacial lakes that can cause
disastrous floods.
In addition, debris-covered glaciers may, in somecases, be a transitional stage between clean glaciersand rock glaciers. Current debate on the origin of rockglaciers and their possible genetic connection todebris-covered glaciers highlights fundamental issues
regarding mass and energy transport in debris and ice
debris mixtures. These questions are particularly
important for understanding the origin of potentiallyold (millions of years) ice in rock glaciers in polar
environments on Earth or more generally on Mars.
The workshop was organized around six themes,
including:• Distribution and setting• Mass and energy balances• Debris origin, morphology and transport processes• Supraglacial lakes, formation and outburst• Climatic variations and the response• The hydrology and biology
The workshop, organized by the IAHS
International Commission on Snow and Ice, was very
successful in bringing together a diverse, internationalgroup of scientists. Sixty-three participants from 13
countries presented 53 technical papers at theconference. For the first time we have a relatively
comprehensive perspective about processes acting indebris-covered glaciers and the important gaps in our
knowledge. Twenty eight of the papers are publishedin Debris-Covered Glaciers, IAHS Publ. no. 264,
edited by M. Nakawo, C. F. Raymond & A. Fountain.
Information about contents of this volume and how to
obtain it is available at http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs.
Andrew Fountain, Portland State University, USA

International Workshop on Modelling Runoff
Generation and Implications for River Basin
Modelling
Freiburg, Germany, 9–12 October 2000
More than 80 scientists from all over the world
gathered at the Workshop on Modelling Runoff
Generation and Implications for River Basin Modellingat the Institute of Hydrology, University of Freiburg,
Germany. It was organized by Chris Leibundgut,
Stefan Uhlenbrook and Jeff McDonnell. The workshop
was jointly convened by IAHS and its International
Commissions on Tracers (ICT) and Surface Waters(ICSW) and by the National Working GroupIHP/OHP-FRIEND/ERB, Germany.
Throughout the four days the participants felt apersonal and inspiring atmosphere mainly due to theunorthodox character of this workshop. Ample time22

was left for discussion not only at the end of eachsession but also within an extended poster session.
Two separate slots were reserved for small group
discussions where the audience was split into fourgroups each addressing different key research
problems. After about 90 minutes the rapporteurspresented the outcomes at the plenum for general
discussion. This discussion is published in a separate
chapter of the workshop proceedings.
From the outset different questions accompanied
the workshop, e.g.:• Can we reconcile tracer based estimates of event
water with hydrometric studies?
• Can we reconstruct model reservoirs that capture
dominant flow response with a minimal number oftuneable parameters?
• What is the minimal set of measurements necessary
to characterize a hydrological system?
• How can preferential flow be parameterized at thecatchment scale?
• How do we scale up our process knowledge fromthe plot scale to the catchment scale?
• How can we introduce additional information (i.e.
further hydrometric measurements or tracers) for
model calibration or validation?
As both modellers and field hydrologists were present,
the gap between both groups was quickly bridged.
This, of course, did not answer all the addressed
questions. However, it was generally agreed upon that
it is not enough for today’s rainfall–runoff model toproduce a close fit between measured and simulated
runoff data, as this alone does not guarantee a correct
reproduction of ongoing hydrological processes.
Instead, different ways to improve hydrological models
were introduced, e.g.:• Using tracers or hydrometric measurements to set
up conceptual model structures• Using process knowledge to spatially delineate acatchment for distributed modelling• Using additional data to constrain model
uncertainties
From the plot to the catchment scale the outcomes ofprocess- and modelling studies throughout the world
were discussed and evaluated. This yielded acomprehensive overview of today’s state of the art inrunoff generation research and catchment modelling.
The complete proceedings of the workshop are
published in a separate volume of the series Freiburger
Schriften zur Hydrologie. For further information
please refer to:
http://www.uni-freiburg.de/hydrology/publika/schrift-e.html

In parallel, selected papers will be published (in an
expanded version) in a special issue of Hydrological
Processes.
Jens Lange, Freiburg, Germany

International Conference on Agricultural
Effects on Ground and Surface Waters:
Research and Policy at the Edge of Science andSociety
Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1–4 October 2000
This conference was organized/sponsored by the IAHS
International Commission on Water Quality, together
with the IHP/OHP National Committees of The
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to address the themes of water scarcity and waterpollution caused by agriculture and to indicate thepossibilities of protecting water resources. The focus
was on water management methods in the moderate
humid areas of the Northern Hemisphere, and an
explicit aim was to link the sociological with thescientific aspects and also to consider the politicaldecision-making process.
Three main themes were addressed at theconference:– The local level—the agricultural production
unit: Under this theme, the effects of developments
in agricultural production systems on thehydrological cycle, and groundwater and surface
water quality systems were demonstrated withquantifiable indicators. Field studies and model
calculations showed, however, not only negative
impacts but also the changes in agricultural
practices that have resulted in definite
improvements. These measures included, forexample, regulations concerning timing of fertilizer
application, use of buffer strips along bodies ofwater, improvements in soil cultivation anddevelopment of a humus top soil, andcompensation payments for changes in land
management aims from mass production toguaranteed good water quality. It was alsosuggested that demonstration farms and sites
should be used more for the education of farmers at
the interface of science and practice.
– Hydrological and environmental policy in aregion: Under this theme, the focus was on
resolving the interests of the many different groups
within a region, in addition to agriculture, which
are concerned with water problems. Conference
presentations demonstrated how use of results frommonitoring programmes, improved methods for
upscaling and downscaling, and tools for thequantification of uncertainties could produce
approaches to the solution of water problems thatwere acceptable to different interest groups.
Models relevant to the regional scale andconcerned with the interpretation of temporal
trends, forecasting the hydrological impacts ofchanging farming practices and the reduction ofwater pollution were also presented. It emergedthat although decision support systems aredeveloped explicitly by scientists, they are often
too complex to assist the process of decision
making by the interest groups involved. In contrast,
socio-economic models assist policy makers to findsolutions to water quality problems and to evaluate
the environmentally relevant and economic resultsof political targets. Most socio-economic models
assume that a reduced nitrate discharge from thesoil is soon reflected in a reduction of the nitratecontent in surface water. However, conference
presentations highlighted that this assumption is
not always realistic and a delay in the transport
time of the nitrate due to hydrological processes
should be taken into greater consideration.
– Hydrological and environmental policy on anational level: Under this theme, studies relating
to the formulation of national regulations, or forchecking the effectiveness of guidelines, were
presented. It was shown that models are well suitedfor describing the processes of substance transport,
for preparing scenarios for testing future measuresand for assisting in decision making. However, it
was also clear that thinking only in terms of model
variables might result in the neglect of usefulalternative approaches. Furthermore, vitalboundary conditions, such as the negative effects of
the injection of liquid manure on soil organisms,
are not at present fully considered in modelling. A
wide range of agricultural impacts in particularcountries was reported at the conference. These
included studies from Poland, Slovenia, Russia andthe northern countries, which presented the resultsof monitoring programmes and efforts made tocounteract contamination of groundwater andsurface water, and an investigation in Germany,
which analysed increasing number of flash floods
in agricultural areas in relation to land use before
and after the Second World War.
Several general points emerged from theconference as a whole. Firstly, the papers presented
dealt almost exclusively with conventional land-use
practice, and little or no attention was given to organic
farming. Secondly, new approaches to communication,
decision making and risk assessment are required tofacilitate planning at local, regional and national
scales. Thirdly, procedures for the involvement of
citizens in the decision-making processes affecting
water cycling and pollution are urgently recommended.
The detailed recommendations to governments andinternational organizations, which emerged from theconference, have been summarized in The Wageningen
Statement, which is reproduced on the ICWQ web
pages at:http://www.ex.ac.uk/~BWWebb/icwq/Wag.htm.
The papers from this successful conference will be
published in the IAHS Red Book series later in 2001.
Joop Steenvoorden, Wageningen, The Netherlands

European Conference on Advances in Flood
Research
Potsdam, Germany, 1–3 November 2000
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research(PIK) hosted the European Conference on Advances inFlood Research, on the occasion of the final
presentation of the European Research Project“European River Flood Occurrence and Total Risk
Assessment System”—EUROTAS. IAHS was one of
the sponsors. Scientists from nine European states
participated in the EUROTAS project and theconference was attended by some 200 scientists fromover 20 countries. The final results of this project werehighlighted during a session on the first day of theconference, and future research activities of the groupwere outlined.
During the following two days, papers and posters
were presented on: impacts of change in land use andclimate on flooding, flood management and assessmentof flooding risk, catchment modelling and management
systems and impact of river engineering works onflooding.
Analyses of recent flood events, like the floods insouthern Africa (Mozambique and Republic of South
Africa), in Switzerland and Italy, and the November
floods in Great Britain were presented. Results fromother catastrophic flood events, such as the Oder floodin 1997 and the Mississippi flood in 1993 were
presented and discussed concerning climatological,
land-use and flood-management issues. All the cases
presented clearly showed that the human and social
dimension is one of the determining factors, which canexacerbate or mitigate the human and economic losses
of a flood event. This was very dramatically shown for
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severely on the life of the people and the economy of
the country compared to developed countries. One of
the key results of the conference is that “humanstrategies” in flood prevention are getting more
important and promising than purely “technicalstrategies”.
The conference also showed research from several
European regions where the link between an increasein large-scale precipitation events and anthropogenic
climate change has been shown, e.g. for the southernpart of the Rhine catchment. In other catchments, e.g.
the Elbe catchment, climate change is likely to lead toa decrease in precipitation, which may also decrease
the flood risk in that region.

The conference closed with an outlook given by
Jim Dooge highlighting the need for integrated flood
management in the overall context of sustainable
development of water resources.
The conference proceedings have been published in
the PIK Report series: Bronstert, A., Bismuth, C. &Menzel, L. (editors) (2000) Advances in Flood Research:
Proceedings of the European Conference, Potsdam, 1–
3 November 2000. PIK Report no. 65, Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam,
Germany, 712 pp.
Christine Bismuth, Potsdam, Germany

News about Maastricht

The Exeter travel fund
The Exeter travel fund was set up after the First
Scientific Assembly of IAHS held in Exeter, July 1982.
The fund (administered by the British HydrologicalSociety) is to help UK hydrologists, particularly youngerhydrologists, participate in future IAHS meetings.
Applications are now invited for grants to support
participation in the Scientific Assembly at Maastricht,
next July. Applications should be sent no later than
28 February to:Prof. Bruce Webb, School of Geography and Archaeology, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ[fax: 01392 263342; e-mail: b.w.webb@exeter.ac.uk]

Applications should give the following information:• Full contact details, current position and age• Details of the support requested• The nature of your participation at Maastricht• Details of any other sources of funding requested orconfirmed

Preparations for our Scientific Assembly in
Maastricht are going strong. The Local
Organizing Committee met on 29 November andvisited the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress
Centre which has all the facilities necessary for a
successful Assembly, in the framework of afriendly city, inhabited by welcoming people. The
Scientific Committee is also working well. The
provisional timetable is reproduced here and theprogramme is continuously being updated on the
IAHS web site. The second circular will be issued
in January and will be widely disseminated(probably with this issue of the Newsletter). You
can find information about registration,accommodation and transport on the IAHS website and you can also directly contact the Local
Organizing Committee for a copy of the second
circular at the following address:

Provisional timetable for Maastricht, 18–27 July 2001
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Icebreaker (reception) on 17 July
Opening ceremony on 18 July
Reception on the evening of 19 July
Dinner on the evening of 25 July
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IAHS Maastricht 2001,
c/o Conference Agency Limburg, PO Box 1402,
6201 BK Maastricht, The Netherlands[tel.: +31 43 3619192; fax: +31 43 3619020;
cal.conferenceagency@wxs.nl]of Dr I. Radhakrishna (postmast@esngri.ren.nic.in).
For more information on submission of abstracts,
please contact:

Financial support
UNESCO, WMO, the French Government, theDutch Government and IAHS are providing
financial support. Applications for financial
support to attend the Maastricht Assembly should
be sent (preferably by e-mail) to:
Dr C. A. Onstad
Treasurer IAHS, 7607 Eastmark Drive, Suite 230,
College Station, Texas 77840, USA[fax: +1 979 2609415; constad@spa.ars.usda.gov]

The funds available are limited and preference
will be given to participants from developing
countries who have an accepted paper for one of
the symposia or workshops.

Other Forthcoming Events(all meetings are organized or sponsored by IAHS and/or its
Commissions)

Mahadevan Birth Centenary International
Symposium on Challenges of Water Resources
Management in the Developing Countries in
the 21st Century
Visakhapatnam, India, 6–10 May 2001
Call for abstracts

IAHS is one of the sponsors of this international
symposium that commemorates the centenary of thebirth of the late Prof. C. Mahadevan who inspired
generations of students at Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam, particularly with his zeal for geology.
The aims are to find ecologically sustainable and low
cost ways of addressing the various water management
issues which particularly concern developing countries.
There will be eight sessions devoted to the following
themes:– Water resources inventories, with special reference
to the management of coastal aquifers– Water quality in relation to water use– Augmentation, conservation and protection ofwater resources– Technical/socio-economic challenges of watertransfer– Information technology in the management ofwater supplies– Drinking water issues– Climate change impacts on water resources– The role of nongovernmental organizations in thesustainable management of water resources
The deadline for submission of abstracts was 15
December 2000. Full papers should be submitted by
15 April 2001 and the proceedings of the symposium
will be post-published in India and The Netherlands.
A pre-symposium Workshop on HydrologicalApproaches for the Mitigation of Adverse Impacts ofExtreme Weather Events (Floods and Droughts) is
proposed, This will be held at Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam, on 4–5 May 2001 under the direction

orProf. G. Krishnarao
Executive Secretary of the Symposium,
Department of Geology, Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam 530017, Andhra Pradesh, India[fax: +91 891 755547;
geokrsna@mdevanwateres.com]
Prof. U. Aswathanarayana
CP 1947, Maputo, Mozambique[fax: +2581 308915; anarayan@zebra.uem.mz]

Further details may be found on the web site:
http://www.mdevanwateres.com./symposium1.htm

International Workshop on River Runoff
Minima and Maxima
St Petersburg, Russia, 6–8 June 2001
Call for abstracts

This workshop, organized by the Russian State
Hydrometeorological University, the St Petersburg
City Administration and the Ministry of Education of
the Russian federation, with sponsorship by WMO,UNESCO and IAHS, will deal with the forecasting,measurement, and computation of floods and droughts,
prediction of catastrophic rainfall, floods fromtornadoes and because of human activity etc. Boththeoretical and applied aspects will be considered. A
key goal is to identify the main problems of flood anddrought prediction which will then be discussed in a
symposium in 2003.
Abstracts, not exceeding one page, in Word or
ASCII should be submitted by e-mail by 1 April 2001
to: kuzmin@rw.ru.
The registration fee of US$150 will include theproceedings, reception, transfer between airport andhotel or university, and some sightseeing trips.
For more information contact:
Dr Vadim Kuzmin
Scientific Secretary of the Organizing Committee,
Department of Land Hydrology, Russian State
Hydrometeorological University,
Malookhtinski 98, St Petersburg 195196,
Russia[tel.: +7 812 5853608; kuzmin@rw.ru]

or see: http://www.kuzmin.rw.ru

I Mercosul Urban Drainage Seminar and V
Brazilian Urban Drainage Seminar: Solutions
for Urban Drainage in Latin America
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 10–12 July 2001
Call for abstracts

IAHS is supporting an urban drainage seminar planned
to be held at Instituto de Pesquisas Hidráulicas,
UFRGS, Porto Alegre in July 2001. The main topics
will be:• Monitoring• Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of urban
drainage impacts• Solutions and controls for Latin America
environment• Urban drainage management• Case studies
Extended abstracts of not more than four pages and at
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urb2001@vortex.ufrgs.br. The abstract deadline is
15 April 2001.
A more detailed call for papers (in Portuguese)
may be found at the web site:
http://galileu.iph.ufrgs.br/urb2001

International Conference on Hydrological
Challenges in Transboundary Water
Resources Management
Koblenz, Germany, 25–27 September 2001
Call for abstracts

Convened by the National Committee of the Federal
Republic of Germany for the IHP of UNESCO, the cosponsors of this conference include IAHS. The
conference supports IHP-V project 4.1: International
water systems.
The international community has become very
aware of the need throughout the world for thesustainable development of transboundary water
systems (TWS). Increasing demands and declining
water quality, growing vulnerability from floods anddroughts, and alarming water-borne health and ecohydrological problems confront water resourcesmanagement with challenges that need comprehensive
strategies for providing water of adequate quantity andquality and protecting man and nature from adverse
impacts. Sustainable solutions for TWS depend on
close international cooperation—provision andexchange of hydrological information are the mostimportant prerequisites for river basin communities toimprove their social, economic and environmental
living conditions in a harmonized way.
The conference will deal with the following
themes:– Hot spot analysis of hydrological problems– Integrated hydrological networks and information
systems– Methodologies for analysing hydrologicalprocesses in large-scale water systems– Institutional and legal aspects of transboundaryhydrological cooperation– Experiences and challenges for sustainable
development in TWS
Well-known experts are being invited to deliver
keynote lectures on the state of the art of each theme.
The working languages of the conference will be
English and German (simultaneous translation will beavailable).
For more information, please see the Homepage:
http://www.bafg.de/html/aktuell/hydrological_challenge.htm

or contact:

Dr U. Schröder
Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, IHP/OHP
Sekretariat, Postfach 200253, D-56002 Koblenz,
Germany[tel.: +49 261 13065313/5440; fax: +49 261 13065422;
schroeder@bafg.de]International Conference on Flood Estimation
Berne, Switzerland, 6–8 March 2002
Call for abstracts

This conference is supported by the IHP of UNESCO,
the Operational Hydrology Programme of WMO andIAHS. It is aimed at presenting and discussing thelatest developments within the field of flood estimation
for micro- and mesoscale catchments. Apart fromhydrological aspects of model evolution and questions

in connection with regionalization of floods, thepractical use of models will be given particularattention.
The topics are:
• Flood measurement techniques• Process analysis as a basis of flood modelling• Extreme value statistics• Modelling and regionalization of floods• Presentation of the results of the International
Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine Basin
Project: flood estimation in the Rhine basin
The topic of extreme value statistics will only be
discussed by a keynote speaker.
The deadline for abstracts is 31 March 2001 andfull papers will be due by 31 December 2001. Please
direct enquiries and send abstracts of 300–400 words
by e-mail as ASCII, Word or PDF files to:floodestimation@bwg.admin.ch. Please indicate yourpreference for oral or poster presentation.
For more information see:
http:/www.admin.ch/bww/d/news
or contact:
International Conference on Flood Estimation
Federal Office for Water and Geology,
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland[tel.: +41 31 3247758; fax: +41 31 3247681;
floodestimation@bwg.admin.ch]

FRIEND 2002: Fourth International Conferenceon Flow Regimes from International
Experimental and Network Data—Bridging
the gap between research and practiceCape Town, South Africa, 18–22 March 2002
Call for abstracts

This conference is convened jointly by the IHPNational Committee of South Africa, Southern Africa
FRIEND, IAHS and WMO. The objective of theconference is to present the results of the UNESCOFRIEND research programme that has stimulated
international cooperation in the field of regionalhydrology. A focus of the conference will be bridging
the gap between knowledge, research and practicalapplications. The proposed topics are:• Hydrological data—policy, international rivers,
databases, real time, dissemination• Managing hydrological risk—floods, surface andgroundwater droughts• Water scarcity, over-exploitation and poverty
reduction• Sustaining water-related ecosystems—definitions,
methodology and operation• Continental hydrology—regimes, water sharing,teleconnections, snow, ice, international basins
Authors are invited to submit papers which
demonstrate how advances in hydrology can be used
for the development of integrated river basin
management to ensure the sustainable development ofwater resources. Examples of incorporating research
results in operational hydrology and water resource
planning, including decision support systems,
numerical and statistical models and visualization
techniques are welcome. Papers are encouraged from a
broad range of institutions including operationalhydrological agencies, water users, policy makers andresearch scientists.
The deadline for submission of abstracts was
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the IAHS series of proceedings and reports. The
deadline for submission of final papers (which may besubmitted and presented in English or French) is
30 May 2001.
In addition to the conference proceedings, a
FRIEND Report, presenting a synthesis of the
FRIEND activities for the period 1998–2002, will beedited by regional FRIEND groups and published forthe conference. The registration fee will beapproximately US$300, which will include a copy ofthe proceedings, FRIEND Report, local transport andconference reception and dinner.
For further information, please contact:
FRIEND 2002
Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University,
PO Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa[juanita@iwr.ru.ac.za]

or visit the conference web page:
http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr

Changes to IAHS National
Representatives
Two new IAHS National Representatives haverecently been appointed:

Armenia/ArménieProf. Vladimir Boynagryan
Yerevan State University, A. Manoogian St. 1,
Yerevan 375025
e-mail: vboynagryan@vsu.am
fax:+374 1 151087
tel.:+374 1 550661

Trinidad and Tobago/La Trinité et Tobago
Prof. Serwan M. J. Baban
Department of Surveying and Land Information, Faculty ofEngineering, The University of West Indies, St Augustinee-mail: sbaban2001@yahoo.com
fax:+1 868 6624414
tel.:+1 868 6622002 ext. 2108

The National Representative for Iran now has ane-mail address:
Iran/Iran
Dr M. K. Hafizi
Institute of Geophysics, Tehran University, Kargar
Shomali Ave, PO Box 14155-6466, Tehran, Irane-mail: hafizi@chamran.ut.ac.ir
fax:+98 21 8009560

The full list of IAHS National Representatives
can be found at:
http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs

Calendar of Meetings Organized/Sponsored by IAHS
Toronto, Canada
26–28 March
Essaouira,Morocco18–25 April
Visakhapatnam,
India
4–5 May
Visakhapatnam,
India
6–10 May
Dijon, France
9–11 May
St Petersburg,
Russia
6–8 June 2001
Sheffield, UK
18–21 June
Marseille, France
18–20 June

2001
Alina Martin, SAIC MS R-4-3, 11251 Roger Bacon Drive, Reston, Virginia 20190,
USA
tel.: +1 703 3184678; fax: +1 703 7360826; martinali@saic.com;
http://www.fracturedrock2001.org
Prof. A. Cheng, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
tel.: +1 302 8316787; fax: +1 302 8313640; cheng@ce.udel.edu;
http://www.ce.udel.edu/faculty/cheng/saltnet/swica
Prof. G. Krishna Rao, Dept of Geology, Andra University, Visakhapatnam 530003,
India
tel.: +91 891 754871 ext. 232 or 316; fax: +91 891 755547;
geokrsna@mdevanwateres.com; http://www.mdevanwateres.com
Prof. G. Krishna Rao, Dept of Geology, Andra University, Visakhapatnam 530003,
India
tel.: +91 891 754871 ext. 232 or 316; fax: +91 891 755547;
geokrsna@mdevanwateres.com;
http://www.mdevanwateres.com/symposium1.htm
Dr J. P. Carbonnel, Colloque OH2, Case 123, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris
Cedex 5, France
tel.: +33 1 44276326; fax: +33 1 44275125; jpc@biogeodis.jussieu.fr or
oh2@biogeodis.jussieu.fr; http://www.cilea.it/history/DHS/Oh2.htm
Dr Vadim Kuzmin, Scientific Secretary of the Organizing Committee, Departmentof Land Hydrology, Russian State Hydrometeorological University,
Malookhtinski 98, St Petersburg 195196, Russia
tel.: +7 812 5853608; kuzmin@rw.ru
Conference Secretariat GQ2001, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering,
University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
gq2001@sheffield.ac.uk; http://www.shef.ac.uk/~gq2001/
J. A. Tejada-Guibert, Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO, 1 Rue Miollis,
F-75732 Paris Cedex, France
fax: +33 1 45685811; symposium2001@unesco.org;
http://www.unesco.org/science/ihp/symposium2001/symposium2001.htm

Fractured Rock 2001: an International
Conference

SWICA-M3—First International Conference(and Workshops) on Saltwater Intrusion
and Coastal Aquifers: Monitoring,
Modelling and Management
Pre-symposium Workshop on HydrologicalApproaches for the Mitigation of Adverse
Impacts of Extreme Weather Events(Floods and Droughts)
Mahadevan Birth Centenary International
Symposium on Challenges of Water
Resources Management in the Developing
Countries in the 21st Century
OH2: First International Symposium on theOrigins and History of Hydrology

International Workshop on River Runoff:
Minima and Maxima

Groundwater Quality 2001: Third
International Conference on Groundwater
Quality
International Symposium on Frontiers in
Urban Water Management: Deadlock or
Hope?

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Innsbruck, Austria (1) Roland List; (2) Pierre Hubert, (1) Department of Physics, University ofToronto, Toronto M5S 1A7, Canada; (2) CIG, Ecole des Mines de Paris,
10–18 July
35 Rue Saint-Honoré, F-77305 Fontainebleau, France(5–8 days)
tel.: (1) +1 416 9782982; (2) +33 1 64694702; fax: (1) +1 416 9788905;(2) +33 1 64694703; listr@attcanada.ca
Porto Alegre, RS, Dr Carlos E. M. Tucci, Instituto de Pesquisas Hidráulicas, UFRGS, Av. Bento
BrazilGonçalves 9500, Caixa Postal 15029, CEP 91501-970 Porto Alegre, Brazil
10–12 Julytel.: +55 51 3166670; fax: +55 51 3166565; tucci@if.ufrgs.br;
http://galileu.iph.ufrgs.br/urb2001
Maastricht,
IAHS Maastricht 2001, c/o Conference Agency Limburg, PO Box 1402,
The Netherlands 6201 BK Maastricht, The Netherlands
18–27 Julytel.: +31 43 3619192; fax: +31 43 3619020; cal.conferenceagency@wxs.nl;
http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs
18 July
Dr Eric Servat, IRD-Hydrologie, BP 5045, F-34032 Montpellier Cedex, France
tel.: +33 4 67144990; fax: +33 4 67144989; eric.servat@mpl.ird.fr
19–20 July

19–20 July

19 July

20, 23 July

20 July

23–25 July

24 July

24–25 JulyDr Andreas Schumann, Ruhr University Bochum, Institute for Hydrology andWater Management, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
fax: +49 234 3214153; andreas.schumann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Prof. Herbert Lang, Institute for Climate Research, ETH-Z,
Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
tel.: +41 1 6355230; fax: +41 1 3625197; lang@geo.umnw.ethz.ch
Prof. Jacob de Vries, Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Earth Sciences,
De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tel.: +31 20 4447276; fax: +31 20 6462457; vrij@geo.vu.nl
Dr Paul Pilon, Monitoring Services Division, Atmospheric Environment Branch—
Ontario Region, 75 Farquhar Street, Guelph, Ontario N1H 3N4, Canada
tel.: +1 519 8234202; fax: +1 519 8262083; paul.pilon@ec.gc.ca
Dr Frans van Geer, The Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO,
PO Box 6012, 2600 JA Delft, The Netherlands
tel.: +31 15 2697135; fax: +31 15 2564800; f.vangeer@nitg.tno.nl
Dr Norman (Jake) E. Peters, US Geological Survey, Suite 130,3039 Amwiler Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30360-2824, USA
tel.: +1 770 9039145; fax: +1 770 9039199; nepeters@usgs.gov
Prof. Slobodan P. Simonovic, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B9, Canada
tel.: +1 519 6612111 ext. 88344; fax: +1 519 6613779; ssimonovic@eng.uwo.ca

IAMAS/IAHS Inter-Association Symposia:
Assessment of Liquid Precipitation from
Convective Systems

I Mercosul Urban Drainage Seminar and
V Brazilian Urban Drainage Seminar:
Solutions for Urban Drainage in Latin
America
Sixth Scientific Assembly of IAHS:
A New Hydrology for a Thirsty Planet

Symposium S1: Invited Lectures on WaterRelated Threats to Social and Economic
Developments
Symposium S2: Regional Management of
Water Resources
Workshop W4: High-Mountain Regions:Hydrological Processes and Cryospheric
Processes, Models and the Variability of
Available Water Resources; in Anticipationof the “Year of the Mountains 2002”
Workshop W6: Hydrogeological Evolution
in Coastal Lowlands: Role of Density- andCompaction-Driven Groundwater Flow
Workshop W1: Flood Forecasting with
Reference to Global ChangeWorkshop W7: Optimization of Monitoring
Strategies for Groundwater Quantity andQuality
Symposium S3/4: Impact of Human Activity
on Groundwater Dynamics

Workshop W3: The Role of Information
Technology in Sustainable Water
Resources Management: Case Studies
from Developed and Developing Regions
Dr Han Dolman, Alterra (formerly DLO—The Winand Staring Centre), PO Box 47, Symposium S5: Soil–Vegetation–
6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Atmosphere Transfer Schemes and Largescale Hydrological Models
tel.: +31 317 474304; fax: +31 317 424812; f.vangeer@nitg.tno.nl

26 July

Dr Jerry C. Ritchie, USDA-ARS Hydrology Laboratory, BARC-W, Bldg 007,
Room 104, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350, USA
tel.: +1 301 5047490; fax: +1 301 5048931; jritchie@asrr.arsusda.gov

26 July

Dr Anne Coudrain-Ribstein, Hydrosciences, Université de Montpellier II,
Case MSEM, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
tel.: +33 4 67149085; fax: +33 4 67144774; coudrain@msem.univ-montp2.fr

27 July28

Prof. Reinder Feddes, Chair Soil Physics, Agrohydrology and Groundwater
Management, Wageningen, Department of Environmental Sciences, Nieuwe
Kanaal 11, 6709 PA Wageningen, The Netherlands
tel.: +31 317 482875; fax: +31 317 484885; reinder.feddes@users.whh.wau.nl
Besançon, France Prof. Jacques Mudry, Département de Géosciences, UFR Sciences et
20–22 September Techniques, F-25030 Besançon, France
tel.: +33 3 81665753; fax: +33 3 81665794; jacques.mudry@univ-fcomte.fr;
http://karst.univ-fcomte.fr/
Koblenz, Germany Dr U. Schröder, Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, IHP/OHP Sekretariat,
25–27 September Postfach 200253, D-56002 Koblenz, Germany
tel.: +49 261 13065313; fax: +49 261 13065422; schroeder@bafg.de;
http://www.bafg.de/html/aktuell/hydrological_challenge.htm
Montpellier,
Dr Raoul Granger, National Water Research Institute, 11 Innovation Boulevard,
FranceSaskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 3H5, Canada
2–5 Octobertel.: +1 306 9755758; fax: +1 306 9755143; raoul.granger@ec.gc.ca

Workshop W5: Application of Geographic
Information Systems and Remote Sensing
for Quantifying Patterns of Erosion andWater Quality
Workshop W2: Hydrological Impacts ofLong-Term Exploitation and Climatic
Evolution: the Use of Tracers andModelling in Aquifer Systems
Concluding General Session: Threats andChallenges to Water Quantity and Quality
on a Thirsty Planet
Seventh Conference on Limestone
Hydrology and Fissured MediaInternational Conference on Hydrological
Challenges in Transboundary Water
Resources Management
International Workshop on Applications ofRemote Sensing in Hydrology

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Sunriver, Oregon, Prof. Jeff McDonnell, Department of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University,
USA
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5706, USA
8–12 Octobertel.: +1 541 7378720; fax: +1 541 7374316; jeff.mcdonnell@orst.edu
Kathmandu, Nepal Prof. A. Herrmann, Kathmandu IPM Conference, Institute of Geography andGeoecology, Technical University Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19c,
6–9 November
D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
tel.: +49 531 3915607; fax: +49 531 3918170; ipmktm@tu-bs.de;
http://www.tu-bs.de/institute/igg/physhyd/conference
2002
Berne,
International Conference on Flood Estimation, Federal Office for Water andSwitzerland
Geology, CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
6–8 March
tel.: +41 31 3247758; fax: +41 31 3247681; floodestimation@bwg.admin.ch;
http:/www.admin.ch/bww/d/news
Cape Town, South FRIEND 2002, Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, PO Box 94,
AfricaGrahamstown 6140, South Africa
18–22 Marchjuanita@iwr.ru.ac.za; http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr
Berkeley,
Dr Angelos Findikakis, Bechtel Systems & Infrastructure Inc.,
California, USA
Mail Stop 333/12/C34, PO Box 3965, San Francisco, California 94119-3965, USA
25–29 Marchtel.: +1 415 7688550; fax: +1 415 7684898; anfindik@bechtel.com;
http://anfindik@bechtel.com
Prague, Czech
Dr Zbynek Hrkal, Charles University, Faculty of Sciences, Institute ofRepublic
Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Applied Geophysics, Albertov 2,
128-43 Prague 2, Czech Republic
17–20 June
tel.: +420 2 21952211; fax: +420 2 21952180; hrkal@natur.cuni.cz
Cardiff, UK
Cherrie Summers, Hydroinformatics 2002 Secretariat, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Queen's Buildings, PO Box 917, Cardiff CF24 0XH, UK
1–5 July
tel./fax: +44 29 20874421; summersc@cardiff.ac.uk;
http://www.cf.ac.uk/engin/news/confs/hydroAlice Springs,
Dr Fiona Dyer, School of Resource, Environment and Heritage Sciences,
Australia
University of Canberra, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
2–6 September
tel.: +61 2 62012267; tel.: +61 2 62012328; fiona.dyer@canberra.edu.au
2003
Montpellier,
Dr Eric Servat, Centre IRD Hydrologie, BP 5045, F-34032 Montpellier Cedex,
FranceFranceApriltel.: +33 4 67917260; fax: +33 4 67547106; eric.servat@mpl.ird.fr
St Petersburg,
Dr Vadim Kuzmin, Department of Hydrology, Russian State Hydrometeorological
RussiaUniversity, Malookhtinski 98, St Petersburg 195196, Russia
Junetel.: +7 812 2242265; kuzmin@solaris.ru
Sapporo, JapanDr Kiyoshi Suyehiro, IUGG2003 LOC Office, Deep Sea Research Department,
Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC),
30 June–11 July
2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 237-0061, Japansuyehiro@jamstec.go.jp; www.jamstec.go.jp/jamstec-e/IUGG/indexe.html

AGU Chapman Conference on State of the
Art of Hillslope Hydrology
International Conference on Environmental
Risk Assessment of Pesticides andIntegrated Pesticide Management in
Developing Countries

International Conference on Flood
Estimation

FRIEND 2002: Fourth International
Conference on FRIEND— Bridging the
Gap between Research and PracticeBridging the Gap between Measurements
and Modelling in Heterogeneous Media:
International Groundwater Symposium
ModelCARE 2002: Fourth International
Conference on Calibration and Reliability in
Groundwater Modelling
Fifth International Conference on
Hydroinformatics

International Symposium on the Structure,
Function and Management Implications ofFluvial Sedimentary Systems
International Conference on the Hydrology
in the Mediterranean and Semiarid
Regions
International Symposium: Hydrological
Extremes: Theoretical and Applied Aspectsof Forecasting and Computations
XXIII IUGG General Assembly

IAHS Press Office
Mrs Penny Kisby[tel.: +44 1491 692288; fax: +44 1491 692448; penny@iahs.demon.co.uk]
Dr Cate Gardner[tel.: +44 1491 692288; fax: +44 1491 692448; cate@iahs.demon.co.uk]
Hydrological Sciences Journal
Mrs Frances Watkins[tel.: +44 1491 692405; fax: +44 1491 692448; frances@iahs.demon.co.uk]
Sales of Red Books and Special Publications
Mrs Jill Gash[tel.: +44 1491 692442; fax: +44 1491 692448; jilly@iahs.demon.co.uk]
IAHS Membership Secretary
Mrs Jill Gash[tel.: +44 1491 692442; fax: +44 1491 692448; jilly@iahs.demon.co.uk]

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Included with this issue were:
Catalogue of IAHS Publications 2001
Flyer on Publ. 261
Flyer on Publ. 264
2nd circular on Maastricht will probably also be distributed with this issue of theNewsletter30

International Association of Hydrological Sciences
Officers of IAHS elected for the period 1999–2003
President:
J. C. RODDA, UK (1995–2001)
President-Elect: K. TAKEUCHI, Japan (2001–2005)
Secretary General: P. HUBERT, France
Vice-Presidents: LARS GOTTSCHALK, Norway
L. OYEBANDE, Nigeria
C. E. M. TUCCI, Brazil
Editor:Z. W. KUNDZEWICZ, Poland
Treasurer:
C. A. ONSTAD, USA
Honorary President: A. I. JOHNSON, USA
Individual Membership
Individual membership of the Association is free and open
to anyone who endeavours to participate in IAHS activities,
such as IAHS symposia and workshops. Members infinancially disadvantaged countries may obtain 80%
discount on most IAHS publications. Members in othercountries may obtain 50% discount on Hydrological
Sciences Journal and 25% on other IAHS publications. For
further information on membership contact:
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK[tel.: +44 1491 692442; fax: +44 1491 692448;
jilly@iahs.demon.co.uk]

Information about IAHS may be found at the IAHS web
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http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahsor from the Secretary General:
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Ecole des Mines de Paris, F-77305 Fontainebleau, France[tel.: +33 1 64694740; fax: +33 1 64694703; iahs@ensmp.fr]

Scientific Commissions
Some Commissions have their own web site which can beaccessed through that of IAHS (see above). Information
about the activities of the Scientific Commissions of the
Association may be obtained from their Secretaries:
International Commission on Surface Water (ICSW)Contact: Prof. SIEGFRIED DEMUTH, Institute of Hydrology,
University of Freiburg, Fahnenbergplatz, D-79098 Freiburg, Germany[tel.: +49 761 2033538; fax: +49 761 2033594;
demuths@uni-freiburg.de;
http://www.uni-freiburg.de/hydrology/icsw]
International Commission on Groundwater (ICGW)Contact: Dr NORIO TASE, Institute of Geoscience, University ofTsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan[tel.: +81 298 534244; fax: +81 298 519764;
tase@atm.geo.tsukuba.ac.jp; http://www.envr.tsukuba.ac.jp/~ICGW]International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE)
Contact: Dr DIRK DE BOER, Department of Geography, Universityof Saskatchewan, 9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan S7N 5A5, Canada[tel.: +1 306 9665671; fax: +1 306 9665680;
deboer@duke.usask.ca; http://duke.usask.ca/~deboer/icce/]
International Commission on Snow and Ice (ICSI)
Contact: Dr GEORG KASER, Geographical Department, Universityof Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria[tel.: +43 512 5075407; fax: +43 512 5072895;
georg.kaser@uibk.ac.at; http://geowww.uibk.ac.at/research/icsi]
International Commission on Water Quality (ICWQ)
Contact: Prof. BRUCE WEBB, School of Geography andArchaeology, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter
EX4 4RJ, UK[tel.: +44 1392 263334; fax: +44 1392 263342;
b.w.webb@exeter.ac.uk; http://www.ex.ac.uk/~BWWebb/icwq]
International Commission on Water Resources Systems
Contact: Prof. ANDRÉ GÖRGENS, Department of Civil
Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1 Matieland,
Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa[tel.: +27 2231 8084356; fax: +27 2231 8084351;
agorgens@ing.sun.ac.za;
http://www.ce.umanitoba.ca/~simon/iahs/icwrs]
International Commission on Remote Sensing (ICRS)Contact: Dr ALAIN PIETRONIRO, National Water Research Institute, 11 Innovation Blvd, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 3H5, Canada[tel.: +1 306 9754394; fax: +1 306 9755143; al.pietroniro@ec.gc.ca;
http://hydrolab.arsusda.gov/~jritchie]International Commission on Atmosphere–Soil–Vegetation Relations(ICASVR)
Contact: Dr JIRKA SIMUNEK, US Salinity Laboratory, USDA,
ARS, 450 W. Big Springs Road, Riverside, California 92507, USA[tel.: +1 909 3694865; fax: +1 909 3424964;
jsimunek@ussl.ars.usda.gov]
International Commission on Tracers (ICT)Contact: Prof. CHRIS LEIBUNDGUT, Institute of Hydrology,
University of Freiburg, Fahnenbergplatz, D-79098 Freiburg, Germany[tel.: +49 761 2033531; fax: +49 761 2033594;
chrisle@uni-freiburg.de; http://www.lgih.ulg.ac.be/ict]

Hydrological Sciences Journal
The Association has produced a scientific journal since
1956—now called Hydrological Sciences Journal. As
well as scientific papers on all aspects of hydrology, theJournal contains announcements on worldwide hydrological activities organized or sponsored by IAHS, book reviews,
and a diary of forthcoming events. August sometimes
comprise a collection of papers on a single topic. These
Special Issues are available as separate publications.
Subscriptions: The full annual subscription rate (for six
issues) for 2001 is £148/US$230 (the price for members
in financially disadvantaged countries is £29.60 and theprice for other members is £74/US$115). Please sendorders for both current subscriptions, Special Issues andback issues to Frances at the address given below.
Contributions: The Editor welcomes original papers,scientific notes, and discussions in either English or French.
There is no page charge for papers less than 15 printed
pages in length. Please send material for publication to:
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Original papers will be screened by two referees, oneof whom is usually an Associate Editor. Instructions toAuthors are available from Frances.
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Since 1924 the Association has published proceedings ofsymposia and workshops, and reports from working
groups. These publications comprise the well established“Red Book” Series of Proceedings and Reports. In 1989
the first of a series of Special Publications was published.
Publications in this series have an A4 format, a blue
cover, and do not generally exceed 100 pages. Please
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jilly@iahs.demon.co.uk]

Standing orders: By placing a standing order, customers
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International Hydrology Prize
An International Hydrology Prize is awarded annually to anindividual in recognition of an outstanding contribution to thescience. Nominations for the prize are made by National
Committees and forwarded to the Secretary General for consideration by the Nominations Committee. Details of the criteria
considered for the award are found on the IAHS web site.

Tison Award
The Tison Fund provides an annual prize of US$1000 (plus a
year’s free subscription to Hydrological Sciences Journal!). The
Tison Award is granted for an outstanding paper published by
IAHS in the two years before the deadline for nominations. The
rules are found on the IAHS web site. Nominations should bereceived by the Secretary General not later than 31 December
each year. Candidates must be under 41 years of age at the time
their paper was published.