Santiago Penedo Julien,Annika Künne,Rachel Bardy Prado,Azeneth Schuler,Jackson Roehrig,Lars Ribbe, Fachhochschule Köln e Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, , santiago.penedo@fh-koeln.de
Abstract
Hydrology and water quality are dependent on many factors including climate, soil conditions, land use and land management. However, relative impacts of different land uses on hydrology and water quality are yet to be ascertained and quantified. A hydro-climatic monitoring network was designed and put into place in the Guapi-Macacu basin (1,265 km²) located in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) within the Atlantic Forest biome. Three sub-watersheds with different land use distributions were selected as test areas where meteorological variables (precipitation, temperature, air humidity), water level together with water quality parameters are being measured. The collected data will be used to model the hydrology and the water quality using the J2000 and J2000-S models respectively.
Keywords: Hydro-climatic monitoring, hydrology, water quality, modelling, Brazil