Speaker｜Dr. Kabir Rasouli (Climate Change and Hydrology Scientist, Stantec Inc., British Columbia Institute of Technology)
Date｜3rd May 2024
Time｜11:00 – 12:00 noon (GMT+8)
Language｜English
Register｜https://rb.gy/22b5jj

ABSTRACT
Mountains are experiencing climate warming with amplification at more than twice the global rate. Recent warming trends have altered alpine snowpacks and groundwater storage, which prolong spring runoff and dampen flood volumes, respectively. Because of complex interactions and feedbacks between flow, vegetation, and erosion and deposition processes in alpine environments, monitoring the changes is challenging. Over the past decade, a new understanding of extreme events attribution to climate change has been emerging based on detailed field and remotely sensed observations and the development of process based hydrologic models. My research integrates observations to high resolution modeling methods, to better understand past, current, and future states of climate and rivers. In this seminar, I discuss advances in physically based understanding and diagnosis of hydrologic changes. This seminar will address this key question: How will hydrologic processes across landform, reach, and catchment scales respond to a combination of human-induced non-climatic (e.g., forest disturbance) and climatic forcings? The ultimate goal is to improve our knowledge of how climate change will affect water flow and geohazards risks in mountain environments.