Anthropogenic and climatic controls on meandering river morphodynamics

Description of the granted funding

The accelerating climate change together with the global population growth put major pressure on the fresh waters worldwide. Understanding how rivers respond to environmental factors, such as flooding, climatological changes, or discharge control, and how these affect the long-term riverine changes, is essential in selecting right river and land-use management measures and in climate change adaptation. Recent technological improvements of measurement and analysis methods allow studying river systems with higher detail and extent than has been earlier possible. In AnthroCLiMocs we combine 3D field observations, air-borne data and computational modelling in various spatial and temporal scales to provide new understanding on how climatological and anthropogenic factors affect the meandering river processes and channel changes. The results of this study will enable fostering of more sustainable and nature-based river- and land use management for meandering river basins.
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Starting year

2023

End year

2027

Granted funding

Elina Kasvi Orcid -palvelun logo
669 737 €

Funder

Research Council of Finland

Funding instrument

Academy research fellows

Decision maker

Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering
16.05.2023

Other information

Funding decision number

355018

Fields of science

Geosciences

Research fields

Geoinformatiikka

Identified topics

climate change, resilience, adaptation