Water quality modelling of the Mekong River basin: Climate change and socioeconomics drive flow and nutrient flux changes to the Mekong Delta

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 673; pp. 218 - 229
• Main Authors: Whitehead, P.G., Jin, L., Bussi, G., Voepel, H.E., Darby, S.E., Vasilopoulos, G., Manley, R., Rodda, H., Hutton, C., Hackney, C., Tri, Van Pham Dang, Hung, N.N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 10.07.2019
• Subjects: air pollution; ammonia; carbon; Climate change; climate models; drought; economic development; highlands; Himalayan region; hydrologic models; Land use change; Mekong River; Modelling; monsoon season; nitrates; nitrogen; Nutrients; population growth; reactive phosphorus; river deltas; rivers; sea level; Socioeconomic change; socioeconomics; temperature; total phosphorus; United Kingdom; Vietnam; Vietnam Delta; water quality; watersheds; Himalayan region; United Kingdom; Vietnam; Mekong River; Climate change; Socioeconomic change; Land use change; Nutrients; Modelling; Mekong River; Vietnam Delta

The Mekong delta is recognised as one of the world's most vulnerable mega-deltas, being subject to a range of environmental pressures including sea level rise, increasing population, and changes in flows and nutrients from its upland catchment. With changing climate and socioeconomics there is...