RAHU Project: Assessing water security and climate change adaptation strategies in the glaciated Vilcanota-Urubamba river basin

• Autores: Rau, Pedro, Buytaert, W., Drenkhan, Fabian, Lavado-Casimiro, W., Jimenez, Juan C., Montoya, Nilton, Bonnesoeur, Vivien, Valdivia, Gustavo, Cachay, Walescka, Goyburo, Andres, Risco Sence, Eber, Abad, Jorge, Mackay, Jon, Hannah, David, Barrand, Nicholas, Siegert, Martin, Macera, Briggitte, Bueno, Marcelo, Baca, Carlos, Gianella, Cecilia
• Formato: objeto de conferencia
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú
• Repositorio: SENAMHI-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.senamhi.gob.pe:20.500.12542/1020
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12542/1020; https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-11040
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Cambio Climático; Glaciares; Cuencas; Análisis de Seguridad; Evaluación de Riesgos; Recursos Hídricos; Desarrollo de Recursos Hídricos; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.11; abastecimiento de agua potable - Agua

The Peruvian Andes are a hotspot of vulnerabilities to impacts in water resources due to the propensity for water stress, the highly unpredictable weather, the sensitivity of glaciers, and the socio-economic vulnerability of its population. In this context, we selected the Vilcanota-Urubamba catchment in Southern Peru for addressing these challenges aiming at our objectives within a particular hydrological high-mountain context in the tropical Andes: a) Develop a fully-distributed, physically-based glacier surface energy balance model that allows for a realistic representation of glacier dynamics in glacier melt projections; b) Design and implement a glacio-hydrological monitoring and data collection approach to quantify non-glacial contributions to water resources and the impact of catchments interventions; c) Mapping of human water use at high spatiotemporal resolution and determining current and future levels of water (in)security; and d) Integrate last objectives in a glacier - water security assessment model and evaluate the tool's capacity to support locally embedded climate change adaptation strategies.