Cooperation Organization: University of Louvain (Belgium), Belgium Flemish Institute for Technological Research.

　　Project period: 2005-2010

　　Main Progress Results:

　　Main achievement of the project is to construct a regionalized surface water model for Tarim River Basin, which can be used for the Decision Support System and making an analysis of alternatives for the water resource management. This model is a kind of software developed by programming the rainfall runoff sub-model algorithm based on the application of Microsoft Excel Visual Basic and integrating the model for river and canal network of Mike 11 (DHI Water Resource and Environment Research Institute)

　　Specific models and data are mainly as follows:

　　1、Integrated Database for the Tarim River Basin Hydrology, which includes station statistics about rainfall, amount of evaporation, soil moisture, flow rate, groundwater observation well, and reservoir level; remote sensing data about rainfall, amount of evaporation, soil moisture, land use, topographic map, river and canal network; spatial data about water scheduling and river as well as canal network.

　　2、Earth Observation Product, which includes rainfall, amount of evaporation, soil

　　moisture and so on that are regarded as the input data of hydrological model; 

　　updated land use data; and forecasting of variation trends of historical land-use

　　map.

　　3、Long-time sequence data for quality control of lumped (sub-basin average) rainfall and evapotranspiration, and data on flow rate for lumped rainfall-runoff simulation; and sequence data on soil moisture for model verification.

　　4、Frequency model of flood and drought applies to forecast flood and drought; lumped conceptual rainfall runoff model in sub-basins that has been calibrated and enclosed with measurement and calculation data, and regionalization model in sub-basins without data.

　　5、

　　River and irrigation channel network Mike11 Model of Tarim River Basin.

　　6、Mike-She demonstration model of Tarim River sub-basins; suggestions on the research of distributed hydrologic model and ecology-hydrology interaction.

　　7、Mike 11 river flood demonstration model; suggestions on hydrodynamic model of river flood in Tarim River Basin.

　　8、Training and instruction of skills in hydrological modeling to the Chinese partners, and strengthening and integration of on-going research work used for water resource management and decision support system in future.

　　In September of this year, the evaluation of those cooperation projects between the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China and Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, held in Beijing, granted this project the excellent project. On 3rd December, the project closing meeting was held in the institute, and the responsible person of both parties of this project concluded the research results in the first stage and discussed about the research content of the second stage.