HYDROLOGY OF THE INDUS BASIN, PAKISTAN

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HYDROLOGY OF THE INDUS BASIN, PAKISTAN

• GIS TERM PROJECT
• BY
• ELIZABETH OJEH
• 30TH NOVEMBER, 2006

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OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Data sources and data collection
• Procedure
• Analysis / future work

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Introduction

• A Trans-boundary River
• A water stressed region
• Indus and 6 Major tributaries
• 2 major storage reservoirs (gt10)
• 15 barrages to divert water for irrigation
• Groundwater over exploited

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• Pictures courtesy Google Earth

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Appreciation of the Indus River

• 12th Largest river in the world
• Drainage Basin 9.7 x 105 Km2
• Deltaic Area (2 x 104 Km2) 7th in the world
• Annual water runoff of 2 x 1011 m3 (10th)
• Annual sediment discharge 2 x 1011 Kg/yr (6th)

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Climate - Rainfall

• Maps from AN ASSESMENT OF WATER RESOURCES
  AVAILABLE FOR IRRIGATION IN THE INDUS BASIN AND
  SOME RELATED ISSUES files

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Temperature

• Map courtesy maps.wunderground.com

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Data sources

• Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
  http//srtm.usgs.gov/
• GTOPO30 - 30 arc-second cell (11,000,000 scale)
  global DEM
• Hydro1K hydrologic derivative datasets from
  GTOPO30
• Global Water and Energy Experiment (GEWEX)
  http//www.gewex.org/
• Climate
• National Climate Data Center http//www.ncdc.noaa.
  gov/
• NCDC Climate Data Online http//cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov

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Procedure
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Flow accumulation
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Stream Link
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Drainage Lines
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Drainage Lines Converted to Features
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New Drainage Lines
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Problem still
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Fragmented Basin
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This is Where I am now!
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HELP

• QUESTIONS