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Soil Erosion Modeling in the 3S Basin of the Mekong River Basin

  • Thuy, Hoang Thu (Graduate student of Department of Construction & Disaster Prevention Engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Lee, Giha (Department of Construction & Disaster Prevention Engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Yu, Wansik (International Water Resources Research Institute, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Shin, Yongchul (School of Agricultural Civil & Bio-Industrial Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
  • Received : 2017.04.05
  • Accepted : 2017.06.26
  • Published : 2017.07.01
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Abstract

The 3S Basin is described as an important contributor in terms of many aspects in the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia. However, the 3S Basin has been suffering adverse consequences of changing discharge and sediment, which are derived from farming, deforestation, hydropower dam construction, climate change, and soil erosion. Consequently, a large population and ecology system that live along the 3S Basin are seriously affected. Accordingly, the calculating and simulating discharge and sediment become ever more urgent. There are many methods to simulate discharge and sediment. However, most of them are designed only during a single rainfall event and they require many kinds of data. Therefore, this study applied a Catchment-scale Soil Erosion model (C-SEM) to simulate discharge and sediment in the 3S Basin. The simulated results were judged with others references's data and the observed discharge of Strung Treng station, which is located in the mainstream and near the outlet of the 3S Basin. The results revealed that the 3S Basin distributes 31% of the Mekong River Basin's total discharge. In addition, the simulated sediment results at the 3S Basin's outlet also substantiated the importance of the 3S Basin to the Mekong River Basin. Furthermore, the results are also useful for the sustainable management practices in the 3S Basin, where the sediment data is unavailable.

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