Mr Calum Baugh

Geography (PhD)

Area of research

Simulating the floodplain wetting and drying processes for a reach of the Amazon river, Brazil

calum.baugh@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

My research aims to simulate the floodplain wetting and drying processes of a 200 x 300 km reach of the Amazon river situated 250 km upstream from Manaus, Brazil. Accurately simulating these processes is important for understanding the precise role of the floodplain in transferring the annual Amazon River flood pulse from the upstream end down to its mouth. This transfer impacts upon the biogeochemical cycle of the Amazon basin, for example through the evasion of CO₂ and CH₄, which is hypothesised to affect the global climate (Richey et al., 2002). The aim therefore of the project, of ...

Biography

Oct 2010 - Present
PhD Student - School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol

October 2009 - September 2010
MSc by Research ("The Impact of Climate Change upon the Snowmelt Hydrology of an Upland UK Catchment") - Department of Geography, University of Durham

October 2006 - July 2009
BSc (Physical Geography) - Department of Geography, University of Durham

Recent publications

Yamazaki, D, Baugh, CA, Bates, PD, Kanae, S, Alsdorf, DE & Oki, T. ‘Adjustment of a spaceborne DEM for use in floodplain hydrodynamic modelling’, Journal of Hydrology, 436?437, (pp. 81-91), 2012