Large scale flood inundation of Cambodia, using Caesar lisflood

  • Sou, Senrong (Dept. of Civil Eng., Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kim, Joo-Cheol (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Lee, Hyunsoek (HQ Tech) ;
  • Ly, Sarann (Dept. of Rural Engineering, Institute of Technology of Cambodia) ;
  • Lee, Giha (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Jung, Kwansue (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Chungnam National University)
  • Published : 2015.05.27

Abstract

Mekong River is the world's $10^{th}$ longest river and runs through China's Yunnan province, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. And Tonle Sap Lake, the largest fresh water body in Southeast Asia and the heart of Mekong River system, covers an area $2,500-3,000Km^2$ in dry season and $10,000-16,000Km^2$ in wet season. As previously noted, the water within Sap river flows from the Mekong River to Tonle Sap Lake in flood season (between June and October) and backward to Mekong River in dry season. Recently the flow regime of Sap River might be significantly affected by the development of large dams in upstream region of Mekong River. This paper aims at basic study about the large scale flood inundation of Cambodia using by CAESAR-Lisflood. CAESAR-Lisflood is a geomorphologic / Landscape evolution model that combines the Lisflood-FP 2d hydrodynamic flow model (Bates et al, 2010) with the CAESAR geomorphic model to simulate flow hydrograph and erosion/deposition in river catchments and reaches over time scales from hours to 1000's of years. This model is based on the simplified full Saint-Venant Equation so that it can simulate the interacted flow of between Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake especially focusing on the flow direction change of Sap River by season.

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