Degree: PhD (Hydrology)

Title of the thesis: Integrating basin scale hydrological models with detailed floodplain hydrodynamic models in the Congo Basin

Year of Registration: 2017

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Pierre Kabuya is a third year PhD research scholar at the Institute for Water Research (IWR), originating from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He obtained his honours degree in Soil and Water Management in the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences of the University of Kinshasa (DRC) and he proceeded to study a Master degree in Surface Water Hydrology at the Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee).

His current ongoing PhD work focuses on the integration of the basin scale hydrological models with detailed floodplain hydrodynamic models. This is achieved through the development of regionalised hydrological indices for prediction in ungauged sub-basins of the Congo Basin. The Predicted hydrological simulations (PITMAN model) are used to drive hydrodynamic models (LISFLOOD-FP) in wetland-impacted sub-basins in order to account for the channel-wetland exchange processes. These exchanges are parameterised through the use of the PITMAN wetland sub-model which is connected to the main hydrological PITMAN model to simulate the wetland downstream hydrological regime.

It is expected that the developed approach will contribute to the reduction of the uncertainties associated with the hydrological simulations in regions of the Congo Basin where massive wetland systems substantially affect the wetland downstream flow regimes.

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