Preface: Japanese Special Issue Volume 5. Seeking for politically relevant hydrology and water resources

✍ Scribed by Professor E. Nakakita; Dr K. Nishiyama; Dr Y. Hideshima; Dr D. Matsushima; Dr K. Ishikawa; Professor S. Kazama; Professor H. Matsuyama; Professor M. Kanda; Professor H. Chikamori; Professor Y. Kido; Professor J. Kubota; Dr T. Sumi; Professor M. Yamada; Professor M. Murakami; T. Nakamura; Dr B. Jeremy; P. Smith; Professor T. Ujibashi; Professor M. Taniguchi; Dr T. Kuwagata; Professor A. Kondoh; Yosuke Yamashiki; Professor Takeshi Ohta

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6087
• DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5742

✦ Synopsis

This Hydrological Processes (HYP) special issue of the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources (herein referred as HYP-JSI Volume 5) has been published under the editorial board of the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources (JSHWR).

The HYP-JSI records its fifth anniversary since its first publication in 1999. We have published at least one volume per year of HYP-JSI as Hydrological Processes 14(3) (HYP-JSI Volume 1), Hydrological Processes 15(11) (HYP-JSI Volume 2), Hydrological Processes 16(11) (HYP-JSI Volume 3), Hydrological Processes 17(14) (HYP-JSI Volume 4). The first two volumes were produced with the aim of disseminating applications of Japanese research related to hydrological processes: 17 technical papers were selected from among more than 30 technical papers for HYP-JSI Volume 1. The focus of the papers also included water resources issues in addition to the hydrological processes from the beginning, as the JSHWR also deals with issues concerning water resources. In HYP-JSI Volume 3 we extended our focus into policy papers to direct Japanese-related water policy issues, with the aim to disseminate this information prior to the 3rd World Water Forum (WWF3; Kyoto Forum) in 2003. More than 150 copies of HYP-JSI Volume 3, featuring a policy paper provided by the organizers of WWF3 as its cover paper, were distributed at the WSSD Johannesburg Conference organized prior to the WWF3 meeting held in Kyoto, 2003.

After the forum, the JSHWR underwent a historical event with the establishment of the Asia Pacific Association of Hydrology and Water Resources (APHW), led by the former president of JSHWR (Professor Katsunori Mushiake). Two international APHW meetings have such been organized: one in Kyoto, in March 2003, and the other in Singapore, in July 2004. The third meeting is scheduled to be organized in Thailand in 2006 with the cooperation of AIT. In HYP-JSI Volume 4 we presented the invited political note provided by the president of APHW as the cover paper.

The HYP-JSI Volume 5 follows the overall historical development of the past volumes. We invited a political note the president of UNESCO-IHP, which covers the intergovernmental hydrological project known as PUBs (Prediction of Ungauged Basins) and GWSP (Global Water System Project). And one policy-related original paper on the action plan of San Joan River basin, shared by Costa Rica and Nicaragua in Central America, and written by Japanese authors, is presented to focus and raise discussion on the management of the basin.

Twelve original technical papers followed these two policy-related papers: (1) Bias correction of daily precipitation measurements for Mongolia. (2) Experimental analysis of moisture dynamics of litter layers: the effects of rainfall conditions and leaf shapes; (3) A general method of parameterizing the big-leaf model to predict the dry-canopy evaporation rate of individual coniferous forest stands; (4) Numerical simulation of water quality response to nutrient loading and sediment resuspension in Mikawa Bay, Central Japan: quantitative evaluation of the effects of nutrient reduction measures on algal blooms; (5) Water resources assessment in a poorly gauged mountainous catchment using a geographical information system and remote sensing; (6) Applying wavelet transforms to analyse aircraft-measured turbulence and turbulent fluxes in the atmospheric boundary layer over eastern Siberia; (7) Response properties of atmospheric turbulence measurement instruments using Russian research aircraft; (8) Application of a distributed hydrological