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Mekong River Commission Hydrological, Environmental and Socio-Economic Modelling Tools for the Lower Mekong Basin Impact Assessment Water Utilisation Programme WUP-FIN Phase II Working Paper No.2 – Thailand Applications April 2005 Juha Sarkkula, Jorma Koponen, Marko Keskinen, Matti Kummu, Mira K?k?nen, Hannu Lauri, Jussi Nikula, Olli Varis, Noora Veijalainen, and Markku Virtanen Finnish Environment Institute EIA Ltd. Helsinki University of Technology Mechelininkatu 34a Tekniikantie 21 B Water Resources Laboratory 00260 Helsinki 02150 Espoo Tietotie 1E Finland Finland 02150 Espoo, Finland Tel: +358-9-403 000 Tel: +358-9-7001 8680 Tel: +358-9-451 3821 Fax: +358-9-40300 390 Fax: +358-9-7001 8682 Fax: +358-9-451 3856 www.environment.fi/syke www.eia.fi www.water.hut.fi/wr juha.sarkkula@environment.fi jorma.koponen@eia.fi marko.keskinen@hut.fi The opinions and interpretations expressed within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Mekong River Commission. Table of contents Table of contents 3 Table of Figures and TAbles 3 1 Project objectives 5 1.1 Objectives of WUP-FIN phase II 5 1.2 Main tasks of the project 6 2 background 8 3 Institutional arrangements 10 4 Data and data collection 12 5 Model setup 15 5.1 Model purpose and justification 15 5.2 Model coverage 15 5.3 Grid specifications 17 5.4 Model parameters 17 5.5 Input data 19 5.6 Computational characteristics 19 5.7 Status of the application and future work plan 19 6 Socio-economic studies and plans 21 7 Training (core team, on-the-job, university, research support) 22 appendix A: Publications, reports and presentations 24 Publications 24 Reports 25 Presentations 25 References 27 Table of Figures and TAbles Figure 1. Locationof the Nam Songkhram basin 9 Figure 2. The scope of the three models: VMod (yellow line), 3D (- . -) and HBV (---). 16 Figure 3. The VMod model application for Nam Songkhram basin. 16 Figure 4. The grid elevations in the 3D model application for the