Table of contents
Forewords
Acknowledgernent
Preface
Introduction
General View of the W AVES Prograrn
Thomas Gaiser, Luiz Gonzaga Rebouças Ferreira and Karl Stahr
Part 1: Integrative
1
Methods and Results
Integrated Scenarios of Regional Developrnent in Ceará and Piauí
19
Petra Dali, Maarten Krol, Dagmar Fuhr, Thomas Gaiser, Joachim Herfort,
Sabine Hõynck, Annekathrin Jaeger, Christoph Külls, E. Mario
Mendiondo, Andreas Printz and Susanne Voerkelius
Integrated Modeling of Clirnate Change Impacts in Northeastern
Maarten S. Krol, Ann-Kathrin Jaeger and Axel Bronstert
The GIS-Based Model for Sustainable
(MOSDEL)
Andreas Printz and Ruth Lang
Part 2: Natural
Ceará
and Socio-Econornic
Developrnent
ofLand
Brazil .....43
Use
57
Conditions
The Clirnate of Piauí and Ceará
Peter C. Werner and Friedrich-Wilhelm
in the States of Piauí and
81
Gerstengarbe
Water Resources of Ceará and Piauí
Horst Frischkorn, José Carlos Araújo, Maria Marlúcia F. Santiago
87
Physical and Environrnental Context in the State of Ceará
Marcos José Nogueira de Souza and Vladia Pinto Vidal de Oliveira
95
Survey of the Vegetation in the State of Ceará
105
Carlos Lineu Frota Bezerra, Eliedir Ribeiro da Cunha Trigueiro, Antonio
Alberto Jorge Farias Castro and Antônio Sérgio Farias Castro
Survey of the Vegetation in the State of Piaui..
Antonio Alberto Jorge Farias Castro
Degradation Factors in a Risk-Prone Area: the Semiarid Northeast of
Brazil
Hartmut Gaese
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125
Part 3: Climate Scenarios and Climate Modeling
Climate Analysis and Scenarios for Northeast Brazil
Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe and Peter C. Werner
137
Dynamic Regional Climate Modeling and Sensitivity Experiments for the
Northeast of Brazil
153
Uwe Bõhm, Friedrich- Wilhelm Gerstengarbe, Detlef Hauffe, Martin
Kücken, Hermann Ôsterle and Peter.C. Werner
Part 4: Water Availability, Water Management and Water Use
Investigations on Water Management and Water Quality in Picos/PI and
Tauá/CE
173
Susanne Voerkelius, Christoph Külls, Maria Marlúcia F. Santiago, Horst
Frischkorn, Ligia Alves dos Santos Sernrau, Gerold Heinrichs, Margarita
M. López Gil
Water Quality in the Guaribas River Basin for Irrigation Use
185
Décio Frota, Margarita M. López Gil, Airton Ramalho, Francisco Dantas
and Vladira Vieira
Groundwater as Indicator for Paleoclimatic Change in the Northeast of
Brazil
Horst Frischkorn, Maria Marlúcia F. Santiago and Markus Forster
193
Sedimentation of Reservoirs in Semiarid Brazil..
205
José Carlos de Araújo, Lia Fernandes, José Christiano Machado Júnior,
Márcia Regina Lima Oliveira and Tácito Cunha Sousa
Large-Scale Hydrological Modeling of a Semiarid Environment: Model
Development, Validation and Application
Andreas Güntner and Axel Bronstert
217
Reservoir Yield Vulnerability Under Global Change
229
José Nilson Beserra Campos, Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart and
Patrícia Freire Chagas
Modeling of Present and Future Water Use in Piauí and Ceará as a Basis
for Water Resources Planning
239
Petra DõU, Maike Hauschild, E. Mario Mendiondo and Jose Carlos de
Araújo
Assessment of Water Costs in Semiarid Brazil..
José Carlos de Araújo, Cláudia Beghini Rodrigues Abreu, Cláudio
Pacheco Barbosa and Elano Lamartine Leão Joca
253
Part 5: AgricuItural Productivity and Soils
An Information System for Land Resources in Piauí and Ceará
267
Thomas Gaiser, Frieder Graef, Thomas H. Hilger, Luiz G.R. Ferreira and
Karl Stahr
Effectiveness of Fertilization and Other AgricuItural Management Options
in Picos and Tauá, NE Brazil
279
Joachim Herfort, Inacio de Barros, Luiz Gonzage Rebouças Ferreira,
Thomas Gaiser, Leonhard Schneider, Bettina Bach and Thomas Hilger
Seepage and Groundwater Recharge in Sandy/Loamy Chapada Soils of the
Picos Region, Piauí
291
Frank-Michael Lange, Dietrich Halm and Thomas Gaiser
Part 6: Vegetation and Landscape Ecology
Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in the Municipality of Tauá-Ceará .. 305
Vládia Pinto Vidal de Oliveira, Andreas Printz, Stephan Schmidt and
Carlos Lineu Frota Bezerra
Cerrado and Caatinga in the Picos Area
323
Antonio Alberto Jorge Farias Castro, Andreas Printz, Maura Rejane de
Araújo Mendes, Francisco de Assis Rodrigues Soares, José Orlando
Soares Oliveira, Rigoberto Sousa Albino, Frank-Michael Lange and Ruth
Raquel Soares de Farias
Climate and Desertification in the Picos Region
M. C. L. Sales, V.M. Ramos and lG.B. de Oliveira
335
Part 7: Economic and Socio-Cultural Analyses
Quality of Life and Migration - Concepts and Results of the Socioeconomic Survey in Tauá and Picos
Dagmar Fuhr with contributions from Martin Grebe, Andreas Dõring,
Francisco Matias da Rocha and Ernst-Dieter Lantermann
349
Economic Analysis of Different Farming Systems on the Individual Farm
LeveI in the Northeast of Brazil
361
Bettina Bach, Maria Irles de Oliveira Mayorga and Jürgen Zeddies
Structure and Possible Development of the Agricultural Sector of Ceará
and Piauí
Sabine Hõynck
Groundwater Supply Conditions and WiUingness To Pay for Desalinated
Water in Tauá (Brazil)
José César Vieira Pinheiro, Luiz Artur Clemente da Silva, Marcelo
Theophilo Folhes and Manuel-Osório de Lima Viana
375
389
Part 8: Supporting Mathematical Tools
Visualization and 3-D Analysis of Sedimentation in Water Reservoirs
401
C. A. Vidal, N. J. B. Cavalcante, J. C. Araújo, A. S. Silva and E. A. Silva
Effectiveness of Parallelization
Applied to Large-Scale Linear
Mauro C. Pequeno, Clécio
Linhares, Kíssia Carvalho,
and Vitor Santos
Authors and Affiliations
of Solution and Optimization Algorithms
Problems for the W AVES Project..
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A. T. Fontelles, Valdísio Viana, Andréa
Alinson Donato, Auler Sousa, Rodrigo Ribeiro
425