桃園台地都會與海岸帶關鍵區之時空特徵跨域鏈結研究-桃園台地都會與海岸帶關鍵區之時空特徵跨域鏈結研究(總計畫)

Locating in the deformation fronts, the intensive land processes have created landscape diversity over the island of Taiwan. The land processes and geomorphology associate with the climate variations, land-use dynamics, andwater resources allocation can further enhance the complexity of land surface water, heat and mass interactions. Reservoir Shihmen has been operated over 50 years and is located at the tream of Daham River. A total of 55% reservoir outflow is allocated out of the Daham River Basin to support irrigation and industrial/domestic water usages at the Taoyuan tableland. The trans-basin water allocation and thousands of irrigation ponds over the Taoyuan tableland create unique landscape characteristics in Taoyuan tableland and the downstream coastal zones. Such intensively managed landscapes, regions of significant land use change, serve as sources of economic prosperity. However, the intensity of land use change is responsible for unintended eterioration of our land and water environments in Taoyuan tableland. Understanding the dynamics of water, heat, and mass interactions and dynamics in the area is fundamental to clarify the influences of landscape evolution on heat, water, and mass transport in critical zones in Taoyuan tableland and coastal areas. The interdisciplinary research project links the research efforts in the fields of landscape evolution, socialeconomic development, hydrology, atmospheric, geology, and geophysical sciences. The proposed three-year integrated project: Trans-disciplinary research on characterizing spatio-temporal variations of critical zones in Taoyuan tableland