Hydropower potential in the upper Indus basin under future hydro-climatology
The hydropower potential in the upper Indus basin under future hydro-climatology was prepared using the Hydropower Potential Exploration (HyPE) as part of Work Package 2 in the SustainIndus project. Under future hydro-climatology, the HyPE model was run to explore theoretical potential followed by technical, financial and sustainable potential under policy assumptions for the mixed energy focus scenarios and risk-averse geo-hazard risk representation. In total, 72 future scenarios are considered combining CMIP6 model ensembles for 2 future time horizons (Mid: 2036-2065, Far: 2066-2095), 3 Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP 4.5, 7.0 and 8.5), 4 corner Global Climate Models for each RCP (Cold Dry, Cold Wet, Warm Dry, Warm Wet) and 3 Hydropower Potential classes (Technical, financial and sustainable).
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2023-11-20
- Purpose
- The dataset shows the change in theoretical, technical, financial and sustainable hydropower potential available for exploitation under future hydro-climatology. They provide a basis for considering climate resilience in plans and policies for sustainable hydropower development.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- future hydropower potential
- sustainable hydropower
- historical hydrology
- theoretical potential
- technical potential
- financial potential
- sustainable potential
- climate change
- Keywords ( Place )
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- Upper Indus
- Afghanistan
- India
- Pakistan
- Kabul
- Swat
- Indus Main
- Jhelum
- Chenab
- Ravi
- Beas
- Satluj
- Use limitation
- Made available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY 4.0). Suggested citation: Dhaubanjar, S. (2023). Hydropower potential in the upper Indus basin under future hydro-climatology [Data set]. ICIMOD, Utrecht University. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1973697. The associated paper for viewing and citation: https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2023.1256249
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- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
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- Text, table
- Metadata language
- eng
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- OnLine resource
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Indus Knowledge Partnership Platform (IKPP)
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The IKPP platform consolidates various dataset available for the Indus basin on hydrology, climate change, renewable energy resources and water-energy-food security.
- OnLine resource
- SustainIndus ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- File identifier
- a52f9272-37d8-4c9c-a51c-3ada5810a0d5 XML
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- eng
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- Date stamp
- 2025-04-09T16:23:22
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003