Journal Article

FerryBox： Using Automated Water Measurement Systems to Monitor Water Quality： Perspectives for the Yangtze River and Three Gorges Dam

Carsten Frank Friedhelm Schroeder Wilhelm Petersen

2010

Overview

The building of the Three Gorges Dam （Hubei （湖北） Province, China） has transformed a region with an economy based on sustainable agriculture for millennia into an entirely different environment within an exceptionally short time. This disrupts the natural biogeochemieal cycles of carbon, nutrients, and metals and possibly will affect the whole catchment including downstream ecosystems, such as wetlands, estuaries, deltas, and adjacent sea areas. Starting from changes that have already been documented, this article concentrates on the possible use of a ＂FerryBox＂, which is an automated water quality measurement system on board a ship or on shore, to monitor the short and long term development of the quality of the river water in the backwater area and downstream of the dam. While there are already research programmes running to monitor the water quality of the river and the backwater area, these programs are limited to ship campaigns with sampling and laboratory analysis. The spatial and temporal resolution of

• Subject: 可持续农业 / 时间分辨率 / 水质评价 / 监测 / 自动供水 / 自动测量系统 / 计量系统 / 长江三峡大坝