标题: Hydrologic impacts of cascading reservoirs in the middle and lower Hanjiang River basin under climate variability and land use change

作者: Zhang, X (Zhang, Xiao); Yang, H (Yang, Hong); Zhang, WS (Zhang, Wanshun); Fenicia, F (Fenicia, Fabrizio); Peng, H (Peng, Hong); Xu, GH (Xu, Gaohong)

来源出版物: JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY-REGIONAL STUDIES 卷: 44 文献号: 101253 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101253 出版年: DEC 2022

摘要: Study region: Middle and lower Hanjiang River (MLHR) basin, China.

Study focus: Changes in streamflow are often due to intertwined factors like climatic variability, land use change, and hydraulic constructions, whose relative impact is however poorly understood. In this study, we disentangled these effects by comparing real data and modelled scenarios of catchment behaviour. Modelled scenarios employ the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT), whereas the scenario comparison uses the Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA).

New hydrological insights for the region: Our analyses show that (1) watershed inlet was the major factor altered the streamflow regime at the watershed outlet, which pointed us to consider only the relative catchment contribution in further analyses. (2) Climate variability was the main driver of the net changes in natural hydrological regime, which downplayed the effect of land use change on streamflow variability. (3) The streamflow regulation associated to the progressive increase in reservoirs and their operation significantly altered the flow pattern, causing a general decrease in average streamflow, an attenuation of extreme events indicators, and an alteration of the pulse pattern with more frequent but shorter pulses. (4) The average water withdrawals at MLHR were estimated, which were 8.03 x 10(9) m(3)/year. Overall, this research provides a path to assess the hydrologic impact of cascading reservoirs at the basin level under climate variability and land use change elsewhere.

作者关键词: Hydrologic impact; Cascade reservoirs; Climate variability; Land use change; SWAT; IHA

地址: [Zhang, Xiao; Zhang, Wanshun] Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

[Yang, Hong; Fenicia, Fabrizio] Swiss Fed Inst Aquat Sci & Technol, Eawag, Ueberlandstr 133, CH-8600 Dubendorf, Switzerland.

[Yang, Hong] Univ Basel, Dept Environm Sci, Petersgraben 35, CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland.

[Zhang, Wanshun] Wuhan Univ, Sch Water Resources & Hydropower, State Key Lab Water Resources & Hydropower Engn S, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China.

[Zhang, Wanshun] Wuhan Univ, China Inst Dev Strategy & Planning, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

[Peng, Hong] Wuhan Univ, Sch Water Resources & Hydropower, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China.

[Xu, Gaohong] Changjiang Water Resources Commiss, Bur Hydrol, Wuhan 430010, Peoples R China.

通讯作者地址: Zhang, WS (通讯作者)，Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

电子邮件地址: wszhang@whu.edu.cn

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