scholarly journals Changes of flow regimes and precipitation in Huai River Basin in the last half century

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongyong Zhang ◽  
Quanxi Shao ◽  
Jun Xia ◽  
Stuart E. Bunn ◽  
Qiting Zuo
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Flow Regimes ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Huai River

Impact of Water Projects on River Flow Regimes and Water Quality in Huai River Basin

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 889-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongyong Zhang ◽  
Jun Xia ◽  
Tao Liang ◽  
Quanxi Shao
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
River Basin ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Flow Regimes ◽  
Water Projects ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Huai River

scholarly journals Assessing temporal and spatial alterations of flow regimes in the regulated Huai River Basin, China

2015 ◽  
Vol 529 ◽  
pp. 384-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongyong Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyan Zhai ◽  
Quanxi Shao ◽  
Ziqi Yan
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Flow Regimes ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Huai River ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

CLASSIFICATION OF FLOW REGIMES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW ASSESSMENT IN REGULATED RIVERS: THE HUAI RIVER BASIN, CHINA

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 989-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Zhang ◽  
A. H. Arthington ◽  
S. E. Bunn ◽  
S. Mackay ◽  
J. Xia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Flow Regimes ◽  
Environmental Flow ◽  
Regulated Rivers ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Huai River ◽  
The Huai River Basin

scholarly journals Variations of Drought Tendency, Frequency, and Characteristics and Their Responses to Climate Change under CMIP5 RCP Scenarios in Huai River Basin, China

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingcai Wang ◽  
Hui Lin ◽  
Jinbai Huang ◽  
Chenjuan Jiang ◽  
Yangyang Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Cmip5 Models ◽  
Drought Severity ◽  
Global Circulation Models ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Huai River ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

Huai River Basin (HRB) is an important food and industrial production area and a frequently drought-affected basin in eastern China. It is necessary to consider the future drought development for reducing the impact of drought disasters. Three global circulation models (GCMs) from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5), such as CNRM-CM5 (CNR), HadGEM2-ES (Had) and MIROC5 (MIR), were used to assessment the future drought conditions under two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) scenarios, namely, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI), statistical method, Mann-Kendall test, and run theory were carried out to study the variations of drought tendency, frequency, and characteristics and their responses to climate change. The research showed that the three CMIP5 models differ in describing the future seasonal and annual variations of precipitation and temperature in the basin and thus lead to the differences in describing drought trends, frequency, and drought characteristics, such as drought severity, drought duration, and drought intensity. However, the drought trend, frequency, and characteristics in the future are more serious than the history. The drought frequency and characteristics tend to be strengthened under the scenario of high concentration of RCP8.5, and the drought trend is larger than that of low concentration of RCP4.5. The lower precipitation and the higher temperature are the main factors affecting the occurrence of drought. All three CMIP5 models show that precipitation would increase in the future, but it could not offset the evapotranspiration loss caused by significant temperature rise. The serious risk of drought in the future is still higher. Considering the uncertainty of climate models for simulation and prediction, attention should be paid to distinguish the effects of different models in the future drought assessment.

scholarly journals Hydrological Drought Regimes of the Huai River Basin, China: Probabilistic Behavior, Causes and Implications

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun ◽  
Zhang ◽  
Yao ◽  
Wen
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Hydrological Drought ◽  
Drought Severity ◽  
Copula Functions ◽  
Drought Duration ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Huai River ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hydrological Droughts ◽  
The Huai River Basin

: Hydrological droughts were characterized using the run-length theory and the AIC (Akaike information criterion) techniques were accepted to evaluate the modeling performance of nine probability functions. In addition, the copula functions were used to describe joint probability behaviors of drought duration and drought severity for the major tributaries of the Huai River Basin (HRB) which is located in the transitional zone between humid and semi-humid climates. The results indicated that: (1) the frequency of hydrological droughts in the upper HRB is higher than that in the central HRB, while the duration of the hydrological drought is in reverse spatial pattern. The drought frequency across the Shiguan River along the south bank of the HRB is higher than the other two tributaries; (2) generalized Pareto distribution is the appropriate distribution function with the best performance in modelling the drought duration over the HRB; while the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution can effectively describe the probabilistic properties of the drought severity. Joe copula and Tawn copula functions are the best choices and were used in this study. Given return periods of droughts of <30 years, the droughts in the upper HRB are the longest, and the shortest are in the central HRB; (3) the frequency of droughts along the mainstream of the HRB is higher than tributaries of the HRB. However, concurrence probability of droughts along the mainstream of the HRB is lower than the tributaries of the HRB. The drought resistance capacity of HRB has been significantly improved, effectively reducing the impact of hydrological drought on crops after 2010.

The spatial and temporal variation of water use efficiency in the Huai River Basin using a comprehensive indicator

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Meng ◽  
Xiang Zhang ◽  
Dunxian She ◽  
Junchai Wang ◽  
Shaofei Wu
Keyword(s):  
Water Use Efficiency ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Huai River ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
The Government ◽  
Comprehensive Indicator ◽  
The Huai River Basin

A comprehensive indicator of water use efficiency (WUE) to promote coordinated development between socio-economic and environmental systems was developed. A comprehensive consideration of the social, economic and environmental benefits of water was made in the evaluation index system of WUE and the projection pursuit model combined with chaotic particle swarm optimization was adopted to calculate the comprehensive indicator of WUE. The Huai River Basin (HRB) was selected as a case study area. The temporal change of WUE showed that the annual WUE of the HRB from 2007 to 2013 increased obviously because of the enhanced emphasis on environmental protection by the government. The spatial results showed that the spatial WUE of each province in 2013 was significantly higher than in 2007. In 2013, Anhui with the lowest WUE was selected as representative to reveal the problems of water use in the HRB. The main reasons were that the government paid more attention to the high water consumption industries and ignored the small-scale water users, and wastewater treatment was still weak in the HRB. The research can provide the foundation for improving WUE and solving the problem of water shortages.

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