WAN Rongrong, YANG Guishan, DAI Xue, ZHANG Yanhui, LI Bing. Water Security-based Hydrological Regime Assessment Method for Lakes with Extreme Seasonal Water Level Fluctuations: A Case Study of Poyang Lake, China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2018, 28(3): 456-469. doi: 10.1007/s11769-018-0958-2
Citation: WAN Rongrong, YANG Guishan, DAI Xue, ZHANG Yanhui, LI Bing. Water Security-based Hydrological Regime Assessment Method for Lakes with Extreme Seasonal Water Level Fluctuations: A Case Study of Poyang Lake, China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2018, 28(3): 456-469. doi: 10.1007/s11769-018-0958-2

Water Security-based Hydrological Regime Assessment Method for Lakes with Extreme Seasonal Water Level Fluctuations: A Case Study of Poyang Lake, China

doi: 10.1007/s11769-018-0958-2
Funds:  Under the auspices of Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KFZD-SW-318), National Science Foundation of China (No. 41571107), National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB417006)
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  • Corresponding author: WAN Rongrong.E-mail:rrwan@niglas.ac.cn;YANG Guishan.E-mail:gsyang@niglas.ac.cn
  • Received Date: 2017-04-01
  • Rev Recd Date: 2017-07-19
  • Publish Date: 2018-06-27
  • Extreme seasonal water level fluctuations characterize natural floodplain lakes in monsoon regions, which are crucial for ensuring lake water security, including flood prevention water supply and health of aquatic ecosystem. In order to achieve this goal, we established a hydrological regime assessment method based on a set of hydrological indicators for lakes with heavy seasonal water level fluctuations. The results suggest that time-sensitive hydrological indicators and specific time scales for various water security aspects must be considered. We discovered that it is more practical and meaningful to combine the water level classification derived from statistical analyses with characteristic hydrological values linked to water security. The case study of Poyang Lake results show that there are no discernable trends of Poyang Lake water regime status over the last 35 years, and the two periods of poor status are in accordance with climate variation in the lake basin area. Scholars and policy makers should focus on both floods and droughts, which are the main water security problems for Poyang Lake. It is hoped that this multi-scale and multi-element hydrological regime assessment method will provide new guidelines and methods for other international scholars of river and lake water assessment.
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Water Security-based Hydrological Regime Assessment Method for Lakes with Extreme Seasonal Water Level Fluctuations: A Case Study of Poyang Lake, China

doi: 10.1007/s11769-018-0958-2
Funds:  Under the auspices of Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KFZD-SW-318), National Science Foundation of China (No. 41571107), National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB417006)
    Corresponding author: WAN Rongrong.E-mail:rrwan@niglas.ac.cn;YANG Guishan.E-mail:gsyang@niglas.ac.cn

Abstract: Extreme seasonal water level fluctuations characterize natural floodplain lakes in monsoon regions, which are crucial for ensuring lake water security, including flood prevention water supply and health of aquatic ecosystem. In order to achieve this goal, we established a hydrological regime assessment method based on a set of hydrological indicators for lakes with heavy seasonal water level fluctuations. The results suggest that time-sensitive hydrological indicators and specific time scales for various water security aspects must be considered. We discovered that it is more practical and meaningful to combine the water level classification derived from statistical analyses with characteristic hydrological values linked to water security. The case study of Poyang Lake results show that there are no discernable trends of Poyang Lake water regime status over the last 35 years, and the two periods of poor status are in accordance with climate variation in the lake basin area. Scholars and policy makers should focus on both floods and droughts, which are the main water security problems for Poyang Lake. It is hoped that this multi-scale and multi-element hydrological regime assessment method will provide new guidelines and methods for other international scholars of river and lake water assessment.

WAN Rongrong, YANG Guishan, DAI Xue, ZHANG Yanhui, LI Bing. Water Security-based Hydrological Regime Assessment Method for Lakes with Extreme Seasonal Water Level Fluctuations: A Case Study of Poyang Lake, China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2018, 28(3): 456-469. doi: 10.1007/s11769-018-0958-2
Citation: WAN Rongrong, YANG Guishan, DAI Xue, ZHANG Yanhui, LI Bing. Water Security-based Hydrological Regime Assessment Method for Lakes with Extreme Seasonal Water Level Fluctuations: A Case Study of Poyang Lake, China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2018, 28(3): 456-469. doi: 10.1007/s11769-018-0958-2
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