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Anthropogenic activities mitigate the impacts of climate extremes on high flow regimes on the Loess Plateau

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العنوان: Anthropogenic activities mitigate the impacts of climate extremes on high flow regimes on the Loess Plateau
المؤلفون: Yanli Qin, Yaping Wang, Qiaoqiao Wang, Lijing Fan, Qiang Li, Fubo Zhao, Dengfeng Liu, Mingfang Zhang
المصدر: Ecological Indicators, Vol 168, Iss , Pp 112756- (2024)
بيانات النشر: Elsevier, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Ecology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Climate extremes, Anthropogenic activities, High flow, Paired year, Loess Plateau, Ecology, QH540-549.5
الوصف: The hydrological cycle is anticipated to become increasingly variable due to intensified global climate extremes and frequent floods. Understanding the evolution and driving mechanisms of floods in the context of climatic extremes is essential, particularly on the Loess Plateau (LP) where anthropogenic activities are significant. Here, we examined the spatiotemporal variability of climate extremes and their impacts on flood processes on the LP during 1956–2015. We employed a paired year approach to quantitatively assess the driving role of anthropogenic activities on flood changes in 11 major basins. Our findings indicated a general decline in extreme precipitation indices, while temperature has increased across most of the LP. Both annual runoff (Q) and high flow (Q5) magnitude significantly decreased in all basins. We identified that the major climatic indices driving Q5 included erosive precipitation amount, flood season precipitation, heavy precipitation amount, and maximum 7-day precipitation amount. Importantly, anthropogenic activities have mitigated the impact of climate extremes on Q5 regimes. Compared the post-2000 with reference period (1956–1979), under similar climatic conditions, we observed a reduction in the average Q5 magnitude by 30.19–78.14% and a decrease in the average Q5 duration by 46.48–100.00% across the basins. The contributions of climate variability and anthropogenic activities to Q5 magnitude changes among 11 basins ranged from –37.58% to 22.02% and –56.84% to –15.08%, respectively, highlighting the crucial role of ecological restoration in reducing Q5 magnitude. These results underscore the importance of ecological restoration in flood regulation and offer valuable insights for basin management in the Yellow River Basin.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1470-160X
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X24012135; https://doaj.org/toc/1470-160X
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112756
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/2e3f4ab7804b4e0b88d3da2af15ff5db
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.2e3f4ab7804b4e0b88d3da2af15ff5db
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:1470160X
DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112756