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Climate change dominates the increasing exposure of global population to compound heatwave and humidity extremes in the future
Under global warming, compound event arises increasing attract as it can lead to a growing impact on water resources management, human society, and ecosystem, especially for the compound heatwave and humidity ...
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Urban water system theory and its model development and application
The urban water system theory is an extension of the basin water system science on an urban scale, providing a new systematic solution for the unbalanced human-water relationship and severe water challenges, s...
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Open AccessGlobal increase in future compound heat stress-heavy precipitation hazards and associated socio-ecosystem risks
Compound extremes of lethal heat stress-heavy precipitation events (CHPEs) seriously threaten social and ecological sustainability, while their evolution and effects at the global scale under climate warming r...
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A hybrid time- and signature-domain Bayesian inference framework for calibration of hydrological models: a case study in the Ren River basin in China
The Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) provides a powerful tool for signature-domain calibration of hydrological models where hydrological signatures are incorporated into calibration objectives. However, ...
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Regulation characteristics of underlying surface on runoff regime metrics and their spatial differences in typical urban communities across China
The regulation and spatial differences of urban runoffs are of great concern in contemporary hydrological research. However, owing to a shortage of basic data sources and restrictions on urban hydrological sim...
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Effect of Three Gorges Dam on Poyang Lake water level at daily scale based on machine learning
Lake water level is an essential indicator of environmental changes caused by natural and human factors. The water level of Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, has exhibited a dramatic variation...
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Attribution of trends in meteorological drought during 1960–2016 over the Loess Plateau, China
This study uses two forms of the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), namely the PDSI_TH (potential evapotranspiration estimated-by the Thornthwaite equation) and the PDSI_PM (potential evapotranspiration est...
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Open AccessPerspectives on eco-water security and sustainable development in the Yangtze River Basin
The Yangtze River, the largest river in China, has been facing major challenges in massive flooding and eco-environmental health over the past decades. Sustainable socioeconomic development in the Yangtze Rive...
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Spatio-temporal variability of dryness/wetness in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin and correlation with large-scale climatic factors
The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin (MLYR) are greatly affected by frequent drought/flooding events and abrupt alternations of these events in China. The purpose of this study is to analyze...
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Spatiotemporal variation and statistical characteristic of extreme precipitation in the middle reaches of the Yellow River Basin during 1960–2013
In recent decades, extreme precipitation events have been a research hotspot worldwide. Based on 12 extreme precipitation indices, the spatiotemporal variation and statistical characteristic of precipitation e...
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Characteristics of dry-wet abrupt alternation events in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin and the relationship with ENSO
During recent decades, more frequent flood-drought alternations have been seen in China as a result of global climate change and intensive human activities, which have significant implications on water and foo...
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Assessing the influence of climate change and inter-basin water diversion on Haihe River basin, eastern China: a coupled model approach
The modeling of changes in surface water and groundwater in the areas of inter-basin water diversion projects is quite difficult because surface water and groundwater models are run separately most of the time...
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Analysis of Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Hydrological Drought: a Case Study in the Wei River Basin, China
Climate change and human activity are the two major drivers that can alter hydrological cycle processes and influence the characteristics of hydrological drought in river basins. The present study selects the ...
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Copulas-Based Drought Characteristics Analysis and Risk Assessment across the Loess Plateau of China
The Loess Plateau (LP) of China is famous with soil erosion and water shortage problems. Droughts were frequently occurred in this region, which becomes a critical limiting factor to the socioeconomic developm...
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Joint pattern of seasonal hydrological droughts and floods alternation in China’s Huai River Basin using the multivariate L-moments
Under the current condition of climate change, droughts and floods occur more frequently, and events in which flooding occurs after a prolonged drought or a drought occurs after an extreme flood may have a mor...
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Open AccessCharacterizing and explaining spatio-temporal variation of water quality in a highly disturbed river by multi-statistical techniques
Assessing the spatio-temporal variations of surface water quality is important for water environment management. In this study, surface water samples are collected from 2008 to 2015 at 17 stations in the Ying...
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Changes of rainfall and its possible reasons in the Nansi Lake Basin, China
This study investigates the changes of rainfall patterns along with the underlying reasons in the Nansi Lake Basin (NLB), China during 1960–2009. Results show that the annual rainfall increases from the northw...
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Spatio-temporal variation and statistical characteristic of extreme dry spell in Yellow River Basin, China
Drought is one of the most detrimental natural hazards in Yellow River Basin (YRB). In this research, spatio-temporal variation and statistical characteristic of drought in YRB is studied by using dry spell. T...
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The spatial and temporal analysis of dry spells in the Yellow River basin, China
In this research, drought in Yellow River basin has been studied by using dry spells. Three indices, including the maximum length (MxDS), mean length (MDS) and number of dry spells (NDS), and five periods (ann...
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Temporal and spatial variations and statistical models of extreme runoff in Huaihe River Basin during 1956–2010
Based on the daily runoff data from 20 hydrological stations above the Bengbu Sluice in the Huaihe River Basin during 1956–2010, run test, trend test and Mann-Kendall test are used to analyze the variation tre...
