Annual Runoff is Highly Linked to Precipitation Extremes in Karst Catchments of Southwest China
Annual Runoff is Highly Linked to Precipitation Extremes in Karst Catchments of Southwest China
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DOI:
10.1175/jhm-d-17-0032.1
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发表时间:
2017-10
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Zhenwei Li;Xianli Xu;Chaohao Xu;Meixian Liu;Kelin Wang;Bofu Yu
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作者:
Zhenwei Li;Xianli Xu;Chaohao Xu;Meixian Liu;Kelin Wang;Bofu Yu
AbstractKarst landforms cover 7%–12% of the Earth’s continental area and provide water resources for 25% of the global population. Climate, particularly frequent climate extremes, may greatly affect the annual runoff, especially in climate-sensitive regions such as a karst area of southwest China. Knowledge of the linkage between climate and runoff is urgently needed for smart water resources management. This study therefore selected five catchments that have different carbonized rock coverage (from 11% to 64%) to detect the dominant climatic variables driving changes in annual runoff for the period of 1957–2011 in southwest China. Because climatic variables are highly codependent, a partial least squares regression (PLSR) was used to elucidate the linkages between runoff and 17 climatic variables. Results indicated that the dominant climatic factors driving annual runoff are annual total precipitation, rainy days, heavy precipitation amount, heavy precipitation days, rainstorm amount, and rainstorm days....