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Quantifying the contribution of climate- and human-induced runoff decrease in the Luanhe river basin, China

Jianzhu Li, Shuhan Zhou
Available Online 6 November 2015, jwc2015041; DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2015.041
Jianzhu Li
State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China E-mail: lijianzhu@tju.edu.cn
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State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China E-mail: lijianzhu@tju.edu.cn
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Climate variability and human activities are two main factors influencing hydrological processes. For more reasonable water management, understanding and quantifying the contributions of the two factors to runoff change is a prerequisite. In this paper, the Budyko decomposition hypothesis and geometric approach were employed to quantify climate change and human activities on mean annual runoff (MAR) in six sub-basins of Luanhe river basin. We split a long-term period (1956–2011) into two sub-periods (pre-change and post-change period) to quantify the change over time. Observations show that annual runoff had a decreasing trend during the past 56 years in the Luanhe river basin. Based on a geometric approach, the climate impacts in these six sub-basins were 7–49%, and the contributions of human activities were 51–93%, approximately. According to Budyko decomposition method, impacts of climate variation accounted for 15–40% of the runoff decrease, and the contribution of human activities ranged from 60–85%. Both methods were simple to understand, and feasible to separate the climatic- and human-induced impacts on MAR. This study could provide significant information for water resources managers.

  • Budyko decomposition method
  • geometric approach
  • human-induced runoff change
  • climate-caused runoff change
  • mean annual runoff
  • Luanhe river basin
  • First received 9 March 2015.
  • Accepted in revised form 23 September 2015.
  • © IWA Publishing 2015

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Jianzhu Li, Shuhan Zhou
Journal of Water and Climate Change Nov 2015, jwc2015041; DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2015.041

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