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Assessing climate and land-use change impacts on streamflow in a mountainous catchment

Author(s) -

Qiang Liu,

Liqiao Liang,

Yanpeng Cai,

Xuan Wang,

Chunhui Li

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of water and climate change

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 2408-9354

pISSN - 2040-2244

DOI - 10.2166/wcc.2018.234

Subject(s) - streamflow , environmental science , hydrology (agriculture) , climate change , precipitation , drainage basin , infiltration (hvac) , land use, land use change and forestry , vegetation (pathology) , land use , permanent wilting point , surface runoff , soil water , field capacity , soil science , geography , geology , ecology , medicine , oceanography , cartography , geotechnical engineering , pathology , meteorology , biology

It is essential to assess streamflow response to climate and land-use change in catchment basins that serve cities and their surrounding areas. This study used the Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM) to simulate streamflow under different climate and land-use change scenarios in the Dashi River catchment, China. The most sensitive soil parameters were maximum infiltration, porosity, field capacity, and wilting point, while the most sensitive vegetation parameters were leaf area index (LAI) and vegetation height. The suitability of the DHSVM model was aligned with Nash–Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficients (NSE) greater than 0.41 and 0.84 at daily and monthly scales, respectively. Streamflow increased/decreased with increasing/decreasing precipitation, while it decreased with increasing air temperature. Furthermore, streamflow decreased with the increase in forestland due to higher water consumption, especially during summer. Results from this study could help us to better understand streamflow response to changes in climate and land use.

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