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Hydrological regimes, being strongly impacted by climate change, play a vital role in maintaining the integrity of aquatic river habitats. We investigated lag in hydrologic recovery following extreme meteorological drought events, and we also discussed its implications in the assessment of ecological environment flow. We used monthly anomalies of three specific hydrometeorological variables (precipitation, streamflow, and baseflow) to identify drought, while we used the Chapman–Maxwell method (the CM filter) with recession constant calculated from Automatic Baseflow Identification Technique (ABIT) to separate baseflow. Results showed that: (i) Compared to the default recession parameter (α = 0.925), the CM filter with the ABIT estimate (α = 0.984) separated baseflow more accurately. (ii) Hydrological drought, resulting from meteorological drought, reflected the duration and intensity of meteorological drought; namely, longer meteorological drought periods resulted in longer hydrological drought periods. Interestingly, the time lag in streamflow and baseflow indicated that aquatic ecosystem habitat recovery also lagged behind meteorological drought. (iii) Assessing environmental flow by quantifying drought provided greater detail on hydrological regimes compared to abrupt changes, such as the increased hydrological periods and the different environment flows obtained. Taken together, our results indicated that the hydrological response in streamflow and baseflow (e.g., the time lag and the precipitation recovery rate (Pr)) played a vital role in the assessment of environmental flow.

Lag in Hydrologic Recovery Following Extreme Meteorological Drought Events: Implications for Ecological Water Requirements