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Factors influencing water level changes in China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake, in the past 50 years
This study analyses the changing characteristics in the level of Poyang Lake during the period 1960–2010. Results show that the changing stage of annual lake level variations is evident, and average onset time of the lake dry season has advanced since the 1990s. Investigation indicates that the Yangtze River discharge has a greater impact on annual lake level variations than the lake’s catchment inflow. Climate change in the Yangtze River basin since the 1990s is possibly the precondition for the advance of the lake dry season, which is further aggravated by the effects of the Three Gorges Dam in the 2000s.
Factors influencing water level changes in China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake, in the past 50 years
This study analyses the changing characteristics in the level of Poyang Lake during the period 1960–2010. Results show that the changing stage of annual lake level variations is evident, and average onset time of the lake dry season has advanced since the 1990s. Investigation indicates that the Yangtze River discharge has a greater impact on annual lake level variations than the lake’s catchment inflow. Climate change in the Yangtze River basin since the 1990s is possibly the precondition for the advance of the lake dry season, which is further aggravated by the effects of the Three Gorges Dam in the 2000s.
Factors influencing water level changes in China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake, in the past 50 years
Ye, Xuchun (author) / Li, Yunliang (author) / Li, Xianghu (author) / Zhang, Qi (author)
Water International ; 39 ; 983-999
2014-11-10
17 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Dramatic variations in emergent wetland area in China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake
British Library Online Contents | 2016
|Dramatic variations in emergent wetland area in China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake
British Library Online Contents | 2016
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