Analysis of long-term water level variation in Dongting Lake, China

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Han, Qiaoqian ^a,b   Zhang, Shuanghu ^b   Huang, Guoxian ^c,d   Zhang, Rui ^b,e  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d QINGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dongting Lake; Mann Kendall trend test; Pettitt test; Three Gorge Reservoir; Water level

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FLOODS; LAKES; SLOPE STABILITY; TESTING; WATER LEVELS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; DONGTING LAKE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MANN-KENDALL TRENDS; PETTITT TEST; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; THREE GORGE RESERVOIR; WATER LEVEL VARIATIONS;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

DISCHARGE; DRY SEASON; FLOOD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE WATER; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER LEVEL; WATER RESOURCE; WET SEASON;

CHINA; DONGTING LAKE; HUNAN; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR;

EID: 85010735725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/W8070306     Document Type: Article

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