Runoff sensitivity to climate change for hydro-climatically different catchments in China |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Guoqing?WangEmail author Jianyun?Zhang Ruimin?He Cuishan?Liu Tao?Ma Zhenxin?Bao Yanli?Liu |
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| Institution: | 1.State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering,Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute,Nanjing,China;2.Research Center for Climate Change,Ministry of Water Resources,Nanjing,China |
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| Abstract: | Communities are facing severe water stress due to the rapid development of agriculture and industry, climate change, as well as population growth. Climate variability has a big impact on runoff variation and it is important to understand these hydrological responses. Using a water balance model, monthly discharges of 21 climatically different catchments in China were simulated. Sensitivities of runoff to climate change were investigated by adopting hypothetical climate scenarios. Results indicate that the water balance model performs well for monthly discharge simulations of climatically different catchments with Nash–Sutcliffe coefficients >65 % and relative errors falling in the range of ±5 %. In general, runoff in arid north China are more sensitive to climate change than those in humid south China. A 1 °C rise in temperature would probably lead to 1.2–4.4 % decreases in runoff. A decrease in precipitation of 10 % would result in 9.4–17.4 % of decreases in runoff. It is essential to consider the implications of climate change in future water resources management. |
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