On future flood magnitudes and estimation uncertainty across 151 catchments in mainland China

被引:27
作者
Gu, Lei [1 ]
Yin, Jiabo [1 ,2 ]
Zhang, Hongbo [3 ]
Wang, Hui-Min [1 ]
Yang, Guang [4 ]
Wu, Xushu [5 ]
机构
[1] Wuhan Univ, State Key Lab Water Resources & Hydropower Engn S, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China
[2] Wuhan Univ, Hubei Key Lab Water Syst Sci Sponge City Construc, Wuhan, Peoples R China
[3] Changan Univ, Minist Educ, Key Lab Subsurface Hydrol & Ecol Effect Arid Reg, Xian, Peoples R China
[4] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[5] South China Univ Technol, Sch Civil Engn & Transportat, Guangzhou, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
China; climate change; flood quantiles; hydrological modelling; statistical downscaling; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODEL; DAILY PRECIPITATION; CHANGE IMPACTS; RIVER-BASIN; PERFORMANCE; HYDROLOGY; RISK; DISTRIBUTIONS; STREAMFLOW;
D O I
10.1002/joc.6725
中图分类号
P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
学科分类号
0706 ; 070601 ;
摘要
As atmospheric moisture holding capacity is positively dependent on temperatures, a large intensification of precipitation extremes is projected under foreseeable climate warming. Flooding that is mainly attributed to extreme storms usually accounts for an ambitious target in weather-related hazard mitigation over China. Previous works seldom focused on flooding evolution patterns under climate change at a national scale, and fewer flooding projections considered the estimation uncertainty sourced from limited samples. This study systematically projected changes in flood quantiles based on annual maximum series and seasonality and also evaluated the variations of sampling uncertainty for 151 catchments over mainland China under the emission scenario of representative concentration pathway (RCP) 8.5. In order to project future streamflow series, the bias-corrected outputs of six global climate models (GCMs) were input into a best-performing hydrological model, which was selected from four calibrated hydrological models based on the KGE criteria. The Pearson type-III (P-III) distribution and L-moments (L-M) method were employed to derive the flood quantiles for different return periods during historical (1961-2005) and future (2056-2100) periods, and the bootstrapping method was applied to estimate the sampling uncertainty. A regression trend method was used to track the variations of flood seasonality in the context of climate warming. Our results project earlier flood timing and larger flood quantiles for most catchments in future period than those in the historical period, despite being accompanied by substantial spatial variations. We also project that the sampling uncertainty in estimating flood quantiles is increased in a warming future. Many catchments are exposed to dramatic changes in both flood quantile and estimation uncertainty by over 50%, while only a few catchments are projected to have decreasing flood risks. These results suggest an urgent need to improve the functionality of early warning systems and increase societal resilience to warming climates over China.
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页码:E779 / E800
页数:22
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