Flood frequency in China's Poyang Lake region: trends and teleconnections

✍ Scribed by David Shankman; Barry D. Keim; Jie Song

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 485 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0899-8418
• DOI: 10.1002/joc.1307

✦ Synopsis

Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province is the largest freshwater lake in China and is historically a region of significant floods. Annual events of peak lake stage and of severe floods have increased dramatically during the past few decades. This trend is related primarily to levee construction at the periphery of the lake and along the middle of the Changjiang (Yangtze River), which protects a large rural population. These levees reduce the area formerly available for floodwater storage resulting in higher lake stages during the summer flood season and catastrophic levee failures.