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Investigation of the Mekong River basin hydrology for 1980–2000 using the YHyM

✍ Scribed by Hapu Arachchige Prasantha Hapuarachchi; Kuniyoshi Takeuchi; Maichun Zhou; Anthony Stuart Kiem; Mikhail Georgievski; Jun Magome; Hiroshi Ishidaira

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
354 KB
Volume
22
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6087

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Abstract

This study investigates the Mekong River basin hydrology for the 1980–2000 period using a grid‐based distributed hydrological model called Yamanashi Hydrological Model (YHyM). The performance of the model is evaluated using data observed at different locations and the results justify the physical soundness of the model. The seasonal variations of climatic and hydrological characteristics of the basin such as soil moisture, ground water saturation deficit, runoff, precipitation, evapotranspiration, etc. are analysed. On the basis of the simulated results, it is noticeable that there is no significant trend in the precipitation, discharge, or soil moisture state of the basin during the simulated period, though there are some seasonal variations which seem to be natural. However the analysis on the precipitation elasticity (E) of the river flow shows that the E values for all sub‐basins are greater than unity, which indicates that x% change in annual precipitation can cause > x% change in annual river flow. Further the basin hydrological responses are analysed for a long term synthetically‐induced drought the results of which show the significance of the base flow of the Mekong River basin. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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