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 peri
Streamflow Trends and Climate Variability Impacts in Poyang Lake Basin, China
✍ Scribed by Guangju Zhao; Georg Hörmann; Nicola Fohrer; Zengxin Zhang; Jianqing Zhai
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1003 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0920-4741
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