Articles | Volume 24, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4091-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4091-2020
Research article
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21 Aug 2020
Research article |  | 21 Aug 2020

Development of a revised method for indicators of hydrologic alteration for analyzing the cumulative impacts of cascading reservoirs on flow regime

Xingyu Zhou, Xiaorong Huang, Hongbin Zhao, and Kai Ma

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Dataset of daily climate data from Chinese surface stations for global exchange, continuing from 1 January 1951 CMDC https://data.cma.cn/en/?r=data/detail&dataCode=SURF_CLI_CHN_MUL_DAY_CES

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The main objective of this work is to discuss the cumulative effects on flow regime with the construction of cascade reservoirs. A revised IHA (indicators of hydrologic alteration) method was developed by using a projection pursuit method based on the real-coded accelerated genetic algorithm in this study. Through this method, IHA parameters with a high contribution to hydrological-alteration evaluation could be selected out and given high weight to reduce the redundancy among the IHA metrics.