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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4091-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4091-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4091-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 8

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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Final revised paper (published on 21 Aug 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 26 Feb 2020)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review opinion', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Mar 2020
- AC1: 'The advantages of the PP based on the RAGA', Xiaorong Huang, 17 Mar 2020
RC2: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Mar 2020
- AC3: 'Modification', Xiaorong Huang, 19 Mar 2020
RC3: 'uncertainty appear differently at different stages (pre- and post-impact periods) ?', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Mar 2020
- AC2: 'uncertainty', Xiaorong Huang, 18 Mar 2020
RC4: 'comments on “Development of a revised IHA method for the cumulative impacts of cascade reservoirs on ﬂow regime”', Anonymous Referee #4, 18 Mar 2020
- AC4: 'Modification', Xiaorong Huang, 19 Mar 2020
RC5: 'Please provide more information about the Tab6', Anonymous Referee #5, 18 Mar 2020
- AC5: 'The averaging effect of runoff became more obvious', Xiaorong Huang, 19 Mar 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (07 May 2020) by Dominic Mazvimavi

AR by Xiaorong Huang on behalf of the Authors (08 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (16 Jul 2020) by Dominic Mazvimavi

Short summary

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.