Accelerated hydrological cycle over the Sanjiangyuan region induces more streamflow extremes at different global warming levels

Ji, Peng; Yuan, Xing; Ma, Feng; Pan, Ming

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5439-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5439-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5439-2020

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

Articles | Volume 24, issue 11

Research article

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20 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 20 Nov 2020

Accelerated hydrological cycle over the Sanjiangyuan region induces more streamflow extremes at different global warming levels

Peng Ji, Xing Yuan, Feng Ma, and Ming Pan

Data sets

China meteorological forcing dataset (1979–2018) J. He and K. Yang https://doi.org/10.11888/AtmosphericPhysics.tpe.249369.fle

Short summary

By performing high-resolution land surface modeling driven by the latest CMIP6 climate models, we find both the dry streamflow extreme over the drought-prone Yellow River headwater and the wet streamflow extreme over the flood-prone Yangtze River headwater will increase under 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 °C global warming levels and emphasize the importance of considering ecological changes (i.e., vegetation greening and CO₂ physiological forcing) in the hydrological projection.