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Research article
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13 Apr 2021
Research article |
| 13 Apr 2021
| 13 Apr 2021
Signatures of human intervention – or not? Downstream intensification of hydrological drought along a large Central Asian river: the individual roles of climate variability and land use change
Artemis Roodari
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Water Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and
Geoscience, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628CN Delft,
the Netherlands
Department of Water Engineering, Faculty of Soil and Water Sciences,
University of Zabol, Zabol, 98615-538, Iran
Markus Hrachowitz
Department of Water Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and
Geoscience, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628CN Delft,
the Netherlands
Farzad Hassanpour
Department of Water Engineering, Faculty of Soil and Water Sciences,
University of Zabol, Zabol, 98615-538, Iran
Mostafa Yaghoobzadeh
Department of Water Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand,
97175-615, Iran
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Short summary
In a combined data analysis and modeling study in the transboundary Helmand River basin, we analyzed spatial patterns of drought and changes therein based on the drought indices as well as on absolute water deficits. Overall the results illustrate that flow deficits and the associated droughts clearly reflect the dynamic interplay between temporally varying regional differences in hydro-meteorological variables together with subtle and temporally varying effects linked to human intervention.
In a combined data analysis and modeling study in the transboundary Helmand River basin, we...
