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Research article
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28 Apr 2025
Research article |
| 28 Apr 2025
| 28 Apr 2025
Evaluating the effects of topography and land use change on hydrological signatures: a comparative study of two adjacent watersheds
Haifan Liu
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Haochen Yan
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Short summary
Land changes and landscape features critically impact water systems. Studying two watersheds in China’s Greater Bay Area, we found slope strongly influences water processes in mountainous areas. However, this relationship is weak in the lower regions of steeper watersheds. Urbanization leads to an increase in annual surface runoff, while flatter watersheds exhibit a buffering capacity against this effect. However, this buffering capacity diminishes with increasing annual rainfall intensity.
Land changes and landscape features critically impact water systems. Studying two watersheds in...
