Citation
Zhang, Jiehao; Zhang, Yulong; Sun, Ge; Song, Conghe; Dannenberg, Matthew P.; Li, Jiangfeng; Liu, Ning; Zhang, Kerong; Zhang, Quanfa; & Hao, Lu (2021). Vegetation Greening Weakened the Capacity of Water Supply to China’s South-To-North Water Diversion Project. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(10), 5623-5640.Abstract
Recent climate change and vegetation greening have important implications for global terrestrial hydrological cycles and other ecosystem functions, raising concerns about the watershed water supply capacity for large water diversion projects. To address this emerging concern, we built a hybrid model based on the Coupled Carbon and Water (CCW) and Water Supply Stress Index (WaSSI) models and conducted a case study on the upper Han River basin (UHRB) in Central China that serves as the water source area to the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP). Significant vegetation greening occurred in the UHRB during 2001–2018, largely driven by the widespread afforestation in the region, with the normalized difference vegetation index increasing at a rate of 0.5 ± 0.1 % yrURL
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5623-2021Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2021Journal Title
Hydrology and Earth System SciencesAuthor(s)
Zhang, JiehaoZhang, Yulong
Sun, Ge
Song, Conghe
Dannenberg, Matthew P.
Li, Jiangfeng
Liu, Ning
Zhang, Kerong
Zhang, Quanfa
Hao, Lu