Journal
NATURAL HAZARDS
Volume 73, Issue 2, Pages 849-858Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1109-4
Keywords
Huai River basin; Precipitation; Typical years; Drought/flood-prone month; Combination events of floods and droughts
Funding
- State Key Development Program for basic Research of China [2010CB951102]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51279207]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China [E2012402067]
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Based on the daily precipitation data of 38 weather stations in the Huai River Basin from 1961 to 2010, this study used SPI index, P-III curve to determine the flood/drought years, under what situations for droughts and floods easily happen, and to analyze the evolution law of flood and drought during inter-annual and intra-annual based on the characteristic of monthly precipitation. The results showed that: (1) annual rainfall of the Huai River Basin presented decreasing trend, maximum rainfall appeared from June to August, and multi-year average precipitation increased gradually from north to south; (2) the variation of monthly precipitation during flood years was more severe than other typical years, and precipitation in drought years showed nearly 50 % decline compared with normal years; (3) high rainfall of flood years was mainly caused by the increase in rainfall in flood season, and the strategy of flood control and drought relief was short-term flood prevention and long-term drought relief; (4) while precipitation of most months in drought year was reduced, the relevant strategies annual basin-wide of long-term drought prevention should be carried out; (5) combination events of floods and droughts occurred frequently. Persistent drought dominated in spring and summer while droughts and floods that happened alternately were mainly in summer and autumn.
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