环境科学
流域
构造盆地
水文学(农业)
强度(物理)
地质学
地理
地貌学
物理
地图学
岩土工程
量子力学
作者
Yiping Wu,Xiaowei Yin,Guoyi Zhou,L. A. Bruijnzeel,Aiguo Dai,Fan Wang,Pierre Gentine,Guangchuang Zhang,Yanni Song,Decheng Zhou
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41467-023-44562-8
摘要
Droughts or floods are usually attributed to precipitation deficits or surpluses, both of which may become more frequent and severe under continued global warming. Concurring large-scale droughts in the Southwest and flooding in the Southeast of China in recent decades have attracted considerable attention, but their causes and interrelations are not well understood. Here, we examine spatiotemporal changes in hydrometeorological variables and investigate the mechanism underlying contrasting soil dryness/wetness patterns over a 54-year period (1965-2018) across a representative mega-watershed in South China-the West River Basin. We demonstrate that increasing rainfall intensity leads to severe drying upstream with decreases in soil water storage, water yield, and baseflow, versus increases therein downstream. Our study highlights a simultaneous occurrence of increased drought and flooding risks due to contrasting interactions between rainfall intensification and topography across the river basin, implying increasingly vulnerable water and food security under continued climate change.
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