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Evaluating functions of reservoirs′ storage capacities and locations on daily peak attenuation for Ganjiang River Basin using Xinanjiang model

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Flooding is the most prevalent and costly natural disaster in the world and building reservoirs is one of the major structural measures for flood control and management. In this paper, a framework was proposed to evaluate functions of reservoirs′ locations and magnitudes on daily peak flow attenuation for a large basin of China, namely Ganjiang River Basin. In this study, the Xinanjiang model was adopted to simulate inflows of the reservoirs and flood hydrographs of all sub-catchments of the basin, and simple reservoir operation rules were established for calculating outflows of the reservoirs. Four reservoirs scenarios were established to analyze reservoirs′ locations on daily peak flow attenuation. The results showed that: 1) reservoirs attenuated the peak discharges for all simulated floods, when the flood storage capacities increase as new reservoirs were built, the peak discharge attenuation by reservoirs showed an increasing tendency both in absolute and relative measures; 2) reservoirs attenuated more peak discharge relatively for small floods than for large ones; 3) reservoirs reduced the peak discharge more efficiently for the floods with single peak or multi peaks with main peak occurred first; and 4) effect of upstream reservoirs on peak attenuation decreased from upper reaches to lower reaches; upstream and midstream reservoirs played important roles in decreasing peak discharge both at middle and lower reaches, and downstream reservoirs had less effect on large peak discharge attenuation at outlet of the basin. The proposed framework of evaluating functions of multiple reservoirs′ storage capacities and locations on peak attenuation is valuable for flood control planning and management at basin scale.

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  1. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Jinkang Du & Youpeng Xu

  2. Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Jinkang Du

  3. Anhui Electric Power Design Institute of China Energy and Electricity Construction Group, Hefei, 230601, China

    Dapeng Zheng

  4. Department of Geography, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, 62026, USA

    Shunfu Hu

  5. State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Chongyu Xu

  6. Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, N-0316, Oslo, 1047 Blindern, Norway

    Chongyu Xu

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Du, J., Zheng, D., Xu, Y. et al. Evaluating functions of reservoirs′ storage capacities and locations on daily peak attenuation for Ganjiang River Basin using Xinanjiang model. Chin. Geogr. Sci. 26, 789–802 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-016-0838-6

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