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Assessing slope forest effect on flood process caused by a short-duration storm in a small catchment

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posted on 2019-01-14, 13:46 authored by Jingming Hou, Kaihua Guo, Feifei Liu, Hao Han, Qiuhua LiangQiuhua Liang, Yu Tong, Peng Li
Land use has significant impact on the hydrologic and hydraulic processes in a catchment. This work applies a hydrodynamic based numerical model to quantitatively investigate the land use effect on the flood patterns under various rainfall and terrain conditions in an ideal V-shaped catchment and a realistic catchment, indicating the land use could considerably affect the rainfall-flood process and such effect varies with the catchment terrain, land use scenario and the rainfall events. The rainfall-flood process is less sensitive for the side slope than the channel slope. For a channel slope lower than the critical value in this work, the forest located in the middle of the catchment slope could most effectively attenuate the flood peak. When the channel slope is higher than the critical one, forest located in the downstream of the catchment could most significantly mitigate the peak discharge. Moreover, the attenuation effect becomes more obvious as the rainfall becomes heavier. The fragmentation of vegetation does not reduce the flood peak in a more obvious way, compared with the integral vegetation patterns with the same area proportion. The research can help more reasonably guide the land use plan related to flood risk.

Funding

This work is partly supported by the National Key Research Program of China (2016YFC0402704); National Natural Science Foundation of China (19672016); State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41330858) and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (Grant No. NE/K008781/1).

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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Water

Volume

10

Issue

9

Pages

1256 - 1256

Citation

HOU, J. ... et al, 2018. Assessing slope forest effect on flood process caused by a short-duration storm in a small catchment. Water, 10 (9), 1256.

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MDPI AG © The authors

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2018-09-06

Publication date

2018-09-15

Notes

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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2073-4441

Language

  • en

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