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  • ACRS 1999


    Water Resources
    Assessment of Climate-Change Impact on Runoff Using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

    Results and discussion
    Above computation gives 50-year of synthetic rainfall and temperature data , evapotranspiration coefficient, CET, on 2xCO2 condition, and other model parameters. Daily runoff are simulated to calculate flow-duration-curves (FDC) for assessing the runoff frequencies of both 1xCO2 and 2xCO2 conditions. Fig. 5 illustrates the FDCs of Fusan basin. Table 4 and Fig 6 summarize the flow change rates. Results show that frequencies of low flow are decreased in Fusan and Lisan basins. Q90 are down to 57% and 49% of original values. However, high flows, Q10 , are increase to 165% and 187%, respectively. It shows high possibility of appearing a peak flow on flood period..

    Table 4. Flow rate changes of two climate conditions (Q2xCO2 / Q1xCO2)
    Exceed
    Possibility
    Fusan ChichiawanSandimanLisan
    90% 57% 108%163%49%
    80% 58% 105%223%58%
    70%63%110% 331% 71%
    60% 70%109% 431% 86%
    50% 82% 102% 498% 103%
    40% 98% 106% 344% 124%
    30% 118% 111% 271% 144%
    20% 137% 130% 242% 169%
    10%165%162%228%187%



    Fig.5 Flow duration curve of Fusan



    Fig.6 Flow change rate of four basins


    Lisan and Sandiman basins have increasing values in both low and high flows. Though Sandiman locates on tropical southern-Taiwan, higher temperature doesn’t evaporate the extra rainfall supply during drought period. Comparing mean flows, Q50, of the four basins, Chichiawan and Lisan show insignificant change. Fusan reduces to 82% of original condition, while Sandiman on the south has five times of original flow. Southern region has very low mean flow on present condition that may cause this significant increase. Table 5 shows the ratio comparing flows of different possibilities from 1xCO2 and 2xCO2 conditions. Sandiman shows higher values on Q50/Q90 and Q10/Q50. 2xCO2 condition introduces increase rate of Q50 that makes an improvement of non-uniform timely distribution on southern region.

    Table 5 Ratio of flow of different exceed possibilities of the four studied basins
    Flow
    Ratio
    FusanChichiawanSandimanLisan
    1 xCO22 xCO21 xCO22 xCO21 xCO22 xCO21 xCO22 xCO2
    Q 50/Q901.902.722.562.413.4610.541.723.59
    Q10/Q502.575.203.435.4627.2912.493.306.00

    Conclusion
    The study combines rainfall-runoff model, vegetation index defined by remote sensing, output of GCM , and data disaggreation model to estimate the changed evapotranspiration parameter for calculating runoff of four basins located on north, middle, south, and east regions. Flow duration curves is calculated to assess the impact of runoff from climate change. Results show that:
    • Fusan (north region) and Lisan (east region) show larger flood and smaller drought flow. Increasing rainfall and warmer weather brings double impact to the two basins. Chichiawan (middle region) shows insignificant changes on flood but smaller drought flow.
    • Sandiman (south region) has significant increase flow rate at all exceeded probabilities. A five-time high of average flow provides positive contribution for water resource planning.
    • High flow, Q10, are increase in all four basins, and the Sandiman basin makes a highest value of 228% that makes negative impact on flood control.
    Reference
    • Hun, Lan-Min, Chin-Pin Tung, "Affection of Climate-Change to Taiwan’s Hydrology,” Proceeding, Conference of Agricultural Engineering, Taipei, pp.683-690(1996).
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    • Lau, Chi-Chung, ”Assessment of Climate-Change Impact on Hydrologic System of Taiwan using Remote Sensing (I),”, ERL/ITRI report 06-3-85-0176, Hsinchu (1995).
    • Shoshany, M., P. Kutiel, H. Lavee and M. Eichler, “Remote Sensing of Vegetation Cover along a Climatological Gradient,” ISPRS. Journal of Photogrametry and Remote Sensing, Vol.49,No.4,pp.2-10(1994).
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