Maintaining the connected river-lake relationship in the middle Yangtze River reaches after completion of the Three Gorges Project

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摘要 AfteroperationoftheThreeGorgesProject(TGP),thereisanewevolutiontendencyforriversandlakesinthemiddlereachesoftheYangtzeRiver(i.e.theChingRiverreaches).Inrecentyears,theweakeningconnectionrelationshipbetweentheYangtzeRiverandDongtingLakehasresultedinaseriesofproblemsforfloodregulation,waterresourcesutilization,andaquaticecosystemprotectionintheriver-lakejointarea.Inthispaper,thehydrologicalcharacteristicsandfluvialprocesseswithintheriver-lakejointareaarestudied,andpossiblemanagementstrategiestomaintaintheconnectedriver-lakerelationshipareproposed.Toachievethisobjective,theevolutiontendency,suchasthezero-flowproblemandriverregimeforthreemajoroutlets(i.e.theSongziOutlet,TaipingOutlet,andOuchiOutlet)toDongtingLakefromtheYangtzeRiver,isanalyzed.ItisbelievedthattheSongziOutlethasacomparativeadvantageinflowdiversionovertheothertwooutlets.TheRangeofVariabilityApproachisintroducedtoidentifyhydrologicalcharacteristicsattheSongziOutlet.Severalcharacteristicvaluesofflowdiversionfromthisoutletduringdroughtperiodsaredetermined.Then,thefluvialprocessesintheriver-lakejointareaarestudiedbycomparingtopographicmapsandusingcontrolgaugestationdataofvariousyears.ThewaterandsedimentfluxareanalyzedbeforeandafteroperationoftheTGP.Finally,basedontheresultsobtained,twopossiblemanagementstrategiesarerecommendedandcorrespondingparametersareestimatedtostrengthenandmaintaintheconnectedriver-lakerelationship.ThisanalysistakesintoaccountoperationoftheTGP,mainstreamshiftandincreasingriverbedscourintheChingRiverchannel.Torestoretheflowdiversionconditiontothatinthe1950sor1960s(i.e.140m3/sofflowdiversioncorrespondingto5500m3/sofflowattheZhichengstation),itisestimatedthattheriverchannelaroundtheSongziOutletshouldbedredged1.4munderthecurrentriverbedsituatio
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出版日期 2017年04月14日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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