Hydrologicalbehaviour_省略_catchmentofTaih精选.pdf

Water Science and Engineering, Sep. 2008, Vol. 1, No. 3, 44-53 ISSN 1674-2370, , e-mail: wse@ Hydrological behaviour and water balance analysis for Xitiaoxi catchment of Taihu Basin Xue Lijuan1, 2, Li Lijiao1, 3, Zhang Qi*1 1. State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, P. R. China 2. Haihe River Commission, Ministry of Water Resources, Tianjin 300170, P. R. China 3. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China Abstract: With the rapid social and economic development of the Taihu region, Taihu Lake now faces an increasingly severe eutrophication problem. Pollution from surrounding catchments contributes greatly to the eutrophication of water bodies in the region. Investigation of surface flow and associated mass transport for the Xitiaoxi catchment is of a significant degree of importance as the Xitiaoxi catchment is one of the major catchments within the Taihu region. A SWAT-based distributed hydrological model was established for the Xitiaoxi catchment. The model was calibrated and verified using hydrometeorological data from 1988 to 2001. The results indicate that the modeled daily and annual stream flow match the observed data both in the calibration period and the verification period, with a linear regression coefficient R2 and a coefficient e for modeled daily stream flow greater than 0.8 at Hengtangcun and Fanjiacun gauge stations. The results show that the runoff process in the Xitiaoxi catchment is affected both by rainfall and human activities (e.g., reservoirs and polder areas). Moreover, the human activities weaken flood peaks more noticeably during rainstorms. The water balance analysis reveals the percentages of precipitation made up by surface flow, evapotranspiration, groundwater