Quantitative Assessment of Groundwater and Surface Water Interactions in the Hailiutu River Basin, Erdos Plateau, China

ISBN-13: 9781138596870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 144 str.

Zhi Yang

Opis

This study describes interactions between groundwater and surface water and human impacts in the semi-arid Hailiutu catchment in the Erdos Plateau, Northwest China. Hydraulic, hydrochemical, isotopic, temperature and numerical modelling approaches were applied at various spatial and temporal scales for investigating and quantifying groundwater and surface water interactions. The study shows that groundwater constitutes a major part of river discharges at all scales and supplies evaporative water use by plants and crops, and provides data for integrated water resources management to achieve sustainable socio-economic development and ecosystem protection in the Hailiutu catchment.

O autorze

Zhi Yang was born in 1974 in Anhui Province, China. He graduated from the Hefei University of Technology, China with a BSc degree in Environmental Engineering in 1996. He participated in the MSc programme Hydrology and Water Resources from 2002 to 2004 at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands. In December 2009, he entered the PhD programme at UNESCO-IHE (now called IHE Delft) in cooperation with China University of Geosciences (Beijing). He is working at the Institute of the Huai River Water Resources Protection as an environmental impact assessment consultant.