Hydrological Droughts and Trends of the Demirköprü Dam Basin on Gediz River, Turkey
Abstract
In
recent years, the impacts of climate change on water resources are much more
noticeable. In terms of sustainable management of water resources, it is important
to identify drought occurrences in river basins and to identify drought trends.
For this purpose, many drought indices have been developed in order to define
the droughts quantitatively and Streamflow Drought Index (SDI) method is
frequently used to determine the hydrological droughts among them. In this
study, hydrological drought and trends of these droughts on Acısu, Selendi,
Deliiniş, Demirci sub-basins and Demirköprü Dam reservoir on the Gediz River
are analyzed in monthly, quarterly, six-month and annual time-scales. As a
result of the study, it was determined that the inflows of the Demirköprü Dam
basin were affected from hydrological droughts for long periods and
hydrological droughts were towards the dry periods.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Ahmet Kumanlioglu
0000-0001-7073-0322
Türkiye
Publication Date
September 22, 2020
Submission Date
October 1, 2019
Acceptance Date
December 10, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2020 Volume: 22 Number: 66