Wenhao Jia

• Dr
• Pearl River Water Resources Research Institute

Forest status is crucial for catchment hydrology and water quality but is increasingly disturbed by human activities and climatic factors. Therefore, it is urgently necessary to develop water quality models that can adapt to these changes. This study used a new dynamic Hydrological Predictions for the Environment (HYPE) model to assess the effect o...

An objective assessment of hydrological alterations is crucial for comprehensive water resource management, environmental protection, river ecosystem restoration, and integrated watershed water resource management. To quantitatively assess the ecological hydrologic regime alterations in the Xijiang River Basin in southern China considering the impa...

Data-driven models have shown remarkable achievements in runoff prediction, but their simulation results can be overly homogenized due to the distillation of all simulation aspects into the loss function. This can make the models unreliable for predicting extreme events, leading to issues subsequent reservoir operations. This paper proposes a novel...

Understanding the transition from meteorological to hydrological drought is essential for accurately predicting hydrological droughts. However, the factors driving this transition are intricate, and a comprehensive understanding of how direct human activities influence this shift in drought is lacking. In this study, we initially explored the spati...

Climate change has far-reaching impacts that have created new challenges for water resource management. As an important measure to coordinate the relationship between society, economy, and environment, reservoir scheduling can reduce the future impact of climate change. It is, therefore, important to investigate the impacts of scheduling on reservo...

Obtaining the gridded precipitation data with a high resolution in mountainous area is of importance in hydrology, meteorology, and ecology. However, rain gauge observations and satellite-based precipitation products have its own shortcomings. Precipitation in mountainous area has correlation with variables like elevation, slope, and temperature. I...

This study investigated the combined impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) on streamflow under four scenarios: neutral, pure ENSO, pure IOD, and a combination of ENSO and IOD. The Jinsha River Basin (JRB), at the head of the Yangtze River, was used as a case study. By using statistical methods such as...

To promote ecosystem protection in the Wujiang River, this paper proposes a practical approach for calculating the environmental flow. The proposed approach combines the idea of the "guarantee rate" of the flow duration curve (FDC) method and the grading idea of the Tennant method. A daily flow series of the Wujiang River was compiled from 1956 to...

Study region Reservoir system on the Upper Yellow River Basin (UYRB), China. Study focus A multipurpose reservoir system with multi-year regulation capacity calls for new optimization with high efficiency owing to the curse of dimensionality. This paper presents a state-of-the-art large-scale multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (LSMOEA), called...

A decision-making method for water resource regulation that considers the multi-objective time-varying competition relationship is proposed, given the dynamic time-varying characteristics of the mutual feedback relationship and its strength as the main targets in the water resources scheduling cycle. With a focus on different dispatching periods, a...

In this study, annual and seasonal precipitation trends and their connection with large-scale climate indices in the Qinling Mountains (QMs) were investigated using the innovative trend analysis (ITA), based on observed monthly precipitation data between 1959 and 2016 from 32 meteorological stations. The results indicated a declining trend in annua...

Trend detection based on hydroclimatological time series is crucial for understanding climate change. In this study, the innovative trend analysis (ITA) method was applied to investigate trends in air temperature and precipitation over the Jinsha River Basin (JRB), China, from 1961 to 2016 based on 40 meteorological stations. Climatic factors serie...

The multi-objective optimal operation and the joint scheduling of giant-scale reservoir systems are of great significance for water resource management; the interactions and mechanisms between the objectives are the key points. Taking the reservoir system composed of 30 reservoirs in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River as the research object, th...

The lower reaches of Jinsha River host the richest hydropower energy sources in China. With the construction of Wudongde and Baihetan, the multi-objective optimization for cascade reservoirs (along with Xiluodu and Xiangjia Dam) in the lower reaches of Jinsha River will create significant benefits. This paper focuses on the competitive relationship...

This study aims to explore the optimization of reservoir operation in the Jinsha River, accounting for both economic and ecological needs. Power generation was set as an objective to express economic needs, while water supply, shipping, and flood control were considered as restrictions. The distribution flow method (DFM) based on Pearson-III curve...

This paper analyzes the complex relationship among flood control, power generation and ecological maintenance for the four cascade reservoirs located on the lower reaches of the Jinsha River, China. A weighted flood control index is incorporated and a constraining method consisting of the combination of a constrained corridor and a penalty function...