Assessment of Change in Flood Disasters over Xinjiang, China

Abstract:

Analyses of climate disasters were conducted using data on the flood-damaged areas of cropland, the annual number of flood disasters and the direct economic losses in Xinjiang. There is an increasing trend in flood disasters in Xinjiang during the second half of the 20th century, especially since the mid-1980s. In addition, siltation of reservoirs and loss of flood control structures are partly responsible for the increase of flood-damaged area. These results suggest that the increasing trend in flood disasters in Xinjiang since the middle 1980s could be attributed, at least in part, to an increasing trend in annual precipitation.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 962-965)
• Pages: 1285-1288
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.962-965.1285
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Yan Wei Zhang*
• Keywords: Flood Disasters, Precipitation

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