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Impacts of anthropogenic water regulation on global riverine dissolved organic carbon transport
Yanbin You
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
State Key Laboratory of Hydrology–Water Resources and Hydraulic
Engineering, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Nanjing 210029, China
Longhuan Wang
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Ruichao Li
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Heng Yan
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Yuhang Tian
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Si Chen
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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We investigate the impacts of anthropogenic water regulation on riverine DOC transport by the developed model. The results suggested that DOC transport in most rivers was mainly influenced by reservoir interception and surface water withdrawal. The impact of human water regulation on riverine DOC exports grew year by year. In general, this study developed an effective scheme to simulate DOC exports from terrestrial to aquatic systems, which is important for estimating global carbon budgets.
We investigate the impacts of anthropogenic water regulation on riverine DOC transport by the...
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