Effects of Vegetation Cover on Hydrological Processes in a Large Region: Huaihe River Basin, China

AbstractVegetation plays an important role in water and energy cycles on land surfaces. Nevertheless, the physical effects of vegetation are not explicitly considered in many hydrologic-modeling works. In this study, a coupled land-surface-hydrologic model was used to investigate the vegetation effects on hydrologic processes over the years 1980–1987 in the Huaihe River basin, China. The vegetation coverage of the basin was assessed by the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Initiative II historic and potential land cover data set. Farmland was declared the dominant vegetation type of the basin in 1970 by the historic land cover scenario, and the potential vegetation cover is mixed forest. Firstly, the coupled model was calibrated by observed streamflow at Bengbu station. The correlation coefficient and Nash-Sutcliffe coefficient of efficiency of multiannual daily series were 0.987 and 0.968, respectively, which indicate that the capability of the coupled model system is acce...

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