Tree-ring based May-June streamflow reconstruction of Zemu River in the Eastern Himalaya

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F25%3A00636992" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/25:00636992 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/25:00141449

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581825003337" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581825003337</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102508" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102508</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tree-ring based May-June streamflow reconstruction of Zemu River in the Eastern Himalaya

Original language description

Study region: Zemu River, Upper Teesta River Basin, Eastern Himalaya Study focus: In this study, a tree-ring chronology of Abies densa was used as a proxy to reconstruct a century-long May-June streamflow of the Zemu River. The reconstruction was carried out based on a scaling approach which explained 35 % of variance in observed streamflow and was varified by comparing with other regional reconstructions. Moving windowed Pearson correlation was performed to reveal the temporal influence of major climate forcings (e.g., ENSO) with the streamflow of Zemu River. New hydrological insights for the region: Our study identified a strong negative relationship between tree-growth and observed May-June streamflow in the glacier-fed Zemu River. This counterintuitive, inverse relationship is likely due to the contribution of additional meltwater when conditions are dry and insulation over the glacier is high. The reconstructed streamflow record reveals several high- and low-flow periods above and below the mean value (+/- 1 sigma) and identifies 30 high-flow years and 33 low-flow years, including some historically recorded floods in 1927, 1968, 1980, 1982 and 1998, and of severe droughts in 1951, 1976 and 2017. Most recently, a positive association between reconstructed streamflow and the ENSO has become apparent, which we attribute to reduced penetration of the Indian Summer Monsoon during ENSO years, which reduces precipitation but maintains for longer warmer and drier conditions that allow glacier melt.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10503 - Water resources

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies

ISSN

2214-5818

e-ISSN

2214-5818

Volume of the periodical

60

Issue of the periodical within the volume

AUG

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

102508

UT code for WoS article

001510787600003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105007681676