Quantification of the impacts of climate change and human agricultural activities on oasis water requirements in an arid region: a case study  of  the Heihe River basin, China

Liu, Xingran; Shen, Yanjun

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-211-2018

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-211-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-211-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

Research article

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05 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 05 Mar 2018

Quantification of the impacts of climate change and human agricultural activities on oasis water requirements in an arid region: a case study of the Heihe River basin, China

Xingran Liu and Yanjun Shen

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of article titled “Water requirements of the oasis in the middle Heihe River Basin, China: Trends and causes” by Liu X. And Shen Y.', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'Responses to Referee #1', Xingran Liu, 13 Oct 2017
- AC2: 'supplemental responses to Referee #1', Xingran Liu, 19 Oct 2017
RC2: 'Interactive comment on “Water requirements of the oasis in the middle Heihe River Basin, China: Trends and causes” by Xingran Liu, Yanjun Shen.', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Oct 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (19 Oct 2017) by Zhenghui Xie

AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (05 Dec 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Jan 2018) by Zhenghui Xie

Post-review adjustments

AA: Author's adjustment | EA: Editor approval

AA by Xingran Liu on behalf of the Authors (05 Feb 2018) Author's adjustment Manuscript

EA: Adjustments approved (23 Feb 2018) by Zhenghui Xie

Short summary

The impacts of climate change and human activities on oasis water requirements in Heihe River basin were quantified with the methods of partial derivative and slope in this study. The results showed that the oasis water requirement increased sharply from 10.8 × 10⁸ to 19.0 × 10⁸ m³ during 1986–2013. Human activities were the dominant driving forces. Changes in climate, land scale and structure contributed to the increase in water requirement at rates of 6.9, 58.1, and 25.3 %, respectively.