Abstract
Abstract An ecological base flow method is developed to estimate the ecological base flows of Wei River in Shaaxi province. The method considers not only the self purification flow to fulfill the water quality demand, but also the flow demand for the existing aquatic lives’ habitat. A water quality model is developed to estimate the self purification flow for four scenarios, including the present emission and other 3 scenarios corresponding to different measurements of pollution treatment. The flow demand of the existing aquatic lives’ habitat is calculated by the biological indicator method. By synthesizing these flow demands, the ecological flow of Wei River in Shaanxi province is estimated. The results are also compared with those of other methods, such as the Tennant method, the wetted perimeter method, and the R2ROSS method. It shows that the proposed method has more reliability and is more suitable for the calculation of the ecological base flow of Wei River in Shaanxi province.
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