Analysis of historical drought and flood characteristics of Hengshui during the period 1649-2018: a typical city in North China

• Main Authors: Sun, Jiaqi, Wang, Xiaojun, Yin, Yixing, Shahid, Shamsuddin
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media B.V. 2021
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/94091/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04769-8
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The objective of this study was to reconstruct the long-term drought and flood time series to analyze their changing characteristics in Hengshui City of North China. Disaster records of the city for 550 years (1649–2018) were collected from different sources and sorted to reconstruct the sequences o...