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Arid Land Geography ›› 1989, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (1): 11-16.doi: 10.13826/j.cnki.cn65-1103/x.1989.01.003

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The Prediction of the 1987 Flood and the Estimation of the Tendency of Floods, Yarkand R. Xinjiang

Cheng Yaning, Wang Zhichao, You Xiyiao   

  • Online:1989-03-25 Published:2025-12-25

Abstract: It is little possible that the glacier-outburst flood would oc-cur in 1987.The reason given as below:first, the glacier dammed lake was just released water last year and it was empty on June thirteenth day, this year when we explored the lake;second, the air temperature is 2-4℃ lower than the other years;It will not be more than 25003 m/s , if flood occur in 1987, because the total of the lake can only store wa- ter 6000 m3 and stored as much as it can did before 2130 m3/s flood occurred last year.The tendency of this discharge of Jokulhlaups is decreasing because the size of the lake is reducing as the thickness of the glacier-dam geadually go-ingdown.
The glacier-melting floods is as usual, and the total of the run-off is probably lower than usual, because the air temperature is lower in the carly part of the year.
The average of the run-off will not be reduced in the Yarkand River within this century