Trends of mean annual and seasonal discharges of rivers in Serbia
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Subjects of this paper are trends of annual and seasonal water discharges in Serbia. Data
of water discharges at the 94 hydrological stations in the period 1961–2010 were analyzed, using
the Mann-Kendall test and Sen's method. It was concluded that 27% of analyzed stations have
statistically significant changes on annual level and 14–24% on seasonal level. The annual, winter,
spring and summer trends are negative, while positive trends occur at only one station for annual
values, on many stations in autumn and at a small number of stations in winter. Considering the
quality of data, the results of the Beli Drim River basin require additional research, while negative
trends at stations downstream of water reservoirs, primarily in basins of Južna Morava and Drina
rivers, are consequences of human activities. Results show that the attention of the competent
water management authorities should be directed to the Timok and Južna Morava basins in terms
of the expected decrease of a...mounts of water, and to the basins of Toplica, Nišava, Pusta, Ibar and
Kolubara rivers when it comes to increase of amounts of water.
Keywords:
discharge / annual trend / seasonal trend / Serbia / water resourcesSource:
Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA, 2014, 64(2), 143-160Publisher:
- Belgrade : Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA
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- Geography of Serbia (RS-47007)
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Географски институт „Јован Цвијић“ САНУ / Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijić SASATY - JOUR AU - Kovačević-Majkić, Jelena AU - Urošev, Marko PY - 2014 UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/1180 AB - Subjects of this paper are trends of annual and seasonal water discharges in Serbia. Data of water discharges at the 94 hydrological stations in the period 1961–2010 were analyzed, using the Mann-Kendall test and Sen's method. It was concluded that 27% of analyzed stations have statistically significant changes on annual level and 14–24% on seasonal level. The annual, winter, spring and summer trends are negative, while positive trends occur at only one station for annual values, on many stations in autumn and at a small number of stations in winter. Considering the quality of data, the results of the Beli Drim River basin require additional research, while negative trends at stations downstream of water reservoirs, primarily in basins of Južna Morava and Drina rivers, are consequences of human activities. Results show that the attention of the competent water management authorities should be directed to the Timok and Južna Morava basins in terms of the expected decrease of amounts of water, and to the basins of Toplica, Nišava, Pusta, Ibar and Kolubara rivers when it comes to increase of amounts of water. PB - Belgrade : Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA T2 - Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA T1 - Trends of mean annual and seasonal discharges of rivers in Serbia SP - 143 EP - 160 IS - 64(2) DO - 10.2298/IJGI1402143K UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_1180 ER -
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Kovačević-Majkić, J.,& Urošev, M.. (2014). Trends of mean annual and seasonal discharges of rivers in Serbia. in Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA Belgrade : Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA.(64(2)), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.2298/IJGI1402143K https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_1180
Kovačević-Majkić J, Urošev M. Trends of mean annual and seasonal discharges of rivers in Serbia. in Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA. 2014;(64(2)):143-160. doi:10.2298/IJGI1402143K https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_1180 .
Kovačević-Majkić, Jelena, Urošev, Marko, "Trends of mean annual and seasonal discharges of rivers in Serbia" in Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA, no. 64(2) (2014):143-160, https://doi.org/10.2298/IJGI1402143K ., https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_1180 .