Long-Term Water Level Fluctuations in Terminal Lakes of Central Asiaстатья
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Аннотация:This paper discusses the formation of level regimes in lakes located in arid parts of Central Asia.Water resource formation specifics in the studied region include the presence of runoff formation and dispersal zones in river basins. When rivers leave mountainous areas, the dispersal of runoff occurs due to seepagelosses from river channels and the remaining waters fill drainless depressions, thus forming enclosed or terminal lakes. Water levels in such lakes depend entirely on water content fluctuations in rivers, and their sizesfluctuate in a wide range, up to completely drying up. Factors determining the hydrological regimes of terminal lakes whose catchment basins are located in the Russian Federation, Mongolia, and the People’s Republic of China are examined. Approaches to the stochastic modeling of water balance components in lakes andprobabilistic forecasts of their long-term water level fluctuations are presented. Using the examples of theTorey Lakes (the Russian Federation) and lakes located in the Heihe River basin (the People’s Republic ofChina), the level regime formation and its probabilistic forecasting are described, including situations involving severe anthropogenic impacts