About the high flow regime of the rivers of Kosovo and Metohia Cover Image

О режиму великих вода река Косова и Метохије
About the high flow regime of the rivers of Kosovo and Metohia

Author(s): Ljiljana Gavrilović, Nenad Živković
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Српско географско друштво
Keywords: Kosovo and Metohia; water regime; high flows; methods; regionalization;

Summary/Abstract: The examples from Kosovo and Metohia attempted to point to some problems in the domain of hydrogeographic regionalization. The river water regime, especially the phase of high flows which marks this regime, has been the topic of almost all researches which treat water resources of drainage basins. However, the thing that has not been achieved till now is the unique solution by which the classification of rivers would be made according to this feature. On this example it has been shown that even some older methods, based on genetic analysis of hydrograms and of global type, as well as some recent ones, with lot of quantitative entry and regional approaches, cannot with certainty answer all the challenges which river regimes bring with themselves. This work shows that apart from climate, orthographic and physiognomic features of drainage basins, the periods of data processing and the analysis of individual intra-annual series of discharges are very important as well. Discretization on time periods shorter than one month, as well as elimination of the extreme values of discharges in the longtime series is recommended for the future research.

  • Issue Year: 89/2009
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 225-253
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: English, Serbian