The paper presents the analysis of hydrological drought of the Biebrza river to the Burzyn gauge and Narewka river to Narewka gauge in multiyear 1951–2002. Hydrological drought is usually expressions of deficiencies is surface water supplies. This phenomena is the last stage the drought process and is identify with low flows in river bed. The examined catchment area is part of the Podlaska Lowland where droughts occurred most often in Poland. The research described in this paper was concentrated on the Biebrza valley, which is a unique wetlands area in Central Europe and on the Narewka valley within the Bialowieza Forest, the latter being a natural heritage in the global scale. The Biebrza Wetlands and Bialowieza Forest hydrogenic sites conditions depends on ground and surface water levels and thus, a hydrological droughts is a danger to them. The methodology used in this paper describes the hydrological drought as the situation, where river discharges are below some arbitrarily chosen threshold level. The size of the threshold discharge was established in dependence on aim of study. Truncation level value of drought was applied as statistical value Q90% determined from flow duration curve with the upper discharges. This paper include the proposition the ...
Streamflow drought is a period of continuing low flows in river. Depending on the time of year streamflow drought are caused by long-term shortage of preci-pitation or long-lasting temperatures below zero. Streamflow droughts are one of the current problems in the management of water, especially in the light seen in recent years, frequent occurrence of droughts. The goal of this work consists in analysis of long-term changes in selected characteristics of streamflow droughts (duration, deficit) in the Zagożdżonka river at the Płachty Stare gauging station. The Zagożdżonka catchment is situated in the strip of the Central Polish Lowlands, in the region where droughts are the most frequent. The Zagożdżonka small river catchment is one of a few in Poland with long-term records on rainfall and runoff. To identify droughts in daily discharge hydrograms, truncation levels SNQ and Q90% were used. The study did not show a tendency to pre-existing low flow periods in the catchment Zagożdżonka. Analysis of the statistical significance of trends in the course of aggregation of the individual years of deficits of droughts and duration of droughts in the Zagożdżonka river at the Płachty Stare showed a positive trend on the level of significance 0,1. In ...
