Table 1.
Characteristics of the elevation, climate parameters, water surface areas from the 1980s to 2018, mean water depth, salinity levels and trophic status of the five lakes in this study. The data come from references [23,24,25,29,30] and this study.
| Lake | Elevation (m) |
MAT (°C) |
MAP (mm) |
MAE (mm) |
Water Surface Area (km2) | MWD (m) |
Salinity Level |
Trophic Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 2000s | 2018 | ||||||||
| Hydrologically connected | ||||||||||
| Durenor | 1276 | 1.5 | 342 | 1630 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 3.5 | freshwater | LE |
| Dalinor | 1226 | 1.5 | 338 | 1632 | 227.8 | 222.6 | 190.0 | 7.5 | low-brackish | HE |
| Ganggengnor | 1243 | 1.6 | 360 | 1632 | 20.3 | 22.1 | 22.1 | 2.5 | freshwater | HE |
| Hydrologically separated | ||||||||||
| Chagannur | 1013 | 1.7 | 278 | 2020 | 101.9 | 36.4 | 30.2 | 3.0 | freshwater | HE |
| Daihai | 1221 | 5.6 | 376 | 1670 | 137.4 | 87.4 | 58.1 | 7.0 | high-brackish | ME |
MAT, mean annual temperature; MAP, mean annual precipitation; MAE, mean annual evaporation; MWD, mean water depth in 2018; LE, light eutrophic; HE, hyper eutrophic; ME, middle eutrophic.