Predicting hydrologic response to climate change in the Luohe River basin using the SWAT model

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 901-910

  Zhang, Xuesong ^a   Srinivasan, R ^a,c   Hao, Fanghua ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrologic modeling; Luohe River; SWAT

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIVERS; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; WATER ANALYSIS;

HYDROLOGIC MODELING; LUOHE RIVER; SWAT;

HYDROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOW MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTION; STREAMFLOW; WATER PLANNING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LUO RIVER;

EID: 34447527580     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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