Hydrologic effects of NDVI time series in a context of climatic variability in an Upstream Catchment of the Minjiang River

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1132-1143

  Sun, Pengsen ^a   Liu, Shirong ^a   Jiang, Hong ^b   Lü, Yuliang ^c   Liu, Jingtao ^a   Lin, Yong ^d   Liu, Xingliang ^e  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SICHUAN ACADEMY OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Minjiang River; Normalized Difference of Vegetation Index; Seasonal Mann Kendall test; Streamflow; Time series

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EARTH SCIENCES; RUNOFF; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MINJIANG RIVER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE OF VEGETATION INDEX; SEASONAL MANN-KENDALL TEST; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES;

RIVERS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GROWING SEASON; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NDVI; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MIN RIVER [SICHUAN]; SICHUAN;

EID: 53549122470     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2008.00256.x     Document Type: Article

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