Hydrological impacts of deforestation on the southeast Tibetan Plateau

Earth Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1-18

  Cui, Xuefeng ^a,b,c   Graf, H F ^d   Langmann, Baerbel ^e   Chen, Wen ^b   Huang, Ronghui ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deforestation; GCM; Hydrology; Southeast Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; LOWER REACHES OF THE YELLOW RIVERS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 67349257733     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/ei223.1     Document Type: Article

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