Long-term change of seasonal snow cover and its effects on river runoff in the Tarim River basin, northwestern China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2045-2055

  Xu, Changchun ^a   Chen, Yaning ^b   Hamid, Yimit ^a   Tashpolat, Tiyip ^a   Chen, Yapeng ^b   Ge, Hongtao ^c   Li, Weihong ^b  

^a XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^c Xinjiang Geomatics Center   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Empirical orthogonal function; Non parametric test; Snow depth; Tarim River

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC FACTORS; COLD SEASON; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; LONG-TERM CHANGES; LONG-TERM TREND; MANN-KENDALL; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; PRINCIPAL FACTORS; RIVER BASINS; RIVER RUNOFFS; SCANNING MULTICHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SEASONAL SNOW COVER; SNOW DEPTH; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW MELT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TARIM RIVER; TARIM RIVER BASIN; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES; TOTAL VARIANCE; WEATHER SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MICROWAVE DEVICES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEADWATER; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MELTWATER; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; RADIOMETER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SEASONALITY; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 67650311743     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7334     Document Type: Article

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