Responses of streamflow to climate and land surface change in the headwaters of the Yellow River Basin

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Zheng, Hongxing ^a   Zhang, Lu ^b   Zhu, Ruirui ^a,c   Liu, Changming ^a   Sato, Yoshinobu ^d   Fukushima, Yoshihiro ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOTTORI UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY INDEX; HEADWATER CATCHMENT; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; LAND SURFACE CHANGE; LAND-USE CHANGE; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

CATCHMENTS; ELASTICITY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND USE; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARIDITY; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW PATTERN; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STREAMFLOW; WATER RESOURCE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 69249108767     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006665     Document Type: Article

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