Responses of streamflow to changes in climate and land use/cover in the Loess Plateau, China

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Xiaoping ^a   Zhang, Lu ^b   Zhao, Jing ^c   Rustomji, Paul ^b   Hairsine, Peter ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Water Resources Survey   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; IRRIGATION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; REFORESTATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONSERVATION MEASURES; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; LAND USE COVER CHANGES; LAND USE/COVER CHANGE; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; SEDIMENT TRAPPING; STREAMFLOW RECORDS;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAM CONSTRUCTION; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; STREAMFLOW;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 69249149619     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006711     Document Type: Article

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