The impacts of future climate change on water resources in the Heihe Watershed on the Loess Plateau

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3456-3464

  Li, Zhi ^a,b   Liu, Wen Zhao ^b   Zhang, Xun Chang ^c   Zheng, Fen Li ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c USDA ARS GRAZINGLANDS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; GCMs; SWAT; The loess plateau; Water resources

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RUNOFF; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL WATER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; HEIHE BASIN;

EID: 69549127759     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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