Temporal trends of hydro-climatic variables and runoff response to climatic variability and vegetation changes in the Yiluo River basin, China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3030-3039

  Liu, Qiang ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a   Cui, Baoshan ^a   Sun, Tao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climatic variability; Evapotranspiration; Runoff; The Yellow River basin; The Yiluo River basin; Vegetation changes

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANNUAL RUNOFF; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; EMPIRICAL MODEL; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; M-K METHOD; MANN-KENDALL; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RIVER BASINS; RUNOFF RESPONSE; SANMENXIA DAM; TEMPORAL TRENDS; THE YELLOW RIVER BASIN; THE YILUO RIVER BASIN; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION CHANGES; WATER BALANCE MODELS; YELLOW RIVER; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; VEGETATION COVER; WATER BUDGET;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HENAN; YELLOW RIVER; YILUO RIVER;

EID: 70350128548     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7414     Document Type: Article

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