Streamflow trends and climate variability impacts in Poyang Lake basin, China

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 689-706

  Zhao, Guangju ^a   Hörmann, Georg ^a   Fohrer, Nicola ^a   Zhang, Zengxin ^b   Zhai, Jianqing ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Correlation; Evapotranspiration; Poyang Lake basin; Precipitation; Streamflow trends

Indexed keywords

BASIN PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CLIMATIC DATA; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; DRY SEASONS; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; MANN-KENDALL TEST; NON-PARAMETRIC; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; POYANG LAKE; POYANG LAKE BASIN; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SEASONAL TRENDS; SUBBASINS; WET SEASON;

CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKES; WATER SUPPLY;

STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; JIANGXI; POYANG LAKE;

EID: 77349086365     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-009-9465-7     Document Type: Article

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