Simulating site-specific impacts of climate change on soil erosion and surface hydrology in southern Loess Plateau of China

Catena

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-242

  Zhang, X C ^a   Liu, W Z ^b,c   Li, Z ^b   Zheng, F L ^b,c  

^a USDA ARS GRAZINGLANDS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Impact assessment; Runoff; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TILLAGE; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

CHANGWU; CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; SHAANXI;

EID: 77953128508     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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