Impacts of climate change on headstream runoff in the Tarim River Basin

Hydrology Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-29

  Xu, Hailiang ^a   Zhou, Bin ^b   Song, Yudong ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Glacier melting; Precipitation; Runoff; Tarim river watershed; Temperature; Water resources

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RUNOFF; GLACIER MELTING; LONG-TERM TREND; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION AND RUNOFF; REGIONAL WATER RESOURCES; RESPONSE OF HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; RISING TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; TARIM RIVER; TARIM RIVER BASIN; TARIM RIVER WATERSHED; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; MELTING; METEOROLOGY; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA ACQUISITION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HEADWATER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MELTWATER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

AKSU RIVER; CHINA; KAIDU BASIN; TARIM BASIN; TURKEY; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 79952289364     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2010.069     Document Type: Article

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