The effects of annual precipitation and mean air temperature on annual runoff in global forest regions

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 401-410

  Cho, Jaeil ^a   Komatsu, Hikaru ^a,b   Pokhrel, Yadu ^c   Yeh, Pat J F ^c   Oki, Taikan ^c   Kanae, Shinjiro ^d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANNUAL RUNOFF; ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CHANGING CLIMATE; CHANGING TRENDS; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FOREST REGIONS; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; HYDROLOGIC SIMULATIONS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; INFLUENCING FACTOR; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MEAN AIR TEMPERATURES; MEAN TEMPERATURE; OBSERVED DATA; WATER BALANCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RUNOFF;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 80052260947     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0197-3     Document Type: Letter

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