Climate change impact on water resource extremes in a headwater region of the Tarim basin in China

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3511-3527

  Liu, T ^a   Willems, P ^a   Pan, X L ^b   Bao, An M ^b   Chen, X ^b   Veroustraete, F ^c   Dong, Q H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATIC CHANGES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLACIER MELTING; GRID-BASED; HEAD WATERS; HISTORICAL DATA; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; PERTURBATION APPROACH; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW-MELTING; SNOW-MELTING RATES; SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; SUBBASINS; TARIM BASIN; TARIM RIVER BASIN; TEMPERATURE RISE; WET-DAY FREQUENCY;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MELTING; SNOW; SURFACE WATER RESOURCES; TIME SERIES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARID REGION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROUNDWATER; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MELTING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RIVER BASIN; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 82155191789     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-3511-2011     Document Type: Article

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