Impact of climate factors on runoff in the Kaidu river watershed: Path analysis of 50-year data

Journal of Arid Land

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-140

  Li, Xue Mei ^a,b   Li, Lan Hai ^a   Guo, Ling Peng ^a,b   Zhang, Fei Yun ^a,b   Adsavakulchai, Suwannee ^c   Shang, Ming ^a,b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE THAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Climate factors; Inland river; Kaidu river watershed; Path analysis; Runoff formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860903360     PISSN: 16746767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1227.2011.00132     Document Type: Article

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