Modeling the runoff and glacier mass balance in a small watershed on the Central Tibetan Plateau, China, from 1955 to 2008

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1593-1603

  Gao, Hongkai ^a   He, Xiaobo ^a   Ye, Baisheng ^a   Pu, Jianchen ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dongkemadi River Basin (DRB); Glacier runoff; HBV light model; Interpolation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL RUNOFF; CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY; CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; DAILY TEMPERATURES; DEGREE-DAY MODEL; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER RUNOFF; HBV MODEL; HEAD WATERS; ICE MELTING; LIGHT MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; REMOTE AREAS; RIVER BASINS; RUNOFF DEPTH; SMALL WATERSHEDS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WATER CIRCULATION; YANGTZE RIVER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; WATERSHEDS;

RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; INTERPOLATION; MELTING; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

CHINA; DONGKEMADI BASIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YANGTZE RIVER;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 84861232225     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8256     Document Type: Article

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