Reference evapotranspiration change and the causes across the Yellow River Basin during 1957-2008 and their spatial and seasonal differences

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Weiguang ^a,b   Shao, Quanxi ^b   Peng, Shizhang ^a   Xing, Wanqiu ^a   Yang, Tao ^a   Luo, Yufeng ^a   Yong, Bin ^a   Xu, Junzeng ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ANGSTROM COEFFICIENT; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; CLUSTERING METHODS; COHERENT SPATIAL PATTERNS; COMBINED EFFECT; COMPLEMENTARY RELATIONSHIP; DRIVING FACTORS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; HIGH ELEVATION; HOMOGENOUS REGION; INCREASING EFFECT; LOESS PLATEAU; MEAN TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; PENMAN-MONTEITH METHOD; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEASONAL SCALE; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SOURCE AREA; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUNSHINE DURATION; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; WATER SHORTAGES; WIND SPEED; YELLOW RIVER; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS; WATER SUPPLY; WIND EFFECTS;

VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GIS; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RIVER BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREND ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY; WARMING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84861402591     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010724     Document Type: Article

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