The response of river discharge to climate fluctuations in the source region of the Yellow River

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1505-1512

  Zhang, Jianfeng ^a,b   Li, Guomin ^a   Liang, S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cross wavelet; The Yellow River; Wavelet coherence; Zero discharge

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WATER; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORMS; CROSS WAVELET; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT SCALE; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; SOURCE AREA; SOURCE REGION; THREE PARAMETERS; TIME SPAN; YELLOW RIVER; ZERO DISCHARGE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER SUPPLY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84862247597     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1390-4     Document Type: Article

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