Drought variation trends in different subregions of the Chinese Loess Plateau over the past four decades

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 115, Issue , 2012, Pages 167-177

  Zhang, Baoqing ^a,b   Wu, Pute ^a,b   Zhao, Xining ^a,b   Wang, Yubao ^a,b   Wang, Jiawen ^a,b   Shi, Yinguang ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Engineering Research Center for Water Saving Irrigation at Yangling   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Distributed hydrological model; Drought; PDSI; VIC model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; CLIMATE CHARACTERISTICS; COMPUTATION METHODS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD SECURITY; HURST EXPONENTS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; LOESS PLATEAU; MANN-KENDALL TEST; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PDSI; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SOIL AND WATER LOSS; UPWARD TREND; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS; VIC MODEL; YELLOW RIVER;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD SUPPLY; HAZARDS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

DROUGHT;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FOOD SECURITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LOESS; PLATEAU; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATERSHED;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84869790185     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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