Drought characteristics in the Shiyang River Basin during the recent 50 years based on a composite index

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 975-984

  Zhang, Tiaofeng ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a   Wang, Youheng ^a,b   Liu, Xiuli ^a,c   An, Meiling ^a   Zhang, Jianxiang ^a  

^a NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Lanzhou Regional Climate Center   (China)

^c XINZHOU TEACHERS UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Composite index; Shiyang River Basin; The coverage area intensity of drought; The occurrence frequency of drought

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; DROUGHT STRESS; GIS; GLOBAL WARMING; INDEX METHOD; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; GANSU; SHIYANG BASIN;

EID: 84874641742     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5846/stxb201203030285     Document Type: Article

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