High- and low-flow variations in annual runoff and their response to climate change in the headstreams of the Tarim River, Xinjiang, China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 975-988

  Ling, Hongbo ^a,b   Xu, Hailiang ^a   Fu, Jinyi ^a,b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cross wavelet transformation; Headstreams of the Tarim River; High flow and low flow indexes; Multi scale correlation

Indexed keywords

CROSS-WAVELET TRANSFORMATION; HIGH-FLOW AND LOW-FLOW INDEXES; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MULTIPLE TIME SCALE; MULTISCALES; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; TARIM RIVER; VARIATION CHARACTERISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LASERS; METEOROLOGY; RIVERS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

RUNOFF;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORRELATION; PERIODICITY; RUNOFF; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; TARIM RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84877924093     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9274     Document Type: Article

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