Analyzing the water budget and hydrological characteristics and responses to land use in a monsoonal climate river basin in South China

Environmental Management

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1174-1186

  Wu, Yiping ^a,b   Chen, Ji ^b  

^a EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Distributed model; East River (Dongjiang); Hydrological characteristics; Land use; Streamflow; SWAT

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED MODELS; EAST RIVER; HYDROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; SWAT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAND USE; MANAGERS; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

RUNOFF;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND USE CHANGE; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; RIVER BASIN; STREAMFLOW; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER BUDGET;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHINA; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LAND USE; PROCESS MODEL; RIVER BASIN; SEASHORE; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAM (RIVER); SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VALIDATION STUDY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED;

CHINA; CLIMATE; HYDROLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WEATHER;

CHINA; DONG RIVER;

EID: 84878840165     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0045-5     Document Type: Article

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