Contributions of climate and human activities to changes in runoff of the Yellow and Yangtze rivers from 1950 to 2008

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1398-1412

  Wang, Yan ^a   Ding, YongJian ^a   Ye, BaiSheng ^a   Liu, FengJing ^b   Wang, Jie ^a,c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yunnan Water Resources and Hydropower Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; human activity; precipitation; runoff; runoff coefficients; Yangtze River; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTED; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; UPPER REACHES OF THE YANGTZE RIVERS; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW RIVER;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND RECLAMATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

RUNOFF;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84881021906     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-012-4505-1     Document Type: Article

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