Climate changes and their impacts on water resources in semiarid regions: A case study of the wei river basin, China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 3852-3863

  Zhao, Guangju ^a,b,c   Mu, Xingmin ^a,b   Tian, Peng ^a   Wang, Fei ^a,b   Gao, Peng ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Potential evapotranspiration; Precipitation; Streamflow; Wei River basin

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENTS; WEI RIVER;

ARID REGIONS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; RIVER FLOW; SEMIARID REGION; STREAMFLOW; WATER RESOURCE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BEILUO RIVER; CHINA; HUAXIAN; SHAANXI; SHANXI; WEI BASIN; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84890309983     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9504     Document Type: Article

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