Separating the effects of climate change and human activities on runoff over different time scales in the Zhang River basin

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 401-413

  Zeng, Sidong ^a   Xia, Jun ^a,b   Du, Hong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Different time scales; Human activities; Hydrological modeling; Sensitivity based method; The Zhang River basin

Indexed keywords

RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEPARATION; TIME MEASUREMENT; WATERSHEDS;

DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER BASINS; SENSITIVITY-BASED METHOD;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CHINA; ZHANG BASIN;

EID: 84890986206     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-013-0760-8     Document Type: Article

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