Spatiotemporal analysis of climate variability (1971-2010) in spring and summer on the Loess Plateau, China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1689-1702

  Zhang, Baoqing ^a,b   Wu, Pute ^a,b   Zhao, Xining ^a,b   Gao, Xiaodong ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Engineering Research Center for Water Saving Irrigation at Yangling   (China)

Author keywords

Distributed hydrological model; Drought; PDSI; Standardized Precipitation Index; VIC model; Wet dry change

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; PDSI; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; VIC MODEL; WET DRIES;

CLIMATOLOGY; FOOD SUPPLY; REFORESTATION;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84892431567     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9724     Document Type: Article

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