Streamflow sensitivity analysis to climate change for a large water-limited basin

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1767-1774

  Liang, Liqiao ^a   Liu, Qiang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Budyko framework; Potential evaporation; Vegetation; Watershed characteristics; Yellow River Basin

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; BUDYKO FRAMEWORK; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; STREAMFLOW SENSITIVITIES; WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

CATCHMENTS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOHYDROLOGY; EVAPORATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; VEGETATION; WATERSHED;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84892442481     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9720     Document Type: Article

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