Drought-flood variation and its correlation with runoff in three headstreams of Tarim River, Xinjiang, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1297-1309

  Bai, Yuan ^a,b   Xu, Hailiang ^a   Ling, Hongbo ^a,b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Drought flood index; Headstreams Tarim River; Multiscale correlation; Runoff process; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DROUGHT; FLOODS; RUNOFF; TIME SERIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

A-WAVELET TRANSFORM; FLOOD INDEX; MULTIPLE TIME SCALE; RUNOFF PROCESS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TARIM RIVER; TIME-SERIES DATA; WAVELET VARIANCE;

RIVERS;

CLIMATIC REGION; CORRELATION; DRAINAGE BASIN; DROUGHT STRESS; FLOOD; HEADWATER; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; RUNOFF; TIMESCALE; WATER RESOURCE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; TARIM RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84892677303     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2534-5     Document Type: Article

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