Nonlinear trend in streamflow and its response to climate change under complex ecohydrological patterns in the Yellow River Basin, China

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 220-227

  Yana, Yan ^a,b   Yanga, Zhifeng ^a,b   Liub, Qiang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Discrete wavelet transform; Ecohydrological patterns; Precipitation; Streamflow; Temperature; Yellow river basin

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DECOMPOSITION AND RECONSTRUCTION; ECOHYDROLOGICAL PATTERNS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RESPONSE OF HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; YELLOW RIVER BASIN; YELLOW RIVER BASIN , CHINA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; NONLINEARITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; STREAMFLOW; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84897423801     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.05.022     Document Type: Article

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