Assessment of Contributions of Climatic Variation and Human Activities to Streamflow Changes in the Lancang River, China

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2953-2966

  Tang, Jian ^a   Yin, Xin An ^a   Yang, Pan ^a   Yang, ZhiFeng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climatic variation; Human activities; Lancang River; Streamflow

Indexed keywords

DAMS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; TIME MEASUREMENT;

BACK-PROPAGATION ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATIC VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDROPOWER RESERVOIRS; LANCANG RIVER; MONTHLY TIME SCALE; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; STREAMFLOW CHANGES;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RESERVOIR; STREAMFLOW;

MEKONG RIVER;

EID: 84903576479     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0648-5     Document Type: Article

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