Relative effects of human activities and climate change on the river runoff in an arid basin in northwest China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 4854-4864

  Dong, Wen ^a   Cui, Baoshan ^a   Liu, Zhihui ^b   Zhang, Kejiang ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Xinjiang Deland Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Human activities; Jinghe River Basin; Runoff variation; SWAT

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; RIVERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; JINGHE RIVERS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOLS; SWAT;

RUNOFF;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RUNOFF; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; JING BASIN; JING RIVER;

EID: 84906056480     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9982     Document Type: Article

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