Individual and combined effects of land use/cover and climate change on Wolf Bay watershed streamflow in southern Alabama

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 5530-5546

  Wang, Ruoyu ^a   Kalin, Latif ^b   Kuang, Wenhui ^c   Tian, Hanqin ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Land cover; Land use; Streamflow; SWAT

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; LAND USE; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; URBAN GROWTH; WATERSHEDS;

FLOW FREQUENCIES; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; LAND COVER; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOLS; SURFACE RUNOFFS; SWAT; WATERSHED HYDROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84908022164     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10057     Document Type: Article

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