Trend and extreme occurrence of precipitation in a mid-latitude Eurasian steppe watershed at various time scales

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 5547-5560

  Wang, Xixi ^a,b   Yang, Xiaomin ^a   Liu, Tingxi ^b   Li, Fengling ^b   Gao, Ruizhong ^b   Duan, Limin ^b   Luo, Yanyun ^b  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; Climate change; Mann Kendall; Nonstationarity; Precipitation runoff; Step change

Indexed keywords

RAIN; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ASIAN MONSOON; MANN-KENDALL; NON-STATIONARITIES; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STEP CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84908043642     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10054     Document Type: Article

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