Impact of climate change on reservoir flood control in the upstream area of the Beijiang River basin, South China

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2203-2218

  Wu, Chuanhao ^a   Huang, Guoru ^a   Yu, Haijun ^a   Chen, Zhijing ^b   Ma, Jingguang ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Hydrology Bureau of Guangdong Province   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Climate prediction; Climate variability; Flood events; Hydrologic models; Rivers

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RESERVOIR FLOODING; RUNOFF;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; FEILAIXIA RESERVOIR; GUANGDONG;

EID: 84915824190     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0181.1     Document Type: Article

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