Separating the impacts of climate variation and human activities on runoff in the Songhua River Basin, Northeast China

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3320-3338

  Li, Fengping ^a,b   Zhang, Guangxin ^a   Xu, Yi Jun ^c  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variation; Human activities; Hydrologic sensitivity analysis; Nenjiang river; Precipitation runoff relation; River basin runoff; Second Songhua River; Songhua River

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; RIVER BASINS; SECOND SONGHUA RIVERS; SONGHUA RIVER;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; NEN RIVER; SONGHUA BASIN;

EID: 84920873472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6113320     Document Type: Article

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