Detection and attribution of changes in hydrological cycle over the Three-North region of China: Climate change versus afforestation effect

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 203, Issue , 2015, Pages 74-87

  Xie, Xianhong ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b   Yao, Yunjun ^a   Jia, Kun ^a   Meng, Shanshan ^a   Li, Jing ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Attribution; Climate change; Hydrological modeling; Hydrological processes; Three North region of China

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MONITORING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RUNOFF; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAMFLOW; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CAMEROON; NORTH REGION;

EID: 84921033417     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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