Climate change impacts on meteorological, agricultural and hydrological droughts in China

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 126, Issue , 2015, Pages 23-34

  Leng, Guoyong ^a,b   Tang, Qiuhong ^a   Rayburg, Scott ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; Climate change impacts; Droughts

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; SOIL MOISTURE;

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TEMPERATURE INCREMENT; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING;

CHINA;

EID: 84921444990     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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