Simulating spatiotemporal variability of blue and green water resources availability with uncertainty analysis

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1942-1955

  Zuo, Depeng ^a   Xu, Zongxue ^a   Peng, Dingzhi ^a   Song, Jinxi ^b   Cheng, Lei ^a   Wei, Shouke ^c   Abbaspour, Karim C ^c   Yang, Hong ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blue water; Green water; SUFI 2; SWAT; Uncertainty analysis; Water resources; Wei River basin

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; ARID REGIONS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FLOW OF WATER; POPULATION STATISTICS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

BLUE WATER; GREEN WATER; SUFI-2; SWAT; WEI RIVER;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; WEI RIVER;

EID: 84926483671     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10307     Document Type: Article

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